Sesame Street | |||||||
Big Bird's Happy Meter | |||||||
Air date | January 18, 1988 | ||||||
Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||
Written by | Jocelyn Stevenson | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Meryl Sheep wanders down the street repeating "quiet" and "loud" in their respective volumes. Oscar the Grouch queries and learns it's for her new "barnyard production." Oscar practices with her and gets high marks; he's especially good at the loud parts. Susan, trying to put Miles down for a nap, yells at them to be quiet and Meryl critiques her shabby performance. | |
Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) | |
Film | Exploring on the ocean rocks (First: Episode 1414) | |
Muppets | The Count croons "Count Up to Nine." (First: Episode 1134) | |
Animation | 5 goldfish, take away 2, leaves 3. (First: Episode 2252) | |
SCENE 2 | Oscar struggles to find his prized banana peel and shows David a photo of himself holding it, his only remaining memory for now. A Grouch (Camille Bonora) from the Bureau of Missing Banana Peels arrives with the fruits of their search - a whole banana, a banana without black splotches, and a brown banana peel with only two flaps, none of which match Oscar's peel. With all hope lost, Oscar throws a fit and falls into his can. It turns out he's slipped on his prized banana peel! Oscar decides the search was fun, and throws it into his trash pile to find it again. | |
Film | Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry and John-John demonstrate loud and soft. (First: Episode 0432) | |
Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At night, Ernie reads a book that becomes sad, funny, scary, and then surprising. The book elicits the same reactions from Bert. (First: Episode 2341) | |
Song | "Summer Song" - A singer describes what happens in the summertime. (First: Episode 1304) | |
Cartoon | Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. (First: Episode 0142) | |
Cast | Ask Oscar A grumpy Linda substitutes for Oscar. (First: Episode 2316) | |
Film | A marching band counts from 1 to 20. (First: Episode 0504) | |
Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster follows the arrows. (First: Episode 1627) | |
Film | Finding round things in a supermarket (David voiceover) (First: Episode 0434) | |
Cartoon | An aviator and his son cooperate to start their plane. (First: Episode 1476) | |
Song | "Cow Dog Song" (First: Episode 0783) | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird enters the Fix-It Shop to show Maria his "Happy Meter," a device that shows how happy one is. He demonstrates it using some hypothetical situations, pointing the device's arrow to either a smiley face or a frowning one. When he learns Luis isn't here, it becomes complicated figuring out how Maria feels about it. Big Bird begins to panic and thinks that Luis will never show up again until a phone call from Luis (who's away visiting the dentist) helps clear up the complication. | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) | |
Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "Mystery Guest," where the blindfolded panel of Cookie Monster, Don Music, and Sherlock Hemlock must guess the identity of a special guest - the letter X. (First: Episode 1447) | |
Film | Lobster fisherman (First: Episode 0966) | |
Cast | Maria as Chaplin looks in a mirror and sees "ME." Maria's reflection is played by Linda. (First: Episode 1032) | |
Cartoon | A man recites a poem about how curious he is. (First: Episode 2361) | |
Muppets | Kermit at Home: Grover comes to Kermit's house to fix his sink. Kermit fills him in on a demonstration of "big, bigger and biggest" when it comes to wrenches. Even so, the sink repair goes awry, and the house floods. (First: Episode 0821) | |
Film | Kid voiceovers identify a horse's body parts (shown one at a time), then the complete animal. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0428) | |
Celebrity | Patti LaBelle and The Sweeties sing "Take the Hand of Someone You Love." (First: Episode 2231) | |
Cartoon | A bird talks to a girl about what's inside the street. When she questions his credibility, he stammers, "A little worm told me!" Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 1918) | |
Film | "Indian Baby Bath" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0444) | |
Cartoon | "Dinner for Nine" Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1658) | |
Muppets | "Listen to the Bells" (First: Episode 1955) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: K - Key (First: Episode 0040) | |
Film | A man writes the word ME in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird and Meryl describe situations and let the kids use the Happy Meter to judge how they'd feel. Maria announces the sponsors. |
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