| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Snuffle puppet show | |||||||||
| Air date | January 3, 1991 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 22 (1990-1991) | ||||||||
| Written by | David Korr | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird welcomes the viewer to the latest Snufflepuppet show that Snuffy is putting on. His snufflepuppet Gus (not seen yet - just Snuffy's exposed snuffle) presents things beginning with G, ending with himself waving goodbye. Big Bird thinks it's time for a break... |
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Cartoon | A goose and gander visit the land of the G's. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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Film | Looking for triangles in the city (Maria voiceover) (First: Episode 2696) |
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Muppets | "The Sneeze Song," with Kathleen the Cow with a Pig, a Sheep, and Fred the Wonder Horse. |
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Cartoon | A poem about changing seasons. (First: Episode 0962) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster and Zelda have a discussion about cookies. (First: Episode 2601) |
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Cartoon | A mouse demonstrates between by squeezing between two elephants. (First: Episode 2750) |
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SCENE 2 | The Snufflepuppet show continues, where Bob is about to conduct his band while Gus (now positioned on Snuffy's snuffle) sings "The Alphabet Song." However, Gus tells Bob that he wants to conduct while Bob sings it. Bob can hardly believe he's taking orders from a puppet, but he decides to play along with it. He gives Gus the baton, but they realize that Gus can't hold it. |
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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. (First: Episode 2711) |
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Muppets | As ominous music plays, the Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) |
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Song | A girl invites the listener to "Swing Up High." Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | The Bellhop has to make 12 wake-up calls. (First: Episode 2529) |
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SCENE 3 | Gus, with the baton tied to his hands, conducts Bob's band, alternating between slow and fast tempos as Bob sings "The Alphabet Song." Gus ends up frantically waving the baton very quickly until Bob and the band can't keep up, thus ending the show. Bob thanks everyone for having him, but Snuffy remarks to Bob that he doesn't have to thank Gus - he's just a puppet. |
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Cartoon | An ostrich is born on a football field, and learns that he can't fly. He saves the game by scoring the winning touchdown. (First: Episode 1870) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Follow the Arrows — Ernie has Bert play a "Follow the Arrows" game. (First: Episode 1697) |
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Song | Luis sings "Follow the Arrows" as a man does so. (First: Episode 1642) |
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Cartoon | A heart that says "I love you" is drawn. (First: Episode 1971) |
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Muppets | Bruce Stringbean, Clarice, and S Street Band perform "Born To Add". (First: Episode 1375) |
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Film | A girl draws a picture of her friend Amelia. |
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SCENE 4 | In the environmentally conscious portion of the program, Oscar is about to make a new sign that says SCRAM, when Telly shows up and points out that he left his record player on, so he turns it off (hitting his trash can à la the Fonz). Telly compliments him for not wasting electricity, then points out that he can make a new sign by writing on the back of the old sign, which saves cardboard (and trees). Oscar hears the water dripping and knows exactly what Telly's going to say, so he beats him to it and then tells Telly to stop wasting his time and go away. |
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Cartoon | "Water Conservation": Frank the fish calls Carl and tells him not to leave the water running while brushing his teeth, otherwise the lake will be dry. Artist: Peter Chung (First: Episode 2689) |
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Film | Cheri goes fishing with her abuelo. On the way they visit friends of her abuelo and play dominoes, then for a cup of cuban coffee and mango juice. Cheri catches her first fish at the pier. |
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Animation | G/g musical notes (Gordon voiceover) (First: Episode 2233) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover prepares a table for a family who's celebrating their grandmother's birthday, but Grover doesn't know her name, so when each family member refers to her as a different relative each time, Grover thinks there's more than one party going on, so he ends up bringing out six cakes. (First: Episode 1958) |
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Cartoon | Story of Twelvia Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1676) |
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Cast | Hoots shows Gordon and some kids the art of "Talkin' Scat". (First: Episode 2389) |
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Animation | P for Pyramid (First: Episode 2061) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Peter Piper — Kermit interviews Peter Piper's family. (First: Episode 1342) |
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Cartoon | A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12. (First: Episode 0493) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly has been blindfolded, and tries to name the sounds he hears without seeing them. He is able to identify a truck, Marleny rollerskating, and Jesse dribbling a basketball. However, he can't figure out what Susan is doing, which is sweeping around the stoop. She lets Big Bird borrow her broom and continue sweeping while Telly tries to guess. He knows it's a brush of some kind... |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Take a Breath". (First: Episode 2518) Re-filmed version |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "Imagine That" about things that he sometimes imagines to be: first a knight in shining armor who battles a dragon, then a sailor, and finally, himself. (First: Episode 2142) |
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Cartoon | A derby-hatted man identifies animal sounds, ending with a tractor. (First: Episode 0839) |
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SCENE 6 | Telly finally guesses the sound of the broom sweeping. When Big Bird gives the broom back to Susan, she is shocked to see how worn out it is from all the sweeping Big Bird did. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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