Episode 0409

Sesame Street
Air date	November 16, 1972
Season	Season 4 (1972-1973)
Sponsors E, G, 5 This episode guide has been compiled from script materials provided by a trusted source. ⓘ

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird approaches Susan playing in the arbor 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 and leads the viewer for the count.
	Cartoon	An elevator fills up with 10 passengers, but quickly breaks when the mouse gets on. (First: Episode 0003)
	Muppets	Simon Soundman tries to buy a saw at Sam's General Store.
	SCENE 2	Susan notices that Big Bird's face is dirty, so she tells him to go wash it. Big Bird remembers how Luis washed a window, so he rushes out.
	Film	Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird starts to wash his face with a brush and hot, soapy water, but Maria tells him that's no way to wash his face. He resolves to try another way, and recalls the way Mr. Hooper washed his apron.
	SCENE 4	In a basement, Big Bird fills a washing machine with soap and begins to stick his face in when David stops him and says that washing machines are for clothes only. Big Bird decides he'll just have to have a dirty face for the rest of his life.
	Film	Things that begin with G
	SCENE 5	Back in his nest, Big Bird realizes he hasn't yet looked at his face to see how dirty he is, so he pulls out a mirror. It's so dirty that he can't see his reflection in it, so he starts to clean it with a facecloth in the sink. Maria and David come along and commend him for finding the proper tools to wash his face.
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — (Part 1) Bert tells Ernie to clean up the messy apartment. (First: Episode 0010)
	Cartoon	G is for Glue Artists: The Hubleys (EKA: Episode 0279)
	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)
	Muppets	A furry, purple creature whooshes to the counter of Hooper's Store and counts 5 apples. He subtracts one, leaving 4.
	Song	Susan sing the Enumeration Song in the arbor, with a board featuring sets of circles divided three ways.
	Muppets	The creature returns to subtract one more apple, leaving 3.
	Film	A male voiceover and his friend Myrtle observe a macaw in a tree.
	Muppets	Again, the creature appears to remove another apple, leaving 2.
	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.
	SCENE 6	Big Bird finds a sign on the door of the Fix-It Shop that reads "cerrado". He assumes it means "sleep" in Spanish, so he starts shouting and ringing bells trying to wake Luis up. Maria happens by and explains that "cerrado" means "closed" and that Luis closed the shop to have lunch with a friend. Big Bird realizes that the important thing he wanted to tell Luis was that he was supposed to have lunch with him today, and rushes back to his nest.
	Muppets	Another apple is subtracted, thus leaving only 1.
	Film	(LA) Rhythms - Children (0:42)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet sings "I'm Cold" in the middle of a blizzard. (First: Episode 0368)
	Muppets	The creature takes away the last apple, leaving 0.
File:Bert's Purple Hand.JPG	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert 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)
	Cartoon	G is for Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (EKA: Episode 0305)
	Song	In the arbor, Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and the kids sing and dance "Doin' the Snuffleupagus".
	Muppets	The Martians find a telephone.
	Cartoon	A man saws a letter E through the wall.
	Film	A man and children observe the life along the river.
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Kermit the Frog reports on Rapunzel, who has been locked in a tower by the wicked witch. Prince Charming comes to rescue her by asking to let down her hair, and she literally does...by having her hair fall off her head.
	Cartoon	E for Eel
	Cartoon	G is for Goat (First: Episode 0085)
	SCENE 7	A Spanish-speaking kid enters Hooper's Store, but since David doesn't speak Spanish, he doesn't know what they're asking for. Maria stops by, speaks to the kid, and shows David how to make a piragua with shaved ice and syrup. David immediatley makes a sign to advertise in the window that Hooper's Store now offers piraguas.
	Muppets	Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds." (First: Episode 0358)
	VTR	G-Giggle (0:31)
	SCENE 8	Goodbye
	CLOSING SIGNS

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