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Sesame Street
Big Bird washes his face
Air date November 16, 1972
Season Season 4 (1972-1973)
Written by Emily Perl Kingsley
Production September 5, 1972
Sponsors E, G, 5

0409

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0409a
SCENE 1 Big Bird approaches Susan playing in the yard with some kids. He says he has a neat trick which involves counting from 1 to 10 forward and backward. First, he counts to 10, then turns his back, and counts to 10 again. He's impressed by his joke, but Susan challenges him to count down from 10 to 1. He admits not being able to do so very well, so Susan leads the viewer and the kids in counting backwards. "I think my way was easier," Big Bird admits.
Elevator10.oldschool
Cartoon An elevator fills up with 10 passengers, but quickly breaks when the mouse gets on.
(First: Episode 0003)
SimonSaw
Muppets Simon Soundman tries to buy a saw at Sam's General Store.
0409b
SCENE 2 Susan notices that Big Bird has a smudge of something on his beak, so she tells him to go wash it. She reminds him that lots of things can be washed, all in different ways. When she leaves, Big Bird remembers seeing Luis wash a window, so he rushes out to get his supplies.
No5
Film Five Song (Song of Five)
(First: Episode 0006)
0409c
SCENE 3 Big Bird starts to wash his face with a bucket full of hot, soapy water, but has a little trouble getting the extra-long brush out through the door of his home. He's almost ready to start until Maria tells him that there's a difference between washing windows and washing his face. He resolves to find a better way, and recalls the way Mr. Hooper washed his apron.
Fiddler5
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0323)
0409d
SCENE 4 In a basement, Big Bird fills a washing machine with soap and begins to stick his face in when David stops him. He explains that washing machines are for clothes only, and has Big Bird promise never to use a washing machine for anything but clothes. Big Bird agrees, and figures he'll just have to have a dirty face for the rest of his life.
G film
Film Things that begin with G
(First: Episode 0357)
0409e
SCENE 5 Back in his nest, Big Bird worries that people will start calling him "Dirty Bird." He realizes he hasn't yet looked at his face to see how dirty he is, so he pulls out a hand mirror from his nest. It's so dirty that he can't see his reflection in it, so he starts to clean it with a facecloth and soapy water in his sink. Maria and David stop by and commend him for finding the proper tools to wash his face; Big Bird goes along with it, acting as if he knew the right answer all along.
1041E&Bclean1 Muppets Ernie & Bert — (Part 1) Bert tells Ernie to clean up the messy apartment.
(First: Episode 0010)
1095u Cartoon G is for Glue
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0279)
1041E&Bclean2 Muppets Ernie & Bert — (Part 2) Ernie has finished cleaning up the apartment, but the toy chest is still a mess, so he throws toys all over the place.
(First: Episode 0010)
1291-Apples01
Muppets A furry, purple creature whooshes to the counter of Hooper's Store and counts 5 apples. He subtracts one, leaving 4.
(First: Episode 0400)
0409f
SCENE 6 Susan plays a new game in the form of the "Enumeration Song." Using a board featuring sets of circles divided three ways, she asks the viewer which set has two of something.
1291-Apples02
Muppets The creature returns to subtract one more apple, leaving 3.
(First: Episode 0400)
I'm a macaw, Myrtle
Film A male voiceover and his friend Myrtle observe a macaw in a tree.
1291-Apples03
Muppets Again, the creature appears to remove another apple, leaving 2.
(First: Episode 0400)
InventionofPaper
Muppets Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on.
0409g

0409h
SCENE 7 Big Bird has something important to tell Luis, but finds a sign on the door of the Fix-It Shop that reads "cerrado." He assumes it means "asleep" in Spanish, so he starts shouting to wake him up. He then tries ringing a bell and banging a big drum when Maria happens by, curious as to what's going on. She explains that "cerrado" means "closed" and that Luis told her that he closed the shop to have lunch with a friend. Big Bird realizes that the important thing he wanted to remind Luis was about their lunch date, and rushes back to his nest.
5roadpaint
Film Kids watch as construction workers paint a number 15 on the street using a stencil.
In subsequent airings, this film is shortened, showing only the number 5 being painted.
1291-Apples04
Muppets Another apple is subtracted, thus leaving only 1.
(First: Episode 0400)
Kidsdancing
Film Kids dancing.
I'mCold
Muppets An Anything Muppet sings "I'm Cold" in the middle of a blizzard.
(First: Episode 0368)
1291-Apples05
Muppets The creature takes away the last apple, leaving 0.
(First: Episode 0400)
Bert purple hand
Muppets Ernie & BertBert can't go on a trip with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. Ernie puts a mitten on Bert's hand to cover it, but Bert still won't go because he looks silly wearing one mitten. So Ernie completes the outfit with another mitten, a hat, a scarf, and a sled. Ernie then reveals that they are going to the beach.
(First: Episode 0386)
GforGiggle
Cartoon G is for Giggle (voice of Allen Swift)
(First: Episode 0357)
0409i
SCENE 8 Big Bird and the kids are bored until Mr. Snuffleupagus arrives to show them how they can dance by "Doin' the Snuffleupagus."
Yipyipphone
Muppets The Martians find a telephone.
(First: Episode 0398)
2059h
Cartoon A man saws a letter E through the wall.
(First: Episode 0370)
Film-RiverLife
Film A man and children observe the life along the river.
Ssnews.rapunzel
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: RapunzelPrince Charming attempts to rescue Rapunzel from the tower.
EforEel
Cartoon E for Eel
(First: Episode 0408)
Howdoyougetfromheretothere
Muppets Anything Muppets sing "How Do You Get From Here to There?"
(First: Episode 0374)
1095s Cartoon G is for Goat
(First: Episode 0085)
0409j
SCENE 9 A Spanish-speaking girl enters Hooper's Store, but since David doesn't speak Spanish, he doesn't know what she's asking for. Maria stops by, speaks to the girl, and shows David how to make what the girl is asking for: a piragua, made with shaved ice and syrup. David tastes the piragua Maria just made, and asks her to make a couple for herself and the girl while he makes a sign to advertise in the window that Hooper's Store now offers piraguas.
Gorilla toon2
Cartoon G for Gorilla (in man suit)
(First: Episode 0085)
TwoGSounds
Muppets Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds."
(First: Episode 0358)
GforGiggle
Cartoon G is for Giggle (repeat)
0409k
SCENE 10 The kids march with Snuffy down the street as Big Bird tries to call out to the grown-ups of Snuffy's presence to no avail. David announces the sponsors.
CookieMonsterSSsign1970

0409ctw
CLOSING SIGNS Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, and Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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