| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Remembering times of sadness | |||||||||
| Air date | February 19, 1991 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 22 (1990-1991) | ||||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Susan tells the viewer that today, everyone will be discussing times when they felt sad. Prairie Dawn is the first to go, describing the day she got sick on the premiere of her new pageant, "The Life of a Potato." |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
A flashback shows Susan tending to a bed-ridden Prairie. Despite her pleading, Susan had insisted she was too sick to go to school, pageant or no pageant. In the present, Prairie says that while she felt very sad, the experience allowed her to write what she considers her best pageant ever, "The Nose and the Cold," and she sings a sample of it. |
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Cartoon | Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Song | "There's a Lot of Different Ways to Get to School" (sung by Jerry Nelson) (First: Episode 2751) |
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Muppets | Game Show: Happiness Begins at 40 Guy Smiley gets the Sad Family out of their rut by having them count to 40. (First: Episode 2467) |
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Cartoon | A snake has a knot in his middle, and he can't find his end. The detective helps the snake find his end ... playing drums in a band. (First: Episode 2600) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian." (First: Episode 2205) |
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Cartoon | Gordon voiceover N/n (First: Episode 2283) |
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SCENE 2 | Luis now introduces Telly with his sad story. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Telly recalls when they played baseball in Big Bird's nest area and Telly (wearing two mitts) missed a catch in his direction, causing his team to lose. |
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In the present, the kids invite Telly to join their game, making him very happy. |
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Cartoon | A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup. (First: Episode 2283) |
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Song | "Rollin' on the River" (First: Episode 2783) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — It's cold outside, so Bert tries to ask Ernie to play a game with him. Ernie keeps bringing winter equipment into the room, thinking Bert wants to play outside. It turns out he just wants to play a game of checkers. (First: Episode 1617) |
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Cartoon | A fan reveals the letter C. (First: Episode 2746) |
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Song | Sesame Street Creature Feature: The Marmoset. (First: Episode 2487) |
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Cartoon | Willie Wimple: Tree Destruction (First: Episode 0516) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar now recalls a time when even he felt sad. |
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On a rainy day, he takes his favorite toy, Rubber Yucchy, with him as he runs some errands at the Fix-It Shop and Hooper's Store. Afterwards, he realizes the toy has fallen out of the hole in his slicker pocket. He retraces his steps, but to no avail. He returns to his can, sobbing, where Telly returns the toy, having found it on the ground by the trash can. |
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Back in the present, Oscar plays with the Rubber Yucchy as Luis observes that Grouches can get sad, too. |
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Animation | Draw a circle around the bus. Cross out the telephone. (First: Episode 2093) |
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Cast | Big Bird, Susan and Bob sing "Can Read" while at a newsstand. (First: Episode 2268) |
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Cartoon | A salesman offers a passerby the letter N for next to nothing. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 1804) |
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Film | College students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, opossums, and chinchillas. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 2227) |
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Muppets | Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Cluck Around the Clock." |
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Cartoon | A family of snakes makes shapes, and rolls away. (First: Episode 1506) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Insert | Mr. Snuffleupagus shows Oscar a picture of the Snuffle-fairy in a book while he looks up in the air for her. Oscar tells him that the Snuffle-fairy isn't real, which Maria then confirms. Though Snuffy is disappointed, Maria explains that he can still imagine that she exists. The two look up at the sky and pretend she's there with her wings and wand, and even Oscar finds himself believing she's flying above them. Later, he tells Alice how he used his imagination. (First: Episode 2596) |
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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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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. (First: Episode 2586) |
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Cartoon | Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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Song | "Frog Kick" (First: Episode 2155) |
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Cartoon | A lost man in the desert asks a stranger for directions to the city. He builds a pretend city out of sand to show what it looks like. As it turns out, the stranger is an alien. (First: Episode 0763) |
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Cast | Gina plays and sings "Follow the Leader" with the kids. (First: Episode 2604) |
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Cartoon | A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0239) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "What Babies Are Called" (First: Episode 0096) |
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Cartoon | Dr. Annie Eyeball looks at air. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2592) |
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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 cowboy adds two different herds of cows. (First: Episode 2255) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: The Old Man and the C — Old man Grover loves the sea. (First: Episode 2710) |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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SCENE 4 | Everyone celebrates their now happy endings to their sad stories - Telly was able to catch a ball during the game today, Prairie feels happy that she got to do her new pageant, and Oscar plays with his Rubber Yucchy inside his can. Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
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