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| [[Image:2849a.jpg|250px|center]]<br>[[Image:2849b.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 1'''</center> || [[Big Bird]] looks in his mailbox, and to his surprise, he finds a square. He goes outside to find out who it belongs to, and finds that [[Mike]] and [[Maria]] also have squares of their own which they got in the mail. [[Telly]] shows up, displaying the triangle he got in the mail, which confuses them further. Finally, [[Elmo]] pops up to reveal to them that he put those shapes in their mailboxes so they could all play a "Three of These Things" game with him. In this game, three of the shapes are squares, but one is a triangle, so it doesn't belong. Telly suddenly worries that he'll have to give back the triangle now that the game is over, but Elmo lets him keep it. Telly happily runs off with the triangle, and Elmo announces that he'll be playing "Three of These Things" all day long today.
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| [[Image:Sqsong.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || The Four Squares sing "[[It's Hip To Be a Square]]."<br>Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel<br>{{eka|2615}}
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|-
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| [[Image:2963-B3.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Super Grover]]: "Dial S for SuperGrover" - A little girl had plans to play with a friend, Bobby, but she has too much homework and has to cancel. Super Grover arrives to help her figure out how to tell him, but while Super Grover is busy coming up with ridiculous ploys, the girl decides to just telephone him.
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| [[Image:3136j.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Song</center> || "[[Elbows and Knees]]" <br>{{eka|2641}}
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|-
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| [[Image:3963c.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A shy girl wants to join a group bouncing a ball. ''(audible dialogue)''<br>Artist: [[Joanna Priestley]]
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| [[Image:BJMMOscar.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets / Celebrity</center> || [[Billy Joel]] and [[Marlee Matlin]] bring [[Oscar]] a used piano, but Billy uses it one last time to sing "[[Just the Way You Are (song)|Just the Way You Are]]" to Oscar while Marlee signs the lyrics.<br>{{eka|2673}}
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| [[Image:Abstract13.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Animation</center> || Abstract count to 13.
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| [[Image:Pollydarton.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Polly Darton]] sings "[[Wavin' Goodbye to You with My Heart]]."<br>{{eka|2495}}
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| [[Image:GrocerySt_re.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on.<br>{{eka|1854}}
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| [[Image:2849c.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 2'''</center> || Elmo has set some shape blocks on a table in the courtyard, and invites [[The Kids|Daniel]] to play "Three of These Blocks" with him. Daniel is blind, and can't see the shapes, but he can tell what they are by feeling them, so he can still play the game. Three of the blocks are rectangular, but one of them is a circle.
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| [[Image:3squares.blackwhite.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || Two white squares try to push a great big object, and are reluctant to let a black square join them at first.<br>Artist: [[Fred Garbers]]
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| [[Image:KidsLovetoBrush.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || The Bicuspids sing "[[Kids Just Love to Brush]]."<br>{{eka|2691}}
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| [[Image:2257t.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || 'j' minuscula<br>{{eka|1364}}
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| [[Image:Starfishrefilmed.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Song</center> || "[[Starfish]]" by [[Joe Raposo]] ''(re-filmed version)''<br>Original version: {{eka|0280}}
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| [[Image:ColTravel.NZ.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || Colonel Travel takes the viewer on a tour of New Zealand.
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| [[Image:IHeardMyDogBark.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cast</center> || [[Gordon]] sings "[[I Heard My Dog Bark]]" as [[Susan]], [[Bob]], [[Uncle Wally]], and [[The Kids|some kids]] make the animal sounds.<br>{{eka|2258}}
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| [[Image:AMike.Angryboy.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A little boy describes a time when he got angry after his toy truck was destroyed by a big kid.<br>Artist: [[ArtistMike]]
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| [[Image:2356-26.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || {{eba}} [[Ernie]] and [[Bert]] play "The Feelings Game" -- much to Bert's chagrin.<br>{{eka|2356}}
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| [[Image:CityCircles.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Film</center> || Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)<br>{{eka|2789}}
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| [[Image:100021.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || "Young MacDonald Went to Town"<br>{{eka|0811}}
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|-
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| [[Image:Fruityarrangement.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Animation</center> || Pieces of fruit make their way out of a basket and arrange themselves into groups.
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| [[Image:2849d.jpg|250px|center]]<br>[[Image:2849e.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 3'''</center> || Maria has her lunch at [[Hooper's]]. Elmo pops up and asks [[Mr. Handford]] for one bagel and three bananas, when Maria stops him and explains to Mr. Handford what Elmo's been doing all day, taking the game away from Elmo in the process - until Elmo explains that he wanted to ''eat'' the food, not play with it.
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| [[Image:13burgers.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Animation</center> || Thirteen hamburgers dance around.
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| [[Image:Song.loveyouspring.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Guy Smiley]] sings "[[I'll Love You in Springtime]]."<br>{{eka|2641}}
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| [[Image:Signman.TAXI.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || [[Sign Man]]: TAXI<br>{{eka|1136}}
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| [[Image:Katydid.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Film</center> || Maria and some kids count katydids hiding in the leaves.<br>Music: [[Joe Raposo]]<br>{{eka|2624}}
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| [[Image:Toon.Orange.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || O for orange<br>Artist: [[Bruce Cayard]]<br>{{eka|0975}}
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| [[Image:2849f.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 4'''</center> || Elmo asks Maria to come over so she can play with him and [[Snuffy]]. In this "Three of These Things" game, Maria guesses that the book is what doesn't belong (among the four "objects"), and she's right. Elmo then requests for Maria to read the book to him and Snuffy, and she almost does so, but Elmo then introduces the next segment ...
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| [[Image:4122bj.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A mouse riding an armadillo sings [[Thirteen Is My Lucky Number|a song about 13, his lucky number]].
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| [[Image:Ssnews.cinderdress.jpg|250px]] || <center>Muppets</center> || '''[[Sesame Street News Flash]]'''<br>Cinderella's [[Fairy Godmother (Sesame Street)|Fairy Godmother]] tries to make a beautiful ball dress appear on Cinderella without success: the gown ends up on Kermit instead. <br>{{eka|2491}}
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| [[Image:PlanetJ.jpeg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || Planet J / j
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| [[Image:2849g.jpg|250px|center]]<br>[[Image:2849h.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 5'''</center> || Elmo and Snuffy are now ready for Maria to read the book to them. The book, entitled "The Snuffleupagus and the Rope," is about a rope who works as a tightrope in the [[Circus|circus]], then as a clothesline, and finally as a jump rope for a Snuffleupagus.
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| [[Image:2849i.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''SCENE 5'''<br>cont'd</center> || When the story is over, Elmo wants to play "Three of These Things" some more, but Maria tells him it's time to go, and lets him announce the sponsors.
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Revision as of 04:58, 1 September 2014

Sesame Street
Three of These Things
Air date April 4, 1991
Season Season 22 (1990-1991)
Sponsors J, O, 13

2849

Picture Segment Description
2849a

2849b
SCENE 1
 Big Bird looks in his mailbox, and to his surprise, he finds a square. He goes outside to find out who it belongs to, and finds that Mike and Maria also have squares of their own which they got in the mail. Telly shows up, displaying the triangle he got in the mail, which confuses them further. Finally, Elmo pops up to reveal to them that he put those shapes in their mailboxes so they could all play a "Three of These Things" game with him. In this game, three of the shapes are squares, but one is a triangle, so it doesn't belong. Telly suddenly worries that he'll have to give back the triangle now that the game is over, but Elmo lets him keep it. Telly happily runs off with the triangle, and Elmo announces that he'll be playing "Three of These Things" all day long today.
Sqsong
Cartoon
 The Four Squares sing "It's Hip To Be a Square."
Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel
(EKA: Episode 2615)
2963-B3
Muppets
 Super Grover: "Dial S for SuperGrover" - A little girl had plans to play with a friend, Bobby, but she has too much homework and has to cancel. Super Grover arrives to help her figure out how to tell him, but while Super Grover is busy coming up with ridiculous ploys, the girl decides to just telephone him.
3136j
Song
 "Elbows and Knees"
(EKA: Episode 2641)
3963c
Cartoon
 A shy girl wants to join a group bouncing a ball. (audible dialogue)
Artist: Joanna Priestley
BJMMOscar
Muppets / Celebrity
 Billy Joel and Marlee Matlin bring Oscar a used piano, but Billy uses it one last time to sing "Just the Way You Are" to Oscar while Marlee signs the lyrics.
(EKA: Episode 2673)
Abstract13
Animation
 Abstract count to 13.
Pollydarton
Muppets
 Polly Darton sings "Wavin' Goodbye to You with My Heart."
(EKA: Episode 2495)
GrocerySt re
Cartoon
 The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on.
(EKA: Episode 1854)
2849c
SCENE 2
 Elmo has set some shape blocks on a table in the courtyard, and invites Daniel to play "Three of These Blocks" with him. Daniel is blind, and can't see the shapes, but he can tell what they are by feeling them, so he can still play the game. Three of the blocks are rectangular, but one of them is a circle.
3squares.blackwhite
Cartoon
 Two white squares try to push a great big object, and are reluctant to let a black square join them at first.
Artist: Fred Garbers
KidsLovetoBrush
Muppets
 The Bicuspids sing "Kids Just Love to Brush."
(EKA: Episode 2691)
2257t
Cartoon
 'j' minuscula
(EKA: Episode 1364)
Starfishrefilmed
Song
 "Starfish" by Joe Raposo (re-filmed version)
Original version: (EKA: Episode 0280)
ColTravel.NZ
Cartoon
 Colonel Travel takes the viewer on a tour of New Zealand.
IHeardMyDogBark
Cast
 Gordon sings "I Heard My Dog Bark" as Susan, Bob, Uncle Wally, and some kids make the animal sounds.
(EKA: Episode 2258)
AMike.Angryboy
Cartoon
 A little boy describes a time when he got angry after his toy truck was destroyed by a big kid.
Artist: ArtistMike
2356-26
Muppets
 Template:Eba Ernie and Bert play "The Feelings Game" -- much to Bert's chagrin.
(EKA: Episode 2356)
CityCircles
Film
 Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)
(EKA: Episode 2789)
100021
Cartoon
 "Young MacDonald Went to Town"
(EKA: Episode 0811)
Fruityarrangement
Animation
 Pieces of fruit make their way out of a basket and arrange themselves into groups.
2849d

2849e
SCENE 3
 Maria has her lunch at Hooper's. Elmo pops up and asks Mr. Handford for one bagel and three bananas, when Maria stops him and explains to Mr. Handford what Elmo's been doing all day, taking the game away from Elmo in the process - until Elmo explains that he wanted to eat the food, not play with it.
13burgers
Animation
 Thirteen hamburgers dance around.
Song.loveyouspring
Muppets
 Guy Smiley sings "I'll Love You in Springtime."
(EKA: Episode 2641)
Signman.TAXI
Cartoon
 Sign Man: TAXI
(EKA: Episode 1136)
Katydid
Film
 Maria and some kids count katydids hiding in the leaves.
Music: Joe Raposo
(EKA: Episode 2624)
Toon.Orange
Cartoon
 O for orange
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(EKA: Episode 0975)
2849f
SCENE 4
 Elmo asks Maria to come over so she can play with him and Snuffy. In this "Three of These Things" game, Maria guesses that the book is what doesn't belong (among the four "objects"), and she's right. Elmo then requests for Maria to read the book to him and Snuffy, and she almost does so, but Elmo then introduces the next segment ...
4122bj
Cartoon
 A mouse riding an armadillo sings a song about 13, his lucky number.
Ssnews.cinderdress
Muppets
 Sesame Street News Flash
Cinderella's Fairy Godmother tries to make a beautiful ball dress appear on Cinderella without success: the gown ends up on Kermit instead.
(EKA: Episode 2491)
PlanetJ
Cartoon
 Planet J / j
2849g

2849h
SCENE 5
 Elmo and Snuffy are now ready for Maria to read the book to them. The book, entitled "The Snuffleupagus and the Rope," is about a rope who works as a tightrope in the circus, then as a clothesline, and finally as a jump rope for a Snuffleupagus.
2849i
SCENE 5
cont'd
 When the story is over, Elmo wants to play "Three of These Things" some more, but Maria tells him it's time to go, and lets him announce the sponsors.

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