Sesame Street 
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| Tom wonders why there aren't any customers at Hooper's Store today | |||||||||
| Air date | November 29, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Tom is bored because there hasn't been a single customer at Hooper's Store all morning. He acts out having one by rushing back and forth from behind the counter, trying to figure out why a customer wouldn't have come in yet. He hears a real knock on the door, then realizes he's left the front door sign on "CLOSED." He flips it to "OPEN" and Gordon stops in to see if everything's okay. |
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Film | "I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent. (First: Episode 0120) |
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SCENE 2 | Molly mistakenly gives Big Bird a letter addressed to Tom. Big Bird sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes" to her and the kids. |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | Kids narrate a film of an African plain and the animals that live there. (First: Episode 0128) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert complains that he can't sleep, because Ernie left the faucet dripping. Ernie drowns out the sound of the water dripping with louder noises. (First: Episode 0131) |
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SCENE 3 | Tom thinks 12 is a handy number because his oranges and eggs come in twelves. Someone phones the store and orders 12 ice cream sodas, showing Tom that the number is not only handy, but sometimes big. |
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Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) |
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Celebrity | Bill Cosby counts to 20 with his "twin." (First: Episode 0135) |
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Muppets | Grover has a box that can make the sound "ding-ding." However Grover can't make it to sound right so he attempts to fix it. When it's fixed and says "ding-ding," Cookie Monster comes because he thinks he heard the dinner bell ring and eats the box. |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. Ernie tries to count sheep, but it's dull -- so he starts counting fire engines. The noise from the imaginary fire engine wakes Bert up. Bert says that Ernie's waking up the whole neighborhood, and tells him to count something quieter. Ernie counts balloons -- but the balloon gets bigger and bigger, finally bursting with a huge explosion that wakes Bert up again. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | Two boys each have five cents - one has five pennies, one has a nickel. They see a dime along the way, which is worth ten. They ask the man at the store for change for the dime, and he gives them a nickel and five pennies. They spend their pennies, but then they want to buy an ice cream for ten cents and the machine only takes dimes. They give the store man their nickels in exchange for a dime and they share a fudgesicle. (First: Episode 0132) |
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SCENE 4 | Smoke pours out of Oscar's trash can from his new bottling factory. Gordon educates him on air pollution, so Oscar is forced to shut down, as he was bottling the smoke. |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green". (First: Episode 0087) |
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Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
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Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs. (First: Episode 0103) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
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Muppets | The Word Family Song: ET family (First: Episode 0139) |
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Cartoon | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173) |
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Cartoon | A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O. |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253) |
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SCENE 5 | Rafael plays two rounds of "Here Are Some Things" with the kids. The first group uses items that make noise, and the second group uses toy modes of transportation. |
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Cartoon | O limerick (repeat) |
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Transition | Bridge #10 - Bricks Bridge A |
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SCENE 6 | Tom illustrates small, smaller, and smallest at Hooper's Store as he hands out different-sized sodas and lollipops to three different-sized kids. |
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Transition | Bridge #11 - Bricks Bridge B |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon sets out five checkers in a pile, five more in a line, and another five in a circle. He asks some younger kids which one has the most, demonstrating that each one has five checkers, so they're all the same. |
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Cast | The cast demonstrates O words - Tom opens his mouth, the word "over" goes over Gordon's head, and Rafael turns a light on and off. |
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Cartoon | O limerick (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | Goodbye |
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