Sesame Street | |||||||||
Little Boy Blue takes his horn to Finders Keepers | |||||||||
Air date | December 16, 1993 | ||||||||
Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||||
Written by | Cathi Rosenberg-Turow | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Biff and Sully introduce the episodes' letter sponsors, but Biff's gesturing as he holds each sponsor ends up knocking Sully down. | |
SCENE 1 | Lea Salonga sings "A Little Bit" to a duck, Big Bird, and the Birdketeers. | |
Cartoon | A dog-shaped television. Artist: Keith Haring (First: Episode 3045) | |
Song | "We're Talking 'Bout the Number One" | |
Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest โ A winged number 1 flies over a cuckoo's nest. (First: Episode 2674) | |
Cartoon | Kids count one duck in the pond. Artist: Lisa Crafts (First: Episode 3095) | |
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) cut from the Noggin version | |
Film | A boy draws a picture of his friend, Katie. (First: Episode 2760) cut from the Noggin version | |
SCENE 2 | Biff tries to get Sully to talk about closed and open, suggesting a visual approach by using his arms. Sully once again gets knocked over by Biff's motions. | |
Film | Kids sing the alphabet on an island. | |
Cartoon | Letter B becomes a banana and broccoli (First: Episode 2513) | |
Film | Alphaquest: B (First: Episode 2706) | |
Cartoon | B for bathtub, ball, boat, boot, boomerang, brush and bison cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | "Gonna Rock You to Sleep" by Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats (First: Episode 2980) | |
Cartoon | Zork lands in Australia, where a kangaroo greets him. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2731) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Telly hosts โThe Wide Wide World of the Worldโ with special guests from Australia, Mel Gibson and a duck claiming to be a duck-billed platypus. (First: Episode 3021) | |
Cartoon | A gorilla outgrows his toy fire truck, and is about to throw it away, when he decides to pass it on to his little brother. (First: Episode 2840) cut from the Noggin version | |
SCENE 3 | At Finders Keepers, Prairie Dawn considers buying Little Boy Blue's horn. However, she changes her mind because she doesn't want the animals that the horn instantly attracts. Prairie flees as the animals wreak havoc on Ruthie's shop. | |
Film | Shapes vibrate as girls beat on their drums. (First: Episode 2873) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert โ Ernie decorates the apartment with party supplies. Bert thinks it is for somebody's birthday and tries to guess whose birthday it is, but Ernie informs Bert that he decorated the apartment for the audience at home. (First: Episode 0352) | |
Cartoon | Two men talk about the letter q, as one man uses a lower case q as a hatrack (First: Episode 0131) | |
Cast | Maria and Linda sew quilts with a Q on them. (First: Episode 1508) | |
Cartoon | A little boy tries to use a tall water fountain (First: Episode 0954) | |
Song | Jerry Nelson sings "Don't Waste Water." (First: Episode 2804) | |
Cartoon | Several rabbits try to pull a carrot from the ground Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1473) | |
SCENE 4 | Herry Monster looks for something to buy at Finders Keepers. Ruthie calls Little Boy Blue and convinces him to buy back the horn, but Herry discovers it and blows it. "The sheep in the meadow and the cow in the corn" return, making a huge mess and driving an allergic Herry out of the store. | |
Song | "It's All Right to Cry" | |
Cartoon | Geometry of Circles #4 "Six Circles Connected" (First: Episode 1437) | |
Film | College students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, possums and chinchillas. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 2227) | |
Muppets | Mac TV host Old MacDonald introduces the newest music video, "A New Way to Walk" performed by The Oinker Sisters. (First: Episode 2268) | |
Cartoon | Slot machine legs: Cowboy & horse (First: Episode 1702) | |
SCENE 5 | Little Boy Blue (David Rudman) takes his horn back and trades in his clarinet. Now, the clarinet attracts cats and dogs! | |
Animation | Three stripes form a jazz trio. (First: Episode 2410) | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment โ Grover asks Chelsea, What is love? (First: Episode 2397) | |
Cartoon | A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers (First: Episode 0416) | |
Muppets | Cerrado with Maria and an Anything Muppet (part 1). He sings a song about how everything is Cerrado, and at the end Maria gives him an Abierto sign, which opens everything in the house. (First: Episode 3015) | |
Cartoon | A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado." (First: Episode 0771) | |
Muppets | Abierto with Maria and an Anything Muppet (part 2). Now he sings a similar song about Abierto, and Maria's Cerrado sign closes everything. (First: Episode 3015) | |
Film | A flower opens and closes (First: Episode 0441) | |
SCENE 6 | Biff announces the sponsors while Sully stays out of the way. Still, the animals from Little Boy Blue's story get Sully (as Biff now possesses the horn). |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Peter Linz and Noel MacNeal.
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