| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| A day at day care | |||||||||
| Air date | April 9, 1982 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 13 (1981-1982) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Bob are about to take the kids to the Day Care Center, when they see it's about to rain. Oscar pulls up in his Sloppy Jalopy and offers them all a ride to avoid getting wet. He has the kids pile in the backseat while Gordon and Bob pull up the taxi's roof, which only goes far enough to cover the backseat. Oscar starts the car, which causes the roof to fall back down. They sense it will be a pattern, and the only option they have is for the kids to sit under the roof as Bob and Gordon push the car. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #11 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0988) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings about his youth, or as he calls it, "My Polliwog Ways." (First: Episode 1443) |
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Cartoon | Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Take a Breath." (First: Episode 0347) |
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Muppets | In the kitchen, Ernie bakes some cookies of different shapes, which he lets Cookie Monster eat after he finishes displaying each one to the viewer. (First: Episode 1158) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: Hand (First: Episode 1179) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster reads the word "Pop" and blows up a balloon so they can pop it. (First: Episode 1569) |
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SCENE 2 | At the day care center, Gordon and Bob help the kids make clay versions of all the letters of the alphabet. Oscar collects them and has them put in a bucket of mud for his pet pig Spot to play in (calling it "alphabet mud," like alphabet soup). |
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Celebrity | 14 Karat Soul sings "The Alphabet Song," followed by "The ABCs of Love." |
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Cartoon | A man saws a letter E through the wall. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Muppets | Fred the Wonder Horse bets Marshal Grover that he can't count backwards from ten. Grover tries standing with his back to him and counting up to ten. Since he can't do it, Grover has to let Fred ride on his back. (First: Episode 1066) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0002) |
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Film | The camera zooms out on a pepper as kids guess what it is. (First: Episode 0390) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl exercises in preparation for coaching her team as they play. The team turns out to be three string musicians and she's their conductor. (First: Episode 1510) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly and Brian compare the ways they are different and the same. After seeing how much they have in common, Telly asks Gordon to borrow his scarf - he doesn't want Brian's mommy confusing the two when she comes to pick them up. |
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Film | D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs and hobbies that begin with D. (First: Episode 0367) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet discusses the concept of "same" using her reflection in the mirror. The reflection begins speaking on its own. The girl faints and the reflection decides to do the same. (First: Episode 0376) |
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Cartoon | A girl narrates a poem about the sad time when her goldfish died. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1378) |
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Film | A still of construction equipment fades into a shot of a parrot. (First: Episode 1535) |
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Muppets | Twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Film | Footage of a coral reef, showcasing the plant life and the fish. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0466) |
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SCENE 4 | Biff and Sully visit day care to play a game of "One of These Things" with Scott and Tracy using some tools and a banana. They figure out the banana doesn't belong and Biff is about to eat it only to find out that Sully already has, much to his chagrin. ("The things I put up with in the name of friendship!") |
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Cartoon | Two itchy gorillas agree to scratch each other's backs. (First: Episode 1456) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola demonstrate happy, sad, scared and mad. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Animation | In stop-motion, blocks stack and arrange themselves to form zoo cages, arches, and a whole city. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 1459) |
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Film | Children in a movie theater tell a man on the screen not to open a door that says "DANGER" on it. He opens it, and there's an explosion. (First: Episode 0526) |
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Muppets | A Muppet cowpoke gives a musical warning about the "Danger Sign." (First: Episode 1295) |
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Cartoon | D-dart (First: Episode 0292) |
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SCENE 5 | The Count promises Bob he'll be quiet as he counts the kids taking naps ("I will be so quiet, you could hear a cough drop"), only his thunder and lightning wakes them all up. He begins counting the steps it takes to get out of there. "Can I count on that?" Bob asks. |
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Film | Ten zebras walk slow, while 10 other zebras walk fast. (First: Episode 0338) |
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Cartoon | "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362) |
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SCENE 5 cont'd | Bob has gotten the kids back to sleep when the Count walks back in, having made a full circle still counting his steps. He winds up bumping into Bob and waking everyone up again with his thunder. |
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Cartoon | A girl builds a sand castle at the beach, but the ocean keeps washing it away, so she builds one away from the waves. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 1452) |
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Film | While walking and reading the newspaper, a man nearly avoids DANGER on three occasions, but then gets hit by a revolving door. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Missing at the Beach — Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie find Bert at the beach. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird gives a lecture to the kids about the letter E, claiming everything begins with it. Gordon, Bob and the kids point out their names don't start with E, when Big Bird clarifies that he meant the word "everything" starts with E. He then announces the sponsors as he draws them on his easel. The credits follow. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign. |
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