| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| The Snuffleupagus map | |||||||||
| Air date | April 8, 1983 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 14 (1982-1983) | ||||||||
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Insert | David struggles to roller-skate down Sesame Street. Big Bird helps him to Hooper's Store and reminds him that "practice makes perfect." David imagines being a great skater: in his fantasy, he roller-skates through Central Park with ease. Back in reality, David skates on his own and falls down, but he doesn't mind. Music: "What Makes Music?" (First: Episode 1559) |
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Cartoon | A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Film | Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster learns to use manners while eating with a spoon. (First: Episode 1340) |
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Animation | Sand N/n (First: Episode 0633) |
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Film | A flower opens and closes. (First: Episode 0441) |
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Cartoon | "Mad Goat Song" Artist: Derek Lamb (First: Episode 0771) |
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Celebrity | Fred Mills, of the Canadian Brass, tries to talk to the kids about the trumpet, but an Anything Muppet boy (Bob Payne) says all that can be said first. (First: Episode 1253) |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman sells Ernie some air, but when Ernie waves to Bert, wanting to show it to him, he drops it. According to Bert (who didn't know what Ernie had), "It couldn't have vanished into thin air." But Ernie sobs, "Yes, it could, Bert! It could!" (First: Episode 0118) |
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Cartoon | A goose and gander visit the land of the G's. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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Film | Wild geese (to madrigal music) (First: Episode 0935) |
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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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Cartoon | The Ringmaster presents four lions. (First: Episode 1309) |
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Film | Human and animal babies learn to walk. (First: Episode 1728) |
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SCENE 1 | Luis sings "He Says, She Says," about a Honker couple whose relationship is perfect because they honk alike. |
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Cartoon | A family of snakes makes shapes, and rolls away. (First: Episode 1506) |
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Film | "I Can Do It By Myself"/"Old Button Hole"/"It's Easy" Films of children trying to put on their clothes. (First: Episode 1727) |
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Cartoon | Four elephants at the circus Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1489) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Big Bird watches Billy Dee Williams measure two kids. Big Bird is taller than the wall they're using, so Billy quickly builds an extension to find Big Bird's height. |
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Cartoon | Two ducks look the same height when they're in the bathtub, but one duck (Joe Flynn) is short and the other is tall. (First: Episode 0303) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on tall and short using two Snerfs, who keep changing their size. (First: Episode 0015) |
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Cartoon | A little girl shows the building and apartment where she lives -- both with the number 6. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on big and small with the Beautiful Day Monster and a small monster. Splurge comes in at the end to show what a really big monster looks like. (First: Episode 0015) |
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Film | Sheep dog (First: Episode 1012) |
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Cartoon | "Three Waltzing Chickens" Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1183) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird asks Maria, Luis and David for help. He's going to a Cabbage Cook-Off with Mr. Snuffleupagus and needs help studying the map to find its location. He has the "pocket-sized" Snuffleupagus map, which they unfold and find out how really big it is. Big Bird memorizes the directions and leaves them with the map; the grown-ups struggle how to fold it back up. |
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Cartoon | A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Lisa complement each other's noses. Lisa also likes Grover's (big) mouth. (First: Episode 1415) |
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Cartoon | Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills. (First: Episode 0773) |
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SCENE 3 | The adults struggle to fold up the map and decide to just throw it away instead. Leon (Richard Hunt), Marcus, Bahiyyah, and Chinyere (all decked out in artists' smocks and berets) instead take the map so they can use the back to make a painting of the four seasons. A curious Barkley trots up, and Leon informs him that dogs can't paint. |
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Cartoon | "Four Seasons" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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Muppets | Two germs attempt to infect a human mouth, until a mighty toothbrush frightens them off and begins cleaning. (First: Episode 1482) |
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Cartoon | A rabbit crosses the STREET, and almost gets run over. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 0778) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria comes by and sees Leon and the kids working on their painting, though Leon claims there's been some complications. All the seasons have turned out fine, except for Leon's space for spring, which Barkley got his footprints all over. Big Bird returns from the cook-off and immediately interprets Barkley's markings as a painting of Spring (claiming the footprints are from the muddy grounds as a result of melted snow). Maria jokingly tries to give Barkley his own smock and beret as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Starting with this episode, the disclaimer "CTW provides partial funding for Sesame Street through its self-support activities" is added at the end of the closing credits before the CTW slogan announcement. This would be used up to season 31, before CTW was eventually renamed to Sesame Workshop.
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