| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | April 29, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon plays a trick on Mr. Hooper as he greets the viewer, and observes the many people playing games on Sesame Street today. When Gordon joins a game of marbles with a couple of kids, Big Bird asks if he can join. Since he's so tall, he moves the marbles with his foot, which only spoils the game. Next, Big Bird tries jump-roping with Susan, Benjamin, and Troy, but gets tangled in the rope; Susan points out that he’s too tall for the rope to go over him. Bob invites Big Bird to play “Follow the Leader” with him and some kids, but Big Bird is too tall to fit under the garage steps. He gets very upset and starts to cry since it seems like he can't play in anybody's games. Gordon suggests a game of basketball, and suddenly he and Bob both want Big Bird on their team. Big Bird feels a lot better after blocking Bob's attempts at making a basket: "I'm a regular Arnold Palmer! A regular Bobby Orr." |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U” (First: Episode 0036) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
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SCENE 2 | Bob notices a doormat with a big letter U below Oscar's trash can. Oscar says the U is for “unwelcome.” |
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Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) |
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Muppets | "The UN Family Song" (First: Episode 0155) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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Film | Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder. |
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SCENE 3 | Mr. Hooper has Christopher and Troy sort a jumble of items into three groups: cake ingredients for Susan, tools and painting implements for Bob, and grouchy things for Oscar’s party. |
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Muppets | The Hands: A yellow hand tries to match plastic baby animals to their plastic mother animals. A purple hand tries to help it out. (First: Episode 0194) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert has wrapped a surprise present which Ernie thinks is for him. He tries to guess what it is so as not to spoil the surprise. After a few wrong guesses, he unwraps it before Bert can stop him. It is indeed a surprise, a lady's hat with flowers. Bert had wrapped the gift for his Aunt Matilda. (First: Episode 0165) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. (First: Episode 0018) |
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Muppets / Cast | "Surprise!": A band of Anything Muppet hippies sing about the good and bad parts of surprises, and how people respond to them, with various characters demonstrating them in cutaways. (First: Episode 0173) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off. (First: Episode 0018) |
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SCENE 4 | In limbo, Bob displays the capital and lowercase U on a window shade. |
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Cartoon | A dog learns about U. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048) |
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Cartoon | Rocket countdown: Unlike previous segments, the rocket successfully launches at the right time as everyone celebrates, and the director grins at the camera. (First: Episode 0042) |
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Cartoon | What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0212) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan transitions between segments. |
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Film | Joe Raposo: What Babies Are Called (First: Episode 0096) |
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SCENE 6 | Oscar is watching Mrs. Gonzales’ baby for her. When it cries, he sings a grouchy version of "Rock-a-bye Baby," which puts the baby to sleep. |
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Film | A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0096) |
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Muppets | Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mah Na Mah Na". (First: Episode 0014) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (repeat) |
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Cartoon | The uses of water (First: Episode 0139) |
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Film | A garfish swims around. |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird wakes up from a nap to recite his poem about seahorses. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse (First: Episode 0183) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for carrot (First: Episode 0203) |
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Cartoon | A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (First: Episode 0032) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 8 | Gordon uses a toy crane to crank up the letter C. |
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Film | A magnetic crane picks up large pieces of metal. (First: Episode 0009) |
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Muppets | A Muppet inchworm and a bug sing "The Inch Worm" in a field of flowers. (First: Episode 0168) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | C - Cake (First: Episode 0153) |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C. (First: Episode 0153) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) |
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Film | A woman asks a boy how a glass of milk was spilled on the table, so the boy offers several outlandish scenarios before telling her the truth: it was him. (First: Episode 0212) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U” (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Bob and the kids put some chairs, a bench, and other things together and take a pretend truck ride. They shout goodbye, and Gordon announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Betty Lou and Roosevelt Franklin hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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