| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Telly’s gravity experiment (repeat of 1955) | |||||||
| Air date | December 6, 1985 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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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. |
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Cartoon | A boy learns to play his violin by practicing. (First: Episode 1513) |
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Film | Body parts song sung in Spanish. (First: Episode 1113) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Crocodile Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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Song | Luis sings "Three of These Things" with three kids with umbrellas and one unlucky kid without one. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: H for Hand (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | Oscar holds a musical rally in Central Park to bring awareness to the Grouch "Bill of Gripes." (First: Episode 1262) |
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Cartoon | Different uses of a triangle (First: Episode 1580) |
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Cast | Big Bird watches the shape dancers make a triangle. (First: Episode 1265) |
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Film | A baker decorates a birthday cake to a jazz percussion beat. (First: Episode 1172) |
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Cartoon | Lazy Wanda's knees converse with each other. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1075) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | Nine Striped Cats Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1564) |
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SCENE 2 | Two-Headed Monster: Clarinet — Bob gives the monster a music lesson on their clarinet with two mouthpieces. |
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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) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Baby Monster Day Care Center — Cookie Monster seeks Kermit's reward. (First: Episode 1322) |
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Cartoon | Luis (in voice-over) counts racehorses numbered 9 to 1 as they cross the finish line. |
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Cast | In the desert, Luis desperately searches for AGUA, but all the pumps are dry. (First: Episode 0680) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. (First: Episode 0135) |
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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. |
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Cartoon | A boy's friends bring him flowers to cheer him up, not knowing that he's allergic to them. (First: Episode 1524) |
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Film | Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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Muppets | "The Ten Commandments of Health" (First: Episode 1139) |
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Cartoon | Yo-yo elevator (First: Episode 1971) |
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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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Cartoon | A green man demonstrates dark and light. (First: Episode 1129) |
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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). |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | Slot-machine legs: Cowboy & horse (First: Episode 1702) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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). |
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Animation | Sand H/h (First: Episode 0630) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: H on TV — Ernie attempts to fix the TV after Bert complains there's a big H on it. (First: Episode 0578) |
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Film | Kid voiceovers identify a horse's body parts (shown one at a time), then the complete animal. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0428) |
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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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