| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird's day of silliness | |||||||
| Air date | April 3, 1989 | ||||||
| Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||
| Written by | Norman Stiles | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird narrates that today started out like any other, normal day on Sesame Street: "a Grouch was grouching... a bird was tweeting (tweet tweet tweeeeet)... a Cookie Monster was Google Bugling..." |
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Muppets | A musical tribute to the "Oogle Family" as performed by Cookie Monster and Old McDougal. (Kermit the Frog's intro and outro cut) (First: Episode 1822) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Big Bird narrates that after Cookie's song, Mr. Snuffleupagus performed the "Alphabet Polka." He continues his narration, believing that nothing sillier than those two songs could occur, when he witnesses Maria and Luis debating over "duckies" and "bunnies." |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: E-Ear (First: Episode 0807) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup. (First: Episode 2283) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Teaching Ernestine Names — Ernie can't seem to get Ernestine to say his name, but Ernestine has no trouble saying Bert's name. |
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Cartoon | L for lion |
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Film | Examples of people and animals going down. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | Dr. Annie Eyeball, PhD., looks at breathing. Artist: Bruce Cayard |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird follows the couple up to the baby's room, where the two are arguing over whether to decorate the room with cut-outs of bunnies or duckies. Big Bird comes up with an easy solution - use both! He assumes the silliness of the day is over, when Luis runs out to "meet a horse" at the Fix-It Shop. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play." Snow leopards version (First: Episode 2519) |
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Muppets | Mysterious Theater: The Mystery of the Missing Cat — Sherlock Hemlock and Watson the dog search for a missing cat, knowing it's under something rhyming with "at." Watson finds the cat, and the inevitable animal fight ensues. (First: Episode 2569) |
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Cartoon | A green man demonstrates dark and light. (First: Episode 1129) |
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Film | As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat. (First: Episode 0801) |
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Cartoon | L for locomotive, letter, lamp, light, lion, lettuce, lips (First: Episode 1716) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird scopes out the silly situation at the Fix-It Shop, finding Buster the Horse posing inside while Luis does woodwork in the back room. Luis emerges with a homemade rocking horse for the baby. Big Bird believes now the point of silliness has been reached, then sees Gina helping while Uncle Wally and the kids do a silly dance outside. |
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Film | Kids take swimming lessons in a pool. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Muppets | Herry Monster sings "Two Heads Are Better Than One." (First: Episode 1447) |
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Cartoon | The word entrada tries to run through a wall, then runs through the entrance. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Favorite Animals — Kermit interviews visitors at a zoo. (First: Episode 2450) |
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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) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird comes over to see what's going on. Gina sings a verse of "Three of These Things" using Uncle Wally and the kids. Gina wishes she could dance as silly as Uncle Wally (who claims to have won many a silly dancing competition). He offers to give her some pointers. |
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Film | Fay Ray subtracts four balls. |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Itzhak Perlman and a Honker accompany Placido Flamingo in the tenor aria "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci. At the end, he says "Bueno, Bueno!! Excellent!! Such feeling! Such depth!" Perlman thanks him for the compliment, but Placido is quick to correct him: "I was talking to the little fuzzy one. But you were good, too. And I...I was brilliant!" (First: Episode 2217) |
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Film | A group of kids enter a door marked ENTRADA. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Muppets | Forgetful Jones and Clementine ride on horseback, and come across a rock. Clementine consults her book, The Cowgirl's Companion, to figure out how to handle a rock in your trail: go around it. |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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SCENE 5 | Everyone practices their silly dancing as Athena and Hoots the Owl sing "Silly Dancing." |
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Cartoon | Magical Herman's number trick (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Ernie is in a counting mood, and decides to count all of the cookies in a box of them. Cookie Monster overhears this and asks if he can have all of the cookies after they are counted, and Ernie agrees. But after opening the box, Ernie finds that there are 0 cookies in it. Ernie has another box, but it also has 0 in it. Ernie then remembers that he put all of the cookies into a cookie jar, and starts to count, but Cookie Monster impatiently eats all of the cookies before Ernie can finish counting. |
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Film | Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0619) |
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Cartoon | "Up and Down with Captain Brown" (First: Episode 2493) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis and Big Bird present Maria with the finished rocking horse. She decides to give the baby a ride on it now by rocking on it herself. Big Bird's narration announces the sponsors. |
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