| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Jack Be Nimble tries something new | |||||||||
| Air date | February 9, 1994 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||||
| Written by | Cathi Rosenberg-Turow | ||||||||
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COLD OPEN | Big Bird recites a poem: "Here's a little tip worth knowing / When you walk, look where you're going." When exiting, he proceeds to bump his neck into the frame of his door and adds, "... and always listen to your own poems!" |
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SCENE 1 | Jack Be Nimble strolls into Finders Keepers to sell Ruthie the candlestick from his famous rhyme; he's tired of the same routine and wants to try jumping over something new. She and Rebecca suggest a violin bow and baseball bat, but Jack can't work either into his rhyme. He spots a vintage washing machine that he is able to work into his rhyme, but when he tries jumping over it he faceplants into it. Jack then comes up with a more accurate nursery rhyme: "Jack be not-so nimble, Jack be clean / Jack crashed into the washing machine." |
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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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Film | Kids narrate footage of toddlers learning to walk. (First: Episode 3025) |
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Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) |
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Film | A boy compares the growth of the sunflowers to his own height. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0589) |
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Cartoon | "Tall Short Texans" Artist: Joey Ahlbum (First: Episode 3135) |
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Film | Animals and children bathe in water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0615) cut from the Noggin version |
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Cartoon | In the "Land of No Shoelaces", people find it difficult to play basketball, swing, and run, until Edna Lovelace comes along. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 3102) cut from the Noggin version |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird attempts reciting his poem again. This time, he makes sure to avoid the door frame when he exits... but he bumps into Snuffy, who's going in the other direction. |
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Animation | A girl reads a book, a magazine, a newspaper, and a letter. (First: Episode 3142) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — In order not to disturb Bert while reading, Ernie wears headphones to listen to the radio. Now Bert can't hear anything... except Ernie singing along very loudly. |
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Song | Holy cow, it's number 2! |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster charms two snakes with his saxophone. (new sound effects added) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1287) |
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Song | "Doll House" (First: Episode 0131) cut from the Noggin version |
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SCENE 3 | Snuffy and Alice are playing with a ball when it bounces away. Snuffy runs after it, crashing into a fence in the process and bumping his head. Celina comes over to see if he's okay, and Alice helps ease his pain by kissing his boo-boo. Snuffy decides to stay safe and not run around, instead choosing to have fun jumping. His jumps cause the ground to shake, making Alice fall down and get a boo-boo of her own. Snuffy knows how to help: with a kiss on the snuffle. The two siblings decide to play a safe game of checkers instead. |
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Song | "Jump" (soul) (First: Episode 3136) |
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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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Muppets | After sounding out the word "cheese," the Two-Headed Monster poses for many pictures. (First: Episode 2742) |
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Song | "Say Cheese" (First: Episode 3146) |
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Cartoon | "Angry Annie": A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange. Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 2087) |
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SCENE 4 | At the playground, a squirrel (Julianne Buescher) tries to play on the slide but Snuffy is in the way. She calls him an elephant, which hurts Snuffy's feelings and he runs off. He tells Celina what happened, and she instructs him to tell the squirrel how he feels. Snuffy confronts the squirrel, who apologizes for what she said and the two become friends. However, Snuffy mistakes the squirrel for a mouse and it's her turn to get upset, so he apologizes for his error and the two stay friends. |
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Animation | Counting to 10 (Latin rhythm) (English version) (First: Episode 3097) |
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Video | Fay demonstrates addition by placing 4 balls on a table. Artist: William Wegman (First: Episode 2612) |
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Cartoon | Slot-machine legs: Cowboy & horse (First: Episode 1702) |
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Song | "We're All Growin'" (First: Episode 3141) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Celebrity | Patti LaBelle sings "Oh, How I Miss My X." (First: Episode 2168) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Insert | Bob is about to throw out a broom handle, when Oscar claims it and uses it as a part of his junk band, who sing their newest song ("Oscar's Junk Band"). (First: Episode 2731) |
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Cartoon | A man explains to a girl what a surprise is. (sound effect added to ending) Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1358) cut from the Noggin version |
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Song | 14 Karat Soul sings about what's "Down Below the Street." (First: Episode 2556) |
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Cartoon | A man jumps up onto an UP. (First: Episode 0546) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper goes to a man and asks, "Can I take a picture of U?" The man gives him permission, but Harvey tells him that his shoes are untied, and when the man looks down, Harvey slaps the letter U on top of his head and takes a picture of it. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0808) |
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SCENE 5 | Biff and Sully visit Finders Keeps to demonstrate "some," "more," and "all." Biff tosses some shirts for Sully to hold, then more, then the rest until he has all of them. Sully ends up buried in shirts and Biff leaves, wondering where his friend went. |
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Film | A parrot announces dos, or two of everything. (First: Episode 3108) |
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Cartoon | Two Elephants (Gordon voice-over added) Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1457) |
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Muppets | Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse spot a kitty stuck in a tree. Grover tries to find ways to get the kitty down such as shaking the tree trunk. He finally came to the conclusion that to get the kitty down, he would climb up the tree to bring it down. However, Fred has another idea to bring the kitty down by calling the kitty by saying "Kitty" and the kitty comes down. Now that the kitty is down, they now have another problem - how is Grover going to get down? (First: Episode 1639) |
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Animation | Two balls play on a seesaw, when a third ball wants to join them (ending up in the middle). (First: Episode 2054) |
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SCENE 6 | Biff has learned that Sully had become buried by the pile of shirts, and relates the sponsors to him from underneath the shirts. |
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