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| Prairie Dawn's B pageant | |||||||
| Air date | March 3, 1993 | ||||||
| Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | Prairie Dawn announces that today she'll be writing a special pageant about the letter B. The words will be inspired by the B-word items her friends bring her, no matter what they are. Oscar perks up at this idea and thinks he can bring things she'll never be able to write about, while Rosita goes to get some B-things from her family and Baby Bear agrees to perform... as long as Prairie promises that Goldilocks won't be involved in any way. |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird asks if he can be in the show too, and rushes off to find something that starts with B. Baby Bear returns aided by Katie with a bag of blueberries and various things to hold them in (bucket, box, bowl, etc.). Big Bird comes back with a single blueberry, sees what Baby Bear and Katie have brought, and runs off to find something else. |
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Film | Gilberto, who lives in Central America, learns how bricks are made. (First: Episode 2744) |
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Animation | A big paper clip and a small paper clip can hold papers together, and so can a small staple, with the help of its "mommy." (First: Episode 2930) |
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Muppets | "They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero. (First: Episode 2351) |
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Animation | Kids talk about families, often mentioning having rhinoceroses as pets. (First: Episode 2759) |
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SCENE 2 | Aided by the Grouchketeers, Oscar shows Prairie a list of various B-foods, which Prairie is certain she will find room for in her pageant. When she asks to have them, Oscar reveals that he's combined them all to make a "B sandwich." He's certain she won't be able to write something about that, but Prairie is still confident (yet slightly nauseated) that she can work it in. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Big Bird returns once more, but after seeing Oscar's disgusting sandwich, he realizes his single baked bean isn't enough. |
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Cartoon | Letter B becomes a banana and broccoli (First: Episode 2513) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "But I Like You." (First: Episode 1952) |
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Animation | R for robot, rabbit, run, read, rock, rocket. |
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Film | At a bus stop, three men of different ethnicities (including Bill Irwin) dance to a hip hop beat played on a radio. (First: Episode 2919) |
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SCENE 3 | Rosita brings Prairie a large assortment of B-word items from her Uncle Emmanuel and Grandma Isabella, including a baseball and bat, a bicycle with a bell, and a bunch of books. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Big Bird comes back with a single, small book. He explodes upon seeing Rosita's load and mopes about his failures. Prairie points out that Big Bird starts with the letter B, so he had the perfect thing he could bring the whole time! |
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Film | Maria and some kids count katydids hiding in the leaves. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 2364) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Grover sings "Monster in the Mirror" assisted by several celebrities, including The Simpsons, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ray Charles. (First: Episode 2835) |
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Animation | Counting 10 shells (First: Episode 3005) |
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Film | A blind class goes on a field trip downtown, and visits a produce stand. (First: Episode 2580) |
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Animation | A poem about oranges. (First: Episode 2881) |
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SCENE 4 | Prairie begins her "B" pageant. Baby Bear stars as a bear looking for berries, pulling his wagon full of B-related containers. He visits Oscar's food stand where the Grouch produces his yucky sandwich; Baby Bear passes on eating it. He then runs into Rosita who invites him to play some B-word games, but Baby Bear isn't interested. His problem is solved when he sees a "birdberry tree," though Oscar is quick to point out such a thing doesn't exist. Prairie defends her creative decision for an imaginary item and the pageant carries on, with Big Bird posing as the tree. |
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Cartoon | "Alphabet Jungle" (First: Episode 2733) |
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Film | Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent film of a woman in a burning building, who needs HELP. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Tortoise and the Hare's Rematch — The Tortoise wears a jet pack to race the Hare. (First: Episode 2690) |
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Cartoon | R for Rhinoceros (First: Episode 2518) |
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Cast | Lillian sings a "Simple Clapping Song" with some kids. (First: Episode 2827) |
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Cartoon | A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle. (First: Episode 0784) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster brings in a suitcase filled with heavy and light objects, and places them on a wall. The right half lays out a feather, a ribbon, and a tissue. The left half puts down a book, a brick, a rock, and a 1000 pound weight, but the more weight that is placed on the wall causes the ground they're standing on to tilt! (First: Episode 2577) |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #10 (First: Episode 2880) |
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Film | Students prepare for a spelling bee. (First: Episode 2208) |
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Cartoon | "Part of the Whole" Artist: Sally Cruikshank (First: Episode 2714) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar compliments Prairie's ability to include all those B-word items into her show, and has one more request: never do it again! He parts with one more set of B-words, "Bye-bye," as Prairie announces the sponsors. |
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