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Sesame Street
Gordon explains parts
Air date December 1, 1970
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Directed by David Roth
Production October 20, 1970
Sponsors L, 8


Picture Segment Description
SCENE 1 Susan sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things." She first sorts shapes by size, then sorts capital and small letters.
Cartoon L is for Lunchbox
(First: Episode 0031)

SCENE 2 Bob encounters Big Bird trying to remember what he was going to take home to his nest, and reminds him of the magazines that are nearby. Big Bird remembers that Susan had given them to him, and that he was going to carry them home in a bag. He leaves the magazines behind as he heads home, but the kids (including Troy) call out his mistake. He then leaves with the magazines, and not the bag. Once he gets both, Big Bird carries them in his beak so he won't forget again... but where was he going?
Cartoon L is for Ladder
(First: Episode 0036)
Cast Bob and Mr. Hooper manage to get L in the right position.
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Ernie Cleans Up Part 1 — Bert demands that Ernie cleans up, or he's moving out.
(First: Episode 0010)
Song Joe Raposo sings "Feet (Some Feet are Big)."
(First: Episode 0109)
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Ernie Cleans Up Part 2 — Ernie has made the place spotless, as promised, but he still has his toybox to go through.
(First: Episode 0010)
Cartoon Jazz #8
(First: Episode 0016)
Celebrity Flip Wilson counts from 1 to 20.
Muppets Bob makes up three Anything Muppets as if they were employed in a transportation mode: a railroad engineer, an airplane pilot, and a bus driver. They all agree that the best job would be on board a submarine...
(First: Episode 0017)
Muppets The Anything Muppets sing "Yellow Submarine".
(First: Episode 0017)
SCENE 3 Gordon uses a chair to show Billy (Jerry Nelson) "parts." He then shows him the following...
Film Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (tomato)
SCENE 3
cont'd
Billy observes a tomato through Gordon's magnifying glass, and Gordon has us look closer at something else…
Film Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (tire)
SCENE 3
cont'd
Gordon points out to Troy and the other kids the treads and markings on the tire swing . They all look at something else up close…
Song Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (hand)
SCENE 3
cont'd
Gordon points out his various body parts to the kids. Everyone has parts, including Solomon Grundy.
Cartoon Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!"
(First: Episode 0001)
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentKermit the Frog and Brian demonstrate the parts of the face.
(First: Episode 0126)
Muppets Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s.
(First: Episode 0079)
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.
(First: Episode 0132)
Cartoon Jazz #8 (repeat)
SCENE 4 Mr. Hooper asks Oscar to watch the store for him while he delivers some groceries. Despite the risk of having his reputation ruined, Oscar does it in exchange for a favor in the future.
Cartoon L is for Lips

SCENE 4
cont'd
Miguel and the kids encounter Oscar running the store. Miguel asks for four lollipops, then five, then three, as kids leave and arrive. Numbers float down as Oscar tries to do the math, getting increasingly furious in the process. Mr. Hooper comes back and, to show gratitude towards Oscar, he returns the favor for him with two free lollipops; Oscar faints.
Film Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work.
(First: Episode 0003)
Muppets Big Bird sees Little Bird and wonders what kind of animal he is. He tries to communicate with Little Bird by barking, meowing, and mooing, until he finally asks what Little Bird is. After Little Bird tells Big Bird that he's a bird, Big Bird doesn't believe him, thinking that birds are big, so Little Bird compares their similarities until he convinces Big Bird that he is a bird.
(First: Episode 0028)
Film Two men, Big and Little, travel around playing the tuba and violin. Even though they’re different (Big has dark skin, and Little has light skin), together they make beautiful music.
(First: Episode 0016)

SCENE 5 Bob draws an arrow-pierced heart with the word "LOVE" in it on the side of 123 Sesame Street, and asks the kids about what the word means to them; Troy says she loves coming to Sesame Street. Bob sings "What the World Needs Now Is Love" amid a montage of neighbors doing various things: Big Bird sniffing a flower, Miguel cuddling with his dog, and Susan and Gordon talking arm in arm. At the song's end, Big Bird gives Mr. Hooper a loving embrace.
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Putting the Basketball AwayErnie comes up with a way for him to remember to put his basketball away before he goes to sleep.
(First: Episode 0134)
Celebrity Arte Johnson says the alphabet, forgetting a few letters here and there.
Cartoon Speech Balloon: L for Light
SCENE 6 Miguel and Susan sign off, and Bob announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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