Episode 0268

Sesame Street
Big Bird cleans the street; Mr. Hooper makes Oscar a sundae.
Air date	May 19, 1971
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
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• Mr. Hooper makes Oscar the Grouch a sundae. Not an ice cream sundae, but a rubber ball sundae with chocolate syrup and a pickle on top. When Mr. Hooper questions Oscar's taste, Oscar reminds him that the customer is always right.

• Cartoon: Two men (represented by only their heads) have their own different idea, and tell the other about it; now both men know twice as much.

• Bob, David, and a kid teach the meaning of "between." Bob asks if anybody minds if he sits between David and Paul. David doesn't mind and neither does Paul. As Bob goes to sit down, David says that somebody might mind--Paul's rabbit, who is sitting between them.

• Cartoon: After a kid sees a jumble of shapes, he tells his father about it. The father finds a way to turn the stuff into a cart and tells his son, who remembers to assemble it. (EKA: Episode 0231)

• Big Bird cleans the street.

• Bill Cosby demonstrates what a surprised face looks like. (EKA: Episode 0173)

• David and Susan sing "The OP Family Song".

• Mr. Hooper introduces the dolphin sketch by asking kids if they can count in English and in Spanish.

• Sesame Street Animal Films: A dolphin jumps from the water 10 times.

• "Surprise" song. (EKA: Episode 0218)

• Cartoon: A painter paints red paint all around the screen, eventually painting over himself.

• Peggy Fleming skates the number 6. (EKA: Episode 0257)

• Ernie & Bert — Ernie lies in bed and starts talking about how a square looks like and how many lines it has, then goes on to compare a a square with a triangle. And then starts to ponder about how many sides a circle has, and goes to sleep just as Bert is about to attempt to answer the question, and ends up not being able to sleep. (EKA: Episode 0239)

• Listen My Brother sings "Children Are Beautiful".

• "Jazz #6" (First: Episode 0011)

• "The Queen of Six" (EKA: Episode 0223)

• Speech Balloon: "I" -- Ice cream (First: Episode 0033)

• Cartoon: A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (First: Episode 0032)

• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit demonstrates between by using a ping-pong ball, a donut, and a Beatles record sitting on a table, with the donut between the record and the ball. Beautiful Day Monster comes along and proceeds to eat everything. Kermit fears he will also get eaten, but the monster thanks him with a kiss. (First: Episode 0070)

• Ernie & Bert — Bert tells Ernie to clean up the messy apartment. Ernie cleans up, but the toy chest is still a mess, so he tidies up the toy chest by throwing toys all over the room. (First: Episode 0010)

• Gordon and Tom cooperate to stack blocks. (EKA: Episode 0262)

• Ernie & Bert — Ernie has six jellybeans, and Bert has seven. Bert thanks Ernie for giving him the extra jellybean. Ernie says that isn't fair -- they should have an equal amount. To make it even, Ernie eats the extra jellybean. That's fair, isn't it? (First: Episode 0014)

• Hubley animation: A baby rescues a ball from a column. (EKA: Episode 0198)

• Bob narrates "The Story of Ira and Inez". (First: Episode 0034)

• Listen My Brother sings "Togetherness Song." (EKA: Episode 0228)

• "The People in Your Neighborhood"

• An Anything Muppet boy meets Alphabet O'Malley, whose full name consists of twenty-six first names, each one starting with a different letter of the alphabet. (First: Episode 0135)

• Cartoon: A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I". (shown twice) (EKA: Episode 0218)

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