| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | January 11, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon meets an Anything Muppet man (Jerry Nelson) who walks backwards, says "no" for "yes," eats breakfast at night and supper in the morning. One of the perils of doing everything backwards, according to the man, is walking into open manholes. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
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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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Celebrity | Jim Nabors sings The Alphabet Song. |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon and some kids look at groups of toys, and they point out more than one way to tell which one is different in each group. Reggie ends up singing a bit of "One of These Things" when they figure out what's different about three jet planes and one helicopter, then observe how either a bus or a convertible are different than the other toy cars. |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
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Muppets | Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films: A count of 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets | Bob reads the story of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." (First: Episode 0138) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #4" (First: Episode 0006) |
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Film | A mandrill carries her young. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0039) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert urges Ernie to go to sleep, but Ernie won't go to sleep until the person living upstairs drops his other shoe. When the shoe finally drops, Ernie wakes Bert up to tell him about it. |
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SCENE 3 | Susan shows Big Bird and the kids some comic strip sequences with the last panel missing, and has them guess what will happen next. The first sequence features kids going to a birthday party, the next with girls playing jump rope, and the third with a mother hen hatching an egg (which Big Bird attempts to guess without even looking at it). |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit teaches "full" with a full glass of milk until Cookie Monster drinks it all (with a straw). Disgusted, Kermit complains that he didn’t want to teach "empty", and asks who can talk about the word "full". (First: Episode 0081) |
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Celebrity | Pat Paulsen demonstrates the different between a full and an empty wastebasket. (First: Episode 0081) |
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Cast | Larry and Phyllis cooperate on sending out invitations to a party. (First: Episode 0150) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter U with a ukulele; Cookie Monster plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on it, then eats it. (First: Episode 0047) |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row, but miss on the 21st. (First: Episode 0154) |
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Film | "I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent. (First: Episode 0120) |
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Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th. (First: Episode 0146) |
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SCENE 4 | The cast shows the different uses of water in a series of quick cuts. Mr. Hooper drinks a glass of it, Susan sprinkles her flowers, Gordon mops the steps, and Oscar enjoys a rain shower. |
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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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Muppets | Professor Hastings discuss the letter U, but in his confusion, he first thinks he's talking about "you" (meaning himself), then his announcer. |
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Film | Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0032) |
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Animation | Scanimate Films: A count of 4. (repeat) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. |
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Muppets | Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mah Na Mah Na". (First: Episode 0014) |
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SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper has an important note to share, and digs through the pockets of his vest to find it. He finds it, leading to an animal with a pocket. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Tree kangaroo and baby. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0026) |
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SCENE 6 | Mr. Hooper signs off and Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds up the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds up the CTW sign. |
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