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Sesame Street
Harvey Kneeslapper sings "Tell a Joke"
Air date January 13, 1976
Season Season 7 (1975-1976)
Sponsors A, C, 12

0827 00

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0827 01a

0827 01b
SCENE 1 Grover greets the viewer from atop the Sesame Street sign post, and drops down to talk about circles. He points out a bicycle tire, the clock Bob is carrying, and the frisbee Angela is playing with. To show one more, he climbs up the sign post again and points out the street light's globe at the top of the post.
Junglebed
Cartoon A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(First: Episode 0798)
1257-Hands
Film There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one.
(First: Episode 0668)
MagicPig
Cartoon "Magic Pig"
Artist: Vince Collins
(First: Episode 0772)
Song-exit
Muppets Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Exit" as the audience leaves the room.
(First: Episode 0666)
TrainExit
Cartoon A white furball catches a train going through a door marked EXIT.
(First: Episode 0800)
0573d
Cartoon C - Cake
(First: Episode 0153)
0827 02
SCENE 2 Bob asks Oscar the Grouch to help him demonstrate the number twelve. Oscar says "no" twelve times.
1095m
Cartoon C is for Canary
(First: Episode 0703)
PingPongBallsToon
Cartoon A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls.
(First: Episode 0583)
1095o Cartoon C is for Cowboy
(First: Episode 0703)
100017
Cast "Sluggo the Great" (David) puts on his baseball gear, but isn't sure which body parts to put them on.
(First: Episode 0492)
FutureJobs01

FutureJobs02
Film Future careers: footage of a kid acting out a certain job, followed by an adult doing "the real thing." Includes a girl singing the "Sesame Street Theme" and another watching a sketch with Cookie Monster and Kermit the Frog.
(First: Episode 0796)
RumbaPencils
Cartoon Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin)
(First: Episode 0638)
Letter C toon
Cartoon A man gets a letter C in the mail.
(First: Episode 0294)
TellaJoke
SCENE 3 Luis is feeling glum, Susan is feeling a bit tired, and Bob is feeling terrific. However, Bob informs the others that they'll all feel worse in a moment, because he sees Harvey Kneeslapper coming by. Harvey wants to tell them a great joke, but they aren't in the mood for jokes, which Harvey says is the best time for jokes, as he sings "Tell a Joke", a song about telling jokes. During the song he tells a number of jokes, which make the others leave, one by one, before the song is finished.
1095l
Cartoon C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
(First: Episode 0703)
E&Boutappartment
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie won't let Bert into the apartment. At first, Bert worries his friend might be in trouble, or feeling sad, but then he thinks Ernie might be hiding something from him, which makes him mad. He is finally let in, and finds that Ernie has thrown him a surprise party, which makes him happy. Guests at the party include Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, Prairie Dawn, Sherlock Hemlock, Grover, Guy Smiley, and a Mailman.
(First: Episode 0461)
Lastleaf
Animation First leaf, last leaf
(First: Episode 0794)
Imagination Rain
Cartoon "Imagination Rain"
(First: Episode 0353)
Wgroversw
Muppets Waiter Grover: Simon Soundman wants a chicken sandwich, which he orders as a "cluck-cluck" sandwich. Grover has trouble figuring out what his customer wants. Simon Soundman says that his brother always eats at that restaurant, implying that Mr. Johnson might be his brother.
(First: Episode 0449)
FirstMiddleLast
Cartoon First, Middle, Last (men on horse)
Typewriterguy
Cartoon The Typewriter: C-cat
(First: Episode 0779)
1095h
Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag.
(First: Episode 0233)
Cat toon2
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
(First: Episode 0029)
Cheeringtriplets
Cartoon "Danny knows the alphabet, and is he proud! If you can follow him, then sing out loud!"
(First: Episode 0406)
0827 04
SCENE 4 Bert sings "One of These Pigeons" in front of the construction doors.
Soundsatnight
Cartoon At night, a man's toothy smile is shown as he hears the sounds of tools being used ... to demolish his house.
Artist: Bill Davis
(First: Episode 0796)
Snowwhite
Muppets Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves.
(First: Episode 0279)
Toon-WalkingEXIT
Cartoon The word EXIT walks out of the room.
(First: Episode 0635)
Butterflies
Film A film of butterflies
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0406)
CookieRockSong
Muppets Cookie Monster sings a rock song about his cookie obsession.
(First: Episode 0506)
12birds
Cartoon A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12.
(First: Episode 0493)
Stack12cans
Cartoon A supermarket worker stacks 12 cans, which keep collapsing every time someone grabs one.
(First: Episode 0782)
Itsanotter
Film "It's an Otter!"
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0284)
0827-SquareNoyes
Cartoon A square is fit into many different things, such as a truck, window, television, etc.
(First: Episode 0316)
Counting 10 to 1
Cartoon Counting 10 to 1.
(First: Episode 0480)
0827 05a

0827 05b
SCENE 5 Susan asks Grover to guess who she's drawing (it's Grover).
Toon.Acrobats
Cartoon A for Acrobats
(First: Episode 0797)
Eyelids.bert
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie comes home to a sleeping Bert and tries to think of things to do that won't wake him up. He can't watch TV, and he can't play with his ball. Bored, he decides to take a nap too -- but then he starts to snore. This awakens Bert, who wonders out loud where the noise is coming from, in the process arousing Ernie, who gets mad at being woken up.
(First: Episode 0280)
The A box!
Cartoon A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A.
(First: Episode 0781)
Film-LionsEating
Film A pride of lions feasts on an animal carcass.
(First: Episode 0407)
Typewriterguy
Cartoon The Typewriter: C for Cat (repeat)
0827 06
SCENE 6 Harvey Kneeslapper announces the sponsors while Susan draws one of the kids.
OscarCount812

0827ctw
CLOSING SIGNS Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Luis, and a kid hold the CTW sign.


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