Sesame Street | |||||||
Oscar advertises his newsstand | |||||||
Air date | February 16, 1996 | ||||||
Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch is sitting at his newsstand when Luis, Maria, Gabi and Rosita pass by on their way to the park. Oscar tries to sell them a newspaper with fish in it or a magazine with chewed gum in it, but they are not interested. Rosita thinks Oscar looks sad, and Oscar says he is depressed because if he doesnโt get more customers, he will have to close his newsstand. Rosita decides to forego the park to help Oscar, and everyone else decides to join her. Oscar is worried that soon theyโll have everybody on Sesame Street helping him, which he doesnโt want. The thought makes him even more depressed, so he decides to enjoy the feeling while it lasts. | |
Animation | Musicians in a painting learn to cooperate to play music. | |
Muppets | Bip Bipadotta leads โScratch My Back,โ a song about two monsters named Jack and Jill who swear that they will always be there to scratch each otherโs backs. (EKA: Episode 2424) | |
Cartoon | A man assembles the word LOVE, and a bird pecks the O into the shape of a heart. (new sound effects added) (EKA: Episode 2921) | |
Muppets | Fairy Tales Today: Rapunzelโs Hair. Prairie Dawn goes to the park where a large braid of hair is all over the place, causing various people to trip on it. Rapunzel gets her hair stuck and can't break free, until a bystander brings up the idea of a haircut. | |
Song | โFixin' My Hairโ (EKA: Episode 2734) | |
Cartoon | Is snow cold? Yes! (EKA: Episode 0961) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Big Bird receives a visit from Marisa Tomei, and is reminded that he is supposed to say the alphabet with her today. Some drama ensues between them, but they say the alphabet anyway, and part on good terms. (EKA: Episode 3224) | |
Cartoon | A boy narrates a poem about how he met Eleanor, the monster under his bed. Artist: ArtistMike (EKA: Episode 2773) | |
SCENE 2 | To advertise Oscarโs newsstand, Rosita and the Grouchketeers hold up signs, Maria brings buttons and Luis brings t-shirts. All of this promotional merchandise has a picture of Oscar smiling, which was Rositaโs idea, but Oscar doesnโt like to smile. Customers begin flocking in, and commenting on Oscarโs smiling face. Oscar tells Rosita to get lost and take her smiley faces with her, but Rosita wonโt rest until Oscarโs smiling face is all over Sesame Street. | |
Cartoon | V for Van (live-action/animation hybrid) Artist: Paul Fierlinger (EKA: Episode 2786) | |
Cartoon | Consonant Sound: V, violin Artist: Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 1285) | |
Muppets | Rosita and Elmo sing "I Feel So Happy." | |
Cartoon | A girl fantasizes what she could do without leaving her room if her nose, ears, legs, and arms got bigger. (EKA: Episode 3285) | |
Cast | Gordon, Big Bird, Celina, Carlo, Gina and Ruthie sing โGoodbye Fly.โ (EKA: Episode 3348) | |
Cartoon | Rubber Stamp #16 (EKA: Episode 2959) | |
Muppets | The Martians discover a sparkly number 16. (First: Episode 3387) | |
Cartoon | Growing Numbers #16 (EKA: Episode 3027) | |
Muppets | โHere Is Your Lifeโ: Guy Smiley salutes a loaf of bread. (EKA: Episode 0709) | |
Film | Wegman's Dogs: Little Jack Horner. | |
SCENE 3 | Rosita comes back with Bob, who has written a jingle to advertise Oscarโs newsstand. Oscar worries that itโs a song about his smiling face, but Bob has really tried to capture the grouchiness of the newsstand in the lyrics. Oscar still thinks itโs the yuckiest song heโs ever heard, but customers singing the jingle flock in to buy newspapers with fish in them and candy wrappers. Oscar tells Bob and Rosita to get lost, but to keep customers coming, they decide to keep singing. | |
Cartoon | Suzie Kabloozie reads about pirates. | |
Cartoon | Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110) | |
Animation | Ornate Vs spin around as a song about them plays. (EKA: Episode 2987) | |
Cartoon | This is a big letter V poem. (EKA: Episode 1396) | |
Muppets | Mr. Johnson enters a framing shop to have a painting framed, only to find that Grover works there too. Grover assumes the painting is of his great-great-grandmonther, but Mr. Johnson exclaims that itโs his wife. After coming out from the back room with a circle and triangle frame, Grover finally frames it with a square, but destroys the original painting by splitting it over the bald manโs head. | |
Cartoon | The parts of a manโs face move around as they are drawn. (EKA: Episode 3410) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert: The Count Sleeps Over at Ernie & Bert's (Part 1) The Count sleeps in Bert's bed while Bert sleeps on the couch. Ernie tells The Count that he can count sheep to get to sleep, but it never dawned on Ernie that the Count never gets tired of counting. He stays up all night counting sheep, to Ernie's detriment. (EKA: Episode 0914) | |
Cartoon | Monster in the dark (finding a light switch) (EKA: Episode 0823) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert: The Count Sleeps Over at Ernie & Bert's (Part 2) It's the next morning. The Count had a good night, but he didn't sleep. His counting kept Ernie up, and now Ernie is walking and counting like a zombie. (EKA: Episode 0914) | |
Film | Cooperation: A girl gets a coconut handed down to her from a tree, by people on different-size stilts. | |
SCENE 4 | Business is booming, due to the buttons and t-shirts, Bobโs jingle, and the frowny-face buttons that Maria, Luis, Gabi and Rosita have broght for the grouches. Yet Oscar is still sad, because business is good, which makes him happy, and grouches hate to be happy! As Oscar tries to drive away all the customers, Maria shouts out the sponsors. | |
COMING SOON | Coming soon on Sesame Street: On a hiking trip, Telly realizes he's forgotten to pack a lunch. |
Notes
- This episode was written by Belinda Ward.
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