Sesame Street | |||||||||
Gordon puts up a neighborhood bulletin board | |||||||||
Air date | January 7, 1972 | ||||||||
Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon brings a bulletin board over to Tom to suggest some spots on the street where it might go. He brought it home from school where they were throwing them out, and thought it would work well as a place to post notices for the residents of Sesame Street. Tom knows just the place for it to hang: on the side of Hooper's Store facing the yard. | |
Film | A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion! (First: Episode 0166) | |
Cartoon | A ribbon wraps itself around a woman, then turns itself into an R. (First: Episode 0289) | |
Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo | |
SCENE 2 | Big Bird has the first message to post on the community bulletin board. It's a long roll that Little Bird wrote out for him that reads "Used Bird Bath For Sale". Big Bird says Little Bird made a mistake, though, and claims that it reads "Sale For Bath Bird Used". Tom and Gordon explain that sentences are read from left to right, not from right to left. | |
Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) | |
Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Octopus' Garden." (First: Episode 0019) | |
Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) | |
Cartoon | Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (First: Episode 0010) | |
SCENE 3 | Little Bird asks the audience to use their imagination; pretend to see something that's not really there. As he describes people in a variety of roles, they appear standing next to him on the construction doors of Big Bird's nest. He imagines Luis as a pirate, Susan as an astronaut, and Tom as a king. He then tries something much harder: imagining Oscar the Grouch as real nice. The camera pans over to Oscar in his can who says he can't imagine him being nice at all. | |
Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I". (First: Episode 0143) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tells Bert that he has a note for him, but he can't remember where it is. He thinks maybe he put it in the toybox, so he digs through the box, throwing toys everywhere. It's not in the toybox, so Ernie looks in the clothes hamper, scattering clothes all over. He finally finds the note, which tells Bert that it's his turn to clean up the apartment. (First: Episode 0255) | |
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) | |
SCENE 4 | Luis sings "Three of These Things" with lettuce, a pumpkin, cabbage, and an onion. | |
SCENE 4 cont'd |
They then turn their gaze to the sky to observe Alphabet Bates writing a letter R (First: Episode 0014). | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts four eggs. A chick hatches out of one egg, so he counts the three eggs -- then two, then one. Then he counts the four chickens. (First: Episode 0282) | |
Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0134) | |
Film | Traffic lights (First: Episode 0131) | |
SCENE 5 | Gordon and Susan help Oscar read music for his Grand Grouch Grumble and Groan Marching Society Band. They show him how to properly play different rhythms on the trash can lid, milk bottle, and rusty pipes. The music sounds even worse when they play again, which Oscar loves to hear. | |
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) | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates forward and backward using a wind-up toy. (First: Episode 0157) | |
Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat) (First: Episode 0011) | |
SCENE 6 | Big Bird looks for R words while Gordon rests in a hammock reading and listening to the radio. | |
Muppets | Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Film | Peacock Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) | |
SCENE 7 | Tom explains that a surprise is when you see something you weren't expecting. He ducks behind the counter and emerges wearing a mustache. | |
Transition | Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill (First: Episode 0303) | |
SCENE 7 cont'd | Tom has another surprise: he's wearing a beard. | |
Transition | Bridge #17 - Hourglass Fast/Empty (First: Episode 0288) | |
SCENE 7 cont'd | Tom says that another kind of suprise is when you hear something you weren't expecting. He goes on to speak with Susan's voice. | |
Cartoon | A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0243) | |
SCENE 7 cont'd | Tom explains that a surprise can also be when you don't see what you were expecting. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert goes out to mail a letter, and depends on Ernie to let him in when he knocks. Instead of letting Bert in, Ernie repeats his knocks on the drums. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Cartoon | Batman and Robin catch the Penguin's gang who has dirty windows, teaching the opposite pairings of clean and dirty. (First: Episode 0099) | |
Animation | Dot & Hill B-2 — A dot tries to get up a hill after a cart, but doesn't make it up. (First: Episode 0258) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppet kids, hippies, and Grover who keep running over the boy when his back is turned. (First: Episode 0069) | |
Cartoon | A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I". (repeat) | |
Cast | A Howard Cosell-type voice narrates Terrific Tom as he subtracts one chair from three chairs. | |
Animation | "The King of Eight" (repeat) | |
Muppets | Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS. (First: Episode 0194) | |
SCENE 8 | As Big Bird talks about his Remembering Book, he forgets where he put it. | |
Cartoon | Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0134) | |
SCENE 9 | Big Bird tells Gordon he lost his Remembering Book so he forgets what to say. Gordon tells him to say goodbye, and Big Bird realizes that's what he forgot. Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Susan and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, while Antonio and an Anything Muppet hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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