| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Two-Headed Monster checkup / translating honks and dings | |||||||
| Air date | November 30, 1982 | ||||||
| Season | Season 14 (1982-1983) | ||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Acting in her role as a nurse, Susan gives the Two-Headed Monster a checkup. When it comes time to inoculate them, they resist and insist that they're healthy. Susan explains this will help them stay healthy and administers the shot without them even noticing. |
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Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) |
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Muppets | "(I Can't Get No) Co-Operation" (First: Episode 1521) |
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Cartoon | U for uniform. (First: Episode 0702) |
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Film | You can clean almost anything. Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers. (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Big Bird tries to teach Snuffy to ice skate, but Snuffy keeps falling. (First: Episode 0873) |
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Animation | New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball. (First: Episode 0777) |
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Film | Kids identify a cabbage in close-ups. (First: Episode 0368) |
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SCENE 2 | Forgetful Jones places a number 7 on the counter at Hooper's Store and asks David for seven of them. David asks, "Seven what?" but Forgetful can't remember. The cans of dog food in the store remind him it might be food for his seven dogs. He can't remember what their names are, but says they're named after the Seven Dwarves. David starts listing them off, and recruits Susan to help when she arrives, but they struggle through trying to think of all their names. Forgetful scoffs, "And people say I have trouble remembering names." |
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Cartoon | Seven owls Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1562) |
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Film | Kids identify broccoli through close-ups. (First: Episode 0357) |
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Cartoon | A small frog is jealous of how big an ox is, so he expands himself into a very large, round frog. He becomes so self-important and big he ends up exploding. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0660) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates close to and away from. (First: Episode 0513) |
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Cartoon | Letters stranded on a desert island spell PLEH, LEPH, and finally HELP. (First: Episode 1176) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar the Grouch enters Hooper's as David and Susan are still trying to remember the name of that seventh dwarf. He asks for an onion and a tube of anchovy paste, but nobody hears him over the dwarf name guessing. He asks again, more forcefully this time, and does a take to the camera annoyed at being ignored and threatening to go to another store. His grouchiness reaches a level that prompts David and Susan to remember the seventh dwarf: Grumpy! They shower him with thanks as Oscar wishes he hadn't done whatever he did to assist. |
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Muppets | "This is Your Story" salutes Forgetful Jones, with visits from his parents, a teacher, and his Uncle Ned (who he continually guesses for every other voice). Guy Smiley then gives Forgetful Jones a photo album so next time he can actually recognize his loved ones. (First: Episode 1700) |
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Cartoon | The Alligator King Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0411) |
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Insert | Paul and Michael juggle with 7 pins and count them. (First: Episode 1008) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another. (First: Episode 0391) |
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SCENE 4 | The Two-Headed Monster wears a baseball glove, but doesn't have a ball, so they go to Hooper's to buy one. When they reach the door, they're sad to see the closed sign, but David lets them in and eventually realizes they need a ball. As the monster turns to leave, they become sad again as the closed sign now faces inward. |
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Film | The sign CLOSED spins around. (First: Episode 0955) |
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Insert | The two Chaplins open umbrellas. (First: Episode 1174) |
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Film | A panda tries to scratch an itch. (First: Episode 0931) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for UP (First: Episode 0650) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper goes to a man and asks, "Can I take a picture of U?" The man gives him permission, but Harvey tells him that his shoes are untied, and when the man looks down, Harvey slaps the letter U on top of his head and takes a picture of it. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Cartoon | A U train spells the words "unite," "U-turn," "underground," "up," and "universe." (First: Episode 0624) |
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Film | Kenneth sees how his dad's shirts is pressed at Mr. Cooper's dry cleaners. (First: Episode 1403) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: The Cookie Bunny — Ernie meets the "Cookie Bunny." (First: Episode 1147) |
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Cartoon | A pink circle splits into a cat, and a gray circle splits into a mouse. (First: Episode 0452) |
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SCENE 5 | A Honker is trying to order something in Hooper's Store, but David can't understand him. He spots Big Bird standing in front of his construction doors and runs over to recruit his help; Big Bird can speak honk. Big Bird says he can't leave right now because he's waiting for Mr. Snuffleupagus, but he'll be happy to translate for him. David rushes back, memorizes the inflections in the Honker's query, and runs back to Big Bird who translates: ham and cheese on rye. David returns, makes the sandwich, but the Honker makes another request which David has to get Big Bird to translate: he wants it with tomato. The Honker satisfied, a Dinger arrives now with a request. David approaches Big Bird with a series of dings, but he has no idea what he's going on about. Big Bird speaks honk, not ding, but suggests David wait around for Snuffy since he's fluent in ding. |
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Cartoon | F for fire, fountain, face, farmer, etc. (First: Episode 1614) |
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Muppets | "Near Far Monsters" (First: Episode 1521) |
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Film | George the Farmer is near when he's on a barrel; he's far when he's on the porch. (First: Episode 0235) |
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Cartoon | A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F. (First: Episode 0309) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Watching Fish — Ernie wants to go outside and play catch, but Bert gets him interested in watching his goldfish. (First: Episode 1422) |
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Film | Bridge #5 - 4 Corner Bridge C (First: Episode 0282) |
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SCENE 6 | The Dinger continues dinging in Hooper's, but David still can't understand him. Big Bird is on the phone telling Snuffy he's sorry he couldn't make it to play today, but asks him to translate what the Dinger is saying: he's been asking for an orange. David obliges and expresses relief over the quiet that has finally fallen on the store. Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign. |
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