| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| The Meryl Sheep School of Acting | |||||||||
| Air date | March 3, 1988 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Luis comes across the new Meryl Sheep School of Acting in the yard. Meryl explains that the school will teach everyone to "act in ways they never dreamed of acting." She's one of the teachers, but today has invited guest lecturer Professor Cluckinella (Martin P. Robinson) to teach how to act like a chicken. Luis watches as Meryl sits on her own nest, and even manages to hatch an egg! |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "What Babies Are Called" (First: Episode 0096) |
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Cartoon | Jack-in-the-Box School (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with a dentist and a bus driver. (remake) (First: Episode 2146) |
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Cartoon | Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills. (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit & Joey sing The Alphabet Song. (First: Episode 0426) |
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Cartoon | O for orange Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0673) |
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SCENE 2 | The next lesson at the Meryl Sheep School of Acting is the art of acting like a turtle. Teacher Shelley the Turtle gives Meryl and the kids (wearing boxes painted to look like shells on their backs) a lesson on how to be a turtle. When asked what sounds turtles make, Shelley responds that turtles don't have signature sounds. Meryl invents one: "Dahling." |
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Film | Baby turtles swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | Es un gato (First: Episode 1966) |
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Muppets | "I'm Going to Get My Hair Cut" (First: Episode 1822) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (First: Episode 0223) |
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Film | A male voice instructs three kids in stretching exercises. (First: Episode 1013) |
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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) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Doggy Paddle." (First: Episode 1967) |
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SCENE 3 | Meryl gives Shelley some acting tips and then asks her pupils and Luis to guess what animal he's pretending to be (a rabbit). |
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Animation | The numbers 1-6 are carried away and/or demolished by construction equipment. (First: Episode 2270) |
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Muppets | Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse spot a kitty stuck in a tree. Grover tries to find ways to get the kitty down such as shaking the tree trunk. He finally came to the conclusion that to get the kitty down, he would climb up the tree to bring it down. However, Fred has another idea to bring the kitty down by calling the kitty by saying "Kitty" and the kitty comes down. Now that the kitty is down, they now have another problem - how is Grover going to get down? (First: Episode 1639) |
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Cartoon | The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on. (First: Episode 1242) |
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Film | Letter O hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0338) |
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Muppets | The Rhymies go camping, but a bear disrupts their campsite. (First: Episode 1389) |
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Cartoon | A green man demonstrates dark and light. (First: Episode 1129) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis and the kids play "Three of These Things" using different-sized pictures of houses and a car, showing there are two correct answers. |
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Film | A girl wants to learn a playground rhyme after watching some other girls do it, so one of them teaches her. (First: Episode 2284) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Big Bird points out the different body parts of Dr. J. (First: Episode 1701) |
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Cartoon | Which legs belong on the man? (First: Episode 1691) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppet beatniks say the alphabet. (First: Episode 1846) |
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Cartoon | A blue triangle looks for his friend in a museum. (First: Episode 1522) |
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Film | Footage of a Chinese noodle factory. (First: Episode 0984) |
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SCENE 5 | Snuffy reads Gordon, Alice, and the kids (including Miles) a story he wrote - "The Enchanted Cabbage." The story is about a young Snuffleupagus who meets the titular enchanted cabbage, who has lost their way home. The two find a cabbage police officer to help. After the story ends, Snuffy wonders if he should replace the cabbage officer with something more conventional like a fairy godmother. A cabbage police officer (Kevin Clash) appears and encourages Snuffy to keep the story as is. |
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Cartoon | Six pigs Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1472) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree." (First: Episode 1920) |
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Cartoon | A janitor sweeps up his own footprints the wrong way, then the right way. Just then, a giant centipede leaves tracks all over the floor. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0247) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster tells his little cousin monster to get him something special that starts with the letter C. He hopes she'll bring him a cookie, but she brings a carrot, a cucumber, a cauliflower, and an ear of corn. Finally, she realizes that cousin also starts with C, and assumes he was referring to her. (First: Episode 1319) |
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Cartoon | C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703) |
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SCENE 6 | As the kids play, Meryl Sheep announces the sponsors. |
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