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| Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day | |||||||||
| Air date | February 13, 1987 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 18 (1986-1987) | ||||||||
| Written by | Nancy Sans | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Celebrity | The Four Tops sing "Standing at the Bus Stop Sign," while waiting for the bus to arrive. Big Bird pulls up in an imaginary bus. |
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Cartoon | A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come. (First: Episode 1176) |
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Film | Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide. (First: Episode 0232) |
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Animation | Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together. (First: Episode 1895) |
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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. (First: Episode 2188) |
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Cartoon / Film | Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice. (First: Episode 0659) |
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Insert | Oscar the Grouch and Grundgetta imagine what their wedding would look like. (First: Episode 1733) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: The man spells out the word HELP. (First: Episode 1118) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253) |
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Cartoon | Bus Stop (First: Episode 1396) |
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Film | Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0619) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: N for Nose (First: Episode 0763) |
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Muppets | NTV host Nora Nicks introduces Nick Normal and the Nickmatics singing "The Letter N." (First: Episode 2071) |
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Cartoon | A Spanish-speaking man falls into a hole, and a dragon helps him out. Artist: Chris Hinton (First: Episode 2211) |
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Insert | Maria makes the bus just in time, but Gordon and Linda miss it. Snuffy invites them to follow him to the Snuffleupa-bus stop, where he'll catch the Snuffleupa-bus to Snufflegarden. Gordon and Linda are amazed at the size of the bus stop and the bus itself. After he gets on the Snuffleupa-bus and goes off to school, Gordon and Linda notice their bus leaving at another stop, and they run to catch it. (First: Episode 2142) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster treats us to the balancing feats of ten brown bears. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1336) |
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Muppets | The Martians find a telephone. (First: Episode 0398) |
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Cartoon | An N-terview with an N Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0131) |
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Celebrity | Rubén Blades sings "Ayuda" with Piri and the kids, who shout out the title word throughout the song. (First: Episode 2211) |
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Cartoon | When a bird pops a balloon, the balls represent Sad and Happy. (First: Episode 2102) |
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Film | How Crayons are Made Music: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey (First: Episode 1579) |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0120) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie makes a mess of the apartment in order to find a note he wrote to Bert. (First: Episode 0255) |
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Cartoon | L for life, love, lizard, leap and lump (First: Episode 1833) |
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SCENE 1 | Forgetful Jones is at the Fix-It Shop to remind Luis about taking him to lunch in honor of today's holiday - Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day. To Luis' surprise, Forgetful is able to remember every little detail when Luis agreed to take him last week (even what Luis wore), explaining he made sure to mark the date on his calendar. |
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Animation | 6 dots - 1 = 5 dots (First: Episode 0302) |
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Muppets | Polly Darton sings "I'm Under the Weather Over You." (First: Episode 1702) |
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Cartoon | "The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise" Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1526) |
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SCENE 2 | At Hooper's Store, David makes sure he has all the proper food prepared for "Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day" - baked beans, biscuits, carrots, and hay (for the animals). He takes the cart outside in the yard and gets the orders from Luis and all the cowpokes, including Forgetful, Clementine, Buster, a Honker, and a Grouch. |
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Animation | Three balls compare sizes. An orange ball (voiced by Daws Butler) boasts that he's the smallest, until his little brother comes onto the scene. (First: Episode 0786) |
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Muppets / Cast | Cookie Monster has agreed to help Maria on her lecture on good things to eat. Unbeknownst to Cookie, she has raisins, cucumber spears, carrot sticks and apples. Cookie tries all of them and he likes them. He finishes by eating all the dishes. (First: Episode 1518) |
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Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground. (First: Episode 0149) |
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Cartoon | A Mouth whistles Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. (First: Episode 2086) |
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Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up! (First: Episode 0149) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis and the cowpokes have had a great time at lunch. He wonders about the origin of the holiday, and Forgetful shows him the origin book, The Story of Forgettinest Jones or How Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day Began. In the story, all the other cowboys and cowgirls are upset that Forgettinest (Forgetful's great, great grandfather) always forgets his lunch and takes parts of everyone else's. He arrives at the saloon, without lunch as usual, but is shot down by his friends who've had enough of his forgetting. As he exits, he spots a stampede of sheep heading toward the joint and warns everybody, who quickly take cover as the sheep trample through. All the cowpokes thank him by sharing their lunch and declare him a hero before promptly taking a nap. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Luis has finished the story and sees the rest of the group asleep, which Forgetful explains is part of the tradition. He nods off too as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later repeated in Season 20 as Episode 2505.
- The date on Forgetful's calendar for Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day is marked on February 13 - the exact day the episode originally aired in 1987.
- Additional performers include Martin P. Robinson (Pumpkin cowboy), Pam Arciero (horse), Michael Elizabeth Huston (Grouch cowgirl and Green cowgirl), Jerry Nelson (Lavender cowboy and sheep), and Fran Brill (Lavender cowgirl), with Richard Hunt (sheep).
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