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Sesame Street
Ralphie the Parrot Flies Away
Air date October 2, 2007
Season Season 38 (2007)
Written by Molly Boylan
Production December 19, 2006
Sponsors H, 3

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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COLD OPEN "What's the Word on the Street?" -- expert
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SCENE On another sunny day, Big Bird gets some bananas from Alan, who almost welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street - when Baby Bear interrupts him so that his parrot, Ralphie, can do it instead.
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Baby Bear is proud of how talented his parrot is, claiming that Ralphie can do anything. He can rhyme, sing, dance, and play peek-a-boo. As Baby Bear gives a speech on what a great friend Ralphie is, he doesn't notice Ralphie flying away. He looks around for Ralphie, and quickly becomes distressed. He calls out Ralphie's name, and hears a squawk from the distance, followed by "Welcome to Sesame Stweet." Alan pinpoints where it's coming from.
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Baby Bear depends on the viewer's help to look for Ralphie, and the camera moves around Sesame Street, finally reaching Ralphie, resting in a tree.
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Baby Bear is relieved that Ralphie isn't lost. He assumes Ralphie will come down from the tree when he calls, but Ralphie would rather just stay up there and rhyme - even when Baby Bear says "please".
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SCENE
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Just then, a magazine is delivered to Baby Bear. It's the latest issue of Parroting, the #1 magazine for anyone who wants to be an expert on parrots. He finds an article which suggests he get his friends to dress up like parrots and dance "The Parrot Polka." Elmo and Zoe immediately do so, but it doesn't make Ralphie want to fly down.
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Baby Bear is clueless what to do, since the experts' advice didn't help him get his parrot back. Zoe wonders if Ralphie is hungry, which gives Baby Bear the idea to lure him down with his "dinny-poo." Ralphie does fly down, but he flies past the food dish and out of Baby Bear's sight!
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Baby Bear is heartbroken at the thought of losing his dear parrot friend. Alan tells him to look at it from Ralphie's point of view: Ralphie is a bird, and birds are born to fly. They both acknowledge it in song: "Sometimes a Bird's Got to Fly."
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Once the song is finished, Baby Bear decides to accept the fact that Ralphie is gone. Just then, Ralphie comes flying back to him, and everything in Baby Bear's life is right again.
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Animation Colored birds bring color to a paper world as "Frère Jacques" plays.
(First: Episode 3983)
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Celebrity Diane Sawyer is an expert at blowing bubbles.
Song.HeyBaby
Song Hoots sings "Baby, You're So Smart."
(First: Episode 4076)
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Muppets The Letter of the Day: H
Cookie Monster decides to hide the letter H cookie. He then finds a place to hide it: In his tummy!
(First: Episode 4001)
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Song Soul H!
(First: Episode 3368)
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Film The floating kids form an H.
(First: Episode 3118)
AnansiBaboons
Cartoon Anansi the Spider tells a story of how he helped the monkey and the baboon reach a compromise.
(First: Episode 3361)
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Muppets Ernie & BertErnie is confused when he sees Bert playing checkers with his pigeon, Bernice. Ernie thinks it's amazing that a pigeon can play checkers, but Bert thinks it is no big deal, because Bernice has only beaten Bert in two out of ten games.
(First: Episode 1227)
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Muppets Abby Cadabby sings "I Love Words."
(First: Episode 4135)
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Animation The word "LOVE" in various situations.
Artist: Lisa Crafts
(First: Episode 3569)
Song.talkinlove
Muppets / Celebrity Trisha Yearwood sings "I'm Talkin' Love" to explain to Herry Monster about how she feels when she misses her friend who is very far away (further than China or New Jersey even). Baby Bear and Grover happen by to help sing back-up before her friend arrives. At the end, a Martian materializes and Herry notes, "Some guys have all the luck."
(First: Episode 3840)
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Film The Number of the Day: A remake of the Number Song Series brings forth 3.
(First: Episode 4096)
SuzieKabloozie.Judge3
Cartoon Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #3
(First: Episode 3892)
HipHopBeat.3
Film "OK, We Got a Hip-Hop Beat" - #3
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Muppets Dinner Theatre: "Annie Get Your Gumbo"
Annie prepares the gumbo as she sings "There's No Dinners Like Family Dinners."
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Animation A horseshoe and boot pattern
(First: Episode 3577)
Elmopetbird
Muppets Elmo's World: Pets
(First: Episode 3918)
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Insert The Adventures of Trash Gordon
Chapter 692
On Planet Upside-Down, Trash turns himself upside down to avoid frightening the Upside-Downians.
(First: Episode 4115)

Notes[]

  • This is the last episode to feature a "Trash Gordon" closing.
  • The Bert and Ernie sketch in this episode also marks the last time a segment from the 1970s aired on the show.
  • Leslie Carrara-Rudolph performs the deliverywoman that delivers Baby Bear's magazine.


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