| Sesamstrasse | |
| Air date | January 8, 1973 (series premiere) |
| Season | 1 |
| Releases | Sesamstrasse - Classics: Die 70er Jahre |
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon finds Ernie and Bert arguing over which of them is taller. Big Bird outsizes them both. |
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Cartoon | A man wants to buy apples, but can't decide on how many, frustrating the grocer. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Eats Cake — Ernie eats one of the two pieces of chocolate cake that Bert was saving for their dessert. |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar the Grouch's grandmother, Granny Grouch, comes to visit. Granny Grouch likes to kiss Oscar on the cheek, because he hates it so much. |
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Muppets | Ernie opens his lunchbox and finds that half of his chicken salad sandwich is missing. Sherlock Hemlock, the world's greatest detective, investigates this fiendish crime. It turns out that Sherlock himself ate half of Ernie's sandwich. |
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Film | A boy and his father watch the rain from inside their house. then go out in it. |
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Cartoon | "Octopus One-Man Band" |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper arranges some balls from smallest to largest. Meanwhile, outside, Herry Monster, Little Bird and an Anything Muppet have a dispute of who is the biggest, which Gordon solves. |
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Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated from their group, teaching a lesson in counting backward. |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird almost gets hit by a car; Gordon tells him he should not cross the street until the traffic light turns green. |
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Film | The letters of the alphabet as found in various signs. |
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SCENE 5 | The cast waves goodbye. |
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