| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Max the Magnificent | |||||||
| Air date | November 26, 1984 | ||||||
| Season | Season 16 (1984-1985) | ||||||
| Written by | David Korr | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Don Music has difficulty writing a song about one body part. Luis and some kids come over, and he asks them for help suggesting a body part. One kid suggests the shoulder and then the tongue, but Don's attempts don't really yield results. Luis suggests he write about all the parts of the body, and he gets inspired. |
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Cartoon | A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — John-John and Herry Monster count to twenty. (First: Episode 0441) |
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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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Film | Children in a movie theater tell a man on the screen not to open a door that says "DANGER" on it. He opens it, and there's an explosion. (First: Episode 0526) |
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Cartoon | A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0616) |
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SCENE 2 | Don has finished writing his song, "No Best Part," about all the body parts, which he sings with an Anything Muppet backup group. |
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Cartoon | What's missing? (a guitar) |
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Muppets | Super Grover tries to fix a girl's computer by jumping up and down and shouting "Wubba wubba!," but she soon discovers that the computer is not turned on. |
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Film | Sounds Around the House v1: a dripping water faucet, a man playing the violin, a woman vacuuming, a teenager listening to pop music, and a passing elevated train. (First: Episode 1706) |
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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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Animation | Teeny Little Super Guy recalls how he learned about the meaning of DANGER. Artist: Paul Fierlinger |
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SCENE 3 | Forgetful Jones comes to Hooper's Store with a torn card reading "get a _ig _ox." David stops filling a box of groceries for Ms. Capelli to help him figure out what the complete words on the card were. Forgetful remembers that he needs a big box for all the junk in his attic, and David empties out the box he was currently using to give to Forgetful, who soon remembers that he cleaned the attic yesterday. He then recalls he was supposed to throw the note away, so he uses the now empty box to dispose of it. |
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Cartoon | In rhyme, a man points out animals who stole and/or ruined his clothing. (First: Episode 0778) |
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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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Cartoon | F stands for flower, forest, fox, frog and fantastic. (First: Episode 1102) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster sounds out "feet," and then the camera pans back to reveal a pair of live feet on some grass. (First: Episode 1289) |
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Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Celebrity | Menudo performs "Gotta Get on Movin'." |
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Cartoon | Yo-yo elevator |
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Muppets | Ernie watches as the Twiddlebugs cut down the pretty flowers in their yard. Once they've realized the environmental mistake they've made, they undo their action by creating giant flowers from wrappers. (First: Episode 1512) |
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Cartoon | Geometry of Circles #2 "Seven Circles with Designs" (First: Episode 1394) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird asks Luis, David and Maria what "magnificent" means, because he's seen the words "MAX THE MAGNIFICENT" written in chalk in multiple places, including his own door, which makes him (and the others) angry. He meets the culprit, a little monster named Max, and scolds him for writing on the walls, pointing out he wouldn't like it if Big Bird wrote his own name on Max's door. Max agrees not to write on walls anymore. |
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Cartoon | A heart that says "I love you" is drawn. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie's Telephone Call — Bert wonders who could be on the other end of Ernie's involved phone call. (First: Episode 0305) |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Grover asks The Amazing Mumford if he could make his carrot disappear, provided that some smoke appears. Mumford performs the trick and Grover is impressed by the puff of smoke, however he fails to notice Mumford chomping on his carrot. When Grover asks Mumford to make the carrot reappear, he replies that he can't because he ate it ("You didn't say anything about magic!"). (First: Episode 1210) |
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Film | Building a log cabin (First: Episode 0602) |
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SCENE 5 | Max is hesitant to apologize to the grown-ups, who are grudgingly scrubbing his name off the walls. Big Bird suggests he could write them an apology letter. |
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Cartoon | Seven rabbits Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1493) |
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Cast | In a spoof of the famous Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial, football player "Big Murray" (Gordon) accepts a number 7 from a young fan, whom he rewards with a towel that also has one on it. (First: Episode 1535) |
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Animation | It's a monkey Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 1767) |
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Muppets | A Muppet cowpoke gives a musical warning about the "Danger Sign." (First: Episode 1295) |
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Cartoon | Which legs belong on the man? (First: Episode 1691) |
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Transition | Bridge #5 - 4 Corner Bridge C (First: Episode 0282) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird gives Max's (double-sided) letter to the grown-ups. They read it, and Big Bird introduces them to Max. Crystal announces the sponsors. |
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