Sesame Street | |||||||
Linda uses a machine to call her father on the phone | |||||||
Air date | December 20, 1977 | ||||||
Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob and Linda play basketball with Jonas and Leslie until the kids' mother calls them for supper. They go home and take the ball with them, so Linda suggests she and Bob play “pretend” basketball with an imaginary ball. They really get into it, and soon Mr. Hooper and David join in the game. Big Bird sees them and remarks, “And they say I have some imagination!” | |
Cartoon | A hand draws a farm backdrop for the animals. (First: Episode 0925) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie pretends to be a dog and a duck. Bert then pretends to be a train, and does it so well that a train conductor and passengers come through the apartment. (First: Episode 0645) | |
Cartoon | A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk. (First: Episode 0650) | |
Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Christopher Columbus — Kermit catches Christopher Columbus before his historic voyage. (First: Episode 0578) | |
Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (First: Episode 0134) | |
Film | "What if you were magic, and could make things stop just by telling it to, or make it go backwards? Stop! Then you could see what things look like when they're moving. Go forwards! Stop! Well, film is magic, and this is a film, so you can be magic for three minutes. Like this: Go slow, water fountain! Now, you try it." (First: Episode 0047) | |
Muppets | Alien Alphabet (First: Episode 0277) | |
Cartoon | A song tells the story of Max, who loves to chop down trees. One tree turns out to be a magic genie, who turns Max into a tree. Max soon grows respect for trees and once returned human, vows to never chop one down again. (First: Episode 0572) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (hand) (First: Episode 0247) | |
Celebrity | Edgar Kendricks plays and sings a song about counting to 10. (First: Episode 0912) | |
Muppets | Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup. (First: Episode 0407) | |
Film | Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory. (First: Episode 0538) | |
Cartoon | A cat, bird and worm illustrate small, smaller and smallest. (First: Episode 0830) | |
SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper listens in on a conversation between Bob and Linda, who are trying to make up with each other after yesterday. He attempts to intervene, but Bob would rather keep it between them, so he decides not to talk and just sign. | |
Cartoon | A small frog unveils a smaller man, who unveils the smallest elephant. (First: Episode 0786) | |
Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253) | |
Cartoon | S for sing (First: Episode 0824) | |
Muppets | "Sammy the Snake" (First: Episode 0278) | |
Film | A man karate chops 5 boards. (First: Episode 0469) | |
Muppets | Part 1: A disconsolate Ernie tells Oscar the Grouch that he's lost his Rubber Duckie. Oscar tries to calm Ernie down and says that he'll buy Ernie another one. Ernie says he can't - Rubber Duckie is special and unique. He tells Oscar that Rubber Duckie is "cute, adorable, sweet, cuddly, and makes a wonderful sound." Oscar tells Ernie that he'll bring him a new one. (First: Episode 0139) | |
Cartoon | Fred, a singer, fails to figure out the words that rhyme with his name in the song he sings. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0977) | |
Muppets | Part 2: Oscar comes back with a new Duckie, but this one is different - it's a Grouch duckie. They realize that they have different ideas of what is cute and ugly. Ernie thanks Oscar for trying to help - and when he sits down, he hears a familiar squeak. He digs through the stuff on the floor, and finds his Rubber Duckie! Ernie and Oscar argue over which of their toys is the cutest. (First: Episode 0139) | |
Film | You can clean almost anything. Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers. (First: Episode 0001) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Scottie read a "Don't Walk" sign. (First: Episode 0994) | |
Cartoon | At the circus, Tommy Trueheart displays his 11 trick-performing lions. (First: Episode 0816) | |
Muppets | Muppet Hands count to 11. (First: Episode 0217) | |
Cartoon | "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362) | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. (First: Episode 0132) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob is composing some music at his apartment when Linda shows up with her new TTY machine, which allows a deaf person such as herself to talk on the phone with other TTY owners. She demonstrates how it's used by putting Bob's phone receiver on the device, and makes her first phone call to her father. Bob watches as the typed messages from both people are scrolled onto the machine's screen. As she continues her conversation, David arrives with a message for Linda. Word has got around about the TTY machine and she now has requests to call her aunts, cousins, brother, and uncle on the phone; Bob hopes they will all be local calls.
(Blooper: the director can be heard saying, "Action," at the beginning of the scene.) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water (First: Episode 0062) | |
Film | The sign CLOSED spins around. (First: Episode 0955) | |
Cartoon | A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment. (First: Episode 0550) | |
SCENE 4 | The TTY machine is scrolling a message saying if Bob and Linda can come to dinner on Sunday, which they accept. David then rushes out the door, hoping he's not too late for something. Linda winds up her call to her father as David (now in voiceover) announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Bob's apartment number is revealed to be #2F, though in Episode 2799 it is changed to #2B.
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