Sesame Street | |||||
Big Bird, Maria and Buffy visit the Taos Pueblo. (repeat of 0814) | |||||
Air date | April 27, 1978 | ||||
Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Buffy stops by the New Mexico ranch, and tells Maria that she's heading out to Taos Pueblo. Maria offers to take her there in the pickup truck. Big Bird says that he'd like to come along, although he doesn't know what a pueblo is. Maria explains that it's a town where Indians live. Big Bird's initial reaction of fear from this episode's original airing is muted here. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
Buffy drives Maria and Big Bird to the pueblo. Along the way, she sings "I'm an Indian." | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
When they arrive at the pueblo, Maria confesses to Buffy that she's worried about intruding in the community, or making a mistake. It must be easier for Buffy, because these are her people. Buffy explains that she's a Cree Indian, from Canada. There's about 300 different kinds of Indians, all with their own languages and customs. They're all visitors together. Buffy introduces Maria and Big Bird to her friends. Big Bird instantly makes friends with the kids, and holds a little girl's hand. | |
Cartoon | A young girl's favorite toy is a stick, which she uses for many things, including a magic wand, conductor's baton, and a baseball bat. (First: Episode 0960) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "Feelin' Good/Feelin' Bad." | |
Cartoon | A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk. (First: Episode 0650) | |
Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) | |
Cartoon | T for Turtle Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1146) | |
SCENE 2 | Buffy and Maria wonder where Big Bird went. Maria recalls him saying he had to do something very important. He is playing tag and follow-the-leader with the pueblo kids. | |
Cartoon | T words Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0020) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet. (First: Episode 0273) | |
Film | A group of kids enter a door marked ENTRADA. (First: Episode 0939) | |
Film | A crane is shown, with a shovel and a wrecking ball. | |
Cartoon | Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls. (First: Episode 0926) | |
Muppets | Fred the Wonder Horse bets Marshal Grover that he can't count backwards from ten. Grover tries standing with his back to him and counting up to ten. Since he can't do it, Grover has to let Fred ride on his back. (First: Episode 1066) | |
Film | T is for toes. (First: Episode 0506) | |
Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) | |
Insert | Piano Bridge #3 - A pianist plays a short, jazzy tune. (First: Episode 0622) | |
Cartoon | A man talks about the capital T, but the top line slides down, forming a lowercase one. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0376) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie buys a newspaper after hearing the newsboy yell out the headline: "Four People Fooled!" Ernie reads the paper, but finds no such news in the paper, making him the fifth person fooled. | |
SCENE 3 | By the river, Buffy and the kids sing "I'm an Indian." | |
Cartoon | Hats (First: Episode 0773) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster sounds out the word FOOD, then eats it. (First: Episode 0601) | |
Cartoon | Sign Sounds: BAD DOG After the man reads the sign, a dog comes in and protests, "I'm not a bad dog! What did I do? What did I do?" | |
Transition | Piano Bridge #6 - A pianist plays a short tune with glissandos. (alternate take) (First: Episode 0682) | |
Film | A dented car door is repaired and repainted at an auto body shop. (First: Episode 1112) | |
Cartoon | A caveman finds a rock on the ground, and visualizes the invention of the wheel and the car, ultimately deciding to toss the rock away: "Who needs it?" (First: Episode 0558) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird says that he's had a good time at the pueblo, but he hasn't seen any Indians. Buffy tells Big Bird that everyone there is an Indian. Big Bird thinks they're fooling him: "I happen to know that Indians wear lots of feathers!" Buffy explains that Indians sometimes wear feathers on special occasions -- but then they take them off, and they wear clothes like everyone else. Big Bird says that someday maybe he'll take off his feathers and look like everyone else too. | |
Film | George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall. (First: Episode 0254) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on tall and short using two Snerfs, who keep changing their size. (First: Episode 0015) | |
Film | A trio of clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus illustrate tall and small. (First: Episode 0519) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on big and small with the Beautiful Day Monster and a small monster. Splurge comes in at the end to show what a really big monster looks like. (First: Episode 0015) | |
SCENE 5 | Maria, Buffy and the kids observe how they have different ways to say the same things. The kids get their water from the river, and use firewood to keep the house warm during winter. | |
Cartoon | Find the camouflaged parrot. Voice: Paul Dooley (First: Episode 0516) | |
Song | Three kids dance to a rock version of "Three of These Things" while one of them sits and reads. (First: Episode 0551) | |
Cartoon | A man invites an M to dinner. The M is very appreciative, and makes "Mmmmmm" sounds. It eats all of the food at the table, and winds up eating the screen! Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0276) | |
SCENE 6 | Buffy plays an Indian instrument, the mouth bow, and sings an Indian song. | |
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 mouse takes a bite out of a good-smelling M. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0725) | |
Film | Lizard! Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds") (First: Episode 0418) | |
Animation | Sand T/t (First: Episode 0636) | |
SCENE 7 | A mother donkey nurses its young. | |
Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #9 Animation by Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1032) | |
Muppets | The Count croons "Count Up to Nine." (First: Episode 1134) | |
Cartoon | "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0316) | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 8 | Maria and Big Bird say goodbye to Buffy and the Pueblo kids at the end of a happy day. A little girl gives Big Bird a kiss, and Buffy gives Maria a hair ribbon to bring back to Sesame Street, so that she'll bring a piece of Taos Pueblo with her. | |
SCENE 8 cont'd |
Gordon announces the sponsors. The story of the New Mexico trip concludes in Episode 1165. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, while Sherlock Hemlock holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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