| Sesame Street | |||||
| Peter Piper’s Purpose | |||||
| Air date | November 19, 2014 | ||||
| Season | Season 45 (2014-2015) | ||||
| Written by | Molly Boylan | ||||
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COLD OPEN | What's the Word on the Street?: Popular |
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SCENE | Alan shows Telly today's special menu at Hooper's Store - every is made with pickled peppers, and starts with P. Alan's expecting Peter Piper to deliver the peppers any minute, when Peter shows up playing peek-a-boo instead. He explains he's given up pickled pepper picking in pursuit of a purpose with more pizzaz. Some Anything Muppets show up for the specials and with no pickled peppers, Alan feels he must cancel. Telly is recruited to pick the peppers instead. |
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SCENE cont'd | Telly reaches the pickled pepper patch and (with a photo to compare with) looks for the pickled peppers. He finally finds some and collects enough for the current crowd at Hooper's. |
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SCENE cont'd | Back at Hooper's, Peter Piper returns with a new purpose - pogoing with a pair of penguins. Telly rushes back, crashing into them all and spilling the peppers. Peter doesn't think his new purpose has enough pizzaz and goes off to find another. Suddenly, some more customers (including Luis and Susan) show up, bringing the total to 6. Alan sends Telly back to the patch with a basket to collect more. |
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SCENE cont'd | As Telly collects more pickled peppers, even more customers (including Maria) show up. Outside, Peter returns with a new purpose - pirouetting with a perky pachyderm (Horatio the Elephant). Telly returns, only to be knocked over by Horatio, spilling the peppers once more. Peter runs off to find a new purpose. Then, the Pickled Pepper Lovers Club shows up to the store for lunch. Telly thinks he's not fit to pick so many peppers and he and Alan realize they need Peter more than ever now. |
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SCENE cont'd | Just then, Peter parachutes from a plane, joined by a pirate and his parrot, Polly. They try to convince Peter that he should go back to picking peppers, showing him how popular they are. They sing a song ("Come Back Peter Piper") that convinces him to go back to his old ways and pick enough pickled peppers for everyone. |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Andy Cohen shows some popular things to Elmo, including a pizza slice (a popular food), a football (a popular sport) and the stars of the popular shows The Real Houseplants of Atlanta, Cluck Dynasty and Honey Moo-Moo. |
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Animation | How to make a healthy pizza Artist: Kelly Boulton |
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Muppets | Murray Has a Little Lamb Ovejita provides Murray with a pot, leading them to cooking school! Original, full edit: (First: Episode 4170) |
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Muppets | Cookie's Crumby Pictures: The Lord of the Crumbs — Cookie plays "Gobble," who must stay patient as he tries to remember the recipe for the "one dessert to rule them all." (First: Episode 4415) |
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Muppets | Elmo and the gang introduce the letter of the day, P, with a song and dance. |
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Film | P is for Princess (First: Episode 4212) |
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Animation | Latin foods that begin with the letter P. Artist: Alexander Gorelick (First: Episode 4408) |
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Muppets | Back at Cooking School, Murray washes his hands and learns what they'll be preparing today - stuffed corn tortillas. |
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Muppets / Animation | Abby's Flying Fairy School The fairies are having lunch and Blogg is disappointed at the size of his sandwich (which is several stacks high). With a spell, he conjures a large lunchbox that belongs to Pandora. Mrs. Sparklenose warns the students not to open it. Gonnigan loses control of his wings in fright and hits the lunchbox, opening it and releasing some large and rambunctious snacks. They inspect the lunchbox and find some shapes at the bottom, which should match the shape of each item. Discovering that the juice box is a rectangle, the wrap is a circle and the chips form a hexagon, they are able to put them back in their places. Pandora arrives to pick up her lunchbox and offers them some of her food... (First: Episode 4257) |
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Muppets | Count von Count and friends sing and stomp to find the number of the day - 3. |
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Animation | Counting three neon balls, rings and pins |
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Animation | Two kids find three jellyfish, vapor trail loops, comets and fireworks. (First: Episode 4420) |
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Animation | “First, Second, Third” Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 4178) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster happens upon Prairie Dawn's Sweetie Scout cookie stand. She's upset that her order was messed up - she needed an equal amount of each cookie type, but has more Diddle-E-Doos than Thick Mints. Cookie becomes a scout himself and solves the problem by eating the cookie boxes until there's an equal amount...zero. |
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Muppets | "Elmo the Musical" is next, but now, Murray learns about making food and the kids prepare their own stuffed corn torillas. |
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Muppets | Elmo the Musical: Guacamole the Musical — Chef Explorer Elmo travels to Nacho Picchu and meets the Queen. The Queen is looking for a big dip for her big tortilla chip and Elmo must deliver or else! (First: Episode 4301) |
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Muppets | Murray announces the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- Forgetful Jones makes a cameo during the street story, as do Joey Mazzarino and Kerry Butler.
- Additional performers include Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (as Penelope, Purple girl), Ryan Dillon (Pedro), Peter Linz (as Zack, Green boy), Fran Brill (as the raccoon), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (as the sheep), Joey Mazzarino (as Horatio and Polly the parrot), and Matt Vogel (as the pirate).
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