| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird and Snuffy help at the library | |||||||
| Air date | March 20, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | While planning to clean out his nest, Big Bird realizes he needs to return some books to the library, so he and Snuffy walk on over before it closes. Upon arrival, they see that they're quite busy today. Linda tells her assistant Teresa (Annabelle Gurwitch) that it's okay if they help them out, so Big Bird and Snuffy arrange to stick around. "Gee, how do you like that - I started out cleaning my nest, and the next thing you know, we're assistant librarians!" Big Bird states. |
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Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) |
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Song | "Llama at Dentist" (First: Episode 1241) |
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Muppets | Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works. (First: Episode 2120) |
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Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0036) |
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SCENE 2 | Linda and Teresa give Big Bird and Snuffy a little test to see how well they can help out in the library: they have to sort four books. They begin singing "Three of These Things" loudly until they're shushed and reminded of where they are. They begin singing again quietly and pick the book with the fish on it as different from the others with houses on the cover. After Teresa confirms they're correct, they celebrate loudly, prompting others to throw their arms up in anger. One kid slams his book shut and leaves in a huff. |
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Cartoon | Four ducks Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1481) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is It — Ernie wants to play tag while Bert reads his book. (First: Episode 1026) |
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Film | Close-up shots of a car and a frog are shown side-by-side. (First: Episode 1530) |
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Cartoon | Y for yawn (First: Episode 0301) |
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Muppets | The Martians find a radio. (First: Episode 1329) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps." (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 3 | Teresa and Linda read the story of "Snuffle-Punzel," written by Snuffy. He and Big Bird act it out for the kids. In the story, Snuffle-Punzel (Snuffy) must stay in a tower until he learns how to listen to others. When a little friend (Big Bird) finds him, the friend wants to tell Snuffle-Punzel of a way they can play together. After letting down his toys from the tower, Snuffle-Punzel finally decides to listen and starts to lift the friend up with his snuffle. The story comes to an abrupt end as Snuffy realizes he didn't finish the story. He finds a happy way to end it: since he already let down his toys, Snuffle-Punzel just lets down the tower by knocking over the cardboard set piece. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: Y for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0769) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie's Nap — During Ernie's nap time, Cookie Monster tries to steal his pillow by distracting him with a bell. (First: Episode 0035) |
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Song | "Brothers Song" (First: Episode 1476) |
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Cartoon | The Magnificent Splasho demonstrates before & after. (First: Episode 0694) |
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Insert | Oscar the Grouch and Grundgetta imagine what their wedding would look like. (First: Episode 1733) |
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Cartoon | Toothpaste March Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1446) |
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Film | A baby chick hatches from an egg. (Music: Joe Raposo) (First: Episode 0690) |
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Cartoon | Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg. (First: Episode 0796) |
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Muppets | Old West: Sinister Sam announces that someone has bought the last box of crayons, and he wants to know why. It turns out that he just wants a crayon so he can learn how to write the letter Y. (First: Episode 1288) |
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Cartoon | In still photographs, a boy asks his friend what his mother does. The mother's shoes become animated, as she describes what she did today. She turns out to be a policewoman. (First: Episode 1578) |
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Muppets | The Count's bats are upset because the Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count. (First: Episode 0625) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | The Two-Headed Monster disagrees on whether to sing or say the alphabet. Jane Curtin resolves the fight by singing the Alphabet Song. When the monster asks Curtin to join in, all three end up speaking in the same monster language! (references to Curtain playing Cinderella cut) (First: Episode 2033) |
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Cartoon | A yak discusses the letter "Y" on a stage, and is insulted when it is called a "Yakkity-yakkity-yak". (First: Episode 0301) |
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Film | Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach. (First: Episode 1122) |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Before and After — Bert explains the concept of "before and after" to Ernie using a plate of cookies. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Animation | A man plays a memory game using cards. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog has been instructed to discuss surprises. He wonders what kind of surprise he's in store for, such as a scare from a monster or being hit with a pie. The surprise instead comes from a young girl, who gives him some flowers. (First: Episode 1770) |
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Film | A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
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SCENE 4 | Teresa attempts to read "The Story of Cerrado," a book written by Big Bird and Snuffy, but she can't get the book open. Big Bird laughs and says that's the idea - it's because cerrado means "closed" in Spanish! Big Bird and Snuffy laugh at their joke as Linda appears in a corner spot to announce the sponsors. |
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