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Sesame Street
Monster Day
Air date January 27, 1998
Season Season 29 (1997-1998)
Written by Mo Willems
Production October 8, 1997
Sponsors B, 7

3707

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
3707a

3707b
COLD OPEN Big Bird wonders why Maria and Luis are rushing their stuff into the Fix-It Shop. They explain today's "Monster Day," the day where monsters celebrate being monsters. A blue monster (David Rudman) lands next to the work table and begins celebrating as Maria and Luis lock themselves inside.
3707-Scene1
SCENE 1 Elmo, Rosita, Frazzle, Merry and other monsters appear, singing the Monster Day song. Big Bird thinks he's going to enjoy today. (YouTube)
3164z
Cartoon Are you the monster that ate the television?
(First: Episode 1970)
ProfTV1

ProfTV.Nearfar
Insert "Professor Television" (Bill Irwin) tries to demonstrate near and far, with help from Maria's voice.
(First: Episode 3617)
Giantpurplebird
Cartoon A girl notices some footprints near and far to her. They belong to a giant purple bird.
Artist: Fred Garbers
(First: Episode 3134)
Radioexercise
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie turns on the radio to hear his favorite exercise show, Get Moving. He engages the viewer to do all the exercises he does, such as touching toes and jumping. Bert joins in, and has so much fun jumping that he doesn't notice that his favorite program, Pigeons in the News, is coming on.
(First: Episode 1025)
3136m
Song "Jump" (soul)
(First: Episode 3136)
3959j
Cartoon Buttons ride a rollercoaster "up and down."
(First: Episode 3207)
DrawingCarey
Film A boy draws a picture of his friend, Kerry.
(First: Episode 2776)
BTFF-jugband1
Muppets Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: Jug band dance
Part 1
(First: Episode 3552)
MonstersBounce01

MonstersBounce02
SCENE 2 Big Bird asks Rosita what monsters do on Monster Day. The monsters respond by bouncing the letter of the day. Since today's letter is B, they all bounce off a giant rubber wall with a "B" on it. Big Bird thinks it looks fun...if you're a monster.
B.ballerina.banana
Cartoon B for banana and ballerina
(First: Episode 2515)
Song.bisforbubble
Song "B is for Bubble" (remake)
(First: Episode 3266)
GroverBubble
Muppets Grover recites a poem about a bubble.
(First: Episode 3155)
Howwetakeabath
Song Hoots the Owl sings "This is How We Take a Bath."
(First: Episode 3216)
Lookatthatriverflow!
Cartoon Water travels from a cloud to a river, into a reservoir, and through pipes, and finally ends up in a bathroom sink.
(First: Episode 2708)
4125y
Muppets Zoe sings "My Name Is Zoe."
(First: Episode 3387)
200007
Cartoon A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh". The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV.
(First: Episode 0771)
BTFF-jugband2
Muppets Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: Jug band dance
Part 2
(First: Episode 3552)
3707c
SCENE 3 Big Bird laments to Mr. Handford about feeling left out of the Monster Day festivities, when the monsters arrive. Mr. Handford has prepared the traditional Monster Day 7-Layer Cake and they all count the seven different flavored layers. They reveal the significance of the 7 isn't the layers -- it's the number of seconds they have to eat it! They dine and dash, leaving Big Bird without a slice.
3990c
Cartoon Rap #7
(First: Episode 2506)
CountingSeven
Muppets Count von Count and The Countess sing about "Seven."
(First: Episode 3634)
Toon.Clam
Cartoon A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond. (new music and sound effects added)
(First: Episode 0408)
Abuelofishing
Film Cheri goes fishing with her abuelo.
(First: Episode 2784)
Bigroundnose
Muppets "Big Round Nose"
(First: Episode 1950)
Facecartoon
Cartoon A cartoon man (voiced by Bob Arbogast) is irritated to find that he has a succession of animal noses. (new music and sound effects added)
(First: Episode 0769)
Telly.DennisFranz
Muppets / Celebrity Telly makes sure Dennis Franz knows the alphabet, and offers to be his "alphabet partner."
Alphabet.girls
Cartoon Two girls sing a reggae rendition of the alphabet.
(First: Episode 3269)
Airbip
Muppets Bip Bipadotta sings about "Air."
(First: Episode 2568)
Countto10.KHaring
Cartoon Counting to 10
Artist: Keith Haring
(First: Episode 3042)
Drumclass
Film A boy in Jamaica goes to school and attends drum class.
(First: Episode 3145)
Blackgirl
Cartoon A girl describes why she likes the color black.
Artist: Lisa Crafts
(First: Episode 3105)
2HMLove
Muppets After fighting with each other, the Two-Headed Monster reads the word "Love" and forgets their feud.
(First: Episode 1282)
LOVE.paper
Animation The word LOVE is formed on paper.
(First: Episode 3564)
3707d
SCENE 4 Big Bird tells Lexine how he feels, when the monsters appear to give a big hug to someone special. Big Bird thinks it's him, but it is revealed to be Lexine! Big Bird storms off in a huff.
3978o
Song "You're Important"
(First: Episode 3396)
CookieImportant
Muppets Cookie Monster visits the local bakery to talk about "important". He shows off the different kinds of cookies that are important to him.
(First: Episode 3235)
Bwords.white
Animation B for bounce, break, blue, boat
(First: Episode 3061)
Baseballfilm
Film B for ball, bat, base and baseball.
(First: Episode 3266)
1090-20
Cartoon The Typewriter: B for Ball
(First: Episode 0829)
4143-ThatsTheWayIRead
Muppets Zoe, Telly, and Prairie Dawn sing "That's the Way I Read."
(First: Episode 3651)
3164o
Film A girl narrates a segment about nature through winter and spring.
(First: Episode 1966)
OutIn
Cartoon A red scribble demonstrates out and in.
Artist: Fred Garbers
(First: Episode 3128)
Episode3707
SCENE 5 Elmo, Rosita, Frazzle, and the blue monster find a sad Big Bird at the park. Elmo thinks Big Bird can join their festivities by pretending he's a monster. The rest of the monsters join them, and they all sing the Monster Day song. Maria announces the sponsors as they party down.
Wiggleprise
SCENE 5 cont'd "And Slimey's spaceship is still on the way to the moon!"
3707.ComingSoon
COMING SOON Coming soon on Sesame Street: Baby Bear pulls his tie from a washtub...it's shrunk!

Notes[]

  • Assorted scenes from this episode have been used in international versions of the show as stand-alone Muppet bits, including Sesamstrasse and Plaza Sésamo.
  • Additional performers include John Tartaglia (green monster) and Lisa Buckley (small blue monster).


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