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Sesame Street
Big Bird learns about magnets
Air date November 22, 1972
Season Season 4 (1972-1973)
Production August 29, 1972
Sponsors M, O, 9

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Mr. Snuffleupagus greets the viewer and tries to introduce one of today's letters. He doesn't have a physical copy on him, so he tries to make the letter O using his scrunched-up snuffle.
Toon-OCowboy
Cartoon A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O.
(First: Episode 0286)
Cosbytwinsalphabet2
Celebrity Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together.
(First: Episode 0131)
2341u
Film Letter O hoist
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0338)
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SCENE 2 Snuffy encounters some discarded bicycle horns outside Oscar's trash can, and picks one up for himself. He tells Big Bird that from now on, he (Snuffy) can blow a horn so that he'll be more noticeable to Big Bird's friends who don't believe he's real.
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SCENE 2 cont'd Excited, Big Bird tells Luis about this, and they hear a horn honk behind the newsstand, but it's only Brynne with a horn. They hear more honking coming from Big Bird's nest, but it turns out to be Gordon, who tells them that Oscar has left them out for people to make noise with.
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SCENE 2 cont'd Just after Luis leaves, Snuffy returns, having not been noticed by anybody. Big Bird runs back to the Fix-It Shop to try and get Luis, hearing the honking from the street. Luis assumes this is someone else on the block and ignores it, failing to see Snuffy as he struts past the shop.
MartianBeauty
Cartoon "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0316)
Biggestman
Muppets Old West: Sinister Sam is looking for the biggest man in the saloon. The frightened customers point him towards Big Barney, who's cowering under the table. When Sam discovers that Barney is the biggest man there, he gives him a hat: "This ol' hat here don't fit me. I thought maybe you could use it, huh? I'll see you, fellers." Sinister Sam leaves the baffled customers behind. "Now, that's a nice gesture," one says. "He's a little weird, but he's okay after all, isn't he?"
(First: Episode 0281)
No9
Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
(First: Episode 0016)
Toon-Love1
Cartoon Two men discuss who they love, as one man asserts that you can't love an ice cream cone.
(First: Episode 0292)
Buyano
Muppets "Would You Like to Buy an O?"
(First: Episode 0364)
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SCENE 3 Big Bird calls Luis over to his nest, because the key to his piggy bank fell underneath and he can't reach it. Luis uses a magnet to retrieve the key, showing Big Bird how magnets work. Big Bird holds it, but then drops the magnet in his nest.
Rockhuntingernie
Muppets Ernie is on a hunt for big rocks. When he tries to pick a really big rock, the rock turns out to be the dome of a large monster.
(First: Episode 0034)
PinkElephants
Cartoon Big, bigger and biggest elephants
(First: Episode 0389)
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SCENE 4 Luis retrieves the magnet from the nest with a bigger magnet. He then ties the piggy bank key around Big Bird's neck so he won't lose it again. Big Bird recommends Luis do the same with his magnet.
400019
Cartoon M for mouse, mud, and mother
(First: Episode 0073)
You Can Clean Almost Anything
Film You can clean almost anything.
Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers.
(First: Episode 0001)
Melvinsmuscles
Cartoon Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles.
Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift
(First: Episode 0207)
2040q
Insert Three of These Kids (upside-down girl)
VisualThink-SS Muppets Visual Thinking: A hipster and a square imagine shapes.
(First: Episode 0361)
Painter9
Film The Mad Painter #9
(First: Episode 0338)
9people
Cast No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people.
3958s1
Cartoon A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled.
Artist: Jim Simon
Toon.OPENword
Cartoon Some kids wander into the word OPEN, where there's a party going on.
(First: Episode 0394)
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SCENE 5 Maria holds up a donut to simulate the letter O, "with a bite in it" (courtesy of Gordon).
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SCENE 5 cont'd Luis then shows off an inner tube to use an O, "with a leak in it."
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SCENE 5 cont'd Oscar has a metallic O on the inside of his can lid, "with a dent in it" (that he puts in himself with a hammer).
Toon-WhatsThatCircle
Cartoon Kids guess what two circles drawn onscreen will become. They turn out to be the eye of a friendly monster.
(First: Episode 0248)
GreenHandSpinTop
Muppets Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top.
(First: Episode 0362)
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SCENE 6 The kids assemble so they can play "The Imitating Game," where they imitate the actions of a job using some props that Maria gives them. First, a child pretends to be a traffic cop. Then, Ingrid and Reggie act like a baseball pitcher. Finally, Brynne imitates a painter.
Africastonesgame
Film African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones.
(First: Episode 0136)
MartianBeauty
Cartoon "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. (repeat)
Toon-Tall-er-estTrees
Cartoon A farmer plants big, bigger and biggest trees.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0284)
Sherlocksandwich
Muppets Ernie opens his lunchbox and finds that half of his chicken salad sandwich is missing. Sherlock Hemlock, the world's greatest detective, investigates this fiendish crime. It turns out that Sherlock himself ate half of Ernie's sandwich.
(First: Episode 0131)
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SCENE 7 Susan plays a silly rhyming game with the kids with the words "shoelace," "button," and "Sesame."
Zooelephant
Film Joe Raposo: Elephant (instrumental)
(First: Episode 0034)
Spanishtoon.Opera
Cartoon La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes.
(First: Episode 0338)
Song.hippopotamusround
Song Joe Raposo sings "Hippopotamus Round."
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SCENE 8 Gordon sings "Here Are Some Things" with a group of cleaning supplies.
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SCENE 8 cont'd Down the block, Maria narrates as Ingrid rolls Reggie in a large letter O, going over and over until they're out.
Olga.O
Cartoon Olga y la letra O
(First: Episode 0338)
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SCENE 9 Brynne now rolls a kid up and down the sidewalk, as Maria announces the sponsors.
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OscarCTWs02
CLOSING SIGNS Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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