| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Cookie Monster watches Hooper's Store | |||||||||
| Air date | March 23, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Susan begins to say today's sponsors, but before she gets to today's letter, she hears the arrival of Alphabet Bates. She lets him introduce the letter of the day - O - by skywriting it (First: Episode 0012). |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
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Muppets | Kermit demonstrates his "What Happens Next" machine, which is designed to turn on his radio. None of the parts of the machine work properly. (First: Episode 0089) |
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SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper tells Susan and Gordon that after his recent check-up, his doctor suggests he take one afternoon rest a week. To find someone to work those afternoons at Hooper's Store, he's placed an ad in the newspaper. The phone rings in the store, meaning someone is answering the ad. |
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Cartoon | O limerick (repeat) |
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Muppets | A group of Muppets (including Taminella Grinderfall and Sour Bird) repeat saying "Oh!" when they see a letter O. (First: Episode 0075) |
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SCENE 3 | Only one individual answered Mr. Hooper's ad, meaning they've gotten the job by default. Gordon and Susan are shocked to see Mr. Hooper's new helper is none other than Cookie Monster. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Tracy count to 10. (First: Episode 0120) |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134) |
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SCENE 4 | Mr. Hooper gives some last-minute instructions to Cookie before leaving. He makes sure the monster knows he is not to eat anything in the store. Cookie is certain he can keep this promise, but begins salivating over a yummy-looking model airplane. Within moments, Bob comes in and purchases it as a birthday gift. He then eyes a kite to perhaps nibble on, but Gordon comes in to take it back; Mr. Hooper was repairing it for him. He becomes tempted once more to eat a Beatles record, when Mr. Hooper phones the store to check up on him. Cookie tells him he can be trusted, though he briefly becomes tempted to snack on the phone receiver. |
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Film | "Big, Bigger, Biggest" A junior car dealer displays cars of different sizes to people of different sizes. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob drops by again to order an ice cream sundae. Cookie recommends the specialty of the house - a ukulele split. Cookie produces a dish and shows how to make one - first, he plops a scoop of ice cream, then covers it with jellybeans, whipped cream, and a letter E. Bob asks why it's called a "ukulele split," when Cookie remembers the most important part - splitting a ukulele in half (karate-style) and putting it on top. Bob turns a little green and goes home to have a sandwich instead. |
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Celebrity | Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of animals moving in different ways. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0098) |
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SCENE 6 | The cookie delivery man (Larry Block) comes to the store and asks how much stock the store needs. Cookie begins to wildly throw out increasingly larger quantities (going as high as 200 cartons). |
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Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) |
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SCENE 7 | Cookie eagerly watches as the delivery man brings in several boxes of cookies, having already formed a large pile inside. |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | The store is filling up with cookie boxes, as Cookie voraciously asks the delivery man to bring in even more. |
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Celebrity | Jim Nabors counts from one to twenty, demonstrating soft and loud. (First: Episode 0150) |
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SCENE 9 | Even more of the store is taken up with cookie boxes. As the delivery man goes out to fetch another set of boxes, Cookie can't contain himself and rips into one of the cartons. |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 10 | Mr. Hooper is feeling much better after a rest and heads back to his store, which is filled with 200 cookie boxes. The delivery man is bringing in the last few, when Mr. Hooper informs him of the error and asks him to take all but three boxes away. They squabble about it as they go inside, where Cookie is lying on the floor, his mouth full of cookies. He tells Mr. Hooper he can no longer work at the store because he's got a tummy ache. |
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Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo |
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Muppets | A Carmen Miranda-style Anything Muppet sings "No Matter How You Count Them, they come out the same!" |
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Film | Two boys each have five cents - one has five pennies, one has a nickel. They see a dime along the way, which is worth ten. They ask the man at the store for change for the dime, and he gives them a nickel and five pennies. They spend their pennies, but then they want to buy an ice cream for ten cents and the machine only takes dimes. They give the store man their nickels in exchange for a dime and they share a fudgesicle. (First: Episode 0132) |
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Muppets / Cast | Gordon observes Prairie Dawn spelling out the word DANGER. She defines the term and explains that she's placed it there because a piano has just been dropped out of the fifth story window next to them. (First: Episode 0182) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert has a present for his Aunt Matilda, but Ernie thinks that the present is for him, so he makes several guesses about what it is first, then unwraps it. (First: Episode 0165) |
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SCENE 11 | Sylvester (Jerry Nelson) invites Dolores to see a movie about African animals. He assures her that it won't be that scary and agrees to buy her some popcorn. |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of an African plain and the animals that live there. (First: Episode 0128) |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (repeat) |
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SCENE 12 | The adults all help the delivery man remove the cookie boxes from the store and load them back on the truck. Cookie Monster announces the sponsors, then says he's going to go lie down. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Roosevelt Franklin and his mother hold the Sesame Street sign, and Cookie Monster holds the CTW sign. |
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