| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Tribute to Number Seven | |||||||
| Air date | January 27, 2010 | ||||||
| Season | Season 40 (2009-2010) | ||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | What's the Word on the Street?: Concentrate |
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SCENE | Zoe, Rosita and Abby welcome the viewer and announce that today, they are throwing a big celebration for the number 7. They don showgirl outfits and sing the "Amazing Awesome Seven Song". Rosita then introduces Zoe, who will perform a 7 dance number. |
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SCENE cont'd | Zoe (dressed in Arabian garb) sings the "Seven Chickens Dance" over the music of Ravel's "Bolero". While she sings, 7 chickens arrange themselves into different groups. |
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SCENE cont'd | The girls perform a short reprise of their opening song. Abby then introduces Rosita and Maria, who will be performing "The Number Siete Rumba", but she doesn't know what "siete" is. Rosita tells them siete is 7 in Spanish. |
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SCENE cont'd | Rosita and Maria sing "The Number Siete Rumba". |
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SCENE cont'd | Abby and Zoe are about to introduce the next act, when a sniffling letter S appears. He is sad because he has no way of honoring the number 7. The girls get an idea and fetch seven things that start with S (a spoon, sandwich, skates, a sombrero, a starfish, a seal and snow). They then sing a song about the words. They then introduce Abby and her assistant Elmo making some 7 magic. |
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SCENE cont'd | Abby and Elmo will perform magic tricks involving the number seven. First, she makes a 7 appear from a top hat. Next, she makes seven butterflies fly out of Elmo's ear. Finally, she plans to turn one pumpkin into 7, but instead makes 6 more Elmos (totaling to 7 Elmos including the real Elmo). She makes them disappear and successfully makes 7 pumpkins in the shape of the number 7. |
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SCENE cont'd | All the performers gather for the big finale. |
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SCENE cont'd | As Wolfgang barks along to the applause, Harvey Kneeslapper appears and slaps a 7 on his beach ball, then runs off laughing. |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Hugh Jackman and Elmo explain how they concentrate. |
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Muppets | Murray announces Abby's Flying Fairy School is coming soon, but first, he and the kids rap about S words. |
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Cartoon | Cookie Monster sings about the S sound in the word "sandwich." Taken from Sesame Street English |
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Muppets | Murray and Jake introduce Abby's Flying Fairy School. (First: Episode 4190) |
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Muppets / Animation | Abby's Flying Fairy School Today, the students are growing their own plants. Abby, Blogg and Peck grow their own flowers, but Gonnigan has no luck, even when trying to shove Peck in his pot. His friends convince him to use magic to make it grow. He uses his "Gigantic Spell" and turns the plant into a large beanstalk that stretches to the sky, with Peck hanging on. Mrs. Sparklenose has them poof to the top to retrieve her. Once at the top, they discover a giant using Peck as a tiny feather duster. They try to communicate, but they are not heard. They call Spot, who shows them images of ears. Abby makes Gonnigan perform his spell again, so they can be giants and talk to him. They grow to be as big as the giant and swap Peck for a large feather duster. Once back down in the classroom, they find Niblet has grown large by eating parts of the beanstalk. Niblet burps which shrinks him back to normal size. (First: Episode 4203) |
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Muppets | Murray announces "Murray Has a Little Lamb" is coming up, but first he counts 7 dancers, hula-hoops, pink hats and kids. (First: Episode 4196) |
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Cartoon | A hopscotch game with seven squares. (First: Episode 4081) |
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Muppets | As Murray rushes off, Navin and Avery introduce "Murray Has a Little Lamb". (First: Episode 4190) |
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Muppets | Murray Has a Little Lamb Murray's lamb, Ovejita, leads him to another secret escuela with the clue of a baseball glove. The school turns out to be a baseball school, where kids practice playing baseball. With practice, Murray eventually hits a home run. (First: Episode 4167) "Guessing Game" portion cut, new intro added |
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Song | "Me, M-E, Me!" (First: Episode 3578) |
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Muppets | Murray announces "Elmo's World" is coming up, but first, he gives a demonstration of forward and backward, walking forward and knocking the camera over. (First: Episode 4192) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie sings "I Love My Room" about all the things he can do in his room - which is also Bert's room. (First: Episode 3950) |
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Animation | Two groups of creatures create a rhythm by lining up in a pattern on top of a keyboard. (First: Episode 4170) |
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Muppets | Murray and Navin introduce "Elmo's World". (First: Episode 4190) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Drums (First: Episode 4161) ("Question," "Email," and "Film" cut from HBO Max version) |
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Muppets | Murray looks at a large screen to announce the sponsors. |
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Notes[]
- Behind-the-scenes footage of this episode appears in the InFANity special about Sesame Street.
- Additional performers include David Rudman (letter S) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (sea star).
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