| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | December 9, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Susan comes home from work and reports that she had just visited Mrs. Rodriguez, whose son had twisted his leg. She teaches some children and a Muppet girl (Fran Brill) how to spell and pronounce the word "pierna," which means "leg." |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C. |
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Muppets | Gordon and Cookie Monster see a big pile of cookies. Cookie asks for one cookie, and saves it for later because he does not want to ruin his supper (which will be cookies). Then he wants another, because one cookie makes him a little happy, but two would make him happier. As Gordon puts cookies in Cookie's bag and then takes them away, Cookie becomes more happy with more cookies and less happy with less cookies. When Cookie has all the cookies in his bag, he is very happy, but decides there is a better place to put the cookies than the bag ... his tummy. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 2 | The kids (including Mauricio, Athelstan, Mary, and Troy) help Gordon stack six boxes into a tower. Gordon arranges them in different ways, showing that no matter how they are arranged there are still six boxes in the group. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. Ernie has a drawing of an empty bird cage with an open door (the bird flew away), and a man lying on the ground with a banana peel next to him (he slipped on it). Then Ernie shows Bert an empty page. The answer to that one is that there was a cow eating grass, but the grass is all eaten now and the cow went home. (First: Episode 0030) |
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Film | City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Cookie Monster drinks both of Kermit's glasses of milk, which he was going to use to explain "more" and "less". When Kermit insults Cookie Monster, several of Cookie Monster's monster pals gang up on Kermit, prompting him to point out that now there are more monsters and less frogs. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob reads the first half of The Little Engine That Could, stopping after the part where three train engines either refuse or were unable to help the train carrying goodies for the children. Bob introduces Bill Cosby. |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts to 20 with his "twin." (First: Episode 0135) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Bob concludes the story of The Little Engine That Could, then talks to the kids about perseverance. |
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Film | Kids narrate footage of humans and animals overcoming obstacles, particularly a boy trying to ride a two-wheeler. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Pretty Baby." (First: Episode 0040) |
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Film | You can clean almost anything. Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers. (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper cleans the countertop of his store, reiterating the importance of cleanliness. Oscar disagrees, and sings "I Love Trash." |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster tells Ernie that he is going on a diet and won't take his cookies, until Grover tells Cookie that he looks sick. |
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Cartoon | C - Cake |
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Muppets | Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C. (Caroll Spinney performs Cookie Monster here.) (First: Episode 0089) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon presents the "UN" word family to some kids and the Muppet girl; one kid compares it to the Uncola. They encounter Big Bird running, and Gordon points out to him and the kids that "run," "sun," and "fun " are all members of the "UN" word family. |
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Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman. (First: Episode 0023) |
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Film | James narrates a film of his life on a pueblo in New Mexico. |
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SCENE 5 | Susan plays a "Three of These Things" game with Oscar and the kids using four pictures of families. Though all of the families look different, only one group has three members and the rest have four. Oscar comments that he was an only child, with the exception of his brother. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit tries to demonstrate what round is, with the help of a wisecracking ball. He introduces Kermit to his "daddy," a basketball. (First: Episode 0107) |
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SCENE 6 | Oscar frets about losing Susan's game, but that makes him happy. Everyone says goodbye as Gordon announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Susan holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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