| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Recalling times of pain | |||||||
| Air date | April 27, 1989 | ||||||
| Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gina plays and sings "Follow the Leader" with the kids. |
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Animation | Stop-motion: tap-dancing shoes. (First: Episode 2367) |
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Muppets | Grover waits in line at a supermarket. He generously lets two people go in front of him, but then explains that you can't always let everyone go before you, or else you'll never get to the register yourself. When he finally gets to the register and is first in line, the cashier says the register is closed. Grover considers following a customer to a pickle party ... (First: Episode 1939) |
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Film | Elephants in the zoo. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A boy builds a house out of blocks, and when the girl builds a Victorian house, the boy calls her a copycat. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | All My Letters: V Vivian is about share her vegetables with Victor when a vegetable vampire appears...named Walter. (First: Episode 2277) |
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Cartoon | V for Van (live-action/animation hybrid) Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1181) |
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Insert | Mr. Snuffleupagus is invited to jump on Big Bird's trampoline, and the Count decides to count how many times Snuffy jumps. He counts a total of 19½, with his last jump bouncing him to the top of 123 Sesame Street. (First: Episode 2148) |
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Cartoon | Three cannonball men switch spotlights as they dance. (First: Episode 1469) |
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Film | Sounds Around the House v2: chimes, snoring, a boy pretending to be an airplane, a man playing a trumpet, and a motorcycle outside. (First: Episode 1713) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert asks Ernie to help him carry his heavy groceries, but Ernie is too busy thinking about all the things he can do as he sits in a chair: breathing, listening, and smelling. (First: Episode 1449) |
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Cartoon | The Square (First: Episode 0536) |
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Song | "Ookyook Song," a Joe Raposo song with the Alaskan words for all the things you need to put on when it's ukiuq (winter). (First: Episode 2360) |
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Muppets | The Honkers count to 3. (Part 3 only) (First: Episode 1458) |
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Cartoon | Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus. (First: Episode 0926) |
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Insert | Oscar hosts "Real Grouches," the show that showcases talented Grouches from around the world. First, Romeo Scuggs plays his screechy violin. Then, Luba Merquit performs a song on a screechy blackboard. Finally, the mysterious "Bob the Blob" appears, playing a nice song on his flute. It turns out to be Bob in disguise. (First: Episode 2147) |
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Cartoon | Q/q (balloons) (First: Episode 2241) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster learns to use manners while eating with a spoon. (First: Episode 1340) |
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Cartoon | A cat chases a mouse into a mouse hole. The cat and mouse make music as they hit the wall, until the cat breaks through the mouse hole. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0244) |
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Muppets / Celebrity |
"Pretty Great Performances" features Placido Flamingo singing "Italian Street Song" with the All-Animal Orchestra, led by conductor Seiji Ozawa (First: Episode 2485) |
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Cartoon | "Five Baby Oysters" (First: Episode 2257) |
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Film | Some kids learn how to use Logo, a computer programming language, to draw shapes on computers. (First: Episode 1968) |
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Cartoon | Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin) (First: Episode 0638) |
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SCENE 2 | Gina and Uncle Wally tend to Leko's scraped knee and discuss with the kids times that they've hurt themselves. In a flashback, Gina recalls helping Elmo remove a splinter from his foot. Elmo was really scared but tried to act brave, not realizing when Gina pulls the splinter out. In the present, Gina and Elmo admire how brave Leko is being. |
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Cartoon | A boy sits in a forest and plays the flute along with the birds' songs, but becomes sad when woodsmen demolish the forest. He plants more trees for the birds to live in. Artist: Richard Condie (First: Episode 1879) |
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Song | "One of These Things" (with Fay Ray) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | Luis counts three blackbirds, which lay three eggs. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 2242) |
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Song | "It's Easy" (First: Episode 1727) |
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Animation | It's a snail! Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 1711) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Invisible Man — Kermit meets the family of The Invisible Man. (First: Episode 1009) |
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Cartoon | Violet climbs a vine with V words. (First: Episode 0389) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly Monster recalls once hurting his thumb, and imagines everyone acting out a poem about what they couldn't do without thumbs. "You know, thumbs aren't very pretty, but they sure are useful," Gina observes. Everyone holds their thumbs out and give a cheer. |
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Cartoon | Square in space. (First: Episode 1554) |
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Film | Megan goes to the doctor and gets a cast on her arm so it can heal. (First: Episode 1205) |
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Muppets | A monster sings "Comb Your Face." (First: Episode 1851) |
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Cartoon | Hypnotic "Q" rainbow (First: Episode 0440) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Early in the morning, Ernie sees some pigeons through the window, and wonders if he should wake Bert. (First: Episode 1187) |
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Cartoon | A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come. (First: Episode 1176) |
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SCENE 4 | Gina and the kids play a hand-slapping game as Uncle Wally announces the sponsors. |
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