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| Mr. Hooper learns Spanish | |||||||
| Air date | March 10, 1977 | ||||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird finds Snuffy in his nest area, having just come back from his singing lesson. When Snuffy doubts that he's a good singer, Big Bird encourages him to demonstrate. Snuffy sings an operatic aria. Big Bird is impressed, but asks him if he knows "Mary Had a Little Lamb." |
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Film | Joe Raposo: Swinging Gibbon (First: Episode 0009) |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Proud." (First: Episode 0408) |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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Film | A gymnast demonstrates close to and away from. (First: Episode 0513) |
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Cartoon | Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438) |
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Film | To a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree. (First: Episode 0156) |
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Muppets | Maria tells the story of "The King's Problem." (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173) |
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Film | Lions (instrumental, with occasional lion growls) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0018) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit the Frog and Tracy demonstrate "close" and "far." (First: Episode 0129) |
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Cartoon | A bear counts bees. (First: Episode 0083) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar treats Maria and Mr. Hooper to another one of his poems. They hesitate, remembering that he littered the ground with his last poem. ("You don't want to encourage much culture around here, all right..." Oscar quips). They agree to hear this one only if he gives them some paper bags to catch every piece of trash he brings out. Oscar proceeds to recite his new poem, "Even Tide," which ends with a million ping-pong balls. |
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Muppets | "Would You Like to Buy an O?" (First: Episode 0364) |
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Animation | Sand O/o (First: Episode 0621) |
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Film | Letter O hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0338) |
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Cartoon | A hand draws a bridge, which a train crosses. (First: Episode 0793) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts "What's My Part?" The contestants are Bennett Snerf, Arlene Frantic and Professor Hastings, and the mystery part is a foot. (First: Episode 0164) |
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Cartoon | A boy builds a house out of blocks, and when the girl builds a Victorian house, the boy calls her a copycat. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Snuffy and Joey say the alphabet. (First: Episode 0671) |
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Cartoon | A boy passes by various signs before reaching the SALIDA. (First: Episode 0458) |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | Kids compare animals and human tools and technology. (First: Episode 0491) |
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Animation | Lollipop and feathers - what goes where? (First: Episode 0772) |
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Muppets | Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005) |
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Cartoon | The word SALIDA exits through a white square. (First: Episode 0588) |
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Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up! (First: Episode 0149) |
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Insert | Mr. Hooper, Luis, Maria, David and Bob all throw a small amount of litter on the ground, adding to the street's filth. When a voice (Jerry Nelson) asks "Who made this mess?" each one of them denies that it was them, saying they only dropped a small amount of garbage on the street. Soon, however, they realize that they each contributed to the mess in one way or another and pick up what they dropped. The voice then tells them to put the trash in a trash can instead of on the ground. (First: Episode 0485) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #5: All the dots are red (First: Episode 0001) |
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Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground. (First: Episode 0149) |
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Cartoon | The Story of the Crow and the Pitcher (First: Episode 0801) |
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Film | Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top. (First: Episode 0362) |
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Cartoon | Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter). (First: Episode 0527) |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper attempts to learn Spanish for his GED. As he practices saying, "I'd like a big glass of cold water," some kids bring him one glass after another. |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to make six circles disappear. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Hey Diddle Diddle — A cat preps a cow to jump over the moon. (First: Episode 0634) |
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Film | George the Farmer uses barrels to count to ten. (First: Episode 0293) |
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Cartoon | C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703) |
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Cast | Maria sings "Three Whipped Cream Pies on the Wall" (which she eventually gets pelted with). (First: Episode 0637) |
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Film | Ten zebras walk slow, while 10 other zebras walk fast. (First: Episode 0338) |
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Cartoon | C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake). (First: Episode 0203) |
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Animation | A grape blows reveille and inspects the "troops" -- 12 raisins on a slice of white bread. (First: Episode 0618) |
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Muppets | Ice Follies: Big Bird tries to teach Snuffy to ice skate, but Snuffy keeps falling. (First: Episode 0873) |
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Cartoon | A bear counts bees. (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Mr. Hooper tells Maria some of the new things he's learned how to say in Spanish, such as "Where's the mailbox?" As some kids bring him a mailbox, Snuffy announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Luis holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bert and Ernie hold the CTW sign. |
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