Sesame Street | |||||||
Oscar's measuring tools | |||||||
Air date | May 4, 1978 | ||||||
Season | Season 9 (1977-1978) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar plays water-related sounds (such as a dripping faucet, a thunderstorm, and crashing ocean waves) on his beat-up tape recorder as Maria and the kids guess what each sound is. He plays one final sound of Maria yelling at Oscar. Maria doesn't understand the connection until Oscar splashes her with a bucket of water and she berates him. | |
Cartoon | The Magnificent Splasho goes from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the water tank. (First: Episode 0655) | |
Muppets | Kermit talks about "top" and "bottom" using a stack of boxes Grover carries. (First: Episode 0434) | |
Cartoon | The 'J' Train Voice: Daws Butler | |
Muppets | Biff sings "This Is My J." | |
Cast | A voiceover instructs Maria as Chaplin where to put the shirts and the towels. (First: Episode 0541) | |
Film | A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them. (First: Episode 0440) | |
Cartoon | The IT knows how a magnifying glass works. | |
SCENE 2 | Bob and Olivia talk with two kids about names, then sing "I Like My Name." | |
Cartoon | I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233) | |
Cartoon | An old woman goads a man into guessing who she met today. Through the clues she gives, he soon finds out she's referring to him. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0798) | |
Film | The Deadly Nightshade star in a story of "Old MacDonald." The three live in a New York City apartment, but when they get fed up with the noise, they relocate to the country. There, they sing "Old MacDonald" and soon get weary of the noisy animals. (First: Episode 1115) | |
Cartoon | A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (First: Episode 0032) | |
Cast | Desert Agua, part 1: Maria drags herself across the sands of a limbo desert until she comes to a soda fountain staffed by David. She weakly asks for agua, but David doesn't understand the word leaving Maria to pantomime various clues that mean water. David interprets that she's asking for a telescope, an umbrella, a muffler, and a rubber duckie to take a bath with. Maria slaps her head in frustration. (First: Episode 0928) | |
Cartoon | Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version) (First: Episode 0140) | |
Cast | Desert Agua, part 2: The props are stacking up as Maria continues to pantomime her plea for water while David guesses that she's asking for slippers, a snorkel, and a fish. (First: Episode 0928) | |
Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) | |
Cast | Desert Agua, part 3: David and Maria have been at this for years now, and are showing their old age. Many, many items have piled up as David guesses Maria is asking for a shovel and pail, a live skunk, and a boat. David says he needs a break from 86 years of guessing, and drinks a glass of water. Maria goes crazy over the beverage, so David offers her some. Maria refreshed, David asks to continue guessing what agua means. (First: Episode 0928) | |
Cartoon | Sign Sounds: Coffee | |
Celebrity | The Fonz points out his body parts. | |
Film | A baby monkey Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0280) | |
Muppets | The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun. (First: Episode 0453) | |
Song | "Look Around, Look Around," a song about seasons. (First: Episode 0556) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash — The Count counts the Three Little Pigs. (First: Episode 0569) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob returns a folding ruler to Maria, which reminds Oscar that he just so happens to have a ruler collection. He digs through it and produces a normal ruler, which measures Bob and Maria being just a mere foot away from his trash can. He then gives them a yardstick, which measures even further. He finally gives them a retractable tape measure, which puts them further and further away (even beyond the bus stop and across the street). | |
Cartoon | Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg. (First: Episode 0796) | |
Film | A girl named Jennifer visits family friend Mrs. Wilson in the country, and together they pick food from her garden. (First: Episode 0021) | |
Cartoon | Pinball Number Count #4 (First: Episode 0984) | |
Cast | Bob demonstrates a J word - juggle. | |
Cartoon | A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071) | |
Celebrity | Edgar Kendricks sings about the "Parts of the Body." (First: Episode 0897) | |
Cartoon | A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0798) | |
Film | Nim Chimpsky matches his nose to that of a picture of himself. | |
Cartoon | A green man demonstrates dark and light. (First: Episode 1129) | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar checks his tape measure, estimating that Bob and Maria must be in Sandgate, Vermont by now (to his delight). He yells for them to keep moving as Olivia announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | A kid holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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