| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird plays hide-and-seek | |||||||
| Air date | November 22, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird joins Maria, Bob, and the kids for a game of hide-and-seek. Maria, designated as "it," sees Big Bird having trouble finding a spot he can convincingly hide (having tried hiding behind a tree, then a spoon provided by Oscar). Big Bird asks to be "it" instead, thinking he'll have better luck with the game. He counts to 10, but this puts him to sleep instead of going to look for everyone. The rest of the players simply let him nap, deciding to play the game in the yard. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" |
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Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Polly count five fingers. (First: Episode 0279) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob sings "Five Fingers on My Left Hand." |
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Muppets | Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk" The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Film | Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | One of these things doesn't belong (shoe pairs) (First: Episode 0490) |
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Celebrity | Joe Namath tosses a football forward to a kid. The film then runs in reverse to demonstrate backward. (First: Episode 0530) |
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SCENE 3 | Reacting to the previous segment, Big Bird throws a forward pass himself, which smashes into something offscreen. |
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Film | A figure skater illustrates forward and backward. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Cast | "David the Daring" does his famous forwards and backwards trick. (First: Episode 0439) |
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Muppets | "The Ballad of Casey McPhee" (First: Episode 0516) |
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Film | Hippos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0415) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria makes a tower out of five cigar boxes. At first, she stacks them like stairs and the boxes don't fall; she reveals she's used sticky tape to hold them together. She asks what would happen if she did that without the tape, using a second set of boxes to do so. She then demonstrates the proper way to stack them as a tower. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to twenty. (First: Episode 0189) |
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Cartoon | A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream, and finally, some whipped cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does. |
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Cast | Gordon, Brynne, David, Maria, Luis, and Bob sit on a bus seat with newspapers numbered 1-6, as a voiceover (Jerry Nelson) counts them. |
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Cartoon | Letter G drawing with kid voice-over (First: Episode 0306) |
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Film | Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357) |
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Cartoon | G is for Goat (First: Episode 0085) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob finds Big Bird repeating "G, G, G" to himself. Big Bird forgets why he's saying it, so Bob lists some G words that will help jog his memory, such as Grouch, Grandmother, Gordon, and Grover. Big Bird recalls that his memory trick is to help remember a letter he received from his sister Tondalea regarding her 14 newly-hatched eggs - his immediate response was, "Gee!" |
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Cartoon | G for Gorilla (in man suit) (First: Episode 0085) |
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Muppets | Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds." (First: Episode 0358) |
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Cartoon | La palabra cerrado (First: Episode 0481) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert's Purple Hand — Bert can't go to the beach with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. (First: Episode 0386) |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird proudly demonstrates to Maria how he can count to 10 in Spanish. She congratulates him in Spanish, which he can't understand. He beams when she says she assumed he could speak Spanish as well as her. |
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Animation | Dot & Hill B-3: Silhouetted dots use carts to climb a steep hill. (First: Episode 0258) |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman goes to Marvin's Music City to buy a nice shiny trumpet. However, Marvin keeps bringing the wrong instrument. (First: Episode 0458) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to explain how to put wallpaper up. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit talks with Chris about teaching his little sister, Stephanie, to talk. Chris practices the alphabet. (First: Episode 0495) |
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Cartoon | A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me." (First: Episode 0416) |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird, Maria, and the kids play soccer in the yard while Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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