| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Picking up papers | |||||||||
| Air date | November 25, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon, Susan, and Bob observe the giant mess of newspapers covering all of Sesame Street and surmise that the wind must've blown them away from the Hooper's Store newsstand. Mr. Hooper at first denies it, but realizes that the weights he usually puts on the papers were keeping the door open. They all agree to cooperate to clean up a mess of papers, but Oscar refuses to help, preferring to watch a rocket take off on his television. |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. (First: Episode 0018) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird frets that he's not able to help everybody in getting some of the blown newspapers due to his tall size. Gordon points out that he's tall enough to reach the ones in higher places, so he can help out. Big Bird finds a letter stuck in a tree (by air mail, according to Big Bird), which Susan puts in the mailbox. |
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Film | "I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent. (First: Episode 0120) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot. (First: Episode 0018) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon displays a paper triangle and square to the kids, pointing out that a square folded at the corners can look like two triangles. |
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Cartoon | A male voice narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to dance, and a square square. The triangle likes being flexible, but the square would rather be stiff and *square*. Music: "Waltz in Mean Time," David Lee (First: Episode 0007) |
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Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I." |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "The Story of Ira and Inez." (First: Episode 0034) |
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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) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan shows the kids pictures of words in the IG family: big, dig, pig, wig. The kids help figure out the missing initial letter. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Eats Cake — Ernie eats one of the two pieces of chocolate cake that Bert was saving for their dessert. (First: Episode 0119) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon finds a distraught Oscar looking more miserable than usual. Oscar is sad because he just received a letter from his Aunt Sylvia, with details about his little nephew Gregory Grouch, who is the worst grouch in the family because he is polite in every way. The letter affects Gordon as well, who could use some cheering up... |
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Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man holds up pictures and asks the viewer to find a square in each of them. Cookie Monster soon joins him when the man shows a picture of a cookie box, which Cookie Monster believes has cookies in it. |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird enters Hooper's Store, wanting to buy some candies. Mr. Hooper helps him count out four pieces of candy corn. |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off. (First: Episode 0018) |
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Celebrity | Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (First: Episode 0057) |
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SCENE 7 | After Mr. Hooper finishes helping another customer, Big Bird shows him that he wanted more candies, and has made a pile of candy corn, rock candies, and jellybeans. Mr. Hooper shows how he can arrange them by shape before putting the remainders of the piles back into the jars, but to Mr. Hooper's detriment, he's also been snacking on them since they all wind up the same in his tummy. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Monster Steals Cookies — Ernie gets blamed for Beautiful Day Monster stealing Bert's cookies. (First: Episode 0041) |
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Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!" (First: Episode 0061) |
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SCENE 8 | Gordon and some kids sit on the steps of the garage, and Gordon reads Some of the Days of Everett Anderson by Lucille Clifton. After the story, Susan arrives looking for a niño, which means "boy" in Spanish. |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Explains the Number 4 Part 1 — Bert points Ernie to the following film as a hint about what he's holding... (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #4" (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Explains the Number 4 Part 2 — After the film, Ernie identifies Bert's object as a banana cream pie. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 9 | Gordon reads a newspaper, pointing out that one must know the alphabet to read -- like Burt Lancaster does. |
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Celebrity | Burt Lancaster says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 10 | Susan finds Gordon and Oscar, who are upset over another letter with more sad news: he's just been named "Most Handsome Grouch of the Year!" Susan compliments him by telling him how ugly he is and how his voice sounds. |
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SCENE 10 cont'd | The camera abruptly cuts to Bob and the kids feeding a baby lamb in the yard. They say goodbye as Gordon announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Mr. Hooper and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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