Sesame Street | |||||||||
Air date | February 26, 1971 | ||||||||
Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird calls out for Susan from the window of 123 Sesame Street, balanced atop the gate wall (pretending to be a tightrope walker). He explains that he's created "toy poems," which don't even need to be written down. Over at his nest he shows how he's used various toys pulled from his toy box and how one can create poems around them. Examples include a goat pushing a boat with a coat. The last poem only involves the letter G, which is something you will see... | |
Cartoon | A man asks a purple fellow what G word is behind a circus curtain. It's a gorilla. Artist: Film Fair (First: Episode 0085) | |
SCENE 2 | Oscar is repulsed by Big Bird's poems and writes his own about his frowning clown doll. | |
Film | "The Little Baker": A boy imagines that he's a baker. (First: Episode 0020) | |
Muppets | Ernie tries to help a Pumpkin Anything Muppet mailman deliver a package to Mrs. Mary Ann ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. (First: Episode 0038) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob sings "Don't You Know You're Beautiful?" to Herry, Fenwick, Billy, and an AM Monster. Afterwards, the monsters compliment each other's beauty. | |
Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) | |
Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) | |
Celebrity | Pat Paulsen counts to 20. (First: Episode 0101) | |
Muppets | Ernie talks about what happens next when he throws a rubber ball, a glass and a watermelon over the wall. When he throws the ball, it bounces. When he throws the glass, it breaks. When he throws the watermelon, Cookie Monster catches it in his mouth and thanks Ernie. (First: Episode 0148) | |
SCENE 4 | Gordon, Susan, and Mr. Hooper pose their own "what happens next" questions. Gordon holds an ice cube, Susan cooks some toast, and Mr. Hooper stacks cans of peas. | |
Cartoon | A polar bear learns what "EXIT" means. Animation: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0131) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster uses the EXIT. | |
SCENE 5 | Bob acts out opening and closing a door, speaking in Spanish to see if the kids can guess what he's doing. | |
Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) | |
SCENE 6 | A hand appears onscreen as Bob tries to count its four fingers. The thumb keeps inserting itself into the proceedings, eventually revealing a number 4 painted on itself. | |
Cartoon | Jazz #4 (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets / Cast | Bob reads the story of "The Princess and the Cookie." In the story, a king is looking for someone to marry his daughter, the small princess Eunice. He is having trouble, because all the princes in the kingdom keep bringing her cookies that are too big for her. Finally, the baker (Cookie Monster) enters with the smallest cookie in the kingdom, which the princess immediately wants. The baker is disinterested in marrying the princess, until the prince offers him the other three cookies that the princes brought. And they lived happily ever after. (First: Episode 0152) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: G for gorilla (in man suit). (First: Episode 0085) | |
Muppets | Grover explains the word "EXIT" with Little Jerry and the Monotones running over him as they run through the exit. | |
Celebrity | Lorne Greene and the Bonanza cast subtract two horses from three horses to equal one horse. (First: Episode 0150) | |
Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." (First: Episode 0073) | |
SCENE 7 | Oscar finishes a peanut butter sandwich. He doesn't want to explain how peanut butter is made, so he leaves it to someone else... | |
Film | Kids comment on a film of the process of peanuts being made into peanut butter. (First: Episode 0194) | |
SCENE 8 | Susan sings "Here Are Some Things" using groups of fruit. | |
Film | Folk song: Have You Ever Been To The Farm? (First: Episode 0138) | |
Cast | Bob and Gordon cooperate to get apples from a tree. | |
Cartoon | A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job. (First: Episode 0131) | |
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) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: G for gorilla (repeat) | |
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) | |
Muppets | Grover talks about the letter G, as it slowly grows. | |
SCENE 9 | Susan says goodbye as she serves the fruit to the kids. Bob announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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