| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Telly and Oscar meet Soh Daiko | |||||||||
| Air date | April 8, 1994 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||||
| Written by | John Weidman | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Telly has difficulty introducing today's sponsors over a loud, banging noise. He and Oscar (who's enjoying it) go to investigate. |
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SCENE 1 | Telly and Oscar trace the source of the sound to the the yard, where the Japanese drumming group Soh Daiko performs a routine for Celina and the kids (including Gabi and Carlo). |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Following the performance, Celina introduces the group to Telly and Oscar and tells them the group is giving a lesson today on the taiko drums. They're both eager to learn - especially Oscar, who wants to create a loud ruckus. |
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Animation | 15 kinds of Japanese crests are counted. (First: Episode 3157) |
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Film | Growing Numbers #15 (First: Episode 2971) |
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Cartoon | Abstract count to 15 (First: Episode 2851) |
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Song | "Dancin' Shoes" (First: Episode 2949) |
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SCENE 2 | Everyone is in traditional wardrobe and has their own taiko drum, ready to play. First, Alan, one of the Soh Daiko members, gives a talk on the origins of the drums and how they work. Telly finds the information fascinating, but Oscar grows impatient with every moment. Alan finally instructs them on how to play, and though Telly takes a while to bang the drum hard enough, Oscar proves to be a natural ("This is one of the greatest moments of my life!"). Everybody then plays a four-beat rhythm together on the drums. |
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Animation | Stop-motion: what goes in the hot dog bun? (First: Episode 1494) |
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Muppets | "Let's All Exercise" (First: Episode 1961) |
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Cartoon | Howard Coolsell finds out about exercise. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1631) |
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Film | Kids talk about playing tennis. (First: Episode 3148) |
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Cartoon | The rabbit and the turtle race to the top of a building. The rabbit goes up forty steps, but the turtle takes the elevator. (First: Episode 2258) |
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Insert | Big Bird reads a poem about how hard it is to be a sheep, and become cold when giving up one's wool: "So let's be fair when snow is deep, let's put the sweater on the sheep." Accompanied with cotton sheep illustrations. (First: Episode 1828) |
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Muppets | While Ernie is away visiting the Count, Bert has the place all to himself... or so he thinks! A group of sheep burst into the room and proceed to sing him a song ("Bert's Blanket") about how his blanket was made (with a flashback scene where Ernie is portrayed as a farmer). Bert then corrects them on the actual production phase. (First: Episode 2391) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N for Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Animation | Finding N's on a computer screen (First: Episode 3039) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: N for Nose (First: Episode 0763) |
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Muppets | Elmo sings "Right in the Middle of My Face" while walking through an animated art gallery. (First: Episode 3130) |
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Cartoon | I hab a cauld ib by dose. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1170) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Bird Family — Kermit interviews a bird whose parents don't live together. (First: Episode 2695) |
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Cartoon | A rolling circle becomes a square, then a triangle, and various other shapes. (First: Episode 1465) |
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SCENE 3 | Everyone continues playing, though Oscar wishes it could sound as noisy as before. Soh Daiko members Eba and Teddy tell him they'll all need to play together and cooperate to accomplish that, an idea that is against Oscar's entire belief system as a Grouch. Eba quietly tells him a special Japanese term he can use (ishoni-yarimashow) as an excuse for playing along with everyone, without them knowing he's cooperating. Teddy then leads everybody into a new rhythm to practice. |
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Animation | Three stripes form a jazz trio. (First: Episode 2410) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | The Count teams up with Kid 'n Play for a rap song about how they argued whether they should rap or count. (First: Episode 2797) |
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Cartoon | A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Film | An Indian boy narrates how Chapati bread is made. (First: Episode 3204) |
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Cartoon | On his way to the store, a boy gets distracted and remembers to buy different things. (new music tag added) (First: Episode 0768) |
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Muppets | All types of wild animals that lay eggs sing "Let's Lay an Egg." (First: Episode 3060) |
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SCENE 4 | Everyone puts on a grand performance, with Telly giving a start on his drumsticks and followed by Soh Daiko and the kids playing their rhythms together. Oscar is disappointed Soh Daiko now has to leave, wondering how he'll learn to play the drums and create such a noise in their absence. He gets a great idea, then tells the drummers to "beat it." |
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Animation | A girl reads a book, a magazine, a newspaper, and a letter. (First: Episode 3142) |
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Cartoon | Pat the Pilot skywrites a letter P with her plane. Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0478) |
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Film | A boy paints a picture of a porcupine on glass. (First: Episode 0064) |
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Cartoon | P Words (including parachute and plug) (First: Episode 0296) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster visits the local bakery to talk about "important". He shows off the different kinds of cookies that are important to him. |
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Cartoon | I am dry, they are wet (man laying on the beach) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0309) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Everything is getting wet, because it's raining and a window is stuck open. But Ernie explains that he can't fix it now because he'd get wet in all that rain. When the rain stops, he explains to Bert that since it's not raining anymore, nothing's getting wet, and there's no reason to fix it. (First: Episode 0344) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: WET PAINT (First: Episode 1136) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar organizes Telly and the Grouchketeers to bang on trash cans and pots like drums. Savion complains about the noise, which Oscar notes is them only practicing - it could take years before it sounds any better (to Oscar's joy). They continue drumming while Savion tries announcing the sponsors over the noise. The credits follow. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3485.
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