| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Cabbage eating contest | |||||||
| Air date | February 11, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 11 (1979-1980) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird helps Mr. Snuffleupagus get ready for a big cabbage-eating contest later today. They practice by feeding him cabbage after cabbage after cabbage... |
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Film | Shopping for soup ingredients. (First: Episode 0515) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster sounds out the word FOOD, then eats it. (First: Episode 0601) |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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SCENE 2 | Snuffy has now consumed over 40 cabbages and is still up to practice some more... |
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Cartoon | Millie and Molly build a bookshelf. (First: Episode 1287) |
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Film | Jack Rabbit Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster demonstrates that egg starts with the letter E; he swallows the egg and faints. (First: Episode 0316) |
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Cartoon | Shorty reaches a water fountain with a stool. (First: Episode 0954) |
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SCENE 3 | Snuffy has eaten all 70 cabbages, but is now too bloated and nauseated to compete. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Four Elephants — Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree. (First: Episode 0292) |
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Film | Lemurs rest on tree branches. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster charms two snakes with his saxophone. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1287) |
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Film | While walking and reading the newspaper, a man barely avoids DANGER on three occasions, but then gets hit by a revolving door. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Muppets | Grover reads a sign that says DANGER and looks around for said danger. He doesn't find it anywhere until he trips and falls on the sign. (First: Episode 0182) |
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Cartoon | A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0413) |
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Insert | Gladys the Cow visits Hooper's Store, where she offers milk to Mr. Hooper at 15¢ a container. Mr. Hooper already has plenty since he normally gets it from the delivery person every morning. Gladys doesn't understand, so he explains the process of milk coming from the cows to the containers to his store. Slightly discouraged, Gladys decides to go elsewhere hoping to be a success. (First: Episode 1074) |
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Cartoon | Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats. (First: Episode 1148) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Five Little Pigs — Kermit encouters the wrong group of pigs. (First: Episode 0737) |
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Cartoon | Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat Voice: Daws Butler (First: Episode 0770) |
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Film | Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Muppets | A Muppet cowpoke gives a musical warning about the "Danger Sign." (First: Episode 1295) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria is feeling especially hungry and orders the biggest thing David can whip up. He touts a new hero sandwich he's created and shows her how he makes it. The sandwich winds up being too big to even fit in her mouth. |
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Cartoon | A mouse is squashed between two elephants. (First: Episode 0779) |
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Film | "Three of These Kids" — Football and Baseball (First: Episode 0536) |
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Cartoon | A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... (First: Episode 0787) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates between. (First: Episode 0542) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Prepares for His Bath — Bert scoffs at Ernie bringing an umbrella, a flashlight, and a bowling ball to the bathtub. (First: Episode 0269) |
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Cartoon | Kids count from 1 to 10, then 10 to 1, as the numbers are displayed over colored lights. (First: Episode 0931) |
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Film | Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | A red man tries to get apples from a tree by himself, while a yellow man builds a ladder. (First: Episode 0779) |
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SCENE 5 | Biff and Sully deliver a piano to Oscar's trash can. While Biff goes to retrieve the work order from the truck, Sully plays a nice tune, to Oscar's disgust. Biff returns with Gordon to help get it into the can. Gordon doesn't believe they'll be able to do this, until he sees that they tear the piano apart and bring it in piece by piece. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: E-Ear (First: Episode 0807) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Four Cookies — Ernie eats one of Bert's cookies and doesn't know what to tell him. (First: Episode 0238) |
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Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Insert | During a downpour, Bob sings "I Don't Always Like the Rain." (First: Episode 0905) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again." (First: Episode 0631) |
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Cartoon | A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come. (First: Episode 1176) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets (including Farley) shout "E!" (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | A woman displays a BUS STOP sign to a crowd. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1350) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon tells Maria about what happened earlier and she can't believe the piano would actually function now, when they hear Oscar attempting to play "Chopsticks" inside his can. David announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign. |
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