| Sesame Street | |||||||
| The Count and Maria go camping | |||||||
| Air date | April 22, 1987 | ||||||
| Season | Season 18 (1986-1987) | ||||||
| Written by | Emily Perl Kingsley | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Insert | Bob sings "Boy from Indiana." (First: Episode 0975) |
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Cartoon | A conductor conducts a choir to hum his music ("My Music"). Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1207) |
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Film | Old Time Movies: Anne Meara observes wondering if the dashing hero will go over or under. (First: Episode 0517) |
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Muppets | Bad Bart is looking for Marshal Earp. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | M is for Moo Music: Larry Rosen and Charles Myers (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | Penguins take a bath. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0233) |
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Celebrity | The Four Tops sing "Please Be Careful," a song about safely crossing the street. (First: Episode 2256) |
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Cartoon | Nine birds land in a tree. Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1501) |
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SCENE 1 | The Count counts Big Bird’s feathers (again) when Maria passes by on her way to a two-day camping trip. When he learns there are new things to count in the wilderness, he decides to join her (to her dismay), and leaves Big Bird in charge of counting things around Sesame Street while he's gone. |
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Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller. (First: Episode 2262) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is It — Ernie wants to play tag while Bert reads his book. (First: Episode 1026) |
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Film | A girl and her friend David, a blacksmith, talk as he makes an iron wolf for his door. (First: Episode 2276) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #9 Animation by Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1032) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria's campsite is all set up and she's already caught two fish to fry for dinner. The Count has instead been counting various items he brought with him from the city (signs, subway tokens, and a candelabra). He explains that he wasn't sure what he'd be able to count in the country and made sure he had something just in case. Maria opens his eyes to the many things in nature he can experience. |
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Cartoon | C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703) |
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Muppets | Camp Wannagohoma: Grover tries to show the campers what is alive in the forest, but they keep correcting him. (First: Episode 1791) |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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Song | Luis sings "Follow the Arrows" as a man does so. (First: Episode 1642)
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Animation | In stop-motion, blocks stack and arrange themselves to form zoo cages, arches, and a whole city. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 1459) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria is unable to sleep as the Count is busy counting stars in the sky (over 13,000 of them). She tells him to stop and get some sleep, but he assures her he has only a few thousand left to go – then he'll count the crickets. “Whose idea was it to bring him along anyway?” she muses. |
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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 | A man tries to figure out where a squeaky sound is coming from; it turns out to be a giant's squeaky shoes. "Surprise!" (First: Episode 0770) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot explains what the letters M and W look like with a very uncooperative letter that keeps switching itself. The letter eventually stops switching, and Herb solves the problem by rotating the camera angle, turning the letter upside down. (First: Episode 0155) |
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Cartoon | M for Moon Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1163) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria returns to the street and describes to David some of the many things the Count counted. She tells them she still had a nice time and is relieved to be home. |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
The Count eagerly awaits to hear about the things Big Bird counted while he was away. He's not enthused when Big Bird lists off the few things he's counted on Mr. Snuffleupagus, but he changes his mind when he hears about the high values associated with Snuffy's meals. |
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Cartoon | "Bumble Ardy #9" -- Young Bumble Ardy invites nine pigs to his birthday party while his mother, Sweet Adeline, is away. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Cartoon | On the beach, a boy hurts his foot stepping on a broken shell, but a visit to the hospital clinic makes him feel better. (First: Episode 2086) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster finds a pencil with a broken point, and demonstrates the fun you can have with it. (First: Episode 2096) |
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Animation | It's a giraffe Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 1752) |
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Muppets | In Rock Music School, Olivia and several Anything Muppets show different ways of singing the word "baby." (First: Episode 2323) |
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Cartoon | In song, an ostrich, frog, mole and bee change lifestyles, which alters which one is over, under, around and through. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 1716) |
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SCENE 5 | The Count is perched under Maria's fire escape to count stars again, unaware that the stars are the same in both the city and country. Despite this, he wants to make sure and continue counting. He loses his place and starts counting them all again as Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- This episode's plotline is a direct remake of Episode 1219.
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