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'''''Getting Ready for School''''' is a [[1987]] ''[[Sesame Street]]'' direct-to-video compilation in the "[[My Sesame Street Home Video]]" series.
  
'''''Getting Ready for School''''' is a [[1987]] ''[[Sesame Street]]'' direct-to-video compilation in the "[[My Sesame Street Home Video]]" series.
   
 
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|[[Image:GRFS01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 1'''</center> || [[Big Bird]], self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
  
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| [[Big Bird]], self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
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| [[Image:BigBirdABC-DEF-GHI1980's.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Insert</center> || Big Bird sings "[[ABC-DEF-GHI]]."<br />{{eka|2955}}<br />''Edited''
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| [[Image:BigBird-ABC-DEF-GHI-1980s.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Insert
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| Big Bird sings "[[ABC-DEF-GHI]]."<br>{{first|2266}}<br>''Edited''
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|[[Image:GRFS02.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 1''' cont'd</center> || Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
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| [[Image:GRFS02.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | '''FRAME 1''' cont'd
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| Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
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| [[Image:peacockcartoon.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.<br />{{eka|0406}}
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| [[Image:peacockcartoon.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Cartoon
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| A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.<br>{{first|0406}}
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|[[Image:GRFS03.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 2'''</center> || Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
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| [[Image:GRFS03.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | '''FRAME 2'''
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| Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
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| [[Image:Busstopgiant.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.<br />{{eka|2164}}
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| [[Image:Busstopgiant.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Cartoon
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| A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.<br>{{first|1176}}
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| [[Image:2356-7.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT.<br />{{eka|2125}}
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| [[Image:2356-7.jpg|250px|center]]
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| A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT.<br>{{first|1879}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Anything Muppets]] [[Cheers|cheer]] for school.<br />''Part 1''
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| [[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Muppets
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| [[Anything Muppets]] [[Cheers|cheer]] for school.<br>''Part 1''
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| [[Image:GRFS04.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS04.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 3'''</center> || Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will kids you already know and kids you don't.
  
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| Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will be kids you already know and kids you don't.
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| [[Image:Youngcount.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Count von Count|The Count]] sings about his [[The First Day of School|first day of school]].<br />{{eka|1736}}
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| [[Image:Youngcount.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Muppets
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| [[Count von Count|The Count]] sings about his [[The First Day of School|first day of school]].<br>{{first|1736}}
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| [[Image:GRFS05.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS05.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 4'''</center> || Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with [[Snuffy]] and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
  
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| align=center | '''FRAME 4'''
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| Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with [[Mr. Snuffleupagus|Snuffy]] and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
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| [[Image:RaiseYourHand.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Teacher [[Little Chrissy]] sings about how important it is to "[[Raise Your Hand (Moss)|Raise Your Hand]]."<br>{{eka|2274}}
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| [[Image:RaiseYourHand.jpg|250px|center]]
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| Teacher [[Little Chrissy]] sings about how important it is to "[[Raise Your Hand (Moss)|Raise Your Hand]]."<br>{{first|1959}}
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|[[Image:GRFS06.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 5'''</center> || Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
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| [[Image:GRFS06.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | '''FRAME 5'''
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| Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
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| [[Image:2096s.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Film</center> || Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet.<br />{{first|2096}}
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| Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet.<br>{{first|1966}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br />''Part 2''
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| [[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]]
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| Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br>''Part 2''
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| [[Image:GRFS07.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS07.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 6'''</center> || Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "[[Everyone Makes Mistakes (song)|Everyone Makes Mistakes]]". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
  
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| align=center | '''FRAME 6'''
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| Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "[[Everyone Makes Mistakes (song)|Everyone Makes Mistakes]]". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
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| [[Image:Alphabet01.jpg|250px|center]]<br />[[Image:Alphabet02.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Animation</center> || The [[alphabet]] is presented using many materials and writing methods.<br />{{eka|2494}}
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| [[Image:Alphabet01.jpg|250px|center]]<br>[[Image:Alphabet02.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Animation
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| The [[alphabet]] is presented using many materials and writing methods.<br>{{first|2210}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br />''Part 3''
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| [[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]]
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| align=center | Muppets
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| Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br>''Part 3''
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| [[Image:GRFS08.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS08.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 7'''</center> || Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
  
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| Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
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| [[File:DavidHerryShoes.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[File:DavidHerryShoes.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets / Cast</center> || "Dandy [[David]]" sings [[Tying Your Shoelace|a song]] about tying shoelaces as [[Herry]] watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.
  
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| "Dandy [[David]]" sings [[Tying Your Shoelace|a song]] about tying shoelaces as [[Herry Monster|Herry]] watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.<br>{{first|1574}}
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| [[Image:GRFS09.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS09.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 8'''</center> || Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffly mentions the alphabet again.
  
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| align=center | '''FRAME 8'''
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| Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffy mentions the alphabet again.
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|[[Image:Groverlorenavlphabet.JPG|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || {{Mkmg}} [[Grover]] and Polly say the alphabet.<br />{{eka|0324}}
  
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| {{muppetkidmoment|grover}} [[Grover]] and [[Polly Stone|Polly]] say the alphabet.<br>{{first|0281}}
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| [[Image:GRFS10.jpg|250px|center]]
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|[[Image:GRFS10.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 9'''</center> || Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.
  
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| Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.
 
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==Releases==
  
==Releases==
 
<gallery>
  
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Image:Origschoolvhs.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}Random House Home Video<br>1987<br>cat. 88936
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Image:Origschoolvhs.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}Random House Home Video<br>(with activity book)<br>1987<br>cat. 88936
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Image:Video.gettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|VHS (reissue)}}Random House Home Video
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Image:Video.gettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}Random House Home Video<br>1992<br>reissue cover
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Image:Bedtimestoriesandsongsgettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|United Kingdom (VHS)}}The Video Collection<br>1991
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Image:Bedtimestoriesandsongsgettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|United Kingdom (VHS)}}The Video Collection<br>1991<br/>''Double feature with [[Bedtime Stories & Songs]]''
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Image:Gettingreadyforschoolasianvcd.jpg|{{GNH|Asia (VCD)}}561003
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School Aus VHS.jpg|{{GNH|Australia (VHS)}}1992<br/>VDI
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readyschoolsingmovies UK VHS.jpg|{{GNH|UK (VHS)}}1999<br/>Walt Disney Home Video<br/>''Double feature with [[Sing Yourself Sillier at the Movies]]''
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Image:Gettingreadyforschoolasianvcd.jpg|{{GNH|Singapore and Malaysia (VCD)}}Berjaya HVN <br/>561003
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Readyforschoolvidjp.jpg|{{GNH|Japan (VHS)}}Sony
 
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==Booklet==
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Scans of the activity book from the original VHS release.
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<gallery spacing=small>
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ReadySchool.jpeg
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ReadySchool 1.jpeg
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ReadySchool 2.jpeg
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ReadySchool 3.jpeg
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ReadySchool 4.jpeg
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ReadySchool 5.jpeg
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ReadySchool 6.jpeg
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ReadySchool 7.jpeg
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ReadySchool 8.jpeg
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ReadySchool 9.jpeg
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</gallery>
   
 
==Notes==
  
==Notes==
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*Although they don't actually appear in this video, the credits list [[Bob McGrath]] as [[Bob]], [[Sonia Manzano]] as [[Maria]], and [[Alaina Reed Hall]] as [[Olivia]].
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*Although they don't actually appear in this video, the credits list [[Bob McGrath]] as [[Bob]], [[Linda Bove]] as [[Linda]], [[Sonia Manzano]] as [[Maria]], and [[Alaina Reed Hall]] as [[Olivia]].
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*[[Bert]], [[Ernie]], [[Cookie Monster]], [[Betty Lou]], [[Oscar the Grouch]], [[Elmo]] and the [[Honkers]] appear in the original activity book to the video, but are not present in the actual video.
   
 
==Cast==
  
==Cast==
 
'''[[:Category:Muppet Performers|Muppet Performers]]'''
  
'''[[:Category:Muppet Performers|Muppet Performers]]'''
 
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*[[Caroll Spinney]] as Big Bird
  
*[[Caroll Spinney]] as Big Bird
 
*[[Jim Henson]]
  
*[[Jim Henson]]
 
*[[Frank Oz]] as Grover
  
*[[Frank Oz]] as Grover
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*[[Jerry Nelson]] as the Count, Herry
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*[[Jerry Nelson]] as the Count and Herry
 
*[[Richard Hunt]]
  
*[[Richard Hunt]]
 
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*[[Martin P. Robinson]] as Snuffy
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*[[David Rudman]]
  
*[[David Rudman]]
   
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*[[Caroly Wilcox]]
  
*[[Caroly Wilcox]]
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*[[Cheryl Blaylock|Cheryl Blalock]]
 
*[[Camille Bonora]]
  
*[[Camille Bonora]]
 
*[[Ed Christie]]
  
*[[Ed Christie]]
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*Michael Huston
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*[[Michael Elizabeth Huston|Michael Huston]]
 
*[[Jim Kroupa]]
  
*[[Jim Kroupa]]
 
*[[Brian Muehl]]
  
*[[Brian Muehl]]
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'''[[:category:Sesame Street Cast|Cast]]'''
  
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*[[Northern Calloway]] as David
  
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* [[On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3|On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3: Getting Ready for School]]
  
* [[On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3|On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3: Getting Ready for School]]
 
* [[Ready for School!|Sesame Street: Ready for School!]]
  
* [[Ready for School!|Sesame Street: Ready for School!]]
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__NOWYSIWYG__
 
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Revision as of 06:15, 11 June 2020

Title

Getting Ready for School is a 1987 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation in the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series.


Picture Segment Description
GRFS01
 FRAME 1 Big Bird, self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
BigBird-ABC-DEF-GHI-1980s
 Insert Big Bird sings "ABC-DEF-GHI."
(First: Episode 2266)
Edited
GRFS02
 FRAME 1 cont'd Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
Peacockcartoon
 Cartoon A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.
(First: Episode 0406)
GRFS03
 FRAME 2 Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
Busstopgiant
 Cartoon A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.
(First: Episode 1176)
2356-7
 Cartoon A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT.
(First: Episode 1879)
SchoolCheer01
 Muppets Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 1
GRFS04
 FRAME 3 Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will be kids you already know and kids you don't.
Youngcount
 Muppets The Count sings about his first day of school.
(First: Episode 1736)
GRFS05
 FRAME 4 Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with Snuffy and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
RaiseYourHand
 Muppets Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand."
(First: Episode 1959)
GRFS06
 FRAME 5 Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
2096s
 Film Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet.
(First: Episode 1966)
SchoolCheer01
 Muppets Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 2
GRFS07
 FRAME 6 Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
Alphabet01

Alphabet02
 Animation The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods.
(First: Episode 2210)
SchoolCheer01
 Muppets Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 3
GRFS08
 FRAME 7 Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
DavidHerryShoes
 Muppets / Cast "Dandy David" sings a song about tying shoelaces as Herry watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.
(First: Episode 1574)
GRFS09
 FRAME 8 Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffy mentions the alphabet again.
Grover and Polly sing Alphabet
 Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Polly say the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0281)
GRFS10
 FRAME 9 Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.

Releases

Booklet

Scans of the activity book from the original VHS release.

Notes

Cast

Muppet Performers

Cast

Credits

See also

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