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Sesame Street
Oscar bakes cookies
Air date May 7, 1971
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Directed by Robert Myhrum
Production March 4, 1971
Sponsors A, G, 9

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0260 01
SCENE 1 In the kitchen, Susan gets off the phone with Oscar, and has Big Bird and the kids guess what he's doing today with milk, eggs, a rolling pin, and a cookie cutter. As the clues are revealed, the kids make grouchy guesses like throwing the eggs at somebody or poking someone in the eye with the rolling pin, but eventually come to the conclusion that Oscar wants to make some cookies. They can't believe this, so they go to see him.
Bigacartoon
Cartoon A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0132)
0260 02a
SCENE 2 Susan gives Oscar his supplies, and wonders why he's interested in cookies all of a sudden. Oscar explains it's because everyone on Sesame Street seems to be crazy about them, so he thought he'd try a recipe his mother left him for pepper-butterscotch-sardine snaps.
OscarBakesCookies
SCENE 2
cont'd
When Oscar takes his first batch of cookies out of the oven, Cookie Monster shows up. Oscar wants the opinion of an expert, but Cookie Monster is disgusted by them. After trying one himself, he realizes the problem: not enough hot pepper.
Aapestory
Cartoon A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.
Artist: John Paratore
(First: Episode 0158)
Bobhoopera
Cast Mr. Hooper and Bob build an A.
(First: Episode 0083)
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
(First: Episode 0006)
Erniecookiemonsterapple
Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie demonstrates the word "Apple"; Cookie Monster eats Ernie's apple.
(First: Episode 0047)
Aisforape
Cartoon Speech Balloon: A for Ape
(First: Episode 0006)
Eggontheknee
Cartoon "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
(First: Episode 0003)
0260 03
SCENE 3 Susan, Melody, and Prairie Dawn wait for Susan’s dry cleaning. A Muppet courier (Jerry Nelson) from Acme Delivery shows up with three different sized coats, but he's not sure which coat is whose as the labels came loose. Susan shows how their different sizes help determines who owns each coat, thoroughly impressing the delivery man.
WaterWaterWater
Film Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places.
(First: Episode 0135)
SSYellowSubmarine
Muppets The Anything Muppets sing "Yellow Submarine."
(First: Episode 0017)
Filmfair G gorilla
Film A man asks a purple fellow what G word is behind a circus curtain. It's a gorilla.
Artist: Film Fair
(First: Episode 0085)
Monsters-GTag
Muppets A group of monsters enter the frame, look upward, and exclaim "Gee!" The camera pulls back and reveals they're admiring a letter G.
(First: Episode 0085)
Gorillajobcartoon
Cartoon A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job.
(First: Episode 0131)
1095s
Cartoon A goat discusses the letter "G." A man comes by to also talk about G, but rather than point out that "goat" is a G word, he observes the grass. Disgusted, the goat butts the man out of the way.
(First: Episode 0085)
Gorilla toon2
Cartoon Speech Balloon: G for Gorilla (in man suit)
(First: Episode 0085)
BB subtraction crossover
Cast Bob, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Big Bird, and Gordon line up in limbo and a voiceover (Fran Brill) asks how many of them there are, how many when they're all mixed up, and how many when each of them are subtracted one by one.
Eggscookies
Film Counting 11 eggs and one cookie.
(First: Episode 0002)
Cookie-Bookie
Muppets Cookie Monster: After watching the "eggs and cookie" film, Cookie Monster demands a cookie. A mysterious talking hook appears from the sky, and responds by giving him a book instead. Cookie is surprised, "This not cookie...this BOOKIE!" He then exchanges the book for lots of cookies, which rain on him.
(First: Episode 0117)
No9
Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
(First: Episode 0016)
Timber2
Film A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
(First: Episode 0149)
0260 04
SCENE 4 Susan and the kids count 9 fingers.
400031
Cartoon Jazz #9
(First: Episode 0137)
Timber1
Film A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
(First: Episode 0149)
Borrowing a Vacuum
Muppets Ernie wants to borrow Herbert Birdsfoot's vacuum cleaner, but he worries about how Herbert will respond. Maybe Herbert's taking a bath, and he'll be so angry at Ernie for interrupting him that he'll tell everyone to never loan Ernie anything ever again!
(First: Episode 0181)
Cosby-Angry
Celebrity Bill Cosby demonstrates what an angry face looks like.
(First: Episode 0144)
0260 05
SCENE 5 Susan displays the letters ET on a magnetic board, then has the kids guess which letter will make the word “GET” – M, W, or G?
1454-Zet
Cartoon The ET family is demonstrated in a story of the zet, a quick-witted bird.
(First: Episode 0236)
1454-Zet03
Cartoon Pick the right picture (featuring the Zet)
Seenmydog
Muppets Marty sings "Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" as Grover tries to find it.
0260 06
SCENE 6 Big Bird points out that there were no birds in that previous segment, but some of his distant cousins are in the next one …
Lookatthepenguinstakinabath
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Penguins take a bath.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0233)
Sherlock-LetterS
Muppets Sherlock Hemlock investigates the sound of the letter S.
(First: Episode 0200)
0260 07
SCENE 7 Susan does two verses of “One of These Things,” first with three small capital A's and one big capital A, then drawings of three large elephants and one small one.
Toon-ElephantDrawing
Cartoon Children describe how to draw an elephant.
(First: Episode 0052)
Firstandlast
Muppets A hippie lines up a group of monsters to demonstrate first and last, but Grover doesn't want to be last in line. The hippie compromises and lets him be first... but the line keeps changing directions.
(First: Episode 0116)
0260 08
SCENE 8 Oscar holds up a clay pot, explaining that most people would use something like this to put flowers in. He's going to use it to hold sardines with strawberry sauce.
0573zb
Film Pottery
music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0169)
PepermintCanes
Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Farley are about to eat peppermint stick candy, but Cookie Monster passes by and points out that Ernie's is longer than Farley's, and Farley's is shorter. Cookie solves the problem by eating each stick, each time making the other one longer. He finally gets them the right size--but they are now eaten down to small stubs.
0260 09
SCENE 9 Big Bird shouts from inside an oil drum in the lot near his nest, seeing why the kids have so much fun playing in there. He says goodbye while trying to worm his way out, and Susan announces the sponsors. The credits follow.
BigBirdSign0260

SherlockHemlockCTWclassic
CLOSING SIGNS Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, while Sherlock Hemlock holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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