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Sesame Street
Mr. Hooper teaches Big Bird about paying bills
Air date February 15, 1972
Season Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production December 14, 1971
Sponsors E, R, 2

SSShowID-0342

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Luis must leave the Fix-It Shop for a while, and since Rafael is also away, he asks Big Bird to mind the store for him. Luis tells him to take whatever customers bring in, and have them put their name on it using the nearby tags. While Luis is gone, Molly brings her kettle to be fixed right away so she could use it for her morning tea. Mr. Hooper is eager to listen to an upcoming ball game, and drops off his radio. Big Bird thinks his job is fun, but believes it would be more fun if he helped out and fixed both the kettle and the radio.
Twostep
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals.
Artist: Bud Luckey
Dollhouse
Film "Doll House"
(First: Episode 0131)
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SCENE 2 Big Bird has finished repairing the two items when Luis returns. To Luis's surprise, he opens the lid of the kettle and music plays; likewise, he turns on the radio and it emits steam. Big Bird has succeeded in surprising Luis, but not in the way he thought. Luis admits that he is proud that Big Bird tried to help out, though.
Upsidedowncone
Muppets Happening upon the ice cream man, Ernie wants to buy a chocolate - strawberry - peach - vanilla - banana - pistachio - peppermint - lemon - orange - butterscotch ice cream cone, but the ice cream vendor instead gives him a butterscotch - orange - lemon - peppermint - pistachio - banana - vanilla - peach - strawberry - chocolate ice cream cone.
(First: Episode 0133)
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SCENE 3 Molly delivers Mr. Hooper’s mail, which is mostly bills. He explains to Big Bird that bills are letters that tell you that you owe money for something you've already bought. Mr. Hooper tells him that if he didn't pay the candy company, they wouldn't send him any more candy; to Big Bird's surprise, the candy jars suddenly disappear. If Mr. Hooper didn't pay the magazine company, they wouldn't send him any more magazines; the magazines disappear, too. And if Hooper didn't pay the electric company, they would shut off his electricity and he wouldn't have any lights (which shut off). Everything goes back to normal when Mr. Hooper repeats how important paying bills can be. Knowing this, Big Bird pays him a nickel in advance for a bag of birdseed.
Groverwaiteralphabetsoup
Muppets Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold.
(First: Episode 0276)
Eaticecream
Cartoon E Imagination
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0001)
Circlessong
Muppets Cookie Monster and Herry sing "Circles."
(First: Episode 0131)
2059f
Cartoon E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg.
(First: Episode 0002)
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SCENE 4 David poses some scientific questions to a couple of kids about what humans and birds have in common. We have mouths, and birds have beaks. We have arms, and birds have wings. But birds have tails, and we don't.
Animalswtails
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails.
(First: Episode 0017)
1446d
Cartoon Speech Balloon: E for egg
A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
(First: Episode 0002)
Film-BuildingGrows01
Film / Animation Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry...
(First: Episode 0142)
R ribbon
Cartoon A ribbon wraps itself around a woman, then turns itself into an R.
(First: Episode 0289)
Film-BuildingGrows02
Film / Animation Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
(First: Episode 0142)
GroverYellsMe
Muppets Grover sees the word "me" and shouts the word.
(First: Episode 0205)
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SCENE 5 Luis sings "Three of These Things" to the kids using pictures of rainy weather items. They then hear an airplane, and see Alphabet Bates writing the letter E with his skywriter plane (First: Episode 0061).
GordonBob.E
Cast Gordon and Bob assemble an E.
(First: Episode 0005)
GroverBrian
Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover asks Brian to explain which of them is "you" and which is "me."
(First: Episode 0294)
Cooperationtable
Cast Mr. Hooper, Bob and Brian help Susan set the table. Now that's what I call cooperation.
(First: Episode 0276)
0011.R.Radio
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)
Wally Ralph mirror
Cast Wally and Ralph: Wally gives Ralph a mirror as a present. Wally looks at it, and says it is a picture of himself. But when Ralph looks at it, he sees a picture of himself. When they look at it together, they see a picture of both of them.
KangarooBlues
Song Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues."
(First: Episode 0277)
KnicksMiss-17
Celebrity The New York Knicks make 16 baskets in a row, but miss on the 17th.
(First: Episode 0146)
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SCENE 6 David asks two kids how many boxes, basketballs, and bicycle wheels he points out; the answer to all is two. When he asks what number we will see next, the kids guess either three or eight. David clues them in, and they get the right answer.
Twostep
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. (repeat)
003
Muppets Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.
(First: Episode 0132)
Jerry-MonkeyFlips
Film A woman counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey.
(First: Episode 0217)
Firemanreadytogo
Song "Fireman Ready to Go"
(First: Episode 0131)
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SCENE 7 David, in voiceover, announces it's time to play "What's the Sound?" First, Mr. Hooper puts a milkshake on the mixing machine; we hear a rooster crowing, a horse neighing, and a blending noise. Next, Luis bangs the lid of Oscar's trash can; we hear cows mooing, sheep bleating, and clanging. We also hear the sound of a very annoyed Grouch.
2Hands
Muppets Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hands, with some assistance from a human hand. Kermit counts the hand's fingers and lists off various things it can do. The hand gradually becomes more aggressive with Kermit in demonstrating, but the two eventually make up by shaking hands.
1845g
Film A man writes the word ME in the snow.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0294)
2529-Turtle
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0283)
Painter2
Film The Mad Painter #2
(First: Episode 0309)
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SCENE 8 David plays odds-and-evens with the kids as Oscar grumpily announces the sponsors.
ClosingSign-MollySS-0342

415CTW
CLOSING SIGNS Molly holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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