Episode 0539

	Sesame Street
Air date	November 22, 1973
Season	Season 5 (1973-1974)
Sponsors	E, G, 5
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird joins Maria, Bob, and the kids for a game of hide-and-seek. Maria, designated as "it," sees Big Bird having trouble finding a spot he can convincingly hide. So, she instead makes him "it" instead. He counts to 10, but this puts him to sleep instead of going to look for everyone. The rest of the players simply end the game and let him nap.
	Cartoon	Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007)
	Song	"Five Onstage Dancers"
	Film	Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Polly count five fingers. (First: Episode 0279)
	SCENE 2	Bob sings "Five Fingers on My Left Hand."
	Muppets	Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk" The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together. (First: Episode 0452)
	Film	Things you can carry Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0515)
	Cartoon	One of these things doesn't belong (shoe pairs) (First: Episode 0490)
	Celebrity	Joe Namath demonstrates forward and backward. (First: Episode 0530)
	SCENE 3	Reacting to the previous segment, Big Bird throws a forward pass himself, which smashes into something offscreen.
	Film	A figure skater illustrates forward and backward. (First: Episode 0500)
	Cast	"David the Daring" does his famous forwards and backwards trick. (First: Episode 0439)
	Muppets	"The Ballad of Casey McPhee" (First: Episode 0516)
	Film	Hippos Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0415)
	SCENE 4	Maria makes a tower out of five cigar boxes. At first, she glues them together and stacks them like stairs before stacking them the right way.
	Cartoon	Jazz #5 (repeat)
	Muppets	Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to twenty. (First: Episode 0189)
	Cartoon	A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream, and finally, some whipped cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does.
	Cast	The Kids try to spell the word "BUS" in the right way. (First: Episode 0469)
	Cartoon	Letter G drawing with kid voice-over (First: Episode 0306)
	Film	Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357)
	Cartoon	G is for Goat (First: Episode 0085)
	SCENE 5	Bob finds Big Bird repeating "G, G, G" to himself. He explains it's a memory trick to help remember a letter he received from his sister Esmeralda regarding her 14 newly-hatched eggs - his immediate response was, "Gee!"
	Cartoon	A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job. (First: Episode 0131)
	Muppets	Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds." (First: Episode 0358)
	Cartoon	La palabra cerrado (First: Episode 0481)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert can't go on a trip with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. Ernie puts a mitten on Bert's hand to cover it, but Bert still won't go because he looks silly wearing one mitten. So Ernie completes the outfit with another mitten, a hat, a scarf, and a sled. Ernie then reveals that they are going to the beach. (First: Episode 0386)
	Film	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004)
	SCENE 6	Big Bird proudly demonstrates to Maria how he can count to 10 in Spanish. She congratulates him in Spanish, which he can't understand. He beams when she says she assumed he could speak Spanish as well as her.
	Animation	Dot & Hill B-3: Silhouetted dots use carts to climb a steep hill.
	Muppets	Simon Soundman goes to Marvin's Music City to buy a nice shiny trumpet. However, Marvin keeps bringing the wrong instrument. (First: Episode 0458)
	Cartoon	A man tries to explain how to put wallpaper up.
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit talks with Chris about teaching his little sister, Stephanie, to talk. Chris practices the alphabet. (First: Episode 0495)
	Cartoon	A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406)
	Muppets	The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me." (First: Episode 0416)
	SCENE 7	Goodbye