Episode 0002

The following text is from a 1969 CTW press release, describing the first week of episodes.

Plot
"Peace and quiet aren't easy to find today for Oscar. Gordon, Bob and Mr. Hooper keep removing the top from his trash-can home to bother him and Oscar decides to leave. When nobody seems to mind, he decides he'd rather be bothered by his Sesame Street friends than have peace and quiet and be away from them, so he returns to his home."

Inserts

 * Ernie teases Bert by drawing a "tree" instead of a "three", and explains to his viewers what a llama is.


 * Gordon shows how a scale works, using some of Susan's coffee beans as weights and demonstrates the difference between "more", "less" and "same".


 * Today's program introduces a Sesame Street discovery, the "Listen My Brother" singers, a group of youngsters from New York's Harlem section who lend a contemporary beat to the ABCs. The group, which will appear regularly on the series, is the creation of Peter Long of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. Long is the real-life husband of Loretta Long, who plays Susan in the series. Long uses the ensemble as a means of bringing talented youngsters together and seeks out scholarships to send them on to college. Today's song, "You Gotta Learn", was written by the group.


 * Mr. Hooper reads "Gwendolyn, the Miracle Hen" to some young visitors.


 * Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to get an ironing board from one room to another.


 * Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.