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Sesame Street
Big Bird pretends to be a fireman
Air date January 9, 1978
Season Season 9 (1977-1978)
Written by Tony Geiss
Production October 13, 1977
Sponsors R, Y, 9

SSTitle-1086

StreetScenes
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.
Yellowyahoo
Cartoon The life of a Yellow Yahoo
(First: Episode 0043)
TheKingsPicnic
Muppets "The King's Picnic"
(First: Episode 0419)
1086-SandY
Animation Sand Y/y
(First: Episode 0626)
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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.
YakYes
Cartoon A yak discusses the letter "Y" on a stage, and is insulted when it is called a "Yakkity-yakkity-yak".
(First: Episode 0301)
2341t
Muppets Grover talks about the sign "ONE WAY."
(First: Episode 0993)
Handdrawncastle
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)
GoodMorningDoctor
Film A trip to the doctor's office.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0471)
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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).
EBSharingaCookie
Muppets Ernie & BertBert 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)
0600-Y
Cartoon A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y.
(First: Episode 0470)
WaterCantata
Cast / Celebrity Judy Collins sings a "Water Cantata" with Susan, Maria, Bob, David and Gordon.
(First: Episode 1000)
1800-22
Cartoon A girl runs home to her CASA.
(First: Episode 0503)
1839zj
Film As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat.
(First: Episode 0801)
2269q
Cartoon A hand draws a guitarist serenading a maiden, as well as the background.
(First: Episode 0791)
ThreeOfTheseThingsBicycle
Song David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding one seat bicycle, and two kids riding two seat bicycle
(First: Episode 0450)
0011.R.Radio
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)
ImSquare
Insert Bert sings "I'm Square," an ode to the things he loves that others find dull.
(First: Episode 1004)
RunRun
Cartoon Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
(First: Episode 0369)
Milk
Film How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (edited)
(First: Episode 0001)
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over.
(First: Episode 0010)
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine)
(First: Episode 0016)
OldWoman9
Cartoon The story of an old woman who lived in a nine.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0512)
Film-CarFactory
Film Kids narrate a visit to an automobile factory, and watch a taxi being made.
(First: Episode 0186)
Little Bird next to Cookie Monster
Muppets Little Bird explains "next to". Then Cookie Monster cuddles up next to Little Bird.
(First: Episode 0167)
Circlestouch
Cartoon Two circles demonstrate next to and away from.
(First: Episode 0644)
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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.
EdithAnnSandwich
Celebrity Edith Ann talks about the time she made a sandwich.
(First: Episode 0890)
Gurucountsto20
Cartoon A guru counts to twenty.
Producer: Ken Snyder; Music: Billy Taylor
(First: Episode 0276)
Kids build scooter
Insert A group of children put together a scooter following a model.
(First: Episode 0922)
FivePlusOne
Cartoon A boy does an addition problem in his head: 5 + 1 = 6
(First: Episode 0548)
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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.
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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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