Episode 0017




 * Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!"


 * Sesame Street Animal Films: Animal tails.
 * Cartoon: A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.


 * Buddy and Jim try to put on shoes and socks.


 * Film: Clark Gesner narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.


 * Cartoon: Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime."


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie has some picture cards and asks Bert if he can figure out what happens next.


 * Film: Transportation


 * Bob dresses three Anything Muppets, who sing "Yellow Submarine".


 * Cartoon: A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.


 * Speech Balloon: D--Dog


 * Speech Balloon: E--Egg


 * Animation: "E Imagination": A surreal story of a boy eating a peach atop an eagle witnesseing a queen on her knee, dreaming of eating ice cream in a land of steam.


 * Clay animation: E--Egg/Eagle


 * Cartoon: Marvelous Martha knows the many words about the letter M.


 * Speech Balloon: M -- Mail (mailbox) (aired twice)


 * Listen My Brother sings "The Alphabet Song".


 * Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn".


 * Cartoon: "Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator stops at ten floors to pick up passengers, including a witch, a fireman, and a kangaroo. The tenth passenger, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode.


 * "Jazz #8"


 * "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"