| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Singbad the Sailor visits | |||||||||
| Air date | March 27, 1992 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 23 (1991-1992) | ||||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar introduces Lillian to Singbad the Sailor, who sails the seas and (off-key) serenades Grouches all over the world. He's arrived on Sesame Street to open the "Singbad the Sailor School of Singing." Lillian rejects Singbad's offer to be his first student, but Telly accepts and impresses Singbad with his unnatural talent as he belts out a bit of "Eddystone Light." Lillian makes her escape when Oscar joins them in singing. |
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Cartoon | "Up and Down with Captain Brown" (First: Episode 2493) |
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Muppets | Grover compares himself and the viewer, noting how much they are alike (except for the viewer's lack of blue fur). (First: Episode 1804) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Cast | Gordon hosts "The Crossing Zone," in which a boy named Jonathan has to find a way to cross the street. Susan helps him across. (First: Episode 2729) |
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Cartoon | Dinah from South Carolina exchanges letters with her friend Ling Lu in China. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2727) |
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SCENE 2 | Singbad is surprised to learn from Lillian that around Sesame Street, people prefer pleasant on-key singing. She helps him get in tune with a song about the scales, drastically improving his singing quality. |
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Film | A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas". (First: Episode 0516) |
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Cartoon | A race announcer doubles as the man who holds up the START and STOP sign. (First: Episode 0623) |
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Animation | Growing Numbers #17 |
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Muppets | Ernie is tossing and turning in bed. He sings to the viewers how he feels "When Bert's Not Here." (First: Episode 2208) |
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Film | Kids draw a map of their neighborhood, and then learn how maps are really made. (First: Episode 2760) |
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Animation | Where do the a's fit? (First: Episode 1586) |
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Film | A piece of construction equipment and a giraffe are shown side-by-side. (First: Episode 1550) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar has brought Grundgetta over to hear Singbad's awful singing, but he instead starts to sing "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" in perfect voice. He isn't able to replicate how he used to sound until he gets some help from his prized pupil Telly. Oscar suggests Singbad leave Sesame Street for good, lest someone else try to improve his singing again. Singbad sings one last ditty for the lot, a nautical version of "500 Miles," in his old crummy voice. |
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Cartoon | A man pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but the rabbit turns out to be a cow. "Surprise!" Artist: John Schnall (First: Episode 2770) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: The Postman Always Rings Twice — Grover waits for the postman to deliver his important letter. (First: Episode 2729) |
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Song | "Beautiful Baby" song, over footage of various babies and their parents. (First: Episode 1484) |
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SCENE 4 | Snuffy practices being a spider for an upcoming Snufflegarden production of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," but has trouble differentiating up and down. Gordon and the kids all pretend to be spiders and sing the rhyme to help Snuffy understand the difference. Afterward, Savion happens by and asks, "What's up?" Snuffy then tells him the difference between up and down. |
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Cartoon | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP (First: Episode 0847) |
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Muppets | Baby Rocky performs "Cry" from his crib. (First: Episode 1107) |
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Cartoon | Stamped and painted X animation. (First: Episode 2934) |
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Song | Children of all kinds sing "We All Sing with the Same Voice". (First: Episode 1708) |
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SCENE 5 | Elmo and Rosita tell Lillian that they're going to do something exciting that they've never done before - jump 40 times. Once they finish, they realize the thrill of doing it will never be the same, so they start jumping 41 times. (Lillian: "You know, some people really know how to live it up." ) |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #17 |
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Film | A kindergarten class takes a field trip to the fire station. (First: Episode 1217) |
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Cartoon | Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat Voice: Daws Butler (First: Episode 0770) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Cab Calloway sings "Jumpin' Jive" when the Two-Headed Monster can't decide whether to jump or jive. (First: Episode 1575) |
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Cartoon | A for apricot, alligator, acrobat, accordion, artist, airplane. (First: Episode 1586) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Forgetful Jones asks Daniela to read his sign, which she does. (First: Episode 2031) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Song | "(Sittin' On) A Boat on a Lake" (First: Episode 2807) |
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Muppets | Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works. (First: Episode 2120) |
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Film | Ornate Xs spin around in accompaniment to a song. (First: Episode 2929) |
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SCENE 6 | Telly and Oscar observe Slimey and his friend Wilbur Worm about to write a letter. Telly wonders how if they don't have a pencil or paper... until they make the letter X with their bodies. Savion announces the sponsors, and the credits follow. |
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