| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Pete Seeger and Brother Kirk visit | |||||||||
| Air date | January 8, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Brother Kirk is helping Bob play with a girl on the tire swing; he softly sings "The Farmer in the Dell." Pete Seeger arrives, and they gather Bob and the kids in the yard to sing some songs. Pete starts with "There Once Was a Man," a song where the kids can participate in by finishing his rhymes. |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts to 20 with his "twin." (First: Episode 0135) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man uses feathers and rocks to teach the difference between heavy and light. During the lecture, Cookie Monster comes along, mistakes the rocks for cookies, and eats them all. The rocks weigh Cookie down, so the monster proceeds to eat the feathers to "balance it out." |
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SCENE 2 | Everybody calls out for Susan to sing her a song. They reconvene on the stoop and Brother Kirk sings "The Ballad of Benjamin Bannaker," about a little known figure in black history. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot recites a poem with OP words, counting on Grover to hop whenever he says "hop" — repeatedly, until Grover faints. (First: Episode 0150) |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon joins the group, where everybody is looking up at the clouds and talking about what they see. Pete sees one that looks like an old man's beard, and Brynne sees three people jumping out of a private plane. Oscar sees grouchy things in the clouds like a boy stubbing his toe and the Johnstown Flood. Brother Kirk sings, "I'll Love You When the Morning Comes Again" as Pete hums along. |
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Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0036) |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) |
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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. (First: Episode 0143) |
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SCENE 4 | Pete and Brother Kirk stop by Hooper's Store, where Mr. Hooper requests a song. Pete knows one about bottles, and beats out a drum rhythm on a box as he sings "Six Brown Bottles" with Brother Kirk and Marty as Mr. Hooper subtracts soda bottles. Mr. Hooper then opens up a few bottles for the others to enjoy. |
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Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber. (First: Episode 0045) |
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Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (repeat) |
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Muppets | A group of monsters, including proto-Grover, Cookie Monster, and Beautiful Day Monster, repeatedly exclaim, "Y?" The camera pans up to reveal a Y floating above them. (First: Episode 0091) |
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Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan, Pete, and Brother Kirk discover that Big Bird has been helping Mr. Lee, the man who owns the laundry store down the street. Mr. Lee isn't feeling well, so he, Marty, and the kids are setting out some clothes to dry on his clotheslines. Pete, Brother Kirk, and Susan help hang the clothes as Pete leads everyone in the song, "If We All Work Together." |
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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 6 | Big Bird struggles to pronounce Brother Kirk's last name. Kirk sings "More Love." |
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Muppets | Professor Hastings talks about the number 2, using two trucks to demonstrate. Another Muppet shows him how the trucks are the same and different. (First: Episode 0141) |
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SCENE 7 | Brother Kirk talks about how people would clap during the days of slavery to make music. He teaches everybody three different handclaps: one sounds high, another sounds low, and another medium. When they have it, Brother Kirk designates groups of people to play the different sounding handclaps as he leads them in performing "Down By the Riverside." |
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Cartoon | O limerick (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie's Alphabet Story — Ernie writes a dramatic story, which is actually the alphabet. (First: Episode 0009) |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | Bob realizes it's time to say goodbye, and Brother Kirk and Pete close out by singing a variation of "Now is the Hour" with everybody clapping and singing along. Gordon announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob and Gordon hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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