Episode 0155

	Sesame Street
Air date	December 11, 1970
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Production	October 29, 1970
Sponsors	M, 5
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Oscar the Grouch encounters the viewer, right as he's about to make a spinach ice cream sundae for breakfast. He tells the viewer to go bother Martha instead.
	Cartoon	M is for Marvelous Martha (First: Episode 0013)
	SCENE 2	Bob tells the kids that M is an important letter. He asks Oscar to make the "M" sound, but Oscar is still busy and suggests he bother someone who wouldn't mind, like the fire hydrant or the mailbox.
	Cartoon	M for Mail (First: Episode 0013)
	SCENE 2 cont'd	Bob asks Oscar again, but Oscar is busy eating his sundae. He remarks "mmmmm" as he eats it.
	Cartoon	Today's Secret Drawing: the letter M (First: Episode 0131)
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot: M and W — Herbert Birdsfoot explains what the letters M and W look like.
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 3	Susan plays a remembering game with Big Bird and the kids. She puts a ball, an apple, and a marble into a box, then briefly leaves with them.
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #1 (repeat)
	SCENE 3 cont'd	When Susan comes back, Big Bird has trouble remembering what went in the box, but the kids get it right. She prepares them for a second round, putting a pencil, a blackboard eraser, and a piece of paper into the box.
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Susan comes back to finish the game.
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001)
	Film	"Sometimes, when you want to get somewhere, you need a bridge." Music: "Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Allegro," The Swingle Singers (First: Episode 0140)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001)
	Muppets	Bob reads the story of "The Magic Apple," which is acted out by Ernie, Bert and three Anything Muppets. Ernie plays a "poor but honest farm boy" who would like to marry a princess and live in a palace with Rubber Duckies and banana milkshakes. A fairy godmother grants him that wish, but only if he can pick a magic apple from a tree. A farmer attempts to help him get the apple, but doesn't succeed. Finally, Ernie rests under the tree until the apple falls into his mouth! Just then, a king arrives and chooses Ernie to marry his daughter, "the lovely Princess Gwendolinda" (Bert in drag!). (First: Episode 0133)
	SCENE 4	Gordon observes Mrs. Jones walk by with her baby in a carriage. He introduces the next film …
	Film	Film footage of a 1-day-old baby reindeer taking its first steps. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0003)
	SCENE 4	Gordon introduces the next film, this one with a mandrill mother and baby.
	Film	A mandrill carries her young. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0039)
	Muppets	"The UN Family Song"
	SCENE 5	Mr. Hooper witnesses an interaction between an Anything Muppet boy and girl. The girl, Dolores, is mad at the boy because he pulled her hair in school and doesn't want to sit close to him. The boy, who actually really likes the girl, apologizes. Neither he nor Dolores can decide what they want from Hooper's Store, but they ultimately decide to split a strawberry ice cream soda - with two straws.
	Film	Counting 11 eggs and one cookie. (First: Episode 0002)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Eggs and Cookies — Ernie counts out eleven cookies and one egg. Cookie Monster eats the cookies first, then tosses the egg into his mouth and swallows it whole. (First: Episode 0054)
	Celebrity	Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067)
	Cartoon	Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0005)
	Muppets	"Five People in My Family" (First: Episode 0008)
	Song	"1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Shape Sides — Ernie lies in bed and offers up some observations about shapes and how many sides they have. (First: Episode 0132)
	SCENE 6	On the steps of 123 Sesame Street, Susan sings "Draw Me a Circle" as a kid does so. She then signs off, and the credits roll.