| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Magical Hide-and-Seek | |||||||
| Air date | May 1, 1996 | ||||||
| Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) | ||||||
| Written by | Lou Berger | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | At the park, Big Bird welcomes the viewer when a princess (Alice Dinnean) comes by, looking for her prince. She thinks Big Bird may be him and gives him a kiss, but is disappointed when nothing happens. Just then, a crown-wearing chicken walks by and she kisses it too, turning it into said prince (Jerry Nelson)! Big Bird learns that they were playing a game of "Magical Hide-and-Seek," which involves hiding from each other by turning into different things with the help of their royal magician. The prince and princess summon the royal magician, and ask him to make the game a little harder (finding something with feathers was too easy). Big Bird asks to play, so the magician lets him - and the viewer - join along. With a spell and a puff of smoke, the princess is gone, hiding somewhere nearby on Sesame Street. As a clue, the magician adds that she has been turned into something beginning with the letter T. |
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Cartoon | Ten tiny T's in top hats do the tippy tappy tango and take tea. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 3230) |
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Film | The floating kids make a small T. (First: Episode 3126) |
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Muppets | Mr. Johnson is at home when he calls for pizza delivery. Naturally, the delivery comes by way of Grover who keeps messing up the order because he's not listening to the order. He brings a carpenter's saw and a potted flower attached to his head as a result of cutting Mr. Johnson off mid-sentence. (First: Episode 2971) |
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Animation | A pizza is made, and the slices form the word PIZZA. (First: Episode 3393) |
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Celebrity | Davey and Joey Monkey listen as Marisa Tomei reads "The Monkey King," a story about a maiden who worked as a waitress at Banana King, until she was visited by the sad Monkey King. (First: Episode 3233) |
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Animation | A girl reads a book, a magazine, a newspaper, and a letter. (First: Episode 3142) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Lexine gives Cookie Monster a cookie. (First: Episode 3245) |
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Cartoon | "Alphabet Jungle" (First: Episode 2733) |
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Animation | Beads arrange themselves into different groups and finally become a girl’s necklace. (First: Episode 3076) |
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Film | A girl narrates a film of helping her dad, a pilot, fly a small plane. They fly through New York City, past the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. (First: Episode 3431) |
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Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0: The parachute becomes a large mattress. (First: Episode 2245) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob waits at the park for Gordon to meet him for a tennis game when Big Bird and the prince come by looking for something that begins with T. They notice that Bob has a tuna sandwich which the prince tries kissing (the only way to break the temporary spell), but nothing happens; the same thing happens with Bob's tennis racket. Bob decides to give Gordon a call when he sees a gold-encrusted telephone booth, which he observes hasn't been there before. Some kids come by with some toy boats, which don't do anything when the prince kisses them. He needs another clue, and decides to give the royal magician a call on the nearby telephone booth. |
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Song | "T, You're Terrific" (First: Episode 3332) |
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Cartoon | T for Turtle (new music and sound effects added) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1146) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Elmo sing about the parts that make up "One Fine Face." (First: Episode 2220) |
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Cartoon | A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... (First: Episode 0787) |
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Film | Wegman's dogs re-enact "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." (First: Episode 3269) |
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Muppets | Moe Cocker sings "With a Little Yelp from My Friends." (First: Episode 3108) |
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Cartoon | Miss Fortune makes guesses about a dog. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0483) |
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Insert | Celina demonstrates the "Baby Boogie." (First: Episode 3180) |
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Cartoon | A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself. (First: Episode 1717) |
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Film | Katie is going to be a big sister. (First: Episode 2769) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup. (First: Episode 2283) |
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Muppets | Zoe and Wolfgang the Seal explain the concept of zero. (First: Episode 3386) |
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Song | "Zero Song": A female voiceover sings about the food that keeps being taken away to make 0. Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 3003) |
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Film | Lamont, who lives in the city, visits his friend Adrian, who lives in the country. Together they ride bikes, swim, and have dinner with Adrian's family. (First: Episode 2800) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about going to the city, without noticing he's walking right through it. (First: Episode 0770) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob is about to call Gordon when he lets the prince go ahead of him so he can call the royal magician. The magician picks up at the castle, and gives him another clue about what the princess is disguised as: not only does it begin with T, but it makes a ringing sound. They go off to look for it. |
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SCENE 3 cont'd |
The two encounter a turtle ringing a handbell, thinking it must be the princess - but again, nothing happens when he kisses it. Big Bird wonders why a turtle would need to ring, and the turtle explains that he's so slow he needs a bell to indicate to his friends that he's coming. The prince needs another clue, so he decides to call the royal magician again. |
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Film | How to say "turtle" in sign language (First: Episode 3339) |
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Song | "Rollin' on the River" (First: Episode 2783) |
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Muppets / Cast | Ernie and Bert: The Picnic at the Movies — Ernie and Bert go to the movies to see a silent movie called "The Picnic." (First: Episode 2071) |
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Animation | Colored tools build a house out of colored rectangles, squares and triangles. (First: Episode 3263) |
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Insert | Wanda the Word Fairy demonstrates the word TELEPHONE, but is unable to remove the word from the telephone booths. (ending edited) (First: Episode 2655) |
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Cartoon | Figures dance around a telephone as it rings. Artist: Keith Haring (First: Episode 3058) |
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SCENE 4 | The prince calls the magician again for another clue on the princess's whereabouts. The third clue is: she is hiding as something that you use to find out things. Big Bird and the prince go over all the clues they were given when the phone rings, and Bob informs the caller that they've dialed the wrong number for Charlie's Pizzeria. Bob finally calls Gordon and finds out they were actually supposed to play tennis tomorrow. |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
It suddenly dawns on Big Bird that the telephone is the object they were looking for. The prince grabs and kisses the receiver, and the phone booth turns back into the princess! They explain to a confused Bob what they were doing (Prince: "That's no telephone - that's my wife!") as the magician announces the sponsors. |
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COMING SOON | Coming soon on Sesame Street: Big Bird thinks that Sir John Feelgood has turned into a chicken, who lays an egg. |
Notes[]
- The episode was later re-aired in Season 29 as Episode 3754.
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