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Sesame Street
Air date March 26, 1986
Season Season 17 (1985-1986)
Written by Ray Sipherd
Production November 19, 1985
Sponsors D, G, 8

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
2188a
SCENE 1 At dusk, Oscar shows Luis and the kids a demonstration of how the Earth revolves around the sun, using a large apple as the Earth (with Slimey inside) and a flashlight as the sun, which Luis operates. Slimey turns the apple again and again to mimic the Earth's rotation, going faster and faster making Oscar dizzy.
DavidCircle
Animation Circle In Space
(First: Episode 1441)
BallGoesUp
Song "The Ball Goes Up, The Ball Goes Down"
(First: Episode 0773)
Moon.cookie
Muppets Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie."
(First: Episode 1789)
TravisTravel
Cartoon Travis Travel demonstrates different methods of transportation.
(First: Episode 1459)
Carassembly
Animation A dune buggy is assembled.
(First: Episode 0506)
2040o
Muppets An Anything Muppet asks another "Is this the D train?" A subway train then arrives, letting out several letter Ds.
(First: Episode 1493)
Ddart
Cartoon D-dart
(First: Episode 0292)
2188b
SCENE 2 Bob encounters Oscar arguing with Telly about whether nighttime is a happy time or a sad time. Oscar gives his reasons why it’s a happy time, and Telly gives his reasons why it’s sad. Bob thinks of nighttime as an old friend, and sings a song about it – “Evensong.” By the end of the song, Telly and Oscar have switched their views on nighttime.
Drawmouth
Cartoon A face is drawn, but the mouth complains when it is drawn last.
(First: Episode 1897)
FirstLastRemake
Muppets Grover tries to demonstrate first and last by being first in line, but the other monsters keep switching on him.
(First: Episode 1332)
D-Drums
Animation D / d (drums and drumsticks)
Song.trying
Song Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again."
(First: Episode 0631)
2256-Ds
Animation Where do the Ds fit?
(First: Episode 1617)
Happy and Sad
Muppets Kermit the Frog tries to explain the difference between happy and sad, two emotions which Elmo displays while trying to get Kermit to play with him.
Owlbirdcompromise
Cartoon An owl and a bluebird work out a compromise.
(First: Episode 1493)
2188c

2188d
SCENE 3 Bob, Linda, and some kids look at the moon and the stars. Linda teaches them how to sign “moon,” “star,” and “comet,” then how to act out the roles.
Gloria2
Cartoon Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version).
(First: Episode 0140)
Oranges!!
Film / Animation Oranges are peeled and sliced in stop-motion, and some kids eat them.
(First: Episode 1802)
Frogua
Cartoon A frog looks for AGUA.
(First: Episode 1942)
TwoHead-FALL
Muppets The Two-Headed Monster sounds out the word "Fall" and leaves fall on them. Then, they fall over.
(First: Episode 1319)
1708o
Cartoon A moving truck takes the number 8.
(First: Episode 1446)
1708d
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie and Bert cooperate to make Ernie's bed. Ernie notices that on his bed, which Bert is preparing, there is one side where the blanket is shorter than the other. Bert suggests that Ernie and him cooperate while making the blanket even on both sides, in the process the blanket is shorter at one side than the other.
(First: Episode 1388)
Metalparrot
Film A still of construction equipment fades into a shot of a parrot.
(First: Episode 1535)
2188e
SCENE 4 Yo-Yo Ma plays “Sarabande” on his cello.
Count8sheep
Cartoon A sleepy man counts 8 sheep. (Spanish version)
Ssnffarm
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Old MacDonald's Spaceship — A spaceship lands on Old MacDonald's farm.
(First: Episode 2021)
1186zc
Film A girl puts on her coat all by herself.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0622)
OG.8buttons
Cartoon Eight buttons are counted on a monkey's shirt.
Artist: Owe Gustafson
(First: Episode 1452)
5-Good-Men
Muppets Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
(First: Episode 0554)
2188f
SCENE 5 Big Bird catches Bob, Linda, and Luis as they are about to head home and asks them to watch while he wishes on a star, hoping that some extra ears and eyes will help make them come true. He picks out a star, then starts reading from a long list of wishes.
Lightbulbsubtraction
Cartoon Lightbulb subtraction.
SimonTransportationSounds
Muppets Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse.
(First: Episode 0294)
TeddyBears-10
Cartoon At a circus, teddy bears count 1-10 and 10-1.
400032
Film A kid marching band forms a triangle.
(First: Episode 0531)
GforGiggle
Cartoon G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift)
(First: Episode 0357)
Frazzle2
Muppets "Frazzle" with Frazzle and The Frazzletones
(First: Episode 0846)
2125u
Cartoon The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue."
(First: Episode 0775)
Ostrichfilm
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Ostriches walk and run. (piano music)
(First: Episode 0339)
2188g
SCENE 6 The grownups decide to go home before Big Bird finishes reading from his long wish list. Susan emerges from her apartment window wondering what the commotion is about, and Big Bird begins reading his list to her. A yawning Luis announces the sponsors.

Notes[]

  • Some of the wishes on Big Bird's list written but not mentioned include:
    • I wish Herry Monster would join the "Y."
    • I wish that Christmas was tomorrow.
    • I wish that I could fly.
    • I wish that Maria could make birdseed chili.
    • I wish all the graffiti in New York would vanish.
    • I wish that it were spring.


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