Sesame Street Celebrates 5 Years

[minor muppetz]

The following fan-fic is a fake script for a fake fifth anniversary special.

(The episode number sequence for episode 5 is shown, as a voice-over talks)
Announcer: The following program has been brought to you by the number 5.
(fades to black, and now the scene is of a night sky with fireworks setting off. The Sesame Street theme plays)
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Sesame Street Celebrates 5 Years! (a set of fireworks form the title) Staring The Cast of Sesame Street! (the fireworks now form "The cast of Sesame Street" credit, with the cast listed underneath: Hal Miller, Loretta Long, Will Lee, Bob McGrath, Northern Calloway, Sonia Manzano, Emillio Degardo, Chet O'Brien, and Kermit Love) Also starring Jim Henson's Muppets! (the fireworks form a "Jim Henson's Muppets" credit, which is above listing Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Fran Brill, and Jim Henson) And now, let's start the show!

(A clip montage is shown over an instrumental version of the theme, with the following clips:

• Big Bird walks out of his doors (first scene with Big Bird)
• Ernie and Bert stand out in the rain
• Oscar walks in his traveling trash can
• The Count counts Ernie and Bert's blocks
• Herbert Birdsfot puts a "Help" block on Grover's "Help" block
• Maria shows Big Bird the letter M
• the cast plays "follow the leader"
• Super Grover carries a telephone booth with a girl in it
• Kermit, Shola, and Fanny demonstrate "next to"
• Ernie and Bert faint (after finding out that Cookie Monster disguised himself as Ernie and ate Bert's cookies)
• Big Bird rides a unicycle
• Roosevelt Franklin's class spels "poision"
• Cookie Monster shows a "school" sign to a kid
• Bob shows Kermit a frog
• Lefty shows Ernie a stop sign
• Herbert Birdsfoot has Grover count three blocks
• Kermit blows into his microphone (Sesame Street News: Rupunzel)
• the end of A Flower Grows

Then, the scene begins at the arbor area, as Biff and Sully set up a buffet)
Mr. Hooper: Welcome to Sesame Street.
David: Today we are celebrating the number five.
Biff: Yeah, and it's gona be a great party, right, Sully?
(Sully nods his head)
Big Bird: Well, I am excited. My best friend Mr. Snuffleupagus will be ther,e too!
Bob: Oh, right, you're imaginary friend...
Big Bird: No, no, he's not imaginary...
Biff: Well, we've got the buffet set up. But now me and Sully have to leave. Come on, Sully!
(Biff and Sully leave)
Gordon: Well, there goes two busy construction workers.
David: I'll say.
Mr. Hooper: Well, David, we've got to go back inside Hooper's Store. (to the others) Help yourselves.
Susan: Oh, I don't mind if I do.
Gordon: I'm hungry, too!
(Sam the Robot shows up)
Sam the Robot: Hello! What is this?
Susan: Oh, this is a buffet.
Sam the Robot: A buffet?
Big Bird: Yes, we are celebrating the number five.
Sam the Robot: Oh, I can show you the number five. Machines are perfect... (starts breaking) are perfect... are perfect.. are perfect..
(Gordon hits Sam in the mouth)
Sam the Robot: Thank you! And now, presenting, the number five....

(cut to a clip of the sketch where Ernie and Beautiful Day Monster hold up pictures of items that there are four of to Bert)

Gordon: Uh, Sam, you just made a mistake.
Sam the Robot: Really?
Susan: Yes, that wasn't five. That was four.
Sam the Robot: Four?
Big ird: Yes, four.
Sam the Robot: Well, then, here is five...

(cut to a clip from the song Six Snails)

Big Bird: That wasn't five either. It was six.
Sam the Robot: Oh. What is a five?
Gordon: Five is the number between four and six.
Sam the Robot: Oh. Then here it is!

(the following clips are shown:

• the beginning of Five Song (Song of Five) (the part where the featured number is introduced)
• Jazz #5 (the part focusing on 5)
• Mad Painter #5
• Kermit and a girl talking about the number 5
• Five People in my Family

)

Big Bird: Well, great job!
Sam the Robot: Thank you. But I have got to be going now.
Gordon: And we'll be right back!

 

[minor muppetz]

(Oscar is in his trash can)
Oscar: Ugh! This street is celebrating the number five, and for no good reason, too! I hate anniversaries! Nothing good ever comes out of them.
The Mudman: Mud delivery for Oscar the Grouch!
Oscar: Well, it's about time my mud come here!
The Mudman: And due to the 5 celebration, I will give you five jars for free.
Oscar: Well, then give them to me.
(The Mudman accidently drops the mud jars on the ground)
The Mudman: Oh, dear...
Oscar: Oh, don't worry about it. I'll just eat it off the ground.
The Mudman: But that's not healthy.
Oscar: It is for grocuhes!
The Mudman: Hmm, good point. Well, see you.
Oscar: Get lost! Ugh, all this happiness...
Bob: You know, Oscar, we are not always happy on the street. We are sometiems sad.

(cut to clip montage. Clips shown include:

• Sad
• Beautiful Day Monster cries because his ukelelee is broken
• Big Birdthrows a fit because he can't go to day care
• Grover sings the first verse of "What Do I Do When I'm Alone?"
• Kermit sings "Bein' Green")

(the cast is at the buffet in the arbor area)
Cookie Monster: Wow, what a great buffet! Where cookies?
Luis: Oh, the buffet ran out of cookies.
Cookie Monster: Say what?
Ernie: Yeah, I had the last cookie.
Sherlock Hemlock: And I had the last one before that.
Cookie Monster: (emotionally) No... no more cookies?
David: No, there are no more cookies. But there are other foods.
Bert: Yes, of course there are. There is oatmeal...
Ernie: And raisins...
Prairie Dawn: And fruits and vegetables...
Gordon: And other goods.
Cookie Monster: (cheering up) Okay, me eat other foods.
(Cookie Monster eats the entire buffet)
All: Oh, no!
Luis: Well, it looks like I'm gonna have to build another buffet.
Cookie Monster: Oh, that so satisfying.
Mr. Hooper: Well, I'm sure glad somebody is satisfyed.
Cookie Monster: Just a satisfying as cartoons.

(cut to the following montage:

• Wanda the Witch
• I in the Sky
• Ladybug Picnic
• Eleven Cheer
• Speech Balloon: E-egg
• A is for Alligator
• The D Building
• Alice Braitwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates "near" and "far"
• That's About the Size of It
• bread, milk, and butter
• Jazz Alphabet)[/LIST
  
  Mumford: And now, ladies and gentlemen, I will perform my number five trick.
  Ernie: Oh, this is so exciting.
  Bert: Yeah!
  Roosevelt Franklin: Let's see some magic.
  Grover: Yeah, may I assist you?
  Mumford: No, sorry, but I don't need any assistance.
  Grover: Oh, well.
  Mumford: And now, I shall wave this wand, and the number five will appear. A la peanut butter sandwhiches!
  (a puff of smoke appears, but instead of a 5, an E appears)
  Bert: Oh, that's not a 5.
  Susan: No, it's not, but E is the fifth letter of the alphabet.
  Roosevelt Franklin: Outta sight!
  Mumford: I will try again. A la peanut butter sandwhiches!
  (another puff of smoke appears, but this time a bee hive appears)
  Roosevelt Franklin: Oh, that is too bad.
  Willy: Yeah, you made a bee hive.
  David: But "hive" rhymes with "five".
  (cut to Big Bird's doors, where Mr. Snuffleupagus shows up)
  Big Bird: Oh, Snuffy! I'm glad you could make it.
  Mr. Snuffleupagus: I am so glad to be here, too!
  Big Bird: There's a magic show going on.
  Mr. Snuffleupagus: Oh, boy! Let's get closer.
  Big Bird: Oh, yeah, and I can't wait for them to see you.
  (Big Bird and Snuffy get closer to the others, but they are all facing the opposite direction, watchign Mumford's act)
  Big Bird: Hey, everyone, here is...
  Maria: (not looking back at Big Bird) Not now, Big Bird, we're trying to watch the magic act.
  Big Bird: oh.
  Mumford: (looking down at his hat and table) Well, this is my last try, a la penut butter sandwhiches!
  (a puff of smoke appears at Mr. Snufflepagus, everyone turns around facing the smoke, but when the smoke clears, a big, furry number 5 appears in place of Mr. Snuffleupagus)
  Grover: Wow, Mumfy, you certainly made a 5.
  Mumford: Yes, and I am glad that I succeeded, thoguh I didn't intend on making it big and furry like that.
  Big Bird: Oh, well, that's because it's actually Mr. Snuffleupagus.
  (everyone moans)
  Gordon: You should quit imagining these things, Big Bird.
  Big Bird: But it's true.
  (the 5 turns sideways and starts walking away)
  Big Bird: Hey, come back... (Big Bird chases the five)
  Bert: Imagine that. Believing in Snufleupaguses.
  Bob: I know, it's ridiculous.
  Prairie Dawn: Let's think about songs, instead.
  David: Oh, good idea.
  Bob: We all have some great songs.
  
  (cut to song montage:
  • Rubber Duckie
  • C is for Cookie
  • Everyone Makes Mistakes
  • La, La, La
  • The Song of the Count
  • Two G Sounds
  • Roosevelt Franklin's Days of the Week
  • Mmmonster Meal)
  
  Gordon: We have had so many great memories from these last five years.
  Susan: That's for sure.
  
  (cut to another montage:
  • Big Bird ruins Mr. Hooper's ten machine
  • The Count counts flowers
  • Kermit and Joey say the alphabet
  • Cookie Monster appears on Beat the Time
  • Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover's M poem
  • Mr. Snuffleupagus gets his nose stuck inside a malbox
  • Herry and John-John count to 20
  • Oscar gets locked out of his trash can
  • The Great Cookie Thief
  • Fat Blue tells Grover that he can't eat his soup
  • Kermit interviews Cinderella and Prince Charming at the ball)
  
  Ernie: We've had soem grea tmoments these last five years, too.
  Bert: Of course we have. Even if I don't want to think of them all.
  
  (cut to clip montage:
  • Bert asks Ernie why he calls his bath tub Rosie
  • Bert tells Ernie that he has a banana in his ear
  • Ernie makes loud noises at the movies
  • Ernie uses Bert's nose to finish a clay sculpture
  • Ernie demosntrates "open" and "close"
  • Ernie waits for the man upstairs to drop his shoes
  • Ernie, Bert, and Big Bird demonstrate "tall, taller, and tallest")

 

[mikebennidict]

Pretty good.

Though I must say I never saw the so called mudman though I came across him in a couple of books.

 

[minor muppetz]

David: Hey, I've got a great idea.
Gordon: What's that?
David: let's go on a scavengar hunt. Let's all bring back five of something.
All: Oh, yeah!
(everybody leaves)

Sherlock Hemlock: i, Sherlock Hemlock, must find five of something. (walks past five signs) Egad! I've found five signs!
(Prairie Dawn walks over with flowers)
Prairie Dawn: I've found five flowers.

(Roosevelt Franklin goes to Willy's hot dog stand)
Roosevelt Franklin: I would like to have five hot dogs.
Willy: Okay. (picks up hot dogs) One, two, three, four, five.
(Cookie Monster walks by with five cookeis)
Cookie Monster: Me got five cookies. (eats them)
Roosevelt Franklin: And now you've lost five cookies.

Luis: I've got five screwdrivers.
Herry: (carryign trees) And I've got five trees.

(Maria goes to Mr. MacIntosh's fruit and vegetable stand)
Maria: I would like five carrots.
Mr. MacIntosh: Okay.

(Ernie is out in an alley)
Ernie: Let's see, what can I find five of...
Lefty: Psst! Hey, bud...
Ernie: Who, me?
Lefty: Shhhh!
Ernie: (in a lower tone) Who, me...
Lefty: Riiiight.... How would you like to buy two baseballs? (walsk over to two baseballs)
Ernie: Well, I need more than just two.
Lefty: Okay. (walks over to an egg carton) I've got twelve eggs over here.
Ernie: Twelve is more, but it's too much. I need five...
Lefty: Oh, why didn't you say so. (opens trnech coat) Here's a five.
Ernie: Oh, pretty nifty!
Lefty: Shhhh!
Ernie: (in a lower voice) uh, pretty nifty.
Lefty: Riiiight.
Ernie: I need five of them.
Lefty: But I've only got one.
Ernie: Yes, but I need five of soemthing.

(back at the arbor area)
David: Well, what has everybody brought five of?
Bert: I've got five paper clips.
David: Good.
Farley: I've got five mushrooms.
David: Yes, that's five.
Granny Fanny Nestlerode: And I've got five bagpipes.

(Big Bird is at home, with Snuffy, stillshaped like a 5)
Big Bird: Oh, dear, Snuffy, how are you ever going to get back to normal?
(Snuffy starts getting bigger, changing shape, and finally gets back to normal)
Mr. Snuffleupagus: Well, here I am, back to normal.
Big Bird: Oh, wow!
Mr. Snuffleupagus: And we've got time for more memories.

(Clip Montage includes:

• Wally and Ralph make a peanut butter sandwhich
• Number Three Ball Film
• The Weather Show
• Cookie Monster goes to the bakery to buy something that rhymes with "buy"
• Kermit and Grover demosntrate "sort" and "long" with ladders)

(Kermit is on the street, in his reporter outfit)
Kermit: Oh, yeah, I really like the numbe rfive. I think it's very... What's that? (notices that he's on camera) Oh, hi ho, Kermit the Frog here! Today, I am going to ask people about the number five. (sees Bert) Oh, Bert, have you doen anything involving the number five lately?
Bert: Oh, of course I have. I have watched five pigeons at the park.
Kermit: Fiv epigeons, huh?
Bert: Yeah, one, two, three, four, five. Five pigeons. And now I have got to feed my own.
Kermit: Okay, I'll see you later, maybe. (sees Roosevelt Franklin) Oh, what have you done involving the number five?
Roosevelt Franklin: I've taught my class how to count to five.
Kermit: Your class, huh?
Roosevelt Franklin: Yeah.
(Prairie Dawn shows up)
Kermit: Excuse me, what have you doen that has to do with the number five?
Prairie Dawn: Oh, I've held five pageants in the last month.
Roosevelt Franklin: Good for you.
Prairie Dawn: Thanks. Let's go to the park.
(Prairie and Roosevelt leave)
Kermit: And now I'll just as one more person. (The Count shows up) Now, what do you think about the number five?
The Count: I think that it is one, one overrated number. It doens't need this celebration. Kermit: Really?
The Count: Right. I am for much higher numbers, like six, and seven, and eight, and nine...
Kermit: Uh, well, this is Kermit the Frog reporting.
The Count: Let's count it higher!

(cut to: Count it Higher)

 

[minor muppetz]

(Harvey Kneeslapper is holding a cake in his hands, with a spring attached to the bottom)
Harvey Kneeslapper: (giggling) Oh, hi there! I've got this cake here, see, and there is a spring at the bottom. I am going to take this cake over to them, and pretend that I'm about to trip, drop the cake, and they will all think it will go to waste on the floor! (laughs hysterically)
Susan: Well, what should we all do now?
Harvey Kneeslapper: Hey, look what I'v egot! Cake!
Big Bird: Oh, cake.
Maria: That's just what we need for this party.
(Harvey Kneeslapper starst losing his balance)
Harvey Kneeslapper: Ohh, aaahh....
All: Oh no!
Mr. Hooper: Just giv eit to me...
(Harvey Kneeslapper drops the cake, and it bounces into the air)
Harvey Kneeslaper: Ha ha! Fooled you, didn't I?
(the cake falls on Harvey)
Harvey Kneeslapper: Oh no... (walks away)

Grover: What an unfortunate accident for him, huh?
Kermit: Yes, it is.
Herry: Look up in the sky!
(everybody looks up)
Kermit: Hey, it's the five plane air show!
Big Bird: Oh, boy!
Gordon: Five planes, up in the air.
(cut to a shot of five planes)
The Count: One plane, two planes, three planes, four planes, five, five wonderful planes! A ha ha!
(cut back to a shot of the street as thunder and lightning are heard)
Gordon: hey, be careful!
Kermit: Yeah, lightning might hit the planes.
Grover: Exactly.
Oscar: Well, that would make the show interesting, heh heh heh.
(everybody looks up, in amazement. Mr. Snuffleupagus walks by and starts taking food from the buffet. Everybody else doesn't see him, due to them all looking up)
Maria: Hey, I think they are going to form the shape of a five.
Bob: Oh, boy!
(Mr. Snuffleupagus faces up, though still taking food with his snuffle)
(cut to a shot of the planes forming a 5 shape with smoke)
Mr. Snuffleupagus: (walking far away from the others) That air show was fun, and the food was delicious, but I've got to be going now.
(everybody looks down as soon as Snuffy is gone)
Gordon: That was an interesting show.
Big Bird: Yes, it was. I only wish that Mr. Snuffleupagus was here to watch it.
Gordon: Oh, Big Bird, will you please stop talking about Mr. Snuffleupagus?
Kermit: Hey, who ate all the food?
Grover: Maybe Cookie Monster was here and ate it.

 

[minor muppetz]

(it is now nighttime and Bob, Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Susan, Gordon, Herry, Prairie Dawn, Simon Soundman, Mr. MacIntosh, Luis, and the kids are all on or around the stoop)
Big Bird: It's a beautiful night.
Bob: Yes, it is. There are going to be fireworks tonight as well.
Ernie: Oh, boy.
Prairie Dawn: How exciting.
Simon Soundman: I cna't wait to see the (makes firework explosion sound).
Susan: But first, let's look back at the last five years again.
Bert: Oh, boy!

(clip montage includes:

• Ernie and Grover popping balloons in order to count them
• I'm an Aardvark
• the original One of These Things
• Grover plans on surprising Ernie
• Kermit interviews the tortose and the hare
• Snuffy sings Nobody
• Goin' for a Ride
• Ernie and Bert play a sandbox game)

Big Bird: You know, I feel like singing.
Susan: Singing what?
(music starts playing)
Big Bird: Just... just singing.
All: Oh.
Big Bird: Sing, sing a song...
Susan: Sing out loud...
Gordon: Sing out strong...
Herry Monster: Sing of good things, not bad...
Mr. MacIntosh: Sing of happy, not sad...
Ernie: Sing, sing a song...
Bert: Let the world sing along...
(Little Jerry and the Monotones show up)
Little Jerry: Just sSING!
Monotones: Sing!
Little Jerry: Sing a song.
Monotones: Sing a song.....
(Oscar pops out of his trash can)
Oscar: Oh, I love trash, anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty, yes I love trash...
Bob: But Oscar, that's not the song we're singing.
Oscar: of course it's not, but I don't want to sing your song.
Bert: Well, as long as we're singing different songs.... Doin' the (coo-coo) pigeon. Doin' the (coo-coo) pigeon...
Simon Soundman: Doin' the (makes pigeon sounds an extra time) every day....
Grover: Everybody wash... Your hands!
(everybody pretends to wash their hands)
Ernie: Everybody wahs.. your face!
(everybody pretends to wash their face)
Simon Soundman: Everybody wash... Your (makes sniffing sound)
(everybody pretends to wash their noses)
Bob: Everybody wahs... Your everything!
(everybody pretends to wash everything)
The Count: I've got two eyes, one, two, their both the same size, one, two, I've got two eeeeeyes, and their both the same size. Yes, one wodnerful size!
Roosevelt Franklin: Somebody come and play, somebody come and play today...
Roosevelt Franklin and Prairie Dawn: Somebody come and play today...
Prairie Dawn: Somebody come, and be my friend.
Roosevelt Franklin: And wash the sun 'till it raisn again.
All: Somebody come and play today...
Oscar: Oh, yuck! (goes into trash can and slams lid)
Kermit: Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear!
All: Just sing, sing a song. La la la la la, la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la...
Herry Monster: Oh, look!
(everybody looks up)
All: Ohhhhh...
Big Bird: Fireworks.
(fireworks go off in the sky)
Bob: Sesame Street has been brougth to you today by the number five.
Cookie Monster: Yes, but me thought that the number five celebration was brought to you by Sesame Street!
(the credits roll while fireworks go off in the sky. Afterwards, stills of Susan and Gordon holding the Sesame Street sign and of Mr. Snuffleupagus holdingt he Children's Television Workshop sign are shown)
Bob: This anniversary special is a production of the Children's Television Workshop.

 

[minor muppetz]

Pretty good.

Though I must say I never saw the so called mudman though I came across him in a couple of books.

I've never seen him in live action form either. The Muppet Wiki pages for a few season three episodes mention him in the descriptions from the CTW archives, but I don't think any of us fans have any memory of seeing him, or any video or audio footage of him. I figure that Jerry Nelson performed him, but I could be wrong.