| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Oscar starts a fire in his trash can | |||||||
| Air date | March 29, 1976 | ||||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch tries to convince the viewer to change the channel to watch some cartoons, but Herry Monster, Susan, and Gordon provide a tease for some of the segments coming up in this episode. Oscar makes another attempt to get them to change the channel to the Super Bowl. |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin has his students stand up and sit down to learn about the opposites. (First: Episode 0518) |
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Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Animation | Sand A/a (First: Episode 0628) |
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Film | A boy goes to the dentist and gets his teeth cleaned. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0476) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry and Laurie identify different shapes. |
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Cartoon | Ralph asks Marvin what would happen if he didn't have a mouth, a nose and ears. (First: Episode 0468) |
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Film | A man spins in circles while riding in his kayak. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0297) |
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Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Cartoon | An orchestra conductor asks "May I have an A, please?" at which point a giant letter A falls from the sky. (First: Episode 0770) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street pageants: Prairie Dawn directs the cast in a pageant about the face. Ernie talks about eyes, Cookie Monster talks about the mouth, Bert and Grover talk about ears, and Herry Monster talks about the nose. At the end of the pageant, they assemble a picture of a face. (First: Episode 0711) |
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Cartoon | "You know what it's like to be scared?" (First: Episode 0547) |
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Film | Kids watch a silent movie with a man resting on the train tracks with an oncoming trolley - DANGER! (First: Episode 0480) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar is burning some trash in his can, but Susan and Gordon demand he put it out. Susan explains that it's polluting the air, but Oscar says he doesn't care. Gordon tells him if he doesn't stop, as the landlord, he'll kick him out. Oscar produces three bags of trash, hands them to Gordon and tells him, as the landlord, it's his problem now. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Touch, Hold, Feel." (First: Episode 0504) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Janet Fringle needs help carrying many boxes. Super Grover suggests gluing them together, but she eventually figures out that taking them one at a time will work. (First: Episode 0588) |
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Cartoon | The Story of the Crow and the Pitcher (First: Episode 0777) |
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Film | Horses compete in a contest to see who can pull the most cement. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Cartoon | I-Ink (angry bird) (First: Episode 0462) |
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Cartoon | The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 0462) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert are watching TV, but Bert gets bored and decides to play a record. Ernie tells him to turn down the volume, but Bert won't, so Ernie drowns out Bert's music by playing the radio. Bert then retaliates by turning on the blender. With all four things running at once, they blow a fuse, causing a total blackout in their apartment. Bert goes outside to fix the fuse box, while Ernie turns off all the things that were running. When the lights come back on, they decide to play cards instead of fight. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | Two men on a park bench turn their radios up louder and louder, each trying to drown the other's out, until they reach a station they can agree on. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0796) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down. (First: Episode 0565) |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021) |
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Cartoon | An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party. (First: Episode 0293) |
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Muppets | Monsters, including the puppet who would become Grover, Flute-Snatcher, Cookie Monster, Beautiful Day Monster, and Scudge, are looking at something. Billy appears, and is reprimanded with "Eyy!" After a few times, Fred's son turns toward the viewer and yells "A!" revealing that the group is staring at the letter A. (First: Episode 0083) |
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Cartoon | A man pushes up a lazy UP. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin tells the story of an old king named Morty Moot Mope, from the kingdom of Boebitty Bope, who loves to hear words that sound the same. Morty has trouble finding words that rhyme with his name, so he calls upon Same Sound Brown to do it. (First: Episode 0534) |
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Cartoon | Ten Turtles Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) |
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Muppets | "Fat Cat" (First: Episode 0536) |
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Animation | Lollipop and feathers - what goes where? (First: Episode 0772) |
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Cast | Susan, Bob, and Maria give a lesson on addition and subtraction. (First: Episode 0633) |
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Film | Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie stacks cups and saucers in order to count them, making Bert quite nervous. Luckily, they're glued together. (First: Episode 0586) |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) |
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Insert | Buffy sings a musical tribute to the letter A. |
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Cartoon | A for Acrobats (First: Episode 0797) |
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Muppets | Kermit, Farmer Grover and a horse show how a horse-and-cart works. (First: Episode 0590) |
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SCENE 3 | While rummaging through the wastebasket outside of Hooper's Store, Oscar helps a lost Lavender boy (Jerry Nelson) retrace his steps to find his way back to his mom. Susan is surprised Oscar helped, and escorts the boy back to the park. |
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Muppets | Part 1: Ernie is holding a banana in his ear. Bert tries to tell him that he does so, but he can't hear him because of it. (First: Episode 0258) |
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Cartoon | Cherries fall through a moving hole onto a man who demonstrates up and down. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0798) |
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Muppets | Part 2: Ernie reveals that he has a banana in his ear in order to keep the alligators away. He uses Bert's denial of any on Sesame Street as proof that his method works. (First: Episode 0258) |
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Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (repeat) (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Part 3: Ernie, having seen an alligator in the previous cartoon, thinks he'll probably need a fresh banana, figuring the one he already has doesn't seem to work anymore. (First: Episode 0258) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar continues rummaging through the trash, Susan plays with the kids, and Herry announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Gallery[]
behind the scenes with Caroll Spinney and Jerry Nelson
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