Episode 0321

Sesame Street
Big Bird hears a dripping sound
Air date	January 17, 1972
Season	Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production November 18, 1971 Sponsors C, L, 3

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Tom leads the kids (including Joey) in some stretching exercises. To show the letters of the day, Tom then curves his body into a C shape and an L shape.
	Cartoon	Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198)
	Muppets	Sherlock Hemlock demonstrates the sound of the letter L. (First: Episode 0251)
	SCENE 2	Tom temporarily leaves Big Bird in charge of Hooper's Store as he runs an errand across the street. While Big Bird takes his place behind the counter, he tries to discover what is causing a dripping sound nearby. He turns the switch on the mixing machine and gets a whirr; he pushes the keys on the cash register and gets the sound of a drawer opening and a bell dinging; he presses the button on the alarm clock and gets a ringing. Finally, Tom turns the handle on one of the faucets and the dripping sound stops. They listen to how quiet the store is now; Big Bird thinks it's too quiet and asks to hear the water dripping again.
	Celebrity	The New York Knicks make 20 baskets, but miss on 21. (First: Episode 0154)
	Cartoon	A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294)
	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)
	Film	A little boy narrates the various activities his family partakes in on a typical Monday. (First: Episode 0127)
	SCENE 3	Maria sings "Three of These Things" using pictures of an apartment house, a brownstone, a country house, and a car.
	Cartoon	Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0299)
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Maria plays "Three of These Things" in Spanish, using drawings of clothing and a guitar.
	Muppets	"The IG Family Song" (First: Episode 0141)
	SCENE 4	The rope on the clothesline is stuck, so Bob (from his second story window) and Big Bird try several solutions to get Bob's shirt off the line. Shaking the line doesn't work, and Big Bird can't bring it down with a nearby broom. Bob gets a crazy idea to get his fishing pole; he hooks the shirt and retrieves it.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147)
	Cartoon	L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie and the Man Who Needs Help — Ernie has trouble understanding Simon Soundman, who's having car trouble. (First: Episode 0132)
	SCENE 5	Rafael asks Joey to find three fish hidden in a picture.
	Film	A man (Barry Simpson) puts on snowshoes to bring his trash out. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0281)
	SCENE 6	Oscar is swooping empty jars through the air and putting caps on them. He explains to Tom and a girl that he's bottling smoke and pollution for his Dirty Air Sale. Tom uses a handkerchief and dips it into one of the jars, showing Oscar what the pollution can do to the air; Oscar likes the look of it. Tom ends up encouraging Oscar to bottle up the air for Grouches; that way, there will be less polution for people, making them happy.
	Cartoon	A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240)
	Cast	Bob reads the first half of "The Legend of the Lovely Lady Linda". (First: Episode 0197)
	Transition	Bridge #1 - Zipper (First: Episode 0291)
	Cast	Bob continues reading "The Legend of the Lovely Lady Linda". (First: Episode 0197)
	SCENE 7	Rafael gives clues to Antonio and the kids what the next film is about. As he points out his own parts, he says it isn't about feet, legs, the stomach, the chest, or arms; the film is about hands.
	Film	There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise. (First: Episode 0007)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154)
	Celebrity	Flip Wilson shows how his teacher, Miss Johnson, taught the ABCs. (First: Episode 0151)
	SCENE 8	It's time to play the Sound Game. As Maria soundlessly types, Bob asks in voiceover what the right sound is for a typewriter to make. We hear a car honk, the clank of chains and then a typewriter sound. As Rafael soundlessly strums his guitar, the viewer is asked what that sound should be. We hear the oompah of a tuba, some thunder, and then a guitar strumming.
	Film	Number Three Ball Film (repeat)
	Cartoon	Country 3 (repeat)
	SCENE 9	Bob encounters Oscar preparing to install a window on his trash can. Oscar looks forward to seeing all the trash on the ground from inside his can as well as muddy shoes, but Bob alerts him that there will also be happy people walking by that will see what he is doing, and the sun will shine into his can. Oscar immediately rescinds his window idea, breaking it to pieces and instead arranging them onto his piano.
	Cast	Bob and Mr. Hooper manage to get L in the right position. (First: Episode 0147)
	SCENE 10	"L" quickies: Tom looks at an L through a telescope. Bob has an L that can light up. Little Antonio has an L on his shirt. Maria cleans up the litter of Ls on the sidewalk.
	Cartoon	Kids hear an L poem. (repeat)
	Transition	Bridge #2 - Scoring (First: Episode 0291)
	Cartoon	L is for Lips (repeat)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: L for Light (repeat)
	Film	A gibbon swings, and an audience cheers when the film ends. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0009)
	SCENE 11	Tom helps Joey with more stretches as they say goodbye. Maria announces the sponsors as kids display them in front of 123 Sesame Street.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Antonio and Rafael hold the Sesame Street sign, while Tom holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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