Sesame Street | |||||||
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Air date | March 7, 1996 | ||||||
Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) | ||||||
Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird, Tarah and Maria are are watching Natasha talk in her sleep. They speculate about what she might be dreaming about...maybe Oscar the Grouchโs elephant, Fluffy. In her dream, Natasha and Fluffy, both in trash cans, begin to talk to (and imitate) each other. Natasha wakes up, but now Barkley is asleep. He is dreaming too, and they wonder what dogs dream about. | |
Film | Fay Ray dresses up as different animals. ("It's Kermit the Dog!") (First: Episode 2639) | |
Animation | A boy has a dream in which he floats in Outer Space between things. (First: Episode 3093) | |
Film | What sound does a cat make? (First: Episode 3414) | |
Cartoon | Mi kat iz ... gone (First: Episode 1967) | |
Celebrity | Ruthie takes an opera lesson from Marilyn Horne, as they sing "Sing After Me" (First: Episode 3198) | |
Animation | A girl reads a book, a magazine, a newspaper, and a letter. (First: Episode 3142) | |
Song | "In the Library" (First: Episode 3423) | |
Cartoon | A boy narrates a poem about how he met Eleanor, the monster under his bed. (new sound effects added) Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2773) | |
SCENE 2 | Maria, Big Bird, and Tarah speculate about Barkleyโs dream. Barkleyโs dream sequence is shown. Barkley wakes up and they ask him what he was dreaming aboutโhe indicates that he was dreaming about a frisbee. Barkley's frisbee dream is a recurring one--he also dreamed it in Episode 1503 and Episode 2969. | |
Animation | The word DOG is spelled out over a weiner dog. (First: Episode 3326) | |
Film | Kids narrate footage of toddlers learning to walk. (First: Episode 3025) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment โ Cookie Monster asks Lexine to express happy and sad faces. (First: Episode 3271) | |
Cartoon | The story of Tommy LaPlaid, the painter so sad until he discovered the joys of kicking his paints on the canvas. Artist: Mo Willems (First: Episode 3208) | |
Cast | A remake of "Can Read" with Mr. Handford reading a recipe, Rosita reading a letter from her abuela, and Ruthie reading a box label. (First: Episode 3337) | |
Animation | W for water, wind, wave and wet. (First: Episode 3198) | |
Cast | Gordon and the word "wand." (new music added) (First: Episode 1491) | |
Film | The floating kids form the letter w. (First: Episode 3181) | |
Cartoon | Jerry Nelson sings "Moonshine" (First: Episode 2775) | |
SCENE 3 | Humphrey and Ingrid come to pick up Natasha, and they ask if she has eaten. Maria tells them that Natasha had three bottles of milk, and the proud parents gush over her milk-drinking talents. Humphrey says he even had a dream about it, and Tarah and Big Bird ask to hear it. Humphrey dreamt that he and Ingrid had a giant bottle of milk but no baby to drink it. It would go sour if nobody drank it, but just then, Superbaby arrived and drank the whole thing. Humphrey's dream sequence would later be reworked as an insert for future episodes of Sesame Street. | |
Cartoon | A brief animation of pouring milk in a glass, coupled with the word milk. (First: Episode 3012) | |
Muppets | The Two-Headed Monster finishes drinking milk, and doesnโt know what to do with the cartons at first, but gets the idea to "recycle" them and play with them like a train. (First: Episode 2726) | |
Song | "Write Your Name" (First: Episode 3274) | |
Cartoon | W for Willamina (new sound effects and music added) (First: Episode 0512) | |
Song | Ornate Ws spin around in accompaniment to a song. (First: Episode 2952) | |
Film | Jaws spoof with the letter W. (First: Episode 3366) | |
Muppets | "I'm a Bookworm, Baby!" (First: Episode 2994) | |
Film / Animation | A class makes up a story about going to the zoo, which is told through animation based on the kidsโ drawings. (First: Episode 3328) | |
SCENE 4 | Count von Count comes running by in his pajamas. Even though he is in a hurry, he takes time to tell Big Bird and Tarah about the dream he had last night. He fell asleep counting sheep. Then he dreamt that he was a sheep and he was counting counts. His dream shows him counting twenty counts. He says he counted a thousand of himself before he woke up. He is jogging in his pajamas so he will get tired, fall asleep, and dream heโs a sheep counting Counts again. | |
Film | A girl who lives in El Salvador plays a counting game with her class, which involves running around and getting into groups of a number when it is called. (First: Episode 3012) | |
Cartoon | A girl thinks she hears a monster doing a cha-cha outside her window, but itโs only the wind and the crickets. Her snores frighten the real monster. Artist: Deanna Morse (First: Episode 2951) | |
Song | "Dressed Up" (remake) (First: Episode 3399) | |
Cartoon | Four babies crying, drinking, playing, sleeping (First: Episode 3418) | |
Film | Ornate 4s fly through the air. (First: Episode 3317) | |
Film | Four kids dance in a colorblock grid. (First: Episode 3149) | |
Muppets | Ernie is tossing and turning in bed. He sings to the viewers how he feels "When Bert's Not Here." (First: Episode 2208) | |
Cartoon | "From Your Head" Artist: Sally Cruikshank | |
SCENE 5 | Big Bird and Tarah count the dreams they heard about that day. Satisfied that there wonโt be any more dreams that day, they go off to play. Meanwhile, Slimey is in bed dreaming that "the famous subterranean magician Slimini the Great" is announcing the sponsors. | |
COMING SOON | Coming Soon on Sesame Street: Bob tweets like a bird. |
Notes[]
- A scene originally scripted for the episode involved Celina teaching Zoe "A Song for Two;" Zoe then tries to duet with Barkley.[1] A revised version of the scene was instead turned into an insert with Herry Monster airing later this season in Episode 3519.
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