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Sesame Street
Oscar realizes his trash can is missing; Big Bird has a splinter in his foot.
Air date April 21, 1972
Season Season 3 (1971-1972)
Directed by Robert Myhrum
Production February 16, 1972
Sponsors O, V, 6

SSShowID-0390


StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Tom greets the viewer, saying that one of the things we'll be seeing plenty of today is circles. He shows that one of the weights used to keep the newspapers from blowing away is round. Inside Hooper's Store, the kids find more circles in jar lids, the tops and bottoms of glasses, a display of donuts, and one in the word SODA - which happens to be the letter O.
Olimerick
Cartoon O limerick
(First: Episode 0146)
Gurucountsto20
Cartoon A guru counts to twenty.
(First: Episode 0276)
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SCENE 2 Oscar comes home with some groceries, asking Susan to help him carry the bag. ("You have no idea how heavy a six-pack of mud soda can be," he comments.) Oscar goes to open the lid of his trash can – but his can and the surrounding junk is completely gone! Susan goes to put Oscar's groceries away in her own refrigerator as Oscar tries to figure out how this could've happened.
Madpainter6
Film The Mad Painter #6
(First: Episode 0335)
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SCENE 3 Susan, Maria, Bob and Tom have looked around, but nobody has found Oscar's home. The group meets Charlie (Donald C. Moore), the new garbageman on their street. He explains that their department has a new clean-up program, which includes replacing all of the old beat-up trash cans with shiny new ones. It turns out that Charlie was the one who had taken Oscar's can, and Maria explains to Charlie that Oscar would rather have his old can back. Charlie agrees to take Oscar to the dump to get some of his stuff back, which Oscar perks up at the thought of.
Shot.queenof6
Animation The Queen of Six explores her garden.
(First: Episode 0223)
Pepperzoomout
Film The camera zooms out on a pepper as kids guess what it is.
Bugsbigandsmall
Cartoon Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever.
(First: Episode 0320)
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SCENE 4 Oscar and Charlie return from the dump with Oscar's old can. They also have a carton full of new junk Oscar found, including a broken chair, broken records featuring Nelson Eddy and Sergeant Flagg and Captain Quirt, and an old boot that he plans to make soup with. Charlie wonders what he'll do with the shiny new can. Bob has an idea: put trash in it!
Overandoverhorse
Cartoon An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O.
Artist: John Paratore
(First: Episode 0173)
Buyano
Muppets "Would You Like to Buy an O?"
(First: Episode 0364)
Gordon and Bob assemble O
Cast Bob and Gordon assemble a large O with two separate pieces.
(First: Episode 0111)
2682j
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Lemurs rest on tree branches.
Music: Joe Raposo
2341zd
Muppets Farley goes to the hat shop. (short take)
(First: Episode 0244)
Boyinacircle
Muppets A boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller.
(First: Episode 0285)
Lions!
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Lions walk down a trail.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0367)
ErnieVase
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie can't decide which of the two different shelves he should place a large vase on, so Bert tells him to use his imagination. Ernie imagines the vase falling off the little shelf and Bert kicking him out of the apartment. Then, Ernie imagines putting the vase on the big shelf, and Bert rewarding him with a big surprise party.
(First: Episode 0277)
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SCENE 5 Troy and Danny want Oscar to play with them, but he refuses. As they leave, Oscar sings “I Don't Wanna.”
GroverBoat1
Muppets Grover's rowboat - part 1
Grover and a group of monsters, including Herry Monster, Fenwick and Billy, get into a rowboat. The monsters all gather at one end, causing the boat to tip over and sink.
(First: Episode 0281)
HubleyV02
Cartoon Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V
Artist: John Hubley
(First: Episode 0311)
GroverBoat2
Muppets Grover's rowboat - part 2
The monsters gather on the other end of the boat, and it sinks again.
(First: Episode 0281)
VirgilVeep
Cartoon Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V.
(First: Episode 0110)
GroverBoat3
Muppets Grover's rowboat - part 3
The monsters finally spread out over the boat evenly, and row away.
(First: Episode 0281)
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Cartoon Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0324)
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SCENE 6 Tom has Chris and the other kids make happy and sad faces. He then shows a series of circles, and has them say whether or not they have a happy or sad face drawn on them.
1095d
Cartoon "I'm six years old today!"
Artist: Jim Simon
(First: Episode 0357)
Mushrooms
Film Through close-ups, children identify mushrooms.
(First: Episode 0357)
Wally Ralph glue
Cast Wally and Ralph buy a large jar of glue. The jar was unlabeled, so they get a label reading "Glue". But they cannot figure out how to get the label to stick to the jar. At one point, they accidentally spill some glue on the table; they use the label to wipe it up. Still with no solution, they decide to go out to dinner. So they put the label somewhere (on the jar!) and leave.
Spanishtoon.Opera
Cartoon La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes.
(First: Episode 0338)
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Film Letter O hoist
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0338)
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SCENE 7 Maria encounters Big Bird limping in pain; he has a splinter in his foot caused by stepping on one of the boxes around his nest. Big Bird figures the splinter will just go away, but Maria says that might cause an even more painful infection. Big Bird ultimately decides to let her remove it.
KermTwiddBugParty
Muppets Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
(First: Episode 0280)
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SCENE 7
cont'd
Maria brings over Mr. Hooper's first aid kit to help remove Big Bird's splinter. Maria sterilizes the wound with alcohol, then uses a match to sterilize the needle. Maria removes the splinter, and Big Bird is surprised how much his foot doesn't hurt anymore.
RFAlphabet
Muppets Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs.
(First: Episode 0103)
Ohubleycartoon
Cartoon A song about a rolling O
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0011)
Imlittleyourebig
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentBig Bird tells Shola that he's been having some trouble figuring out big and little. Shola says that she's little and Big Bird is big. Big Bird says, "Oh! That must be why they call me Big Bird." Shola answers, "Yeah! You're Big Bird. I'm Shola."
(First: Episode 0306)
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SCENE 8 Susan shows a picture with some hidden rabbits. She notes that one rabbit in particular is a speedy one...
Film.Jackrabbit
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Jack Rabbit
Music: Joe Raposo
Tom chairs limbo
Cast A Howard Cosell-type voice narrates Terrific Tom as he subtracts one chair from three chairs.
(First: Episode 0315)
Toon-OCowboy
Cartoon A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O.
(First: Episode 0286)
Squash close-up
Film Kids identify a squash in close-up.
(First: Episode 0368)
Overandoverhorse
Cartoon An O rolls over and over a horse (repeat)
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Cartoon Country 6 (repeat)
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SCENE 9 Susan colors and plays ball with the kids as Oscar and Big Bird announce the sponsors, and the credits roll.
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BobSusan0406
CLOSING SIGNS Maria and Tom hold the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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