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Sesame Street
Rafael's burglar alarm
Air date April 5, 1972
Season Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production January 27, 1972
Sponsors Q, X, 5

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0378 01a
SCENE 1 At the Fix-it Shop, Richie brings a toaster for Rafael to fix. Richie asks Rafael why he keeps the door locked, and Rafael explains that it's to protect the shop from burglars. He demonstrates the burglar alarm, but realizes he has to go home to find the key to turn it off.
SesameQuestionSong
Muppets "The Question Song"
0378 01b
SCENE 1
cont'd
Big Bird hears the Fix-it Shop alarm ringing, and imagines that there's a burglar (played by Bob) in the Fix-it Shop stealing all of the broken items.
Monotones run
Muppets Little Jerry and the Monotones spell out RUN.
(First: Episode 0226)
0378 01c
SCENE 1
cont'd
Bob hears the alarm in the Fix-it Shop, and enters to investigate. Big Bird mistakes him for a burglar and catches him in a butterfly net. Rafael comes back to turn off the alarm, and the misunderstanding is resolved.
Bae14
Muppets Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand.
(First: Episode 0278)
666a
Song Joe Raposo sings "Touch and Feel."
(First: Episode 0252)
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q" -- A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
(First: Episode 0048)
George abovebelow
Film George the Farmer demonstrates above and below.
(First: Episode 0262)
Hubley.Penguintap
Cartoon A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0239)
ABC-conversation
Muppets An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0273)
0378 02
SCENE 2 Rafael has Brynne, Antonio, Troy, Joey, and the other kids echo the rhythms he makes when nailing a conga drum.
GroverHerryTriangleSearch
Muppets Herry Monster looks for a triangle. He first spots a rectangle first. Grover tells Herry it isn't a triangle and becomes frustrated. Next, he spots a square, Grover tells him it isn't a triangle, and once again is frustrated. Grover suggests that Herry should cut the square in half and make two triangles.
(First: Episode 0195)
5painting
Song "1-2-3-4-5!"
(First: Episode 0144)
Grover and Polly sing Alphabet
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentGrover and Polly recite the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0281)
Qthatfunnything
Cartoon Q -- that funny looking thing.
(First: Episode 0131)
GroverinAirplane
Muppets Grover uses his airplane to demonstrate "above" and "below."
(First: Episode 0149)
Smocks
Film Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting.
(First: Episode 0284)
0378 03
SCENE 3 Gordon sings "One of These Things" with the kids using pictures of carrots with different numbers of leaves. A couple of the kids count them in Spanish.
GC9
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie declares that he's "the world's greatest counter of numbers". To prove it, he counts from 1 to 10, but every time Bert interrupts him, Ernie starts over again. This slowly drives Bert crazy.
(First: Episode 0107)
Kidsplayinsnow
Film Kids play in the snow.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0292)
AlphonsoX
Cartoon The great Alphonso and his trained X's
(First: Episode 0299)
0378 04
SCENE 4 Brynne sings "One of These Things" telling the kids to point out which picture of chairs doesn't belong among the four.
Painter5
Film The Mad Painter #5
(First: Episode 0345)
2269k
Cartoon A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.”
(First: Episode 0046)
3978f
Song Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five."
(First: Episode 0245)
Wally Ralph toothpaste
Cast Wally and Ralph navigate a tube of toothpaste.
OldWest-Twins
Muppets Old West: The James Twins, who do everything together (even the speaking), arrive at the saloon and demand some "mu" and "sick." The patrons don't understand until they put the two parts together.
(First: Episode 0328)
Lookatthepenguinstakinabath
Film Penguins take a bath.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0233)
Episode378scene5still
SCENE 5 Gordon finds a lowercase q on Oscar's trash can. Gordon guesses that it begins quarter, quart or quack, but Oscar says it's for wanting people to be quiet and quit hanging around his can.
Song.Adding-CM
Muppets A long-haired hippie sings "Adding" to Cookie Monster.
(First: Episode 0243)
Dot Bridge 08 cough
Cartoon Dot Bridge #8: Dot can't stop coughing, then leaves
(First: Episode 0295)
Imaginekermit
Muppets Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day.
(First: Episode 0325)
0378 06
SCENE 6 Big Bird recites a short poem about an octopus, but has a little trouble getting it to rhyme properly.
Andnowtheoctopus
Film Footage of an octopus.
Music: "Pomp and Circumstance"
(First: Episode 0291)
Fiddler5
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0323)
Dot and hill B-1
Film Dot & Hill B-1 - A ball cannot travel up a steep incline.
(First: Episode 0216)
Qthatfunnything
Cartoon Q -- that funny looking thing. (repeat)
ErnieCookie-Quart
Muppets Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk.
(First: Episode 0047)
0378 07
SCENE 7 The kids all tell Big Bird what they want to be when they grow up. Bob announces the sponsors as Big Bird offers everyone some birdseed.
Gordon198

AntonioMaria0378
CLOSING SIGNS Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, while Antonio and Maria hold the CTW sign.

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