| Sesame Street | |||||||
| A freezing cold day on Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 4, 1979 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar enjoys the freezing weather on Sesame Street today; he's so cheerful that he sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" to himself. Maria comes outside and Oscar has her try to guess why he enjoys the cold while everyone else is miserable: everyone else stays inside to keep warm, meaning that he can be left alone. |
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Cartoon / Film | A Scanimate/live-action hybrid segment in which an off-camera child and Luis name words that begin with H. (First: Episode 0771) |
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Muppets | The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches. (First: Episode 0287) |
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Film | A gazelle runs fast across a plain. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0478) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | A greaser sings about his relationship that was almost ruined by a "One Way" sign. (First: Episode 0973) |
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Film | Kids identify broccoli through close-ups. (First: Episode 0357) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird comes into the Fix-It Shop with Barkley. Big Bird shows Luis Barkley's water dish, which has been frozen solid. Luis sets it on the radiator to thaw it out. Once the ice melts back into water, Big Bird takes it back outside, not realizing what will happen again. |
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Animation | Counting 6 red balls (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Baby Monster Day Care Center — Cookie Monster seeks Kermit's reward. |
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Animation | Today's Secret Drawing is an astronaut. (First: Episode 0193) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Big Bird returns to the shop, showing that the water has indeed frozen again. |
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Cartoon | A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0162) |
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Celebrity | The Mummenschanz perform a routine as a blob-like creature. (First: Episode 1115) |
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Cartoon | Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0506) |
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Film | "Head To Toe Puzzle": Two kids put together a life size jigsaw puzzle of a human body. (title screen cut) (First: Episode 0024) |
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Cartoon | Consonant Sound Limerick: H - Horse (First: Episode 1167) |
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Cast | A small car pulls up in a limbo space. A voiceover points out that the car is full. Some of the cast exits and the voice assumes the car is empty, until more and more people (including Big Bird and even Mr. Snuffleupagus) exit from the car. (First: Episode 1296) |
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Film | Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) |
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SCENE 3 | Bruno the Trashman brings Oscar out from the cold into Hooper's Store to warm up with some soup, which Oscar doesn't want at all. David encourages him to try something new and lists the many types of soup they have to offer. Oscar changes his mind and orders all the varieties of soup, but all mixed together (with cherries, sardines, and Reddi-Wip). |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Picture of Bert — Ernie tells Bert to stand still in front of the camera so that he can trace Bert's face on the screen. (First: Episode 0536) |
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Film | A baker decorates a birthday cake to a jazz percussion beat. (First: Episode 1172) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8 (First: Episode 0282) |
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Film | Empty / full classroom (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0475) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a SCHOOL sign. (First: Episode 0379) |
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Film | Alone Song (First: Episode 0921) |
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Cartoon | G is for Goat (First: Episode 0085) |
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Muppets | Grover sees his shadow follow him around, and thinks it's a person following him. However, Herbert Birdsfoot explains what a shadow is. (First: Episode 0221) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird puts on his skates and believes nobody would want to go skating with him on such a cold day. As he emerges from his nest area, he find everyone on skates (even a fumbling David). |
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Cartoon | Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Film | Kids identify a piece of cabbage in close-up. (First: Episode 0368) |
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Cartoon | Two boys peek into a fire house, and write HAT, HOSE, and HOOK on the window using their breath. Two dogs come by and wonder what a HAT HOSE HOOK is, but their question is answered when the fire truck leaves the station. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1204) |
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Film | In stop-motion, assorted furniture places themselves in a classroom. (First: Episode 0647) |
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Cartoon | Harold and Howard think of H words. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Glass of Water — Bert wonders what Ernie could be doing with all the glasses of water he's taking out of the apartment. (First: Episode 0425) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob puts on some disco music as everyone skates around the yard. David wishes he could skate as well as the others, who help him out. He worries about falling down, but they hold on to him as he takes his first few rolls. David feels he's gotten the hang of it and rolls off without their help. He ends up crashing into a pile of boxes, and is no longer worried about falling. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue." (First: Episode 0775) |
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Film | Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388) |
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Cartoon | The man is only afraid of one thing: FEAR. (First: Episode 0816) |
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Cast | Bob, Linda and Luis assemble a lowercase h. (First: Episode 1056) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Touch, Hold, Feel." (First: Episode 0504) |
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SCENE 6 | Everyone continues skating to a disco version of the "Sesame Street Theme" as Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Olivia holds the CTW sign. |
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