Sesame Street | |||||||
Maria & Luis — Luis moves in with Maria | |||||||
Air date | November 23, 1988 | ||||||
Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||
Written by | Sonia Manzano | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob, Maria, and Linda are helping Luis move his furniture into Maria's apartment at 123 Sesame Street. Big Bird is trying to help too, but he spends so much time talking about how everyone is cooperating that he ends up getting in the way instead. | |
Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) | |
Animation | A ball looks for its match on a brick wall. (First: Episode 1470) | |
Muppets | Kermit watches Grover as he touches his nose with his toes five times. Kermit then tries to do the same, but ends up hurting himself. (First: Episode 1629) | |
Film | Chimps running around (piano music) | |
Cartoon | A detective follows a path on the street which consists of a straight line, followed by dots. He finds out that the truck that paints the dividing road lines happens to sputter every few feet, which is where the dots come from. (First: Episode 2248) | |
SCENE 2 | Linda suggests they form a line on the stoop and pass the next set of Luis' things to each other like a bucket brigade. They get all his things to the top of the stairs before Oscar points out that they've blocked the doorway. "Don't feel bad, at least we can be sure of one thing: love and marriage didn't make you guys any smarter!" Oscar snaps at the newlyweds. | |
Cartoon | H - Horse (First: Episode 0474) | |
Film | A blind boy narrates his day. He reads braille, adds with an abacus, and plays in the playground with his friends. (First: Episode 1757) | |
Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster drives a car, but puts on the seat belt first. (First: Episode 1966) | |
Cartoon | Five Swans Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1460) | |
Muppets | Ernie helps Cookie Monster in making apple-walnut-raisin cookies, but every time Ernie hands the monster each ingredient, Cookie Monster instantly devours it. (First: Episode 1287) | |
Cartoon | "Four Friends" - a reggae song about a group of animals who wash a car together. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 2242) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob is tired from helping Luis move. Linda isn't tired, because she has Barkley to help her. Barkley enters, tugging one of Luis' boxes tied to his leash. Bob borrows Barkley to help him pull one of Luis' wooden chairs, but the big dog ends up running up and down the street dragging the chair with him. An exhausted Bob finally gets him to stop long enough so he can sit in the chair, when Linda returns and wonders why Bob is even more tired. | |
Cartoon | Two boys peek into a fire house, and write HAT, HOSE and HOOK on the window using their breath. Two dogs come by and wonder what a HAT HOSE HOOK is, but their question is answered when the fire truck leaves the station. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1204) | |
Muppets | "Muppets Rhyme in School." (First: Episode 2291) | |
Film | Kids watch as construction workers paint a number 5 on the street using a stencil. (First: Episode 0497) | |
Cartoon | "Up and Down with Captain Brown" | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Mookie Wilson and Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets try to play baseball with The Count, but he would rather swing the bat and count strikes. (First: Episode 2333) | |
Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) | |
Cartoon | T for treasure (Jim Thurman VO) (First: Episode 1990) | |
SCENE 4 | Telly helps Luis unpack by putting Luis' plants on top of the bookshelf next to Maria's, but there isn't room for all of them. He worries about one "homeless" plant, fretting that if their things don't all fit in the apartment, the couple will regret getting married. Luis assures him there's plenty of room for them elsewhere until Maria tells him to move all the plants off the bookshelf to make room for Luis' books. Telly gets into another worrying fit, but the plants instead find a home on the windowsill. When one plant is still left over, Maria gives it to Telly. The young monster is very happy, but worries that if it grows to be a tree someday then there won't be room for it in his apartment either. | |
Cartoon | A chicken gets an idea to sit on a football and hatch it like an egg. Artist: Dan Haskett (First: Episode 2360) | |
Film | Fireworks Alphabet (First: Episode 1104) | |
Muppets | "Home to Me" (First: Episode 2093) | |
Cartoon | A mad scientist puts together a capital H. (First: Episode 0284) | |
Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) | |
Cartoon | A boy chases a butterfly, and watches the clouds form into different objects. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1736) | |
SCENE 5 | Telly has calmed down while on his milk-and-cookie break until Luis asks Maria where he can put his pictures. Every time Maria rejects a spot, Telly gets more worried that they will never find a solution. Luis tells him to get a grip, they'll figure it out. Maria says she is sorry but she can't think of any place for them... until she sees that they are all of her. She tells him he can put them wherever he wants. | |
Cartoon | A pink circle splits into a cat, and a gray circle splits into a mouse. (First: Episode 0452) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert search for Dr. Livingstone in the jungle. (First: Episode 1736) | |
Film | Animal camouflage with kid voiceovers. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0366) | |
Insert | At the Grouchland Ballroom, Gordon and Susan win a T-shaped award for their performance of the "Trashcan Tango". (First: Episode 1725) | |
Film | Old bottles are made into new bottles at a recycling plant. music: "Black Eyed Peas" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0917) | |
Animation | 2 houses plus 2 equals 4. (First: Episode 0283) | |
SCENE 6 | The phone rings, and Maria tells Luis to get it - he lives there too now, so it could be for him. They can't find the phone among the boxes and miss the call. They find the phone my following the wire, but the mystery caller hangs up again. Luis remarks that this was their first living-together married phone call when the phone rings once more and they pick it up. It's Big Bird, calling to give them a very important message: today's sponsors. |
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