Episode 0431

Sesame Street
Luis, Susan and the kids work together to clean the street
Air date	December 18, 1972
Season	Season 4 (1972-1973)
Production September 21, 1972 Sponsors X, Z, 5

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Oscar decides not to tell the viewer to go away as he's admiring the big mess of litter all over Sesame Street. He surmises that the wind knocked some cans over and caused it, but Luis and Susan don't like what they see. They recruit the kids to help get rid of the mess, including Jay and Joey (who apologizes to Oscar for having to spoil his enjoyment). Oscar doesn't believe they can do it, but they succeed as they sing "We've Got to Work Together" while cleaning the street. Oscar even helps by happily taking the big pile of trash into his can.
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Part 1: Ernie, having set up shop as a barber, gives Bert a haircut, but he ends up removing all of his hair. (First: Episode 0068)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Part 2: Ernie tries to disguise Bert until his hair grows back, but a monster (later known as Grover) mistakes Bert for his father and lugs him away. (First: Episode 0068)
	Cartoon	A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0356)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Part 3: Bert has quickly grown his hair back, but his brief time amongst monsters has resulted in his speaking like Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0068)
	SCENE 2	Susan plays a rhyming game with Big Bird, Luis, and the kids. She names a word, and the kids try to think of a body part whose name rhymes with that word. Big Bird isn't very good at the game, until he makes a rhyme for "beak.”
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253)
	Cartoon	"Poverty Z”: -- A figure tries to sell a Z. His only customer stops him by locking him inside a zoo cage. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0085)
	Film	The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345)
	Cartoon	The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd (First: Episode 0325)
	Muppets	Roosevelt Franklin spells his name. (First: Episode 0182)
	Film	Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006)
	Muppets	Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part one) (First: Episode 0281)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird and the kids show off their animal imitations when Mr. Snuffleupagus ambles in. He's very tired and wants to take a nap, so Big Bird says it's okay for him to sleep near his nest. He and the kids cover Snuffy with a blanket, and Big Bird tries to make sure no one disturbs him. He shushes Susan, only telling her that “a friend” is sleeping nearby, and ponders how to warn everyone else.
	Cartoon	Kids narrate a letter 'Z' drawing (First: Episode 0359)
	Muppets	Prairie Dawn explains to Herry Monster about the similarities and differences between three shoes. (First: Episode 0199)
	Cartoon	Z for zebra and zoo (First: Episode 0281)
	SCENE 4	Big Bird and Joey loudly hammer several “Quiet - Snuffleupagus Sleeping” signs all over the construction doors. Big Bird keeps telling Joey not to make any loud noise, only to accidentally drops his box of tools. Joey suggests they quietly put their tools back, and Big Bird gets another idea to keep people from noisily dropping things…
	Film	A turtle walks slowly. Music: "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod (First: Episode 0281)
	Cartoon	Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323)
	Cartoon	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281)
	SCENE 5	Big Bird has covered the ground with pillows, cushions, and Susan's quilt. Luis and Susan question all of this, and Big Bird tells them that Mr. Snuffleupagus is trying to sleep. The grown-ups brush this off, saying that noise won't wake his imaginary friend, and start removing the signs and soft items. Big Bird lets them do so on the condition that they do it quietly.
	Muppets	"The ET Family Song" (First: Episode 0139)
	Cartoon	zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359)
	SCENE 6	Snuffy wakes up from his nap, and asks the viewer to keep an eye on Big Bird's blanket he's placed on some barrels. He exits right before Big Bird enters with Susan and Luis, who lift the blanket and joke about not wanting to wake the barrels.
	Song	"1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144)
	Muppets	Grover the Assistant: Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls. (First: Episode 0292)
	Cast	Wally and Ralph are outside in the rain. With access to a pushcart full of umbrellas, they open one after another and throw them aside on the ground. They are consequently puzzled as to how umbrellas keep you dry. Finally, when one of them suggests "taking the wrapping off" of it first (i.e., the cloth part), they reduce an umbrella down to the ribs just as the rain stops. It works! (First: Episode 0355)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: Z for zipper (repeat)
	Muppets	"The Zizzy Zoomers" (First: Episode 0359)
	Cast	A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three.
	Song	"1-2-3-4-5!" (repeat)
	Film	A garfish swims around. (First: Episode 0254)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Run." (First: Episode 0372)
	Film	Five Song (Song of Five) (repeat)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 7	Big Bird starts a barnyard animal game with the kids as Luis announces the sponsors.
	CLOSING SIGNS	David and Maria hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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