| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Runaway Ts | |||||||||
| Air date | May 2, 2000 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 31 (2000) | ||||||||
| Written by | Emily Perl Kingsley | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird (played by Matt Vogel) welcomes the viewer and notices the Ts from the street sign suddenly come off. "What's going on?!", he cries. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Telly Monster writes his name on his pad, but then the letter T he wrote runs off too. Big Bird rushes to tell Telly what happened and they both are confused. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" |
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Film | Spinning T (to the tango beat). (First: Episode 2933) |
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Animation | Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase T. (First: Episode 3230) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates "surprise" with Prairie Dawn in thirty seconds. (First: Episode 3892) |
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SCENE 2 | Gabi doesn’t believe that the Ts are missing until Hooper's Store becomes Hooper's S_ore. What’s going on? |
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Cartoon | "Letters in the Body" Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 3339) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie talks to Kayla about being happy, and they tickle each other. |
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Cartoon | A mouse demonstrates between by squeezing between two elephants. (First: Episode 2750) |
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Song | "Write Your Name" (First: Episode 3274) |
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SCENE 3 | Tarah too finds the situation hard to swallow, until she tries typing her name and the "T" on-screen and on the keyboard come off. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" |
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Song | "We Got the Power!" - a hip-hop song about computers (First: Episode 3058) |
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Muppets | Elmo asks Dorothy what the number of the day is. |
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Cartoon | "Wall of Numbers" #6 Artist: Karen Aqua |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party. (First: Episode 0280) |
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Cartoon | "Six Soccer Socks" Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1670) |
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SCENE 4 | They gang sees what life would be like without the letter T and sing a song, pleading the letter T to return. |
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Muppets | Elmo introduces a circle segment, adding that Dorothy likes to swim in circles. |
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Film | Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over) (First: Episode 2711) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | R.E.M. sings "Furry Happy Monsters." (First: Episode 3829) |
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Cartoon | A cat desperately tries to open a can of cat food by himself while his mistress is on the phone. Artist: Dan Haskett (First: Episode 2151) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly gets an idea to ask a letter T about the mysterious disappearance of the letter. Because there are no Ts around, they draw one, but it floats away without giving a response. They then hypothesize that if they build a T, they can hold onto it before it splits. They go to the Fix-It Shop to make one. |
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Animation | Colored tools build a house out of colored rectangles, squares and triangles. (First: Episode 3263) |
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Film | Six kids dance on a playground to the same beat. (First: Episode 3819) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (First: Episode 0223) |
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Muppets | Elmo finds out that Dorothy wants to hear a song. |
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Animation | Cecille sings "I'm Gonna Get to You." (First: Episode 2873) |
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SCENE 6 | Maria too is confused by their story, but builds them a T anyway. The T comes to life and before he breaks free, he tells them they're invited to where he's going. They follow him, while Maria remarks "Only on Sesame Street!" |
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Film | The floating kids form a capital T. (First: Episode 3121) |
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Muppets | Next, Dorothy wants to see an alphabet segment, so Elmo shows her one ... |
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Film | The letters of the alphabet are found in signs all over the city. (new soundtrack) (First: Episode 3652) |
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Muppets | "Daddy Helps with the Dishes" - three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. (First: Episode 2223) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play." Snow leopards version (First: Episode 2519) |
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SCENE 7 | They have followed the T all the way down the street, where they find the Ts are throwing a "T Party", where they tango, tickle and play tag. One T tags Big Bird and they begin joining the fun. |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Dogs (First: Episode 3852) |
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SCENE 8 | Tarah, Telly, Big Bird, and Gabi announce the sponsors as the Ts reappear. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Joey Mazzarino (wooden T) and Eric Jacobson (T playing tag).
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