| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | April 9, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | David Korr | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria has just finished making a small table to give to Linda for her birthday. Telly comes by with a potted plant and asks Maria to build him a table to put it on. He isn't sure what it should be like and what he describes matches the table Maria has made perfectly. He intends to give Linda the plant and a table to put it on, so he proposes they give their gifts together. |
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Animation | Stop-motion: A bunny tries to make a bench with blocks, but needs a chick's help. (First: Episode 1463) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie." (First: Episode 1789) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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Film | A girl meets a blind woman who has a seeing-eye dog. (First: Episode 0952) |
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Cartoon | T es para telefono (First: Episode 0362) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | A bear (Jim Thurman) stacks 10 blocks. (First: Episode 1978) |
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Film | A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0096) |
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Insert | Susan and the kids sing "My Little Game," a song with loud and soft parts. (First: Episode 1186) |
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Cartoon | Passengers on a crowded subway illustrate "between." (First: Episode 0795) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit attempts to demonstrate between by standing between two poles, which are actually mops held by Grover and Herry. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A man (Jim Thurman) is interrupted as he tries to recite the alphabet. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 1499) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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SCENE 2 | Buster the Horse greets Oscar and remarks that he looks rather slovenly, a word Oscar has never heard before. Buster explains it and gives various synonyms which are new to Oscar as well. Oscar decides to put all these new words into a Grouchonary, but he can't write them down - he's broken all his pencils and glued the pages of his notebook shut. He becomes very upset, as he can't write anything down as Buster starts to spew out more Grouchonary-worthy words. |
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Cartoon | The word "YES" follows a man. (First: Episode 0875) |
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Film | Topi antelopes nod "yes." Music by Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411) |
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Muppets | "We Got a Brand New Baby" (First: Episode 2061) |
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Cartoon | An ostrich is born on a football field, and learns that he can't fly. He saves the game by scoring the winning touchdown. (First: Episode 1870) |
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Film | Two apples balance on a block seesaw. (First: Episode 2176) |
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Cartoon | The secret drawing is a mailman. (First: Episode 0220) |
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SCENE 3 | David tells Big Bird not to stand around all day in the way of the newspaper stand; Big Bird says he just wants to listen for awhile. Big Bird soon watches a farcical situation occur with the grown-ups in the yard. Gordon comes out to read his newspaper. As he comments on the scores of the Mets game, David comes by to clear some dishes and offers Gordon some lemonade; Gordon isn't listening, but his comments regarding the sports page are misconstrued by David as a drink order. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd |
Gordon realizes he's forgotten to put dinner in the oven and goes home for a moment. Just then, Maria takes a break from the Fix-It Shop and starts reading Gordon's paper, which conceals her when David drops off the lemonade, then tends to the phone. She thinks he's brought it just for her and she drinks it down. Refreshed, she heads back to work just before Gordon returns. His comments about the sports page again make David think he's responding to him about the lemonade. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd |
David once again tells Big Bird not to stand in front of the newspaper stand, adding that he’d better learn to listen. |
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Cartoon | Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain. (First: Episode 1477) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit." (First: Episode 0160) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: Listening — Kermit the Frog explains the importance of listening, using the monster as an example. (First: Episode 1767) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #8 (First: Episode 0998) |
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Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) |
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Animation | Where does the triangle fit? (First: Episode 1883) |
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Cast | Susan, Bob, and Maria give a lesson on addition and subtraction. (First: Episode 0633) |
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Cartoon | A sleepy man counts 8 sheep. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 2188) |
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Celebrity | Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe and Malcolm-Jamal Warner notice Telly and Keshia Knight Pulliam pretending to look sad, which escalates into the three of them arguing over what's more sad: losing a purple pen with a picture of Prince on it, not making the football team, or a best friend moving away. Telly and Keshia then pretend to look angry, and then notice that they look just like them. (First: Episode 2127) |
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Cartoon | Vaudeville duo Herman Happy and Stanley Sad sing a song about how they live up to their names. (First: Episode 0772) |
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Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl reads the word "hug" with Herry. (First: Episode 1084) |
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Animation | A snail shell is uncovered in the sand. (First: Episode 2039) |
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Cartoon | A peacock counts 20 feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sandbox Game — Ernie gets Bert to engage in a word play game with him. (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | Find the Circle quiz (First: Episode 1594) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird shows Gordon the glued notebook that Oscar just gave him; neither knows what they could use it for. Buster announces the sponsors as Big Bird joins Gordon and the kids playing in the yard. |
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