| Sesame Street | |||||||
| A blackout on Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | April 16, 1985 | ||||||
| Season | Season 16 (1984-1985) | ||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird, Luis, Olivia, and Shay are at Gordon and Susan's apartment for dinner, waiting for Gordon to come home with Telly Monster. As Susan prepares "Susan's Special Stew," the lights suddenly go out. Gordon phones from school, saying the lights are out there too. Susan turns on her radio, where a newscaster (Martin P. Robinson) reports the entire north side of the city is experiencing a blackout. Olivia and Luis go to get more lights, while Susan comforts Big Bird, who finds this a tad scary. |
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Cartoon | A man tries to get to sleep, but is woken up by a fly, a chicken and a drum-playing rabbit, all of whom call him on the phone after he throws them out. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0257) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: The Blackout — Ernie and Bert observe that there's a blackout on Sesame Street. (First: Episode 0652) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flying." (First: Episode 0394) |
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Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) |
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Cartoon | AT words: A fat cat with a hat sat on a mat. A bat scared the fat cat. (First: Episode 1101) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan tries to call Telly to see if Gordon has arrived yet. Meanwhile, Telly has arrived at the Robinsons' front door. He made his way over after the lights went out and wants to be let in. He tries ringing the door bell, which doesn't work because of the blackout. He thinks of another way he can let them know he's arrived... |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Telly pictures going all the way to the corner to use the phone booth and call Susan, which he realizes would take too long. He then considers going outside their windows and yelling to be let in, another idea that won't work too well. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | As Telly shakes his fists in frustration, he stumbles upon the perfect method to alert of his arrival - knock on the door. Susan greets him and invites him inside. |
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Cartoon | 8 Bats Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1552) |
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Muppets | Forgetful Jones, Clementine and Buster are in the dark because Forgetful forgot to turn something on. It's not the water, the electric fan, or the radio ... it's the light! (First: Episode 1690) |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps." (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Grover sells newspapers in the street. He thinks they are for making paper hats, but a customer shows him they are actually for reading. The customer wants to buy a newspaper, but Grover won't stop reading the paper that the customer wants to buy. Grover reads about construction of a new building, a parade, and an expected rain shower, all of which occur as Grover reads. (First: Episode 1966) |
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Animation | A stop-motion-animated train runs out of track. (First: Episode 1447) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon has reached Sesame Street and runs into Oscar, who is enjoying the blackout very much. He likes that it allows Fluffy to take her evening stroll inside instead, which means she crashes into things due to the darkness. |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog performs "Disco Frog." (First: Episode 1407) |
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Film | Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) |
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Cartoon | A girl builds a sand castle at the beach, but the ocean keeps washing it away, so she builds one away from the waves. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 1452) |
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Cast | Maria and Luis play castaways on an island, when Bob shows up as a new friend. (First: Episode 1476) |
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Cartoon | P is for Puddle (First: Episode 0452) |
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Celebrity | James Taylor performs "Up on the Roof." (First: Episode 1808) |
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Film | A girl narrates a film of her grandpa putting a horseshoe on their horse. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Cartoon | In song, an ostrich, frog, mole and bee change lifestyles, which alters which one is over, under, around and through. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 1716) |
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Film | A boy paints a picture of a porcupine on glass. (First: Episode 0057) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: P for Pencil (First: Episode 0782) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie." (First: Episode 1789) |
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Cartoon | A bear (Jim Thurman) stacks 10 blocks. (First: Episode 1978) |
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SCENE 4 | Olivia goes outside with Big Bird, who wants to make sure Mr. Snuffleupagus is okay. Big Bird claims they can find him by making a "snuffle-o-dee-hoo" call. He goes down the block to make sure Snuffy can hear her calling. Sure enough at the end of the block, there's Snuffy, who calls back in response, only Olivia thinks this is just Big Bird putting on a voice. Snuffy then has to go home, again preventing another meeting. Olivia finds the call rather amusing and keeps making it as she and Big Bird go inside. Snuffy's response echoes back to Sesame Street and Olivia darts out, wondering where it came from. |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: P vs R — The monster fights over the letters P and R. (First: Episode 1574) |
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Cartoon | P for Planet (First: Episode 2008) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 5 | Everyone is settled down to eat, when the power is restored. They all found the nighttime ambience enjoyable, so Susan turns the lights back off. Snuffy announces the sponsors as they dine. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later repeated in season 18 as Episode 2247. The repeat omitted scene 4, as Snuffy has since been officially revealed to the cast by then.
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