| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird practices magic | |||||||
| Air date | January 23, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria and Luis welcome the viewer in Spanish, then Big Bird - or rather, "The Amazing Birdford," greets them. Big Bird has borrowed the Amazing Mumford's magic kit and is learning how to become a magician. He asks them if he can try out his disappearing trick on something, and they let him try it on a trash can. It doesn't disappear, not even when he tries saying the magic words in Spanish. Big Bird goes off to practice some more, and Maria and Luis notice that their tools are missing ... |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Peanut Butter." (First: Episode 1966) |
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Cartoon | P is for Pillow (First: Episode 0374) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey! (First: Episode 0353) |
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Film | Slide puzzle - boy (First: Episode 0428) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow. (First: Episode 1669) |
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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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SCENE 2 | Oscar the Grouch likes it when Susan looks filthy and greasy after working on her car, but is disappointed when he finds out she's going to take a shower and get all clean. |
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Cartoon | Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills. (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Polly Darton sings "I'm Under the Weather Over You." (First: Episode 1702) |
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Cartoon | Three cannonball men switch spotlights as they dance. (First: Episode 1469) |
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Film | Kids narrate footage of whales. (First: Episode 1407) |
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Muppets / Cast | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert go see a silent movie, "The Picnic" (starring Maria as Chaplin and Linda as the girl). (First: Episode 2071) |
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Cartoon | Picnic with P foods (carried away by ants) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0764) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan sets three new plants on her window sill. Meanwhile, Big Bird tries to use magic to multiply three balls - but only ends up rearranging them in different ways, which he doesn't think is so amazing. He walks away in disgust, when Susan notices a lot more plants around the outside of her apartment! |
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Animation | Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together. (First: Episode 1895) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Families." (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | Three doctors cure a sick 3. (First: Episode 1627) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover prepares a table for a family who's celebrating their grandmother's birthday, but Grover doesn't know her name, so when each family member refers to her as a different relative each time, Grover thinks there's more than one party going on, so he ends up bringing out seven cakes. (First: Episode 1958) |
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Cartoon | An owl flies, carrying a sign that says "PELIGRO." (First: Episode 0787) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: What Makes People Angry — Kermit loses his cool attempting to interview some passersby. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Animation | Sand R/r (First: Episode 0635) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Tony Danza reads a note that makes him furious. He rips it up in anger. Oscar reads a piece of it and sees why he would've been so angry. |
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Film | A scuba diver swims away from. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Muppets | "Listen to the Bells" (First: Episode 1955) |
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Cartoon | Howard Coolsell finds out about exercise. (First: Episode 1631) |
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Song | Kevin Clash sings "Rush Hour" over sped-up footage of people leaving from work. |
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Animation | Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish) (First: Episode 0451) |
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Insert | The Count (in voiceover) counts three kids who arrange themselves in different configurations with three boxes. (First: Episode 1352) |
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Film | Photographic collage demonstration of ALL, MOST, SOME and NONE of an apple. (First: Episode 0979) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob witnesses as Big Bird tries his magic on three apples and one banana - he will make the banana disappear, since it does not belong with the apples. He makes the apples disappear, but not the banana; instead it's taken away by a monkey (that Big Bird somehow conjured up). |
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Film | Gibbons make screeching noises. (First: Episode 0276) |
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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 | The Martians discover a radio. They tune into three different styles of music, none of which they like. Then they tune into some static, which they start joyfully dancing to. (First: Episode 1329) |
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Cartoon | The Bridgekeeper: Square (First: Episode 1618) |
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Film | The kids form a triangle and a square. (First: Episode 0300) |
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Cartoon | A needle and spool of thread cooperate to fix the king's torn pants. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1485) |
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Film | Time-lapse of seeds growing. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "Little Plant." |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: GROW (First: Episode 1120) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird swears to give up magic, since none of his tricks seem to turn out right. Maria, Luis, and Susan try to encourage him not to because his accidental magic has still been amazing in some ways. Big Bird lets them try out Mumford's magic kit, but they don't get any results when they use it. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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