| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar’s grouch alarm / Telly helps Biff and Sully | |||||||
| Air date | May 16, 1983 | ||||||
| Season | Season 14 (1982-1983) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Early in the morning, Oscar sets his new Grouch alarm clock to go off while he sleeps, since he stayed up all night to be extra grouchy. As he snoozes, the loud alarm continuously rings and wakes up Olivia, Susan, and Gordon, who come downstairs and demand he shut off that racket. Gordon even goes inside Oscar's trash can to turn it off, and succeeds in doing so despite the darkness and that Oscar remains sleeping through all the noise. Gordon re-emerges, Oscar berates him for disturbing his slumber, they all disperse, and Oscar sets off the loud alarm again. |
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Cartoon | A gorilla names "G" words. |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey! (First: Episode 0353) |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Film | Saxophone factory. (First: Episode 1446) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: G for Gorilla (in man suit) (First: Episode 0085) |
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Muppets | Grover talks about the letter G, as it slowly grows. (First: Episode 0210) |
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Cartoon | G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Crocodile Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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SCENE 2 | The Count assembles a class of kids for his new counting school, taking attendance and counting the ones who say “Here!” |
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Film | In a classroom, kids learn the musical scales through various exercises. (First: Episode 1717) |
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Cartoon | A duckling dresses itself, naming all the parts of its coat. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 1195) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings "This Frog." (First: Episode 0944) |
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Film | Hippos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0415) |
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Film | A circle finds its place on a game board. |
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SCENE 3 | At Hooper's Store, Biff and Sully finish downing some milk, informing David that they built both a bookshelf and a doghouse this morning; now they are about to build a stop sign. Telly fantasizes about doing their job, wishing he could build things, use tools, and drink milk like Biff and Sully. Olivia tells him he can do it, since he built a birdhouse recently. Telly rushes off to catch the workers. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Down the block a bit, Telly meets up with Biff and Sully and asks if he can join them. He shows them the birdhouse he made, which impresses them enough to see how he is at holding nails. Back at Hooper's, Olivia and David wonder how Telly is doing and are happy when they see him pass by wearing his own hardhat, assisting the two workers in lifting a large piece of lumber being used for the stop sign's pole. |
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Cartoon | A photographer shows off his first picture of cows, his next picture of ducks, and his last picture of a pig. (First: Episode 1245) |
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Muppets | "The Rhymies at Sea" - Larry, Mary and Barry sail on a ship, which sinks. (First: Episode 1149) |
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Celebrity | Fonzie shows on and off using his patented jukebox-activiation technique. Part 1 (First: Episode 1179) |
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Cartoon | The word BUS (First: Episode 0277) |
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Celebrity | Fonzie turns the jukebox on and off again. Part 2 (First: Episode 1179) |
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Cartoon | Eight legs on an octopus Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1446) |
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Celebrity | Fonzie rapidly turns the jukebox on and off with just his elbows. Part 3 (First: Episode 1179) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sandbox Game — Ernie gets Bert to engage in a word play game with him. (First: Episode 0019) |
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Film | A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas." (First: Episode 0516) |
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SCENE 4 | Biff tells Sully to hold the pole against the fence leading to Big Bird's nest, while Telly holds the stop sign and Biff hammers it in – but he points out to Telly that the sign is blank because he’s holding it backwards. He turns it around, and they hammer the last nail into the sign, destroying the fence in the process. Telly is worried, but Biff assures him they’ve found their next job. |
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Cartoon | The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters tell it to stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0149) |
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Muppets | Ice Follies: Oscar blows his whistle, then goes into hiding, causing the other Muppets (Big Bird, Bert, Betty Lou, Grover, Cookie Monster and the Count) to find the source. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Film | A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first." (First: Episode 0290) |
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Insert | Three of These Kids are jumping rope, but the fourth one is sitting down and reading a book. (First: Episode 0415) |
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Cartoon | Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc. (First: Episode 0544) |
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Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets sing about a "Bus Stop" sign. (First: Episode 0978) |
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Cartoon | A woman displays a BUS STOP sign to a crowd. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1350) |
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Cast | Gordon, Maria, Luis and Bob explain how they cooperated to catch a fish for eat (a la "This is House That Jack Built"). (First: Episode 1449) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly and Sully pull the doors up with a rope and practice their part of the job while Biff readies himself to hammer the fence back up. The lunch whistle blows, and Biff says that now they have to “drop everything” which Telly takes literally, so he lets go of the rope, thus launching Sully up to the top of 123 Sesame Street! |
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Animation | Two small stripes watch as two circles play with each other. The stripes try to bend themselves into circles, but soon find that they can both cooperate to make one big circle. (First: Episode 0762) |
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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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Cartoon | A white boy hangs out with his Latino friend. (First: Episode 1471) |
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Film | Animals fight. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0567) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to keep his cookies safe from Cookie Monster by tricking him into eating a carrot instead. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: N for Nose (First: Episode 0763) |
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Film | Spinning Bus Stop sign (First: Episode 0931) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 6 | In the evening, Gordon and Susan decide to go to bed early, since they were woken up so early by Oscar’s alarm clock. Elsewhere Oscar says he’ll get more sleep tonight, because more sleep also makes him grouchy. He says goodnight to each of his pets, and then turns the loud alarm on again. Oscar announces the sponsors while his neighbors come out to confront him again. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds the CTW sign. |
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