| Sesame Street | |||||
| Oscar's Newsstand (repeat of 3242) | |||||
| Air date | December 11, 1995 | ||||
| Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) | ||||
| 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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Cartoon | Blue and pink characters fight for a spot on the subway, until Pink spots an open seat. (First: Episode 1580) |
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Muppets | Count von Count sings "Lambaba" as he counts sheep and other animals that pop into the room. (First: Episode 2789) |
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Film / Animation | Lake (time-lapse) (First: Episode 2700) |
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Cartoon | An actor demonstrates anger towards a casting director - literally! (First: Episode 2061) |
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Muppets | "African Alphabet Song" (First: Episode 2360) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates what newspapers are made of, and finds an ad for "One slightly used monster." (First: Episode 2919) |
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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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Song | "The First Time" - Children try various activities (riding tricycles, tying shoes, etc.) and progressively improve. (First: Episode 2950) |
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Animation | J / j Gregorian chant (First: Episode 3345) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Alphabet Mine — Kermit interviews J miners. (First: Episode 2302) |
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Film | Girls jump rope and sing playground rhymes. (First: Episode 3280) |
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Cartoon | A dog chases a cat around, through, over, and under a doghouse. (First: Episode 1020) |
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Song | "Reach Your Hand Up High" (First: Episode 2702) |
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Animation | Counting 20 shells (First: Episode 2994) |
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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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Song | Sesame Street Creature Feature: Joe Raposo sings "Goats." (First: Episode 2366) |
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Animation | Characters on a quilt form the letter W. Artist: Karen Aqua (First: Episode 3366) |
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Muppets | Bert sings the club song for The National Association of W Lovers. (First: Episode 0366) |
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Cartoon | W for witch Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1182) |
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Film | How paper is recycled (First: Episode 2710) |
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Cartoon | A little boy describes a time when he got angry after his toy truck was destroyed by a big kid. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2764) |
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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 | A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh". The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV. (First: Episode 0771) |
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Song | En Vogue sings "Adventure." (First: Episode 2951) |
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Cartoon | Knights use different words for "big." Aritst: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 1985) |
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Muppets | A harried bird visits a tree, who has some open nests available. She doesn't want the big or bigger nests and plants herself in his biggest nest so she can lay her many eggs. (First: Episode 3247) |
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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 | Kids practice circus acts and give a performance in a gymnasium. (First: Episode 2889) |
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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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Celebrity | Gloria Estefan sings a special version of "1-2-3" to Big Bird and the Birdketeers. (First: Episode 2928) |
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Animation | Ten masked dancers are counted in Spanish. Artist: Karen Aqua (First: Episode 3079) |
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Film | How to say "turtle" in sign language (First: Episode 3339) |
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Cartoon | A bird displays the front and back of a turtle. (First: Episode 0789) |
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Muppets | Zoe demonstrates front and back using Wolfgang and a fish. |
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Cartoon | "Felines" (First: Episode 3278) |
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Film | Alphaquest: W (First: Episode 2712) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit asks Debo if he knows what a W is. (First: Episode 0563) |
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Cartoon | A family goes over their camping checklist before they leave for the woods. |
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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. |
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