| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 21, 1984 | ||||||
| Season | Season 15 (1983-1984) | ||||||
| Written by | Gary Belkin | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird has invented a new "B game" he wants to play with Susan, Olivia, and David. He holds a beach ball and tells them it serves as a clue for what he's going to do. The grown-ups immediately get the right answer - BOUNCE. However, the ball won't be doing the bouncing, as Big Bird starts to BOING down the street. |
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Cartoon | B for boats, bouquet, baby, bonnet, etc. (First: Episode 1703) |
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Muppets | Pageant: Butterfly. (First: Episode 1443) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: B for Ball (First: Episode 0829) |
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Film | Footage of a sunflower seed factory, where birdseed bells are manufactured. (First: Episode 1181) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Telly Monster has set out the numbers 1, 2, and 3. He re-arranges them and asks the viewer to find where the 3 is now. Chris helps out by pointing on his own. |
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Animation | Three pretty kitties live in a celery house. Artist: Evelyn Lambart (First: Episode 1663) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster finds a cardboard cut-out of themselves, but find they don’t have hats like it does. They run off to get some. (First: Episode 1880) |
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Cartoon | Sporty 3 demonstrates his agility in various sports. (First: Episode 1642) |
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Muppets | The monster returns wearing football helmets, but they still don’t match the cut-out. They dash off again to change. (First: Episode 1880) |
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Cartoon | A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself. (First: Episode 1717) |
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Muppets | The monster returns, now with cowboy hats that match the cut-out. Their image falls over and they follow. (First: Episode 1880) |
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Cartoon | Car stuck on tar (First: Episode 1732) |
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Cast | Susan, Luis, Gordon and Maria are competing on a potato bag race. Maria's bag is full of vegetables, which she gives to the others. They hop off to make them into meals, leaving Maria as the only racer. (First: Episode 1480) |
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Cartoon | Three penguins dance. Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1480) |
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SCENE 3 | In Hooper's Store, Grandma Grace gives the shelves a fresh coat of paint. She snidely points out to Big Bird that a certain young grandson of hers was supposed to do it, but since he's yet to do so, she's doing it herself. This inspires Big Bird to ask about getting old. Grandma explains how she used to be a baby, then grew up to be a child, then a teenager, and now an adult. David points out that one thing that didn't change with Grandma was that she can still give a good "Humph!" when upset about something. |
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Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0227) |
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Film | Animals and children bathe in water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0615) |
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Cartoon | Small letter b (ball/bat) (First: Episode 1131) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Me, Claudius — Some monsters fight over which of them is Claudius. (First: Episode 1448) |
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Cartoon | The letters in the word BESO kiss each other. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Song | "B is for Bubble" (First: Episode 0008) |
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Cartoon | A witch turns a little girl into a variety of things, but the girl insists "I'm still ME!" (First: Episode 0793) |
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SCENE 4 | Grandma, Big Bird, Telly, and David gather so Olivia can take their picture. Telly places a ME button on himself so he can correctly pick out himself in the finished image. Big Bird thinks that he might see the button in the picture and think it's referring to himself instead, so he gets his own ME button from Telly. They acknowledge this would cause further confusion, and since Big Bird would be able to recognize himself anyway, he takes it off. Telly keeps his on just to be safe. |
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Cartoon | The Alphabet Song (country, gospel, Mexican) Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1576) |
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Muppets | The Beetles perform "Letter B." (First: Episode 1495) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Elk feeding. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0793) |
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Cartoon | An aviator and his son cooperate to start their plane. Artist: Tom Gabbay (First: Episode 1476) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is It — Ernie wants to play tag while Bert reads his book. (First: Episode 1026) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539) |
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Insert | Susan and the kids sing "My Little Game," a song with loud and soft parts. (First: Episode 1186) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates fast and slow by going back and forth on a fence, and in a rocking chair. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Celebrity | Maurice Hines dances fast, while Gregory Hines dances slow. Maurice is left wiped out. (First: Episode 1363) |
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Animation | A small ball discovers a mirror, which shows visions of various other balls. (First: Episode 0645) |
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Film | A boy visits the hospital to see his mother's new baby. (First: Episode 1125) |
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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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Muppets | "Ladies and gentlemen, the Starlight Hotel takes great pride in presenting the world's favorite six-year-old entertainer, Miss Prairie Dawn!" Prairie sings "All By Myself" with a backup group of monsters. (First: Episode 1824) |
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Cartoon | A gorilla names "G" words. (First: Episode 1831) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly wants to go to the baseball game, but doesn't want to go if it's going to rain. He holds his hand out to check for raindrops, but Grandma tells him it's not going to rain. She shows him her portable radio, which she listens to for weather reports. Telly worries his worrying has caused him to miss the beginning of the game. Grandma hands him the radio so he can listen to the game instead. Telly wonders what people did before radios, and Grandma figures they did just what Telly was doing earlier. The radio sportscaster (Martin P. Robinson) announces the sponsors. |
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