| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 31, 1985 | ||||||
| Season | Season 17 (1985-1986) | ||||||
| Written by | Emily Perl Kingsley | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | "Explorer Jones" and the kids (including Tatyana Ali) pretend to be explorers. They're looking for the alphabet, but Forgetful doesn't know what it looks like. After identifying it as Maria's hot plate and Bob's shovel, he finds it in the direction of the viewer... |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F. (First: Episode 0446) |
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SCENE 2 | In Big Bird's nest, the kids find something in Barkley's mouth. Forgetful brushes it off as a bone or something else, but it turns out to be the alphabet! |
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Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) |
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Film | Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234) |
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Muppets | Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand." (First: Episode 1959) |
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Cartoon | F - Face Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1162) |
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Film | A boy takes dance lessons at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. (First: Episode 1716) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster treats us to the balancing feats of ten brown bears. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1336) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob helps Linda show the kids how to use sign language to say "happy" and "grouchy." Oscar pops up to enjoy the grouchy sign, but Linda and the others tease him by alternating the happy and grouchy signs causing Oscar to retreat and return each time. |
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Cartoon | Vaudeville duo Herman Happy and Stanley Sad sing a song about how they live up to their names. (First: Episode 0772) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #10. (First: Episode 0328) |
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Muppets / Film | Sneak Peek Previews: Song of Ten — Ernie and Bert watch Telly and Oscar's review of the "Song of Ten." Afterwards, Ernie shocks Bert by carrying a stack of ten chocolate layer cakes like the baker from the film. (First: Episode 1963) |
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Cartoon | The weary traveler asks the wise man to demonstrate none, some, most and all with a basket of oranges. (First: Episode 0939) |
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Insert | Olivia watches Grandma Grace teaching David how to dance, prompting her to remember times with her own grandmother as she sings "Grandma's Way." (First: Episode 1916) |
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Cartoon | How they say "good night" in Haiti and in India. (First: Episode 1824) |
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Film | A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat. (First: Episode 0028) |
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Muppets | Polly Darton sings "Counting One to Five." (First: Episode 1810) |
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Cartoon | A man thinks of H words while sitting on a horse. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 1815) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson orders soup, roast beef, and peach pie, wanting them in that order (one at a time). Grover doesn't understand the order and keeps bringing the wrong item. Upon being brought the pie twice, Johnson explains that he wants that after "everything else," prompting Grover to bring everything else on the menu. (First: Episode 1307) |
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Cartoon | A painter pops out of a box and paints a lion, then hangs a "wet paint" sign on it. (First: Episode 1397) |
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Celebrity | Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe and Malcolm-Jamal Warner notice Telly and Keshia Knight Pulliam pretending to look sad, which escalates into the three of them arguing over what's more sad: losing a purple pen with a picture of Prince on it, not making the football team, or a best friend moving away. Telly and Keshia then pretend to look angry, and then notice that they look just like them. |
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Cartoon | A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (First: Episode 0020) |
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Cast | Susan, Luis, Gordon and Maria are competing on a potato bag race. Maria's bag is full of vegetables, which she gives to the others. They hop off to make them into meals, leaving Maria as the only racer. (First: Episode 1480) |
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Film | A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!" (First: Episode 1036) |
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Animation | Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill (First: Episode 0303) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Copies the Drums — Ernie instructs Bert to repeat his drum riffs and finds that he's quite good at it. (First: Episode 1809) |
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Cartoon | Fleas have fun in fur! Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0630) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob and Linda ask the kids to guess different ASL signs and explain how they came into being. The sign for "girl" originates from an era in which girls wore bonnets, "boy" depicts the brim of a hat, and "baby" mimics cradling a baby in one's arms. Maria annouces the sponsors. |
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