Episode 0277

Sesame Street
Tom and the mystery of the open ice cream bin.
Air date	November 16, 1971
Season	Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production October 11, 1971 Sponsors B, M, 3 This episode guide has been compiled from script materials provided by a trusted source. ⓘ

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Tom leaves Hooper's Store briefly to mail a letter. He returns to find the ice cream bin left open, while on the counter lays the drippy scoop, a dime and a yellow feather. Tom puts the clues together and suspects Big Bird is responsible. Big Bird comes by for an ice cream cone, but denies Tom's allegations. The culprit turns out to be an Anything Muppet woman with a large, yellow-feathered cap, who returns for the feather she lost.
	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. (First: Episode 0254)
	Cartoon	M is for Marvelous Martha (First: Episode 0013)
	Muppets	Alien Alphabet
	Film	Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20.
	SCENE 2	Susan returns from the store with some oranges. She sets them out on a crate in the yard, prompting the kids to use their styrofoam numbers to identify how many there are, adding a few oranges to the previous amounts. She then invites them all over for orange juice.
	Animation	An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns.
	Cartoon	M for mouse, mud, and mother (First: Episode 0073)
	Film	Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo
	Muppets / Cast	Bob holds an American bullfrog and asks Kermit to talk about frogs. However, due to living a somewhat different life than normal frogs, what Kermit says about frogs is somewhat incorrect; for example, Kermit believes that frogs eat fried chicken and pizza, and live in apartment houses.
	SCENE 3	Tom tries to introduce one of today's letters, B, as he is pursued by a buzzing bee.
	Cartoon	Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B.
	Cartoon	Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards
	Muppets	Twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices.
	SCENE 4	On the stoop, Bob and Maria sing the "Same/Different Song." They ask some kids to find the similarities and differences between a toy firetruck and bus. Bob then segues to a bus segment...
	Cartoon	The word BUS
	Muppets	Three Anything Muppets (including Farley) wait for a bus at a bus stop. To their surprise, the bus is very small, and two small Muppets get off of it. (First: Episode 0189)
	Muppets	Two monsters stand on either side of a large plate of cookies. Herry Monster has an "R" on his sweatshirt and growls menacingly, "Rrrrrrrr". A fat blue monster has an "S" on his sweatshirt and hisses ominously, "Sssssssss". While they argue in this way, Cookie Monster (wearing an "M" on his sweatshirt) comes along, eats the cookies, rubs his tummy and says, "Mmmmmmmmmm".
	Animation	A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268)
	Animation	A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: B for Bug (First: Episode 0137)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues."
	Cartoon	With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall. Voice: Casey Kasem (First: Episode 0237)
	SCENE 5	In the yard, Big Bird sees if the kids can recite his tongue twister - "Big Bird buys big blue books."
	Cartoon	Batman and Robin catch the Penguin's gang who has dirty windows, teaching the opposite pairings of clean and dirty. (First: Episode 0099)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't decide which of the two different shelves he should place a large vase on, so Bert tells him to use his imagination. Ernie imagines the vase falling off the little shelf and Bert kicking him out of the apartment. Then, Ernie imagines putting the vase on the big shelf, and Bert rewarding him with a big surprise party.
	Celebrity	Carol Burnett demonstrates "what you can do with your nose." (First: Episode 0131)
	SCENE 6	Oscar spots a ratty box next to his trash can and decides to keep it. Elsewhere, Maria frets to Susan over her lost fan, which was accidentally set out with the trash in its box. She sees Oscar has it and the two start fighting over the box. Tom breaks it up and hears both sides of the story. Since Oscar only wants the box, Maria gets her fan out and leaves the box for Oscar.
	Cartoon	"Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002)
	Cartoon	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover). (First: Episode 0222)
	Cartoon	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish).
	SCENE 7	Tom shows that B is for "baloney," as he discovers a B embedded in the baloney he is slicing up for a sandwich.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: B for Bug (repeat)
	Cartoon	Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B. (repeat)
	Muppets	Goldilocks finds the cottage of the Three Bears, who have trouble counting how many they are. Goldilocks points out the three beds, bowls and chairs, meaning there are three of them. The bears then panic when they learn there are bears around.
	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. (repeat)
	Cast	Tom plays a clown preparing himself in a mirror. Bob, his reflection, can't find the same hat as Tom's.
	Muppets	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about walls. (First: Episode 0031)
	Cartoon	"Jazz #3" (repeat)
	SCENE 8	In the yard, Susan plays a round of "Here Are Some Things" with the kids using different-sized lowercase B's. Maria then plays a round using different-sized capital B's.
	Muppets	Harvey Kneeslapper asks a man, "Do you know where I wanna be?" The man says he doesn't know. Harvey says, "I wanna B -- right here!" and slaps a letter B on the man's sweater. Harvey runs off, laughing.
	Muppets	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate "here" and "there."
	Cartoon	B is for Bongo Beat, Bandit, and Bottles of wine. (repeat)
	SCENE 9	Goodbye

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