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| Telly uses Spanish throughout the day | |||||||||
| Air date | December 31, 1987 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Telly Monster studies his "Spanish for Monsters" book and learns the different ways of greeting someone in the morning, afternoon, and night. The book gives the friendly suggestion of using them when meeting to a Spanish-speaking individual today. Maria comes by to open the Fix-It Shop and Telly greets her with "buenos dias." He then tries to greet her with "buenas tardes," but Maria tells him that that phrase applies to the afternoon; it's still the morning. Telly frets that he must follow the book's recommendation of using all the vocabulary today. |
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Cartoon | Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "Do-Op Hop". (First: Episode 2071) |
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Film | Kids use a magnet to retrieve a jack. (First: Episode 0968) |
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Muppets | Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk" The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Cartoon | Nine penguins slide down a hill. (Maria voice-over added) Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1532) |
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Muppets | Big Bird and Snuffy make up a story about a castle under the sea where a deep-sea diver prince lived. (First: Episode 1797) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Missing at the Beach — Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie find Bert at the beach. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "I'm an Aardvark." (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | Biff hangs numbers under Salvador Dada's paintings in an art museum. (First: Episode 0707) |
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Cartoon | A boy puts together a fishbowl, and watches his fish swim around in it. (First: Episode 2030) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria reads Elmo the story of "Little Red Riding Hood," but he keeps interrupting with various questions about it. Maria is then called over to fix Susan's sink and quickly escapes, so Elmo keeps reading on his own, asking himself questions. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: Z for Zoo (First: Episode 0776) |
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Muppets | Over the Top, a ZZ Top-like band, sings "ZZ Blues." (First: Episode 2317) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates on top of. (First: Episode 0242) |
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Cartoon | Something's missing ... is it a frog or a dog? |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover talks to Chelsea about what their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth can do. Chelsea mentions that they both have them and also have hands, feet, bellies, necks, arms, backs, and shoulders. Grover replies they have a cornucopia of parts, which means they have a lot of good stuff. |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: WET PAINT (First: Episode 1136) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly's alarm clock goes off, alerting him that it's now the afternoon and he can finally use his next phrase on Maria. Susan points out that Maria is heading downtown to the lumber shop and he's too late to tell her before she catches the bus. He and Susan end up running all the way to the lumber shop and eventually find Maria so Telly can tell her "buenas tardes." Maria is a bit surprised they came all this way to tell her that, stating he could have waited until tomorrow. Telly reminds her that the book says to say them today. She and Susan go off shopping while Telly stays behind, needing some rest so he can use his next phrase at night. |
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Cartoon | A letter "P" sits on an island before a rotating sunset. The ridges of the letter "P" moves along the letter and flash in different colors. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Big Bird introduces Yo-Yo Ma, who plays cello with two Honkers and a Dinger. (First: Episode 2220) |
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Cartoon | "Octopus One-Man Band" (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: One head wants to play the trumpet, but the other head wants to sleep. (First: Episode 1390) |
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Cartoon | A young bespectacled man with an accordion asks how much it costs to cross the bridge. The Bridgekeeper says admission is free, but requires that the young man show him three triangles. Two of them are found in the bridgework, and the man uses the bridgekeeper's staff to draw a third triangle in the dirt. Although the bridgekeeper has his order filled, he asks the man to play a tune on his accordion. This additional request takes the young man by surprise, but he is told to do so for the opportunity to cross the bridge. (First: Episode 1572) |
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SCENE 4 | Hoots shows Gordon and some kids the art of "Talkin' Scat". |
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Cartoon | 1-10, 10-1 count with stripes. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Muppets | Beat the Time with Grover. (First: Episode 0423) |
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Film | A boy makes fruit salad. (First: Episode 1195) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Christopher Columbus — Kermit catches Christopher Columbus before his historic voyage. (First: Episode 0578) |
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Cartoon | Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter). (First: Episode 0527) |
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SCENE 5 | Now nighttime, Telly slept too late and missed catching Maria as she came home. He thinks she might be sleeping right now and quietly calls up to her window, getting louder and louder until she finally responds. He tells her, "Buenas noches," and she says it back before heading to bed. Bob and Oscar the Grouch, woken up by Telly's actions, yell the phrase at him too. "Gee, I didn't know so many people here spoke Spanish," Telly comments before Susan announces the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- In a scene originally scripted, but later cut, Susan and the kids check out a presentation of Slimey's newest photography pieces. However, because he is so small, all the photos are at foot-level. They correctly guess the feet of Susan, Snuffy, Big Bird, and Barkley, before they see a picture of the empty sidewalk - a "self-portrait" of Slimey since he has no feet to capture.[1]
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