| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Telly breaks his arm | |||||||
| Air date | March 15, 1993 | ||||||
| Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
| Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Luis announces today's sponsors as Elmo and Telly run around playing "Star Invaders Triangle Tag." Telly trips and breaks his triangle, which makes him upset. Luis fixes it with glue, but it comes apart when they start to play with it again. Luis makes it clear that Telly has to hold the triangle for five minutes (or until he counts to 300) while the glue dries. Telly does so, and Elmo helps him count. |
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SCENE 1 | Once Elmo and Telly have finished counting to 300, the glue has dried. They resume their game of Star Invaders and run off. Just then, Lucy asks Luis to watch her tricycle while she goes inside Hooper's Store. Telly doesn't see the bike, so he trips and falls over it. He gets up and notices that his right arm is in immense pain and is swelling up ("Like Popeye!" says Elmo). Luis says that's how he felt when he broke his arm, which means it has now happened to Telly. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Luis reassures Telly that his broken arm will not fall off, and that the bones inside his arm are broken. And even though Luis can fix toasters, he can't fix Telly's arm so he calls a taxi so they can take Telly to the hospital. Telly insists on bringing Freddy along, claiming he hurt his arm too. Once they leave, Elmo runs off to tell everyone what happened to Telly. |
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Animation | D / d (drums and drumsticks) (First: Episode 2188) |
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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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Song | "We Got the Power!" - a hip-hop song about computers (First: Episode 3058) |
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Song | A piece of land with water all around it is an "Island." Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 2760) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is confused when he sees Bert playing checkers with his pigeon, Bernice. Ernie thinks it's amazing that a pigeon can play checkers, but Bert thinks it is no big deal, because Bernice has only beaten Bert in two out of ten games. (First: Episode 1227) |
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Animation | Cecille sings "Brushin' Down the Doggies." (First: Episode 2862) |
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SCENE 2 | In the hospital waiting room, Telly waits nervously for the doctor to call him in (humming "Bidin' My Time" to himself). He has a tuba lesson coming up, so he hopes he gets called soon. He notices a girl sitting next to him, with a broken arm in a cast which was signed by all her friends. Telly looks around some more and makes the connection that everyone in the waiting room has "something wrong with them." Luis then explains the meaning of the word emergency, and Telly is immediately called in. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
The nurse (Gina Torres) takes Telly's temperature and listens to his heart; he insists that she do the same for Freddy. Just then, Dr. Sing enters to examine Telly's arms. He can't tell if the right arm is broken, so he arranges to have an x-ray taken. "How will they get a photographer in there?!" Telly wonders. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
In the x-ray room, a nervous Telly learns about how x-ray photography works. He stalls a bit before he gets an x-ray taken of both his arms, and Freddy gets the same treatment. |
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Cartoon | A man talks about how much he loves his bones. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2628) |
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Song | Jerry Nelson sings "The Inside Story," which shows what's inside various household objects. (First: Episode 2724) |
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Cartoon | An alien asks a boy for directions to the baseball diamond. Artist: Bill Davis (First: Episode 1877) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Boogie With Your Buddy" Part 1 (First: Episode 2986) |
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Cartoon | Q for Quarter Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1176) |
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Muppets | The American Revolution: The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson (Don Music) has trouble getting a replacement quill to finish the Declaration when Mr. Grover misinterprets what he needs, bringing a drill, and a chicken named Phil. (First: Episode 2345) |
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Song | Girls wish they were "Short or Tall." (First: Episode 3019) |
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SCENE 3 | Dr. Sing examines the x-rays, and determines that Telly's arm is broken because the x-rays show how both arms look different. He reassures Telly that if he keeps his arm perfectly still for six weeks, the bones in his arm will grow back. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd |
For the bones to remain still, Telly's arm is put in a cast. He learns that he won't be able to play the tuba for six weeks, and feels bad about it. He realizes that everything changed in less than an hour. He lists the things he won't be able to do now that his arm is broken, and feels like it's his fault. Luis walks him through what happened earlier (seen in a brief flashback), and once Telly finds out it was Lucy who set the bike "in his way," he becomes angry at Lucy. Luis says it's no one's fault, and mentions when he himself broke his arm he was angry at first, but his anger faded away and he learned to live with it. Telly laments, "I can't hold a crayon or write - you call that living?!" Luis gives him a crayon so he can try writing with his left hand. Telly struggles to write his name, but feels proud of it afterwards. |
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Cartoon | Rap #11 (First: Episode 2531) |
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Song | "Dancin' Shoes" (First: Episode 2949) |
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Animation | Fans unveil Q and q. (First: Episode 2895) |
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Film | A class makes a quilt of their faces. (First: Episode 3034) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Boogie With Your Buddy" Part 2 (First: Episode 2986) |
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Cartoon | A shy girl wants to join a group bouncing a ball. (inaudible dialogue) Artist: Joanna Priestley (First: Episode 2849) |
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SCENE 4 | Before Telly leaves, Dr. Sing gives him a few tips on how to take care of the cast, then signs it. After Luis signs it, Telly encounters the girl whom he met in the waiting room before, only this time her cast is off! She signs his cast, but she's only the first in a long line of patients and medical staff who want to sign Telly's cast... |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #11 (First: Episode 2885) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Elmo sing about the parts that make up "One Fine Face." (First: Episode 2220) |
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Animation | Can you find the elephant in the painting? (First: Episode 2811) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Boogie With Your Buddy" Part 3 (First: Episode 2986) |
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Cartoon | D for danger, dragon, doctor, dinner, and dessert (First: Episode 2235) |
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Muppets | "Listen to the Bells" (First: Episode 1955) |
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Cartoon | The letters in the word BESO kiss each other. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Film | Fay Ray listens to classical music on headphones. "Are you listening to me?" (First: Episode 2614) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Boogie With Your Body" Part 4 (First: Episode 2986) |
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Cartoon | The long rattlesnake thinks he's better than the short one, until the short one outsmarts him by making him bite his own tail. "Wanna borrow my snakebite kit?" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0955) |
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SCENE 5 | Back on Sesame Street, Telly tells Elmo how it went at the hospital and displays his signed cast, to which Elmo adds his own large signature. Telly can't play something as rough as Star Invaders, but he and Elmo can make believe they're in a space ship headed to the Planet Mayonnaise. Luis announces the sponsors as Telly takes out an umbrella, to make sure his cast doesn't get wet on their space journey. |
Notes[]
- When Luis shows how his arm has healed in scene 1, he specifies it's his left arm and demonstrates by using it to call a taxi... even though he really broke the right one.
- The PA at the hospital waiting room can be heard calling for "Dr. Casey," "Drs. Pierce and Hunnicutt," "Nurse Ratched," and "Dr. Stone."
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