| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | April 29, 1988 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 19 (1987-1988) | ||||||||
| Written by | Christian Clark | ||||||||
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Insert | Big Bird wishes Luis, Gordon, the kids, Mr. Macintosh, Barkley, Olivia, and the viewer good morning. He sings "Good Morning Mr. Sun" afterwards. (First: Episode 2079) |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Hope — Ernie uses a brown paper bag to discuss the concept of hope with Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0233) |
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Cartoon | Geometry of Circles #4 "Six Circles Connected" (First: Episode 1437) |
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Film | Fireworks Alphabet (First: Episode 1104) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: London Fog — The fog in London dissipates before Kermit can report on it. (First: Episode 2360) |
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Cartoon | How many legs does a horse have? (First: Episode 1523) |
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SCENE 1 | Ruby comes into Hooper's Store and notices that Gina has a pocketbook similar to hers. They learn that they keep the exact same things in their pocketbooks, such as a comb, some tissues, a pencil and pad, and an address book. Ruby also likes to play with her pocketbook and pretend it's a truck; Gina finds that she does, too. |
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Cartoon | "The Adventures of Clever Bill!" The main character solves conflicts between two giants fighting over who was going to take the first bite of an apple, and two girls fighting over who would first bounce a big red rubber ball. However, the conflict between two ogres arguing over who would get into a sleeping bag full of mashed bananas is too gross for Clever Bill to resolve, due to the second ogre saying that the other one got his part of the bargain by swimming in cabbage juice; but in the end, he says "Two out of three isn't bad." (First: Episode 2068) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "The Eating Game", in which plates get to meet foods and take them to dinner. The contestant foods are a fish, an ear of corn, and a glass of milk. (First: Episode 2329) |
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Cartoon | "¡El juega hockey!" (First: Episode 2114) |
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Film | A group of kids pick apples in an orchard, and take them into the cider mill to make apple cider. (First: Episode 1585) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Billy Dee Williams and Mr. Honker count backwards from 10 to 1. Mr. Honker has to blow his nose before he can honk the last number. (First: Episode 1819) |
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Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #4 (First: Episode 0984) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird prepares to read a poem about the wind, but finds it difficult when the wind keeps blowing away his page. He decides instead to recite a poem about the rain, and right then and there, it starts raining. "Did you ever have one of those days?" |
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Film | Footage of a baby learning to walk. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0427) |
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Muppets | A group of female Anything Muppets sing about the many things "Women Can Be." (First: Episode 0773) |
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Cartoon | What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | V for violin (First: Episode 2386) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music gets help writing "The Alphabet Song." (First: Episode 1227) |
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Animation | Slide puzzle - elephant (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | La letra T es para tigre, tomate, taxi, toro, telefono, televisión, y el terrible tiburon. (First: Episode 0351) |
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Insert | Maria visits Oscar the Grouch to give him some basura (trash). She passionately sings a song about the word, which appeals to Oscar. (First: Episode 2157) |
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Cartoon | As night falls, five house lights are counted as they turn on and off. (new audio) Original version: (First: Episode 1538) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Eric observe the differences between fur and skin. (First: Episode 1642) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates above and below. (First: Episode 0262) |
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Muppets | The City Mouse and the Country Mouse Part 1 of 2 The Country Mouse lives peacefully on the farm when his cousin, the City Mouse, comes to visit. The City Mouse is appalled that his cousin lives in a haystack, eats acorns, and listens to birdsong. He invites his cousin to come visit him in the city. (First: Episode 0314) Only Part 1 is shown in this episode. |
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Cartoon | T es para telefono (First: Episode 0362) |
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Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster finds a TELEPHONE, and reads the word. (First: Episode 1569) |
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Film | An Hispanic boy gets up, gets dressed and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo). (First: Episode 0429) |
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Cartoon | Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes. Artist: Abe Levitow (First: Episode 0528) |
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SCENE 3 | Gina asks Telly to watch Baby Natasha for a little while, suggesting that he and Natasha could play peek-a-boo. Telly doesn't remember how to play peek-a-boo and covers his eyes while trying to picture how it goes before uncovering them. Natasha helps him realize that this is how to play the game, and soon the two monsters are having fun playing together. |
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Cartoon | A boy listens to his surroundings by the ocean, until his mom calls him for lunch. (First: Episode 2053) |
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Muppets | Bert sings "Doin' the Pigeon". (First: Episode 0536) |
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Cartoon | T for typewriter and toe Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0506) |
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SCENE 4 | Ruby has trouble putting her fur in a bun because she can't hold the mirror and put in the bobby pins at the same time. Gina helps her out by putting the bobby pins in as Ruby holds the mirror to see how it looks. Once they're done, Ruby starts pretending she's a kangaroo by jumping around, undoing Gina's work and flailing her hair around in all directions. Telly announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. Natasha chimes in afterward with a final "Peek-a-boo!" |
Note
- Scene 3 would later be used as a stand-alone Muppet segment (cutting the part with Gina) on several international co-productions, including Sesamstrasse.
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