Sesame Street | |||||
Hurricane, part 1 | |||||
Air date | March 26, 2001 | ||||
Season | Season 32 (2001) | ||||
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The episode's plot begins with Big Bird and Gordon conversing on and about a windy day. They are soon interrupted by Old MacDonald on the street, who remarks that his chickens quack and his sheep do the cha-cha whenever there is a hurricane. | ||
They walk to Hooper's Store, where the entire cast is congregated around the television set for a special weather bulletin. Kermit the Frog appears on Sesame Street News to announce the hurricane, before cutting to Al Roker posed in front of a weather map. Telly and Elmo fret about the news, but the human characters detail ways in which they can prepare. | ||
On a windy day, Maria (in voice-over) asks a man (Bill Irwin), "Does air move things?" The wind speaks for him. (First: Episode 2876) | ||
Ernie's Show and Tell: Ben shows Ernie his weather map of the United States. | ||
Kids and animals alternate in passing letters over themselves, in an alphabet song. | ||
Kermit and Al are on location, explaining ways the presence of a hurricane can be noticed. They are soon interrupted by MacDonald, who brings his animals home through the subway. | ||
Kermit interviews Luis and Maria about ways they are preparing for the hurricane. Afterwards, he interviews Alan and Baby Bear, then Elmo and Zoe about the ways they are contributing and cooperating. | ||
Stamped and painted X animation. (EKA: Episode 3006) | ||
A big X emerges, Jaws-like, in a swimming pool. | ||
Ornate Xs spin around in accompaniment to a song. (EKA: Episode 3058) | ||
Big Bird's friends help him prepare for the hurricane by helping him place his possessions in a toy chest. Gordon then informs Big Bird that he cannot stay in his nest, and must be indoors during the storm. | ||
Mary Shaboom reluctantly moves to a new house, and muses about the consequences. | ||
Milo Counting: 8 | ||
Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #8 | ||
Ornate 8s stroll through a gate and pose in other remarkable places. | ||
Oscar expresses his pleasure about the weather to Gordon and Bob. They insist that Oscar will need to come inside, but he reluctantly agrees only after Slimey is nearly blown away. They end up carrying his entire trash can inside, with great difficulty. | ||
Song: "Danger, Danger" | ||
Grover demonstrates "surprise" with Prairie Dawn in thirty seconds. | ||
Pirates sing a doo-wop song about how they are preparing for their journey. Artist: Michael Sporn (EKA: Episode 2624) This segment appeared only in the original 2001 broadcast. | ||
Two viewers with Picassoesque facial features in an art gallery critically examine the portrait of a viewer. | ||
William Wegman's dogs form the letter X and demonstrate an X-ray. (EKA: Episode 3767) | ||
The letter X in various typefaces. (EKA: Episode 3006) | ||
As evening approaches, Telly and Gabi look out at the storm through their windows. Indoors, Luis and Maria share fish sticks with a pair of penguins. Gina and Zoe converse with each other. Bob is frazzled both by Oscar demanding more peanuts for the elephants in his trash can, and a host of monsters chunking a hurricane song out on a piano. Meanwhile, Susan gives Big Bird a birdseed milkshake. | ||
Eight children dance in a colorblock grid. | ||
Clown Honking #8 | ||
Cookie Monster sings "Eating Cookie" -- there's another reason every season. | ||
Luxo Jr. demonstrates "up" and "down." | ||
Susan, Gordon, Miles, and Big Bird are sitting out the hurricane when the lights flicker and go out. Nevertheless, they manage to entertain themselves by playing games and telling a story with flashlights. | ||
Noodles and Nedd play shadow games indoors with a flashlight, and outdoors. | ||
Ernie and Bert: Ernie can't sleep, because he's afraid of dark shadows and spooky things. Bert comforts him, and the two sing "Imagination" before falling asleep. | ||
Gerald is repeatedly kept awake by his dog Sparky, who does a dance and poses as an alligator through his shadow whenever his parents close his door.
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Big Bird remains worried about his nest, and cannot fall asleep. He walks into Gordon and Susan's bedroom and climbs into their bed. | ||
The episode concludes with a view of the Robinsons' window from the storm outside. Oscar reads off the day's sponsors. |
Notes
- This episode was Kermit's last new appearance on Sesame Street until he made a special cameo in Elmo's World: Frogs.
- This is the only time Alan, Zoe, and Baby Bear talk to Kermit.
- This and the next four episodes were edited together into the DVD release Friends to the Rescue. These episodes have also been rerun on PBS in 2004 (in the wake of that year's Atlantic hurricane season, where four hurricanes devestated Florida) and again in September 2005 after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast.
- A hurricane previously hit the street in episode 2821.
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