Sesame Street | |||||||
Big Bird pretends to be a fireman | |||||||
Air date | January 9, 1978 | ||||||
Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Susan has a toy firetruck and describes the different parts to the kids and Big Bird, who becomes inspired to become a firefighter. | |
Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) | |
Muppets | "The King's Picnic" (First: Episode 0419) | |
Animation | Sand Y/y (First: Episode 0626) | |
SCENE 2 | Big Bird dons a fire helmet and carries a hose, looking for people in need of his fire-fighting services. However, Susan, Olivia, and Mr. Macintosh have no fires for him to fight. When he tries drumming up some work from Luis, he explains that firefighters don't go around looking for fires - they are alerted about them back at the firehouse. He leaves Big Bird with an important tidbit - "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Big Bird catches a whiff of smoke coming from Hooper's Store and springs into action, spraying water all over the store. Mr. Hooper points out the smoke was from his English muffin getting stuck in the toaster and burning, not enough to warrant a fire call. He orders Big Bird to grab a mop and clean up the mess he made. | |
Cartoon | A yak discusses the letter "Y" on a stage, and is insulted when it is called a "Yakkity-yakkity-yak". (First: Episode 0301) | |
Muppets | Grover talks about the sign "ONE WAY." (First: Episode 0993) | |
Cartoon | A hand draws a castle with a growling dragon inside, which scares the princess until her knight in shining armor leads the dragon away. (First: Episode 0932) | |
Film | A trip to the doctor's office. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0471) | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird mopes over his failure, when Olivia tells him that it takes a lot of work to become a firefighter, or to pursue any career. She sings "You Can Be Anything You Want To" with him. Afterwards, Big Bird declares he now wants to be a photographer and Olivia hands him her camera (though he puts the lens to his eye by mistake). | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie, who tells Bert that if the cookie was his, he wouldn't mind sharing. Ernie takes the cookie, and asks Bert to ask him if he would share it. (First: Episode 0472) | |
Cartoon | A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y. (First: Episode 0470) | |
Cast / Celebrity | Judy Collins sings a "Water Cantata" with Susan, Maria, Bob, David and Gordon. (First: Episode 1000) | |
Cartoon | A girl runs home to her CASA. (First: Episode 0503) | |
Film | As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat. (First: Episode 0801) | |
Cartoon | A hand draws a guitarist serenading a maiden, as well as the background. (First: Episode 0791) | |
Song | David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding one seat bicycle, and two kids riding two seat bicycle (First: Episode 0450) | |
Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) | |
Insert | Bert sings "I'm Square," an ode to the things he loves that others find dull. (First: Episode 1004) | |
Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (First: Episode 0369) | |
Film | How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (edited) (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over. (First: Episode 0010) | |
Film | Nine Song (Song of Nine) (First: Episode 0016) | |
Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) | |
Film | Kids narrate a visit to an automobile factory, and watch a taxi being made. (First: Episode 0186) | |
Muppets | Little Bird explains "next to". Then Cookie Monster cuddles up next to Little Bird. (First: Episode 0167) | |
Cartoon | Two circles demonstrate next to and away from. (First: Episode 0644) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird assembles his friends by a tricycle so he can take his first picture of them. He shuffles them around to get the perfect order before accidentally taking a picture of the tricycle instead. Olivia tells him that practice will help him take better pictures, but everyone compliments his photo of the tricycle nonetheless. "I couldn't have done it without you," he tells them. | |
Celebrity | Edith Ann talks about the time she made a sandwich. (First: Episode 0890) | |
Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. Producer: Ken Snyder; Music: Billy Taylor (First: Episode 0276) | |
Insert | A group of children put together a scooter following a model. (First: Episode 0922) | |
Cartoon | A boy does an addition problem in his head: 5 + 1 = 6 (First: Episode 0548) | |
SCENE 5 | Big Bird attempts to take another photo of his friends, but Mr. Mac and his produce cart inadvertently get in the way. Despite this blocking the adults in the picture, they find it's a very nice picture of the fruits on Mac's cart. Big Bird attempts to sell it as Susan announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Baby Breeze, Betty Lou, & Prairie Dawn hold the Sesame Street sign, while two kids hold the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- The plotline of this episode would be repurposed in Episode 2050, where Telly pretends to be a fireman instead.
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