Episodes 2548, 2549

[Crazy31088]

I'm curious if anyone can tell me when either of those two episodes were aired first (I have them on tape (though they are incomplete copies), and the copyright date says 1989, plus they are from the Arkansas PBS station, and we moved away from Arkansas in July, '89, so I know it was in the first half of the year). I'm not looking for specific airdates, but I'm curious to know if anyone can maybe give me a week or a month? I know for a fact it was before Gabi was born, since Maria is still pregnant in one of them. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Boober_Gorg]

According to my recent research, the airdates of these two episodes are 2/15/89 and 2/16/89. Thanks, Greg.

 

[ssetta]

I'm assuming they first aired in January 1989. I would love to see these shows sometime. Do you think maybe I could buy copies of them?

 

[Crazy31088]

I'm assuming they first aired in January 1989. I would love to see these shows sometime. Do you think maybe I could buy copies of them?

Well, as I said, neither are complete, and 2549 is REALLY chopped up, I doubt it would be worth much to anyone (besides, I don't sell shows, I trade). 2548 (I'm not entirely sure that is the number, since I only have the second half of this one, but it was definitely about the same time, probably that week) is probably of more interest, but again, it's just the final half hour. On this recording, I also have two ads from the PBS station for the specials, "Big Bird in Japan" and "Sesame Street Special" (missing the very end). There's also a station promo using the Grover "What is Love?" sketch, but that one is incomplete, too.

Thanks for looking into it! I didn't expect a reply so quickly!

 

[ssetta]

Well, as I said, neither are complete, and 2549 is REALLY chopped up, I doubt it would be worth much to anyone (besides, I don't sell shows, I trade). 2548 (I'm not entirely sure that is the number, since I only have the second half of this one, but it was definitely about the same time, probably that week) is probably of more interest, but again, it's just the final half hour. On this recording, I also have two ads from the PBS station for the specials, "Big Bird in Japan" and "Sesame Street Special" (missing the very end). There's also a station promo using the Grover "What is Love?" sketch, but that one is incomplete, too.

Thanks for looking into it! I didn't expect a reply so quickly!

Right, that's what I meant, maybe we could do a trade.

Anyway, how so is 2549 chopped up? And why did you only record part of them?

 

[Crazy31088]

Right, that's what I meant, maybe we could do a trade.

Anyway, how so is 2549 chopped up? And why did you only record part of them?

I didn't. Both are on a very worn out old "misc." time shifting tape (for some reason, my older sister missed watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers every day, so she would set the timer to tape it). Eventually, a Disney movie was permanently taped on it, and the aforementioned SS episodes are what's leftover. 2548 is partially taped over, and 2549 is at the very end of the tape, so the second half is cut off. Unfortunately, several years ago, the last part of the tape got into a bit of a nasty accident with a damaged VCR, and so is now quite literally chopped up-the copy now only contains part of the opening, and bits and pieces of two sketches. Quite frankly, I'm afraid to run it through my machine again. 2548, though the beginning of my copy is scratched, looks fine otherwise.

 

[prickle747]

can you please post a sketch layout on both eps. of what is salvageable ?

 

[Crazy31088]

can you please post a sketch layout on both eps. of what is salvageable ?

The rundowns:

2548 has....

-"I heard my dog bark" (with Gordon, Bob, Susan, Uncle Wally, and a few kids)(my copy starts halfway through this one, but I have the complete sketch on another tape).
-Cartoon where a boy sits on the top of a hill listening to sounds until he hears his mom call "Lunch!"
-sketch with a man and his baby (in a stroller) at a park bench, where a voice (sounds like Maria) asks for his name, and the man says the baby has a name for every letter of the alphabet (his nickname is "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"), and so does his sister (her nickname is "sis").
-Cartoon-"Ssss-Snail. A snail is a very strange creature-he carries his house on his back!"
-Film-Shows what happens to a quarter after it's painted yellow (it goes from a cash register, to a meter, to a bank, to a little girl's piggy bank, etc).
-Cartoon-Two men try to roll huge boulders (which later turn out to be giant bird eggs) up two separate hills, only to find it's easier to help each other out.
-Sketch-"Sesame Street News Flash" where Kermit thinks he's found the three little pigs, but they turn out to be the five little pigs (this little piggy's going to market, etc).
-Cartoon-Frog looks for water, and keeps saying "Agua?" in a funny voice.
-Street-Snuffy and Alice talk with Gladys on their way to buying their daily 8 gallons of milk.
-Cartoon-A kid sits down to milk something, but he is not sure what animal he's supposed to milk ("is it a horse? No, it's not a horse...Is it a cow? Yes, a cow!")
-Song-"Octopus Blues".
-Cartoon with a baby trying to climb up the stairs, his dad tells him he should be proud of himself.
-Fast motion film of the building, and finishing of a house, and of the family moving in.
-Cartoon song-O-"And the sun did show so the roses could grow and the whole world would know that the bulldozer, the toad and the crow, the dog and the rope were all....OK...OK?"
-Street-Snuffy is frustrated when he has to explain things to Alice more than once, and he asks Maria for advice.

END.

As for 2549, this is all I have left from it (or all I remember for it, in one case):

-Street-Luis tries to talk about Oscar and his new pet Seagull, Stinky, but he wakes them up because he was talking too soft.
-Cartoon-"This is the letter "G"-"G is a very useful letter!"
(big, 20 minute gap here)
-Sketch-Super Grover tries to fix a computer by jumping up and down, and shouting WUBBA WUBBA (the owner fixes it by turning it on).

I told you it was fragmented. It really is a shame that it's all been lost, I hope someday I find someone else who taped it.

Will.

 

[Splurge]

-sketch with a man and his baby (in a stroller) at a park bench, where a voice (sounds like Maria) asks for his name, and the man says the baby has a name for every letter of the alphabet (his nickname is "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"), and so does his sister (her nickname is "sis")

Just thought I'd mention that the man in that sketch is John Moschitta Jr. I checked IMDB and it verifies that he's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest talker.

 

[Crazy31088]

Just thought I'd mention that the man in that sketch is John Moschitta Jr. I checked IMDB and it verifies that he's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest talker.

Heh, I KNEW there had to be some reason he was on.