Episode 2196
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Insert | Gordon goes through a stretching routine in the yard during the early morning and explains to the camera that he like so get up this early because there's very little traffic and it's a pretty time of the day. He invites the viewer along for a jog, which is set to a spoof of the Chariots of Fire music, and consists of a montage of Gordon running through the city. (First: Episode 1727) |
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Cartoon | A beaver does his exercises, while his friends make fun of him. He then uses his strength to save his friends when the dam breaks. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 2067) |
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Film | Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416) |
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Animation | Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Pizza and Grape Juice — Ernie and Bert figure out how to share their pizza and grape juice. (First: Episode 0256) |
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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) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Oscar and Danny DeVito laugh it up. |
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Animation | Seis flores (First: Episode 1591) |
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Film | Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Grandmother's Birthday — Grover prepares a table for a family who is celebrating their grandmother's birthday. (First: Episode 1958) |
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Cartoon | More and more moths appear, and devour a man's clothes. Artist: Bob Kurtz (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cast | Olivia sings "Listen to the Wind." (First: Episode 2092) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to push a huge balloon elephant through a narrow doorway, and a girl helps him by deflating it. (First: Episode 1824) |
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Muppets | Name That Sound: Mr. Honker — Guy Smiley can't understand Mr. Honker's honks. (First: Episode 1957) |
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Cartoon | A schoolyard of gloves invites other gloves to join them. (First: Episode 1481) |
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Song | "Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure. (First: Episode 0933) |
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Cartoon | Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0455) |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar quizzes the Grouchketeers on opposites, namely ones that pertain to Grouches (being dirty instead of clean, loud instead of quiet, etc.). |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (First: Episode 0139) |
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Song | "Llama at Dentist" (First: Episode 1241) |
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Cartoon | Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with a dentist and a bus driver. (remake) (First: Episode 2146) |
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Cartoon | Brand X (First: Episode 0299) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar leads David and the Grouchketeers in a reading lesson using a Grouch newspaper. David reads from the “Grouch Gifts” section with such bargains as roller skates without wheels, then Oscar has them use their newspapers to gift-wrap some stinky fish. |
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Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: Newspaper — The monster finds a newspaper, and thinks up different uses for it. (First: Episode 2097) |
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Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335) |
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Muppets | In the woods, a nature-loving baritone (Jim Henson) sings "Ah, For the Joys of the Countryside" about how much he loves the country, without noticing that his surroundings are being converted into a city. (First: Episode 1008) |
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Film | Counting six oryx Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar now leads David and the Grouchketeers in reading Grouch Music magazine. David reads about an out-of-tune concert, then Oscar has them roll up the magazines and use them as off-key flutes. |
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Cartoon | The alphabet is presented in a chain reaction of events. (First: Episode 1113) |
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Film | A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen. (First: Episode 1802) |
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Muppets | Bert says his favorite number is Six. (First: Episode 1289) |
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Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387) |
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SCENE 4 | Oscar displays an issue of Trashcan Magazine, which is so terrible that Grouches (and Grouchketeers) throw it away. David walks away from the nonsense and Elmo announces the sponsors (ad-libbing “Stop that, Oscar!” as Oscar struggles with his trash can lid). |






































