| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Ruthie the babysitter | |||||||||
| Air date | February 10, 1994 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||||
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COLD OPEN | Big Bird introduces today's sponsors, then hears a Honker honking and a baby crying. |
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SCENE 1 | Ruthie is having difficulty taking care of her friend's baby, as every time someone says a word that begins with H, two Honkers start honking like crazy. Big Bird learns this when he points out that the baby's name is Hillary, sending the Honkers into a frenzy. Ruthie repeatedly tells the Honkers to be quiet, eventually hurting their feelings. Big Bird makes a compromise with them: they will honk a lullaby instead, which helps soothe the baby. |
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Cartoon | Falling leaves form H and h. (First: Episode 3118) |
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Film | Letter H hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0336) |
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Cartoon | A runner leaps over letter H hurdles. (First: Episode 2519) |
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Film | A Japanese boy plays taiko drums in the park. (First: Episode 3153) |
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Muppets | Clementine sings about "My Triangle Home." (First: Episode 2476) |
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Animation | Looking for shapes on the Aztec Calendar Stone (Maria voiceover in Spanish) (First: Episode 3049) |
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Animation | Teeny Little Super Guy notices his friend Alice wanting to join a baseball game. He gives her the idea to go over there and ask them if she can play. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1900) |
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Cartoon | African quilt pattern (First: Episode 3160) |
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SCENE 2 | Ruthie has settled a sleeping baby Hillary into her carriage inside Finders Keepers. Outside, Big Bird points her attention to Little Honk, a baby Honker that needs to be taken care of while his daddy goes to work. Ruthie is hesitant at first, but reconsiders when she sees them both looking sad. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Just then, Snuffy asks Ruthie to look after his sister Alice while he and Big Bird play checkers. Since she's already taking care of two, Ruthie agrees to watch Alice as well. Snuffy thinks she should have no problem as it's Alice's nap time and will fall asleep really soon... but it doesn't look that way to Ruthie. |
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Cartoon | A dinosaur tries to move around a rock. (First: Episode 2744) |
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Film | "Sesame Street Creature Feature": Today's featured creature is the Slug, who sings "I'm a Slug" (First: Episode 3114) |
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Cartoon | Stamped and painted X animation. (First: Episode 2934) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "Mystery Guest," where the blindfolded panel of Cookie Monster, Don Music, and Sherlock Hemlock must guess the identity of a special guest - the letter X. (First: Episode 1447) |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) |
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Film | Children of all kinds sing "We All Sing with the Same Voice." (First: Episode 1708) |
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Cartoon | Why did the chicken cross the road? (First: Episode 2050) |
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Film | "Simple Pleasures" by Bobby McFerrin is played over footage of a girl trying to play frisbee with a dog on the beach. (First: Episode 2876) |
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SCENE 3 | Alice is the only little one not taking a nap yet. Ruthie tries getting her to sleep by playing an old gramophone record her mother used to play for her - "The Marching Lullaby." Ruthie and Alice march out of the store, and Alice falls fast asleep once the record finishes. Unfortunately, Hillary and Little Honk wake up and start crying. |
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Cartoon | The moon listens to everyone say "Good night" in different languages. (First: Episode 2243) |
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Animation | A chicken lays 20 eggs, which hatch. (First: Episode 3122) |
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Cartoon | Number creatures #20 (First: Episode 2687) |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #20 (First: Episode 2935) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Monster in a Box — Spalding Monster appears in a "one monster show." (First: Episode 3117) |
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Cartoon | Fisherman Jones demonstrates in, on and under with the help of a big fishy. (First: Episode 0370) |
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Cartoon | A kid voice-over says, "Ocean," as a fish is seen swimming in the ocean. (First: Episode 2670) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Zoe counts the number of times Michael Chang bounces a tennis ball. (First: Episode 3148) |
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Cartoon | 40 lemmings (doo-wop) (First: Episode 2873) |
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Muppets / Transition | Big Bird's eyes get wider as the next segment plays ... (new music added) (First: Episode 3163) |
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Film | "We have a nice school"... with ducks. (First: Episode 3144) |
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Cartoon | A girl thinks she hears a monster doing a cha-cha outside her window, but it's only the wind and crickets. Her snores frighten the real monster. Artist: Deanna Morse (First: Episode 2951) |
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Muppets | The Count sings about "The First Day of School". (First: Episode 1736) |
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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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SCENE 4 | Alice is still sleeping, and the other two babies have gone home with their parents by now. Snuffy arrives to pick Alice up and shows Ruthie how to get her moving: singing her awake with a special song. |
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Film | Fay Ray's head moves across the floor from left to right. (First: Episode 3034) |
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Animation | In stop-motion, sandwich ingredients square-dance in a ring and arrange themselves into a sandwich, which gets a bite taken out of it in a refrigerator. (First: Episode 3080) |
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Film | Fay Ray's head moves across the floor from right to left. (First: Episode 3034) |
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Cartoon | The detective sees a hippo bouncing on a trampoline, and wonders how the hippo can bounce, since hippos are heavy, but the hippo thinks that he is light. (First: Episode 2537) |
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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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Cartoon | A tour of a TV studio, with set decoration, camera adjustment, etc., setting up for a taping with an R2-D2-like robot. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1875) |
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Film | A piece of construction equipment and a giraffe are shown side-by-side. (First: Episode 1550) |
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SCENE 5 | Ruthie announces the sponsors as two Honkers try to point her attention to their letter H. She fakes them out by listing the other sponsors instead, and by the time she gets to it they've worn themselves out and faint. |
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