| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Susan writes a letter to her parents | |||||||
| Air date | November 19, 1986 | ||||||
| Season | Season 18 (1986-1987) | ||||||
| Written by | Nancy Sans | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | At night, Susan writes a letter to her parents and explains that since they live out of town, she likes to let them know what's going on around them as much as she can. She writes about the day that she had, and what happened first... |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Telly is wailing because he got a splinter in his "favorite finger." Susan calms him down and takes care of it, and tells him what she did when she got a splinter in her favorite finger, and her favorite things that she could do with it. Once it's bandaged up, Telly thinks that he hears his finger beginning to heal. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Susan remembers another thing she can do with her favorite finger: tapping her cheek as she thinks. |
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Cartoon | E for Erase (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates noisy and quiet. (First: Episode 0241) |
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Cast | Bob, Olivia, and David sing a song about the rain...outside, on a rainy day. (First: Episode 1921) |
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Animation | Carrot subtraction (4-1) (First: Episode 1537) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Ideas for Games — Elmo fights Kermit for his microphone. (First: Episode 2185) |
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Cartoon | Look both ways before you cross the street Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1397) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro. (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan writes about Miles' first Birdketeer meeting, and Big Bird teaching everyone the Birdketeer motto: "Flap flap flap, hop hop hop, Birdketeer fun never stops!" |
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Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Water Baby" over footage of seals and kids swimming. (First: Episode 2016) |
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Cartoon | The Funny Four tickles all the people and animals he sees. (First: Episode 1653) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is It — Ernie wants to play tag while Bert reads his book. (First: Episode 1026) |
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Cartoon | E for End (First: Episode 0460) |
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Film | A man and a little girl perform small aerobic workouts. (First: Episode 1710) |
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Cartoon | A boy thinks it's raining outside, so he puts on his rain gear and goes outside, only to find sunny weather. It turns out the lawn sprinkler was near his window. (First: Episode 1627) |
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SCENE 3 | At the Birdketeer meeting, Big Bird plays a game of adding kids into his nest with a little song, and Susan (as the "nest mother") becomes the one who puts the birds in the nest. |
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Cartoon | A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (First: Episode 0527) |
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Muppets | Grover: Grover appears in a library to tell the viewers about what a library is. The librarian, however, keeps telling Grover to be quieter, until he can barely even be heard. (First: Episode 0287) |
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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 | Guy Smiley hosts the Letter of the Day Pageant. (First: Episode 2212) |
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Cartoon | Hockey player (Spanish). (First: Episode 2114) |
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Insert | Hoots gets into a musician's duel with Wynton Marsalis. Hoots ends up winning by flying and playing his saxophone at the same time. (First: Episode 2205) |
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Film | A look at the life of Colleen, who lives in Arizona. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0504) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster reads "SAD." (First: Episode 1422) |
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Cartoon | A man walks through the jungle, trying to photograph a bear, a tiger, and an elephant. (First: Episode 0799) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all. (First: Episode 0619) |
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Cartoon | A girl narrates a poem about the sad time when her goldfish died. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1378) |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (Spanish dub) (First: Episode 0368) |
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Cartoon | Stop! (Moving Colored STOP signs in fast-motion) (First: Episode 0776) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan resolves her letter, and she sings a song about her family while looking at the photos around her writing desk. |
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Cartoon | E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal. (First: Episode 0486) |
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Film | A girl in the city mails a letter to her grandfather in the country in Maine, and we watch its journey through the postal service. (First: Episode 1873) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Chris play the Tickle-Stop game. (First: Episode 1300) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: E-Ear (First: Episode 0807) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Statue of Bert — Ernie makes a clay bust of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Cartoon | The Ringmaster presents four lions. (First: Episode 1309) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan drops her letter into the mailbox and finds Telly still listening to his favorite finger healing. Susan points out that his body needs rest to help it heal. Telly walks home, as Susan announces the sponsors before saying goodnight. |
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