Episode 0423

Sesame Street
Big Bird makes his own drum
Air date	December 6, 1972
Season	Season 4 (1972-1973)
Production September 13, 1972 Sponsors H, J, 8

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird hears the sound of Joey playing his drum in the Fix-it Shop. Big Bird loves drums, even to the point of standing around waiting for a parade just to hear them. ("You know, there's not many parades some days," he observes.) Big Bird becomes inspired to build a drum exactly like Joey's.
	Cartoon	"The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug." (First: Episode 0009)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird thinks he has finished building his own drum, and starts to play it. It doesn't make any noise, and Luis points out that while they may look the same, his drum doesn't have any sides like Joey's does. Big Bird continues working on his drum.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: J - Jam (First: Episode 0012)
	Muppets	"J Friends" (First: Episode 0339)
	Cartoon	Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird has finished making his drum, but has trouble trying not to drop it. Luis shows that Joey's drum has a strap attached to it, but points out that he doesn't need one in order to still have fun with his drum. Luis celebrates by playing his guitar. Big Bird becomes awestruck at the instrument and throws down his drum, declaring he's now going to make a guitar.
	Cartoon	A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: STREET. He sings about it with a boy who wears a crown. (First: Episode 0309)
	Muppets	Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079)
	Cartoon	"Candy Man" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0359)
	Film	The Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326)
	SCENE 4	Susan and the kids sing "If You're Happy and You Know It" in the yard.
	Cartoon	"Poverty H” (First: Episode 0020)
	Muppets	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hands, with some assistance from a human hand. Kermit counts the hand's fingers and lists off various things it can do. The hand gradually becomes more aggressive with Kermit in demonstrating, but the two eventually make up by shaking hands. (First: Episode 0342)
	Cartoon	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up." (First: Episode 0302)
	SCENE 5	Gordon lifts a shade on the construction doors to reveal a picture of a kid with balloons. He pulls the shade back down, and asks some kids to remember what they saw in the picture.
	Song	"Eight Song (Song of Eight)” (First: Episode 0016)
	Muppets	Two boys notice that the number 8 looks the same right side up and upside down. (First: Episode 0282)
	Animation	"The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225)
	SCENE 6	Gordon is grading some papers, but the point of his pencil breaks. He is about to sharpen it when Sam the Robot offers to be a pencil-sharpening machine for him. Gordon inserts all his pencils into Sam's front slot, and Sam returns them all trimmed to little stubs. Gordon can't work with such short pencils, so Sam obliges by producing a long, yet oversized, pencil. Fed up, Gordon leaves to get some regular pencils from Hooper's Store.
	Song	"Train Song"
	Muppets	"Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" (First: Episode 0260)
	Cartoon	J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365)
	Muppets	Little Bird explains "next to". Then Cookie Monster cuddles up next to Little Bird. (First: Episode 0167)
	Cartoon	A man has a J under his hat. (First: Episode 0231)
	Film	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit" over a film about tomatoes growing in a field. (First: Episode 0288)
	SCENE 7	Luis sings "One of These Things" in Spanish with the kids, with four circles in one square and three circles in the others.
	Film	A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat. (First: Episode 0028)
	Muppets	Alien Alphabet (First: Episode 0277)
	Cartoon	A boy counts while erasing things and people. (First: Episode 0008)
	SCENE 8	Oscar observes the window shade Gordon used earlier. He likes how they can be pulled down to hide something from view, so he pulls down a black screen wipe as if it were a window shade; that way, he can't see the viewer.
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #4: third dot wants to be red (altered graphics) (First: Episode 0001)
	Cartoon	J family jamboree (repeat)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie's doctor comes over. Ernie keeps trying to tell the doctor why he called him, but the doctor is too occupied with checking on Ernie, hardly allowing him to get a word in edgewise. (First: Episode 0137)
	SCENE 9	Susan plays "Three of These Things" using different shapes: three shapes in one square, and two shapes in the others.
	Muppets	Beat the Time with Grover.
	Cartoon	A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond. (First: Episode 0408)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: J - Jam (repeat)
	Cast	A narrator (Jerry Nelson) demonstrates why it's easier to address people by their names. David, Gordon, Susan, Luis, and some kids are lined up in limbo as the voice calls out for a man to raise his hand (David, Gordon, and Luis comply). The voice then asks for a black man to raise his hand (David and Gordon). Finally, the voice asks for the black man wearing a tie to raise his hand, which leaves only Gordon.
	Cartoon	"Candy Man" (repeat)
	Film	Jerry Nelson introduces the letters U and N. Other letters join them and become SUN, RUN and FUN. (First: Episode 0230)
	SCENE 10	Big Bird leads Luis and the kids in a parade as Susan announces the sponsors.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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