| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar's Newsstand | |||||||
| Air date | April 19, 1994 | ||||||
| Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||
| Written by | Belinda Ward | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Susan are in a hurry to catch the train when Gordon stops at the newsstand to pick up a newspaper, only to find that all the newspapers have smelly fish in them. Oscar is the culprit, and reveals that he bought the newsstand so he can yell at subway riders coming from the station and make others late for their trains. Susan believes that since a Grouch now owns the newsstand, all the papers will have fish. Oscar points Gordon to the stack of newspapers that don't have fish... but have plenty of mud. |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. Re-filmed version (First: Episode 2490) |
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Animation | Arnold uses his imagination. Artist: Craig Bartlett (First: Episode 2754) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Ernie and Aaron Neville sing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." |
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Animation | W for water, wind, wave and wet (First: Episode 3198) |
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Film | Kids fly and form the letter W. (First: Episode 3181) |
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Cartoon | A salesman hawks the letter W in a commercial. Artist: Mo Willems |
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Film | Kids talk about how many things they can do now that they're five years old. (First: Episode 1403) |
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SCENE 2 | Ruthie witnesses Oscar yelling at a customer (Jon Stone in an onscreen cameo), telling him to buy it or beat it. Ruthie tells Oscar that the newsstand isn't like his trash can and shows him how to treat customers properly when one lady (Julianne Buescher) arrives to buy a newspaper. Oscar doesn't care for manners or doing it for the money - he's in it for the grouchy clientele and being true to his grumpy self. |
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Cartoon | "Magic Pig" Artist: Vince Collins (First: Episode 0772) |
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Film | A boy who lives in the Congo (in Africa) narrates a film of the kinds of games he and his friends play. (First: Episode 2668) |
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Animation | Draw a circle around the bus. Cross out the telephone. (First: Episode 2093) |
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Muppets | The Squirrelles sing "Cracking Nuts." (First: Episode 3211) |
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Cartoon | "Find the Opposites" (First: Episode 2362) |
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Film | A man uses hedge clippers to create a peacock. (First: Episode 3208) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Gets Bert Warm — Ernie covers Bert with several layers of clothes when he gets cold. (First: Episode 0418) |
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Cartoon | An old man recites a poem about the time he had the flu. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1274) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | All the kids are too busy to enjoy looking at Telly's triangle with him. He runs into John Goodman, who happens to be a hardcore triangle lover himself. (First: Episode 3202) |
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Cartoon | Edgar Turtle's three nephews demonstrate a round by singing "Redwood Tree." (First: Episode 2506) |
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Muppets | The Count's Storybook Theatre The Count reads the story of "Snoring Beauty" played by The Countess, who is put under a spell to sleep. The Count comes by and counts her snores despite that Countess never woke up from the Count's counting or from the thunder and lighting when the Count reaches 10 snores. Next time on The Count's Storybook Theatre: The Count will read 5 stories for us. (First: Episode 3207) |
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Animation | Number creatures #19 (First: Episode 2718) |
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Film | Growing Numbers #19 (First: Episode 2937) |
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Animation | Rap #19 (First: Episode 2560) |
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Film | How paper is recycled (First: Episode 2710) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria stops by the newsstand and asks for a copy of Fixit Woman Gazette. He gives Maria the special treatment by having his goat Lassie chew the magazine and his muddy pig Spot roll in it. She says she wants a clean magazine, so Oscar has Fluffy spray it with water, getting Maria wet as well. |
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Cartoon | "Mad Goat Song" Artist: Derek Lamb (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates up and down by getting the curtain at the theater to raise and lower. |
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Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | The 'J' Train Voice: Daws Butler (First: Episode 1169) |
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Muppets | "J Friends" (First: Episode 0339) |
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Cartoon | J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar tells some nearby customers that there's no service on the A, B, C, D, E, or F trains when his mom comes flying out of the subway ("Now that's what I call an express!"). Oscar asks her what she's doing there, and she says she had to see personally that Oscar opened the newsstand. After confirming he's doing it to make people angry (for which she says she is very proud of him), Oscar shows her the "closed" sign he made which he then uses to fool a customer (Fran Brill in an onscreen cameo). His scheme backfires when the customer not only buys a newspaper anyway, but takes the sign as well. Oscar feels like a failure, but his mom cheers him up by reading a Grouch story from one of his magazines. |
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Film | The sign CLOSED spins around. (First: Episode 0955) |
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Cartoon | An army of ants gets to the bakery, only to find that it's closed. (First: Episode 2088) |
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Muppets | "They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero. (First: Episode 2351) |
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Film | Farmer McFay subtracts green apples from 5 to 3 to 1 and is bothered by a fly. (First: Episode 3208) |
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Cartoon | Two dogs wait at a bus stop for a long time while the red dog talks endlessly about short and long. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 3207) |
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Film | A boy draws a picture of his friend, Katie. (First: Episode 2760) |
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SCENE 5 | Maria warns Luis against shopping at Oscar's newsstand. Luis is surprised to pick up a clean newspaper, but annoyed when he sees it's from yesterday. Oscar's mother then congratulates him on making a customer really angry before leaving. Luis then remembers that he didn't read the paper yesterday and thanks Oscar, who's glad that his mom didn't see that. Gordon announces the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- The episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3411.
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