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| The Betty Lou Clinic | |||||
| Air date | March 22, 1994 | ||||
| Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Telly greets the viewer, saying that today he's going to play doctor with Betty Lou (and her dolly) and Nathan -- but each of them thinks they will be the doctor. |
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SCENE 1 | The gang finds a bench to set up the Betty Lou Clinic. Each of them pretends to be sick, and Telly gives such a good performance that the others vote for him to be the sick person. |
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Cartoon | What if I looked like George Washington... (EKA: Episode 2257) |
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Animation | Playing cards form an M, then dance the mambo. (First: Episode 3160) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot explains what the letters M and W look like with a very uncooperative letter that keeps switching itself. The letter eventually stops switching, and Herb solves the problem by rotating the camera angle, turning the letter upside down. (EKA: Episode 2062) |
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Cartoon | Me and My M Artist: Bruce Cayard (EKA: Episode 2448) |
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SCENE 2 | At Betty Lou's instruction, Telly pretends to be sick with "alphabetitis", and Betty Lou and Nathan pretend to operate on him. One by one, the letters are extracted from Telly's head, and he feels better when they're all done -- but Betty Lou still want to keep playing, so he keeps pretending to be sick. |
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Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (EKA: Episode 0560) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie is sad, because it's raining and he can't play baseball. Bert encourages him to imagine that he's playing instead. In Ernie's imagination, he hits a high fly ball that lands in the ocean. Bert tells Ernie that the sun is out, and he can go out and play now. Ernie says that he can't play -- his ball fell in the ocean. (EKA: Episode 0678) |
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Cartoon | Apple: a riddle (EKA: Episode 2988) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants to order a couple of poached eggs on toast, but Grover informs him that the restaurant is out of eggs, so he brings two corn cobs on toast to him. Grover gives a lecture on where eggs come from, by bringing a cornstalk, chicken feed, and a chicken to the table. (EKA: Episode 2947) |
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Cartoon | A chicken sings "It Ain't Heavy, It's My Feather". (EKA: Episode 2979) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly is now sick with "numberitis", so Betty Lou and Nathan extract the numbers 1-40 from his tummy. |
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Cartoon | A man counts forty stars at night. (EKA: Episode 2269) |
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Film | Michael introduces his friend to the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. (EKA: Episode 2752) |
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Transition | Big Bird's eyes get wider as the next segment plays ... (new music added) (EKA: Episode 3163) |
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Cartoon | Animals who eat crunchy things have nice teeth. (EKA: Episode 2508) |
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Muppets | "The Ten Commandments of Health" (EKA: Episode 1163) |
| Cartoon | "ME" -- Kids make self-portraits and look at reflections of themselves. | |
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Film | Looking for squares in the city (Maria voiceover) (EKA: Episode 2751) |
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SCENE 4 | Telly is now sick with "Spanish numberitis" in his chest. Betty Lou uses the open mouth cure, which makes the numeros 1-10 come out of his boca. Telly is done being the sick person, so they decide to find someone to take his place. |
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Song | “Hey Mr. Clock, time to tick-tock!” (EKA: Episode 3090) |
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Film | A boy in Jamaica goes to school and attends drum class. (EKA: Episode 3145) |
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Cartoon | Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain. (EKA: Episode 2489) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Oscar the Grouch puts a sign on his trash can which reads "DON'T BOTHER ME!" A sassy postal worker (Rosie O'Donnell) knocks on his can, and when he asks her "Can't you read?" she shows him how many things she can read. She then walks off to find out where Oscar the Grouch lives so she can deliver the sardine cologne he ordered. Oscar angrily rips up the sign. (First: Episode 3190) |
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Cartoon | Two green martians fight over a flower, until they see a monolith crumble to form the word AMOR. (EKA: Episode 0911) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moments: Grover and Christopher talk about what love is. (EKA: Episode 2558) |
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Cartoon | A man shows the difference between a regular slice of bread and a toasted one. (EKA: Episode 1575) |
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Muppets | Polly Darton sings "Save Your Energy for Me," a song about energy conservation. (EKA: Episode 3134) |
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Cartoon | The Bellhop must take Mrs. Stein's bags to floor 16. (EKA: Episode 2496) |
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Muppets | "Sixteen Samba" (EKA: Episode 2822) |
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Animation | Growing Numbers #16 Artist: Jane Aaron (EKA: Episode 3027) |
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SCENE 5 | Ruthie is the new sick person, since she is also good at pretending. Betty Lou pretends that Ruthie is sick with "rhyme-itis", and the doctors extract the words that rhyme with Ruthie's body parts. Afterwards, Ruthie takes the doctors out for ice cream. |
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Animation | Sand Alphabet: X / x (EKA: Episode 2390) |
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Muppets | The Mystery Guest is the letter X. (EKA: Episode 1447) |
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Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (EKA: Episode 0299) |
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Film | Wegman: Fay shows on the bench and under the bench. (EKA: Episode 2795) |
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SCENE 6 | Ruthie thinks that she could eat ice cream all day. Betty Lou pretends that Ruthie has "ice cream-itis", and the doctors pretend to operate on her again. Big Bird announces the sponsors. |
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