Sesame Street | |||||||
Telly helps Bob and Uncle Wally | |||||||
Air date | January 9, 1989 | ||||||
Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||
Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Claiming that people are always studying horses' teeth, Buster the Horse wants to check out Gina's. He's surprised to find out people keep their teeth clean by brushing them (while he just eats apples). | |
Animation | Four genies carry the number 4 into a castle. Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 2244) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Prince Charming Looks for Cinderella — A surprising suitor fits Prince Charming's glass slipper. (First: Episode 1233) | |
Film | Orangutans playing (piano music) (First: Episode 2486) | |
Cartoon | Look both ways before you cross the street Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1397) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Big Bird and Crystal Gayle perform "Songs." (First: Episode 1798) | |
Cartoon | A for Ape (who crashes into a tree and forms a SHAPE) (First: Episode 0602) | |
Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) | |
Cartoon | Yo-yo elevator (First: Episode 1971) | |
Muppets | Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree." (First: Episode 1920) | |
Cartoon | Hortense counts four ants. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 2501) | |
SCENE 2 | Telly comes over to Bob's apartment, where Bob and Uncle Wally are painting the bedroom. Telly wants to help them paint, but Bob points out they're already good on that front. Telly is saddened until Uncle Wally recruits him to get them some lunch. At first he is unable to keep up with the two when they start to think out loud about what they want to order. Bob writes the lunch orders down so Telly can take it over to Hooper's Store for Gina. Before he leaves, Telly requests that he wear a painter's hat like the others as he's now part of the team; Bob gives him his to borrow. | |
Film | Two boys working at the family Mexican restaurant show how they prepare for the day, and how tacos and enchiladas are made. (First: Episode 1890) | |
Song | David sings "Can You Tell Me What Belongs Here?" with kids dressed as kittens and bunnies. (First: Episode 2459) | |
Animation | Big, bigger, biggest (oxen pulling rocks) (First: Episode 0764) | |
SCENE 3 | Telly is amazed at how well Gina was able to read the lunch order they had written down, and gets all of the food exactly right. He gives a heartfelt speech about the powers of reading and writing: "... We had a list! A list with everything all written down! So that we could, instead of a disaster, we turned it into a triumph of the spirit! Humans and monsters, working together for the greater glory of... EVERYBODY!!" As Telly exits, Gina comments with surprise, "A whole new Telly!" | |
Cartoon | The wind blows one hat after another off a pig's head, onto the heads of birds. "The wind is very, very strong." (First: Episode 2378) | |
Film | A girl and her friend David, a blacksmith, talk as he makes an iron wolf for his door. (First: Episode 2276) | |
Muppets | How Now Brown and the Moo Wave performs "Wet Paint." (First: Episode 2033) | |
Cartoon | K for Kite (First: Episode 0489) | |
SCENE 4 | After lunch, Uncle Wally starts a round of "Three of These Things" using their painting supplies and a potted plant. | |
Film | Students prepare for a spelling bee. (First: Episode 2208) | |
Cartoon | The Ringmaster presents four lions. (First: Episode 1309) | |
Muppets / Cast | Cookie Monster has agreed to help Maria on her lecture on good things to eat. Unbeknownst to Cookie, she has raisins, cucumber spears, carrot sticks and apples. Cookie tries all of them and he likes them. He finishes by eating all the dishes. (First: Episode 1518) | |
Cartoon | A for Acorn (First: Episode 1626) | |
SCENE 5 | All the painting has been completed, and Bob and Uncle Wally plan to move the furniture back into the bedroom tomorrow. Bob is bushed, but Uncle Wally knows he won't be able to get a good night's sleep tonight (he hasn't in months). Telly tells him he needs to practice going to sleep and instructs him on how to do so, even providing him with Freddy. Uncle Wally falls right to sleep on Bob's couch afterwards. | |
Animation | Sand K/k (First: Episode 0645) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. Ernie tries to count sheep, but it's dull -- so he starts counting fire engines. The noise from the imaginary fire engine wakes Bert up. Bert says that Ernie's waking up the whole neighborhood, and tells him to count something quieter. Ernie counts balloons -- but the balloon gets bigger and bigger, finally bursting with a huge explosion that wakes Bert up again. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps." (First: Episode 0406) Edit: The shot of a man nodding off and falling out of a chair is replaced with a shot of astronauts sleeping on a space shuttle; the audio is also patched up in that area. | |
SCENE 6 | Telly tries to go home, but Uncle Wally won't let go of Freddy in his sleep. Telly can't sleep without Freddy, so he resolves to sleep over at Bob's tonight. He curls up and joins Wally on the couch. Bob drapes a blanket over the sleepy pair before heading to bed himself. Gina announces the sponsors. |
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