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| Air date | December 19, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Johnny Cash sings "Nasty Dan" to Oscar the Grouch. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) |
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Muppets | Grover's rowboat - part 1 Grover and a group of monsters, including Herry Monster, Fenwick and Billy, get into a rowboat. The monsters all gather at one end, causing the boat to tip over and sink. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | Train #2 (First: Episode 0353) |
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Muppets | Grover's rowboat - part 2 The monsters gather on the other end of the boat, and it sinks again. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Cartoon | Julius and Jasper: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!" Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Grover's rowboat - part 3 The monsters finally spread out over the boat evenly, and row away. (First: Episode 0281) |
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Film | A bald eagle flies over houses, a beach, and other locations. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411) |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) |
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SCENE 2 | Johnny Cash sings "Five Feet High and Rising" with some visual assistance from Biff. |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets | Maria reads the story of "The King's Nose." (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | T for typewriter and toe Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cast | Gordon demonstrates T for table. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) |
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Film | A letter T drives through a tunnel. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | What if a turtle and rabbit switched appearances? (First: Episode 0451) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob sings "Here Are Some Things" to Latisha and John Carter Cash using groups of rabbits. |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "Goin' for a Ride", while traveling in a car, train, and boat. (First: Episode 0037) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph use various objects trying to keep a newspaper from blowing away next to an open window. (First: Episode 0340) |
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Film | Kid voiceovers identify a horse's body parts (shown one at a time), then the complete animal. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0428) |
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Cartoon | A man carves a YES and puts it on display. (First: Episode 0366) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — As Bert takes a nap, Ernie tells the viewer how he knows that Bert is asleep - thus waking Bert up, just to tell him it's time for his nap. (First: Episode 0027) |
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Film | Topi antelopes nod "yes." Music by Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0411) |
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Cartoon | Two ducks look the same height when they're in the bathtub, but one duck (Joe Flynn) is short and the other is tall. (First: Episode 0303) |
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Cast | A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three. (First: Episode 0431) |
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Film | "Two Song (Song of Two)" (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on tall and short using two Snerfs, who keep changing their size. (First: Episode 0015) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Two is You and Me." (First: Episode 0375) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on big and small with the Beautiful Day Monster and a small monster. Splurge comes in at the end to show what a really big monster looks like. (First: Episode 0015) |
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Cartoon | "I in the Sky" (First: Episode 0368) |
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Film | "Indian Baby Bath" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0444) |
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Film | Ten hats on a hatrack (First: Episode 0439) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker. |
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Cartoon | Uncle Al tells his nephew a story about a dog he had, but gets mixed up with the details. Artist: Marv Newland (First: Episode 0510) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!" (First: Episode 0305) |
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Cartoon | A caveman finds a rock on the ground, and visualizes the invention of the wheel and the car, ultimately deciding to toss the rock away: "Who needs it?" |
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Cartoon | T is for Trash and Ticket Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0020) |
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SCENE 5 | Johnny Cash sings "One and One Make Two" to his son John Carter, with some scenes of pairs around the street. |
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Animation | A roof finds its way to the top of a house. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is tall, Bert taller, and Big Bird is the tallest (and he also breaks the ceiling). (First: Episode 0284) |
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Film | Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295) |
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SCENE 6 | Johnny is joined by June Carter Cash and they serenade Oscar with a bit of "If I Had a Hammer." Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bert and Ernie hold the CTW sign. |
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