Sesame Street | |||||||||
Pete Seeger visits the Street | |||||||||
Air date | February 22, 1972 | ||||||||
Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||||
|
Picture | Segment | Description |
---|---|---|
SCENE 1 | Susan welcomes the viewer at the construction doors. Pete Seeger is paying another visit to the street, and is teaching the song "Seek and You Shall Find" at the playground near Big Bird's nest to an attentive crowd of grown-ups, kids, and Big Bird. Between choruses, he and David tell riddles. Big Bird tries one as well, which isn't as good as the others. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie comes from finishing his bath, and tells Bert that there's something that he forgot. Bert asks if he's washed behind his ears, his neck, and his elbows. Finally, Ernie remembers that he forgot to turn off the water in the tub -- as the water level rises. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0197) | |
Celebrity | Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0131) | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #12: Square remains in corner, and third dot changes color (First: Episode 0296) | |
Muppets | Twin Anything Muppets find they're identical, except for their voices. (First: Episode 0277) | |
SCENE 2 | Pete admires the clock Susan keeps in her kitchen. She says it doesn't even keep time - she keeps it as decoration. Pete tells her and the kids a story about a clock who couldn't keep time because it was nervous when being looked at. | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Feet (One Foot, Two Foot)." | |
Cartoon | A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294) | |
Celebrity | The New York Mets make 15 hits in a row, but miss on the 16th. (First: Episode 0167) | |
Cartoon | Things that are same and different. (First: Episode 0300) | |
SCENE 3 | Big Bird is in charge of Hooper's Store for the moment. Pete comes by in need of a new string for his banjo. Big Bird finds items that match his descriptions, but Pete tells him that a piece of twine and a bicycle chain aren't much like banjo strings. Big Bird borrows the banjo to find exactly what he needs and returns with several of the appropriate new strings, though Pete reminds him to bring the banjo as well. | |
Cartoon | Dot Bridge #15: Dots and squares converse and form pattern (First: Episode 0290) | |
SCENE 3 cont'd | As Pete applies the new string, Big Bird wonders why it's so important - there's other strings left to play. Pete demonstrates why all the strings are needed to make better music. | |
Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) | |
Film | Penguins take a bath. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0233) | |
SCENE 4 | Susan points out some bits of grass growing out of the cracks in the sidewalk near the construction doors. Pete comments that the street likely used to be covered with grass, and some of it has managed to seep through the pavement, inspiring him to sing "God Bless the Grass" while he plays the guitar for Susan and the kids. | |
Animation | Today's Secret Drawing will be a nurse. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0287) | |
Animation | Today's Secret Drawing will be a nurse. (First: Episode 0239) | |
Insert | Mr. Hooper, Susan, Gordon, Bob, and three kids are counted (in voiceover by Fran Brill) as they rearrange on the stoop. (First: Episode 0258) | |
Cartoon | Jazz #7 (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0281) | |
SCENE 5 | Pete plays an imagination game with the kids - they describe something, and find something in the surrounding area that resembles it. He starts by observing a horse with a round head, referring to a café table with a basketball on top of it, and a zoo cage (which is actually the fire escape). | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) | |
Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) | |
Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock demonstrates the sound of the letter L. (First: Episode 0251) | |
Film | Male and female snow people narrate their own construction. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0277) | |
SCENE 6 | At the Fix-it Shop, Luis plays his guitar and teaches Pete a Spanish song - "El Barquito." | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C - Cap (First: Episode 0154) | |
Cast | A man with a British accent narrates a limbo sketch in which Gordon and Bob share bubbles and a book. (First: Episode 0316) | |
Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. | |
Celebrity | The New York Mets make 20 hits in a row. (First: Episode 0167) | |
Film | Mad Painter #7 (First: Episode 0314) | |
SCENE 7 | Oscar initiates a song he enjoys - "My Hat Has Three Corners." Pete shows the kids how to act out parts of the song, as Oscar eagerly waits for his favorite part. He likes the song so much because the more it progresses, the less lyrics are sung. | |
Cartoon | As voices speculate what a squiggle will become, the squiggle is joined by other lines and bumps, eventually forming into a talking picture of Big Bird. (First: Episode 0235) | |
Cast | Gordon appears as a magician sitting in a chair. He magically brings in Susan and Mr. Hooper, as well as a number counting them all. The other two pop in and out, forcing Gordon to change the number until he makes them all vanish. (First: Episode 0233) | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Take a Breath." | |
Cartoon | L is for Lips (repeat) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (repeat) | |
Muppets | Herry Monster spots three shoes and deduces which one doesn't belong in the group. Prairie Dawn happens by and points out another way the shoes can be grouped. (First: Episode 0199) | |
SCENE 8 | David and the kids want to play basketball, but they need to move some cartons out of the way. As Pete sings a working song, he, David, Mr. Hooper and the kids cooperate and toss the boxes up the garage stairs to the storage place they belong. They all join in a game of basketball as the sponsors are announced. |
Previous episode: | Next episode: |
Episode 0346 | Episode 0348 |