Sesame Street | |||||||||
Maria's pregnancy — Maria goes to the maternity clinic | |||||||||
Air date | February 22, 1989 | ||||||||
Season | Season 20 (1988-1989) | ||||||||
Written by | Emily Perl Kingsley | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Luis welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street, and mentions that Maria is at the clinic where she is about to get her check-up. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
Big Bird has accompanied Maria on her visit to the clinic. This is the maternity clinic, specifically for women who are pregnant. 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 he has. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
As Dr. Kapi takes Maria's blood pressure, she asks her a series of questions. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd | 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. | |
SCENE 1 cont'd | Big Bird finally gets a chance to ask the question he's always wanted to ask: "Do I look sillier if I twist my head all the way around, or if I put my head under my wing?" | |
Film | People of all ages ride bicycles. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0616) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | "African Alphabet Song" (First: Episode 2360) | |
Cartoon | I for Ink (angry bird) (First: Episode 0462) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Christopher talk about what love is. (First: Episode 1484) | |
Cartoon | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP (First: Episode 0847) | |
SCENE 2 | Outside the Fix-it Shop, Maria demonstrates the use of the microphone (which she borrowed from Dr. Kapi) to Luis, Gordon, Linda, Oscar and Elmo. They all have different interpretations on what it sounds like to them. | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0764) | |
Film | Children dance to different rhythms from around the world. (First: Episode 2499) | |
Cartoon | A boy has fun with his wood plank. (First: Episode 1503) | |
Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs — Grover runs up and down a flight of stairs. (First: Episode 1162) | |
Cartoon | Seven owls Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1562) | |
SCENE 3 | Maria sits in the yard 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. | |
Cartoon | HEN / PEN / TEN / MEN Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 1881) | |
Film | In an Alaskan village, a doctor makes a regular visit to a clinic. (First: Episode 2390) | |
Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0 (parachute under haystack) (First: Episode 2278) | |
Muppets | Part 1: Ernie is holding a banana in his ear. Bert tries to tell him that he does so, but he can't hear him because of it. (First: Episode 0258) | |
Film | Animals and children bathe in water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0615) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | 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 on Sesame Street as proof that his method works. (First: Episode 0258) | |
Animation | The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods. (First: Episode 2210) | |
Celebrity | 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. (First: Episode 2127) | |
Cartoon | Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot. (First: Episode 0795) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | Clementine works at the Double Bar "R" Ranch; Gladys the Cow applies for a job there. (First: Episode 2225) | |
Cartoon | R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) | |
Muppets | A bunch of city folk work together to plant a garden for me and for you, as they show (in song) that "Cooperation Makes it Happen." (First: Episode 1956) | |
Animation | Rorschach ink blob association with a funky jazz soundtrack. (First: Episode 0777) | |
SCENE 4 | 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! He remarks, "How about that, audience? Another happy contestant! They took their trip already - aren't they fantastic??" | |
Film | Olivia briefly narrates a film of re-paving a street. (First: Episode 1161) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | The Count sings about the ten things most important to him. (First: Episode 1954) | |
Cartoon | Is snow cold? Yes! (First: Episode 0822) cut from the Noggin version | |
Cast | 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 one on it. (First: Episode 1535) | |
Cartoon | A man demonstrates up and down. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 0276) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Humpty Dumpty — Kermit doesn't help Humpty Dumpty's situation. (First: Episode 0657) | |
Film | An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I." (First: Episode 1077) | |
SCENE 5 | Maria and Luis listen to the baby's heartbeat again, as Elmo announces the sponsors. |
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