| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Leon Bibb sings about trains | |||||||||
| Air date | November 12, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Susan welcomes the viewer as she buys a paper from Hooper's Store. She mentions that Leon Bibb will be visiting today, which Mr. Hooper excitedly passes on to the kids. |
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Cartoon | S - Snake: A snake charmer irritates the snake. (First: Episode 0063) |
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Cartoon | A sprightly seal tells the story of six silly sailors who split up on a see-saw. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. |
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SCENE 2 | Bob, Edward, and Lance are setting up model trains, trying to make the two round tracks look the same. Oscar the Grouch says he doesn’t want to play, but he really does and he can't hide it very well. As the kids race the trains, Oscar can’t help but watch and comment, wearing an engineer’s hat. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie tries to teach Cookie Monster to use his knife, fork, and spoon. |
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Celebrity | Arte Johnson tries looking at things another way, by tilting his head, losing his hat in the process. |
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SCENE 3 | Leon Bibb sees Bob and the kids making a human tunnel for the model trains, as one of the kids puts each of his feet in the middle of the round train tracks. Bibb tells Bob, Susan, Gordon, Oscar, and the kids about trains, tunnels, and railroad workers like John Henry. He sings "Hammer Man, Shaker Man." |
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Film | Kids demonstrate perspective using large and small rocks as they position themselves near and far. (First: Episode 0045) |
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SCENE 4 | Leon talks about how a rainbow would sometimes appear as a railroad worker's hammer glistens in the sunlight as he swung it. He sings “Rainbow Round My Shoulder," sung over footage of Leon hammering with rainbow effects. |
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Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. Artists: The Hubleys |
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Celebrity | Arte Johnson tries to count from one to ten. (He makes it.) |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (First: Episode 0021) |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 |
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SCENE 5 | Susan reads a book to the kids, Mommies at Work by Eve Merriam. |
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Muppets | Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things. |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon introduces the AN family, and Big Bird arrives to help; he has a fan. Mr. Hooper and Oscar demonstrate the AN family in cutaways, while Big Bird rhymes with two more kinds of fans (an electric one and a baseball cap and pennant for Gordon to hold). Gordon suggests he see the whole alphabet instead. |
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Cartoon | A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over. (First: Episode 0010) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon displays a STOP sign for the kids, and Marta points out that "pare" means "stop" in Spanish. |
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Muppets | Lefty tries to sell Ernie a STOP sign. |
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Cartoon | A sprightly seal tells the story of six silly sailors who split up on a see-saw. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | Susan talks to the kids about how they can look happy, and sings ”Happy Talk.” |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie comes up with a way for him to remember to put his basketball away before he goes to sleep: he remembers with his mind, which is in his head; his head is round, and so is the basketball. His plan works the first time, but not when Bert wants to go to sleep. |
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SCENE 9 | Susan is just about to go out to Hooper's when her phone rings. Big Bird offers to help her with shopping, so Susan asks him to get ten potatoes. |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 cont'd |
Big Bird forgets how many potatoes Susan wants, but remembers it's the same amount as the number of fingers Mr. Hooper has. Big Bird counts each finger of Mr. Hooper's outstretched hands as he plops each potato into the bag, to Mr. Hooper's detriment. To make sure he's got the right amount, he compares the potatoes to Mr. Hooper's fingers, dumping all the potatoes out of the bag in the process. |
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Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. (repeat) |
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SCENE 10 | Mr. Hooper frustratingly puts the potatoes back in the bag as Bob announces the sponsors and the book read on today's show. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper holds up the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar and Bob hold up the CTW sign at the end. |
Notes[]
- Time Magazine's cover story on Sesame Street noted the spontaneity while taping Scene 4.
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