Sesame Street | |||||||
Sam the Machine celebrates the day he was wired | |||||||
Air date | January 6, 1975 | ||||||
Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Sam the Robot invites Maria, Bob, and Luis to his wiring day party. He says it commemorates the first time he was wired up and activated, and he celebrates it every year. The others interpret this as Sam's birthday and decide to make him a cake. | |
Film | Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515) | |
Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0299) | |
SCENE 2 | Stephanie, Julia, and John-John join Luis, Maria, and Bob at Sam's party where he introduces them to his appliance friends. They present Sam with a cake they've baked, but Sam has something more appropriate for a wiring day: stainless steel cake with aluminum icing. He asks everyone to turn around and close their eyes while he blows out the candles, which is done with a small explosion at the base of the cake. Everyone intends to sing him "Happy Birthday to You", but Sam introduces his friends who sing "Happy Wiring Day to You" in mechanical voices. The humans leave before Pin the Tail on the Toaster starts; Bob says he's been to some crazy parties before... and this is certainly one of them. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie reads Bert a dramatic story that he's just written. The "story" is actually the alphabet, which Ernie reads in an overwrought manner. (First: Episode 0009) | |
Film | Mad Painter #3 (First: Episode 0343) | |
Cartoon | Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee. (First: Episode 0473) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit asks Trey to name some words that rhyme with two. (First: Episode 0636) | |
Cartoon | Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. Artist: Tee Collins (First: Episode 0240) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street pageants: Prairie Dawn directs the cast in a pageant about the face. Ernie talks about eyes, Cookie Monster talks about the mouth, Bert and Grover talk about ears, and Herry Monster talks about the nose. At the end of the pageant, they assemble a picture of a face. | |
Animation | Sand N/n (First: Episode 0633) | |
Muppets | A Carmen Miranda-style Anything Muppet sings "No Matter How You Count Them, they come out the same!" (First: Episode 0227) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob and The Count play "One of These Things" with pictures of three small birds and Big Bird. Bob points out the difference in size between the birds, but The Count has counted all of their feathers and cites it as the difference between them all. | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and John-John count to 20. (First: Episode 0476) | |
Film | George the Farmer demonstrates in and out. (First: Episode 0293) | |
Cartoon | A man walks in an IN. (First: Episode 0511) | |
Film | Kids climb in and out of a tire. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0450) | |
Muppets | Grover the elevator operator gives a demonstration of in and out which annoys the passengers. (First: Episode 0511) | |
Film | Kids comment as they watch tomatoes grow in a field. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0624) | |
Cast | Maria, Luis, Bob, and David, dressed as scarecrows, sing about the ankle, shoulder and knee. | |
Cartoon | Ralph asks Marvin what would happen if he didn't have a mouth, a nose and ears. (First: Episode 0468) | |
Cartoon | "Lowercase n" (First: Episode 0358) | |
Film | Ice Capades #2 (First: Episode 0636) | |
Cartoon | Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks. (First: Episode 0478) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert urges Ernie to go to sleep, but Ernie won't go to sleep until the person living upstairs drops his other shoe. When the shoe finally drops, Ernie wakes Bert up to tell him about it. (First: Episode 0176) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Weaver Bird." (First: Episode 0372) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird is upset when Maria doesn't show up in time to take him to the park. When she arrives, she apologizes for mixing up the days they had plans for. She and Luis explain that adults sometimes forget things too, and that the best way to handle it is to say you're sorry and do your best to make up for it. Big Bird leaves and crashes into some debris off-camera; he returns and asks if adults also bump into things as well. | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Holiday Mix-Up — Kermit interviews a witch, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) | |
Cartoon / Film | Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice. (First: Episode 0659) | |
Muppets | Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but then Cookie Monster takes off his hat, and cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape. (First: Episode 0276) | |
Film | The WALK sign flashes in a montage of people (and even dogs) walking in the city. (First: Episode 0498) | |
Cartoon | Panels flip to reveal different ways things WALK. (First: Episode 0369) | |
Film | Marching Band #3 (First: Episode 0517) | |
Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) | |
Muppets | Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on. (First: Episode 0409) | |
Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) | |
Cartoon | One of these shoe pairs ... (First: Episode 0503) | |
Cartoon | Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0358) | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 5 | The kids play in the yard while Bob announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Maria and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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