Sesame Street | |||||
Oscar’s Trash Savings Plan | |||||
Air date | January 12, 2015 | ||||
Season | Season 45 (2014-2015) | ||||
Written by | Belinda Ward | ||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | What's the Word on the Street?: Awful | |
SCENE | Chris welcomes the viewer, when he's caught off guard by an unpleasant noise and smell. Both are coming from Oscar's laptop, which is opened to Scramazon.com. Oscar wants to purchase the special Grouch instrument, the P.U.-gelhorn, so he and Fluffy can play a duet. The item costs 8 bags of trash and Oscar has a mere 3. Chris gives him 2 more and thinks by saving his trash, he'll be able to buy it in no time. | |
SCENE cont'd | Suddenly, Mucklemore and his Grouch posse arrive, musically promoting the "Grouch Thrift Shop." Mucklemore invites Oscar to join them in finding some cheap trash at the thrift shop, but Chris convinces him to control himself and save his trash. Oscar ends up by Mucklemore's fish-hat for all his trashbags. | |
SCENE cont'd | Maria and Gina stop by to provide Oscar with more trash, but he's not sure how he can stop himself from spending them on something else. Suddenly, Gooze Orman, one of the wealthiest Grouches in the world, appears. She offers to help Oscar the Gooze Orman way: "Pretend Your Way to Trash!" She tells him to imagine other products are nice and cute things he would never want to buy. A Scramazon alert advertises the new Sty-Phone 6, which Oscar wants. Following Gooze's advice, Oscar imagines the phone is a cute bunny, which disgusts him from the site. Fluffy counts their trash bags and the finally have enough for the P.U.-gelhorn. | |
SCENE cont'd | A Scramazon delivery Grouch immediately arrives with it, but leaves without a tip (he was early and the product wasn't broken). Oscar drives everyone away as he plays his new P.U.-gelhorn. | |
Muppets / Celebrity | To help demonstrate today's word, Murray gives Adam Scott some awful gifts. | |
Muppets | Murray Has a Little Lamb Murray finishes his jug of milk and is about to throw it away, when he remembers to recycle it instead. He wonders what happens to recycled things and Ovejita leads him to the New York City Recycling Plant. There, one of the staffers fills Murray in on what recycling is. | |
Muppets | Super Grover 2.0 A cactus tries to play with his new ball, when something starts happening to it. Super Grover 2.0 arrives and begins to use his powers of observation. He sees the ball is shrinking, making a hissing noise (thinking there's a snake inside), air is getting blown at him and there's a hole in it. Grover tries to comfort the cactus, but pricks himself on its stems. The cactus realizes he put the hole in it. Grover helps more by find a ball he can play with. He fetches a bowling ball, which is too heavy. He gets a snowball from Antarctica, but it falls apart when thrown. Grover pulls a hero sandwich from his utility sock, when the cactus notices the foil wrapping can be made into different shapes. Grover makes it into a ball, which becomes the perfect ball for a cactus. They play some catch and Grover asks for a hug. Getting several stems poking him, he claims he's now losing air. (shortened intro) (First: Episode 4217) | |
Muppets | Elmo and the gang introduce the letter of the day, S, with a song and dance. | |
Cartoon | Bubba, of Bubba's Word Emporium, announces his sale of S words. (First: Episode 4307) | |
Cartoon | Cookie Monster sings about the S sound in the word "sandwich." (First: Episode 4209) | |
Muppets | Back at the Recycling Center, Murray, Ovejita and the kids simulate the sorting procedures done by the center's technology. | |
Muppets / Animation | Abby's Flying Fairy School Mrs. Sparklenose helps Abby, Blogg and Gonnigan recycle bottles they brought from home. One of Abby's bottles is dusty, so she rubs it and out comes Gene the Genie. He feels cramped inside and refuses to go back in. The bottle, not wanting to be empty, begins hopping around, looking for someone to suck inside. The bottle entraps Mrs. Sparklenose inside, while Gene plans to spend 1,001 nights in Vegas. Abby reminds Gene he needs to grant 3 wishes. Abby wishes for Mrs. Sparklenose to get out of the bottle, with Niblet then taken in his place. Gonnigan rephrases the wish and asks for not one of them to be inside, so he poofs them all inside, thus there is not one. They call on Spot, who shows them a film on “all” and “none”. They wish for all of them to get out and none of them would be inside. The bottle looks for someone to capture and it gets Mrs. Sparklenose again. Gene refuses to switch places with her, not wanting to be in a small space again. They twinkle think and get an idea to magically recycle his bottle with other ones to make a larger one, complete with sliding glass doors so he can leave whenever he feels. (re-orchestrated theme song) (First: Episode 4189) | |
Song | "Recyclables" | |
Muppets | Count von Count and friends sing and stomp to find the number of the day - 8. | |
Film | Eight people break it down in a park. (First: Episode 4204) | |
Film | A girl's family of 8 assembles for a family photo. (First: Episode 4407) | |
Muppets | Big Bird and his feathered friends clean up the yard in song. That's cooperation! (First: Episode 4406) | |
Cartoon | A child explains where newspapers come from and how the process is cyclical. | |
Muppets | Back at the Recycling Center, Murray gets in his uniform and watches as his milk jug goes through the sorting process, eventually becoming a part of a large recyclable cube. | |
Muppets | Elmo the Musical: Prince Elmo the Musical — Prince Elmo and his mice assistants travel the land to conquer a dragon with stinky breath who's been scaring the residents of Tottentot. (First: Episode 4315) | |
Muppets | Murray announces the sponsors. |
Alterations[]
Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets / Animation | Abby's Flying Fairy School: Playground Troll This segment replaces "Genie in a Bottle" in the HBO version. |
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Notes[]
- This episode was Maria's last appearance on the show.
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