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Sesame Street
Tellyโ€™s gravity experiment
(repeat of 1955)
Air date December 6, 1985
Season Season 17 (1985-1986)
Written by Sara Compton
Directed by Emily Squires
Sponsors H, I, 9

2110

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
1955a
SCENE 1 The Count tells the viewer that today, they're going to learn to count grown-ups. He calls over Bob, Susan, Maria, David, and Mr. Macintosh, who are all rather busy, but allow themselves to be counted for the sake of the viewer. However, the Count has them line up again to count grown-ups wearing hats, then grown-ups carrying things, and finally grown-ups who have to go to work now.
1736r
Cartoon A boy learns to play his violin by practicing.
(First: Episode 1513)
SpanishBodyPartSong
Film Body parts song sung in Spanish.
(First: Episode 1113)
Pageantface
Muppets Sesame Street pageants: Prairie Dawn directs the cast in a pageant about the face. Ernie talks about eyes, Cookie Monster talks about the mouth, Bert and Grover talk about ears, and Herry Monster talks about the nose. At the end of the pageant, they assemble a picture of a face.
(First: Episode 0711)
1708t
Cartoon H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
(First: Episode 0020)
Crocky
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Crocodile
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0410)
OOTTRain
Song Luis sings "Three of These Things" with three kids with umbrellas and one unlucky kid without one.
(First: Episode 0449)
Typewriterhand
Cartoon The Typewriter: H for Hand
(First: Episode 0771)
Oscar-BillofGripes

BillOfGripes-Crowd
Muppets Oscar holds a musical rally in Central Park to bring awareness to the Grouch "Bill of Gripes."
(First: Episode 1262)
Toon-TriangleQuizEng
Cartoon Different uses of a triangle
(First: Episode 1580)
Shapedancers.triangle
Cast Big Bird watches the shape dancers make a triangle.
(First: Episode 1265)
2205-Cake
Film A baker decorates a birthday cake to a jazz percussion beat.
(First: Episode 1172)
Wandaskneees
Cartoon Lazy Wanda's knees converse with each other.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(First: Episode 1075)
Harvey
Muppets In the park, Harvey Kneeslapper comes up behind a man, asks him, "Wanna see something funny?" and then holds a mirror up. The man sees nothing funny...until he looks at Harvey!
(First: Episode 0283)
1736v
Cartoon Nine Striped Cats
Owe Gustafson
(First: Episode 1564)
TwoHeadClarinet
SCENE 2 Bob gives the Two-Headed Monster a music lesson on their clarinet with two mouthpieces, but one head wants to play fast, and the other one slow. When Bob suggest they play at different times, the monster impresses Bob by playing different melodies on the same instruments.
Alphabetbully
Cartoon A bully says the alphabet to a mild-mannered gardener, who hits him in the face with a pie at the end.
(First: Episode 0279)
Monstersgrowup
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Baby Monster Day Care Center โ€” Cookie Monster seeks Kermit's reward.
(First: Episode 1322)
2680-Horses
Cartoon Luis (in voice-over) counts racehorses numbered 9 to 1 as they cross the finish line.
Luis-agua
Cast In the desert, Luis desperately searches for AGUA, but all the pumps are dry.
(First: Episode 0680)
WaterWaterWater
Film Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places.
(First: Episode 0135)
1955b

1955c
SCENE 3 Biff is tucked in on Bob's couch, as Bob and Sully watch Susan give him a check-up. Bob describes what happened - the two came over to fix the leaky faucet, when Biff started to a feel warm all over and sneeze like mad. Susan concludes he's caught the flu and prescribes he get some rest. Biff insists he's fine at first, but agrees to go home and rest. Susan and Bob don't think he's fit to go all the way to Canarsie on his own, so he must rest at Bob's until Gordon comes back home with the car. Biff doesn't think he can sleep there, until Sully lulls him to sleep with a tune on Bob's piano.
Boyflowers
Cartoon A boy's friends bring him flowers to cheer him up, not knowing that he's allergic to them.
(First: Episode 1524)
1091-18
Film Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse)
(First: Episode 0415)
10CommandmentsofHealth
Muppets "The Ten Commandments of Health"
(First: Episode 1139)
2040g
Cartoon Yo-yo elevator
(First: Episode 1971)
Forgetfulinthedark
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)
Greenman.DarkLight
Cartoon A green man demonstrates dark and light.
(First: Episode 1129)
1955d
SCENE 4 Telly tells the Count about an interesting discovery he's made - whenever he jumps up, he comes back down to the ground. He wonders if this is always the case and the Count encourages him to pursue an experiment to find out (so he can count Telly's jumps).
Painter9
Film The Mad Painter #9
(First: Episode 0338)
BDWilliams.Honker
Muppets / Celebrity Billy Dee Williams and Mr. Honker count backwards from 10 to 1. Homer has to blow his nose before he can honk the last number.
(First: Episode 1819)
3154s1
Cartoon Slot-machine legs: Cowboy & horse
(First: Episode 1702)
CMT
Muppets The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches.
(First: Episode 0287)
Agua.desert
Cartoon A Spanish-speaking man seeks agua in the desert. A cowboy gives him a glass, and he uses it to wash his hands.
(First: Episode 0928)
1955e
SCENE 5 Telly has now jumped 100 times, coming back to the ground each time. He's fairly convinced this will always be the case, but the Count pushes him to keep jumping (so he can keep counting).
2110-SandH
Animation Sand H/h
(First: Episode 0630)
HTV
Muppets Ernie & Bert โ€” Bert complains when a big letter H appears on the TV screen, so Ernie turns off the set, unplugs it, and takes a bunch of H objects out of the TV (including a hat, a house and a hamster). When he plugs it back in, a big letter I appears on the screen. Ernie wants to try fixing the TV again, but Bert tells him not to -- this is a great show.
(First: Episode 0578)
300013
Film Kid voiceovers identify a horse's body parts (shown one at a time), then the complete animal.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0428)
1955f

2110ctw
SCENE 6 After jumping over 1,000 times, Telly is ready to conclude that he will always land on the ground when jumping up in the air. The Count agrees, but now poses whether or not the same principle applies to himself. While the Count counts his own jumps, Telly announces the sponsors and, after the credits, says he'll go home to soak his feet.


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