| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar and the Grouchketeers read | |||||||
| Air date | April 7, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||
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Insert | Gordon goes through a stretching routine in the yard during the early morning and explains to the camera that he like so get up this early because there's very little traffic and it's a pretty time of the day. He invites the viewer along for a jog, which is set to a spoof of the Chariots of Fire music, and consists of a montage of Gordon running through the city. (First: Episode 1727) |
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Cartoon | A beaver does his exercises, while his friends make fun of him. He then uses his strength to save his friends when the dam breaks. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 2067) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Animation | Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Pizza and Grape Juice — Ernie and Bert figure out how to share their pizza and grape juice. (First: Episode 0256) |
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Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Oscar and Danny DeVito laugh it up. |
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Animation | Seis flores (First: Episode 1591) |
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Film | Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover prepares a table for a family who's celebrating their grandmother's birthday, but Grover doesn't know her name, so when each family member refers to her as a different relative each time, Grover thinks there's more than one party going on, so he ends up bringing out seven cakes. (First: Episode 1958) |
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Cartoon | More and more moths appear, and devour a man's clothes. Artist: Bob Kurtz (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cast | Olivia sings "Listen to the Wind." (First: Episode 2092) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to push a huge balloon elephant through a narrow doorway, and a girl helps him by deflating it. (First: Episode 1824) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "Name That Sound!" with contestant Mr. Honker. Mr. Honker honks when guessing sounds in this game show, but since Guy Smiley can't understand his honks, Mr. Honker brings the objects in. Sounds include a cow (to which he brings in Gladys the Cow), a horse (which he brings in Buster the Horse, accompanied by Forgetful Jones, who forgets whether or not he's a horse), and a fire engine (which Mr. Honker brings, full of honkers). (First: Episode 1957) |
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Cartoon | A schoolyard of gloves invites other gloves to join them. (First: Episode 1481) |
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Song | "Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure. (First: Episode 0933) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0455) |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar quizzes the Grouchketeers on opposites, namely ones that pertain to Grouches (being dirty instead of clean, loud instead of quiet, etc.). |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (First: Episode 0139) |
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Song | "Llama at Dentist" (First: Episode 1241) |
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Cartoon | Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with a dentist and a bus driver. (remake) (First: Episode 2146) |
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Cartoon | Brand X (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar leads David and the Grouchketeers in a reading lesson using a Grouch newspaper. David reads from the “Grouch Gifts” section with such bargains as roller skates without wheels, then Oscar has them use their newspapers to gift-wrap some stinky fish. |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster finds a newspaper. (First: Episode 2097) |
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Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335) |
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Muppets | In the woods, a nature-loving baritone (Jim Henson) sings "Ah, For the Joys of the Countryside" about how much he loves the country, without noticing that his surroundings are being converted into a city. (First: Episode 1008) |
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Film | Counting six oryx Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar now leads David and the Grouchketeers in reading Grouch Music magazine. David reads about an out-of-tune concert, then Oscar has them roll up the magazines and use them as off-key flutes. |
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Cartoon | The alphabet is presented in a chain reaction of events. (First: Episode 1113) |
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Film | A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen. (First: Episode 1802) |
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Muppets | Bert says his favorite number is Six. (First: Episode 1289) |
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Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar displays an issue of Trashcan Magazine, which is so terrible that Grouches (and Grouchketeers) throw it away. David walks away from the nonsense and Elmo announces the sponsors (ad-libbing “Stop that, Oscar!” as Oscar struggles with his trash can lid). |
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