| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Gordon shows the number 4, sizes, and money | |||||||||
| Air date | November 10, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon shows four of things: the number of fingers he's holding up, then how many kids are playing. Mr. Hooper counts four comic books, and Gordon listens for four car horns. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. |
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SCENE 2 | Susan borrows a skate from Chris and Mary, and sings "How Many Wheels Has a Roller Skate?" This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Celebrity | Carol Burnett runs the gamut of emotions while counting to 20. |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper sorts pieces from games. He has a city game and a country game, and the pieces got mixed up in shipment. The barn and the tractor go in the country, while the taxi goes in the city. Dogs are found in the city and the country...maybe the dog should go in the city because there are already two pieces in the country. Mr. Hooper observes that the dog has no leash, and may like to run around, so he puts it in the country. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Mr. Hooper demonstrates big, bigger and biggest with four balls. Little Bird, a Muppet boy (Frank Oz), and Herry Monster all compare sizes, but Gordon outsizes all of them when he introduces the next segment. This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Muppets | Tony sings "Windy" to his girlfriend, Beautiful Day Monster. (First: Episode 0074) |
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SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper shows a small apple, then the big, bigger, and biggest apples. This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Cartoon | A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale. Artist: Cliff Roberts |
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Celebrity | Arte Johnson adds apples and gets applesauce. |
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SCENE 6 | Mr. Hooper displays some apples, one of his tasks of being a grocer. This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" about a grocer and a doctor. (First: Episode 0067) This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon explains how money works by purchasing an apple from Mr. Hooper. He and Susan work hard at their jobs. They get paid for working, and they get their money and use it to buy things they need. When Gordon buys an apple from Mr. Hooper, now Mr. Hooper has money to buy the things he needs. Gordon laments that the only problem is, when you’re a teacher sometimes you don’t have enough money. Mr. Hooper sympathizes: “Ah, that’s a big trick for anyone, Gordon.” |
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Film | Two boys each have five cents - one has five pennies, one has a nickel. They see a dime along the way, which is worth ten. They ask the man at the store for change for the dime, and he gives them a nickel and five pennies. They spend their pennies, but then they want to buy an ice cream for ten cents and the machine only takes dimes. They give the store man their nickels in exchange for a dime and they share a fudgesicle. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie lies in bed and starts talking about what a square looks like and how many lines it has, then goes on to compare a square with a triangle. He then starts to ponder how many sides a circle has, and goes to sleep. Bert is about to attempt to answer the question, but ends up not being able to sleep. |
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SCENE 8 | Circles are found everywhere on Sesame Street. |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Celebrity | Tim Conway wonders what letter begins the word "toe." This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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SCENE 9 | Mr. Hooper displays a letter A. |
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Cartoon | A man creates an avalanche on the letter A. Artist: Cliff Roberts |
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SCENE 10 | Susan displays a letter A; at Big Bird's doors, Herry also displays a letter A. |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A" (repeat) This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Cast | Mr. Hooper and Bob build an A. (First: Episode 0083) |
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Muppets | Monsters look at a big A. (First: Episode 0083) |
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SCENE 11 | Gordon displays a capital and lowercase A on the sides of Big Bird's door. |
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Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is, but he gets eaten by the alligator. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 11 cont'd |
Gordon displays the two A's again, in reverse order. |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) |
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SCENE 12 | Gordon displays things that end with the sound AN, including Oscar's trash can. This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover. |
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SCENE 13 | Gordon, Chris, and Vanessa listen to the ambient noises around Sesame Street, especially Mrs. Callahan's radio. |
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Muppets | Simon Soundman comes to Ernie's apartment because he has some car trouble and needs to use Ernie's phone, but Ernie doesn't understand what he is trying to say. |
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Film | Kids narrate footage of humans and animals overcoming obstacles, particularly a boy trying to ride a two-wheeler. This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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SCENE 14 | Big Bird spots a boy (Jerry Nelson) and a girl (Oz) arguing over a sandwich; the little girl doesn't want to share, but Big Bird convinces her it's best they share it. Big Bird is about to dig into his birdseed, when a hungry Little Bird pops over. Big Bird almost doesn't follow his own advice, then realizes that sometimes a lesson is easier to teach than to follow. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — As Bert takes a nap, Ernie tells the viewer how he knows that Bert is asleep - thus waking Bert up, just to tell him it's time for his nap. (First: Episode 0027) This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast. |
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SCENE 15 | Big Bird and Little Bird give a brief recap of their favorite things from today's show and say goodbye. They watch the kids and Grover play as Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Oscar, and Gordon hold up the CTW sign at the end. |
Notes[]
- Scenes from this episode were included in an episode of VH1's I Love the 70s.
- Short clips from Scenes 10 and 13 appear (dubbed) in the Sesamstrasse special Als die Sesamstrasse nach Deutschland kam.
- This episode can be viewed at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.[1]
- In the Netherlands, an edited version of this episode was partially dubbed and broadcast for VARA on June 11, 1972. This was the Dutch viewers’ introduction to Sesame Street, since the program (presented by Ruud Jans) was a test to see if the series could be adapted for the Netherlands. After a local test pilot was produced in 1974, the country’s co-production, Sesamstraat was made two years later.
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