| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Break dancing; Maria's life story | |||||||
| Air date | March 28, 1985 | ||||||
| Season | Season 16 (1984-1985) | ||||||
| Written by | Sonia Manzano | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | After waking up, Big Bird welcomes the viewer, and, while waiting for the mailman, imagines life as a mailbox. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Back in the present, Big Bird realizes how unpleasant it would be, and he gives Maria a fair warning about it when she arrives at his nest. |
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Film | A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. (First: Episode 0493) |
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Cartoon | Seven animals in a tree. Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1530) |
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Muppets | The Count's bats are upset because the Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count. (First: Episode 0625) |
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Cartoon | They'd play with me if I had... (First: Episode 0815) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (First: Episode 0239) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Grover compares himself and the viewer, noting how much they are alike (except for the viewer's lack of blue fur). (First: Episode 1804) |
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Cartoon | A man saws out a letter E. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Celebrity | James Taylor performs "Jellyman Kelly" with a bunch of kids. (First: Episode 1800) |
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Cartoon | R for Rhinoceros. Animation by Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1151) |
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Film | Shopping for soup ingredients. (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | Boy and the UP balloons. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cast | Sleeper tries to wake up in the morning. (David as "Sleeper"). (First: Episode 1357) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0764) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit." (First: Episode 0160) cut from the Noggin version |
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Cartoon | Can a cat bark? (First: Episode 0859) cut from the Noggin version |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster introduces seven swimming seals. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1312) |
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SCENE 2 | Piri does some break dancing. Oscar shows him Fluffy's "break"-dancing skills. |
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Film | Joe Raposo: Elephant (instrumental). (First: Episode 0034) |
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Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) |
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Muppets | News Flash: Mary and her Little Lamb. After an interview with Mary, the lamb follows Kermit the Frog. (First: Episode 1943) |
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Cartoon | A pencil tries to write the word DANCE. (First: Episode 1966) cut from the Noggin version |
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SCENE 3 | Piri shows Bob a break-dancing move in order to impress Linda. Big Bird thinks he's trying to fly, and Linda has no idea of what he's doing. |
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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) cut from the Noggin version |
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Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315) |
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Muppets | Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Song | "Water, Wind, and Sun" (First: Episode 1711) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry and John-John: up/down (First: Episode 0565) |
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Cartoon | Square in space. (First: Episode 1554) |
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Cartoon | A man chases a runaway "no." (First: Episode 0794) |
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Insert | Big Bird, David and the kids play an animal guessing game. (First: Episode 1193) |
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Film | "Sharing Swing with Kids Song (Share in Your Fun with Another Someone)" (First: Episode 0926) |
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Cartoon | The 3 Numero Brothers show addition and subtraction. (First: Episode 1182) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "D-U-C-K-I-E." (First: Episode 1957) |
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Cartoon | I Love You (in American sign language). (First: Episode 1170) |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004) |
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Cast | Luis and Gordon clean up. (First: Episode 1452) |
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Cartoon | Mi kat iz ... gone. (First: Episode 1967) |
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SCENE 4 | For storytime, Maria tells Big Bird about all the jobs she's had since high school. We see flashback scenes of her at the Lending Library, as a construction worker (with Jerry Nelson making a cameo), and asking Luis for a raise at the Fix-It Shop. She confides that when Sally Ride visited, she thought about going to work with the space program. Her life story puts Big Bird to sleep. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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