| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Hiroshi visits from Japan | |||||||
| Air date | April 7, 1988 | ||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||
| Written by | Nancy Sans | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Elmo asks Bob and Gina why they are wearing bathrobes; they correct him, saying they're actually called kimonos. The son of one of Bob's best friends named Hiroshi is visiting from Japan, and they want to make him feel at home. They've decorated the yard with paper lanterns, plan to serve fish, rice, and tea for lunch, and they practice greeting him by saying "Konnichiwa, Hiroshi-san." Hiroshi arrives wearing a sweater and a baseball cap, speaks fluent English, and wants a hamburger for lunch. Elmo doesn't believe this is really Hiroshi from Japan until Hiroshi explains that Japanese people wear sweaters and eat hamburgers sometimes, too. They all decide to go for some burgers over at Hooper's Store. |
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Film | Hamburger bun factory (First: Episode 0615) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot (First: Episode 0203) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Miami Mice — Kermit interviews Tito and J.P., the Miami Mice. (First: Episode 2200) |
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Cartoon | Seven animals in a tree. Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1530) |
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SCENE 2 | Hiroshi shows Elmo how people traditionally serve tea in Japan. Bob teaches Elmo to say "Domo arigato," which means "thank you very much," and Bob comments how he feels as if he were back in Japan. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Elmo thinks Japan sounds nice and wants to go there right now, but Bob tells him that it is too far. Elmo understands how "near" and "far" works: he is near Bob, then runs to the other side of the street so he is far. To explain to Elmo that Japan is much farther than that, Hiroshi sings a song ("How Far is Japan?") about how long his airplane flight was. |
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Cartoon | Two itchy gorillas agree to scratch each other's backs. (First: Episode 1456) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Erik shows Grover his teeth, and tells him how teeth are used. (First: Episode 1639) |
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Cartoon | L for Lion (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1149) |
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Muppets | Pageant: How a flower grows Gladys the Cow stars as a seed. Ernie plays a rain cloud and Herry Monster is the sun, whose attentions cause the seed to bloom into a flower. (First: Episode 2420) |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of what happens when it changes from fall to winter. |
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SCENE 3 | Bob and Hiroshi sing "Three of These Things" with a toy fire engine, a spoon, chopsticks, and a fork. Elmo is stuck because he doesn't know what one does with chopsticks. Hiroshi demonstrates how to eat with them, and Elmo gets the correct answer. |
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Cartoon | "L" for "Large" and "l" for "little" Artist: Tom Gabbay (First: Episode 1455) |
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Film | Kids watch a silent movie with a man resting on the train tracks with an oncoming trolley - DANGER! (First: Episode 0480) |
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Insert | Bob reads the kids a story about seven mice, with some animated mice displaying the story. (framing scenes removed) (First: Episode 1699) |
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Muppets | "Readers of the Open Range" (First: Episode 2141) |
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Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387) |
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SCENE 4 | Hiroshi prepares a story for everyone - including Oscar and Slimey - called Umeko and Kuwa. In the story, some Japanese Anything Muppets mock a young girl named Umeko for having a worm for a pet. When the annual festival arrives, Umeko is without a new kimono to wear. Overnight, her worm friend Kuwa turns into a moth and has her use his cocoon for silk for a new kimono. At the festival, everyone is amazed at her new outfit. When Hiroshi finishes the story, Oscar is disgusted by the happy ending, though Slimey really liked it. |
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Animation | Sand C/c (First: Episode 0625) |
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Film | Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0032) |
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Cartoon | Toothpaste March Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1446) |
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Celebrity | Maria and Grundgetta wander into a shoe store so Maria can buy some shoes. The sales woman, Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin), tries to find the right size shoe, but none of them are the right size. Maria shows her how to use the foot scale, which shows her shoe size. They begin looking for the right looking shoe... Part 1 (First: Episode 2203) |
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Cartoon | A pink circle splits into a cat, and a gray circle splits into a mouse. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Celebrity | Edith has gone through all the shoes she has in Maria's size, with only four pairs remaining: three pairs of boots and a pair of pumps. After playing "Three of These Things," Maria chooses the pumps. Edith thinks she tackle any customer now, until Mrs. Snuffleupagus enters with a large request. Part 2 (First: Episode 2203) |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
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Muppets | Snuffy wears a green derby hat as he sings about L, "The Leading Letter of My Life." (First: Episode 1922) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie buys a newspaper after hearing the newsboy yell out the headline: "Four People Fooled!" Ernie reads the paper, but finds no such news in the paper, making him the fifth person fooled. (First: Episode 1164) |
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Song | David sings "Can You Tell Me What Belongs Here?" with kids dressed as kittens and bunnies. |
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Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl tells two different monster marching bands to play the same song and march together. (First: Episode 1450) |
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Cartoon | The Magnificent Splasho demonstrates "before" and "after". (First: Episode 0694) |
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SCENE 5 | Elmo has been practicing saying "konnichiwa," and is very excited to say it to Hiroshi. He becomes sad because just as he learns to say hello, it's time to say goodbye. Hiroshi teaches him to say "sayonara" instead while Bob announces the sponsors. |
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