Sesame Street 
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| Oscar sets up his own postal service | |||||||||
| Air date | May 10, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon, Susan, and Oscar await their incoming mail. Oscar is especially impatient for his delivery of the latest issue of Trash Beautiful, and thinks the job of a mailman isn't so hard. He declares he's opening his own post office. |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought...about the color red. |
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SCENE 2 | A trash can rolls past Gordon. Oscar pops out with a postal worker's hat on, claiming this is his new mobile post office. He explains how it works - for a small fee, people give him mail, he applies homemade stamps with pictures of famous Grouches in history like George Grouchington (backed with delicious strawberry-fish flavored stickum), then he cancels the process and has things sent back to their original address. He has also recruited Little Bird to handle airmail. |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar can barely make out some of the handwriting on the envelopes he's received. Susan is able to read one name - Roosevelt Franklin. |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin spells his name. (First: Episode 0182) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon tries to give Oscar some letters to mail, only to find the mobile trash can abandoned. He consults Oscar, whose mouth has been stuck shut from licking too many stamps; he still has a Grouchington stamp stuck to his tongue. When he finally gets his mouth open, he says he has closed his post office since he liked the taste of the stamp glue so much that he licked it all off, leaving no way for them to be applied to the envelopes. Gordon resolves to just put his mail into the mailbox. |
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Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (repeat) |
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Film | Apples grow on a tree. (First: Episode 0093) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Cookie Cabinet — Bert and Ernie try to figure out who owns a cabinet containing cookies. (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Grover tries to show some monsters that they need to be on both sides of a rope in order to have a proper game of tug-o-war. |
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Film | Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0032) |
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Muppets | Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. Bob notices the sun rise -- the beginning of a new day. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 5 | On the stoop, Susan and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make an E in the sky (First: Episode 0061). Afterwards, Susan names an E word - EXIT. |
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Muppets | Grover explains the word "EXIT" with some Anything Muppets running over him as they run through the exit. (First: Episode 0210) |
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Cartoon | A polar bear learns what "EXIT" means. Animation: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down". (First: Episode 0154) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon shows up and down with a yo-yo. Oscar does the same with his trash can lid. |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (First: Episode 0239) |
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Muppets | Professor Hastings uses a pogo stick to demonstrate "up" and "down", and ends up jumping into a pond. (First: Episode 0216) |
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SCENE 7 | Susan describes one of her favorite animals - it's tall, yellow and handsome. Big Bird thinks she's talking about him, but she's instead referring to giraffes. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0010) |
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Muppets | Ernie tries to find another cookie with a criss-cross of icing. He has trouble matching cookies, but Cookie Monster "matches" them by eating them (putting them all in the same place, his stomach). (First: Episode 0169) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit." (First: Episode 0160) |
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SCENE 8 | Susan and the kids make shapes from clay, using them for a game of "Here Are Some Things." |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. (repeat) |
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Cast | Bob and Gordon cooperate to clean up a mess. (First: Episode 0209) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #10 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet. (First: Episode 0236) |
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Cartoon | A bear counts bees. (First: Episode 0083) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | I Thought a Thought ... about big things. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Finger String — Ernie has a piece of string on each finger, in order to remind himself that they're all out of string. (First: Episode 0163) |
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SCENE 9 | Susan is about to go shopping, but first she gets ready for an incoming rainfall. |
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Film | A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it. (First: Episode 0149) |
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Muppets | Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster, disguised as Ernie. (First: Episode 0183) |
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SCENE 10 | The kids rush inside from the rain as Susan signs off. |
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