Episode 0323

Sesame Street
Big Bird photographs the Snuffleupagus
Air date	January 19, 1972
Season	Season 3 (1971-1972)
Sponsors P, U, 5

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Gordon presents the letters U and P, and explains that they spell UP. The UP lifts itself up into the air.
	Cartoon	A dog learns about U. (First: Episode 0131)
	Cartoon	P Words (including parachute and plug) (First: Episode 0296)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppet boys are in the park, playing hide and seek. One hides while the other says the alphabet. Unfortunately, he doesn't know the whole alphabet, so he asks for help when he gets stuck. The other boy has to come out of his hiding place to help him finish the alphabet. He helps with Z, and then gets caught. (First: Episode 0278)
	SCENE 2	Melvin Grouch has sent a representative from the Grouchy Greet Card company to offer some greeting card options to Oscar the Grouch. Oscar doesn't care for the first two, citing their lack of grouchiness. The salesmen responds, "I never met a grouch as bad as you, they ought to keep you in a zoo." Oscar is impressed with the grouchy rhyme, and says if he can put that in a card, he'll take it.
	Cartoon	Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048)
	Cast	Wally and Ralph try to unroll a rug, but a chair in the way presents a problem.
	Song	"1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (First: Episode 0245)
	Celebrity	Pat Paulsen counts from 1 to 20. (First: Episode 0101)
	SCENE 3	David is airing out a rug he found in the attic of the garage while Gordon lines up a shot of the arbor with his camera. As Big Bird enters the frame, Gordon asks him to hold his position and takes his picture. It instantly develops and comes out so nice, Big Bird decides he'll send it to his mother. After David follows Gordon inside to check out his other camera, Mr. Snuffleupagus comes along giving Big Bird the idea to photograph him to proves he's real to everyone else. Snuffy sticks around long enough to pose for Big Bird before deciding he'd better be shuffling off. David and Gordon return with Susan and they're greeted by an excited Big Bird who can't wait to show them a picture of the snuffleupagus. Gordon retrieves the photo from the camera, but as they inspect it, it appears to be a close-up of David's rug airing out on the railing. Big Bird tries to explain that he was just too close, but the adults aren't having any of it.
	Muppets	The Busby Twins buy a candle from the shopkeeper. (First: Episode 0293)
	Film	George the Farmer demonstrates fast and slow by going back and forth on a fence, and in a rocking chair. (First: Episode 0288)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie answers the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a bologna sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number. (First: Episode 0305)
	Film	A boy pretends a wagon is a bus. His friend tells him it's not a bus, and explains what her father, a real bus driver, does. (First: Episode 0181)
	SCENE 4	Big Bird pleads with Gordon to not cut down the tree in front of 123 Sesame Street, but Gordon explains he's only pruning it. Big Bird asks how long it will take for the prunes to grow.
	Cartoon	Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Tracy count five fingers. (First: Episode 0125)
	Song	Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276)
	Cast	Gordon and Tom take turns being happy and sad depending on how well their team is doing. They both get sad when the game is cancelled on account of snow.
	SCENE 5	Susan sings the "Same/Different Song" with the kids, comparing a hand and a foot.
	Muppets	Little Jerry and the Monotones perform "Mad." (First: Episode 0240)
	Cartoon	"I've Got a Mind" -- bouncing a ball (EKA: Episode 0279)
	Cartoon	"I've Got a Mind" -- bouncing a ball (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0279)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233)
	Animation	Bridge Dot & Hill A-1
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish. (First: Episode 0287)
	Cartoon	A man pushes up a lazy UP. (EKA: Episode 0316)
	SCENE 6	U for "under" (Oscar); U for "unlock" (David); U for "unwrap" (Susan)
	Celebrity	Pat Paulsen counts from 1 to 20. (repeat)
	Muppets	A boy thinks that a girl is talking about him when she expresses her love for the perfect picture of U. (First: Episode 0297)
	Animation	Dot & Hill A-2
	Celebrity	Lorne Greene and the Bonanza cast add two horses and one horse to make three horses. (First: Episode 0150)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie approaches Bert in a harried manner, talking rapidly. Bert tells him to talk slower so he can understand him. Ernie says, slowly, that Bert's bread is burning in the oven, which causes Bert to speak in the same rapid, harried manner.
	Cartoon	Batman and Robin attempt to capture the Joker, but also teach a lesson about crossing the street safely. Holy manhole! (First: Episode 0090)
	Cartoon	What if a dog looked like a bird? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226)
	Film	A woman counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey. (First: Episode 0217)
	Animation	Dot & Hill A-3
	SCENE 7	Oscar helps David and the kids imagine eating a cookie with mustard, crushed red pepper, horseradish, and cream of asparagus soup.
	Cartoon	P Words (including parachute and plug) (repeat)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (repeat)
	Cartoon	Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey
	SCENE 8	The kids ride their bikes while Susan announces the sponsors: P, U, 5

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