| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Wynton Marsalis visits | |||||||||
| Air date | April 18, 1986 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||||
| Written by | Mark Saltzman | ||||||||
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Insert | Big Bird and Snuffy pretend to explore Sesame Street. They encounter some native Sesame Streetians speaking Sesamese and attempt to communicate with them and learn their customs. (First: Episode 2150) |
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Cartoon | A salesman offers a passerby the letter N for next to nothing. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 1804) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat. (First: Episode 0106) |
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Cartoon | Millie and Molly take a walk, and have different perspectives of their surroundings. (First: Episode 1309) |
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Muppets | Oscar sings "Swamp Mushy Muddy." (First: Episode 1038) |
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Cartoon | A boy shares his bubbles with some kids dancing in a field. (First: Episode 1926) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian." |
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Film | A boy climbs up a tree to gather coconuts. (First: Episode 1125) |
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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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Insert | Telly pretends to be an elephant, a goat and a lion. (First: Episode 1698) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Animation | A dune buggy is assembled. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Animation | 4 people, 4 wheels, 4 doors, and 4 windows make a carpool. (ending cut) (First: Episode 0910) |
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Muppets | Salesman Harvey Kneeslapper asks Tony if he gets attacked by monsters and run over by crowds. Herry Monster attacks him and a crowd walks all over him, so the answer is yes. Harvey has a simple solution for Tony: AWAY FROM! The next time those things happen to Tony, he can get AWAY FROM them. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Film | A scuba diver swims away from. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Insert | Bob gives the Two-Headed Monster a music lesson on their clarinet with two mouthpieces, but one head wants to play fast, and the other one slow. When Bob suggest they play at different times, the monster impresses Bob by playing different melodies on the same instrument. (First: Episode 1955) |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Camping Sounds — Ernie and Bert listen to sounds at night while camping. (First: Episode 1808) |
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Cartoon | The Hummingbird Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1518) |
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SCENE 1 | At nighttime, Hoots the Owl meets up with fellow jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. The two strike up a conversation about how long they've been playing music, and start a mini feud as Wynton is able to play any note on his trumpet that Hoots can with his saxophone. Wynton eventually outdoes him musically, but Hoots ends up winning the duel by flying and playing his saxophone at the same time. |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) |
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Film | In time-lapse footage, a construction crew builds a house and paints it green, and a family moves into it. (First: Episode 1171) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #4 (First: Episode 0984) |
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Muppets | Grover tries to ignore three monsters who look big and scary to him. When they notice him carrying a flute, they grab his attention and ask -- in what appears to be a threatening way -- if Grover wants to play. The three monsters pull out a clarinet, an oboe and a bassoon and begin to play, urging Grover to join in. (First: Episode 1412) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flying." (First: Episode 0394) |
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Muppets | Little Bird's CASA is drawn. (First: Episode 2095) |
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Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. Artist: Tee Collins (First: Episode 0240) |
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SCENE 2 | Wynton says that "N" begins the word "note," and Hoots names the different kind of musical notes there are as demonstrated by Wynton and his trumpets. |
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Animation | See the lion walk. (First: Episode 0993) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "When I Listen". (First: Episode 1760) |
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Film | A baker decorates a birthday cake to a jazz percussion beat. (First: Episode 1172) |
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Cartoon | The Bridgekeeper: Square (First: Episode 1618) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria, Telly, and the kids listen as Wynton plays different songs in different ways. He plays "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in an angry manner, "This Old Man" happily, and a sad version of "Old MacDonald." Telly asks for Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as if it were worried, while Maria follows it by asking if he knows the Sesame Street theme music. Hoots announces the sponsors as Wynton plays along to the closing credits theme. |
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