Episode 2558
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| Sesame Street | |
| Plot | Maria goes to the maternity clinic |
| Air date | March 1, 1989 |
| Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) |
| Sponsors | I, R, 7 |
| Syndication | Sesame Street Unpaved |
| DVD | |
| This episode guide is missing segments cut from Noggin's broadcast. |
| Picture | Segment | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | | Luis welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street, and mentions that Maria is at the clinic where she is about to get her check-up. |
 | cont'd | Big Bird has accompanied Maria on her visit to the clinic. This is the maternity clinic, specifically for women who are going to give birth. As revealed from their bus trip, Big Bird is full of questions about having babies. Maria explains that she (and the doctors here) will answer any questions Big Bird has. |
 | cont'd | As Dr. Kapi takes Maria's blood pressure, she asks Maria a series of questions. |
  | | Dr. Kapi weighs Maria on the scale, and then introduces them to a special microphone that will allow the baby's heart beat to be heard. |
 | | Big Bird finally gets a chance to ask the question he's always wanted to ask the doctor: "Do I look sillier if I twist my head all the way around, or if I put my head under my wing?" |
 | | African Alphabet Song (EKA: Episode 2404) |
 | | I for Ink (angry bird) (EKA: Episode 0514) |
 | | Muppet & Kid Moments: Grover and Christopher talk about what love is |
 | | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP |
 | | Outside the Fix-it Shop, Maria demonstrates the use of the microphone (which she borrowed from Dr. Kapi) to Gordon, Luis, Linda, Oscar and Elmo. They all have different interpretations on what it sounds like to them. |
 | | Typewriter Guy: R - Rope (EKA: Episode 1800) |
 | | Children dance to different rhythms from around the world. |
 | | A boy has fun with his wood plank. |
 | | Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs |
 | | 7 owls Artist: Owe Gustafson |
 | | Maria sits in the arbor and listens to her baby's heart beat some more while thinking about it in song, along with a montage of this episode's previous street scenes. |
 | | HEN / PEN / TEN / MEN Music: Joe Raposo |
 | | In an Alaskan village, a doctor makes a regular visit to a clinic. (EKA: Episode 2485) |
 | | Geronimo 10-0 (parachute under haystack) |
  | | Part 1: Ernie is holding a banana in his ear. Bert tries to tell Ernie that he has a banana in his ear, but Ernie can't hear him because he has a banana in his ear. Part 2: Ernie reveals that he has a banana in his ear in order to keep the alligators away. He uses Bert's denial of any alligators on Sesame Street as proof that his method works. |
  | | The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods. |
   | | Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe and Malcolm-Jamal Warner notice Telly and Keshia Knight Pulliam pretending to look sad; which escalates into the three of them arguing over what's more sad: losing a purple pen with a picture of Prince on it, not making the football team, or a best friend moving away. Telly and Keshia then pretend to look angry, and then notice that they look just like them. |
 | | Clementine works at the Double Bar "R" Ranch; Gladys the Cow applies for a job there. |
 | | R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) |
 | | A bunch of city folk work together to tend to a garden for me and for you, as they show (in song) that "Cooperation Makes it Happen." (EKA: Episode 2040) |
   | | Rorschach ink blob association with a funky jazz soundtrack. |
  | | Just before lunch, Sonny Friendly pops in with a traveling edition of "Name That Sound." The first instance of the sound is drowned out by a fire engine, and the second instance is drowned out by a jet plane. As it turns out, the sound happens to be the baby's heart beat! They win a trip (as Sonny promised) to the doctor - even though she already went today! Sonny remarks, "How about that, audience? Another happy contestant! They took their trip already -- aren't they fantastic??" |
 | | The Count sings about the ten things most important to him. |
  | | In a spoof of a famous Coke commercial, football player "Big Murray" (Gordon) accepts a number 7 from a young fan, whom he rewards with a towel that also has a 7 on it. (EKA: Episode 2358) |
 | | A man demonstrates up and down. (EKA: Episode 0276) |
 | | Sesame Street News Flash: Humpty Dumpty has fallen off a wall, and Kermit interviews one of the king's horses. Humpty is put together again, but then Kermit gives him a congratulatory slap on the back,and he falls off the wall again. (EKA: Episode 0705) |
 | | An I-beam is molded at a steel factory. |
  | | Luis and Maria listen to the baby's heartbeat again as Elmo announces the sponsors. |
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