| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar's Grouchketeer meeting | |||||||
| Air date | February 22, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Luis, Susan, and Mr. Hooper have difficulty in explaining what "away from" means to the kids. Luis gets the idea to get Oscar involved by knocking on his trash can, then lingering until Oscar yells at him to get away from his can. Susan and Mr. Hooper do the same thing, and finally tell him what they're up to. They refuse to leave until Oscar tells them to get away from him one more time, so the Grouch drives everybody away when he produces something he's cooking up: a foul-smelling concoction of limburger, anchovies, liverwurst, and garlic. |
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Cartoon | A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of a swan. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Planning Ahead at the Beach — Bert and Ernie have planned ahead for their day at the beach. (First: Episode 0284) |
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SCENE 2 | The kids gather at the playground barrels near Big Bird's nest to watch Alphabet Bates write a letter S in the sky. (First: Episode 0063) |
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Muppets | "Sammy the Snake" (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | Superman demonstrates the letter S and some of the words it stands for. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Insert | Musical Bridge #2: close-ups of guitars, an organ, and drums. (First: Episode 0632) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird finishes painting a picture of a field in the yard, depicting only the sky and grass. When Susan points this out, the kids add their own touches to it by adding their cut-out drawings of various animals and trees. The picture then spontaneously begins to make animal noises. |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "The Trading Game" with contestants Oscar the Grouch and Sally Screamer. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Cartoon | A boy looks for the telephone as it rings. (First: Episode 0684) |
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Film | Hamburger bun factory (First: Episode 0615) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Princess Chooses a Prince — A princess selects Kermit as her prince. (First: Episode 0859) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird plays a “Three of These Things” game using the kids' cut-outs of a gorilla, a tree, a crocodile, and a giraffe. |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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Cartoon | Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480) |
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Film | Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer". The object is a tire. (First: Episode 0147) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts 10 stairs as he climbs them with his sack of toys. (First: Episode 0997) |
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Film | Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0619) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs. (First: Episode 0103) |
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Cartoon | Footprints move over to the tune of "Here Are Some Things". (First: Episode 0505) |
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SCENE 5 | Oscar holds a Grouchketeer meeting, where he admires the dirty faces of Damian, Jenny, and Ricardo. In hoping to educate the youth in his own grouchy way, Oscar produces a ratty number 3 and sends them off on a treasure hunt for things in groups of three. Damian returns with three wilted flowers, Jenny brings three moldy pieces of bread, and Ricardo gives him three old shoes. They all line up so he can count the faces of four Grouches (including his own). |
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Celebrity | Helen Reddy sings "I Make Up Songs." (First: Episode 0774) |
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Film | A man and children observe the life along the river. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (First: Episode 0134) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment —: Grover and his friend Debo notice the letter "S" sitting on a brick wall. He exclaims that the letter is an old friend, and shouts, "Hey, S, babyyyy!" and slaps it off the wall. He remarks, "I hope he did not take that personally." (First: Episode 0467) |
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SCENE 6 | Susan sits in as Oscar asks the Grouchketeers what they had for breakfast. He sees that they're all in a good mood since they all ate nice things; Oscar recommends that they should've had nothing instead, holding up an empty cereal box and listing the "benefits" as if he's a pitchman. Susan tells him that even Grouches need breakfast so they will have energy to be even more cantakerous. Oscar ends the meeting with the Grouchketeer cheer ("How can you spot a Grouchketeer? / He's the one with the thumb in his ear!") before the kids run off and he goes to get some breakfast of his own. |
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Animation | Sand K/k (First: Episode 0645) |
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Cartoon | "K" - Kangaroo - A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains what a kangaroo is, and ends up in the pouch of one. (First: Episode 0141) |
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Cast | Maria and David find two sets of sacks, which have incorrect numerical labels. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Jerry Nelson counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey. (First: Episode 1097) |
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Cartoon | In rhyme, a man points out animals who stole and/or ruined his clothing. (First: Episode 0778) |
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Cartoon | Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc. (First: Episode 0544) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Elk feeding. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0793) |
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Muppets | Salesman Harvey Kneeslapper asks Tony if he gets attacked by monsters and run over by crowds. Herry Monster attacks him and a crowd walks all over him, so the answer is yes. Harvey has a simple solution for Tony: AWAY FROM! The next time those things happen to Tony, he can get AWAY FROM them. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: The man unscrambles the letters in a HELP sign. |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1 (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 7 | The Grouchketeers sneak back to Oscar's trash can and loudly bang on it before dashing away. "Bless their little rotten hearts," Oscar muses as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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