| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Voting for crayons or juice | |||||||
| Air date | May 6, 1992 | ||||||
| Season | Season 23 (1991-1992) | ||||||
| Written by | Tony Geiss | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | Big Bird, Rosita, Telly, Elmo, Jyah, Deija, and Keila have pooled all their money together to buy something they can all share. Big Bird plops down their combined three dollars onto the Hooper's Store counter, but they start arguing over what they should spend the money on. |
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SCENE 1 | The gang has reduced their desired purchase to be for either juice or crayons. Mr. Handford informs them that they don't have enough to buy both and says that conducting a vote will be the fairest way of deciding. Big Bird and Elmo make passionate speeches for their respective choices (crayons and juice, respectively) before everyone starts their vote. It ends up in a two-way tie and Telly is left as the tie-breaker. He leaves in anguish to think about the best way to use his vote. |
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Animation | Cecille sings "I Wanna Be Me." (First: Episode 2791) |
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Film | A baby messes around (literally) with a chocolate cookie, as Cookie Monster (in voice-over) wishes it were for him. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Counting Fruit — Bert wants to sort his paperclips, but he can't concentrate because Ernie is counting fruit. (First: Episode 2315) |
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Cartoon | Kids observe cloud formations, until it starts to rain. (First: Episode 2074) |
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SCENE 2 | Luis reads a story, The Kingdom That Had No King. In the story, the citizens of a kingdom are devastated when their king leaves them, and ultimately decide what to do on their own. |
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Cartoon | A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup. (First: Episode 2283) |
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Song | "My New Computer" (First: Episode 2857) |
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Muppets | Grover: Health Minute: Teeth — Kermit and Grover talk about teeth. (First: Episode 1949) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up." (First: Episode 0302) |
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Cast | Maria and Linda sew quilts with a Q on them. (First: Episode 1508) |
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Animation | Sand Q/q (First: Episode 0623) |
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SCENE 3 | Telly paces around Big Bird's nest, still unable to decide what to vote on. He imagines what would happen if he voted for each option and envisions his friends struggling without crayons or juice. Meanwhile, everyone waiting for him votes to check if Hooper's even still has their options, leaving Telly behind. Gordon passes by and informs Telly that his vote is based on what he wants, not what everyone else wants. Telly realizes what his vote should be for and rushes off to Hooper's. |
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Film | How Crayons are Made Music: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey (First: Episode 1579) |
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Cartoon | C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Robin Williams and a robin observe how similar they are. Afterwards, the robin sings "Lullaby of Birdland." (First: Episode 2848) |
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Film | The Count (in voiceover) subtracts from five to one to zero children on a park bench. (First: Episode 2923) |
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SCENE 4 | Telly returns to Hooper's just in time to place his vote. He gives a very dramatic speech on his thought process as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays, finally decided on buying... crayons! Elmo is very disappointed, having wanted juice. There's fifty cents in change left, which is enough to buy him a glass, but Elmo realizes it will leave out the others who wanted juice as well. Mr. Handford solves the problem by putting seven straws into the glass for everyone to share. |
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Animation | Fans unveil Q and q. (First: Episode 2895) |
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Film | Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over) (First: Episode 2711) |
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Muppets | Count's Castle: Vote Count — The Count is all dressed up for Bat Day. |
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Animation | Carrot subtraction (4-1) (First: Episode 1537) |
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Song | "Frog Kick" (First: Episode 2155) |
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Cartoon | Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1141) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon and Susan tell the youngsters how adults can vote too, describing how they voted for the President of the United States. A flashback shows Gordon and Susan taking Miles with them to a polling station to show how it's done, demonstrating how the levers on a voting machine work. They then field questions about all the other grown-ups who can vote (except Barkley, since he's a dog). |
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Cartoon | Q for Quiet Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0441) |
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Muppets | "They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero. (First: Episode 2351) |
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Film | A boy makes fruit salad. (First: Episode 1195) |
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Cartoon | A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail. (First: Episode 0406) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Bird Family — Kermit interviews a bird whose parents don't live together. (First: Episode 2695) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot (First: Episode 0203) |
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Film | A park ranger speaks to a group of kids about trees and the fruits that come from them. Then all the kids hug a tree. (First: Episode 2891) |
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Song | "Zero Song": A female voiceover sings about the food that keeps being taken away to make 0. Artist: Jane Aaron |
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SCENE 6 | Everyone votes on whether to announce the sponsors; they are all unanimously in favor of it and say it together. |
Notes
- In an earlier draft of the script, Rosita's role was filled by Roxie Marie instead.[1]
- An additional scene was also present in the earlier draft, where Bob finds Oscar the Grouch monitoring a vote from his pet elephants. Unfortunately for Bob, the elephants are voting about spraying him with water and the affirmative votes win.[1]
See also
- Episode 4169, in which Telly serves as a tie-breaking vote once more
Sources
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