| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird and Snuffy play games / Elmo sleeps over | |||||||||
| Air date | April 8, 1988 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Cathi Rosenberg-Turow | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Today for Big Bird and Snuffy’s playdate, they’re playing "restaurant." They sit down and wait for the waiter to serve them... until they realize no one is playing the waiter. Big Bird assumes the role and brings Snuffy a bowl of cabbage soup. He finds it too hot and tries to cool it down by blowing on it with his snuffle, blowing away the table and everything on it. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Muppets | Bob imagines himself in 1789, and meets two of the people in George Washington's neighborhood, the candlemaker and the saddlemaker. (First: Episode 2294) |
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Cartoon | The Bridgekeeper: Square (First: Episode 1618) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539) |
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Cartoon | Roxanne and Violet Gorflatch are alike in many ways, but different in others. (First: Episode 1480) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird convinces a hesitant Snuffy to join in on another game: a reenactment of "The Three Little Pigs." Big Bird has made a cardboard box house for himself to be in as a pig. Snuffy plays the wolf, and blows the house down. Big Bird compliments Snuffy on his talent, adding, "There's a game for everyone, see, and you make one heck of a great wolf!" |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster displays 12 fluttering finches. (First: Episode 1295) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow. (First: Episode 1669) |
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Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0: instead of a parachute, the girl is carried to the ground by four birds. (First: Episode 2249) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Kate make faces. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Animation | Stop-motion: what goes in the hot dog bun? (First: Episode 1494) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Sesame Street News Flash: Ballet Jumping — Suzanne Farrell performs a series of jumps. (First: Episode 1390) |
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Cartoon | "The Story of Princess Twelvia". Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1676) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of a laughing man. (First: Episode 1845) |
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Insert | Ask Oscar: Timi translates Oscar's words in sign language as he answers a letter from someone who wants to know what the longest Grouch word he knows is. Oscar states that the word is "supercalifragilistic-yucka-alidocious" (a reference to "Mary Poppins"), which is hard to sign, especially when Oscar repeats it many times. (First: Episode 1829) |
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Cartoon | A ball goes up and down a musical staircase. (First: Episode 2151) |
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Animation | The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods. (First: Episode 2210) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Painting of Bert — Ernie modifies Bert to match his painting of him. (First: Episode 0365) |
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Cartoon | A baby cries whenever he gets a beso. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Cartoon | An N-terview with an N (First: Episode 0131) |
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Film | Kids compete in a speed skating competition. (version one) (First: Episode 0412) |
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Muppets | Farley looks for ME. (First: Episode 0464) |
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Cartoon | A boy draws a portrait of himself and calls it ME. (First: Episode 2085) |
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Insert | Olivia sings "Children of the World." (First: Episode 1012) |
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Cartoon | Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Film | Some kids watch as a tree surgeon does his job. (First: Episode 1244) |
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Cartoon | A needle and spool of thread cooperate to fix the king's torn pants. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1485) |
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Muppets | Game Show: Bring That Thing Stevie and Jonathan Martian need to find three things that help to see in the dark in sixty seconds. They bring a flashlight, a lamp, and the moon, (which they have to quickly zoom back into space to get). Their jackpot prize is a pot of lightning bugs. |
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Cartoon | Gordon voiceover N/n (First: Episode 2283) |
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SCENE 3 | Elmo is excited about his first night sleeping over at Big Bird's nest. Big Bird decides to read The Three Billy Goats Gruff to Elmo and Gordon, but he realizes that he left his book at Snuffy's. Wishing they could've heard the story, he subconsciously begins to recite it from memory and Elmo falls fast asleep. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flies on Animals" over footage of animals bugged by pests. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | S for Snail Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1158) |
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Muppets | Bert is having trouble getting to sleep. Ernie suggests singing a lullaby to him. He sings one to the tune of "Brahms' Lullaby" and Bert falls into a deep peaceful sleep. Ernie tells Bert to wake up now; it's Ernie's turn to go to sleep, so it's Bert's turn to sing a lullaby now. (First: Episode 1331) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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SCENE 4 | Elmo compliments Big Bird's storytelling talent (even though he fell asleep). Gordon tucks Elmo in his sleeping bag and reminds him and Big Bird that it's time to really go to sleep. As Elmo nestles in, he's startled to see two moving lumps that appear every time he's in his sleeping bag; Gordon assures Elmo that he's probably imagining. When Elmo sees the lumps a third time, Gordon unzips the sleeping bag to reveal that the lumps were just Elmo's feet. Elmo and Big Bird settle in once more to sleep as Snuffy announces the sponsors, and the credits follow. |
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