Sesame Street | |||||||||
Elmo learns about air | |||||||||
Air date | March 24, 1989 | ||||||||
Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||||
Written by | John Weidman | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Elmo has gotten up early to be able to surprise everyone. He hides behind Oscar's trash can and unsuccessfully tries surprising Bob, Luis, and Linda, who are otherwise caught up in their activities. Oscar emerges and asks for the yelling to cease. Elmo, smashed by Oscar's lid, finds he was the one who has been surprised. | |
Cartoon | A hand draws a farm backdrop for the animals. (First: Episode 0925) | |
Muppets | Over the Top, a ZZ Top-like band, sings "ZZ Blues." (First: Episode 2317) | |
Cartoon | Z In Space (First: Episode 0509) | |
Film | Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach. (First: Episode 1122) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie doesn't think pigeons are able to laugh at Bert's pigeon jokes, but he's wrong ... (First: Episode 1287) | |
Animation | Counting animals (1 butterfly, 2 frogs, 3 birds, 4 turtles, 5 bees, 6 fish) (First: Episode 1700) | |
Cast | Hoots shows Gordon and some kids the art of "Talkin' Scat." (First: Episode 2389) | |
Film | Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0424) | |
Cartoon | Billy Jo Jive looks for the missing batch of strawberry shortcakes. (First: Episode 1261) | |
Muppets | Dicky Tick hosts "Lifestyles of the Big and Little." (First: Episode 2206) | |
Film | "Listen ..." to various sounds, including the ocean, a heart beating, a clock ticking, a horse galloping, crickets chirping, a passing train, and others. (First: Episode 0951) | |
Cartoon | An apple, an orange, and a pear learn they can cooperate by rocking and rolling. (First: Episode 0555) | |
SCENE 2 | Elmo needs Luis to fix his broken toy airplane, but Luis is too busy at the moment putting together a piñata for Mrs. Friedman. Elmo feels sad, until Luis tickles him by blowing a party favor toward him. After Luis explains how the air tickled him, Elmo decides to find some air to use as a toy. | |
Cartoon | A heart that says "I love you" is drawn. (First: Episode 1971) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Erik play a rhyming game. (First: Episode 1754) | |
Film | A blind class goes on a field trip downtown, and visits a produce stand. | |
Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) | |
Muppets | Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Cartoon | Two hippie kids wonder how to make their droopy plant grow. (First: Episode 1484) | |
SCENE 3 | Elmo has been looking around for air, but can't see any. Bob explains how air is all around him, but invisible. He plays a game with Elmo - he puts an item into a grocery bag and has Elmo feel it to see if he can tell what's inside. Bob blows into the bag for the final part of the game, showing Elmo how one can feel air. Elmo asks him to blow into the bag so he can have a bag full of it. Soon he recruits Luis, Linda, and Big Bird to blow into more bags for his collection. | |
Cartoon | Rap #6 (First: Episode 2502) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Copies the Drums — Ernie instructs Bert to repeat his drum riffs and finds that he's quite good at it. (First: Episode 1809) | |
Cartoon | Two cavemen argue, each chanting "Me!" A large monolith bearing the word ME puts fear in both of them. (First: Episode 0793) | |
Celebrity | Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo sing the African Alphabet Song. (First: Episode 2431) | |
Cartoon | A girl picks the key that matches the keyhole in order to gain access to a cache of toys. Artist: Dan Haskett (First: Episode 2050) | |
SCENE 4 | Elmo carries his many bags of air, when Oscar tells him he can demonstrate another thing air can do - surprise someone. He takes the bags from Elmo ("Climb up here, you little red menace.") into his can and places them on the floor. Fluffy jumps from the piano onto them all, causing the bags to burst and sending Oscar flying out of his can (a major shock for Elmo). | |
Cartoon | A red armless character is stalked by the letter Z until he eats it. (First: Episode 1340) | |
Film | A kindergarten class takes a field trip to the fire station. (First: Episode 1217) | |
Muppets | Gordon reads the story of "Stan and Dan." Dan copies everything that Stan does, until Dan becomes a hippie. (First: Episode 2030) | |
Animation | Sand O/o (First: Episode 0621) | |
Film | Chimps running around (piano music) (First: Episode 2493) | |
Cartoon | Splash (girl on beach) (First: Episode 0996) | |
SCENE 5 | Ruby wants to grow up and become a scientist like Albert Einstein, and tries brushing her hair to get his well-known look. Luis points out that brushing her hair a certain way won't make her a scientist overnight. Ruby knows she has to read and study in school - she just wants the hairdo for fun. Luis starts helping her out as Big Bird and Oscar announce the sponsors, and the credits follow. |
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