Sesame Street | |||||||
The Count looks for a job | |||||||
Air date | January 20, 1975 | ||||||
Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | The Count tells Maria that he canโt find anything new to count, and asks for ideas. She has a lot of work studying today, and suggests he try asking Bob or Luis, but he already tried; they are busy at their respective jobs. Suddenly he gets an idea: he'll go get a job himself, which will hopefully lead to new things for him to count. | |
Cartoon | G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357) | |
SCENE 2 | Luis finds Hooper's Store empty, until The Count pops up, dressed as a plumber. Luis points him to a dripping faucet, but he would rather count the drips than fix it. | |
Cartoon | Letter G drawing with kid voice-over (First: Episode 0306) | |
SCENE 3 | The Count is now a doctor, but rather than properly examine Bob, he would rather count his face parts and his heartbeats. | |
Cartoon | A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job. (First: Episode 0131) | |
SCENE 4 | Maria notices a new sign on the door to Big Bird's nest reading, "Library." | |
SCENE 4 cont'd | She goes inside and finds Big Bird and the kids all reading. Big Bird explains that the Count brought his personal library to the space and is currently counting all the books. Maria thinks this will keep him occupied for awhile, but the Count soon finishes counting all 41,021 titles in his collection. He moves onto counting all the pages in the books. | |
Animation | Sand G/g (First: Episode 0643) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Ernie has a licorice whip that he offers to share with Bert. He divides it in half with a pair of scissors, but then discovers that Bert's half is longer than his. He cuts off a little bit of Bert's half, and eats it. Then he discovers that his own half is longer than Bert's, and that's not fair, so he cuts a bit off of his own, and eats it. Ernie goes back and forth, cutting off more and more, until the licorice whip is gone. (First: Episode 0461) | |
Film | Kids narrate a film about shorter and longer skirts. (First: Episode 0324) | |
Cartoon | A girl tries to lure her cat out from under the chair so she can pick him up. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0187) | |
Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) | |
Muppets | "Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" (First: Episode 0260) | |
Cartoon | Julius and Jasper: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!" Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Old Mother Hubbard โ Kermit points out the lackluster cadence of Old Mother Hubbard's nursery rhyme. (First: Episode 0642) | |
Cartoon | What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0212) | |
Film | Marching band cymbal crash #2 (First: Episode 0527) | |
SCENE 5 | Luis plays a โThree of These Thingsโ game with Jenny and Spencer using pictures of tools and a hamburger. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Part 1: Ernie, having set up shop as a barber, gives Bert a haircut, but he ends up removing all of his hair. (First: Episode 0068) | |
Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Part 2: Ernie tries to disguise Bert until his hair grows back, but a monster (later known as Grover) mistakes Bert for his father and lugs him away. (First: Episode 0068) | |
Film | Five bugs are counted, until one bug engulfs the other four. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0628) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Part 3: Bert has quickly grown his hair back, but his brief time amongst monsters has resulted in his speaking like Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0068) | |
Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster demonstrates that egg starts with the letter E; he swallows the egg and faints. (First: Episode 0316) | |
Song | "I'm Not a Baby Anymore" (First: Episode 0652) | |
Muppets | Grover asks Frazzle about his day, and Frazzle responds with growls to demonstrate how he felt. (First: Episode 0491) | |
SCENE 6 | Oscar has put up a sign outside his trash can that says K.I.S.S. Some kids have seen the sign and are showering him with kisses. Oscar doesn't understand why - the letters stand for his new group, the "Keep Ignoring Society Society." Maria explains to him what his problem is. He then puts up a โB.E.S.O.โ sign which stands for โBe Especially Sour Organization,โ but then gets a kiss from Maria. | |
Cartoon | The 'b' in 'beso' kisses an apple and a duck. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0461) | |
Film | Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295) | |
Muppets | The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0469) | |
Cartoon | A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0132) | |
Cartoon | G is for Glue Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) | |
Muppets | Grover talks about the letter G, as it slowly grows. (First: Episode 0210) | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!" (First: Episode 0279) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit asks Grover to use ladders to demonstrate the difference between short and long. Kermit's amazed that Grover can carry the long ladder by himself, but then sees that Grover is on both ends. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish. (First: Episode 0287) | |
Cast | Bob puts up a drawing of Big Bird on a billboard. His partner, David, has trouble putting up a duplicate in the same manner. (First: Episode 0486) | |
Film | Paper-cut triangles fade into live-action shots of triangle-shaped things. (First: Episode 0538) | |
Cartoon | The letters in the word BESO kiss each other. (First: Episode 0433) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts five monkeys, and when he is done, he gets monkey business. (First: Episode 0283) | |
Film | A male voiceover and his friend Myrtle observe a macaw in a tree. (First: Episode 0409) | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry. (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 7 | With some difficulty, Big Bird gets Poco Loco to announce the sponsors with him. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Luis holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the CTW sign. |
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