| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | February 19, 1987 | ||||||
| Season | Season 18 (1986-1987) | ||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Nikya assists the Two-Headed Monster as he presents the number 2 by counting each of their body parts that come in pairs. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #2 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0987) |
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Film | As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat. (First: Episode 0801) |
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Muppets | Mother Goose tries coming up with Little Boy Blue's nursery rhyme. (First: Episode 1449) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets / Cast | Oscar sings "One of These Things" over a four-way split screen containing Gordon, Bob, David and Slimey, all dressed in tuxedos. (First: Episode 1904) |
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Cartoon | S for Snail Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1158) |
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Muppets | Forgetful Jones, Clementine and Buster are in the dark because Forgetful forgot to turn something on. It's not the water, the electric fan, or the radio ... it's the light! (First: Episode 1690) |
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Film | A piece of construction equipment and a giraffe are shown side-by-side. (First: Episode 1550) |
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Animation | Different shapes appear inside a circle, until it rounds itself out. (First: Episode 1861) |
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Celebrity | James Taylor performs "Jellyman Kelly" with a bunch of kids. (First: Episode 1800) |
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Cartoon | Two orange balls perform "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 2160) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of how a lift bridge works. (First: Episode 2253) |
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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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Muppets | Bob imagines himself in 1789, and meets two of the people in George Washington's neighborhood, the candlemaker and the saddlemaker. |
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Film | David (in voice-over) finds rectangles. (First: Episode 0481) |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Telephone Rock." (First: Episode 0733) |
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Cartoon | A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 2 | Biff and Sully have been helping Gordon at the Day Care Center. Gordon goes to take the kids out for a walk and mentions to the hardhats there was something he intended to tell them, but can't remember what it was. After Gordon and the group exit, Biff discovers the blueprints for a geodesic dome-style jungle gym, as well as some pieces made into triangles. He assumes that Gordon wanted them to build it while he and the kids are gone and starts working, though Sully isn't so certain. |
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Cartoon | A blue triangle looks for his friend in a museum. (First: Episode 1522) |
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Film | Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach. (First: Episode 1122) |
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Muppets | On the vaudeville stage, Big Bird and Snuffy identify S words and tell gum-wrapper jokes. (First: Episode 2020) |
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Cartoon | A voice asks a face if it's aware of the letter S, and it is revealed that the face belongs to a snake. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | On Vacation with Guy Smiley Guy Smiley and his tour guide have difficulty taking pictures of animals in the jungle because of Guy's uncontrollably loud voice. A tiger recognizes him, and offers to take a picture of him and some other animals. "Say TREES!" (First: Episode 1949) |
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Cartoon | A postal worker tells the viewer what the post office is good for. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0783) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon and the kids return to find that Biff has finished putting together the dome, which takes up the entire room. Gordon points out that while he did a good job, Biff was supposed to make it outdoors and not indoors. Biff gets defensive, wondering why Sully hadn't told him that in the first place. |
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Cartoon | A green man demonstrates dark and light. (First: Episode 1129) |
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Film | Snow in the city Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0429) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates the number 2: Part 1 Counting to 2 is not very exciting. (First: Episode 1156) |
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Cartoon | Yo-yo elevator (First: Episode 1971) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates the number 2: Part 2 Nobody's favorite number is 2. (First: Episode 1156) |
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Animation | It's a monkey Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 1767) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates the number 2: Part 3 The huge visual aid falls on Grover. (First: Episode 1156) |
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Cartoon | A man counts 40 stars at night. (First: Episode 2243) |
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SCENE 4 | Miss Trump starts a game of hide-and-seek with the kids, though Snuffy isn't as enthused - he's much too big to hide himself. He instead offers to help the kids hide by having them all hide behind him: "I may not be very good at hiding, but I make a pretty good hiding place!" |
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Film | Kids comment as they watch tomatoes grow in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0624) |
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Muppets / Cast | Ernie and Bert: The Picnic at the Movies — Ernie and Bert go to the movies to see a silent movie called "The Picnic." (First: Episode 2071) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit the Frog demonstrates to the viewer how your neck moves to different positions without moving your body, and how you'd have to move your body at different positions without your neck. In the process, he falls off his mushroom. "All in all, I'd say it's a good thing we have our necks," he says. (First: Episode 1956) |
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Cartoon | S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) |
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Film | People jump. (First: Episode 0774) |
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Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) |
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SCENE 5 | Snuffy is now "it" in the game and finds everyone except for Miss Trump. He calls out, "Olly olly in free!" and is surprised that Miss Trump was just hiding behind a newspaper at Hooper's Store. Snuffy starts a new game as Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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