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[[Image:Origschoolvhs.jpg|thumb|200px|Getting Ready for School]]
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'''''Getting Ready for School''''' is a [[1987]] ''[[Sesame Street]]'' direct-to-video compilation in the "[[My Sesame Street Home Video]]" series.
[[Image:Video.gettingreadyforschool.jpg|thumb|150px|Reissue VHS]]
 
   
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'''''Getting Ready for School''''' is a [[1987]] [[:Category:Sesame Street Direct-to-Video|direct-to-video release]] in the [[My Sesame Street Home Video]] series featuring a framing story with [[Big Bird]]. He speaks to the audience about how he's been to school for three days, and now feels well equipped to tell others all about it. Later, he decides to play school with [[Mr. Snuffleupagus]] and [[the kids]] as the students. Snuffy can't raise his hand, so he raises his snuffle instead. He also tells his experiences in Snuffle-garten and joins Big Bird in an update of "[[Everyone Makes Mistakes (song)|Everyone Makes Mistakes]]" using the same original track.
 
   
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==Segments==
 
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 valign=top
* "[[ABC-DEF-GHI]]" (1980s version)
 
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|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
* Animation: Peacock 1-20 {{eka|0406}}
 
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! Picture !! Segment !! Description
* Animation: a man builds a bus stop
 
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* Animation: an orange ball follows EXIT signs {{eka|2125}}
 
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|[[Image:GRFS01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 1'''</center> || [[Big Bird]], self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
* [[Anything Muppets]] perform a cheer about school behind a brick wall (#1)
 
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* [[Count von Count Songs|The Count]]'s [[The First Day of School]] {{eka|1736}}
 
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| [[Image:BigBirdABC-DEF-GHI1980's.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Insert</center> || Big Bird sings "[[ABC-DEF-GHI]]."<br />{{eka|2453}}<br />''Edited''
* [[Little Chrissy]] sings "[[Raise Your Hand]]"
 
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* Dozens of kids with balloons form the letters of the alphabet as filmed from above {{eka|2096}}
 
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|[[Image:GRFS02.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 1''' cont'd</center> || Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
* Anything Muppets cheer for school again (#2)
 
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* Letters of the alphabet in various forms of animation {{eka|2558}}
 
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| [[Image:peacockcartoon.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.<br />{{eka|0406}}
* Anything Muppets cheer for school again (#3)
 
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* [[David]] and [[Herry Monster|Herry]] sing a song about tying shoelaces to a little girl sitting on a brick wall
 
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|[[Image:GRFS03.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 2'''</center> || Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
* [[The kids|Polly]] sings most of the alphabet, which [[Muppet & Kid Moments: Grover|Grover]] finishes when she gets stuck {{eka|0324}}
 
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| [[Image:Busstopgiant.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.<br />{{eka|1813}}
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| [[Image:2356-7.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Cartoon</center> || A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT.<br />{{eka|2125}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Anything Muppets]] [[Cheers|cheer]] for school.<br />''Part 1''
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|[[Image:GRFS04.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 3'''</center> || Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will kids you already know and kids you don't.
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| [[Image:Youngcount.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || [[Count von Count|The Count]] sings about his [[The First Day of School|first day of school]].<br />{{eka|1736}}
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|[[Image:GRFS05.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 4'''</center> || Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with [[Snuffy]] and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
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| [[Image:RaiseYourHand.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Teacher [[Little Chrissy]] sings about how important it is to "[[Raise Your Hand (Moss)|Raise Your Hand]]."<br />{{eka|2274}}
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|[[Image:GRFS06.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 5'''</center> || Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
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| [[Image:2096s.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Film</center> || Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet.<br />{{first|2096}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br />''Part 2''
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|[[Image:GRFS07.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 6'''</center> || Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "[[Everyone Makes Mistakes (song)|Everyone Makes Mistakes]]". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
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| [[Image:Alphabet01.jpg|250px|center]]<br />[[Image:Alphabet02.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Animation</center> || The [[alphabet]] is presented using many materials and writing methods.<br />{{eka|2494}}
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|[[Image:SchoolCheer01.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || Anything Muppets cheer for school.<br />''Part 3''
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|[[Image:GRFS08.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 7'''</center> || Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
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|[[File:DavidHerryShoes.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets / Cast</center> || "Dandy [[David]]" sings [[Tying Your Shoelace|a song]] about tying shoelaces as [[Herry]] watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.
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|[[Image:GRFS09.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 8'''</center> || Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffly mentions the alphabet again.
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|[[Image:Groverlorenavlphabet.JPG|250px|center]] || <center>Muppets</center> || {{Mkmg}} [[Grover]] and Polly say the alphabet.<br />{{eka|0324}}
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|[[Image:GRFS10.jpg|250px|center]] || <center>'''FRAME 9'''</center> || Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.
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==Releases==
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Image:Origschoolvhs.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}Random House Home Video<br>1987<br>cat. 88936
Image:Title.readyschool.jpg|Title card
 
 
Image:Video.gettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|VHS (reissue)}}Random House Home Video
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Image:Bedtimestoriesandsongsgettingreadyforschool.jpg|{{GNH|United Kingdom (VHS)}}The Video Collection<br>1991
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Image:Gettingreadyforschoolasianvcd.jpg|{{GNH|Asia (VCD)}}561003
 
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</gallery>
   
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
*Although they don't actually appear in this video, the credits list [[Bob McGrath]] as [[Bob]], [[Sonia Manzano]] as [[Maria]], and [[Alaina Reed Hall]] as [[Olivia]].
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*Although they don't actually appear in this video, the credits list [[Bob McGrath]] as [[Bob]], [[Linda Bove]] as [[Linda]], [[Sonia Manzano]] as [[Maria]], and [[Alaina Reed Hall]] as [[Olivia]].
   
==See Also==
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==Cast==
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'''[[:Category:Muppet Performers|Muppet Performers]]'''
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*[[Caroll Spinney]] as Big Bird
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*[[Jim Henson]]
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*[[Frank Oz]] as Grover
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*[[Jerry Nelson]] as the Count, Herry
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*[[Richard Hunt]]
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*[[Martin P. Robinson]] as Snuffy
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*[[Kevin Clash]]
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*[[Pam Arciero]]
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*[[Bryant Young]]
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*[[David Rudman]]
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*[[Caroly Wilcox]]
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*[[Cheryl Blalock]]
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*[[Camille Bonora]]
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*[[Ed Christie]]
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*Michael Huston
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*[[Jim Kroupa]]
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*[[Brian Muehl]]
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*[[Kathryn Mullen]]
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*[[Christopher Cerf]] as Little Chrissy (voice, uncredited)
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'''[[:category:Sesame Street Cast|Cast]]'''
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*[[Northern Calloway]] as David
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==Credits==
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*'''Executive Producer:''' [[Jon Stone]]
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*'''Director:''' Jon Stone
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*'''Segment Directors:''' [[Lisa Simon]], [[Emily Squires]]
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*'''Writers:''' Jon Stone, [[Cathi Rosenberg-Turow|Cathi Rosenberg]]
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*'''Segment Writers:''' [[Emily Perl Kingsley]], [[Jeff Moss]]
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*'''Songs by:''' Emily Perl Kingsley, Jeff Moss, [[Lee Pockriss]], [[Joe Raposo]]
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==See also==
 
* [[Getting Ready for School (album)]]
 
* [[Getting Ready for School (album)]]
 
* [[On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3|On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3: Getting Ready for School]]
 
* [[On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3|On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 3: Getting Ready for School]]
 
* [[Ready for School!|Sesame Street: Ready for School!]]
 
* [[Ready for School!|Sesame Street: Ready for School!]]
 
 
[[Category:Sesame Street Video]]
 
[[Category:Sesame Street Video]]
[[Category:Sesame Street Direct-to-Video]]
 
 
[[Category:School]]
 
[[Category:School]]

Revision as of 04:48, 14 September 2014

Title

Getting Ready for School is a 1987 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation in the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series.


Picture Segment Description
GRFS01
FRAME 1
Big Bird, self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
Insert
Big Bird sings "ABC-DEF-GHI."
(EKA: Episode 2453)
Edited
GRFS02
FRAME 1 cont'd
Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
Peacockcartoon
Cartoon
A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.
(EKA: Episode 0406)
GRFS03
FRAME 2
Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
Busstopgiant
Cartoon
A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.
(EKA: Episode 1813)
2356-7
Cartoon
A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT.
(EKA: Episode 2125)
SchoolCheer01
Muppets
Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 1
GRFS04
FRAME 3
Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will kids you already know and kids you don't.
Youngcount
Muppets
The Count sings about his first day of school.
(EKA: Episode 1736)
GRFS05
FRAME 4
Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with Snuffy and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
RaiseYourHand
Muppets
Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand."
(EKA: Episode 2274)
GRFS06
FRAME 5
Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
2096s
Film
Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet.
(First: Episode 2096)
SchoolCheer01
Muppets
Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 2
GRFS07
FRAME 6
Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
Alphabet01

Alphabet02
Animation
The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods.
(EKA: Episode 2494)
SchoolCheer01
Muppets
Anything Muppets cheer for school.
Part 3
GRFS08
FRAME 7
Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
DavidHerryShoes
Muppets / Cast
"Dandy David" sings a song about tying shoelaces as Herry watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.
GRFS09
FRAME 8
Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffly mentions the alphabet again.
Muppets
Template:Mkmg Grover and Polly say the alphabet.
(EKA: Episode 0324)
GRFS10
FRAME 9
Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.

Releases

Notes

Cast

Muppet Performers

Cast

Credits

See also