| Sesame Street | |||||||
| A dance partner for David | |||||||
| Air date | April 15, 1982 | ||||||
| Season | Season 13 (1981-1982) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | David and Grandma Grace are surprised to hear samba music coming from Oscar's trash can. Oscar and Grundgetta are practicing for a dance competition, so Grace suggests she and David cut a rug to demonstrate. The Grouches like their rusty moves at first, but boo when they get into the swing of things. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon - I: An iron irons the word. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Judy Finstermacher has broken her bag of groceries, and Super Grover tries to find a way for her to get the groceries to her home. (First: Episode 1289) |
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Cartoon | A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (First: Episode 0032) |
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SCENE 2 | David gets an idea - he and Grace should enter a dance contest together. He imagines them dominating the dance floor... |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
...but Grace already has a dance parter - Mr. Macintosh. As Mr. Macintosh imagines the same sequence, Grace believes they can find a suitable dance partner for David. |
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Animation | Stop-frame animation of a girl on a beach, reading a book containing pictures of various sea creatures that come to life as she comes to their pages. (First: Episode 1434) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #4 (First: Episode 0344) |
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Animation | 4 people, 4 wheels, 4 doors, and 4 windows make a carpool. (First: Episode 0910) |
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Muppets | A shark sings about his "Perfectly Pearl-White Teeth." (First: Episode 1446) |
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Film | Field of hay (kid voice-overs) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0504) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has called Mr. Snuffleupagus to propose that he be David's new dance partner. Snuffy is too shy to ask David himself, so Big Bird darts off to tell him. Snuffy realizes he needs to dress the part and goes home. Big Bird brings David and Grace over to his nest, which is now empty. Grace continues the belief that Snuffy is imaginary and pretends she's dancing with him, which Big Bird finds confusing. |
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Cartoon | Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Egyptian Mummies — Ernie and Bert explore an Egyptian pyramid. (First: Episode 1621) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about bank tellers and the machines they use. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Cartoon | La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes. (First: Episode 0338) |
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SCENE 4 | Grace ribs David for not having a dance parter yet and finds he's much too shy to ask anyone. This is proven true when Susan comes to Hooper's Store and invites them to dinner, as David chickens out on asking her to dance. He vows the next person who comes in will get an offer, only a Honker stops by for some bananas. "The next person," David insists, when Linda comes in. He knows she'd make a fine dance partner, but isn't sure how to sign his offer. |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet lady spells out the word BUG, after which a bug introduces himself. (First: Episode 1423) |
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Animation | Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Film | Kids put together a scarecrow. (First: Episode 1577) |
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Cartoon | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173) |
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Muppets | The dark-bearded half of the Two-Headed Monster wakes up to argue with itself over whether to go to the zoo or the playground. The two both end up taking naps instead. (First: Episode 1475) |
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SCENE 5 | David and Linda begin their dance practice. Linda demonstrates for Grace that she can feel the beat of the music by feeling the speaker, giving her an idea of how the dance will go. As she and David practice, Barkley gets very playful and disrupts them. They can't seem to get him out of the way, until they permit the kids to take him to play in the park. Just as they get started, Gladys the Cow cuts in to dance with David. |
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Muppets | Wearing oven mitts, Telly places an H and an OT together to make the word HOT. (First: Episode 1536) |
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Cartoon | Goldilocks' bath is first too HOT, then too COLD, then just right. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Film | Sheep dog (First: Episode 1012) |
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SCENE 6 | Snuffy returns in his top hat and white tie, only to learn David now has a partner. Big Bird offers to be Snuffy's dance partner now, but he doesn't know how to do any ballroom-type dancing. Snuffy can teach him and walks him through a basic cha-cha. |
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Film | Body parts song sung in Spanish. (First: Episode 1113) |
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Cartoon | A man weighs himself to demonstrate how a scale works. (First: Episode 0572) |
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Muppets | Captain Breakfast unsuccessfully encourages a little girl to eat breakfast, the most important meal of the day. (First: Episode 1492) |
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Film | Some kids watch a film of a man working in a greenhouse, and try to guess what his job is. (First: Episode 0772)
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SCENE 7 | The camera pans across the street, showing all the different pairs dancing together (including Oscar and Grundgetta, who can be heard dancing from inside Oscar's can), as Susan announces the sponsors. |
 
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bert and Ernie hold the CTW sign. |
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