| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 2, 1993 | ||||||
| Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
| Written by | Sara Compton | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Savion, Lillian, Duane, and the kids sing about the word "original." |
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Animation | Rubber Stamp #15 (First: Episode 2945) |
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Film | A girl narrates a film of herself taking care of her horse, Strawberry. (First: Episode 2641) |
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Animation | Pencil box Y / y (First: Episode 3043) |
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Muppets | "Barn in the USA" (First: Episode 2991) |
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Cartoon | A cartoon shows a few Spanish words - which are also English words. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 3011) |
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Song | "Ja, Ja, That is the Mountain" Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 2780) |
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SCENE 2 | Roxie Marie visits her uncle Biff at his workshop to tell him she did well on her math test. Biff reveals something he's working on that's number-related too. He brings out a birdhouse with one final nail left to be hammered, saying it needs to be hit exactly 15 times; he's even made a note on the wall to remind himself. After he hits it the right number, Roxie wonders what happens if he hits it more than 15 times. He gives it a try and the entire birdhouse collapses. |
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Cartoon | Abstract count to 15 (First: Episode 2851) |
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Muppets | Big Bird's Video Postcards Big Bird visits a Puerto Rican casita in East Harlem. He tries to find out what people do there, but everyone is too busy feeding chickens, planting tomatoes, cooking, and planning music to answer. (First: Episode 3018) |
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Cartoon | A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram. (First: Episode 1014) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Alphabet Mine — Kermit interviews J miners. (First: Episode 2302) |
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Song | "Around and Around" (First: Episode 2753) |
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Cartoon | The Great Inventors Series: John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, invents a new type of food that can be eaten while playing cards. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2574) |
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SCENE 3 | Duane has Christine, who is blind, identify the shapes of a triangle, a rectangle, and a circle by feeling them. He then gives her another kind of circle: a big cookie, which they share. |
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Animation | Looking for shapes on the Aztec Calendar Stone (Maria voiceover) (First: Episode 3049) |
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Muppets | "Body Rhythms" by Little Jerry and the Monotones. (First: Episode 1399) |
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Film | Two boys walk though a city neighborhood to some funky break dancing music. (First: Episode 2679) |
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Cartoon | Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin) (First: Episode 0638) |
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Muppets | Grover tries to demonstrate first and last by being first in line, but the other monsters keep switching on him. (First: Episode 1332) |
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Cartoon | "Crocodile Smiles Song": A crocodile sings about good oral hygiene. Artist: Michael Sporn (First: Episode 1731) |
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SCENE 4 | Merry Monster brings Herry to the yard so they can show Prairie Dawn how they sound alike. Prairie notes that their voices are distinctly different: by her words, Herry has a deep, "furry-sounding" voice while Merry's is rather shrill. Merry reveals that what she's referring to is how their names rhyme, and she and Herry laugh at their little trick. |
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Cartoon | "What Do You Do With a Pet?" (First: Episode 0465) |
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Cast / Celebrity | Wanda the Word Fairy introduces the viewer to her parents. (First: Episode 2678) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Egyptian Mummies — Ernie and Bert explore an Egyptian pyramid. (First: Episode 1621) |
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Cartoon | "Magic Pig" Artist: Vince Collins (First: Episode 0772) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of how a river is formed. (First: Episode 2710) |
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Animation | Planet Y / y (First: Episode 2859) |
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SCENE 5 | Lillian reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to the kids and the Count, who naturally takes joy in counting the different foods the titular character eats. Following the story, the Count lists the other groups of food the caterpillar would eat if he had written it. |
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Cartoon | Jerry Nelson sings "In My Book." (First: Episode 2983) |
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Cast | Linda signs the word snow, and Gordon gets snowed on. (First: Episode 2712) |
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Muppets | "Daddy Helps with the Dishes" - three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. They all agree that when they all do it, "It soon gets done!" (First: Episode 2223) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: J for jump (First: Episode 0772) |
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Song | "Me and My Chair" (First: Episode 1706) |
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Cartoon | Shorty reaches a water fountain with a stool. (First: Episode 0954) |
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SCENE 6 | Savion teaches Lillian and the kids some basic tap dance moves that they should learn before they can do original ones. When Savion demonstrates a more complicated step, Duane jokes that he did the same thing yesterday. Lillian then does something she knows how to do: announce the sponsors. |
Notes
- Duane and Christine have previously appeared together to demonstrate what it's like being blind in Episode 2935.
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