Trip to Puerto Rico - Maria's birthday

Summary As "Sesame Street" starts its eleventh season, Maria is setting out on a big trip to her native country of Puerto Rico for her twenty-first birthday, and taking Olivia with her. Unbeknownst to her, but not to Olivia, the rest of her friends have secretly followed them to Central America to join the celebration. During the day, they keep recruiting the people they meet to pose as them and make Maria think she's seeing things. They don't ultimately make their presence known until the end of the day, when the party begins. The show is brought to you to today by the letter A and the number 2. While all the excitement in Puerto Rico is going on, Kermit the Frog is doing a news report on the elves and the shoemaker, and Edith Ann of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" tells Herry Monster about what makes her proud. Little Jerry and the Monotones perform their big hit "Telephone Rock", Grover watches The Amazing Mumford perform a subtraction trick with pineapples, and Simon Soundman has trouble communicating with the owner of a music store that he wants to buy a trumpet. There are some memorable bits on animation in this episode too, such as the pinball count, with vocals from the Pointer Sisters, and the classic Madrigal Alphabet.

S11.E1 ∙ Trip to Puerto Rico - Maria's birthday

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Frank Oz Jerry Nelson Caroll Spinney Martin P. Robinson

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Genres : Adventure Comedy Fantasy Animation Family Musical Music Game-Show Talk-Show

Release date : Nov 25, 1979

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English Spanish American Sign Language

Filming locations : Kaufman Astoria Studios - 3412 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Curious Pictures Sesame Workshop Children's Television Workshop (CTW)

Summary As "Sesame Street" starts its eleventh season, Maria is setting out on a big trip to her native country of Puerto Rico for her twenty-first birthday, and taking Olivia with her. Unbeknownst to her, but not to Olivia, the rest of her friends have secretly followed them to Central America to join the celebration. During the day, they keep recruiting the people they meet to pose as them and make Maria think she's seeing things. They don't ultimately make their presence known until the end of the day, when the party begins. The show is brought to you to today by the letter A and the number 2. While all the excitement in Puerto Rico is going on, Kermit the Frog is doing a news report on the elves and the shoemaker, and Edith Ann of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" tells Herry Monster about what makes her proud. Little Jerry and the Monotones perform their big hit "Telephone Rock", Grover watches The Amazing Mumford perform a subtraction trick with pineapples, and Simon Soundman has trouble communicating with the owner of a music store that he wants to buy a trumpet. There are some memorable bits on animation in this episode too, such as the pinball count, with vocals from the Pointer Sisters, and the classic Madrigal Alphabet.

Details

Genres : Adventure Comedy Fantasy Animation Family Musical Music Game-Show Talk-Show

Release date : Nov 25, 1979

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English Spanish American Sign Language

Filming locations : Kaufman Astoria Studios - 3412 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Curious Pictures Sesame Workshop Children's Television Workshop (CTW)

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Blood on the Highway

Blood on the Highway

The citizens of sleepy small town Fate, TX gather for the grand opening of Consumart, a shiny new one-stop-shopping box store. The eager consumers gleefully pour into the store as the doors open at sundown. Why is the grand opening at sundown? Who cares, they've got cut-rate prices on plasma screens and baby clothes! DVDs! Mayonnaise! Coffins! Coffins? And before they have to time to really question this item, terror ensues and the store erupts into a bloodbath. A few weeks later, three oblivious, self-absorbed twenty somethings - CARRIE, SAM, and BONE - head out on a road trip to Mr. Fire (a festival which shares only minor non-litigious similarities, all of a purely coincidental nature, to Burning Man) and accidentally wander into Fate, unaware of its population's ill-fated transformation... into vampires. Being that the heroes are 20-somethings, they do it. Carrie, a shallow hothead, is dating Sam's wallet, er, Sam, who is a whiny, naive, hypochondriac rich boy. Bone, a callous hard-ass with a venomous way of speech, is still nursing a desire for Carrie predicated upon a drunken, frivolous one night stand. After a run-in with two blood-thirsty convenience store clerks in which Sam is repeatedly bitten and attacked and Bone is forced to slaughter them, our protagonists begin it wonder if something strange might be going on in the town. Luckily, but only in the sense that they didn't get murdered, the three stumble upon the only surviving humans in town: BYRON VON JONES, a trigger-happy, conspiracy theorist militia member; LYNETTE VON JONES, a haggard, trailer park slut and the only surviving wife out of Byron's harem; and ROY JACKSON (Chris Gardner), a cowardly, lying frat boy in his early 20s. The group bands together and takes shelter in Roy's ranch house, surrounded by hundreds of vampires intending to torch the property before sunrise, so they don't have to go home and try again the next day. Will our heroes escape death and transformation? Will Bone win over Carrie's dubious and indifferent heart? Does he even really care? And will the nefarious corporate franchise relevance to the plot ever be explained?

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