Sesame Street | |||||||||
The Sesame Street Bake-Off | |||||||||
Air date | March 12, 1976 | ||||||||
Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Luis brings David some fresh baked oatmeal cookies. He thinks they’re the best, but David has him try one of the vanilla cookies he made in the store this morning. They argue over whose cookies are the best, when Cookie Monster interjects: he offers to hold a cookie contest with himself as the judge. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd | Maria and Big Bird happen by and learn of what's going on. Maria believes she can bake good cookies too and dashes off to her apartment to get some ready, while Big Bird runs off to get one of his "birdseed-bonanza cookies" to enter. | |
Film | A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas". (First: Episode 0516) | |
SCENE 2 | The Sesame Street Bake-Off commences in the yard, though Luis and David are baffled by there being some extra competitors in the mix. Judge Cookie Monster starts sampling all the cookies (except Big Bird's) for various qualifications such as texture, flavor, and "cosmic stability." Afterwards, he declares that all the cookies have won, but hands out some first prize ribbons anyhow - David gets one for texture, Luis is awarded one for flavor, and Maria gets the ribbon for "all around good sport." Big Bird protests the results, since Cookie Monster didn't even try his cookie. He awards the bird a first prize ribbon for his plate, which he eats. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert says it's Ernie's turn to go to the laundromat. He puts numerous things in the laundry basket, including storybooks, cookies, his boots, and a radio. Before long, the basket has no room for the laundry, so he decides to go play baseball instead. (First: Episode 0458) | |
Cartoon | A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta. (First: Episode 0443) | |
Cartoon | Y for yawn (First: Episode 0301) | |
Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. (First: Episode 0135) | |
Cartoon | A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510) | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Using pictures on the blackboard, Roosevelt Franklin tells the class a story about two little dogs who find a big ol' bone in a doghouse. They try to take the bone, but it turns out that it belongs to a big, mean dog, who chases them away. The moral of the story: "If something's not yours, leave it alone; could be a big ol' dog in the doghouse." (First: Episode 0529) | |
Cartoon | Words that rhyme with BALL (voices of Bob Arbogast and Daws Butler) (First: Episode 0773) | |
Cartoon | A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn. (First: Episode 0353) | |
SCENE 3 | Luis and some kids play a "Here Are Some Things" game, classifying triangles by size. | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Pied Piper of Hamelin — Kermit takes over for the Pied Piper. (First: Episode 0519) | |
Cartoon | A janitor sweeps up his own footprints the wrong way, then the right way. Just then, a giant centipede leaves tracks all over the floor. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0247) | |
Film | A little horse gets near and far from the camera. (First: Episode 0279) | |
Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134) | |
Cartoon | A red man tries to get apples from a tree by himself, while a yellow man builds a ladder. (First: Episode 0779) | |
Celebrity | Clive Thompson and Tina Yuan of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater dance to a blues number. (First: Episode 0851) | |
Cartoon | A minstrel sings about a fox who outsmarts a crow. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0631) | |
Film | Several people help a man when his car is stuck in the mud. (First: Episode 0619) | |
Muppets | Grover demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0787) | |
Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby animals are fed milk. (First: Episode 0238) | |
Cartoon | U for uniform. (First: Episode 0702) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) | |
SCENE 4 | At Hooper’s, David is still hung up on Luis suggesting he makes the better cookies. Cookie Monster appears and offers to perform his "special cookie alphabet" in exchange for two cookies. He then performs a fairly standard recitation of the alphabet; what's special about it is that he gets to eat two cookies afterward. | |
Muppets | As ominous music plays, the Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) | |
Muppets | Five Anything Muppets sing the "Numerical Correspondence Song." (First: Episode 0735) | |
SCENE 5 | As Grover asks “Why?”, Big Bird and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make a Y in the sky (First: Episode 0575). | |
Muppets | Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: Y for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0769) | |
SCENE 6 | Big Bird and Cookie Monster have gone into business together, forming the "Big Bird and Cookie Monster HIGH and Low Company." They explain to David that they will use their unique heights to help people, with Big Bird handling things that are high and Cookie dealing with problems that are low. Luis hires Big Bird's services in the Fix-It Shop to retrieve an XJ-27 transducer from a high shelf. Then, "Vice President Cookie" goes down low to find Maria's bus token she dropped on the sidewalk. | |
SCENE 6 cont'd | David now needs the High and Low Company's help in finding his key at Hooper's, citing he last saw it on the front counter. However, Big Bird deems the counter too low for him to work with, and it's too high for Cookie Monster. Instead of helping, they offer David a spot in "the firm" as an "in-between" specialist and he can find the key himself. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005) | |
SCENE 6 cont'd |
While closing up shop, David finds he's lost his key again. Cookie Monster shouts suggestions and recommendations ("We got minutes of experience!") as Maria announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Luis holds the street sign, and David and Maria hold the CTW sign. |
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