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| Big Bird tries to pack things in Gordon's car | |||||||
| Air date | January 23, 1974 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob finds the kids (including John-John) hanging out on the stoop using their imaginations. He confers with the kids about what they like to imagine and makes sure they know what "imagination" means. |
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Cast | Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker. (First: Episode 0558) |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert sing "Imagination". (First: Episode 0493) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: The snouts, tails and bodies of pigs, with a soundtrack of pigs squealing. (First: Episode 0179) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty: Prince Sleeps — Prince Charming kisses Sleeping Beauty and falls asleep. (First: Episode 0513) |
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Cartoon | "That's About the Size of It" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0279) |
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SCENE 2 | At Hooper's Store, David serves Simon Soundman a cup of coffee. He then goes outside to clean the tables, asking Simon to watch over the place and let him know if anyone comes in; he exits through the back door. While he's alone, Simon muses out loud about leaving the store unattended, making the sound pattern of the door opening, the entry bell ringing, and the door closing. David comes back in, thinking someone else has entered, but finds only Simon there. This happens again, then finally Simon decides to leave. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Luis enters Hooper's, but when David hears the door and bell, he assumes someone's playing a trick on him and goes around to the front door to find the culprit. He thinks Luis has been playing the trick on him, and chews him out. Simon comes back and makes the sounds again, surprising David and Luis. |
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Cartoon | A man carves a YES and puts it on display. (First: Episode 0366) |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) |
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Film | A gorilla sits on a park bench with a lunchbox full of bananas. Noticing the woman seated beside him, he decides to share his bananas with her. She keeps answering "YES" every time the gorilla offers one until he runs out of bananas. (First: Episode 0524) |
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Muppets | Lefty holds a letter R, and Ernie holds a letter P. (First: Episode 0129) |
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Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315) |
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Muppets | Kermit is about to talk about the letter R, until Cookie Monster karate chops one of the legs off, turning it into a P. When Kermit threatens to tell the monster's mommy, Cookie reassembles the broken letter back to the letter "R". (First: Episode 0129) |
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Cast | Maria supervises as Luis and Gordon put together a fractured letter R. (First: Episode 0531) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R. |
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Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls. |
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Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Animation | George the Farmer is near when he's on a barrel; he's far when he's on the porch. (First: Episode 0235) |
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Cast | Two Luises illustrate near and far. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323) |
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Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (First: Episode 0245) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates close to and away from. (First: Episode 0513) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird wants to go for a ride in Gordon's Volkswagen Beetle, but first Gordon needs his keys. While he's gone, he instructs Big Bird to put the umbrella in the trunk, then find space for the drum and his own feathered self in the car. Big Bird, unfortunately, isn't quite sure what in means. |
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Cartoon | Footprints move over to the tune of "Here Are Some Things". (First: Episode 0505) |
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SCENE 3 cont'd | Big Bird thinks he has been successful, but he's put everything on the car, not in. Maria comes by and finds the sight very amusing. Gordon shows him how to do it properly. |
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Film | Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | A letter "P" sits on an island before a rotating sunset. The ridges of the letter "P" moves along the letter and flash in different colors. (First: Episode 0452) |
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Muppets | The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun. (First: Episode 0453) |
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SCENE 4 | David, Maria, Bob, and Luis sing "The AN Family Song." |
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Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (shown in English, then Spanish) (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | To a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree. (First: Episode 0156) |
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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. (First: Episode 0539) |
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Transition | Bridge #12 - Glass smashes (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 5 | David and the kids (including John-John) look at different kinds of shoes (including a horseshoe). |
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Film | A girl narrates a film of her grandpa putting a horseshoe on their horse. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Cartoon | P is for Pillow (First: Episode 0374) |
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SCENE 6 | David and the kids play a “Here Are Some Things” game with different shoes and a sock. |
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Transition | Bridge #13 - Leaf Drop Bridge (First: Episode 0309) |
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Animation | Slide puzzle - elephant (First: Episode 0389) |
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SCENE 7 | The kids ride their bicycles around in the yard as Maria announces sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon, Luis and Maria hold the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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