| Sesame Street | |
| Air date | January 11, 1971 |
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) |
| Sponsors | U, 4 |
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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 | SCENE 1 | Bob meets an Anything Muppet man 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. |
 | Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
 | 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) |
| | Celebrity | Jim Nabors sings The Alphabet Song. |
| | SCENE 2 | Gordon and some kids look at groups of toys, and Gordon points out more than one way to tell which one is different in each group. |
 | Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
| | Muppets | Cheers: Anything Muppets cheer the number 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
 | Animation | Scanimate Films: A count of 4. (First: Episode 0132) |
 | Muppets | Bob reads the story of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." (First: Episode 0138) |
 | Cartoon | "Jazz #4" (First: Episode 0006) |
 | Film | A mandrill carries her young. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0039) |
 | 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. |
| | SCENE 3 | Susan shows Big Bird and some kids some comic strip sequences with the last panel missing, and has them guess what will happen next. |
| | Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (repeat) (First: Episode 0152) |
| | 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”, but finds that he can still talk about “full”; the monster is now ‘’full’’ of milk. (First: Episode 0081) |
| | Celebrity | Pat Paulsen talks about empty and full. (First: Episode 0081) |
 | Cast | Larry and Phyllis cooperate on sending out invitations to a party. (First: Episode 0150) |
| | Cartoon | "Poverty U" (repeat) (First: Episode 0036) |
 | Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter U with a ukulele; Cookie Monster plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on it, then eats it. (First: Episode 0047) |
| | Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row, but miss on the 21st. |
| | Film | "Where a Letter Goes" -- a film about mail delivery. (First: Episode 0120) |
| | Celebrity | The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th. |
| | SCENE 4 | The cast shows the different uses of water in a series of quick cuts. |
 | Film | Water is shown in many forms, including oceans, fountains, and snow. (First: Episode 0007) |
| | Muppets | "U Lecture" - Professor Hastings gives a lecture on the letter U, and Ernie has to wake him up. |
 | Film | Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0020) |
| | Animation | Scanimate Films: A count of 4. (repeat) (First: Episode 0132) |
| | Celebrity | Bill Cosby 4 Children #2 (2:20) |
 | Muppets | Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mah Na Mah Na". (First: Episode 0014) |
| | SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper displays the pockets on his vest, and introduces a film of an animal with pockets. |
 | Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Tree kangaroo and baby. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0026) |
| | SCENE 6 | The sponsors are announced. |
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