| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Telly and Rosita make up a hand-clapping game | |||||||||
| Air date | March 29, 2000 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 31 (2000) | ||||||||
| Written by | Ian Ellis James | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Telly notices Tarah, Gabi, Charity, and CeCe in the yard playing a complicated hand-clapping game called "Double-Double, This-That." He wonders how they are able to do it so well, and attempts to do it by himself. |
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Cartoon | A shy girl wants to join a group bouncing a ball. (audible dialogue) Artist: Joanna Priestley (First: Episode 2849) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Rubber Duckie introduce the letter of the day. (First: Episode 3813) |
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Cartoon | The letter F morphs into cartoon faces. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 2916) |
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Film | Alphaboy tickles his father's feet with feathers. (First: Episode 3442) |
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Animation | F / f (space paint) (First: Episode 3215) |
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Song | 14 Karat Soul sings "Hand Talk." (First: Episode 2622) |
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SCENE 2 | Telly is still trying the game by himself when Gordon wonders what he's doing. The girls then decide to change the game, but instead of using the words "this" and "that," they use the parts of the Spanish word "hola." Telly is still worried that he can't learn the game ("What if my hands don't jive?"), so Gordon suggests he ask Tarah to teach it to him. |
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Film | Five girls play a clapping game. (First: Episode 2763) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Rubber Duckie introduce the number of the day. (First: Episode 3786) |
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Cartoon | The jungle creatures dance and form a 20. Artist: Karen Aqua (First: Episode 3835) |
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Film | Growing Numbers #20 (First: Episode 2967) |
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Cartoon | Number creatures #20 (First: Episode 2687) |
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Film | Bill Irwin performs a dance called "Body Parts Cooperation," which is commented on by Biff and Roxie Marie. (First: Episode 3624) |
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SCENE 3 | The girls play the "Miss Mary Mack" clapping game, which Rosita notices when she passes through. Telly asks the girls how they do their clapping games, and asks to learn how to do it. They don't mind teaching them... provided they do it after a lunch break. "How can you eat at a time like this?!" bellows Telly to Tarah. "My hands crave the knowledge!... I hope she brings me back a sandwich." |
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Animation | In stop-motion, sandwich ingredients square-dance in a ring and arrange themselves into a sandwich, which gets a bite taken out of it in a refrigerator. (First: Episode 3080) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (First: Episode 0094) |
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Film | Alphaquest: F A faucet finishes a fire, and flood of freaky fish. (First: Episode 2759) |
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Muppets | Ernie reads a poem about big and small, introducing a Teeny Little Super Guy segment. (First: Episode 3808) |
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Animation | Teeny Little Super Guy: Two boys are fighting over a swing. so Teeny Little SuperGuy shows them how to share. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1967) |
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SCENE 4 | Telly continues trying to learn the games by himself with his "uncooperative" hands and explains to Gordon that he's waiting for the girls to return. Gordon suggests that he make up his own hand-clapping game by coming up with a rhyme and putting some hand movements together. Rosita comes by, and Telly finds out that they both want to make up two different hand-clapping games! However, they begin to argue on whose game they want to do first. |
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Cartoon | The Bellhop is sent to the grocery store to get twenty grapefruits. He counts to 20 on the way there so that he can remember the quantity, but forgets what item he was sent for. (First: Episode 2533) |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #20 (First: Episode 2935) |
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Song | "Get On Up and Move Your Body" (First: Episode 3410) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly and Rosita decide to take turns, and since Telly doesn't have his game ready yet, Rosita's first... but she's not ready either. Gordon suggests that they cooperate and make up a new game together. They come up with an upbeat rhyme: "Monsters are great, monsters are cool! Monsters all rock, monsters all rule!" They chant it over and over to remember the words. |
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Cartoon | A man talks about how much he loves his bones. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2628) |
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Film | Girls sing a jump-rope rhyme about naming a puppy. (First: Episode 3279) |
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Muppets | Elmo talks to the viewer about feelings, looking for someone who feels sad. He encounters Zoe, who feels proud, and Bert, who feels angry. He feels bummed about not finding anyone who's sad, until Big Bird points out how that makes Elmo feel. |
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Cartoon | "Dino Pizza Friendship Song" |
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SCENE 6 | Telly and Rosita are still chanting their rhyme when Gordon suggests it's time to add some hand movements to go with it. The monsters want it to be a surprise and ask Gordon to go for a little walk and come back later. Telly and Rosita come up with their hand movements, which involve touching fists, their noses, and giving high-fives. Excited with what they've got, the monsters practice their new game. |
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Muppets | Ernie asks Rubber Duckie what he wants to see next. (First: Episode 3786) |
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Song | "Me, M-E, Me!" (First: Episode 3578) |
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SCENE 7 | After Telly and Rosita finish practicing, Gordon and the girls return and Tarah offers to teach Telly their game. Telly and Rosita surprise them by revealing their new chant to everyone, and Tarah asks to learn it. All the girls want to learn it, too, and Telly and Rosita teach everyone how to play their game. |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Dancing (First: Episode 3801) |
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SCENE 8 | Everyone continues playing the new hand-clapping game, briefly pausing as Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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