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| Cleaning the lot, part 2 – Gordon organizes everyone to clean up the lot | |||||||||
| Air date | March 19, 1991 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 22 (1990-1991) | ||||||||
| Written by | Belinda Ward | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Telly calls Gordon for help: a pigeon is trying to eat a sign he made for the vacant lot. Oscar overhears and is interested, then calls for Bruno. |
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SCENE 1 | The gang makes it to the lot where they meet its residents, Audrey and Louise, the Pigeon Sisters; Oscar takes an instant liking to them. Louise has a big appetite and continues pecking at the sign, mistaking it for a cracker. Audrey helps her read it - "Help Clean Up the Lot - 11:00 Today." Louise gets excited at the idea that the people coming may bring lots of food, but goes back to pecking at the sign when Gordon suggests otherwise. |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: One Way (First: Episode 1125) |
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Muppets | The Sublime Miss M performs "The Sublime Ms. M." |
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Cartoon | M for Mask (First: Episode 2079) |
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Film | Kids talk about how many things they can do now that they're five years old. (First: Episode 1403) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — On the deck of The Love Boat, a uniformed Ernie expresses how much he loves this boat. "Ernest" shares his love with Amanda, a grumpy patron, a fish, and soon several passengers who join them in their love for this boat. (First: Episode 1958) |
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Cartoon | Seven rabbits Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1493) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Forgetful Jones asks Daniela to help him read a sign - ME. (First: Episode 2709) |
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Cartoon | A boy draws a portrait of himself and calls it ME. (First: Episode 2085) |
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Muppets | Pageant: Where Milk Comes From |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Katie think of rhymes. (First: Episode 1644) |
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Cartoon | "Seven Sweet Sopranos" on a shaky piano Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1656) |
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Film | Slide puzzle - boy (First: Episode 0428) |
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SCENE 2 | Telly moves the sign over to Oscar's trash can area, and has also asked Polly Darton and her backup dogs to sing a song ("A-Cleanin' Up the Lot"). The song attracts the rest of the street, who are ready to help. |
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Animation | A map of China morphs into the shape of animals and things that are found there. (First: Episode 2782) |
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Muppets | Robin Williams asks Elmo and the kids whether they would allow a nonsense talking, horned two-headed stranger to play baseball with them. The Two-Headed Monster shows up to play. (First: Episode 2795) |
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Film / Muppets | Alphaquest: M The girl uses mittens to make monster mush, which is eaten by a Muppet monster. (First: Episode 2724) |
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Cartoon | Joe's Lap (limerick) (First: Episode 0617) |
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Muppets | How Now Brown and the Moo Wave perform the song "Danger's No Stranger." (First: Episode 2030) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster is in a disagreement about where to go for vacation: the mountains or the seashore. Cookie Monster says he likes both, better than going to Cucamonga for the National Cookie Convention. 2-Head gets inspired, and heads off for Cucamonga, leaving Cookie to choose between the mountains and the seashore. |
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Animation | Sand C/c (First: Episode 0625) |
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Insert | Big Bird reads a poem about how hard it is to be a sheep, and become cold when giving up one's wool: "So let's be fair when snow is deep, let's put the sweater on the sheep." Accompanied with cotton sheep illustrations. (First: Episode 1828) |
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Cartoon | A lizard sings about how she likes to be "Above it All", as well as below. Artist: Sally Cruikshank (First: Episode 2559) |
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Film | Two Navajo kids go to school in Arizona. This year, Dante enters pre-school. (First: Episode 2680) |
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Muppets | On a cold day, the Twiddlebugs try to figure out what they should close to make themselves warm. After they try closing a book, a lunchbox and their mouths, Tina sees they must close the door. Once they're warm, they decide to go outside, but can't find what they should open. (First: Episode 1621) |
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Cartoon | Rap #7 (First: Episode 2506) |
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Film | A group of kids pick apples in an orchard, and take them into the cider mill to make apple cider. (First: Episode 1585) |
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Cartoon | A playground is destroyed by bad weather, and a teacher has her class rebuild it from memory. (First: Episode 1453) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Bird Family — Kermit interviews a bird whose parents don't live together. (First: Episode 2695) |
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Cartoon | A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... and promptly wiggle around. Artist: James Rizzi (First: Episode 0787) |
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SCENE 3 | Everyone is assembled at the lot to clean it. Gordon reminds everyone to wear their boots and gloves for protection, including Forgetful Jones (who's forgotten he's already wearing them). They find that the Sanitation department has neglected to send them recycling bins, so Gordon and Forgetful go check on them. Elsewhere, Louise's mind is on something else and she manages to filch some snacks that Mike has brought. |
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Film | Old bottles are made into new bottles at a recycling plant. Music: "Black Eyed Peas" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0917) |
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Muppets | "Listen to the Bells" (First: Episode 1955) |
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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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Film | Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air. (First: Episode 0444) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon and Forgetful return empty handed; the bins won't be delivered until tomorrow. Everyone looks forward to cleaning the next day as Audrey announces the sponsors without Louise, who's still preoccupied with Mike's snacks. |
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