Episode 4107

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COLD OPEN Healthy Moment: Maria explains how water helps keep your body cool and gives you energy. However, Oscar thinks it's fun to spray Maria with Fluffy's trunk.
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SCENE 1 Big Bird welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street, saying they're just in time for one of the Amazing Mumford's magic tricks. A group of people (including Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal, and a few kids) have gathered around Mumford's stage near Oscar's trash can. Alan, Gordon, and Teresa join them and ask Big Bird to stand in the back so they can see better. Big Bird doesn't mind - he's used to being big.
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SCENE 1 cont'd Mumford announces he is going to perform his new "big/little" magic trick and plans to turn a big cutout of the letter M into a little one. With the wave of Mumford's wand and his magic words, a flash of light appears... but the M remains big. Mumford believes he needs more practice and goes off, muttering his magic words to himself.
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SCENE 1 cont'd Gordon notices that Big Bird is gone, and Alan assumes that Big Bird must have gone to a play date with Snuffy. They both decide not to worry about him and go back to their chess game in the yard.
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SCENE 1 cont'd As everyone leaves, Big Bird's voice is heard around the steps of 123 Sesame Street. The camera pans very low to the ground and Big Bird notices how big everything is around him - a jack, a paper clip, a leaf, and so on. Big Bird then realizes that everything didn't get big; he got little!
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SCENE 1 cont'd He wonders how it happened and remembers Mumford performing his big and little trick, figuring Mumford's mistake caused him to shrink in size.
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SCENE 1 cont'd An ant (Martin P. Robinson) comes by carrying a breadcrumb and recognizes Big Bird's feet when they used to be much bigger, but is surprised to see the rest of him so tiny. Big Bird explains what happened and asks if the ant is new in the neighborhood since they've never met before. The ant explains that people that are big never notice small ones like him before going off to bring his crumb to the ant colony.
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SCENE 1 cont'd Big Bird feels great that he's seeing a new point of view and sings "I'm Little" while dancing around his surroundings.
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SCENE 1 cont'd The ground begins to shake as Snuffy arrives for his play date with Big Bird. Big Bird is surprised to see how big Snuffy is from his point of view and tries to call to him, but Snuffy can't hear him since Big Bird is little and has a little voice to match. Snuffy walks up and down the street to continue his search for Big Bird.
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SCENE 1 cont'd Big Bird doesn't like being little anymore and wishes to be his old size; his only hope is to find Mumford and become big again with his magic. Big Bird spots Alan and Gordon playing chess near Hooper's Store and calls to them, but like Snuffy, they can't hear him. Big Bird plans to get closer to Alan and Gordon, hoping they can help him find Mumford, and embarks on his very long journey towards the yard.
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Song "It's a Long Hard Road, But I'm Gonna Get There."
(First: Episode 3398)
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Muppets The Letter of the Day: M

Prairie Dawn and Cookie Monster present the letter M. "Mmm" is the sound Cookie Monster makes when eating a cookie, thereby encouraging him to eat the letter as well.
(First: Episode 4069)

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Animation "You Got an M Song"
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Film Two girls clap to Miss Mary M.
(First: Episode 3297)
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Animation M for moon, monster, monkey and magic
(First: Episode 3422)
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Muppets The Spanish Word of the Day: música
Rosita and Miles play their guitars as they demonstrate the Spanish word for "music."
(First: Episode 4079)
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Animation Colored birds bring color to a paper world as "Frère Jacques" plays.
(First: Episode 3983)
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Muppets / Celebrity Diana Krall sings "Everybody's Song" with Elmo and everybody in attendance.
(First: Episode 3961)
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Animation Plastic musical instruments line up and play a tune.
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Muppets Count's Castle: 24The Count watches the action TV show.
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Cartoon Potatoes marching song
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Muppets Prairie Dawn: Jack Be Nimble — Reporting for Nursery Rhyme News, Prairie Dawn finds out that Jack Be Nimble is too tired to jump over the candlestick.
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Film A little girl explains what energy is, what kind of foods give you energy, and what other animals (and cars) need for their own kind of energy.
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Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentPapa Bear has Antonio demonstrate his capability of doing splits.
(First: Episode 4090)
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Muppets Ernie and Bert reminisce about "Things That I Remember" over a montage of classic Ernie and Bert clips.
(First: Episode 3656)
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Muppets Global Grover: Grover returns from China with a peacock and persuades it to do its Peacock dance. (extended ending)
(First: Episode 4057)
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Animation Mannequins in a store window dance.
(First: Episode 4050)
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Muppets The Number of the Day:

The Count and The Countess: 20

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Cartoon The Bellhop is sent to the grocery store to get twenty grapefruits. He counts to 20 on the way there so that he can remember the quantity, but forgets what item he was sent for.
(First: Episode 2533)
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Film Growing Numbers #20
(First: Episode 2967)
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Cartoon The jungle creatures dance and form a 20.
Artist: Karen Aqua
(First: Episode 3835)
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Muppets Elmo's World: Up and Down
(First: Episode 4080)
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SCENE 2 "Little Big Bird" continues his journey to the yard, stopping briefly to announce the sponsors and hopes he'll be big again soon. An announcer (Robinson) tells the viewer to come back tomorrow for the conclusion...
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Notes[]

  • In both parts of this story, Big Bird is performed by Caroll Spinney in scenes where he's big, and by Matt Vogel when he's small.
  • Big Bird had previously imagined himself miniaturized in Episode 0212.