Episode 0337

Sesame Street
Big Bird gets mad because Lillian won't play with him
Air date	February 8, 1972
Season	Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production December 8, 1971 Sponsors H, V, 8

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Luis shows that four kids have their hands up in the air to represent the letter of the day: V. He also counts their hands, which add up to 8, the number of the day.
	Cartoon	"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050)
	Film	Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326)
	Muppets	Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird wants to play a game with Lillian (Vinnette Carroll), who is occupied with reading some books and declines his suggestions to play baseball, football, and basketball with him. Big Bird thinks Lillian doesn't like him and threatens to run away.
	Cartoon	A mad scientist puts together a capital H. (First: Episode 0284)
	Film	George the Farmer counts 20 barrels. (First: Episode 0278)
	SCENE 3	Suitcase in hand, an angry Big Bird informs David that he's running away because of Lillian. David has Big Bird talk things out with Lillian, who explains that she said no because she's too old to play rough sports. She also says she's been thinking of something to do with him, such as reading a story. Big Bird loves the idea and decides to not run away. Lillian has an appropriate book to read: Boy, Was I Mad! by Katheryn Hitte and Mercer Mayer.
	Muppets	Two children, who can only read some words, resolve their fight over a large book by helping each other and reading alternate words. (First: Episode 0297)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "New Life." (First: Episode 0281)
	Cartoon	Howard and Harold think of H words (First: Episode 0284)
	SCENE 4	Lillian starts to read Boy, Was I Mad! to Big Bird and the kids. Lillian stops partway through and says they'll read more after a break.
	Cartoon	Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167)
	Muppets	Sherlock Hemlock encounters the letter V. (First: Episode 0267)
	Cartoon	Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V. (First: Episode 0110)
	SCENE 5	Lillian reads the rest of Boy, Was I Mad!. Afterwards, Lillian notes that the boy never said what he was mad about, concluding that all of us just get mad sometimes. Big Bird agrees.
	Cartoon	Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V Artist: John Hubley (First: Episode 0311)
	Muppets	Granny Fanny Nesselrode is asked by a viewer if there's a way to memorize the letters in the alphabet. Granny thinks it's impossible, while the announcer is able to recite it with ease. Instead, Granny shows off her "alphabet box," containing an item beginning with every letter of the alphabet. (First: Episode 0250)
	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). (First: Episode 0277)
	SCENE 6	David finds a poem entitled "The Fisherman" on the sidewalk. He reads it to the kids, leaving out the last word in each verse so that they can figure out the appropriate rhyme. The final word of the last verse, which rhymes with "man," is left a mystery as the edge of the paper is torn off. Oscar, who turns out to be the poem's author, supplies David with the missing words: "old shoe." David confronts Oscar, who reveals he couldn't think of a rhyme for "man." The kids mention several rhyming words, but Oscar prefers "old shoe."
	Muppets / Cast	The Anything Muppets sing "Before and After." (retaped version) (First: Episode 0188)
	Animation	Dot & Hill A-4 (First: Episode 0164)
	Cast	Gordon notices two groups of potato sacks with the wrong numbers matted above them: the group of two has the number 3, and the group of 3 has the number 2. He and Bob cooperate to carry one sack from one group to the other. (First: Episode 0178)
	Film	Elephants in the zoo. (First: Episode 0283)
	SCENE 7	Luis sings "One of These Things" with pictures of Raggedy Ann dolls.
	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)
	Cartoon	A colorful, rhythmic demonstration of the word IN
	Muppets	A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks. (First: Episode 0298)
	SCENE 8	Lillian explains that we can sometimes tell how somebody feels by looking at their face. She then asks the kids to make a mad face. Lillian also explains that another way we can tell how somebody feels is by the tone of their voice. As an example, she says, "The weather report says it's going to snow tomorrow" and variations of that in two ways -- first mad, then happy. She ends by telling everybody how happy they made her, but she does it in a sad voice, which the kids also pick up on.
	Transition	Bridge #2 - Scoring (First: Episode 0291)
	Animation	"The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225)
	Muppets	Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8 (First: Episode 0282)
	Cartoon	A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
	SCENE 9	The kids play in the yard while Luis announces the sponsors and the book read on today's show.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign.

Notes

• Among the books Lillian has with the kids are several prop books made for Sesame Street segments, including "The Princess and the Cookie" and "The Story of Quiet and Loud."

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