| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | January 8, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Emily Perl Kingsley | ||||||
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Insert | Forgetful Jones and Olivia sing a song about sharing. (First: Episode 2061) |
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Animation | Sand Q/q (First: Episode 0623) |
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Film | "It's an Otter!" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Safe — Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0581) |
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Cartoon | A red armless character is stalked by the letter Z until he eats it. (First: Episode 1340) |
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Muppets | While standing next to a tree being cut down, Professor Grover talks about the importance about listening... especially if the sound indicates some kind of danger. (First: Episode 1789) |
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Cartoon | Q-quiet! (tree chopping) (First: Episode 0675) |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar hands Telly Monster the sheet music for his new song, "Q is for Quick," accompanied by his pet elephants. Telly sings it through once, but Oscar thinks it should sound faster. Telly sings it again and again, each time faster than before. Exhausted, Telly reminds Oscar of another Q word - QUIT, which he does. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0048) |
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Celebrity | Richie Havens sings "It's Pouring." (First: Episode 0765) |
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Film | Kids talk about how many things they can do now that they're five years old. (First: Episode 1403) |
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Cartoon | "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362) |
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Muppets | Ernie doesn't want to play with Bert, who sings "I Wish I Had a Friend to Play With Me". (First: Episode 1819) |
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Cartoon | Several circles try to get past a large square. (First: Episode 1486) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: Hat — After sounding the word "hat," the monster shares one giant straw hat. (First: Episode 1349) |
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Cartoon | Two kids wonder where some mysterious tracks on the ground come from. (First: Episode 1029) |
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Film | Fish swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets | A shark sings about his "Perfecty Pearl-White Teeth." (First: Episode 1446) |
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Cartoon | A girl tries to describe what kind of sandwich she wants, but her dad keeps misunderstanding her. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 1715) |
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Muppets / Cast | Cookie Monster has agreed to help Maria on her lecture on good things to eat. Unbeknownst to Cookie, she has raisins, cucumber spears, carrot sticks and apples. Cookie tries all of them and he likes them. He finishes by eating all the dishes. (First: Episode 1518) |
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Cartoon | Z for zebra and zoo (First: Episode 0281) |
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Film | Kids compete in a speed skating competition. (version one) (First: Episode 0412) |
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Cartoon | A top-hatted man tries to show a girl how many uses a box has, but she prefers kicking it. (First: Episode 0763) |
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SCENE 2 | Uncle Wally carries a suitcase over to Bob, who is in a hurry. Wally tells him that in the suitcase is something Bob needs to eat ice cream. The case is opened and inside is a box, which contains a shopping bag, which holds an envelope containing a printing of the word "IN." Bob doesn't see how this would help him eat ice cream at all and sends Wally off on his way. Just then, host Monty Foyer (Martin P. Robinson) appears to host "So You Wanna Make a Deal!" He's offering a year's supply of ice cream to a lucky person who can give him the word "IN." Bob darts off looking for Wally. |
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Cartoon | Name That Food — The host challenges contestants to both identify *and* eat every food shown. Artist: Len Glasser (First: Episode 1491) |
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Film | A scuba diver collects shells, which some kids count in voice-over. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0474) |
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Cartoon | A colorful, rhythmic demonstration of the word IN (First: Episode 0337) |
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Muppets | Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet. (First: Episode 0236) |
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Cartoon | What's missing? (parrot) (First: Episode 2103) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down. (First: Episode 0183) |
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Film | Kids climb in and out of a tire. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0450) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon, Susan, and a couple of kids come across a banner strung over Oscar's trash can reading, "Happy National Opposite Day." Oscar and Grundgetta are celebrating the holiday by arguing about opposites, specifically where they should throw a party for the day. Susan and Gordon jokingly get into a similar argument for the Grouches' benefit. |
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Cartoon | An alien lands on Earth, looking for a Z to eat. He snatches one off a policeman's uniform, eats it, and rests. (First: Episode 1481) |
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Film | A man spins in circles while riding in his kayak. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0297) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music writes "Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car." (First: Episode 0897) |
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Cartoon | A ship captain orders the numbers 1-20 into a boat - which promptly sinks. Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (First: Episode 0614) |
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Insert | The Count (in voiceover) counts three kids who arrange themselves in different configurations with three boxes. (First: Episode 1352) |
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Cartoon | A rolling circle becomes a square, then a triangle, and various other shapes. (First: Episode 1465) |
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Film | Sounds Around the House v1: a dripping water faucet, a man playing the violin, a woman vacuuming, a teenager listening to pop music, and a passing elevated train. (First: Episode 1706) |
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Transition | Bridge #3 - 4 Corner Bridge A (First: Episode 0282) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob tries to say goodbye, but Oscar intervenes by saying the opposite - "Hello." Bob uses reverse psychology and tricks him into saying goodbye anyhow. Susan announces the sponsors as an embarrassed Oscar peers out of his can. |
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