Sesame Street | |||||||||
Kingston's day | |||||||||
Air date | December 29, 1993 | ||||||||
Season | Season 25 (1993-1994) | ||||||||
Written by | Ian Ellis James | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Kingston Livingston III displays today's sponsors and teases two stories he'll be telling about himself. | |
SCENE 1 | Kingston tells a story of a party, where all his friends were surprised at the different way Kingston danced. | |
Film | A zydeco band plays "Allons a Lafayette" while people dance. (First: Episode 2498) | |
Cartoon | B for banana and ballerina (First: Episode 2515) | |
Film | Kids paint pictures of things that start with B. Producer: Ken Snyder Enterprises (First: Episode 0008) | |
Cartoon | Small letter b (ball/bat) (First: Episode 1131) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Hoots tells everyone to imagine that it's turning from nighttime to morning, and the birds are waking up in the forest, while Bobby McFerrin sings "Tweet in the Mornin'." (First: Episode 2874) | |
Cartoon | Leanna Williams explains why she loves her brother’s shoes - she has fun with the box they came in. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2985) cut from the Noggin version | |
SCENE 2 | Baby Bear sets up a lemonade stand, selling each glass for a penny. Goldilocks buys each glass one at a time. It is then revealed she's made her own lemonade stand, charging two pennies per drink. "That's the lemonade business!" | |
Film | The floating kids form an L. (First: Episode 3128) | |
Muppets | Snuffy wears a green derby hat as he sings about L, "The Leading Letter of My Life." (First: Episode 1922) | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: L for lion (First: Episode 0762) | |
Film | Kids have a lost dog poster made using an old-style printing press. (First: Episode 1222) cut from the Noggin version | |
Cartoon | A little girl tries to figure out why a dog is crying. (First: Episode 0862) | |
Film | Amelia pretends she's an astronaut. (First: Episode 2918) | |
SCENE 3 | Elmo needs Gordon's help stacking some blocks for a game. Gordon re-arranges the tower so that the blue and yellow blocks are on either the top or bottom. Elmo then begins his "knock-over-the-blocks" game. | |
Cartoon | Madrigal Alphabet Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0615) | |
Film | A group of people form a human pyramid to illustrate top and bottom. (First: Episode 3144) | |
Cartoon | The Magnificent Splasho goes from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the water tank. (First: Episode 0655) | |
Film | Footage of an animal auction, where they auction off animals to dairy farmers and the like. (First: Episode 0932) | |
Cartoon | Don't be a Snerd when you sneeze. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1487) | |
Muppets | Polly Darton sings "I'm Under the Weather Over You." (First: Episode 1702) | |
Cartoon | Three take away two is one rabbit. | |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Christopher talk about what love is. (First: Episode 1484) | |
Cartoon | We Are Kids from Far and Wide: Rice harvesting in Sierra Leone (First: Episode 2774) | |
Celebrity | Gloria Estefan sings a special version of "1-2-3" to Big Bird and the Birdketeers. (First: Episode 2928) | |
Cartoon | Six pigs Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1472) | |
Muppets | Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Animation | "Six Circus Balls" Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 3001) | |
Film | "There's a lot to see under the sea," according to some young swimmers who narrate a poem about the ocean-dwellers they find. Music: "Kyisio Calypso" by Dermot Stewart (First: Episode 3032) | |
Cartoon | A caterpillar sings "Exercise Song." Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2839) | |
Muppets | Grover, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (First: Episode 0186) | |
Cartoon | Fruta Manzana sings about keeping the place clean by throwing away fruit peels and apple cores. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1485) | |
SCENE 4 | Kingston's next story involves his trip to the park. He runs into his friends, who are all wearing their caps backwards, while his is frontward. He calls it the "Kingston Livingston III way of wearing my cap," which everyone is okay with. After the story, Kingston feels so good, he breaks out into James Brown's "I Feel Good." | |
Cartoon | Ladies, birds, and fish march forward and backward. Artist: Karen Aqua (First: Episode 3083) | |
Cast | Live at Sesame Hall, Bob, Maria, and Luis sing "The Curious Cantata" about a bird who asks a lot of questions, played by the ever-curious Big Bird. (First: Episode 2160) | |
Cartoon | Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks. (First: Episode 0780) cut from the Noggin version | |
Film | Kids talk about playing tennis. (First: Episode 3148) | |
Cartoon | A magician writes in his diary about the many mishaps during his performance. (First: Episode 2053) | |
Muppets / Transition | Big Bird's eyes get wider as the next segment plays ... | |
Cartoon | "Wash Your Hands Before You Eat" (new sound effects added) Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1523) | |
SCENE 5 | Loretta and the rest of Kingston's friends arrive, wearing their caps like him and wanting to learn his dance. Kingston agrees to teach them, after he's done with his book. They join in reading a portion, which includes the sponsors. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3481.
- Additional performers include Fran Brill (Lavender AM), Noel MacNeal (Green AM boy), and Martin P. Robinson (Fat Blue AM), with David Rudman (Purple AM).
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