Sesame Street | |||||||
Humpty Dumpty looks for a new place to sit | |||||||
Air date | February 15, 1993 | ||||||
Season | Season 24 (1992-1993) | ||||||
Written by | Belinda Ward | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | Maria and Luis work at the Fix-It Shop, when all of a sudden they hear sirens. Just then, all the king's horses and all the king's men enter with a box containing the remains of a broken Humpty Dumpty, and request that he be fixed. | |
SCENE 1 | Humpty Dumpty, having been fixed, decides to sit on a trash can instead of a wall, thinking he'll be safer if he does. Telly tries to warn him that it's Oscar's can, which is not a safe place to sit. Oscar opens his lid, and Humpty Dumpty falls off and shatters. All the king's horses and men come to pick up the pieces and take him back to the Fix-it Shop. | |
Song | "Would You Like to Go Over?" (First: Episode 3034) | |
Cartoon | "L" for "Large" and "l" for "little" (First: Episode 1455) | |
Muppets | "Let's All Exercise" (First: Episode 1961) | |
Cartoon | A peacock counts 20 feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) | |
Film | A girl narrates a film of how pan dulce, Mexican bread, is made. (First: Episode 3015) | |
Cartoon | A dog tries desperately to meow, but can only bark. (First: Episode 0829) | |
Cast | Gordon sings "I Heard My Dog Bark" as Susan, Bob, Uncle Wally, and some kids make the animal sounds. (First: Episode 2169) | |
Cartoon | R for Rhinoceros (poem) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1151) | |
Animation | Beads arrange themselves into different groups and finally become a girl’s necklace. | |
Muppets | "Cereal Girl" (First: Episode 2687) | |
Cartoon | A girl imagines herself as a car that rescues fire victims. (First: Episode 0513) | |
Song | Jerry Nelson sings "Don't Waste Water". (First: Episode 2804) | |
Cartoon | Mother Nature shows how earthworms help trees grow. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2736) | |
SCENE 2 | After being put back together yet again, Humpty Dumpty decides to sit on Big Bird's nest, thinking he'll be able to share it with Big Bird. However, Big Bird accidentally cracks him when he sits on him, and Telly directs the king's horses and men towards the broken egg. | |
Cartoon | Geronimo 10-0: instead of a parachute, she is carried to the ground by four birds. (First: Episode 2249) | |
Film | Some kids have a bike race by the river. (First: Episode 1419) | |
Cartoon | "The Noble Ostrich", a segment about the day-to-day activities of ostriches. Includes an animated appearance by Big Bird. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0998) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie pretends to be a dog and a duck. Bert then pretends to be a train, and does it so well that a train conductor and passengers come through the apartment. (First: Episode 0645) | |
Cartoon | The Bellhop is told that somebody at table 18 has a phone call, and after he struggles to get to the table, he is told to take a message. (First: Episode 2549) | |
Muppets | "Readers of the Open Range" (First: Episode 2141) | |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0764) | |
SCENE 3 | Next, Humpty Dumpty decides to sit on a tuffet, like Little Miss Muffet. Unfortunately, he falls off and shatters when he sees a spider. | |
Cartoon | An elephant (voiced by Marshall Efron) asks Nesbitt (voiced by Don Arioli) for directions to the zoo, but won't listen to him long enough. Artist: Janet Perlman (First: Episode 1631) | |
Song | Jeff Redd sings "Between". (First: Episode 2738) | |
Cartoon | Number creatures 18 (First: Episode 2668) | |
Muppets | In song, a boy wanders into the Animal Lost and Found, looking for his pet named Homer. The shopkeeper says, "Describe Your Pet to Me." (First: Episode 2967) | |
Cartoon | L for Laugh Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel (First: Episode 2767) | |
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 white furball catches a train going through a door marked EXIT. (First: Episode 0800) | |
SCENE 4 | Humpty Dumpty, though cracked in more places than ever, is still able to be put back together again at the Fix-it Shop. He likes sitting on the operating table so much that he decides to stay there - but how are Maria and Luis going to fix all those toasters if he won't move? They suggest that he could sit in a chair, and decide to sit him in one. Their attempt to get him off the table results in crash #5. | |
Animation | A chair (voice of Martin P. Robinson) keeps bumping into things, until he finds his glasses. "See ya later!" (First: Episode 1981) | |
Muppets | A family of Anything Muppets arranges themselves in different ways. (First: Episode 0275) | |
Cartoon | "In and Out Crowd" Artist: Sally Cruikshank (First: Episode 2612) | |
Film | The Count (in voiceover) subtracts from five to three to zero children on a park bench. (First: Episode 2942) | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Hoots tells Ernie to "Put Down the Duckie". Celebrity version #2; this version replaces Paul Reubens, Mookie Wilson and Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, New York Giants, and Pete Seeger's appearance with Phil Donahue, Robert MacNeil, Barbara Walters and Gladys Knight and the Pips. | |
Animation | Sand L/l (First: Episode 0632) | |
SCENE 5 | Now that Humpty Dumpty has a proper place to sit (a chair), the king's horses and men think they're no longer needed, but he invites them to lunch anyway. Telly announces the sponsors, and Maria and Luis head back to the Fix-it Shop, but once they leave ... CRASH! It happens again. |
Notes[]
- This episode was later repeated in Season 26 as Episode 3309.
- Additional performers include David Rudman (as Lavender Kingsman), Peter Linz (as brown Kingshorse), Joey Mazzarino (as Fat Blue Kingsman and the spider), and Jim Martin (as Fat Blue Kingsman in scene 3).
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