The episodes of The Alvin Show typically were preceded by short clips called cold opens. A cold open, used after the early-60s, is a quick video teaser scene that was commonly used as an early attention grabber before the opening theme/credits of a series to help reduce the likelihood of channel switching. The Alvin Show was filled with cold opens as well as bumpers.
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| - The episodes of The Alvin Show typically were preceded by short clips called cold opens. A cold open, used after the early-60s, is a quick video teaser scene that was commonly used as an early attention grabber before the opening theme/credits of a series to help reduce the likelihood of channel switching. The Alvin Show was filled with cold opens as well as bumpers.
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| - Alvin and the Chipmunks SING-ALONGS: Ragtime Cowboy Joe VHS
- The Alvin Show DVD
- The Very First Alvin Show & The Alvin Show DVDs
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- Cameras
- The Bull
- Wrecking Ball
- Message in a Bottle
- Psychic Alvin
- Alvin Introduces the Great Inventor
- Archery Contest
- Cloth Pull
- Clyde Gives A Word Or Two
- Cowboy Alvin
- Dave Flying With Balloons
- Janitor On Stage
- Lost Underwater
- Projector Animals
- What Are You Writing?
- Wrecked Car
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| - Typically shown directly before closing credits.
- Typically shown directly before musical segments.
- Typically shown directly before Clyde Crashcup segments.
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| - Although his assistant Leonardo keeps gesturing that time is short, Clyde Crashcup begins what could have been a long speech, getting cut off mid-sentence.
- Alvin plays a fortune teller who gives a prediction that his customer, Dave, will "travel." The prediction comes true when Dave flies into the air, with the aid of his brothers who forcefully pull the carpet from underneath him.
- Dave introduces himself to the audience and prepares to introduce The Chipmunks as well only to find a janitor mopping the stage when the curtain opens. The janitor entertains the audience with his dancing as Dave creeps on stage.
- In the middle of a city, Alvin and his brothers are operating a machine with a wrecking ball, which they swing into the camera.
- Dave wrecks his car and The Chipmunks, acting as medics, put the car on the stretcher instead of Dave.
- Alvin causes a bull to charge into a China store.
- Alvin makes shapes of animals with a projector.
- Alvin opens various doors inside a TV station.
- Alvin pulls a cloth off a table, which has a tower of plates on it, to impress Simon and Theodore.
- Alvin walks through a park buying balloons from various people before giving them all to Dave, who starts flying into the sky due to the large amount of balloons.
- On a ship, Clyde Crashcup writes what he calls "the two most beautiful words in the English Language" on a piece of paper, which he places in a bottle, then throws out to sea, eventually being found by a shark.
- Dave wonders why Alvin isn't using his blackboard, insisting that he should "write something".
- The Chipmunks "dolly in" their cameras, all in the same spot, eventually crashing into each other.
- Alvin is on a stage, giving an introduction to a "great inventor," who he doesn't know the name of, naming other famous inventors instead.
- The Chipmunks play cowboys, who ride their horses to a saloon. Alvin walks into the saloon, intimidating the patrons inside, but he's only come to drop a coin into the saloon's jukebox.
- Dave hosts an archery contest, with the Chipmunks as the contestants.
- Dave, the captain of a submarine, asks his navigator for their position. He rambles off coordinates before stating they're lost. The captain has Alvin man the periscope until he finds something and indicates to the audience to check it out.
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| - The episodes of The Alvin Show typically were preceded by short clips called cold opens. A cold open, used after the early-60s, is a quick video teaser scene that was commonly used as an early attention grabber before the opening theme/credits of a series to help reduce the likelihood of channel switching. The Alvin Show was filled with cold opens as well as bumpers. A bumper, frequently used before the mid-70s, is a quick video (typically no more than fifteen seconds but longer in the case of this series) that was commonly used as a transition, or attention grabber for kids, between the commercials and the episode segments. The bumper is similar to a cold open but is generally shorter and placed after the opening theme.
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