| Sesame Street | |||||||||||
| Snuffy helps his mother and can't play with Big Bird | |||||||||||
| Air date | February 4, 2000 | ||||||||||
| Season | Season 31 (2000) | ||||||||||
| Written by | Joey Mazzarino | ||||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird is waiting for Snuffy to arrive; they plan to have a fun day together, and Big Bird notes that something exciting always happens when Snuffy's around. Once he arrives, though, Snuffy tells Big Bird that he can't play as he has to help his mommy jar cabbages. Big Bird understands that he must help his mother, but he also feels a bit sad as he can't think of anything to do without Snuffy. |
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Film | A Caucasian boy narrates a film of himself hanging out with his African American friend Jamal. (First: Episode 2787) |
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Cartoon | Leaves form R and r (First: Episode 3110) |
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Film | The letter R is made out of rocks, painted, and found on the road. (First: Episode 3602) |
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Song | "Letter R Menu" (First: Episode 3526) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play." Snow leopards version (First: Episode 2519) |
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SCENE 2 | As Big Bird wonders what else he can do today, a line of Muppet vegetables march down Sesame Street for the annual Sesame Street Healthy Vegetable Parade, led by drill sergeant Captain Cabbage. He presents roll call and realizes that the drum-playing yellow squash is missing, but enrolls Big Bird (he's yellow, after all) to fill in. Big Bird fetches his drum and joins the veggies, still wondering what he'll do without Snuffy as he follows the group. |
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Animation | Masked March #13 (First: Episode 3378) |
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Animation | Growing Numbers #13 (First: Episode 2924) |
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Cartoon | The number 13 is seen as a birdhouse, in a tree, and in the sky. Artist: Joey Ahlbum (First: Episode 3363) |
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Song | "All The Vegetables": Three girls clap rhythms while naming vegetables. (First: Episode 3051) |
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SCENE 3 | The parade trots off, and Big Bird hears Stinky calling out from the windowsill of Gordon and Susan's apartment because he needs help reading a sign with an unusual word on it, leading to a performance of "ABC-DEF-GHI." Big Bird explains that he had the same problem, and tells him that the sign spells out the alphabet. |
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Film | Wegman's dogs show the job of a clothing store clerk. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Winter Checkers — It's cold outside, so Bert tries to ask Ernie to play a game with him. (First: Episode 1617) |
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Cartoon | A St. Bernard helps Zork down a snowy hill, later finding out that Zork wanted to go skiing. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2738) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Denyce Graves leads a "Bug Choir" in a buzzing operatic tune. (First: Episode 3716) |
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Cartoon | A capital and lower-case R appear on sheets of paper. (First: Episode 3138) |
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Song | "Big R and Little R" (Christopher Cerf) (First: Episode 3273) |
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Muppets | Oscar narrates (and stars in) Grouch Moments in History, a re-enactment of his Grouch ancestors making loud noise and saying "SCRAM!" for the first time. |
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Animation | Elephants appear in the clouds as Vivaldi music plays. (First: Episode 3627) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird becomes bored, but soon meets a lonely elephant who's looking for his dance partner. Big Bird agrees to do the "Elephant Dance" with him instead, and the kids (including Tyler) join in. Once the elephant leaves, Big Bird notes how he reminds him of Snuffy, and laments that he wishes something exciting would happen. |
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Film | A girl dances a butterfly dance. (First: Episode 3681) |
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Cartoon | Number creatures #13 (First: Episode 2691) |
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Film | Milo Counting #13 (First: Episode 3553) |
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Muppets | In a skit that capitalizes on the marketing of a certain doll, Zoe and Elmo play a game of "Zoe Says" with the viewer, and accidentally makes Elmo tickle himself. |
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Song | "Reach Your Hand Up High" (First: Episode 2702) |
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Animation | Amelia likes to pretend she can fly. (First: Episode 2902) |
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SCENE 5 | Snuffy returns to play with Big Bird, who tells him about all the dull stuff that happened today: a vegetable parade, a singing stinkweed, and a dancing elephant. Both are glad that they can now do something exciting... but neither of them know what to do. |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Shoes (First: Episode 3791) |
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SCENE 6 | Snuffy and Big Bird continue their cycle of asking each other what they want to do as Stinky announces the sponsors. The credits follow. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Matt Vogel (the broccoli), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (the tomato), Alice Dinnean (the beet), and John Kennedy (the elephant), with Martin P. Robinson (as the pumpkin) and Joey Mazzarino (as the eggplant).
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