| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar decides to move his trash can | |||||||||
| Air date | January 21, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar tells the viewer that he is bored with just about everything, including them. He is especially tired of the same old view from his trash can, and wonders why it should be in one place all the time. He wants a change of view and decides to move elsewhere; he hops down from his perch and begins walking up the stairs of 123 Sesame Street. |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar has now set his can at the top of the steps in front of 123. Luis bumps into him and warns him that people could trip and fall down with him in the way, not to mention that his can could be knocked down the steps if he stays there. Oscar doesn't like the sound of that, and decides to move somewhere else. He starts heading down the street... |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (Spanish) (First: Episode 0136) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar sets up his can behind the counter at Hooper's Store. Though Oscar is reluctant to leave at first, Mr. Hooper warns him that he’ll be around a lot of ice cream, which Grouches hate. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar makes his way to Big Bird's nest (managing to open the construction door with an "Open sesame!"). Bob goes to visit Big Bird, and is flabbergasted when he finds Oscar’s can inside Big Bird’s nest. Bob tells him that trash cans don’t belong in nests, but after moving so many times, Oscar refuses to leave. Bob has an idea… |
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Cartoon | A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". Voice: Bob Arbogast (First: Episode 0024) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob brings some hay to Oscar’s old spot, and pretends to argue with Mr. Hooper and Luis over who needs the spot more. Bob plans to build a new nest for Big Bird, while Luis wants to add another door to 123 Sesame Street, and Mr. Hooper wants to have an ice cream fountain put up. When Oscar witnesses this, he realizes he’d rather have his old spot and moves back, telling everyone to get away from his home. The three men quietly congratulate themselves on a job well done. |
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Cartoon | Brand X (First: Episode 0299) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | Footage of a rattlesnake (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd |
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SCENE 6 | Bob sings "Three of These Things" as he sorts drawings of groups of dolls, houses, bottles, and boats by quantity. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (First: Episode 0064) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Cuppycakes — Cookie Monster keeps stealing the "cuppycakes" that Ernie is trying to photograph. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: What Babies Are Called (First: Episode 0096) |
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Film | New Bridge #5 - Bounce (First: Episode 0105) |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird reads a letter from Granny Bird about her new home at a chicken farm. Mr. Snuffleupagus arrives, but he's sad because he thinks that he's just the same as everybody else. Big Bird shows him that he's different: Snuffy has four big stumpy feet and Big Bird has two skinny feet; he has a great big long skinny, twirly nose and Big Bird has a beak; he lives in a cave and Big Bird lives in a nest. All of this goes over Snuffy's head, but he becomes happy when he realizes that he's going home and Big Bird isn't yet - that's something different! Once Snuffy leaves, Luis visits and doesn’t believe Big Bird’s claim that Snuffy is real. |
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Muppets | Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day. |
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Cartoon | "Four Seasons" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film / Animation | Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry... (First: Episode 0142) |
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Cast | Bob and Gordon cooperate to get apples from a tree. (First: Episode 0210) |
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Film / Animation | Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion. (First: Episode 0142) |
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Animation | A 3 looks for its house. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Muppets | Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but then Cookie Monster takes off his hat, and cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first." (First: Episode 0290) |
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Muppets | Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things. (First: Episode 0134) |
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SCENE 8 | Bob sings "Stop!" (with new lyrics) and plays with some kids. |
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Film | The Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Surprise Present — Bert has wrapped a surprise present which Ernie thinks is for him. (First: Episode 0165) |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father! Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0241) |
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Cartoon | Brand X (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Bob helps the kids take turns on the tire swing as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper and Oscar hold the CTW sign. |
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