On My Way with Sesame Street Video Collection

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Chapter 10: Up, Down, and All Around

Scene 1
Elmo and Zoe play on a teeter totter. Each take turns saying which one is up and which one is down. Big Bird shows up and walks around the teeter totter.

Segments
Up and Down (with Cookie Monster and Herry Monster, original version)
Up and Down (with Ernie and Placedo Flamingo)

Scene 2
Snuffy and Big Bird decide to walk around the Sesame Street sign.

Segments
Over, Under, Around, and Through
Alice Braitewait Goodyshoes: Over, Under, and Around
I Wonder About the World Above Up There
Telly Monster talks about "up" and "down"

Scene 3
Ernie looks down at the ground. He sees some trash, some bugs, and a stick. He then looks up, and sees the clouds, some of which are shaped like his rubber duckie.

Segments
If I Was a Cloud in the Sky
Herry and John-John: Up and Down
She'll Be Comming Around the Mountaints pageant

Scene 4
Big Bird explains that people go up and down the stairs.

Segments
Monsterpeice Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
Kermit and Grover: Up and Down

Scene 5
Big Bird looks up, and sees an airplane.

Segment
Alphabet Bates: S
Grover flies an airplane

Scene 6
Prairie Dawn asks the viewer to join her and the rest of the cast when they use their imagination, and pretend, and shows a clip from the sketch where Ernie uses a disguise kit.

 

[minor muppetz]

Oh, crap. Volume 11 of the book series was Morning to Night, and I mistakingly had the sneak peek at the end advertise Let's Pretend, and it's too late for me to edit that. Oh, well. I guess I'll have these two "video volumes" not match the book volumes.

Here is volume 11: Let's Pretend.

Scene 1
Grover sees Elmo making train noises, and mistakenly assuems that Mumford used a magic trick to make Elmo make train noises. When Mumford tells Grover that he didn't, Grover thinks that Mumford turned a choo-choo train into Elmo, but Elmo tells Grover that he was just pretending.

Segments
Suzie Kabloozie: Inside My Head
Sesame Street News: Telly and Julliette pretend

Scene 2
Big Bird wears a cowboy disguise, Prairie Dawn wears a princess costume, and Cookie Monster wears a giant cookie costume (and eats it). Oscar disguises himself as a billian, wearing a black cape, a top hat, and a black mustache.

Segments
Ernie's disguise kit
Fay Ray: Animal Disguises
Gladys pretends to be a frog while Kermit pretends to be a cow

Scene 3
Snuffy tells the viewers that one way that you can pretend is to use your imagination.

Segments
Song: In Your Imagination
Little Bird's imagination game

Scene 4
Oscar talks about how Slimey really did go to the moon, but others can only imagine being on the moon.

Segments
Grover pretends to be on the moon
Suzie Kabloozie in space
Ernie imagines that he and Bert have switched personalities

Scene 5
Elmo gets annoyed when Zoe talks about what Rocco likes to pretend to be.

Segments
Kermit's imagination game

Scene 6
Prairie Dawn mentions that actors and actresses always pretend whenever they are acting, in pageants, movies, and television.

Segments
The Life of a Butterfly
Kermit directs Forgetful Jones in Oklahoma

Scene 7
Cookie Monster pretends to be The Coutn, and starst counting everything. The Count pretends to be Cookie Monster, and starts eating everything he can find.

Segments
Bert imagines himself as an ice skater
The Foods We Eat

Scene 8
Hoots the Owl says that the next show will be all about the time between morning and night, and shows a clip from Breakfast Time.

 

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Volume 12: Morning to Night

Scene 1
Big Bird: Hi, welcome to the show. Well, it is now morning, so I am going to have some breakfast. I think I'll go to Hooper's Store, and have some scrambled birdseed, and a birdseed milkshake on the side. What do you like to have for breakfast?

Segments
Breakfast Time
Captain Breakfast

Scene 2
Oscar: Do you know what I like to have for breakfast? (brings out a bowl of rotten looking cereal, with flies flying around it) I like Grunky Grouch Cereal. It has mud, slime, goo, ashes, and flies. Yum yum! But I also like to have... (goes into his can and brings out a glass of a disgusting-looking drink) Spoiled Black Orange Juice, which also has a bit of milk in it. Now, who would you rather eat like, me or Big Bird? What's that? You need to get dressed? And you can do it by yourself?

Segments
I Can Do It By Myself

Scene 3
Elmo and Miles go exploring in the woods. Miles explains that he promised Elmo that they would go exploring after they had lunch. They find an elephant, some monkeys (Davey and Joey), and also find some penguins. The penguins say that at this timke of day, they like to watch people pretend to be angry.

Segments
Bert pretends to be angry

Scene 4
It's the time of the day for people to dance, and Zoe and Gabbi dance. ventually, Elmo, Miles, Abby Cadabby, Rosita, Telly, and Herry join them as well. Theye ventually get tired, and Herry says that it's time for him to watch some of his favorite TV shows.

Segments
Ernie, Bert, and Herry fight for the TV chair
Monsterpiece Theater: Waiting for Elmo
Sesame Street News: Rumplestilskin

Scene 5
Herry Monster says that it's the time of the day when he does his excersizes. He stretches, lifts the mailbox, and does some push-ups. He then runs, and runs into the Sesame Street siign (causing it to fall over, as a crashing sound is heard).

Segment
Kermit and Professor Hastings discuss the importance of excersize

Scene 6
Big Bird tries to take a nap, saying that it is his naptime.

Segment
Ernie tries to find something to do so that he won't wake up Bert during his nap

Scene 7
The cast gathers at the arbor area for some dinner. The Count just counts the food and people, while Alan and Grover serve the food. Snuffy and Alice have cabbage, Susan and Gordon have steaks, Maria and Luis have mexican food, Baby Bear and his family have porridge, and Big Bird has birdseed. After they all eat, everybody leaves to watch their favorite prime time shows.

Segments
Miami Mice: Ernie's Rubber Duckie at the repair shop
Name That Sound
Sesame Street News: What Makes People Angry?

Scene 8
Big Bird: Well, it's my bedtime now, but here is a sneak peek at our next show.
(a clip from The Subway is shown)
Big Bird: See you next time.

 

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Volume 12: In the City

Scene 1
Big Bird: Hello. Today, we are all going to take a trip to the city!
Elmo: How exciting!
Telly: I don't know. I'm kind of scared...
Big Bird: What's so scary about the city?
Telly: There are loud noises... big traffic... long lines... crowded areas!
Elmo: But you know, we already live in the city.
Telly: Yes, but... We're going to a bigger part of the city!
Big Bird: But... But we'll have lots of fun! We can look for each letter of the alphabet in the city.

Segment
Film: letters everywhere (I don't know the official title, but I am referring to the skit seen in Learning About Letters where eahc letter is seen somewhere in a city street. The title I used is the title listed for the DVD chapter, but that's probably an unnofficial title)

Scene 2
Telly: Well, I am starting to feel better, but if we go to the city, anywhere that we go we will have to wait in a long line!
Oscar: (popping out of can) Waiting in line? I wan tto go!
Big Bird: We can also ride on the subway.
Telly: Yes, but... The long lines!

Segments
Sesame Street News: Waiting in Line
The Subway

Scene 3
Elmo: While in the city, we can go to department stores, art museums, and the movies.

Segments
A woman wants to buy a fuzzy and blue coat
Biff hangs Salvado Dada's paintings
Ernie and Bert go to the movies and watch The Picnic

Scene 4
Big Bird: We can also go eat at O'Briens Resturaunt.

Segments
Grover the Waiter: O'briens Resturaunt
Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Beaks
Danger's No Stranger

Scene 5
Telly: Well, I'm not afraid anymore.
Big Bird: That's good.
Telly: And hey, maybe we'll ride on the elevadors.

Segment
Grover the elevador operador: only five people can fit at a time

Scene 6
Elmo: We'll, we're off to go to the city.
Telly: Yeah, and next time, we'll go to the country!
Big Bird: If you don't know what the country is like, then watch this!

Segment
City-Country Song

Scene 7
Big Bird: We'll see you next time!

 

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Volume 14: In the Country

Scene 1
Big Bird packs his suitcases, and explaisn that he is going out to the country. He is going to visit a farm, and see all the animals. And he's going to see chickens lay their eggs around the clock.

Segments
Cluck Around the Clock
Six Snails
Sesame Street News: UFO spotted on Old MacDonald's farm

Scene 2
Snuffy decides to come with Big Bird to the country. Snuffy is excited, and says that he can't wait to see the cows.

Segment
Hey Cow, I See You Now

Scene 3
Snufy admits that his thought was kind of long and boring. Elmo, Zoe, and Cookie Monster then show up, and want to come with them.

Segments
Kermit, Farmer Grover, and Fred the Wonder Horse show how a horse puller works (is that the right description? This sketch appeared in episode 666)
Wide Open Spaces
Wegmens Dogs: counting to two

Scene 4
Elmo wonders if they will also go to a western saloon.

Segments
Bad Bart comes to town to give somebody what he deserves
Plants Can Grow High
That's How We Got Here
I Am Chicken
Barn in the USA

Scene 5
The bus comes to take them all to the country. Grover is the bus driver. Susan, Gordon, and Miles decide to come, too. Big Bird then says that the next show will be about each season, and shows a clip from the sketch where Ernie and Bert build a snowman.

 

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Volume 15: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

Scene 1
Gordon talks to Elmo and Big Bird about the various seasons.

Segment
Four Seasons Cartoon (sen in episode 276)

Scene 2
Telly, as a "Monster on the Spot" reporter, asks everybody what seasons they like best. Big Bird likes spring, Elmo likes summer, Oscar likes winter ("because everybody gets cold and complains a lot then"), and Maria likes fall. Maria then falls.

Scene 3
Elmo and Zoe dress up in winter clothes, to pretend that it's winter.

Segments
Ernie and Bert build a snowman
Kermit and Grover: building a snowman
Two-Headed Monster: Snowman

Scene 4
The Count likes to count snowflakes, but then gets disapointed that there are only zero snowflakes.

Segment
Grover tries to figure out how to get warm while standing outside Kermit's apartment during a snowstorm

Scene 5
One thing that Zoe likes about winter is because that's when it is Christmas.

Segment
Sesame Street News: waiting for Santa to come down the chimney

Scene 6
Elmo likes the spring. He also likes easter, and the easter bunny, which come in spring.

Segments
The Cookie Bunny
The Sound That's in the Air

Scene 7
Bert likes spring, because he gets to do a lot of spring cleaning. Oscar hates spring cleaning, but loves spring messing.

Segment
Bert offers to give Ernie his dessert if Ernie can clean the apartment in less than 15 seconds

Scene 8
Big Bird says that during the summer he likes to go to the beach.

Segments
Skin
Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie find a lost Bert at the beach
I is Gonna Soak Up the Sun

Scene 9
Gordon tells Telly that people normally go on vacations during the summer.

Scene 10
On Vacation with Guy Smiley
Carribean Amphibean
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
Mad Painter: 3

Scene 11
Cookie Monster eats some leaves. Gordon tells Cookie Monster that leaves turn brown during the fall. Cookie Monster says that he lieks to jump in the piles of leaves, while The Count likes to count leaves.

Segments
The Baker: Four Song (Song of Four)
Big Bird has Grover do two chin-ups

Scene 12
Oscar applauds the last two sketches, saying that's what fall is all about. But Maria said that Fall is not a season where people fall (and then trips herself). Oscar says that he knows, and sas that during the fall many TV show sbegin their new seasons, and decides to watch some TV.

Segments
Beat the Time: Grover
Miami Mice: The Count needs to get to a space station
Monsterpiece Theater: Fiddler on the Roof

Scene 13
Big Bird: Well, I hope that you enjoyed the show. Tune in nex ttime when... when... You know, I don't think there is going to be a next time. Oh, well! Just go back to volume 1!

 

[wiley207]

That was totally awesome! I really loved it. I read those On My Way with Sesame Street books when I was a kid!