| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Luis breaks his arm — Luis deals with his broken arm | |||||||
| Air date | January 1, 1985 | ||||||
| Season | Season 16 (1984-1985) | ||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Luis wakes up and adjusts to having his arm in a cast. After getting a phone call from Gordon checking in on him, he has struggles with brushing his teeth, eating breakfast, and getting dressed. Although he manages to do things on his own, he asks Olivia to help tie his shoes. |
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Cartoon | The Carrot Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1132) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Copies the Drums — Ernie instructs Bert to repeat his drum riffs and finds that he's quite good at it. (First: Episode 1809) |
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Film | A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA. (First: Episode 0929) |
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Cartoon | F - Face Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1162) |
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Cast | David and Bob play firemen at the fire station. The alarm signals a fire and they rush to get ready. Bob has trouble finding his axe in his messy locker. When he finally does, he notices he's also missing his boots and starts searching through his locker again. (First: Episode 1255) |
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Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335) |
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SCENE 2 | The Fix-It Shop has hired a teenage girl named Sam to help out while Luis recovers, though he thinks he can manage just as he did before. While Maria goes out, Luis struggles to fix the wheel on a toy truck. Sam tends to a phone call, then casually helps Luis with the truck until he relents. |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | A scientist adds legs, feet, then knees to his robot and tells it to walk, but it dances out of shot instead (as does the scientist). (First: Episode 1119) |
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Muppets | Some fruits in a bowl sing a "Bilingual Fruit Song" about their Spanish names, and agree that two names are better than one. (First: Episode 1306) |
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Cartoon | They'd play with me if I had... (First: Episode 0815) |
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Film | The kids form a triangle and a square. (First: Episode 0300) |
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Cartoon | A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F. (First: Episode 0309) |
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Celebrity | Menudo demonstrates different ways of using agua. |
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Cartoon | A man saws a letter E through the wall. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Princess Chooses a Prince — A princess selects Kermit as her prince. (First: Episode 0859) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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Song | "Windy Day" (First: Episode 1645) |
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Cartoon | A short bird stands under a tall bird, which lays an egg on its head. (First: Episode 0303) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover asks Maya to help him follow an arrow. The arrow changes direction until Grover falls down, exhausted. (First: Episode 1641) |
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Cartoon | Henson: Eleven Cheer (First: Episode 0273) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird kicks off another meeting of the Future First Graders, with Snuffy present as well. Big Bird has them all imagine being in a school as they run through a pretend fire drill at his nest, though Snuffy has a little trouble getting through the doors. After they safely return back to the "school," Snuffy suggests they do a rain drill next, pointing to the impending clouds overhead. Luckily, Big Bird has everyone place their books over their heads. |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing is a fireman. (First: Episode 0200) |
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Animation | David spots a rectangle in space. (First: Episode 1554) |
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Song | Luis sings "Follow the Arrows" as a man does so. (First: Episode 1642) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (First: Episode 0092) |
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Cartoon | A mad scientist (voiced by Daws Butler) teaches his monster how to say the words "Fred," "foot", and "Friday." (First: Episode 1162) |
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Film | Squares are shown in close-up. (First: Episode 0420) |
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Insert | Buster and Fred, dressed as cows, approach Olivia, asking if she knows where Gladys the Cow is. They're helping with a song of hers and the lack of local cows forces them to play some. Gladys arrives and Olivia questions Gladys' loyalty to her species, due to the fact that she's always pretending to be other animals. Gladys is surprised and tells her she is proud, which is the subject of her song. The animals set up by some boxes and Gladys performs "I'm Proud to Be a Cow." Afterward, Olivia is speechless. (First: Episode 1650) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster displays 11 purple pooches. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1347) |
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Film | A boy compares the growth of the sunflowers to his own height. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0589) |
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Cartoon | A man uses a wheelbarrow to carry blocks needed to make a staircase. Artist: Tom Gabbay (First: Episode 1335) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Counting Apples — Cookie Monster changes his mind on eating an apple causing Ernie to draw and redraw his numbers. (First: Episode 0140) |
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Cartoon | A man finds and eats five apples, counting the number left after each one. (First: Episode 1578) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird sees how much attention and gifts Luis is receiving. He bandages up his beak and alerts others that he's broken it. Gordon gives him a talk, knowing he's faking and gently tells him why it's not a good idea. He helps Big Bird undo the bandage as Maria announces the sponsors. |
Note[]
- This is the first episode to utilize the funding credits on a dark blue-background (instead of light-blue from the beginning of season 16), with the text centered instead of left-aligned. This would continue up until the end of season 22.
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