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| Super Nanny visits | |||||||
| Air date | April 20, 1993 | ||||||
| Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
| Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | Oscar explains that he's too busy to point out the letters and number of the day. He's trying to sort his trash, but he's also babysitting a particularly belligerent Irvine, and says he could sure use some help. Right on cue and underscored by heroic music, a Superman-esque announcer (Martin P. Robinson) says, "Look, in the sky! Faster than a speeding mommy, nicer than a friendly doggy, it's a plane, it's a nurse... it's Super Nanny!" Hearing the distressed cries, Super Nanny heads to Sesame Street to be cheerful, sing songs, and clean up. |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar asks Irvine to settle down so he can work. Suddenly, Super Nanny lands and introduces herself as Penny Pipkins, and offers to take care of Irvine while Oscar works. Oscar considers himself lucky until he realizes Super Nanny is concerned primarily with cheering her up. Super Nanny sings a happy song which always works, "Chirrup," while a dubious Oscar covers his ears. The song summons three birds (yellow, blue, and red) who join in the chorus. Irvine stubbornly refuses to cheer up, so Super Nanny resorts to singing the song again. |
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Animation | A chicken lays 20 eggs, which hatch. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert has gone to visit his brother Bart. Ernie pretends that Bert is still there, using a drawing and a pillow, but it isn't the same. Then, Ernie remembers Bert will be back tomorrow, and can go back to bed. (First: Episode 2472) |
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Film | "One Thousand Faces" (First: Episode 2894) |
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Cartoon | 6 pigs Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1472) |
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Animation | Computer: in/out |
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SCENE 2 | Back at Oscar's trash can, Super Nanny is still singing while a group of discontented Grouchketeers sit and rustle trash bags. Gina, witnessing everything from Hooper's Store, notes that Super Nanny has been singing the song continuously for ten minutes. Oscar tells Super Nanny to forget about making Irvine smile, but Super Nanny concludes she's crying because of Oscar's home. Super Nanny peers down and observes the china closet on the sofa floating in the swimming pool, while Oscar's pet rhino charges by it. Oscar jeers that she can't possibly clean all that up with her feather duster. Super Nanny insists that it can be done as it's a super feather duster, showing different ways she can use it (as a baton, a bouquet, or a tickling implement, among others). She then claims it also doubles as a magic wand, and proceeds to show Oscar. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
With a wave of the feather duster and the word "Alakazam," Super Nanny instantly transforms the surrounding area. Oscar's trash can is now a shiny new receptacle. The Grouchketeer girls are well-scrubbed in nice Sunday dresses while the boy wears a Fauntleroy-style suit. The unsteady stack of barrels, crates, and rags has become a single wooden box. Garbage bags are brightly colored and neatly tied, while a white picket fence and roses growing on a frame complete the decor. Oscar's hair is neatly scrubbed (save a cowlick sticking up à la Our Gang member Alfalfa) and he's wearing a collar and bowtie, while Irvine sports a brand-new bonnet. Oscar regrets opening his big mouth, but he's even more appalled when he looks closely at his clean trash can: curtains everywhere, no furniture in the swimming pool, a Princess phone, and track lighting. Irvine laughs at her uncle's neat look, while Oscar bemoans the fact that 24 years of work have been destroyed. As the last straw, Fluffy's trunk surfaces from the can, adorned with pink ribbons. |
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Film | Kids shout "empty" and "full" to describe a subway car. (First: Episode 0415) |
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Cartoon | CGI sheep graze out I and i. (First: Episode 2896) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: The Sun Also Rises — Grover and Merry Monster are worried because their rooster will not crow. (First: Episode 2860) |
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Cartoon | W for witch Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1182) |
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Muppets | "It's Zydeco" (First: Episode 2666) |
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Film | The floating kids form a triangle. |
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Muppets | Elmo writes his own song and sings it for Big Bird and Snuffy, who then wish that they had their own songs. Elmo lets them insert their own names into the lyrics, resulting in "Big Bird's Song" and "Snuffy's Song." (First: Episode 2710) |
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Cartoon | 6 mice, 6 snakes, 6 fish, 6 monkeys, 6 witches (kids' voiceovers added) (First: Episode 1711) |
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Film | Six children dance in a colorblock grid. |
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Muppets | "Daddy Helps with the Dishes": Three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. They all agree that when they all do it, "It soon gets done!" (First: Episode 2223) |
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Film | Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach. (First: Episode 1122) |
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Song | "There's an Exercise That's Right" even for a snake. (First: Episode 2962) |
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Muppets | Humphrey thinks Natasha will help him demonstrate the words GO and STOP, but she does the opposite of whatever he says. |
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Animation | Scribbles move around a black screen, until they see a STOP sign. (First: Episode 1634) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Telly and Shaun make happy and sad faces. |
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Cartoon | A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy and afraid. (First: Episode 0769) |
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Muppets | As a Sesame Street Travel Tip, a pair of Anything Muppets sing about the latest travel destination, Antarctica! (First: Episode 2938) |
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Cast | Luis and Linda assemble the word COLD, and it snows. (First: Episode 2067) |
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Song | "The First Time": Children try various activities (riding tricycles, tying shoes, etc.) and progressively improve. (First: Episode 2950) |
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Animation | Sand I/i (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | Maria and some kids rap along with Moo Cow Hammer and the Barnyard Rappers. (First: Episode 2878) |
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Film | Ornate Ws spin around in accompaniment to a song. (First: Episode 2952) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!" (First: Episode 0305) |
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Animation | "Six Circus Balls" Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 3001) |
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Film | Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0911) |
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Muppets | Tim Robbins and Elmo talk about surprise. (First: Episode 2766) |
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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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SCENE 3 | Oscar and the Grouchketeers are working on the trash can, banging it with hammers to create new dents and rubbing some "Mr. Dirt" to make it filthy again. It doesn't seem to be working though, and Gina admits it still looks clean. Super Nanny refuses to dirty it up again, saying he'll learn to like it. Oscar hates it, likening it to life on Sunnybrook Farm, and fears it will remain that way forever once the nanny leaves. Oscar asks Gina to intercede for him, noting that if he weren't a Grouch, he'd go so far as to say "please." Gina talks to Super Nanny and explains the essential cultural and physical differences between Grouches and people, explaining that Grouches take extreme pleasure and pride in amassing a mess. Super Nanny finally realizes she remodeled Oscar's house against his wishes without even asking.
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Cartoon | W for Wash (First: Episode 0485) |
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Film | Alphaquest: W (First: Episode 2712) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble. (First: Episode 0547) |
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Film | Scuba diver - on, into, under, through, around Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0516) |
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Cartoon | Letter I (Beep Beep) (First: Episode 0427) |
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SCENE 4 | Everyone's gathered around Oscar's trash can when Super Nanny's super hearing picks up a distress cry (as the heroic music starts again). Parents in Chicago must go to work, but their baby is crying and the sitter hasn't arrived. Clearly another job for Super Nanny beckons, so she tells everyone to keep smiling (except for Oscar). She also tells Irvine not to cry, so the infant defiantly cries anyway and nips at Gina's hand. With a final "Alakazam!" Super Nanny flies into the air again, with everyone (even the Grouches) waving farewell. Super Nanny announces the sponsors as she floats along the sky, asking a passing pigeon for directions to Chicago. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later repeated in Season 26 as Episode 3287.
- Two additional scenes were initially scripted for the episode, but were later cut. In one scene, Big Bird introduces H. Ross Parrot, who delivers a rousing speech about the letter I. In the other scene, Super Nanny, failing to cheer up Irvine, acknowledges her foul mood and sings "It's All Right to Cry," which causes everyone but Irvine to weep.[1]
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