Episode 0072

Sesame Street
Air date	February 17, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors J, O, R, 6, 7 This episode guide has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives. ⓘ

• Guy Smiley hosts "The Mr. and Mrs. Game", a quiz show for newlywed monsters. Mr. and Mrs. Monster win the game, and Guy offers the choice of three prizes: a new house, a trip to Hawaii, or a cookie. Mr. Monster ravenously devours the cookie.

• Ethel Kennedy makes an appearance to read the story Sam.

• Roosevelt Franklin shows that he knows the "Days of the Week".

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby reindeer (First: Episode 0003)

• Snerf demonstrates shorter and longer, introducing a film about giraffes.

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes. (First: Episode 0010)

• Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber. (First: Episode 0045)

• 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!" (EKA: Episode 0017)

• Kermit's Lectures: Cookie Monster drinks both of Kermit's glasses of milk, which he was going to use to explain "more" and "less". When Kermit insults Cookie Monster, several of Cookie Monster's monster pals gang up on Kermit, prompting him to point out that now there are more monsters and less frogs. (First: Episode 0004)

• Cartoon: A fisherboy catches all the letters of the alphabet and makes alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004)

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie has some picture cards and asks Bert if he can figure out what happens next. (First: Episode 0017)

• "Six Song (Song of Six)" (First: Episode 0011)

• Cartoon: A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (aired twice) (First: Episode 0071)

• Cartoon: "Story of J" -- Two boys are told of a man named Joe who is sent to jail after jamming a june bug into a jar and a tire pump. (aired twice) (First: Episode 0009)

• Speech Balloon: J -- (strawberry) Jam (First: Episode 0012)

• Cartoon: "Imagination O" -- A surreal story about a boy, a goat, and a bulldozer that closes up a hole in a cloud that blows the cold. (First: Episode 0011)

• Cartoon: "Story of R" -- A man and his dog play a film about the letter R, involving a robber who steals a rooster and escapes by rowboat. (First: Episode 0011)

• Cartoon: A man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011)

• Speech Balloon: “R” – Rabbit (First: Episode 0014)

• Cartoon: Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated by their group, teaching a lesson in counting backwards. (First: Episode 0006)

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