| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Oscar's Odds and Ends Store | |||||||||
| Air date | December 10, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch is happy to see the viewers for a change, because he is having a grand opening sale at the Oscar's Odds and Ends Store. He is selling dandy things like half a record, back issues of The Daily Grouch from 1935, and a knob from a color TV set (some assembly required). Susan walks by and Oscar compliments her dress and says he has the perfect necklace to go with it: a bicycle chain. Gordon comes by and is fascinated by an umbrella with nothing on it to keep you from getting wet. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 4 baskets in a row, but miss on the 5th. |
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SCENE 2 | Bob comes by to sample Oscar's wares, and Gordon finds a trumpet that Oscar claims belonged to Louis Armstrong. Oscar learns he needs to use addition when running a store. Susan and Mr. Hooper help out, and after making more sales Oscar has more pennies than he can count, worrying him. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #4" (First: Episode 0006) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan comes back to Oscar's store to buy more flower pots, but finds a sign saying that he is out of business. He has learned that to run a store, you have to be open and wait on people when you'd rather be doing something else, and you have to learn to count and add to know how much money you made, but worst of all, you have to be helpful and courteous to people! What kind of a grouch would he be if he did that? So he is out of business forever. |
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Film | Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places. (First: Episode 0135) |
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Cast / Muppets | Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, Gordon asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert. (First: Episode 0031) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0036) |
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Muppets | Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when Ernie rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies. (First: Episode 0031) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob sits in the yard with some kids. He tells them that one of the things he bought from Oscar before Oscar went out of business was a picture book. The trouble is, like most of the things that Oscar was selling, there's something wrong with it: the last page of every story is torn out. For each of the picture sequences, he displays the final torn pages. Stories include a boy blowing some bubble gum, a tree during the four seasons, and a bus driving over a puddle (Oscar's favorite). |
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Cartoon | A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it. Artists: The Hubleys |
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Cast | Larry and Phyllis: Separately, Larry plays a guitar while Phyllis plays drums. Then they play different songs at the same time (Larry plays "Hippopotamus Named Phil" while Phyllis plays "Rhinoceros Took a Bath"), until they cooperate to play "The Girl from Ipanema". |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird enters Hooper's Store singing "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" to himself and tells Mr. Hooper that he'd like to buy some presents. Mr. Hooper tells him to sort a pile of shoes, socks, and gloves while he decides. |
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Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) |
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SCENE 5 cont'd |
Big Bird has put the items in pairs, but Mr. Hooper points out that the pairs are not matching, and shows him how to match them properly. |
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Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 6 | Susan asks some kids what the Spanish word "calle" ("street") means. Brynne asks how to say "Sesame" in Spanish, so Susan says she'll ask Mrs. Rodriguez. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" (repeat) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048) |
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SCENE 7 | Bob plays two rounds of "Three of These Things" with Little Bird - the first with vehicles, and the second with tools. He then introduces a film about making something with clay. |
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Film | Pottery music: Joe Raposo |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 11 shots, but miss on the 12th. |
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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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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby demonstrates what a surprised face looks like. (First: Episode 0138) |
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SCENE 8 | Susan gives Bob a surprise package. Bob demonstrates "surprise" by opening the package and seeing a jack-in-the-box pop out. He then sings "Feelin' Groovy," and introduces a film of a wombat scratching while he and the kids talk over it. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie, dressed in his football uniform, marches around the apartment reciting his team chant. He tells Bert he's a member of the Dirty Rugs, named such because everyone beats them. (First: Episode 0009) |
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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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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down." |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row. |
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SCENE 9 | Bob and the kids toss a ball around in the yard, Cedric makes a basket, and they all say goodbye as Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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