| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 31, 1983 | ||||||
| Season | Season 14 (1982-1983) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria is taking a nap in the Fix-It Shop with her bare feet rested upon a chair. The Count sneaks in and invites the viewer to count her toes with him. His thunder and lightning startles her awake and she's very upset to hear about what he's been up to. The Count promises to stop counting her toes... and starts counting her fingers instead. |
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Cartoon | Pinball #10 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0990) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie doesn't think pigeons are able to laugh at Bert's pigeon jokes, but he's wrong ... (First: Episode 1287) |
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Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Film | How Crayons are Made Music: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey (First: Episode 1579) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Eric observe the differences between fur and skin. (First: Episode 1642) |
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Cartoon | Which legs belong on the man? (First: Episode 1691) |
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Cast | David and Olivia sing "It Feels Good When You Sing a Song." (First: Episode 1176) |
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Cartoon | Travis Travel demonstrates different methods of transportation. (First: Episode 1459) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Film | A garfish swims around. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | B for Beard (poem by Edward Lear) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1147) |
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Celebrity | Richard Pryor recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0779) |
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Song | "B is for Bubble" (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and the kids mingle in the yard when Barkley bounds in, handing them a stick and giving the impression that he wants something...but what? Big Bird comes up with some silly answers until the kids convince him that Barkley wants to play fetch. "See? If you want to be a good guesser, just stay with Big Bird!" the bird says with confidence. |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end. (First: Episode 0337) |
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Film | Kids identify broccoli through close-ups. (First: Episode 0357) |
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Cartoon | "Name That Food" game show hosted by Don Carrot Artist:Len Glasser (First: Episode 1491) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: HONK (First: Episode 1653) |
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Cartoon | A man chases a runaway "no." (First: Episode 0794) |
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Film | With their teacher, kids play clapping and dancing games about the rhythm in their names. (First: Episode 1735) |
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SCENE 3 | After playing fetch for awhile, Barkley starts panting and pawing at his dog bowl. Big Bird again struggles to figure out that Barkley now wants a drink of water, which the kids help him get. |
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Cartoon | Small letter b (ball/bat) (First: Episode 1131) |
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Muppets | Mother Goose tries coming up with Little Boy Blue's nursery rhyme. (First: Episode 1449) |
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Cartoon | B is for bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. And Bosco, who is taking a bath. (First: Episode 0355) |
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Film | Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0285) |
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Cartoon | A man jumps up and down on a trampoline. (First: Episode 1449) |
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Insert | Luis plays "Giant Steps" with the kids in the park. Oscar can't tolerate hearing them say "May I?" over and over and starts up his own game of "Grouch Steps." Luis and the kids take several steps backwards away from Oscar's can, giving him enough space to be left alone. (First: Episode 1276) |
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Film | A man bounces a ball up the steps, and then it falls down the steps. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0435) |
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Cartoon | A dog tries desperately to meow, but can only bark. (First: Episode 0829) |
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Film | The camera zooms out on an onion as kids guess what it is. (First: Episode 0357) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "If I Were." (First: Episode 1676) |
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Cartoon | Capital I, he's quite a guy (First: Episode 0368) |
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Film | Megan goes to the doctor and gets a cast on her arm so it can heal. (First: Episode 1205) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I for Island. (First: Episode 0314) |
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SCENE 4 | Biff explains to Bob that he is the head of the lunch committee for the factory's annual softball outing. He's got a dozen bagged lunches and prepares to leave with Sully, but notices something - Sully has just two hands, and there are a lot more bags to carry. Biff proposes Sully run to the park and back, bringing the rest of the team to carry their own bags. Sully instead goes and gets a large paper bag, which Biff realizes they can carry all the lunch bags in. |
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Cartoon | A pig sings "Pig's Love Song." (First: Episode 0407) |
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Muppets | Kermit has Grover help him demonstrate up and down by having Grover climb UP a sky-high flight of stairs -- while Kermit takes the elevator to the top. Exhausted, Grover faints and rolls DOWN the staircase. (First: Episode 0693) |
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Cartoon | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP (First: Episode 0847) |
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SCENE 5 | Biff tells the kids that Sully was named "Player of the Year" for the team, so Biff has written a poem in his honor:
Biff tries to get Sully to guess the last rhyme, constantly preventing him from getting a word in edgewise. Biff goes on to blather about Sully's talkative nature on the field as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon holds the CTW sign. |
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