Episode 0087

Sesame Street
Air date	March 10, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors G, O, Z, 4, 5

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• Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green".

• Grover: Grover demonstrates the difference between "near" and "far" by running away from the camera and back, eventually fainting from exhaustion. (First: Episode 0057)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Footage of all types of birds on land, including flamingos and pigeons. (First: Episode 0019)

• Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Grocer and Doctor. (First: Episode 0067)

• Film: Transportation (First: Episode 0005)

• Ernie and Bert have difficulty scratching their backs, so both help each other scratch their back. While Ernie's itch takes a little too long to scratch, he introduces a film called "Everybody Scratch". After the film, Ernie notices that Bert has stopped scratching his back; Beautiful Day Monster is. (First: Episode 0012)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gerswhin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006)

• Ernie, dressed in his football uniform, marches around the apartment reciting his team chant. He tells Bert he's a member of the Dirty Rugs, named such because everyone beats them. (First: Episode 0009)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: A wombat itches its four legs. (First: Episode 0008)

• "Five Song (Song of Five)" (First: Episode 0006)

• Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0079)

• Ernie and Bert: Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005)

• Bert hears the phone ringing inside a basket and asks Ernie to answer it. Ernie goes through the basket and finds a banana. He pretends it's a phone and gives it to Bert to talk on. Ernie answers the real phone and tells the caller that Bert can't come to the phone because he's talking on the banana.
  This sketch was semi re-made in the 2000s.

• Speech Balloon: G--Gorilla (First: Episode 0085)

• Cartoon: A goat discusses the letter "G". A man comes by to also talk about G, but rather than point out that "goat" is a G word, he observes the grass. Disgusted, the goat butts the man out of the way. (First: Episode 0085)

• 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: "Poverty Z" -- A figure tries to sell a Z. His only customer stops him by locking him inside a zoo cage. (First: Episode 0085)

• Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to get an ironing board from one room to another. (First: Episode 0002)

• Cartoon: "Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator operator 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. (First: Episode 0003)

• "Four Song (Song of Four)" (First: Episode 0006)

• "Jazz #5" (First: Episode 0007)

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