Sesame Street | |||||||||
Oscar bakes a cake; Mr. Hooper invents a 10 machine | |||||||||
Air date | January 22, 1970 | ||||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Susan welcomes the viewer and tells them that Oscar the Grouch told her to go to the store to buy five pounds of sugar for him. Oscar, wearing a baker's hat and apron, explains that he's preparing for his friend Herbie's birthday. He shows Susan his special (insulting) poem and the present he picked out for him: some spring-loaded snakes in a can. Susan admits that she'd rather get a cake from a professional baker rather than Oscar. | |
Film | "The Little Baker": A boy imagines that he's a baker. (First: Episode 0020) | |
SCENE 2 | Oscar shows Susan the cake that he's baked for Herbie's birthday. It reads "Rotten Birthday to Herbie," and has ten candles on top. | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (First: Episode 0021) | |
SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper shows Bob and Chris his latest invention: Hooper's Super Duper Ten Machine, which creates ten of any object that the attached arrow points to -- but it can only work on small objects for now, like jellybeans or balls. Big Bird accidentally tries it on a nearby garbage can and makes ten garbage cans, wrecking the machine. | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" The opening of this repeated film appeared on Noggin, and the rest was edited out. | |
Cartoon | An award for "U". Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0036) | |
Cartoon | Clay animation film by Jim Henson: A unicorn talks about U words. (First: Episode 0037) | |
SCENE 4 | Susan reads The Story Grandmother Told by Martha Alexander, then introduces some fine music. | |
Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "I Am a Fine Musician". (First: Episode 0010) | |
Film | Counting eleven eggs and one cookie. (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Ernie counts out eleven cookies and one egg. Cookie Monster eats the cookies- and then the egg. | |
SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper and some kids see skywriter Alphabet Bates making a P. Mr. Hooper notes that plane and pilot both start with P, as does the word pin. The second half of this scene was cut from the Noggin version. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: P - pin cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert play "What Happens Next". (First: Episode 0017) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048) Animation by Cliff Roberts | |
Cartoon | Q - quarter (First: Episode 0046) cut from the Noggin version | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet man named Jack sings "A, You're Adorable" to his girlfriend, Adrienne, using alphabet blocks to enumerate the ways that he loves her. Cookie Monster shows up and eats the blocks. (First: Episode 0023) | |
Celebrity | Jackie Robinson says the alphabet. | |
SCENE 6 | Gordon plays a rhyming game with Chris, and Big Bird plays along. Though Big Bird claims to be the best game player in the business, he's unable to rhyme with the short poems Gordon recites. He does get the last rhyme, as it involves something he loves: flowers. | |
Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) | |
Muppets | Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. (First: Episode 0003) | |
SCENE 7 | Gordon continues his rhyme game with Chris. They both hear some traffic noises, and Gordon points out that old, worn out cars sometimes go to the scrap yard. Gordon's segue to the scrap yard film was cut from the Noggin version. | |
Film | A magnetic scrapyard baler is used to lift cars into a compacter. (First: Episode 0024) cut from the Noggin version | |
SCENE 8 | Susan plays "Here Are Some Things" with shapes. | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim try to put on shoes and socks. (First: Episode 0017) | |
SCENE 9 | Gordon and the kids say good-bye to the viewers. Susan announces the sponsors and the book that was read on today's show. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon and Susan hold up the Sesame Street sign while Mr. Hooper and Bob holds up the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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