Sesame Street | |||||||
Snuffy joins the Grouchketeers (repeat of 2058) | |||||||
Air date | December 8, 1986 | ||||||
Season | Season 18 (1986-1987) | ||||||
Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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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) | |
Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) | |
Muppets | Game Show: The Triangle is Right The object of the game is to answer every question with "a triangle" as the answer. Contestant Prairie Dawn has little patience for this format. (First: Episode 2185) | |
Film | Lions walk down a trail. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0367) | |
Cartoon | "Pinball Number Count" (#12) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0985) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Loretta Lynn and Count von Count sing "Count on Me." (First: Episode 2026) | |
Cartoon | A man connects the dots to form a house to escape from the rain. Artist: Bill Davis (First: Episode 2218) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is thirsty, and imagines that he's drinking nice cold water. Irritated, Bert tells him to go get a real glass of water. Ernie does, but then he annoys Bert by saying that now he's hungry. (First: Episode 0459) | |
Cartoon | "The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise" Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1526) | |
Cast | Luis and Gordon have a hard time picking apples by themselves, but all it takes is cooperation. (First: Episode 1399) | |
Song | "School Song" (First: Episode 0986) | |
Cartoon | What would happen if I popped this balloon? (First: Episode 1312) | |
SCENE 1 | Oscar starts today's Grouchketeer meeting, with new member Snuffy, who sports a giant trashcan lid for a hat. Oscar imagines that a lid that big must come from a giant trashcan, with giant trash! Oscar makes Snuffy a part of their trash-and-tell section and sends him home to bring some giant trash. | |
Cartoon | Q/q (balloons) | |
Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk. (First: Episode 0047) | |
Film | Snow in the city Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0429) | |
Muppets | Dicky Tick hosts "Lifestyles of the Big and Little." (First: Episode 2206) | |
Cartoon | "Ladybugs' Picnic" (First: Episode 0416) | |
SCENE 2 | Snuffy brings back his giant trash, which Oscar loves. Snuffy explains the story behind each piece of trash, adding it's the only stuff he could find that wasn't taken by the trashman. Oscar realizes that there must be a Snuffleupagus dump with more giant trash and organizes a trip to it, with Snuffy leading the way. | |
Cartoon | A family of snakes makes shapes, and rolls away. (First: Episode 1506) | |
Cast | Maria and Linda sew quilts with a Q on them. (First: Episode 1508) | |
Cartoon | Tiger likes going to school. (First: Episode 0549) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "What Babies Are Called" (First: Episode 0096) | |
Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Christopher talk about what love is. (First: Episode 1484) | |
Cartoon | I Love You, in American Sign Language Artist: Steve Finkin (First: Episode 1170) | |
SCENE 3 | In the rain, Oscar, Snuffy and the Grouchketeers continue walking, trying to find the dump, with no success. Oscar tells them to press on; the next dump they find might be the "dump at the end of the rainbow." Suddenly, they realize they've been in the dump all along and Oscar sings "There's a Big Heap of Trash at the End of the Rainbow." | |
Cartoon | A magician writes in his diary about the many mishaps during his performance. (First: Episode 2053) | |
Film | Counting the circus clowns (First: Episode 0501) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty: Prince Sleeps — Prince Charming kisses Sleeping Beauty and falls asleep. (First: Episode 0513) | |
Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004) | |
Song | "Garbageman's Blues Song" (First: Episode 1875) | |
Muppets | Clementine and Buster get on a train, and try to tell Forgetful Jones that he's supposed to get on the train with them, but Forgetful Jones would much rather remember on his own why he's at the train station. The train leaves just as Forgetful remembers why he's there. (First: Episode 1654) | |
Cartoon | Q-quiet! (tree chopping) (First: Episode 0675) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar recites the sponsors to the members and they all give the salute to the viewer. |
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