Sesame Street | |||||||
Mr. Hooper loses his glasses | |||||||
Air date | March 27, 1973 | ||||||
Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
|
Picture | Segment | Description |
---|---|---|
SCENE 1 | The Count is sad as he wants someone to count with him. He tries asking a kid, then Oscar (whom he almost hypnotizes), but they either can't or don't want to. Luis also isn't able to help the Count, but suggests that he count up to twenty with a man from India… | |
Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (First: Episode 0276) | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
The Count is impressed, and jubilantly counts to twenty himself. He wants to see if the man will count again... | |
Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0276) | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
The Count counts to twenty in Spanish himself, and feels much better. | |
Muppets | Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson orders bacon and eggs, but he can't decide how many of each he wants. Mr. Johnson says that Grover takes too long and asks for two hot dogs and two pickles for lunch. Grover then throws a tantrum in the kitchen. (First: Episode 0408) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #10 (First: Episode 0328) | |
Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) | |
SCENE 2 | Mr. Hooper accidentally bumps into a kid on her tricycle, then struggles to open the door to the store, not realizing he’s at the Fix-it Shop instead. David and Maria ask him what’s going on, and realize that he’s not wearing his glasses because he misplaced them in the store last night. | |
Film | Js appear in a junkyard. (First: Episode 0449) | |
Film | A clown (Dennis Allen) takes off his make-up. Which face do you like better? (First: Episode 0461) | |
SCENE 3 | Maria and David look around inside the store for the missing glasses. Mr. Hooper thinks back to yesterday: he remembers that he was bending down to make an ice cream cone for Big Bird, right before he closed the store. Maria gets an idea: she asks for an ice cream cone of the same flavor. Mr. Hooper makes her a cone -- and his glasses are sticking out of the scoop of ice cream! | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet brings his broken BUS (the word) to a garage for a mechanic to fix up. (First: Episode 0455) | |
Cartoon | The word BUS (First: Episode 0277) | |
Film | George the Farmer demonstrates beginning and end. (First: Episode 0265) | |
Cartoon | A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian. (First: Episode 0347) | |
SCENE 4 | Kate plays the guitar and sings “I Wish You Were Here.” | |
Muppets | Three Anything Muppets (including Farley) wait for a bus at a bus stop. To their surprise, the bus is very small, and two small Muppets get off of it. (First: Episode 0189) | |
Film | Joe Raposo: Insects (instrumental w/ kid VO, same music as "Peacock") (First: Episode 0410) | |
Cartoon | "Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425) | |
Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog. (First: Episode 0387) | |
Cartoon | A girl wonders what would happen if she popped her balloon. She imagines it would scare her sister, who would end up breaking a vase and getting in trouble. (First: Episode 0280) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has gone shopping -- buying bread for himself, and peanut butter for Bert. They realize that it's dull to eat what they have separately, and they decide to cooperate, so they can each have a peanut butter sandwich. (First: Episode 0279) | |
Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut. (First: Episode 0387) | |
SCENE 5 | Mr. Hooper plays a “Three of These Things” game with three eating utensils and a fountain pen. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147) | |
Cartoon | L es para luz (First: Episode 0373) | |
Muppets | Some AM kids get ready to play baseball. A Fat Blue (Jerry Nelson) brings a bat, Prairie Dawn (Fran Brill) brings a glove, and a Lavender (Caroll Spinney) brings a catcher's mask. A Hot Pink (Frank Oz) brings a hockey stick, and a tennis racket, before producing a box... which holds the baseball. (First: Episode 0193) | |
Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man paints a picture. (First: Episode 0411) | |
Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) | |
Muppets | Betty Lou teaches the meaning of "beginning", "middle", and "end", and introduces two of her friends: Beginning and End. The duo tell a story, but it lacks something in between the beginning and end parts. Beginning and End recruit their pal Middle to fill out the rest of the story. Middle, however, cannot stop telling the exciting part of the story, and the three friends begin a quarrel, forcing Betty Lou to declare the end of the lecture. (First: Episode 0138) | |
SCENE 6 | David the Magician demonstrates beginning, middle, and end using a row of kids and Maria (who pops up in different places via camera cuts). | |
Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - Kids wait in line at a movie theater. (First: Episode 0411) | |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La." (First: Episode 0321) | |
Film | Kids narrate a tortilla contest in English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0456) | |
Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) | |
Cast | The Kids try to spell the word "BUS" in the right way. (First: Episode 0469) | |
Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Caroll Spinney sings "Rockabye Baby" to a sleepy koala. (First: Episode 0048) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) | |
Muppets | Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie." (First: Episode 0136) | |
Cartoon | L es para Lonchera (First: Episode 0476) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster: Cookie Monster comes to the bakery looking for something delicious that rhymes with BUY. He tries the I (from the MIKE'S BAKERY sign) and the baker's TIE, both of which aren't that delicious. Finally, Guy Smiley comes in and loudly announces that he would like to BUY a PIE. Cookie then knows what he can get in the bakery that rhymes with BUY and is delicious: it's GUY! A chase ensues, and Cookie asks the baker to send him the bill. (First: Episode 0481) | |
Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L. (First: Episode 0449) | |
Film | "There's a Bird On Me" (Joe Raposo) (First: Episode 0416) | |
Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A woman makes a sandwich. (First: Episode 0387) | |
SCENE 7 | The Count counts along to the closing music while Maria and David dance with some kids in the yard as Luis announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Maria, Bob, and Sherlock Hemlock hold the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Previous episode: | Next episode: |
Episode 0501 | Episode 0503 |