| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | April 23, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird sings "I Wonder How It Feels." |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Baby Monster Day Care Center — Cookie Monster seeks Kermit's reward. (First: Episode 1322) |
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Cartoon | Wrong Way Willie, treasurer of his club, has lost the club's funds. Billy Jo Jive and Susie look for where it may be and discover Willie's had it in his hat the entire time. (First: Episode 1235) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | David leads the kids in an upbeat game called "Head and Shoulders," where they clap out a rhythm and touch various body parts when prompted. |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #8 (First: Episode 0998) |
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Muppets | Toothy Takes a Partner - Toothy, a set of teeth, has his agent look for the perfect new partner to help regain his shine. (First: Episode 1105) |
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Cartoon | A boy and girl fight over the word YO. Luckily, he has a spare. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | While watching her goldfish, a girl wonders what the world is like from her goldfish's perspective. (First: Episode 0288) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Johnny Cash sings "Nasty Dan" to Oscar. (First: Episode 0558) |
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Cartoon | Thelma Thumb: A boy’s toy airplane’s controls break. Thelma comes to the rescue by steering the plane. Artist: John Korty |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Malcolm imagines a walk in the woods based on the music James Galway plays on his flute. His imaginary walk tuckers him out, so James plays him a lullaby. |
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Film | Flamingos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0450) |
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Cartoon | A ship captain orders the numbers 1-20 into a boat - which promptly sinks. Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (First: Episode 0614) |
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Insert | Bob and Janice show D for Dog. (First: Episode 1244) |
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Cartoon | Consonant Sound Limerick: D—Dog Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1149) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet demonstrates empty by leaving his room, soon Grover and his friends, including Cookie Monster, occupy the room making it full. The Anything Muppet comes in and scares the monsters away leaving it empty. (First: Episode 0148) |
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Cartoon | Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats. (First: Episode 1148) |
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Song | "Do the Wash" |
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Cartoon | D-dart (First: Episode 0292) |
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Muppets | The Count sings "One Potato" while counting the items vendors are selling. (First: Episode 1380) |
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SCENE 3 | At Hooper's Store Maria helps David prepare some "ropa vieja," a Cuban food dish. Maria tells him the name means "old clothes" in Spanish, believing that the shredded beef in it resembles old, worn clothing. Oscar comes by to donate some ingredients - a torn Grouch shirt, not aware the name isn't literal. When he learns of the healthy, delicious ingredients that really go into it, Oscar is disgusted ("You mean you don't even throw in an old sock for seasoning?") and decides to go home and cook up the "real thing." |
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Cartoon | I thought a thought ... about circles. (Spanish version) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0434) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (First: Episode 0133) |
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Cartoon | D - dig, deep, dinosaur (First: Episode 1148) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates empty and full. (First: Episode 0257) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet lady spells out the word BUG, after which a bug introduces himself. |
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Cartoon | I thought a thought ... about circles. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0247) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria gets up on a ladder to try and fix Big Bird's door, but Barkley bounds in and starts bothering her. Oscar claims the pooch is looking for shapes as he's been teaching Barkley about them, though Maria is aware that it's some kind of trick instead. Oscar points out the shapes (traced via telestrator) found in the area - rectangles in the door, a triangle in her ladder, and her square box of tools, all of which Barkley pounces upon. Maria gets even by showing Barkley the circle made by Oscar's trash can lid and Barkley starts leaping toward it, sending Oscar in a tizzy. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie sings "Happy Birthday" to a letter U, which blows out the candle on the cake. (First: Episode 1306) |
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Cartoon | A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U. (First: Episode 0416) |
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Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up! (First: Episode 0149) |
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Cartoon | A square is fit into many different things, such as a truck, window, television, etc. (First: Episode 0316) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird declares today Rhyming Day and annoys Mr. Hooper by speaking in rhyme, as well as pointing out the many unintentional rhymes Mr. Hooper makes. The storekeeper vows to avoid making any rhymes when Maria comes by with her shopping list, which happens to be chock full of rhyming groceries. |
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Animation | David points out a heptagon in outerspace. |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppet babies sing "A Baby's Life." |
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Cartoon | He, She and It: The IT clears up the kids' knowledge on how a scale works. (First: Episode 1153) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird continues to irritate Mr. Hooper with his rhyming as David announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Olivia and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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