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Sesame Street
Big Bird runs for president
Air date December 2, 1975
Season Season 7 (1975-1976)
Sponsors A, P, 3
Releases HBO Max

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0797 01
SCENE 1 Oscar tries to get rid of three old cans, so he can have more room inside his trash can. Maria, Luis, and David find a good use for them and make offers to take them off his hands. Oscar says his cans are too good for what they want to do with them, and decides to keep them all.
2073l
Cartoon Five Purple Konkers
(First: Episode 0775)
cut from the Max version
1092-18
Muppets Grover is astonished to find that he's multiplied into four Grovers.
(First: Episode 0718)
200011
Animation Stop-motion: A hammer slowly pounds a nail into the ground.
2795z
Animation New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball.
(First: Episode 0777)
Sherlocksandwich
Muppets Ernie opens his lunchbox and finds that half of his chicken salad sandwich is missing. Sherlock Hemlock, the world's greatest detective, investigates this fiendish crime. It turns out that Sherlock himself ate half of Ernie's sandwich.
(First: Episode 0131)
0797 02

0797parade
SCENE 2 Big Bird finds David, Luis and Maria listening to the tail end of a speech by the President of the United States on the radio. Big Bird thinks being President would be great and launches into song ("President Bird"). He then begins planning his campaign as David and Luis carry him around on their shoulders.
Toon differentmes
Cartoon A boy talks about his various moods.
Artist: Bob Kurtz
(First: Episode 0772)
0797 03

0797radio
SCENE 3 Big Bird has set up his campaign rally, offering free bags of birdseed to his constituents. The grown-ups approach him and inform him of how difficult being President is. Big Bird thinks he'd do just fine, so the others decide to role-play and imagine he's been elected President. President Bird starts declaring national holidays pertaining to birds, which don't receive much ovation. He then gets bogged down by the many problems his citizens have, from broken bats to dirty streets. He becomes even more frustrated when he learns he can't take a break and go roller skating. Big Bird decides to quit the race, but considers taking it up again when he's older. The grown-ups return to their radio broadcast, where they hear the President is taking his own roller skating break tomorrow.
HIYL.Bread
Muppets Here Is Your Life: A loaf of bread is profiled.
(First: Episode 0709)
A.stopmotion
Animation Arthur and Annie look for the letter A, while a shadowy figure observes all the A words they say.
Features the voice of Jim Thurman
(First: Episode 0781)
Littlethings orig
Song Joe Raposo sings "Little Things."
(First: Episode 0655)
CookieNapkin01

CookieNapkin02
Muppets Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all.
(First: Episode 0619)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)
Rollercoaster123

BallFilm-Powder
Film Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
(First: Episode 0254)
Scarything.BCayard
Cartoon A girl demonstrates that she is scary-looking to a sleeping monster.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
0797 04
SCENE 4 Maria, David, Luis and the kids sweep up the mess from Big Bird's rally and find some of his campaign buttons, which they use for a game of "One of These Things."
Ernnewbottlecap
Muppets Ernie & Bert — On a boring day, Ernie suggests some ideas to Bert, but then Bert has an exciting idea of his own. He shows off his bottlecap collection to Ernie, who remembers that he found a Figgy Fizz bottle cap -- the very one that Bert needed to complete his collection.
(First: Episode 0240)
The A box!
Cartoon A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A.
(First: Episode 0781)
SkeletonFish
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish.
(First: Episode 0287)
3141p
Cartoon I am dry, he is wet (Shark fishing)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0309)
Raposo-3isMyFavoriteNumber
Song "Three Is My Favorite Number"
(First: Episode 0429)
PIYN-CleanerShoemaker
Muppets / Cast Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the cleaner and shoemaker.
(First: Episode 0436)
Saw-Tools
Animation A saw cuts a piece of wood.
Orange-Opera
Animation An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns.
(First: Episode 0277)
EBwindow
Muppets Ernie & Bert — Everything is getting wet, because it's raining and a window is stuck open. But Ernie explains that he can't fix it now because he'd get wet in all that rain. When the rain stops, he explains to Bert that since it's not raining anymore, nothing's getting wet, and there's no reason to fix it.
(First: Episode 0344)
Toon.Acrobats
Cartoon A for Acrobats
2125m
Song Joe Raposo sings "I'm an Aardvark."
(First: Episode 0425)
3142u
Cartoon I am dry, they are wet (Umbrella)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0344)
3141z
Cartoon P is for Puddle
(First: Episode 0452)
AMs hair alphabet
Muppets Two Anything Muppets with hair over their eyes recite the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0779)
1090-12
Cartoon P is for Puppy
(First: Episode 0199)
Film-WidowBird
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another.
(First: Episode 0391)
Awitch
Cartoon "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
(First: Episode 0130)
Groverjohnjohnpenny
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentGrover and John-John count a penny.
(First: Episode 0438)
cut from the Max version
Puzzler-Turtle
Animation A puzzle of a turtle is put together.
(First: Episode 0625)
Harvey3Sticks
Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper is looking down and saying "Three sticks!" A man asks "Three sticks where?" Then Harvey says "3 sticks right here!" and sticks a number 3 on the man's head.
(First: Episode 0570)
1272-Abierto
Cartoon A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado.
(First: Episode 0784)
Rollercoaster123

Cameo.heatherhenson-rollercoaster
Film Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball turns into a cherry which is devoured by a girl.
(First: Episode 0744)
Typewriter.A
Cartoon The Typewriter: A for airplane
(First: Episode 0770)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3" (repeat)
0797 05
SCENE 5 Oscar returns from the dump and fills his trash can with the spoils. David announces the sponsors.
MariaLuisS05-07

DavidS05CTW
CLOSING SIGNS Maria and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, while David holds the CTW sign.

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Notes[]

  • Jerry Nelson is heard as the reporter at the end of scene 3.

See also[]

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