Episode 0500

Sesame Street
Oscar installs a doorbell on his trash can
Air date	March 23, 1973
Season	Season 4 (1972-1973)
Sponsors F, H, 8 This episode guide has been compiled from script materials provided by a trusted source. ⓘ

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Luis teaches a girl how to play a guitar chord, encouraging her to keep trying.
	Cartoon	“Poverty H:” A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (First: Episode 0020)
	Film	Letter H hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0336)
	Cartoon	Children describe how to draw an elephant. (First: Episode 0052)
	Insert	A deck of playing cards are dealt with random numbers on the front.
	Cartoon	Harold and Howard think of H words. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0284)
	SCENE 2	Susan notices a giant button on Oscar’s can. She knocks so she can ask him what it is, and he indignantly tells her that he just installed a new doorbell. The doorbell makes an elegant Big Ben type sound, so she calls Luis, Gordon, Bob and Kate over to hear the amazing sound that Oscar’s doorbell makes, irritating him even further.
	Cartoon	What if a dog looked like a bird? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226)
	SCENE 3	Oscar shows the grownups his new doorbell, which now makes a racket of loud, irritating sounds that drive them away.
	Cartoon	H for hair (First: Episode 0475)
	Film	David narrates some films showing the homes of animals. (First: Episode 0452)
	Cast	"David the Daring" does his famous forwards and backwards trick. (First: Episode 0439)
	Song	"Song of Eight" (First: Episode 0016)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppet kids "fix" an upside-down 8. (First: Episode 0282)
	Cartoon	A mad scientist (voice of Arnold Stang) puts together a capital H. (First: Episode 0284)
	SCENE 4	Kate plays the guitar and sings about being upside-down.
	Cartoon	Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF (First: Episode 0387)
	Film	A figure skater illustrates forward and backward
	Cartoon	A child runs through a crowd shouting for MAMA. (First: Episode 0458)
	Song	Luis sings "Three of These Kids" -- three kids are playing basketball, and one is playing baseball. (First: Episode 0418)
	Cartoon	H - Horse (First: Episode 0474)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppets who keep running over the boy when his back is turned. (First: Episode 0069)
	SCENE 5	Gordon is about to tell the kids a story, when Sam the Robot comes by and offers to do it himself. His story is an amalgamation of different fairy tales.
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppets who keep running over the boy when his back is turned. (Spanish soundtrack) (First: Episode 0385)
	Animation	"The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0255)
	Cast	Wally and Ralph navigate a tube of toothpaste. (First: Episode 0378)
	Cartoon	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020)
	Cartoon	H for hola (Spanish soundtrack). (First: Episode 0362)
	Cartoon	A boy passes by various signs before reaching the SALIDA.
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover talk about "AN" words. Herbert demonstrates the words themselves, while Grover provides visual aids. The first word they talk about is RAN. While Herbert talks about how to make the word, Grover keeps running around the scene until he tires himself out. (First: Episode 0160)
	SCENE 6	Bob shows some kids a picture and has them point out the embedded number 8s.
	Muppets	Herbert now makes the word "CAN," so Grover makes a stack of them, which he knocks over. (First: Episode 0160)
	Celebrity	Pat Paulsen demonstrates "forward" and "backward". (First: Episode 0069)
	Muppets	Finally, Herbert makes the word "FAN." Grover brings in a fan that blows them both away. (First: Episode 0160)
	Cartoon	A pink circle splits into a cat, and a gray circle splits into a mouse. (First: Episode 0452)
	Cast	Luis looks for the SALIDA in a brick room. (First: Episode 0407)
	SCENE 7	In the kitchen, Susan asks Big Bird to refill a salt shaker while she's gone. It doesn't dawn on Big Bird that he should unscrew the top first, so he makes a mess when he tries filling it through the small holes in the top. Susan tells him that he can still help her by cleaning up the kitchen with her.
	Cast	Maria, Susan, Luis and David put together a fractured letter H. (First: Episode 0422)
	Cartoon	Candy Man Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0359)
	Muppets	Lefty wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas. (First: Episode 0449)
	Cartoon	Miss Fortune makes guesses about a dog. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0483)
	Film	A film insert of kittens playing, with child voiceovers in English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0429)
	Cartoon	H for hair (repeat)
	SCENE 8	The sponsors are announced and the credits roll.

Notes

• Scenes 2, 3 and 7 are rewritten from Episode 0076.

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