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Sesame Street
Gabi's day at day care
Air date April 2, 1996
Season Season 27 (1995-1996)
Written by Sonia Manzano
Production December 1, 1995
Sponsors A, 13

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 In the Day Care Center, everyone is reading a list of activities, when Zoe greets the viewer. She asks Gina, who's inspecting the broken sink nearby, why a list is important, and asks her to name the order of activities - first is fingerpainting, then playing a game, and lastly reading a story. Everyone wants to start fingerpainting, but due to the sink being broken, they can't, and Gina postpones the activity until the sink's fixed. Zoe frets about what to do, and Irvine leads the others into a fingerpaint-tempting chant.
3154n
Song Jerry Nelson sings "Don't Waste Water."
(First: Episode 2804)
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays a capital and lowercase A and explains what an alligator is.
(First: Episode 0006)
ElmoApple
Muppets Elmo finds a large apple and wonders what letter "apple" starts with. Slimey pops out from the apple, holding a flag with the letter A on it.
(First: Episode 3359)
Toon.LetterA
Animation A/a (Gordon voice-over)
(First: Episode 2240)
GroverMorgan.bodyparts
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentGrover and Morgan talk about body parts.
(First: Episode 3197)
HumanBodyArrows
Animation Arrows give a presentation of the human body.
(First: Episode 2839)
3164zc
Muppets The Martians are a "Yip Yip Family."
(First: Episode 2724)
Boy's family portrait
Film A boy dances his way into his family's portrait.
(First: Episode 3129)
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SCENE 2 Gabi and Maria have arrived at the day care, both fixing away on the broken sink. Maria stands up from underneath and delivers bad news: it's going to be a while before the sink is fixed. To fill their time, Gina decides to lead everyone into the second activity - "Stop!" After the song, they wander over to Maria to check on the sink, where she delightedly tells them they've fixed it. However, with a turn of the faucets, water suddenly starts pouring heavily! Maria quickly turns off the sink, which Zoe declares isn't fixed.
3465.stopsign
Animation The camera encounters STOP signs in many locations.
(First: Episode 3465)
2874h
Celebrity / Muppets Hoots tells everyone to imagine that it's turning from nighttime to morning, and the birds are waking up in the forest, while Bobby McFerrin sings "Tweet in the Mornin'."
(First: Episode 2874)
3142g
Cartoon Number creatures #13
(First: Episode 2691)
4122bk
Animation Masked March #13
(First: Episode 3378)
3142b
Cartoon Jerry Nelson sings and counts thirteen turkeys.
(First: Episode 2711)
SmallestCookie
Muppets Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself.
(First: Episode 0253)
ArtistMike.Smallcarclowns
Cartoon A woman visits a car dealer, looking for a small car. She will only take a car small enough to fit her clowns.
Artist: ArtistMike
(First: Episode 3079)
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SCENE 3 Maria returns underneath the sink, asking for various tools. Zoe asks Gabi a question: why doesn't she come to day care? Gabi explains that she used to attend Lillian's home care when she was little (accompanied by a flashback), but now attends regular school. Maria, still under the sink, requests Gabi to turn on the faucet, only to receive a douse of water from the pipe above her. Irvine tries to dry off her wet clothes, but Maria resists.
3142w
Song Jerry Nelson sings "I'm the Big One Now."
(First: Episode 2876)
2head.SCHOOL
Muppets The Two-Headed Monster reads the sign atop a miniature school building, and observes a small group of children that run out of it. Once they've left, the monster picks up the now empty building, and declares, "School's out!"
(First: Episode 1907)
4116u
Song "At School," with animation bookended by live-action footage.
(First: Episode 2782)
Zork.Coast
Cartoon Zork lands on the coast of California, where he meets a slick agent.
Artist: ArtistMike
(First: Episode 2687)
BigBird.Catch!
Muppets Big Bird practices playing "catch" with himself, using a basket full of tennis balls. When he throws the last ball in the basket, he catches it! He states, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
4125s
Animation Cecille sings "I Wanna Be Me."
(First: Episode 2791)
DontTouchMe
Muppets Benny Rabbit gets angry when people (and monsters) admire him, so he tells them firmly, "Don't Touch Me!"
(First: Episode 3383)
Cat dog toon
Cartoon Two kids argue over a cat and a dog, who chase each other around the fence.
(First: Episode 1210)
KiteFestival
Film Coverage of a spring kite-flying festival, where both kids and grownups can participate.
(First: Episode 3276)
3985q
Cartoon A for Acorn
(First: Episode 1626)
LetterGarden.A
Animation Letter Garden: A
(First: Episode 3027)
3492.SandA
Animation Sand A/a
(First: Episode 0628)
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SCENE 4 As Maria asks for the hammer, Gina and the kids start their last activity, the story. In a satirical reference to Maria and the broken sink, she reads her own story called "Three Strikes and You're Out," about a princess (Gina) who called a plumber (Maria) to fix her sink, and suffered from two failed attempts. Before Gina reaches the resolution, Maria rises up to test the sink one last time. It works! Maria acknowledges the help of Gabi (and Irvine), and everyone goes to grab supplies for fingerpainting.
KidsStory
Film A class makes up a story about going to the zoo, which is told through animation based on the kids' drawings.
(First: Episode 3328)
WYWH.Fishing1

WYWH.Fishing2
Muppets Big Bird's Video Postcards
Big Bird goes fishing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with his friends Colin and Marlee. It takes awhile for him to catch one, but he finally does.
(First: Episode 3445)
SierraLeone
Cartoon We Are Kids from Far and Wide: Sierra Leone
(First: Episode 2770)
1706f
Film Alone Song
(First: Episode 0921)
Painting.babysteps
Animation In a Van Gogh painting, a baby takes its first steps to Papa.
Celeb.PicaboStreet
Celebrity Picabo Street stops by the park to tell Elmo about her skiing and how she won a medal. Afterwards, the two play Peek-a-Boo together.
(First: Episode 3301)
Song.WhenYouGrowUp
Song "When You Grow Up"
(First: Episode 2912)
Quiet
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Quiet PleaseErnie tries to do everything quietly while Bert is reading.
Helicopter!
Cartoon Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller.
(First: Episode 2262)
WetPaint-Billboard
Film A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!"
(First: Episode 1036)
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SCENE 5 Everyone sits at the table as they fingerpaint. Maria shows her painting (literally a finger), while Gabi shows hers - the sponsors. Zoe and Gabi suddenly notice the brown stains on Maria's face, the former jokingly commenting how fortunate it was she fixed the sink. Gina tells the sponsors on Gabi's artwork.
3492.ComingSoon
COMING SOON Coming soon on Sesame Street: Big Bird, Zoe, and a female pirate scout the park for lost treasure.


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