| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Forgetful Jones joins the Birdketeers | |||||||||
| Air date | March 14, 1986 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||||
| Written by | Nancy Sans | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | At Hooper's Store, Forgetful Jones struggles to remember some important information, but he succeeds: he remembers to say "Howdy" to the viewer, the street's name, his name, and that he's supposed to show the viewer around Sesame Street today! Linda comes by to congratulate his rare instance of excellent memory in sign language. Forgetful then manages to remember the next sketch on the show, which he says involves Ernie, Bert, some apples, and a large boat... |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Apple Stand — Ernie shows Bert the apple stand he's established. (First: Episode 1219) |
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SCENE 2 | Forgetful is excited about remembering the previous sketch, even though he was wrong about there being a boat in it. "That's why they call me Remembering Jones," he says. David suggests that even though he's really named Forgetful, he doesn't always forget things - just more often than most other people do. To David's astonishment, Forgetful suddenly recites the entire alphabet perfectly... though neither of them can figure out why he did it. |
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Film | Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet. (First: Episode 1966) |
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Animation | Two small stripes watch as two circles play with each other. The stripes try to bend themselves into circles, but soon find that they can both cooperate to make one big circle. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Film | Where the buffalo roam ... (First: Episode 0510) |
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Cartoon | A minstrel sings about a fox who outsmarts a crow. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0631) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Carol Channing sings a spoof of "Hello, Dolly!" with Sammy the Snake, praising his ability to look and sound like an S. (First: Episode 1951) |
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Cartoon | S for Snail Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1158) |
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Insert | While Oscar tends to his hungry elephants, Maria reads a crying Irvine the story of "The Princess and the Mattress." In the story, a lonely Grouch prince (Oscar) is tired of arguing with himself and wants a wife. To find the Grouchiest girl in the land, he creates a test - he covers a soft mattress with bricks and since Grouches hate soft things, the perfect girl will be able to notice the soft mattress underneath. A princess arrives (Grundgetta) and heads to the bed for a rest, noticing the soft mattress. The two argue happily ever after. (First: Episode 1723) |
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Cartoon | A magician writes in his diary about the many mishaps during his performance. (First: Episode 2053) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: The Boxes — Super Grover helps Janet Fringle move some heavy boxes. (First: Episode 0588) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis finds Forgetful up in one of the trees, and asks what he's doing there; Forgetful has no idea. Luis reminds him it's time to announce the letter of the day, and hints that it's the first letter of the words "secret," "Sesame," and "Street." Forgetful remembers it's the letter S; now if only he could remember what he is doing up a tree... |
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Cartoon | Six snakes spent Saturday on the sand. (First: Episode 1669) |
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Film | A film of butterflies Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | Leaves falling. (First: Episode 1822) |
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Film | A flower opens and closes. (First: Episode 0441) |
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Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) |
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Muppets / Cast | Oscar sings "One of These Things" over a four-way split screen containing Gordon, Bob, David and Slimey, all dressed in tuxedos. (First: Episode 1904) |
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Cartoon | A peasant tries to woo a pretty girl by reciting the famous "Roses are Red" poem. The lines are fed to him by a poet behind a bush, whom she eventually runs off with. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 2058) |
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Film | A construction machine and a horse look similar. (First: Episode 1566) |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: S for spring (First: Episode 0792) |
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SCENE 4 | Still in the tree, Forgetful asks Big Bird to translate what a passing bird tweeted at him. Big Bird makes sure to get the right inflection Forgetful was told, and tells him the bird was talking about a game. Forgetful remembers that he was up in the tree to remind himself to play a game involving birds, but in his excitement he falls out of the tree (and continues to hear the imaginary bird flying around his head). |
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Animation | Red and yellow dots play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." (First: Episode 1979) |
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Muppets | The How Many Game — The Two-Headed Monster must present two of something. (First: Episode 2076) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Cast | Maria, David and Olivia compete to see who can jump the farthest. (First: Episode 1497) |
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Film | Russian nesting dolls 10-1 (First: Episode 0563) |
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SCENE 5 | In Big Bird's nest, Forgetful sings a country-western version of "One of These Things" using three Birdketeers and himself. Big Bird tells him that he could become a Birdketeer, even though as a cowboy he didn't belong before. |
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Cartoon | S for sing (First: Episode 0824) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster Sleeps Over Part 1 — Cookie Monster is frightened of a shadow on the wall, but Ernie shows him it's just a blanket on a toy chest. (First: Episode 2027) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (edited) (First: Episode 0239) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster Sleeps Over Part 2 — Later, Cookie Monster has a bad dream in which he is surrounded by flying, singing cookies who won't let him reach them. (First: Episode 2027) |
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Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0243) |
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SCENE 6 | The Birdketeers have hopping practice before they sing "The Birdketeer Song," a brand new song Big Bird wrote. Big Bird teaches it to everyone first, but Forgetful can't remember all the lyrics on his first try. |
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Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Muppets | Kermit Lecture: Horse and Cart — Kermit, Farmer Grover, and Fred the Wonder Horse show how a horse-and-cart works. (First: Episode 0590) |
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Animation | A kerosene lamp assembles itself in stop-motion. (First: Episode 1473) |
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SCENE 7 | The peeping and chirping Birdketeers start their "first meeting of the new season" as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits follow. |
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