| Sesame Street | |||||
| Big Bird practices magic (repeat of 2144) | |||||
| Air date | November 25, 1987 | ||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Maria and Luis welcome the viewer in Spanish, then Big Bird - or rather, "The Amazing Birdford," greets them. Big Bird has borrowed the Amazing Mumford's magic kit and is learning how to become a magician. He asks them if he can try out his disappearing trick on something, and they let him try it on a trash can. It doesn't disappear, not even when he tries saying the magic words in Spanish. Big Bird goes off to practice some more, and Maria and Luis notice that their tools are missing ... |
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Film | Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234) |
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Cartoon | An alien comes across a pair of tree trunks; one with multi-colored leaves, the other without. He finds and grows leaves to mount on the other tree, then strings a hammock between the two. (First: Episode 1451) |
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Muppets | Grover the Waiter at La Casa de Comidas (First: Episode 1793) |
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Animation | P for Pyramid (First: Episode 2061) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar the Grouch likes it when Susan looks filthy and greasy after working on her car, but is disappointed when he finds out she's going to take a shower and get all clean. |
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Cartoon | Monster in the dark (finding a light switch) (First: Episode 0493) |
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Film | "Hey, let's make a road!" Kids do so at the beach, while a construction crew does the real thing. (First: Episode 0295) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet family sings "Let's Go Driving." (First: Episode 2095) |
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Cartoon | A girl sorts everything she finds which is alive and not alive. (First: Episode 1526) |
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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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SCENE 3 | Susan sets three new plants on her window sill. Meanwhile, Big Bird tries to use magic to multiply three balls - but only ends up rearranging them in different ways, which he doesn't think is so amazing. He walks away in disgust, when Susan notices a lot more plants around the outside of her apartment! |
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Animation | El numero tres (Luis V.O.) (First: Episode 2119) |
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Muppets | Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart! (First: Episode 0554) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: GROW (First: Episode 1120) |
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Song | Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller. (First: Episode 2262) |
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Muppets | Gordon reads the story of "Stan and Dan." Dan copies everything that Stan does, until Dan becomes a hippie. (First: Episode 2030) |
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Animation | I see a 3! Do you see a 3? (First: Episode 1611) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Telly tries to speed up his growth by eating vegetables and exercising, but Smokey Robinson explains that "It Takes Time" to grow up big and strong. (First: Episode 1970) |
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Cartoon | A blue man demonstrates in and out with the help of a barrel. (First: Episode 2084) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Safe — Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0581) |
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Cartoon | R for Rhinoceros (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1151) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster fights over the letters P and R, one of them displaying P foods and the other one displaying R foods (and a radio). They have a picnic, which is cut short due to rain. (First: Episode 1574) |
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Cartoon | Pat the Pilot skywrites a letter P with her plane. Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0478) |
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Song | Spanish Food Market Song (First: Episode 1111) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob witnesses as Big Bird tries his magic on three apples and one banana - he will make the banana disappear, since it does not belong with the apples. He makes the apples disappear, but not the banana; instead it's taken away by a monkey (that Big Bird somehow conjured up). |
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Cartoon | Un circulo (First: Episode 1657) |
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Cartoon | R for rose |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird swears to give up magic, since none of his tricks seem to turn out right. Maria, Luis, and Susan try to encourage him not to because his accidental magic has still been amazing in some ways. Big Bird lets them try out Mumford's magic kit, but they don't get any results when they use it. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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