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Sesame Street
Baby Bear visits Birdland
Air date April 2, 1993
Season Season 24 (1992-1993)
Written by Mark Saltzman
Directed by Emily Squires
Production December 21, 1992
January 27, 1993
Sponsors R, S, 20

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
3110a

3110b
SCENE 1 Baby Bear enters Birdland, where he hears Hoots playing the saxophone. He asks Hoots to teach him to play an instrument, and Hoots explains that it takes a love of music, an instrument of choice, and a lot of practice to become a good musician. Baby Bear immediately starts playing the piano tunelessly, insisting he doesn't need to practice. He imagines opening up his own jazz club, Bearland, and playing the piano there every night - yet, even in his imagination, he drives his customers away with his tuneless playing, so he decides that the piano is not for him. He goes off to think about which instrument he wants to play instead.
Jugglingbear
Cartoon A juggling bear helps a little girl learn to juggle.
(First: Episode 1834)
EnVogue.Adventure
Song En Vogue sings "Adventure".
(First: Episode 2951)
RockFlip
Animation A rock does somersaults for its peers, but gets little applause.
(First: Episode 2021)
3816p
Cartoon Leaves form R and r
WHN1

WHN2
Cast Gordon hosts "What Happens Next," in which the viewer has to guess what kind of humiliation Maria as Chaplin is going to face before Gordon rings the Dinger's ding-dong bell. First, the tramp slips on a banana peel, then collapses when sitting on a three-legged bench. Finally, when a rain cloud is about to rain on him, he shifts the cloud over to the left of the screen so it rains on Gordon instead.
(First: Episode 2328)
2963-C5
Cartoon Lillian is proud because she climbed a mountain all by herself.
Artist: Craig Bartlett
(First: Episode 2749)
3110c

3110d
SCENE 2 Baby Bear has decided that he wants to play the saxophone, just the way Hoots plays it. Hoots says that everyone who plays the saxophone plays it differently, and tells him the story of a clarinet player named "Golden Licks" ("licks" being a jazz music term), with Goldilocks as the title character. In the story, Goldie wandered from one jazz club to another, hoping to jam with the band there. The first jazz band was too hot for her, and the second band was too cool, but the third band was just right for her. Baby Bear then decides to find his "sound" by playing a loud, raucous note on the saxophone.
Ballooneleph
Cartoon A man tries to push a huge balloon elephant through a narrow doorway, and a girl helps him by deflating it.
(First: Episode 1824)
Song.trying
Song Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again."
(First: Episode 0631)
2485k
Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Chelsea tells Grover what love is.
(First: Episode 2397)
Aliens.AMOR
Cartoon Two green martians fight over a flower, until they see a monolith crumble to form the word AMOR.
(First: Episode 0821)
CongoGames
Film A boy who lives in the Congo (in Africa) narrates a film of the kinds of games he and his friends play.
(First: Episode 2668)
4120bf
Animation Rubber Stamp #20
(First: Episode 2935)
3110e

3110f
SCENE 3 Baby Bear notices Hoots singing in a peculiar way, and Hoots tells him it's called "scat singing". In a flashback sequence, a young Hoots waits on tables at a jazz club in New Orleans. He can't help but scat along to the music of the jazz band, and the band leader hires him on the spot as a singer. Back in the present, Baby Bear decides that he wants to scat-sing.
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)
Erniebertstring
Muppets Ernie & BertBert notices that Ernie has a piece of string tied on his finger. Ernie says that the string tied on this finger helps to remind him that there's a piece of string tied on this finger. And so on. The string on the last finger is there to remind him that they're out of string.
(First: Episode 0163)
Computer.tall-and-short
Animation Computer: tall / short
(First: Episode 3042)
Everybodysleeps-refilmed
Song Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps" (re-filmed version)
(First: Episode 3026)
Sand-S
Animation Sand S/s
(First: Episode 0622)
Sammythesnake
Muppets "Sammy the Snake"
(First: Episode 0278)
Typewriter-S
Cartoon Typewriter: S for spring
(First: Episode 0792)
3110g
SCENE 4 Baby Bear approaches Hoots and the band, thinking that maybe jazz isn't for him after all. The band sings him a song showing how jazz can be applied to any kind of song, and Baby Bear has fun with jazz after all.
2356-23
Cartoon A ball goes up and down a musical staircase.
(First: Episode 2151)
PlaygroundRhyme
Film A girl wants to learn a playground rhyme after watching some other girls do it, so one of them teaches her.
(First: Episode 2284)
BCayard.Skin
Cartoon A girl talks about her skin.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(First: Episode 2611)
3957v
Film Growing Numbers #20
(First: Episode 2967)
TallTale
Muppets / Celebrity Johnny Cash, Noel Cowherd, and some other cowfolk sing "Tall Tale."
(First: Episode 2999)
2477za
Cartoon "¡Él juega fútbol!"
(First: Episode 2104)
Film.WhoAmI-Olivia.song
Song Olivia sings "The Riddle."
(First: Episode 1721)
3110.Rhino
Cartoon R for Rhinoceros
(First: Episode 2518)
HarveyR
Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R.
(First: Episode 0583)
2059q
Film Letter R hoist
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0315)
Cartoon.recycle-jars
Cartoon Three mayonnaise jars follow three different paths after they leave the factory.
Artist: ArtistMike
(First: Episode 2762)
StandByYourCan
Muppets Hammy Swinette sings "Stand By Your Can."
(First: Episode 2796)
Oldtoynewtoy
Cartoon A gorilla outgrows his toy fire truck, and is about to throw it away, when he decides to pass it on to his little brother.
(First: Episode 2840)
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SCENE 5 Baby Bear scats the Sesame Street Theme. Hoots announces the sponsors, and Baby Bear scats them too. The credits roll.

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