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Sesame Street
Gordon goes cycling
Air date November 30, 1976
Season Season 8 (1976-1977)
Production August 23, 1976
Sponsors I, X, 3

SSTitle-0927

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0927a

0927b
SCENE 1 Gordon practices playing his guitar (a pastiche of "What's the Name of That Song?") on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street, attracting the discriminating ear of Oscar the Grouch. Oscar thinks that Gordon can help him practice for his act at the Grouch talent show. ("You should see me in my sequin jumpsuit," Oscar brags.) Oscar whips out his ratty guitar and manages to play a complex flamenco tune perfectly, which shocks Gordon. Oscar explains that's his trouble - he plays too good and would be laughed off the stage. Gordon helps him practice sounding worse and worse, and Oscar eventually perfects his technique by smashing the guitar and playing the wreckage. ("Pete Townshend, eat your heart out!")
0871d
Cartoon Monster in the dark (finding a light switch)
(First: Episode 0493)
EBskate01

EBskate02
Muppets Ernie & Bert — When Bert can't sleep, Ernie suggests that he imagine himself doing something he likes. Since Bert likes ice skating, he imagines himself doing so. A full-bodied version of Bert is used in the ice skating sequence, in a clip from the Ice Follies show.
(First: Episode 0796)
SpeedoSkato-V1
Film Kids compete in a speed skating competition. (version one)
(First: Episode 0412)
Grover-johnjohn-countbackwards
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentJohn-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
(First: Episode 0547)
Cartoon.Potuses
Cartoon Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot.
(First: Episode 0795)
WetPaintSong
Cast David sings "Wet Paint" as Gordon and Maria ignore the WET PAINT signs around them.
Toon.3song
Cartoon 3 song (butterflies, birthday presents, waving pennants etc.)
Arthur Ashe slow fast
Celebrity Tennis star Arthur Ashe plays slow and fast.
(First: Episode 0781)
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)
Frogflycartoon
Cartoon What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen?
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0406)
Ssnews.aladdin
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Aladdin and His LampKermit helps Aladdin bring light to the Genie's lamp.
AlphonsoX
Cartoon The great Alphonso and his trained X's
(First: Episode 0299)
ArthurAsheAlphabet
Celebrity Tennis star Arthur Ashe says the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0775)
2776FrogFilm
Film A male frog hops around and bulges his throat.
(First: Episode 0469)
Xnightsky
Cartoon The letter X
(First: Episode 0482)
0905h
Insert During a downpour, Bob sings "I Don't Always Like the Rain."
(First: Episode 0905)
CowboyX
Cartoon The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd
(First: Episode 0325)
Gemsbok.FastFaster
Film A gemsbok runs fast, then faster.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0416)
E&BTalkSlower
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie approaches Bert in a harried manner, talking rapidly. Bert tells him to talk slower so he can understand him. Ernie says, slowly, that Bert's bread is burning in the oven, which causes Bert to speak in the same rapid, harried manner.
(First: Episode 0323)
1257-5
Cartoon 5s go through a space-shredder and produce 5 objects.
(First: Episode 0864)
0927c

0927d
SCENE 2 David and the kids (including Debo) invite Maria for a bike ride, but she has to stay and work at the Fix-it Shop. David invites Gordon to take Maria's place, but Gordon claims he's waiting for Susan. Maria informs him that she called earlier and will be arriving late, so Gordon comes up with another excuse. Maria catches on with Gordon's real problem when she offers her bicycle to him and he claims the wheel is loose. When the others leave, Gordon confesses to Maria that he doesn't know how to ride a bike. She tells him that grown-ups don't always know what kids do and teaches him how to ride. Eventually he gets the hang of it, and Maria tells him to return after riding around the block.
0690-SandX
Animation Sand X/x
(First: Episode 0638)
HarveyX
Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot!
(First: Episode 0456)
Making a jumpsuit
Film The making of a jumpsuit, from the initial design to the finished product.
1755.sofa
Cartoon A girl uses her imagination while sitting on a sofa.
(First: Episode 0765)
Hardworkindog
Song "Cow Dog Song"
(First: Episode 0783)
MagicianNumbers
Cartoon A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
(First: Episode 0337)
1396n
Muppets Biff hangs numbers under Salvador Dada's paintings in an art museum.
(First: Episode 0707)
Imgointothecity
Cartoon A man talks about going to the city, without noticing he's walking right through it.
(First: Episode 0770)
0927e
SCENE 3 Gordon returns, having got the skill of cycling licked now. He decides to take the bike for a ride around the neighborhood...
1446-Gordon
Film / Cast Gordon rides his bike around the city.
Typewriter-I
Cartoon The Typewriter: I for Ink
(First: Episode 0847)
WomenCanBe
Muppets A group of female Anything Muppets sing about the many things "Women Can Be."
(First: Episode 0773)
ThatsMyLetterI
Cartoon A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
(First: Episode 0143)
LongJohnRhyme-1

LongJohnRhyme-2
Insert In the style of an infomercial and Masterpiece Theatre, Milton Crust (Luis) promotes a wonderful new opportunity being offered by the Long John's Rhyming Word Society: for only $9.98, the customer will get a key and a pea. In addition, anybody that calls right at that very second will receive other items (and even more items 6 months later) that rhyme with "key" and "pea," free of charge, all of which are brought in by Milton's assistants (David and Maria) until he gets dragged away.
0573l
Cartoon Abierto: Ali Baba arrives a bit late and gets run over by the 40 thieves leaving.
(First: Episode 0467)
Xnightsky
Cartoon The letter X (repeat)
0927 unicycle

0927g
SCENE 4 Big Bird is amazed at how quickly Gordon has learned to ride a bike and wishes he could do the same. "I've tried and I've tried, and I know if I can't do something I can't, and two wheels - I'm a flop," he says before riding off on his unicycle. The others stare in bewilderment and applaud him as David announces the sponsors.
Mariasign

Oscarsign2
CLOSING SIGNS Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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