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Sesame Street
Maria and Big Bird play a rhyming game
Air date December 1, 1972
Season Season 4 (1972-1973)
Directed by Joost Van Rees
Production September 12, 1972
Sponsors A, B, 5

SSShowID-0420

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0420a
SCENE 1 Gordon appears on Sesame Street with only his head, hands, and lower legs visible (as he's wearing blue against a chroma key background). The rest of his body is missing, and he takes his cue from the audience as to which parts are gone as they return (removing the blue pieces of fabric).
Kermitcookiehappyface
Muppets Kermit tries to give a lecture on being happy, but Cookie Monster eats Kermit's happy face prop, which makes him mad.
(First: Episode 0066)
No5
Film Five Song (Song of Five)
(First: Episode 0006)
BodyPartShoutOut
Film Body part shout-out
(First: Episode 0264)
2485d
Cartoon An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
(First: Episode 0293)
Painter5
Film The Mad Painter #5
(First: Episode 0345)
0420b
SCENE 2 Maria plays a rhyming game with Big Bird and the kids where she gives them a word and tells them to come back with an object that rhymes with it. Big Bird isn't too sure he'd be good at it, so Maria starts with the word "knock," and the other kids bring back a sock, a rock, a clock, and a block. Next she assigns them the word "hair"; all the kids return with a chair. Big Bird has made his way over to the garage where he finds a stair. The stair is nailed down, so he leaves to retrieve his tools.
Bigacartoon
Cartoon A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.
(First: Episode 0132)
0420c
SCENE 3 Just as Big Bird is about to saw away a stair from the garage steps, Maria stops him and says he can't ruin the stairs for a game; he'll have to find something else that rhymes with "hair." Maria gives him a hint: it has four legs. After some thought, Big Bird resolves to go find a bear.
Bigacartoon
Cartoon Words that begin with A, ending with ambulance (Spanish soundtrack)
Animated by Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0371)
0420d
SCENE 4 Big Bird has set out a series of honey jars leading up to his nest in order to catch a bear. He sits with his butterfly net and waits for his prey as Maria comes by and commends him on find the object that rhymes with hair and has four legs: a chair.
Count-mailman
Muppets As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for him. He wonders why there are so many. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them...and then he does.
0420e
SCENE 5 Luis exits the Fix-it Shop and notices a sign in the window that says "AGUA." Puzzled, he says the word and is drenched from above with water.
5painting
Song "1-2-3-4-5!" (repeat)
0420f
SCENE 5 cont'd Luis exits again with an umbrella and reads the "AGUA" sign. Nothing happens, so he reads it again. He lowers the umbrella, says it one more time, and gets drenched in water again.
Aapestory
Cartoon A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.
(First: Episode 0158)
SquareOut
Film Squares are shown in close-up.
0420g
SCENE 5 cont'd Luis beckons Maria over and indicates that she should read the sign. Maria reads "AGUA"... and nothing happens. Luis says the word, and is drenched in a third downpour.
No5
Film Five Song (Song of Five)
(First: Episode 0006)
0420-GroverPolly-Fingers
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentGrover helps Polly count five fingers on her hand; he says she's lucky.
Fiddler5
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0323)
Kermittracy5
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentKermit and Tracy count to 5.
(First: Episode 0125)
0420h
SCENE 6 Gordon points to a handkerchief that's in his pocket. He pulls on it (it's several feet long) and notes that it's now out.
Herbert and Grover 1
Muppets Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot recite the alphabet together.
(First: Episode 0188)
Fiddler5
Cartoon Country Fiddler: #5 (repeat)
0420i
SCENE 6 cont'd Susan shows that her foot is in her boot. She lifts her boot up by the top, revealing that it doesn't have a sole, so now it's out.
0273 Flip Wilson 20
Celebrity Flip Wilson counts from 1 to 20.
(First: Episode 0147)
3978f
Song Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five."
(First: Episode 0245)
Bisforbath
Cartoon B is for bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. And Bosco, who is taking a bath.
(First: Episode 0355)
I'mpretty-original
Song David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.
(First: Episode 0389)
5painting
Song "1-2-3-4-5!"
(First: Episode 0155)
UN-FamilySong
Muppets "The UN Family Song"
(First: Episode 0155)
1576-Bird
Film An osprey flies around.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0293)
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
(First: Episode 0006)
0420j
SCENE 7 Susan and the kids play "Three of These Things" while sorting a saw, a shoe, a pair of pliers, and a hammer.
Muppets bigandsmall
Muppets A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks.
(First: Episode 0298)
0420k
SCENE 8 In his nest area, Big Bird sings "The Sound of the Letter A" to the kids.
Hemlock-applemystery
Muppets Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall, and wants to know who it belongs to. Sherlock Hemlock helps solve the mystery, and realizes that Ernie has a brown paper bag with a hole at the bottom, and that Ernie had an apple in the bag, therefore the apple belongs to Ernie.
(First: Episode 0137)
2485d
Cartoon An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
(First: Episode 0293)
BAP
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie asks Bert to go play in the park with him. When Bert says no, Ernie wonders if he isn't feeling well and starts to examine him.
(First: Episode 0124)
George the Farmer in out
Film George the Farmer demonstrates in and out.
(First: Episode 0293)
Bisforbongobeat
Cartoon With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall.
Voice: Casey Kasem
(First: Episode 0237)
Dot Bridge 02 late
Cartoon Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others
(First: Episode 0001)
0420l
SCENE 9 The kids play volleyball in the yard as Luis announces the sponsors. The credits roll, with the sound of the kids continuing their game heard over it.
ClosingSign-BobSusanSS-0420

MariaLostCTWs03
CLOSING SIGNS Bob and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.



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