Sesame Street | |||||||
Celebrating Around Day | |||||||
Air date | January 14, 1992 | ||||||
Season | Season 23 (1991-1992) | ||||||
Written by | Nancy Sans | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Luis and Elmo wish the viewer a happy "Around Day," where one walks around somebody they love. Elmo demonstrates by going around Luis. | |
SCENE 1 | Prairie Dawn, covered in special "Around Day" circle pins, walks over to Maria at the Fix-It Shop and can't see her celebratory circle. Although Maria has never heard of Around Day, she accepts one of Prairie's pins. After Prairie heads off, Luis enters and dances around Maria, complimenting her pin. | |
Song | Sesame Street Creature Feature: The Marmoset. (First: Episode 2487) | |
Cartoon | Geometry of Circles #1 "Circle with Flower" (First: Episode 1393) | |
Song | Children of all kinds sing "We All Sing with the Same Voice." (First: Episode 1708) | |
Cartoon | R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) | |
Muppets | "Readers of the Open Range" (First: Episode 2141) | |
Cartoon | HEN / PEN / TEN / MEN (First: Episode 1881) | |
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Film | Scuba diver - on, into, under, through, around Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0516) |
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) | |
SCENE 2 | Herry Monster gives Savion a homemade Around Day card. He's disappointed that Savion doesn't have one to reciprocate, so Savion does an Around Day dance instead. | |
Cartoon | I thought a thought ... about circles. (Spanish version) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0434) | |
Muppets | The Oinker Sisters sing "The Boogie-Woogie Piggies." | |
Cartoon | A man jumps up onto an UP. (First: Episode 0546) | |
Film | A metal crane and a real crane look alike. (First: Episode 1544) | |
Cartoon | Rap #15 (First: Episode 2567) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Bert tells John-John that he's lost his paper clips, and he feels sad. He asks John-John to show how he looks when he feels sad. Then Bert feels angry about losing his paper clips, and John-John acts out that emotion. Bert remembers where he left his collection, and John-John acts happy, too. (First: Episode 0443) | |
Cartoon | Little Red Riding Hood uses a map to get to Grandma's house. (First: Episode 2686) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Love Boat — On the deck of The Love Boat, a uniformed Ernie expresses how much he loves this boat. (First: Episode 1958) | |
Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) | |
Song | David sings "Who You Looking At, Tiger?" Re-filmed version (First: Episode 2525) | |
SCENE 3 | Telly wants Baby Natasha to crawl around him to show that she loves him. Instead, she crawls straight down the block when Telly tries to teach her what "around" means. | |
Animation | Cecille sings "Brushin' Down the Doggies." (First: Episode 2862) | |
Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster trips over the parts of the word TRIP. (First: Episode 2721) | |
Film / Animation | Oranges are peeled and sliced in stop-motion, and some kids eat them. (First: Episode 1802) | |
SCENE 4 | Telly recruits Maria for his demonstration, hoping Natasha is more likely to crawl around her. Natasha instead crawls under Maria's legs and then goes off course. Telly wonders if there'll be an "Under Day" in the future that Natasha will excel at before running after her. | |
Cartoon | A little girl leaves everything on in the house, until the TV set recites a poem about sharing electricity. (First: Episode 2845) | |
Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "Beat the Time". In order to win a cookie, Cookie Monster has to bring in three things that rhyme with the word "rain" before the hand goes around the clock. They turn out to be an old man's "cane", a "chain" (to which Frazzle is attached), and finally a "train" which destroys the set. (First: Episode 0446) | |
Cartoon | R for rhinoceros, racquet, robot (First: Episode 2443) | |
Film | Cheri goes fishing with her abuelo. (First: Episode 2784) | |
Muppets | The Beetles are "Thinking of U." (First: Episode 1486) | |
Cartoon | "Love" word animation (First: Episode 0926) | |
SCENE 5 | Telly has a fool-proof way to get Natasha to go around Maria - since she's in her baby carriage, Telly wheels it around Maria. | |
Cartoon | All the instruments in Sousaville love Mr. Tuba's music, but when he plays with them, he doesn't play the same music they're playing. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2829) | |
Film | A boy takes dance lessons at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. (First: Episode 1716) | |
Cartoon | Abstract count to 15 (First: Episode 2851) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Cab Calloway and the Count sing "I Want to Count." (First: Episode 1545) | |
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) | |
SCENE 6 | Luis closes up shop for the Around Day parade. Maria continues to wonder why she's never heard of the holiday, and Luis reminds her of previous Around Days when she was away, or ill, etc. | |
SCENE 6 cont'd |
Snuffy leads them to the yard, where Prairie reiterates to the crowd how the parade works - they pick a special "Around Day Person" to walk around. She gives clues as to who it is... and it turns out to be Maria! Everyone walks around her as Prairie announces the sponsors. |
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