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Sesame Street
Rooftop picnic
Air date December 25, 1978
Season Season 10 (1978-1979)
Production October 2, 1978
Sponsors C, N, 11

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
SSseason10
COLD OPEN 10th Season Intro Still
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SCENE 1 Big Bird munches down on his bag of birdseed and has the feeling that today will be one full of surprises. He suddenly hears voices from above - it's Olivia, Bob, Mr. Hooper, and Luis, who summon him to the roof of 123 Sesame Street for a surprise...
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SCENE 1 cont'd ...a rooftop picnic! They also have yet another surprise in store: a family of friends will be joining them, having traveled from far away. Big Bird thinks it could be someone from the Moon when everybody hears the surprise coming up the stairs shortly after: it's Maria and some kids, with Buffy, Sheldon, and Cody!
1092-12
Cartoon / Film Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice.
(First: Episode 0659)
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Cartoon N is for nose.
(First: Episode 1173)
EB.loudsnacks
Muppets Ernie & Bert — At the movies, Ernie makes some loud noises while he eats his candy bar and peanuts and drinks his soda. Bert loses his temper and shouts at Ernie to be quiet, at which point the usher enters and throws Bert out.
(First: Episode 0536)
BJJ.wheresthedog
Cartoon Billy Jo Jive and Smart Susie Sunset search for Aunt Nellie's dog, Meatbone, not knowing that the sneaky dog has been following them the whole time.
Timber2
Film A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
(First: Episode 0149)
SB--NNail
Cartoon Speech Balloon: N - Nail
(First: Episode 0040)
Timber1
Film A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
(First: Episode 0149)
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SCENE 2 Everyone shares different foods that their families usually have for the picnic. Olivia has brought short ribs and collard greens, Mr. Hooper shares bagels and lox, Maria has some arroz con pollo and chinas (oranges), Buffy has fixed some tea in a traditional Indian style, and Bob shares an apple pie. Big Bird offers a bag of birdseed, which he shares with Bert's rooftop pigeons.
Toon-BodyParts
Animation Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body.
(First: Episode 0528)
HarlemGlobetrotters-BodyParts
Celebrity The Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate body parts during their basketball stunts.
(First: Episode 0627)
Gurucountsto20
Cartoon A guru counts to twenty.
(First: Episode 0276)
SSNF Shoe2
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Old Woman Who Lives in a ShoeKermit looks for the Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe.
(First: Episode 1050)
MadPainter11
Film The Mad Painter #11
(First: Episode 0329)
GroverStevie02
Insert Stevie Wonder teaches Grover how to sing loud and soft.
(First: Episode 0514)
Pockets
Song Marilyn Sokol sings "Pockets" over a montage of different types of pockets.
(First: Episode 0764)
PIYN-LibrarianPlumber
Muppets / Cast "The People in Your Neighborhood": Librarian and Plumber.
(First: Episode 0718)
Song.11Morning
Cartoon "It's a Lovely Eleven Morning"
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0362)
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SCENE 3 Olivia notices Buffy with a homemade cat puppet, which she calls "Pousees" (the Cree word for "cat"). She sings a "Picnic Song" to everybody while playing her mouth bow as Sheldon holds Cody and Pousees.
Buses
Film Kids count ten buses as they drive by.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0406)
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Muppets Game Show: The Addition Game
Hosted by Guy Smiley, the contestant has to figure out how to add numbers. The contestant is Herry Monster, who solves all the questions except "3+1=_", so he brings in four cars in the studio.
(First: Episode 0960)
2096d
Song Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up."
(First: Episode 0302)
Daddy-Slips
Cartoon A man slips on his daughter's skate, and she points out that it makes him feel angry.
(First: Episode 0542)
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SCENE 4 Big Bird feels as though he's eaten too much, so Buffy suggests he play some games with Cody to feel more fit. He attempts to do some hopping and wing flaps with Cody, but the experience leaves him in the mood for "a nice picnic nap." He plops down and promptly starts to snooze.
TrainExit
Cartoon A white furball catches a train going through a door marked EXIT.
(First: Episode 0800)
BertGetsMad
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie wants Bert to pretend to be mad, but Bert says that he can't, because he has nothing to feel angry about. Ernie asks Bert to pretend that he borrowed Bert's paper clip collection, and lost his favorite paper clip. The thought makes Bert really mad. Bert gets tired out, and tells Ernie that he can't get mad anymore. Ernie makes a confession -- he really did lose Bert's favorite paper clip.
(First: Episode 0216)
Maria Chaplin brick exit
Cast Maria as Charlie Chaplin tries to leave through the door marked EXIT, but the sign keeps moving, and a brick wall appears behind each opened door. Finally, she makes her own exit through a hole in the wall.
(First: Episode 0832)
NancyNannyGoat
Cartoon Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles.
Artist: Tee Collins
(First: Episode 0240)
2293c
Film Fireworks Alphabet
(First: Episode 1104)
Lowercase n
Cartoon "Lowercase n"
(First: Episode 0358)
2125r
Film EXIT
(First: Episode 0935)
LuisKids-N
Cast Luis and the kids put together a fractured letter "n."
(First: Episode 0938)
Nisfornifty
Cartoon An N-terview with an N
Artist: John Paratore
(First: Episode 0131)
Grover.Library
Muppets Grover appears in a library to tell the viewers about what a library is. The librarian, however, keeps telling Grover to be quieter, until he can barely even be heard.
(First: Episode 0287)
0926v
Song "Sharing Swing with Kids Song (Share in Your Fun with Another Someone)"
(First: Episode 0926)
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SCENE 5 The picnic winds down as everyone cooperates to throw away the trash, as well as saving any leftover food. Oscar appears just in time to collect the rubbish for himself for a Grouch picnic he's throwing.
Cat-toon
Cartoon Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat.
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 1141)
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Film Sea Horse
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0183)
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Cartoon C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
(First: Episode 0703)
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SCENE 6 Buffy and her family relax, alone on the roof as Cody watches one of the pigeons. The rest of the cast collectively announces the sponsors in voiceover.
Kermit1201

Kids1201
CLOSING SIGNS Kermit holds the Sesame Street sign, and two kids hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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