Sesame Street | |||||||||
A day at Birdland | |||||||||
Air date | May 9, 1991 | ||||||||
Season | Season 22 (1990-1991) | ||||||||
Written by | Norman Stiles | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to..." Telly interrupts the opening sequence: "Birdland! Can you tell me how to get to Birdland?!" Susan, Gordon, Miles, and some kids happen to be going there, and they say he can come with them. | |
Animation | Number creatures #19 (First: Episode 2718) | |
Muppets | Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree." (First: Episode 1920) | |
Film | A montage of the evolution of mechanical technology, from wind-up toys, to robots that can spell "SESAME STREET" with blocks, to satellite transmitters. Music: "Portrait d'un robot," composed by Janko Nilovic (First: Episode 2226) | |
Cartoon | Hypnotic "Q" rainbow (First: Episode 0440) | |
SCENE 2 | Hoots welcomes everyone to Birdland, and introduces conductor Duck Ellington and the Sesame Street All-Animal Jazz Ensemble, with special guest Wynton Marsalis on trumpet. They perform a new version of "No Matter What Your Language." | |
Animation | Two seemingly identical machines - one black, one white - cooperate to make the sound of a choo-choo train. (First: Episode 2843) | |
Film | Fay Ray subtracts three balls. (First: Episode 2608) | |
Muppets | Mysterious Theater: Sign of the Circle — Sherlock Hemlock tries to find a shape matching a circle before the clock strikes five... and it turns out to be the round clock face. (First: Episode 2706) | |
Cartoon | Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version) (First: Episode 0140) | |
Muppets | "Daddy Helps with the Dishes" - three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking, and homework. (First: Episode 2223) | |
Cartoon | "L" for "Large" and "l" for "little" (First: Episode 1455) | |
SCENE 3 | Wynton says he's ready to do not one number, but twenty - maybe even more. He has help from Count von Count, who counts the twenty notes Wynton plays before doing a more complicated tune. The Count manages to count every little rapid note he plays on the trumpet, fainting from exhaustion but tallying up 237 notes in all (give or take). | |
Cartoon | "One to Five Counting Animals Song" (First: Episode 0780) | |
Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) | |
Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster observes the letter Q, then the word QUIET. (First: Episode 1850) | |
Cartoon | A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1017) | |
SCENE 4 | Hoots introduces Biff and Sully and the Hard Hats (including Stella), who perform "This Song Is for the Birds." | |
Film | Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295) | |
Cartoon | L for Laugh Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel (First: Episode 2767) | |
Muppets | Prairie Dawn talks about three important parts of the face which are the eyes, the nose, and the ears, with assistance from Cookie Monster. Prairie agrees that cookies can be seen and smelled, but not heard - unless eaten by Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 2838) | |
Cartoon | A pattern of daisies and tulips - can you tell what comes next? (First: Episode 2256) | |
Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of a dog. (First: Episode 0601) | |
Cartoon | Sign Sounds: WALK TALL (First: Episode 1161) | |
SCENE 5 | Hoots introduces Bobby McFerrin, who does a call-and-response scat song with the audience. | |
Cartoon | Q -- that funny looking thing. (First: Episode 0131) | |
Muppets | Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse look for water in the desert. Grover sees mirages of a waterfall and a fountain, and Fred reminds him that he brought a canteen. | |
Cartoon | A hand draws a bridge, which a train crosses. (First: Episode 0793) | |
Film | Counting the circus clowns (First: Episode 0501) cut from the Max version | |
Cartoon | A boy gets lost in a mall, and a security guard shows him how to use a map. Artist: ArtistMike | |
SCENE 6 | Hoots tells everyone to imagine that it's turning from nighttime to morning, and the birds are waking up in the forest, while Bobby sings "Tweet in the Mornin'." cut from the Max version | |
Cartoon | Millie and Molly take a walk, and have different perspectives of their surroundings. (First: Episode 1309) | |
Muppets | The Martians are a "Yip Yip Family." (First: Episode 2724) | |
Cartoon | Nineteen kernels of popcorn pop. (First: Episode 2855) cut from the Max version | |
Insert | Big Bird watches the shape dancers form a rectangle. (First: Episode 1276) | |
Song | "Above and Below" (Christopher Cerf) (First: Episode 2839) | |
Film | Sounds Around the House v2: chimes, snoring, a boy pretending to be an airplane, a man playing a trumpet, and a motorcycle outside. (First: Episode 1713) | |
Animation | Today's Secret Drawing will be a nurse. (First: Episode 0239) | |
Song | "Elbows and Knees" (First: Episode 2641) | |
SCENE 7 | For the closing number, Hoots, Wynton, and the animals perform the closing theme, with Duck Ellington quacking along and Hoots announcing the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Rick Lyon (Teddy) and Pam Arciero (pink egret).
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