| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar exercises | |||||||
| Air date | December 14, 1982 | ||||||
| Season | Season 14 (1982-1983) | ||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | At Hooper's Store, Bob orders a milkshake from David, who responds, "The drink or the dance?" Gladys pops up with some cows, who dance and sing "The Milkshake Shake." Afterwards, Maria asks David for a banana split and he replies, "The dessert, or the circus act?" |
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Film | Joe Raposo: On the beach (instrumental) (First: Episode 0411) |
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Cartoon | 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. Artists: The Brothers Quay (First: Episode 1434) |
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Muppets | The Remembering Game — Cookie Monster and Bill Smith match pictures. (First: Episode 0310) |
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Cartoon | A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0408) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria encounters Oscar who is teaching Slimey how to speak Spanish using objects and words. He tells Slimey to match the word “casa” with the right object, and Slimey crawls to the little house. Maria still doubts that Slimey is fluent, so she tests him on the word “gruñón,” expecting him to crawl towards Oscar. When he doesn’t, Oscar demonstrates that Slimey considers Oscar more of an “amigo” than a Grouch. |
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Muppets | Grover sings "I Stand Up Straight and Tall" while using some fast cutting camera trickery. (First: Episode 0916) |
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Film | Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others. Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 0462) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Elves and the Shoemaker — The elves gift the Shoemaker with items that rhyme with shoe. (First: Episode 1249) |
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Film | Kids take swimming lessons in a pool. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Cartoon | I for iron (First: Episode 0314) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar notices David jogging with Akim. She invites him to join, but David knows it's not that easy to get him to do something. Oscar initially refuses, but Akim tells him all the ways that exercise can make him a better Grouch, such as helping build up his energy and make his lungs stronger so he can yell more. David and Akim continue their jog, with Oscar quickly joining them while still in his can. |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of themselves at home with their younger siblings. |
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Muppets | Juanita looks for "YO", asking, "¿Esto es yo?" Nope, it's a toy car, and a tomato, and a mirror. Looking in the mirror, she finds herself. "¡Hola, yo!" she cries. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | Capital I, he's quite a guy (First: Episode 0368) |
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Film | A Latino boy gets up, gets dressed, and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo). (First: Episode 0429) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Different Shaped Cookies — Ernie asks Cookie Monster to name the cookie shapes before he eats them. (First: Episode 1158) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar is so tired from exercising, he misses out on getting to march with the Grouchketeer parade that passes by. He yells at Akim for making him miss out, and starts to feel better already. |
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Cartoon | "Five Bears in the Bed" get subtracted as they fall off the bed. (First: Episode 1231) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Cab Calloway sings "Jumpin' Jive" when the Two-Headed Monster can't decide whether to jump or jive. (First: Episode 1575) |
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Cartoon | E for Erase (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | Milk! (From Farm To Market To Home) (First: Episode 0795) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Two children, who can only read some words, resolve their fight over a large book by helping each other and reading alternate words. (First: Episode 0297) |
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Cast | The disco song "Bicycling" is played over footage of the Sesame adult cast riding bicycles. (First: Episode 1186) |
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Film | An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I." (First: Episode 1077) |
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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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Film | Saxophone factory. (First: Episode 1446) |
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Cartoon | Six pigs Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1472) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts six Twiddlebugs. When he's done, the Twiddlebugs have a party. (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0324) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird is waiting for an important letter from Snuffy, though Maria doesn't believe he can receive any real mail from an imaginary friend. A mailman (Richard Hunt) arrives and delivers mail to everyone but Big Bird, but he goes to check the truck to make sure. Despite Maria's stance on Snuffy's existence, she's puzzled when the mailman returns with a large letter E addressed to Big Bird. The kids bring it to his nest as the mailman announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Poco Loco holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
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