| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Prairie Dawn's food pageant | |||||||
| Air date | February 25, 1998 | ||||||
| Season | Season 29 (1997-1998) | ||||||
| Written by | Jeff Moss | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | Prairie Dawn monologues to herself about having "pageant block" - she can't think of an idea for a new pageant, and she's worried she may never make any more. She spots Ruthie, Elmo, and Carlo inside Hooper's Store and wonders if they can help. | ||
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SCENE 1 | Prairie asks Ruthie and Elmo for an idea, but they're too occupied playing a guessing game about the foods they're going to have after lunch. They encourage Prairie to play along as Ruthie had promised Elmo she'd play, but Prairie can't get the pageant (or lack of one) off her mind. Ruthie reveals that she's going to have a pickle and Elmo's got a strawberry ice cream cone, which they begin to dig into. Prairie decides to leave to consult somebody else, even when Ruthie and Elmo are ready to help. | ||
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Cartoon | A man tries to get directions to a parking space, and eventually uses a map to get there. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 2734) | ||
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Film | Kids draw a map of their neighborhood, and then learn how maps are really made. (First: Episode 2760) | ||
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Muppets | The Count, dressed up as Elvis, sings "You Gotta Count My Blue Suede Shoes." (First: Episode 3231) | ||
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Cartoon | In the "Land of No Shoelaces," people find it difficult to play basketball, swing and run, until Edna Lovelace comes along. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 3102) | ||
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SCENE 2 | Prairie comes across Big Bird, Bob, and Natasha in the yard and hopes they can give her an idea. Instead, they discuss how they each prefer different types of food: Natasha likes "squooshed up" beets baby food, Big Bird prefers birdseed, and Bob enjoys peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (Big Bird: "Not much imagination there - boring!"). Prairie becomes irritated that she's again asked people who want to talk more about their food and darts off, not realizing they were about to offer to help out. | ||
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Eats." Re-filmed version (First: Episode 2855) | ||
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Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449) | ||
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Muppets | "Some Enchanted Lunchtime" (First: Episode 3230) | ||
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Cartoon | Number creatures #17 (First: Episode 2745) | ||
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Animation | Growing Numbers #17 (First: Episode 2975) | ||
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Animation | Parade of Numbers #17 (First: Episode 3368) | ||
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Insert | Chicago and Zoe present Celina doing the Vegetable Day Dance, dressed as a broccoli. Chicago sings a song about the vegetable. (First: Episode 3292) | ||
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Animation | Pencil box G / g (First: Episode 3042) | ||
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Film | Kids on a jungle safari spot an ornate G swing through the trees. (First: Episode 3498) | ||
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Cartoon | A gorilla names "G" words. (First: Episode 1831) | ||
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Muppets | In parody of The Brady Bunch theme, Telly Monster goes to the refrigerator to make himself a healthy "Telly's Lunch." (First: Episode 3510) | ||
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Animation | In stop-motion, sandwich ingredients square-dance in a ring and arrange themselves into a sandwich, which gets a bite taken out of it in a refrigerator. (First: Episode 3080) | ||
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SCENE 3 | Prairie vents her frustrations outside Oscar's trash can, where Oscar is pleased to see her in an angry state. He then whispers an idea for her pageant and offers to even participate in it. Prairie runs off, happy and inspired. | ||
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Cartoon | Different emotions are drawn on a face, until the character grabs the pencil. (First: Episode 3531) | ||
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Film | The Tokyo String Quartet and some kids show how important it is to practice, as Big Bird provides voiceover. (First: Episode 3290) | ||
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Cartoon | Letter G drawing with kid voice-over. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 0306) | ||
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Film | G for go, girls, guitar, goldfish etc. (First: Episode 3269) | ||
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Animation | Planet G / g (First: Episode 2844) | ||
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Megan and Grover discuss the moon and some of Chinese stories surrounding it. | ||
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Song | Kevin Clash sings "(I Eat With) Chopsticks" over a film of kids doing so. (First: Episode 3270) | ||
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Cartoon | Campers don't want to play ring toss with Zork, until their counselor reminds them about being judgmental. (First: Episode 2761) | ||
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Muppets | Mr. Snuffleupagus sings "Somebody Come and Play" (First: Episode 3401) | ||
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Cartoon | Millie and Molly take a walk, and have different perspectives of their surroundings. (First: Episode 1309) | ||
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Muppets | Two-Headed Monster: School — The monster observes a school. (First: Episode 1907) | ||
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Film | Lindsey practices her basketball shooting with Steph. (First: Episode 3517) | ||
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Animation | All, some, one and none fish swim around. (new music added) (First: Episode 2109) | ||
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Muppets | In Search of Fish - Wolfgang the Seal tries to look for fish at the New York Aquarium. (First: Episode 3528) | ||
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Cartoon | Kids sing about the joys of celery. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2976) | ||
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Film | Cooperation: A girl gets a coconut handed down to her from a tree, by people on different-size stilts. (First: Episode 3404) | ||
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SCENE 4 | Prairie begins her show all about people's favorite lunches - with Bob as a peanut butter sandwich, Ruthie as a pickle, Big Bird as a bag of birdseed, Natasha (assisted by Lexine) as baby food, and Elmo as an ice cream cone. Oscar shows up at the end, combining all of the foods together to make a grouchy lunch for himself. | ||
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Everyone takes a bow as Carlo announces the sponsors and the status of Slimey's spaceship. | ||
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COMING SOON | Coming soon on Sesame Street: Herry Monster leads other monsters in a song about the moon. |
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