| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 8, 1993 | ||||||
| Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
| Written by | Norman Stiles | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | Monty, dressed in black and white fur and a fake beak, persuades the viewer to enroll in his "penguin school," for anyone who's ever wished they could be a penguin, "just like me." Maria laughs out loud at this concept, and Monty introduces the opening theme. |
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SCENE 1 | Monty announces that his penguin school is now in session. A real penguin (Peter Linz) shows up and indignantly points out that Monty is not a penguin, just a man in a silly penguin costume. Therefore, Monty decides instead to start a "not a penguin school." The penguin likes the idea and Monty puts his hat on the bird, which makes him start to feel like a non-penguin already. |
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Song | "There's a Lot of Different Ways to Get to School" (sung by Jerry Nelson) (First: Episode 2751) |
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Cartoon | How many legs does a horse have? (First: Episode 1523) |
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Muppets | Mr. Between sings about himself. |
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Cartoon | The letter F morphs into cartoon faces. (First: Episode 2916) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - "Feel the Beat" Part 1 (First: Episode 2943) |
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Cartoon | O for open, off, owl, ocean |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Handford narrates an episode of "Snuffleupatale Theater." As the curtains open, Snuffy, the main character in today's story, has an itch on the back of his tail and tries to get Linda to scratch it for him. He realizes that Linda is deaf and can't hear him. She tells him she can read lips, but only if someone talks slowly. She finally understands him and scratches his tail, which makes him happy. |
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Cartoon | I Love You, in American Sign Language Artist: Steve Finkin (First: Episode 1170) |
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Muppets | At Birdland, Hoots introduces Biff and Sully and the Hard Hats (including Stella), who perform "This Song Is for the Birds". (First: Episode 2874) |
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Film | Six children go down a slide. (First: Episode 0600) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - "Feel the Beat" Part 2 (First: Episode 2943) |
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Cartoon | A map of Australia morphs into the shape of animals that are found there. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 2646) |
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Film | A girl goes to school somewhere in Africa. We see the girl getting ready to go to school, as she washes herself and brushes her teeth, puts on her clothes, brushes her hair, and takes her lunch, all with some help from her mother. We see her walking past her neighbors and watching her classmates play outside as she arrives at school. The bell rings, and the girl enters the school, where the teacher is passing out chalk to her students. We see the teacher teaching the students the English words: "a boy," "a girl," "a man," "a woman," which she has written on the board, along with a drawing for each word. The students repeat the words, then write them down on their individual chalkboards as the girl remarks, "We are learning to read and write." The students then jump up and down, as the teacher looks on, smiling. Next, we see the students jumping outside excitedly, now that school has finished. (First: Episode 2658) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria comes outside the Fix-It Shop and sees the Count with a duck (David Rudman) who doesn't want to quack. According to the Count, things were seemingly going well for them until he counted 4,554 quacks from the duck, who suddenly quit on him. Maria understands the duck's point of view and says the duck is just tired of quacking (or, as the Count puts it, he's "quacked to the max"). The Count promises the duck that he'll find something else to count, which makes the duck feel better. He suggests that maybe he could count barks from a dog... and the duck starts barking! |
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Cartoon | "Beginning, Middle, End" Artist: Sally Cruikshank (First: Episode 2556) |
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Muppets | Big Bird's Video Postcards Big Bird explores the mask gallery at the Museo del Barrio in New York City. Edna, the art instructor, shows him and some kids how to make their own masks for a parade. (First: Episode 3058) |
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Cartoon | A flame burns through a capital letter F, ultimately revealing a lowercase letter f. (First: Episode 2288) |
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Song | Yakety Yak - Take It Back (First: Episode 3043) |
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Cartoon | "Water Conservation": Frank the fish calls Carl and tells him not to leave the water running while brushing his teeth, otherwise the lake will be dry. Artist: Peter Chung (First: Episode 2689) |
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SCENE 4 | While Prairie Dawn practices a pageant song, Merry Monster bumps into her and explains that she was practicing counting backwards; she's pretending to be a rocket ship, which includes a countdown. She invites Prairie to join her, and Prairie hops on her back before they zoom off. |
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Animation | Counting to 10 (Latin rhythm) (Spanish version) (First: Episode 3045) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - "Feel the Beat" Part 3 (First: Episode 2943) |
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Animation | Four genies carry the number 4 into a castle. Artist: Ishu Patel (First: Episode 2244) |
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Muppets | Director Kermit is filming Oklahoma with Forgetful Jones as the star. Forgetful is supposed to enter sing "Oklahoma!" but sings "Aklahoma!," "Eeklahoma!," and "Iklahoma!" instead. When he finally gets it right, the production assistant says it's time for lunch. (First: Episode 2544) |
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Animation | A Navajo blanket is formed as tribal music plays. (First: Episode 2963) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - "Feel the Beat" Part 4 (First: Episode 2943) |
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Film | Flamingos walk around to classical music. (First: Episode 2498) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: The Feelings Game — Bert doesn't want to play "The Feelings Game" with Ernie. (First: Episode 2356) |
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Cartoon | A caterpillar sings "Exercise Song". Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2839) |
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SCENE 5 | Elmo comes into Hooper's Store and shows Gina his yellow daisy, which his mommy grew in a flowerpot and let him keep. Elmo lists and demonstrates the different ways he can use his flower: wearing it in his hat, pretending to be a singer with a microphone, and being a brave knight with a spear. Ultimately, Elmo decides to look at the flower and smell it; Gina agrees this is a good thing to do and joins him. |
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Video | Four break-dancers dance. (First: Episode 2607) |
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Cartoon | A boy's friends bring him flowers to cheer him up, not knowing that he's allergic to them. (First: Episode 1524) |
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Muppets | Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand". (First: Episode 1959) |
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Film | A girl draws a picture of her friend, Dai Xi. (First: Episode 2791) |
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Muppets | A bunch of city folk work together to tend to a garden for me and for you, as they show (in song) that "Cooperation Makes it Happen". (First: Episode 1956) |
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Animation | Four butterflies fly across a film of a waterfall. (First: Episode 2834) |
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SCENE 6 | Elmo pretends his flower is a microphone and announces the sponsors. He then decides to give the flower to Gina, making sure she says the CTW slogan into the "microphone." |
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