Sesame Street 
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| Ernie guesses pajaro and plays sounds | |||||||||
| Air date | March 21, 1972 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Ernie and Antonio arrive at the Fix-It Shop where Antonio and Luis greet each other in Spanish. Luis says that Antonio is carrying a "pajaro" in the box, and Ernie makes several guesses about what it could be in English. After several clues, he figures out that it's a bird and begins conversing with it in a series of tweets. After a brief exchange, he tells Luis that he didn't realize that Antonio's bird spoke Spanish too. |
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Film | D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs, and hobbies that begin with D. |
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Cartoon | D-dart (First: Episode 0292) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Pajaro Quickie |
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Cartoon | A girl wonders what would happen if she popped her balloon. She imagines it would scare her sister, who would end up breaking a vase and getting in trouble. (First: Episode 0280) |
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Insert | Kids Recite Alphabet |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper approaches a man and says, "Knock, knock!" The man asks, "Who's there?". Harvey says, "Dion." The man asks, "Dion who?" Then Harvey slaps a letter D on the man's chest and says, "D on you!" (First: Episode 0292) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #12: Square remains in corner, and third dot changes color (First: Episode 0296) |
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Muppets | Kermit tests Cookie Monster with his new monster testing device. He wants to see if Cookie Monster can figure out how to get the cookie out of the machine. Cookie Monster proceeds to crush the cookie in the contraption into crumbs and pour water on them. But he's delighted with the results -- cookie soup. (First: Episode 0320) |
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Cartoon | Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #2) (First: Episode 0335) |
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Muppets | Two twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices. (First: Episode 0277) |
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SCENE 2 | The cast presents same and different quickies: Maria points to kids with the same number on the front of their sweatshirts, but different numbers on the back. Bob has two of the same kind of flower pot, but the flowers that spontaneously grow are different. David has two of the same kind of radio, but they are tuned to different stations. |
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Film | Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other. (First: Episode 0226) |
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Muppets | Three Anything Muppets (including George) individually try to sell lemons, water, and sugar. After all of their businesses fail, the three cooperate to start a lemonade stand. (First: Episode 0335) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: D for Dog (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "Dee, Dee, Dee" as Cookie Monster hastily demonstrates each D word. (First: Episode 0319) |
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SCENE 3 | Locked out of Hooper's Store, David is unable to buy a soda, and Maria is unable to use the store's bottle opener to enjoy the soda she bought elsewhere. David has a bottle opener in his pocket knife, so they cooperate and share the soda. |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8 (First: Episode 0282) |
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Cast | Tom plays a clown preparing himself in a mirror. Bob, his reflection, can't find the same hat as Tom's. (First: Episode 0277) |
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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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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry sing "Circles." (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | "Daddy Dear" |
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Film | A film of things that make sounds, including birds and farm animals. Is silence a sound? (edited) (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria sings "Here Are Some Things" in Spanish with the kids. On her board are pictures of bread, bananas, and eggs all in groups of three; she asks if the group of four tomatoes or three fish belongs with the others. |
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Cast | Bob, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Big Bird, and Gordon line up in limbo and a voiceover (Fran Brill) asks how many of them there are, how many when they're all mixed up, and how many when each of them are subtracted one by one. (First: Episode 0260) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water (First: Episode 0062) |
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Cartoon | W - wallpaper (First: Episode 0291) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts four eggs. A chick hatches out of one egg, so he counts the three eggs -- then two, then one. Then he counts the four chickens. (First: Episode 0282) |
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Film | Ten zebras walk slow, while 10 other zebras walk fast. (First: Episode 0338) |
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SCENE 5 | In the yard, Ernie shows Luis and the kids his tape recorder and plays some of the sounds he's captured. He's got a bird recording, but when he plays it, it's a fire engine drowning out the sound of the bird. He's also got a cat sampling but really it's a barking dog chasing the cat, and the ticking of his clock but his telephone started ringing while he was recording. Finally, Ernie plays the sound of Sesame Street, but it's just silence — he recorded it at night after everyone had gone to sleep. |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up." (First: Episode 0302) |
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Muppets | The Busby Twins ask the storekeeper for a tie— so the man shows them some neckties. They finish the word, and the man figures out that they're asking for a tire. When he asks them what kind of bicycle they have, they answer, "a...bi-...cyc-...le-...built...for...two." |
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Film | Elephants in the zoo. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Counting Sheep — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 6 | The cast sings "Play Along" using makeshift instruments. |
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Film | Lions walk down a trail. Music: Joe Raposo |
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Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079) |
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Film | Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) |
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SCENE 7 | The sponsors are announced. |
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