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Sesame Street
Chicago goes hunting
Air date December 30, 1991
Season Season 23 (1991-1992)
Written by Tony Geiss
Production October 23, 1991
Sponsors H, P, 4

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
Chicago-MGM
COLD OPEN In a spoof of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer intro, Chicago declares he and the kids are going hunting today.
VegetableLion
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.
2911-SandP
Animation Sand P/p
(First: Episode 0634)
0926o
Film Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack)
(First: Episode 0926)
AnimalTshirt
Animation Can you find the animals hiding in the T-shirt?
Artist: Deanna Morse
(First: Episode 2873)
Yipyipphone
Muppets The Martians find a telephone.
(First: Episode 0398)
4fiddle
Cartoon Donnie Budd counts four lions.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0300)
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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.
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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.
5ladybugs
Cartoon Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards
(First: Episode 0277)
LSKermitElmo
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)
4butterflies
Animation Four butterflies fly across a film of a waterfall.
(First: Episode 2834)
123Family
Song "Mom and Me"
(First: Episode 2462)
2682x
Cartoon H - Horse
(First: Episode 0474)
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2911e
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.Between
Song Jeff Redd sings "Between."
(First: Episode 2738)
0926w
Cartoon Passengers on a crowded subway illustrate between.
(First: Episode 0795)
Song.Bones
Muppets The Count sings about Bones.
(First: Episode 1386)
Rosesarered
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)
Noodlefactory
Film Footage of a Chinese noodle factory.
(First: Episode 0984)
2911f
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.
BreadMilkButter
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)
3141u
Celebrity At Birdland, Hoots introduces Bobby McFerrin, who does a call-and-response scat song with the audience.
(First: Episode 2874)
3141z
Cartoon P is for Puddle
(First: Episode 0452)
Fish Cowboy Hat
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie 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)
AboveandBelow
Song "Above and Below" (Christopher Cerf)
(First: Episode 2839)
2911g
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.
TVMonkeys
Cartoon Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get.
(First: Episode 0762)
Chrissyandthealphabeats
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)
Hisforhole
Cartoon Speech Balloon: H is for hole
(First: Episode 0080)
Closer.Dog
Song Bob sings Joe Raposo's "Look a Little Closer." (dog)
(First: Episode 2677)
2911h
SCENE 6 Big Bird, Snuffy, Chicago and the kids (nicknamed "Chicago's Cubs") have fun playing with the cabbage on a stick.
Scanimate4
Animation Scanimate Films #4
(First: Episode 0132)
3-Dolphins
Film Three dolphins jump together.
(First: Episode 0222)
PforPainting
Cartoon P is for Painting
(First: Episode 0764)
Ssnews.peterpiper
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Peter PiperKermit interviews Peter Piper's family.
(First: Episode 1342)
2485x
Cartoon Madrigal Alphabet
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0615)
1091-18
Film Empty / full classroom (time-lapse)
(First: Episode 0415)
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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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