| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird’s note to Hoots | |||||||||
| Air date | January 15, 1988 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Luis Santeiro | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird notices Luis fixated on watching Maria doing some repairs inside the Fix-It Shop. He recalls when she first started working there and not knowing much about fixing items, but he now beams with pride over how great she is now. Big Bird then notices Maria staring similarly at Luis. |
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Animation | Sand Q/q (First: Episode 0623) |
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Film | Footage of a baby learning to walk. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0427) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Who Took Bert's Cookies — Bert accuses Ernie of stealing his cookies, but they soon discover that the culprit is Cookie Monster... dressed as Ernie. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Cartoon | 5 song (twinkles, candles, diamonds, horses) (First: Episode 0973) |
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Insert | Kim and David help each other put on their smocks before painting a picture. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | Children describe how to draw an elephant. (First: Episode 0052) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon comes across Telly, who covers his ears to try to prevent his great idea from falling out of his head. Gordon assures him this can't happen, so Telly uncovers his ears and finds that Gordon is right. When asked what his idea was, Telly's a little embarrassed - he was wondering how to keep an idea in his head. |
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Cartoon | T for treasure (Jim Thurman VO) (First: Episode 1990) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur — Herry Monster and Grover race across the beach. (First: Episode 1833) |
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Film | Joe Raposo: Wet & Dry (Falls in pool; kid VO's) (First: Episode 0467) |
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Cartoon | A report on homes around the world. (First: Episode 1711) |
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Muppets | Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian." (First: Episode 2205) |
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Cartoon | I am dry, he is wet (circus elephant) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0309) |
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SCENE 3 | Elmo shows Gina the letter T game he and the kids are playing. They pose as letter Ts and do things that start with T (such as tiptoeing, tweeting, and tick-tocking). Gina does something else next that starts with T: tickling Elmo! |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter has an electric train. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Film | A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant. (First: Episode 0593) |
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Muppets | Game Show: To Tell A Face The object of the game is to identify the face of a relative. The contestant in this skit is Baby Bobby, who must identify his grandmother. (First: Episode 2125) |
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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 | Alien Alphabet (First: Episode 0277) |
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Animation | Geometry of Circles #3 "Six Colored Circles" (First: Episode 1395) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird shows Maria and Luis the ant bus stop, located near where the normal bus stop is. As the ants get on their miniature bus, Big Bird tells Maria and Luis that like the two of them, the ants are headed off to a picnic. The couple notes that the ants didn't bring any food with them, but Big Bird explains that they dine on whatever people bring, believing they're going to Maria and Luis' picnic as well. |
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Cartoon | Ants carry a huge letter 'Q' uphill. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: A boy is confused -- his mother told him to take a bus home, but he doesn't know where to find the bus. Super Grover arrives, and they soon discover a sign that says "Bus Stop". The boy believes they found the answer, but Super Grover insists that his mother told him to take a bus home, not a sign. (First: Episode 0708) |
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Cartoon | "All right, now that you've eaten everything in sight, would you mind telling me what you plan to have for dessert?" (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | The Count sings about what he does when there's "Nothing to Count" - he imagines counting birdies and elephants. (First: Episode 1940) |
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Cartoon | Two men debate whether or not a ladder has 5 steps. (First: Episode 1538) |
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Song | "The Ball Goes Up, The Ball Goes Down" (First: Episode 0773) |
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Celebrity | Grundgetta has fixed a makeshift NASA sign to Oscar's trash can and she's attempting a countdown, but she's just shouting random numbers. Sally Ride approaches and asks if she needs any help. Grundgetta annoyedly asks if the woman is an expert or something. Ride begins to answer when Grundgetta concedes that maybe she can help if she knows how to count backwards from ten. As Ride provides the countdown, the trash can smokes and rumbles, and takes off into the air. When it plummets to the ground, Ride hurries over to the crash site to see if Grundgetta is okay. She's more than okay, she's terrific, and so was Ride's counting. Grundgetta concludes that she must be an expert after all. (First: Episode 1939) |
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Cartoon | Q-quiet! (tree chopping) (First: Episode 0675) |
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Film | A voiceover recites a poem about trees, to music by Joe Raposo. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Muppets | For Show-and-Tell, Bert sings a song about his rock. (First: Episode 1309) |
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Animation | ¿Qué es esto? (un pajaro) (First: Episode 1977) |
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Film | Hippos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0415) |
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Cartoon | A man finds and eats five apples, counting the number left after each one. (First: Episode 1578) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon finds Big Bird chatting away to Hoots the Owl, who is fast asleep. Big Bird explains that because they're on different sleep schedules, he's unable to talk to Hoots about much in the little time they have together. Gordon suggests he write Hoots a note and gives him some paper. |
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Cartoon | A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0914) |
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Song | Olivia sings "Everything Grows." (First: Episode 0998) |
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SCENE 6 | Hoots continues to sleep as Big Bird writes even more in his note. Gordon announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
Notes
- During the first scene, Luis tells Big Bird that when Maria started working at the Fix-it Shop, she didn't know how to fix a thing. This contradicts Episode 0832, her first day on the job where she tells Luis that she was always interested in fixing things.
- While writing his note to Hoots, Big Bird briefly mentions Snuffy's little sister Alice, who would debut on the show later in Episode 2410.
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