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Sesame Street
Big Bird draws lowercase and uppercase R's
Air date April 29, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors R, V, 3
Releases Sesame Street Classics

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Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Mr. Hooper welcomes the viewer, and says he's going to go through some boxes of musical instruments. He has a box of three harmonicas, a box of three toy trumpets, and a box that only has one toy flute. He mentioned that Gordon bought one of these flutes for a friend of his.
ErnieGordonBall

MonsterFlute
Cast / Muppets Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, Gordon asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert.
(First: Episode 0031)
1836n
Cartoon A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive.
(First: Episode 0083)
ErnieBertBell

MouthFull
Muppets Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when Ernie rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies.
(First: Episode 0031)
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SCENE 2 Gordon shows the kids a coatimundi.
0123-Reindeer
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby reindeer (Gordon and kid voice-over)
(First: Episode 0003)
0123c
SCENE 3 Susan and the kids count to 10 with the help of numbers written on a piece of cardboard, but the 3 is missing. Susan introduces someone who knows what the number looks like...
ErnieBertLlama

Llama!
Muppets Ernie & Bert โ€” Ernie draws a llama, but Bert says it doesn't look anything like a llama. Ernie asks a filmed llama for advice, but the llama doesn't like it either. So Ernie decides to draw a 3 instead, but he can't remember what it looks like.
(First: Episode 0002)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)
ErnieSquiggle
Muppets Ernie draws what looks like a squiggle, so Bert recommends that he watch the 3 film again.
(First: Episode 0002)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3" (repeat)
(First: Episode 0002)
ErnieBertTreeDrawing
Muppets Ernie finishes his drawing. Bert asks, "You call that a three?" Ernie answers, "No, I call that a tree!"
(First: Episode 0002)
1836n
Cartoon A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0083)
0014c
SCENE 4 Mr. Hooper and the kids hear an airplane and watch Alphabet Bates make an R.
(First: Episode 0014)
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SCENE 4
cont'd
Mr. Hooper has the kids guess the word "radio".
0011.R.Radio
Cartoon A man 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)
RCollection
Muppets Ernie has a collection of R's in a box. He shows Bert, who says that Ernie will be the laughingstock of Sesame Street if anyone else finds out. Ernie sadly throws away his R's -- and Bert asks to have the box for his J collection.
(First: Episode 0014)
Toon.R.Robber
Cartoon R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake...
Artist: Fred Calvert
(First: Episode 0011)
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SCENE 5 Big Bird can't remember how to draw the letter R, when a lowercase r falls from the sky and helps him. He writes a lowercase r on an easel, but then the lowercase r disappears. Big Bird tries to tell Gordon and Mr. Hooper about it, but they think he just imagined it. Big Bird starts to look for the lowercase r.
SB-Rabbit
Cartoon Speech Balloon: "R" โ€“ Rabbit
(First: Episode 0014)
0011.R.Radio
Cartoon A man explains the letter R with a radio. When he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0011)
BigBirdsRSighting
SCENE 6 Part 2: The little r comes back with a capital R. Big Bird draws a capital R, and then the r's leave. Mr. Hooper and Gordon come back and think that Big Bird is still imagining things, but then the r's show up again, much to Gordon and Mr. Hooper's surprise.
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions.
(First: Episode 0010)
Glassesnoises
Film A boy named Mark has a pair of magic glasses that helps him listen to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, a bicycle, and a parrot.
(First: Episode 0008)
0123-OOTT
Cast Susan sings "One of These Things" with 3 lowercase r's and 1 capital R.
BuddyJim-Board
Cast Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to carry an ironing board (horizontally) from one room to another.
(First: Episode 0002)
CMPhone01
Muppets Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 1: Ernie expects a call from Bert, but lets Cookie Monster make a phone call to his mommy, provided it's short. He proceeds to tell her about show and tell at school.
(First: Episode 0064)
ManholeCover
Film The โ€œunsung beauty of manhole coversโ€ is explored.
(First: Episode 0004)
ImaginationV
Cartoon "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0050)
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0010)
CMPhone02
Muppets Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 2: Cookie Monster tells his mommy about jumping rope after school and counts the jumps he made.
(First: Episode 0064)
MrHooperKidsCrow
SCENE 7 Mr. Hooper shows the kids a crow.
Raposo.Eating
Song Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat.
(First: Episode 0106)
CMPhone03
Muppets Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 3: Cookie Monster has counted up to 4,614 by now and asks how his brother Fred is. Ernie offers him a box of cookies to get off the phone.
(First: Episode 0064)
SusanRectangles
SCENE 8 Susan talks about rectangles.
Rectangles1

Rectangles2
Film "Rectangles"
Rectangles in the city and country are shown to a percussion soundtrack.
(First: Episode 0005)
CMPhone04
Muppets Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 4: Cookie Monster finally gets off the phone, and then eats it. When Bert calls, Ernie has to talk to him through Cookie Monster's mouth.
(First: Episode 0064)

Film A kid taking a shower explains how animals, people, and things get clean.
(First: Episode 0001)
This segment was initially missing from the iTunes version. Later closed captioned releases of the full episode included the film intact.
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SCENE 9 Gordon reads in the newspaper that it's time to "Go Goodbye," and Bob announces the sponsors.
Erneebert69sesamesign

CLOSING SIGNS Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign (repeated from episodes 0005 and 0115) while Cookie Monster holds up the CTW sign at the end.


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