Episode 0733

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Picture Segment Description
Littlejerryandthemonotones
Muppets Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Telephone Rock."
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SCENE 1 The Amazing Mumford makes things appear out of thin air that rhyme. Oscar gets excited about the tricks after seeing a rock and a rag produced, so he gets Mumford to promise that he'll get the rest of the stuff he conjures. The last item is meant to rhyme with "rugs," so Oscar and Maria are confused when Marcia appears in Maria's arms. Since Oscar wanted the product of each trick, he gets hugs from Marcia.
1037h
Cartoon Two heads think of F words, ending with "finished."
(First: Episode 0128)
George countofour
Film No matter how they're arranged, George the Farmer always has three barrels, four milk jugs, and five cartons.
(First: Episode 0278)
Beat The Time
Muppets Beat the Time: Cookie MonsterCookie Monster competes to win a cookie.
(First: Episode 0446)
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Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0299)
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Film A gymnast demonstrates between.
(First: Episode 0542)
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Cartoon Frances Fairy displays several F words.
(First: Episode 0335)
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Cartoon Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross.
(First: Episode 0276)
Planning Ahead
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Planning Ahead at the BeachBert and Ernie have planned ahead for their day at the beach.
(First: Episode 0284)
0759-SandF
Animation Sand F/f
(First: Episode 0629)
AlphabetDancers-F
Insert The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F.
(First: Episode 0446)
Fox and crow
Cartoon A minstrel sings about a fox who outsmarts a crow.
Artist: Etienne Delessert
(First: Episode 0631)
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SCENE 2 The Count arrives at the Fix It Shop and tells Maria, Luis, and Susan that he's not going to count, he's going to say the alphabet. He does, then declares that he has recited the alphabet one time. Everyone catches on to his plan to count recitations of the alphabet, but they instead challenge him not to count at all. The Count declares, "I can not count if I want to not count," so Susan challenges him to prove it. He agrees and promises not to count for the rest of the day, when Luis closes the shop.
Song.countithigher
Muppets Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Count it Higher."
(First: Episode 0553)
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Cartoon An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
(First: Episode 0293)
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Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentErnie, Bert, and Shola illustrate "between."
(First: Episode 0542)
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SCENE 3 The Count is having trouble not counting things, so Big Bird helps keep him occupied by identifying things that he's standing between. Luis comes by to make sure the Count isn't counting, but Big Bird agonizes him when he begins counting how many things he stood between.
1800-17
Cartoon Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF
(First: Episode 0387)
3181-Elephants
Film Elephants in the zoo.
(First: Episode 0283)
PsychABC
Cartoon "Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes.
(First: Episode 0345)
Kermtelephonelecture
Muppets Kermit Lecture: Telephone — Kermit and an Anything Muppet use the word TELEPHONE as a working telephone.
(First: Episode 0314)
Awitch
Cartoon "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
(First: Episode 0130)
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SCENE 4 The Count wallows in misery over his lack of counting near Oscar's trash can prompting Oscar to ask why he's so miserable. The Count explains his situation and tells Oscar he couldn't give up being grouchy. Sure enough, when Susan comes by basking in the beauty of the day, Oscar can't contain his usual disposition to cheeriness. With a new understanding of withdrawal, Oscar sympathizes with what the Count is going through.
Erniecleansup
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Fast CleanupBert bets his dessert on Ernie's ability to clean up the apartment.
(First: Episode 0033)
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Cartoon F for Football
Artist: John and Faith Hubley
(First: Episode 0135)
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Film Sea Horse
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0183)
Flyfrogcartoon
Cartoon A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
(First: Episode 0034)
Dialing for Prizes Movie
Muppets Dialing for Prizes Movie — Call-in contestant Mr. Lucky wins a prize.
(First: Episode 0629)
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SCENE 5 Maria offers to count for the Count to help him get through his day without counting. Adopting the Count's accent and mannerisms, she counts ten pieces of paper and begins to laugh. The Count stops her and asks to at least let him have that. He does, and his usual lightning follows. He says he's still sobbing pitiful sobs on the inside.
No3
Film "Three Song (Song of Three)"
(First: Episode 0001)
KermitBDMBetween
Muppets Kermit Lecture: Between — Beautiful Day Monster becomes a component in Kermit's demonstration about being "between" things.
(First: Episode 0070)
Raposo-3isMyFavoriteNumber
Song "Three Is My Favorite Number"
(First: Episode 0429)
Do-with-a-pet
Cartoon What Do You Do With a Pet?
(First: Episode 0465)
1448-SUN
Muppets Anything Muppets: SUN — The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN.
(First: Episode 0453)
Somebodycomeandplay
Song Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play."
(First: Episode 0047)
1037h
Cartoon Two heads think of F words, ending with "finished." (repeat)
AMFCheer5
Muppets Beautiful Day Monster is part of a group of cheerleaders who cheer up to the letter F. When the leader asks what "ABCDEF" spells, they are all stumped, and Beautiful Day Monster comments on how weird that is.
(First: Episode 0094)
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SCENE 6 Luis has closed the shop, so everyone checks in with how the Count did all day without counting. He says he committed to it after just telling himself to stop counting over and over... and reveals that he counted over five million times that he told himself. Big Bird announces the sponsors.
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CLOSING SIGNS Maria and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds the CTW sign.