Sesame Street | |||||||
Chicago goes hunting | |||||||
Air date | December 30, 1991 | ||||||
Season | Season 23 (1991-1992) | ||||||
Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | In a spoof of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer intro, Chicago declares he and the kids are going hunting today. | |
SCENE 1 | With the help of the kids and grown-ups, Chicago sings about how he's a "Vegetable Lion." The others all provide him with fruits and vegetables as he mentions them in the song. | |
Animation | Sand P/p (First: Episode 0634) | |
Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) | |
Animation | Can you find the animals hiding in the T-shirt? Artist: Deanna Morse (First: Episode 2873) | |
Muppets | The Martians find a telephone. (First: Episode 0398) | |
Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) | |
SCENE 2 | At the Fix-it Shop, Snuffy waits for Maria to finish fixing his wagon. Chicago comes by, still hunting for vegetables, and lets out a hungry roar, scaring Snuffy away. Maria suggests that he roar more quietly, and he seems to have trouble grasping the concept at first, until she shows him how to do it. | |
SCENE 2 cont'd |
Snuffy comes back, fearful that Chicago will roar again, but is reassured by Maria that he has a new quiet roar. Snuffy is now calm, until Chicago demonstrates the way he used to roar. "It's a jungle out here," he remarks. | |
Cartoon | Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards (First: Episode 0277) | |
Muppets | Elmo loudly interrupts Kermit's demonstration of "quiet" and "loud". Elmo loudly insists on helping Kermit demonstrate the difference, and Kermit manages to get Elmo to whisper as they talk about being quiet. (First: Episode 2270) | |
Animation | Four butterflies fly across a film of a waterfall. (First: Episode 2834) | |
Song | "Mom and Me" (First: Episode 2462) | |
Cartoon | H - Horse (First: Episode 0474) | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird and Snuffy count the cabbages they have, which add up to 8. They put them in the wagon, but accidentally leave one behind. Chicago finds it, and is surprised to find that it doesn't move when he tries to chase it. Luis tells him that vegetables can't run, and offers to help him with his exercise. | |
Song | Jeff Redd sings "Between." (First: Episode 2738) | |
Cartoon | Passengers on a crowded subway illustrate between. (First: Episode 0795) | |
Muppets | The Count sings about Bones. (First: Episode 1386) | |
Cartoon | A peasant tries to woo a pretty girl by reciting the famous "Roses are Red" poem. The lines are fed to him by a poet behind a bush, whom she eventually runs off with. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 2058) | |
Film | Footage of a Chinese noodle factory. (First: Episode 0984) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird and Snuffy ask Maria if she's seen a cabbage, because they appear to be missing one of their eight cabbages. She tells them to retrace their steps, and they start walking backwards. | |
Cartoon | "I Can Remember": A little girl remembers what to buy at the store (A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter) by visualizing her mother giving the instructions. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0408) | |
Celebrity | At Birdland, Hoots introduces Bobby McFerrin, who does a call-and-response scat song with the audience. (First: Episode 2874) | |
Cartoon | P is for Puddle (First: Episode 0452) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!" (First: Episode 0305) | |
Song | "Above and Below" (Christopher Cerf) (First: Episode 2839) | |
SCENE 5 | Luis attaches the cabbage to a string so that Chicago can chase it. Big Bird and Snuffy continue walking backwards, and see that Chicago has their missing cabbage. They realize they have a conflict over who needs the cabbage more. Snuffy comes up with a solution: they can bring the cabbage-on-a-stick to lunch, and Chicago can chase it on the way. | |
Cartoon | Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762) | |
Muppets | Telly is shocked to see Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats at the library. They explain that in addition to being rock stars, they're also "Rock 'N Roll Readers." (First: Episode 2612) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: H is for hole (First: Episode 0080) | |
Song | Bob sings Joe Raposo's "Look a Little Closer." (dog) (First: Episode 2677) | |
SCENE 6 | Big Bird, Snuffy, Chicago and the kids (nicknamed "Chicago's Cubs") have fun playing with the cabbage on a stick. | |
Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) | |
Film | Three dolphins jump together. (First: Episode 0222) | |
Cartoon | P is for Painting (First: Episode 0764) | |
Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Peter Piper — Kermit interviews Peter Piper's family. (First: Episode 1342) | |
Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) | |
Film | Empty / full classroom (time-lapse) (First: Episode 0415) | |
SCENE 7 | Big Bird, Snuffy, Chicago and the kids have finished their meal of "cabbage à la mode", and are now sleepy. Big Bird and Snuffy announce the sponsors quietly as Chicago roars in his sleep. |
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