| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Telly's greetings and goodbyes / Snuffleupagus stories | |||||||
| Air date | February 3, 1998 | ||||||
| Season | Season 29 (1997-1998) | ||||||
| Written by | Josh Selig | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Alice has invented a new dance, which Snuffy names the "La, La, La and Turn Around Dance." The dance makes her dizzy and she falls over a few times. Snuffy claims this as her second new dance - "The Stand Up and Fall Down Dance." (YouTube) |
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Film | A girl dances a butterfly dance. (First: Episode 3681) |
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Insert | None, some and all of the dancers dance as Big Bird narrates. (First: Episode 3360) |
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Cartoon | A pencil tries to write the word DANCE. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 1966) |
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Film | "We have a nice school"... with ducks. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 3144) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - Dixie dance Part 2 (First: Episode 3549) |
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Cartoon | The dancing birds dance fast and slow. Artist: Karen Aqua (First: Episode 3072) |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - Dixie dance Part 1 (First: Episode 3549) |
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Film | Korean girls do a spring dance. (First: Episode 3170) |
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Song | "Front Back Ballet" Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 3016) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Erykah Badu introduces herself to Elmo, Baby Bear, Zoe and Rosita, who are hesitant to join her at first, but they end up singing "We're All Friends." |
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Animation | Two giddy female scribbles introduce themselves to a bar code, who can only beep. They recognize him from the supermarket. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 2981) |
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Film | Girls sing a jump-rope rhyme about naming a puppy. (First: Episode 3279) |
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Cartoon | "There's an Exercise That's Right" even for a snake. (First: Episode 2962) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself. (First: Episode 1717) |
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Song | "What's Inside?" (Cookie Monster cameo) (First: Episode 3134) |
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Cartoon | The Carrot (censored version) Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1132) |
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SCENE 2 | Telly asks Luis to shake his hand so that he can observe how he does it. He mentions the other ways he's shaken hands today and claims that each is a little bit different. Telly wonders how he'll go about shaking hands and has one idea how to do so. Luis encourages him to try out this idea, which he finds is quite different than the usual ones as Telly says a rhyme while doing various actions. |
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Cartoon | Blue and pink characters fight for a spot on the subway, until Pink spots an open seat. (re-recorded soundtrack) (First: Episode 1580) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Tall Hat at the Movies — A lady with a very tall hat sits in front of Ernie, blocking his view of the movie. (First: Episode 0538) |
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Cartoon | A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely. (new music and sound effects added) (First: Episode 0781) |
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Song | "We're All Growin'"" (First: Episode 3141) |
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Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) |
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Muppets | "J Friends" (First: Episode 0339) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: J for jump (First: Episode 0772) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly finishes performing his long and complex handshake again before Luis has to leave. This reminds Telly of something else he's noticed – everyone says goodbye differently, too. Luis tells him he doesn’t have to decide how he wants to do it right away or even at all, and encourages Telly to do it any way he feels. As Luis returns to his book, Telly begins leaving and returning to say a whole variety of goodbyes, forcing Luis to make a run for it. |
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Film | Fay Ray's head moves across the floor from left to right. (First: Episode 3034) |
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Animation | The word DOG is spelled out over a wiener dog. (First: Episode 3326) |
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Film | Fay Ray's head moves across the floor from right to left. (First: Episode 3034) |
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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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Animation | Elephants appear in the clouds as Vivaldi music plays. (First: Episode 3627) |
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Film | A girl helps her family prepare Trinidadian roti dishes for her dad's food truck. She and her dad drive to New York City to serve the roti to customers. (First: Episode 3567) |
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Cartoon | The Quadratic Equations (from the Lunar Lounge) sing about 4 and their four heads. |
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Film | Four kids dance in a colorblock grid. (First: Episode 3149) |
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Cartoon | Four elephants at the circus Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1489) |
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SCENE 4 | Ruthie finds a sad Alice and Snuffy in the park, whose mother was going to read to them but had to leave for work. Ruthie offers to read them Snufflina, with the caveat that she try to do it the way their mother does. Snuffy keeps intervening to remind her of how their mother reads it to them. Ruthie is able to sit on the ground (so they can see the pictures) and use her hand instead of a snuffle to point at the words, but almost gets crushed when Alice tries to sit on her lap. |
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Cartoon | Anansi the Spider tells a story of how he helped the monkey and the baboon reach a compromise. (First: Episode 3361) |
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Muppets | Grover and Mr. Johnson: Flight Attendant: Something to Read (First: Episode 3487) |
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Animation | Four airplanes take off one by one. (First: Episode 1242) |
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Song | "Brand New Look" - people try on glasses. (First: Episode 3271) |
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Animation | J / j Gregorian chant (First: Episode 3345) |
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Song | "J, Just How Jazzy Can You Get?" (First: Episode 3396) |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Film | Puzzle pieces make a video of a bear. (First: Episode 3085) |
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SCENE 5 | After Ruthie struggles desperately to finish the story, Snuffy remembers that their mom reads the book twice. Ruthie is grateful to hear that during the second time, Alice doesn’t sit on her lap... he does! Ruthie pleads for her life not to be sat upon again and suggests just his snuffle rests on her lap instead. Snuffy likes this compromise, and as Ruthie reads, Telly leans into frame to announce the sponsors and Slimey’s progress to the moon, then pops out and in saying goodbye in a multitude of ways. |
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COMING SOON | Coming soon on Sesame Street: Oscar, Telly, and Maria watch on a monitor as the Wiggleprise crew’s pink bowling ball flies and hits the “Wrong Way” button! |
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