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Sesame Street
Luis cleans the apartment
Air date March 26, 1990
Season Season 21 (1989-1990)
Written by Belinda Ward
Production January 3 & 9, 1990
Sponsors P, Z, 13

2711

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
2711a
SCENE 1 Elmo and Saydia play with string and Elmo calls out Luis to play with them. Luis can't right now, as he is cleaning the apartment with the Amazing Mumford.
2711a2
SCENE 1 cont'd Mumford reads a copy of Magic Houskeeping magazine and tries out some tricks to clean up the room instantly. However, he only manages to make the room messier and messier. Luis suggests he quit while he's ahead and Mumford agrees, leaving the apartment and Luis with the mess.
3993r
Cartoon Jim Thurman sings "Calcutta Joe."
Animation by Buzzco Associates, Inc.
(First: Episode 2492)
LearningLogo
Film Some kids learn how to use Logo, a computer programming language, to draw shapes on computers.
(First: Episode 1968)
Mpiece.oneflew
Muppets Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — A winged number 1 flies over a cuckoo's nest.
(First: Episode 2674)
Lightheavy.birdman
Cartoon Light and heavy (bird falls on man)
(First: Episode 0785)
3141za
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.
1041sad
Cartoon I am crying / estoy llorando (David and Maria voiceover)
(First: Episode 1041)
2711b

2711b2
SCENE 2 Oscar and Grouch photographer Scuzullo get notes and 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.
3827.rap.13
Cartoon Rap #13
(First: Episode 2547)
Hereisyrlifetree
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)
3150s
Cartoon A boy finds a set of doors with animals that make the wrong sound, and swaps the doors to correct them.
EBSholaEmotions
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentErnie, Bert and Shola demonstrate happy, sad, scared and mad.
(First: Episode 0469)
CityCircles
Film Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)
Toon.ZigZag
Cartoon zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo.
(First: Episode 0359)
Episode 2711 2
SCENE 3 The room is looking much cleaner and 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.
Itsatruck
Film Slide puzzle - truck
(First: Episode 0403)
Woodpecker.entrada
Cartoon A woodpecker drills through a tree to demonstrate entrada and salida.
(First: Episode 0808)
1706h
Muppets / Celebrity Harry Belafonte sings of about the "Coconut Counting Man," who is actually The Count.
(First: Episode 1692)
Toon.Froghater
Cartoon A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies.
(First: Episode 0387)
TwoHeadHeavyLight
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)
Geometry of Circles 2 - Seven Circles with Designs
Cartoon Geometry of Circles #2 "Seven Circles with Designs"
(First: Episode 1394)
1845q
Film A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen.
(First: Episode 1802)
BathtubOfSeville
SCENE 4 Luis goes to clean the bathroom and discovers 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.
BoxGoodforKicking
Cartoon A top-hatted man tries to show a girl how many uses a box has, but she prefers kicking it.
(First: Episode 0763)
1710j
Cast Maria as Chaplin gets their suspenders stuck on a wall while reaching for the door, demonstrating long, longer, and longest.
(First: Episode 0786)
Ssnffarm
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Old MacDonald's Spaceship — A spaceship lands on Old MacDonald's farm.
(First: Episode 2021)
P-paintonglass
Film Kids paint P-word animals on glass. (edited)
(First: Episode 0119)
3142b
Cartoon Jerry Nelson sings and counts thirteen turkeys.
2711c

2711c2
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. The trick gets the three men out, but puts Luis (still fully dressed) in.
2477l
Animation P for Pyramid
(First: Episode 2061)
BertsBlanket01

BertsBlanket02
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)
3958s1
Cartoon A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled.
Artist: Jim Simon
(First: Episode 0413)
Song.ilovebeingapig
Film The snouts, tails and bodies of pigs, with a soundtrack of pigs squealing.
(First: Episode 0179)
GordonMaria-Weight
Cast Gordon acts out Maria's 13-Step Method of Lifting a Heavy Barbell.
(First: Episode 2595)
Stopcartoon
Cartoon The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters ask it to stop.
(First: Episode 0149)
2711d
SCENE 6 Luis joins Elmo and the kids out in the yard, finished cleaning and ready to play. Elmo wants to play pretend and have them all imagine cleaning Luis' apartment! Luis sits it out as Mumford announces the sponsors.

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