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Sesame Street
Super Nanny visits
Air date April 20, 1993
Season Season 24 (1992-1993)
Written by Tony Geiss
Production January 13 & 15, 1993
Sponsors I, W, 6

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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COLD OPEN Oscar the Grouch explains that he's too busy to point out the letters and number of the day. He's trying to sort his trash, but he's also babysitting a particularly belligerent Irvine. Oscar could sure use some help.

Right on cue and underscored by heroic music, a Superman-esque announcer (Martin P. Robinson), says, "Look, in the sky! Faster than a speeding mommy, nicer than a friendly doggy, it's a plane, it's a nurse... it's Super Nanny!" Hearing the distressed cries, Super Nanny heads to Sesame Street to be cheerful, sing songs, and clean up.

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SCENE 1 Oscar asks Irvine to settle down so he can work. Super Nanny suddenly lands and introduces herself as Penny Pipkins. She offers to take care of Irvine while Oscar works. Oscar considers himself lucky, until he realizes Super Nanny is concerned primarily with cheering her up.
Super Nanny sings a happy song which always works, "Chirrup," while a dubious Oscar covers his ears. The song summons three birds (yellow, blue, and red) who join in the chorus. Irvine stubbornly refuses to cheer up, so Super Nanny resorts to singing the song again.
20Eggs
Animation A chicken lays 20 eggs, which hatch.
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Muppets Ernie & BertBert has gone to visit his brother Bart. Ernie pretends that Bert is still there, using a drawing and a pillow, but it isn't the same. Then, Ernie remembers Bert will be back tomorrow, and can go back to bed.
(First: Episode 2472)
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Film "One Thousand Faces"
(First: Episode 2894)
6piglets
Cartoon 6 pigs
Artist: Owe Gustafson
(First: Episode 1472)
Computer.InOut
Animation Computer: in/out
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SCENE 2 Back at Oscar's trash can, Super Nanny is still singing, while a group of discontenteded Grouchketeers sit and rustle trashbags. Gina, at Hooper's Store, notes that Super Nanny has been singing the song continuously for ten minutes. Oscar tells Super Nanny to forget about making Irvine smile, but Super Nanny concludes she's crying because of Oscar's home: "Did you do all that by yourself?" "I had some help." Super Nanny peers down and observes the china closet on the sofa floating in the swimming pool, while Oscar's pet rhino goes down the water slide.

Oscar jeers that she can't possibly clean all that up with her featherduster. Super Nanny insists that it can be done, and explains that it's a super featherduster, showing different ways one can use a featherduster (as a baton, a bouquet, or a tickling implement, among others). She then claims it also doubles as a magic wand, and proceeds to show Oscar.

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SCENE 2
cont'd
With a wave of the featherduster and the word "Alakazam," Super Nanny instantly transforms the surrounding area. Oscar's trash can is now a shiny new receptacle. The Grouchketeer girls are well-scrubbed in nice Sunday dresses while the boy wears a Fauntleroy-style suit. The unsteady stack of barrels, crates, and rags has become a single wooden box. Garbage bags are brightly colored and neatly tied, while a white picket fence and roses growing on a frame complete the decor. Oscar's hair is neatly scrubbed (save a cowlick sticking up à la Our Gang member Alfalfa) and he's wearing a collar and bowtie.

Oscar regrets opening his big mouth, but he's even more appalled when he looks closely at his clean trash can: curtains everywhere, no furniture in the swimming pool, a Princess phone, and track lighting. Irvine laughs at her uncle's neat look, while Oscar bemoans the fact that 24 years of work have been destroyed. As the last straw, Fluffy surfaces, wearing a pink ribbon around her snout.

Film-fullsubway
Film Kids shout "empty" and "full" to describe a subway car.
(First: Episode 0415)
3963j
Cartoon CGI sheep graze out I and i.
(First: Episode 2896)
Mpiece.sunrises
Muppets Monsterpiece Theater: The Sun Also RisesGrover and Merry Monster are worried because their rooster will not crow.
(First: Episode 2860)
Wih.Witch
Cartoon W for witch
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 1182)
Zydeco
Muppets "It's Zydeco"
(First: Episode 2666)
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Film The floating kids form a triangle.
Elmo'sSong
Muppets Elmo writes his own song and sings it for Big Bird and Snuffy, who then wish that they had their own songs. Elmo lets them insert their own names into the lyrics, resulting in "Big Bird's Song" and "Snuffy's Song."
(First: Episode 2710)
6snakes
Cartoon 6 mice, 6 snakes, 6 fish, 6 monkeys, 6 witches
(First: Episode 1711)
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Film Six children dance in a colorblock grid.
ItSoonGetsDone
Muppets "Daddy Helps with the Dishes": Three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. They all agree that when they all do it, "It soon gets done!"
(First: Episode 2223)
1839ze
Film Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach.
(First: Episode 1122)
Snakeswing
Song "There's an Exercise That's Right" even for a snake.
(First: Episode 2962)
HumphreyNatasha-GO
Muppets Humphrey thinks Natasha will help him demonstrate the words GO and STOP, but she does the opposite of whatever he says.
StopScribble
Animation Scribbles move around a black screen, until they see a STOP sign.
(First: Episode 1634)
TellyShaun.faces
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentTelly and Shaun make happy and sad faces.
200013
Cartoon A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy and afraid.
(First: Episode 0769)
Antarctica
Muppets As a Sesame Street Travel Tip, a pair of Anything Muppets sing about the latest travel destination, Antarctica!
(First: Episode 2938)
LuisLinda.COLD
Cast Luis and Linda assemble the word COLD, and it snows.
(First: Episode 2067)
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Song "The First Time": Children try various activities (riding tricycles, tying shoes, etc.) and progressively improve.
(First: Episode 2950)
Sandi
Animation Sand I/i
(First: Episode 0619)
MooCowHammer
Muppets Maria and some kids rap along with Moo Cow Hammer and the Barnyard Rappers.
(First: Episode 2878)
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Film Ornate Ws spin around in accompaniment to a song.
(First: Episode 2952)
Fish Cowboy Hat
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!"
(First: Episode 0305)
3806d
Animation "Six Circus Balls"
Artist: Jane Aaron
(First: Episode 3001)
1563m
Film Old paper, new paper
Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
(First: Episode 0911)
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Muppets Tim Robbins and Elmo talk about surprise.
(First: Episode 2766)
RabbitCow
Cartoon A man pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but the rabbit turns out to be a cow. "Surprise!"
Artist: John Schnall
(First: Episode 2770)
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SCENE 3 Oscar and the Grouchketeers are working on the trash can, banging with a hammer to create new dents and rubbing some "Mr. Dirt" to make it filthy again. It doesn't seem to be working, though, and Gina admits it still looks clean. Super Nanny refuses to dirty it up again, saying he'll learn to like it. Oscar hates it, likening it to life on Sunnybrook Farm, and fears it will remain that way forever once the nanny leaves.

Oscar asks Gina to intercede for him, noting that if he weren't a Grouch, he'd go so far as to say please. Gina talks to Super Nanny and explains the essential cultural and physical differences between Grouches and humans (or humanoid Anything Muppets). Gina explains that Grouches take extreme pleasure and pride in amassing a mess. Super Nanny finally realizes she remodeled Oscar's house against his wishes without even asking.
With her newfound multicultural awareness, Super Nanny utters another "Alakazam" and restores the status quo. Oscar admits that Super Nanny isn't "so bad for a neatnik." Penny Pipkins returns the compliment and tickles Oscar, who asks her to keep it up. Oscar opines that "This could be the start of a beautiful mismatch."

W-Wash
Cartoon W for Wash
(First: Episode 0485)
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Film Alphaquest: W
(First: Episode 2712)
Grover-johnjohn-countbackwards
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentJohn-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
(First: Episode 0547)
1041scuba Film Scuba diver - on, into, under, through, around
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0516)
LetterI.BeepBeep
Cartoon Letter I (Beep Beep)
(First: Episode 0427)
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SCENE 4 Everyone's gathered around Oscar's trash can when Super Nanny's super hearing picks up a distress cry (as the heroic music starts again). Parents in Chicago must go to work, but their baby is crying and the sitter hasn't arrived. Clearly another job for Super Nanny beckons, so she tells everyone to keep smiling (except for Oscar). She also tells Irvine not to cry, so the infant defiantly cries anyway (and tries to bite Gina's hand). With a final "Alakazam," Super Nanny flies into the air again, with everyone (even the Grouches) waving farewell. Super Nanny announces the sponsors and asks a passing off-screen pigeon for directions to Chicago.

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