| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| An ice cream machine is installed on Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | May 14, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch tells the audience he's sending a letter to his uncle who runs a mud farm. He makes a request for mud, and his uncle send it back to him through the mail. Oscar places the letter in the mail box, leading to... |
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Film | "I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent. (First: Episode 0120) |
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Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman. (First: Episode 0023) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing is a mailman. (First: Episode 0220) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Eats Cake — Ernie eats one of the two pieces of chocolate cake that Bert was saving for their dessert. (First: Episode 0119) |
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SCENE 2 | As Bob passes by, an ice cream company employee named Moe grabs his attention to show him that a new ice cream machine has been installed on Sesame Street. Bob doesn't think the neighborhood needs one since they've got Hooper's Store, but Moe convinces him to try it. After feeding it a dime, Bob gets an ice cream sandwich and heads over to Hooper's. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Mr. Hooper catches Bob reading by his newspaper stand and asks him where he got the ice cream. Bob explains and instantly puts Mr. Hooper into a panic that it's going to put him out of business. While Bob tries to convince him that won't happen, several kids pass by having made purchases from the machine. |
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Film | A percussionist on the beach talks about how rhythm is everywhere, such as in breaking waves, walking and horse galloping. (edited) (First: Episode 0032) cut from the Max version |
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SCENE 3 | Moe tries to sell Oscar some ice cream, but Oscar complains that it doesn't have his favorite flavor: sardine. As the man apologizes, Mr. Hooper begins shouting "GET YOUR SARDINE ICE CREAM" from his window. Oscar shouts back for him to save him some, and tells Moe that if he doesn't get any sardine ice cream in his machine, he's going to go out of business. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Banana Phone — Ernie tells a caller that Bert can't come to the phone right now because he's talking on a banana. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Cartoon | A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird comes by the ice cream machine and prepares to spend his dime on it, but he's turned off by the flavors that Moe has understood to be this neighborhood's favorite (namely, the newly stocked sardine ice cream). Big Bird explains that he usually spend his money at Hooper's, just as Mr. Hooper begins shouting today's special: extra crunchy bird seed ice cream. |
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Muppets | Herry Monster has just learned how to spell the word telephone. Cookie Monster comes running in with a frantic need for a telephone. Herry shows him the word, but Cookie wants a real one. Herry gives him one, and Cookie eats it. (First: Episode 0207) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty T” (First: Episode 0020) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon and Susan reluctantly agree to try the ice cream machine until they learn what Moe has installed as Sesame Street's favorite flavors: sardine and bird seed. Mr. Hooper calls them over shouting flavors such as chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, peppermint ripple, fudge chip, peach, banana, apple, rum raisin, and raspberry sherbet. Susan asks if he has pistacchio... "I've got that, too!" |
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Cartoon | A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". Voice: Bob Arbogast (First: Episode 0024) |
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Celebrity | The stars of Bonanza -- Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, and Dan Blocker -- count up to 20. (First: Episode 0131) |
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SCENE 6 | From the pay phone inside Hooper's, Moe calls company headquarters to tell them they'd better come and pick the machine up. They can't compete with the number of flavors carried by Hooper's Store. As the man starts to unravel, Mr. Hooper offers him a tutti-frutti cone. He begins to cry, tells his boss he quits, and hangs up the phone. |
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Muppets | Grover, lost in a scary forest, sings "I Whistle a Happy Tune" to keep his spirits up. He bumps into a monster -- but it's Cookie Monster, who happily joins in the song. Then they run into a little boy, and they run away, panicked. (First: Episode 0131) cut from the Max version |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cuppycakes — Cookie Monster keeps stealing the "cuppycakes" that Ernie is trying to photograph. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Cartoon | A cat chases a mouse into a mouse hole. The cat and mouse make music as they hit the wall, until the cat breaks through the mouse hole. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0244) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon screens a film about frogs in his apartment for Bob as a practice run for his class. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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Film | Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man named Jack sings "A, You're Adorable" to his girlfriend, Adrienne, using alphabet blocks to enumerate the ways that he loves her. Cookie Monster shows up and eats the blocks. (First: Episode 0023) cut from the Max version |
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Film | Lizards (First: Episode 0047) |
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Muppets | Grover tries to show some monsters that they need to be on both sides of a rope in order to have a proper game of tug-o-war. (First: Episode 0261) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates beginning and end. |
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SCENE 8 | Susan instructs the kids on how to undress and dress a paper doll-style image of a little girl. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (repeat) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty T" (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Bob helps the kids take turns on the tire swing. As they wave goodbye, Gordon announces the sponsors, and the credits follow. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Cookie Monster holds the CTW sign. |
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