| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Luis cleans the apartment | |||||||
| Air date | March 26, 1990 | ||||||
| Season | Season 21 (1989-1990) | ||||||
| Written by | Belinda Ward | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Elmo and Sayida use some string to play cat's cradle and Elmo calls out for Luis to play with them. He can't right now, as he's cleaning the apartment with help from the Amazing Mumford... |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Mumford reads a copy of Magic Houskeeping magazine and tries out some tricks to clean up the living room instantly. However, he only manages to make the room messier and messier each time. Luis suggests he quit while he's ahead and Mumford agrees - he ditches the work and exits the apartment, leaving Luis to deal with everything by himself. |
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Cartoon | Jim Thurman sings "Calcutta Joe." Animation by Buzzco Associates, Inc. (First: Episode 2492) |
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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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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — A winged number 1 flies over a cuckoo's nest. (First: Episode 2674) |
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Cartoon | Light and heavy (bird falls on man) (First: Episode 0785) |
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Film | Alphaquest: P A pack of painted purple penguins practicing a pop song in a pine tree park, and a pink pig with a parachute. |
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Cartoon | I am crying / estoy llorando (David and Maria voiceover) (First: Episode 1041) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar and Grouch photographer Scuzullo take notes and get photos of Luis' messy living room for an article in Grouch Housekeeping. The room earns their seal of approval - an actual seal, who starts to mess up the kitchen. |
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Cartoon | Rap #13 (First: Episode 2547) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts Here Is Your Life, surprising Oak Tree with the story of his life. The guests include Granny Fanny Nesselrode, who planted the tree as an acorn, Cloud and Sun, who gave the tree rain and sunshine, and Marty Table and Sarah Chair, who were made from the tree's friends. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | A boy finds a set of doors with animals that make the wrong sound, and swaps the doors to correct them. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola demonstrate happy, sad, scared and mad. (First: Episode 0469) |
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Film | Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over) |
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Cartoon | zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359) |
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SCENE 3 | The room is looking much cleaner as Elmo helps Luis by dusting. He becomes frightened of the vacuum cleaner, believing it's a scary monster. Luis shows him it's not alive and demonstrates how one can turn it on and off. Elmo asks him to do it over and over until it wears out. |
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Film | Slide puzzle - truck (First: Episode 0403) |
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Cartoon | A woodpecker drills through a tree to demonstrate entrada and salida. (First: Episode 0808) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Harry Belafonte sings of about the "Coconut Counting Man," who is actually The Count. (First: Episode 1692) |
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Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster brings in a suitcase filled with heavy and light objects, and places them on a wall. The right head lays out a feather, a ribbon, and a tissue. The left head puts down a book, a brick, a rock, and a 1000 pound weight, but the more weight that is placed on the wall causes the ground they're standing on to tilt! (First: Episode 2577) |
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Cartoon | Geometry of Circles #2 "Seven Circles with Designs" (First: Episode 1394) |
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Film | A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen. (First: Episode 1802) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis goes to clean the bathroom and discovers a nude Placido Flamingo in his bathtub. The singer is practicing for an opera, "The Bathtub of Seville," and recruits Luis to join in. As Placido sings, Luis scrubs the tub in time to the music, which picks up and up as it goes along. When the song ends, Placido has Luis clean him next. |
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Cartoon | A top-hatted man tries to show a girl how many uses a box has, but she prefers kicking it. (First: Episode 0763) |
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Cast | Maria as Chaplin gets their suspenders stuck on a wall while reaching for the door, demonstrating long, longer, and longest. (First: Episode 0786) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Old MacDonald's Spaceship — A spaceship lands on Old MacDonald's farm. (First: Episode 2021) |
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Film | Kids paint P-word animals on glass. (edited) (First: Episode 0119) |
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Cartoon | Jerry Nelson sings and counts thirteen turkeys. |
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SCENE 5 | Luis wants to take a bath of his own now and finds three men in his tub. He orders them to get out, but they can't figure out the difference between in and out. Mumford returns and performs his famous tub trick as a way to apologize for his actions earlier. The trick gets the three men out, but puts Luis (still fully dressed) in. |
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Animation | P for Pyramid (First: Episode 2061) |
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Muppets | While Ernie is away visiting the Count, Bert has the place all to himself, or so he thinks! A group of sheep burst into the room and proceed to sing him a song ("Bert's Blanket") about how his blanket was made (with a flashback scene where Ernie is portrayed as a farmer). He then corrects them on the actual production phase. (First: Episode 2391) |
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Cartoon | A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0413) |
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Film | The snouts, tails and bodies of pigs, with a soundtrack of pigs squealing. (First: Episode 0179) |
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Cast | Gordon acts out Maria's 13-Step Method of Lifting a Heavy Barbell. (First: Episode 2595) |
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Cartoon | The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters ask it to stop. (First: Episode 0149) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis joins Elmo, Alvin, and Chuckie out in the yard, having finished cleaning and ready to play. Elmo wants to play a pretend game and have them all imagine... they're cleaning Luis' apartment! Luis sits it out as Mumford announces the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Rick Lyon (Pumpkin man) and Martin P. Robinson (Green man), with Richard Hunt (Placido and Lavender man).
- A Rubber Duckie can be seen sitting on Luis' tub during scene 4.
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