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| The Amazing Mumford reverses Maria's age (repeat of 2341) | |||||
| Air date | December 13, 1988 | ||||
| Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Uncle Wally sorts through a box of old things to see if Oscar would be interested in anything. He comes across some of his cowboy stuff and recalls to Maria and the kids about his youth working as a cowboy, helping herd cattle. He demonstrates by finding his old lasso and tossing it, inadvertently catching a furious Gladys the Cow by the horns. "I guess I just haven't lost my touch!" Wally observes. |
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Cartoon | Gordon voiceover N/n (First: Episode 2283) |
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Muppets | Clementine and some cowboys sing "I'm a Real Cowboy" to Forgetful Jones to remind him of what he is. (First: Episode 1965) |
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Film / Cast | Gordon and some kids use hula-hoops for many things. (First: Episode 1103) |
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Cartoon / Film | Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice. (First: Episode 0659) |
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Muppets | Herry Monster holds a sign with the word "NO" on it and tells Ernie that he can make him read his sign. Ernie replies "Oh no you can't!", and eventually gets the joke. He tries it on Bert, but the gag backfires when Bert bets he can get Ernie to read the sign. (First: Episode 0416) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish. (First: Episode 0287) |
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Cast | Maria as Chaplin illustrates the number 6 using balloons. (First: Episode 1962) |
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Cartoon | In song, an ostrich, frog, mole and bee change lifestyles, which alters which one is over, under, around and through. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 1716) |
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SCENE 2 | Uncle Wally comes across the Count, curious as to what he's counting this time. The Count says that he's counting the number of hippopotamuses inside a cardboard box, but Wally sees that the box is empty. It turns out the Count has been counting zero of various things nearby (like the wide-body jets and steamrollers in the yard), and since the amount is always the same he has an infinite amount of items to not count. |
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Cartoon | The Bellhop must take 10 terriers for a walk. |
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Muppets | The American Revolution: The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson (Don Music) has trouble getting a replacement quill to finish the Declaration when Mr. Grover misinterprets what he needs, bringing a drill, and a chicken named Phil. (First: Episode 2345) |
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Cartoon | Ten brightly-beaked birds land on a statue. (First: Episode 1524) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | On the stage at Birdland, Telly scats with Joe Williams. (introduction edited) (First: Episode 2260) |
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Cartoon | A boy has fun with his wood plank. (First: Episode 1503) |
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Film | A crane is shown, with a shovel and wrecking ball. (First: Episode 1164) |
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Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon watches as Elmo reads a book of ghost stories, noticing that the book is upside-down. When Gordon points this out to him, Elmo turns himself upside-down too. |
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Cartoon | Olga y la letra O (First: Episode 0338) |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppet babies sing "A Baby's Life." (First: Episode 1423) |
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Cartoon | A spider refuses to give up spinning a web, no matter how badly injured he becomes. (First: Episode 1652) |
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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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Film | Shots of the Louisiana bayou are shown, as harmonica music is played. |
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Cartoon | A pig sings "There Are Chickens in the Trees" until a rooster tells him that chickens don't live in trees. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1394) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria tries to avoid watching another one of The Amazing Mumford's magic tricks, (having quacked like a duck the last time she was a participant). She hides inside Hooper's Store while Mumford does his trick anyway, attempting to shrink a big tree into a small one. He succeeds, but Maria steps out of the store revealing that the trick worked on her, too - she's a child again! When he tries the trick to reverse the damage, only the tree grows back to its original size. He leaves to find a solution. |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134) |
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Muppets | Camp Wannagohoma: Grover tries to show the campers what is alive in the forest, but they keep correcting him. (First: Episode 1791) |
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Cartoon | Look both ways before you cross the street Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1397) |
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Muppets | Big Bird walks down Pell Street in New York, where he describes the difference between the actual street and sidewalks. (First: Episode 1256) |
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Cartoon | A dog tries desperately to meow, but can only bark. (First: Episode 0829) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly, having supposed to meet Maria, worries when she doesn't show up on time. He thinks that she might have floated away in the air while holding onto balloons given by her friends, but Gordon reassures him that something so impossible wouldn't happen. Gordon thinks that a task more mundane had occupied her, so they ask a nearby little girl where Maria could be. The little girl turns out to be Maria and explains what Mumford did. Telly is relieved that there's a reasonable explanation for everything, while a dumbfounded Gordon looks in the sky for balloons... |
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Cartoon | ADVENTURE! A man and woman escape a boulder, a crocodile, and other obstacles. (First: Episode 2080) |
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Film | Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Princess Chooses a Prince — A princess selects Kermit as her prince. (First: Episode 0859) |
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Cartoon | A pig sings "Pig's Love Song." (First: Episode 0407) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis, Gordon, Telly, and Uncle Wally join Mumford as he consults a book on how to reverse Maria's spell. Instead, Mumford ends up changing Luis, Wally, and Gordon into kids as well before finding the right trick and turns them all back to normal. He starts reading about another one of the tricks in the book, but everyone quietly leaves before he can start anything. "I made everyone disappear - amazing!" Mumford says, and Maria announces the sponsors. |
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