Sesame Street | |||||||
Oscar sings, "I Love Trash." | |||||||
Air date | March 20, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon recites the alphabet and asks Chet to identify the letter he left out: F. | |
Muppets / Cast | Bob reads a story with F words featuring Frieda who ventures to her friend Flora's farm with flowers and fruit, but gets lost in a forest. Kermit keeps trying to insert himself into the story (since Frog is a great F word), mishearing Bob when he says "fog" and "log". When Frieda meets a farmer named Fred, who turns out to be a prince, she kisses Prince Fred, and he turns into Kermit. | |
Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: F for Fly (First: Episode 0032) | |
Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (First: Episode 0092) | |
Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot. (First: Episode 0018) | |
SCENE 2 | In the kitchen, Big Bird asks Susan to teach him about numbers. She points him to the numbers on a clock, on a telephone and on a calendar. | |
Film | "Two Song (Song of Two)" (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | Rocket countdown: Rocket takes off at 7. Then it comes down so the man can continue his countdown, but at 1, it falls over with a huge crash. (First: Episode 0022) | |
SCENE 3 | In the yard, Big Bird builds a cuckoo clock with help from Susan and Gordon. Little Bird comes out of the clock when it strikes three. | |
Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) | |
Cartoon | Rocket countdown: Unlike previous segments, the rocket successfully launches at the right time as everyone celebrates, and the director grins at the camera. (First: Episode 0042) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on tall and short using two Snerfs, who keep changing their size. (First: Episode 0015) | |
Cartoon | A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (First: Episode 0032) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on big and small with the Beautiful Day Monster and a small monster. Splurge comes in at the end to show what a really big monster looks like. (First: Episode 0015) | |
SCENE 4 | Bob explains that monsters and birds come in big and little sizes. | |
Film | Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others. Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0019) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert wants to know why there is a cookie lying on the table. Ernie explains that he put it there to remind himself. | |
SCENE 5 | Susan sees a row of items left on the ground, and asks Big Bird and the kids who could have left them there. A lariat, a cowboy hat, and the sound of hoofbeats … it was a cowboy! Another set of items includes a rolling pin, a baker's hat, and a pie … it was a baker! | |
Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber. (First: Episode 0045) | |
Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0032) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) | |
Celebrity | Burt Lancaster says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets | Kermit tries to give a lecture on being happy, but Cookie Monster eats Kermit's happy face prop, which makes him mad. (First: Episode 0066) | |
Celebrity | Burt Lancaster shows what he does when he's happy and when he's angry. When he's home, he watches Sesame Street. (First: Episode 0005) | |
SCENE 6 | Gordon and Lance walk over to Oscar, who's in a good mood today because he's admiring his trash. He sings "I Love Trash", and Gordon introduces a film about the dump. | |
Song | "Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away. Music by Peter Schickele (First: Episode 0077) | |
SCENE 7 | Bob does two verses of "Three of These Things" with writing tools and kitchenware. | |
Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (repeat) | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim struggle with round and square window frames. (First: Episode 0009) | |
Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (repeat) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (repeat) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon and some kids look at a live goat. Gordon announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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