Episode 0548

	Sesame Street
Air date	December 5, 1973
Season	Season 5 (1973-1974)
Production	May 9, 1973
Sponsors	C, Y, 3

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Segment

Description

SCENE 1

Sam the Robot comes upon Maria, Bob, Luis, and Jay playing basketball near the construction doors. He wants to join them, but the others are skeptical that a robot can play their game. Nonetheless, they put the basketball into Sam's front hatch, and after calculating the distance from the basket he makes a perfect shot.

Cartoon

Julius demonstrates "here" and "there", then ends up being "in pain."
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0418)

Muppets

Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit and Trey talk about how to get from one place to another.

Song

Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues."
(First: Episode 0277)

Cartoon

"Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)

SCENE 2

Oscar, sporting a derby hat, explains to Maria that he's gone in the business of selling brushes, which he claims are the finest brushes in the neighborhood. Maria notes that Oscar's hairbrush, toothbrush, and scrubbrush are in lousy condition: they're missing bristles and covered with filth. Oscar agrees, deciding to keep the brushes for his own personal care and closes his business.

Muppets

Cookie Monster sings a rock song about his cookie obsession.
(First: Episode 0506)

Cartoon

Y for yawn
(First: Episode 0301)

Cast

David goes through a series of doors marked "OPEN."
(First: Episode 0442)

Film

Various objects become OPEN.
(First: Episode 0442)

Muppets

Ernie and Bert: Imaginary Baseball Game — While it's raining, Bert encourages Ernie to imagine playing baseball.
(First: Episode 0410)

SCENE 3

Bob and the Count play "Here Are Some Things" using four dotted shapes and one striped shape. The Count tries to count the shapes, then the patterns to find the answer, but Bob shows how none of that matters as the shapes that belong together all have polka dots. Count thinks that a non-counting game is silly, and leaves to find something else to count instead.

Cartoon

The life of a Yellow Yahoo
(First: Episode 0043)

SCENE 4

Letter Y quickies:

Luis and the kids pet a very young puppy.
Big Bird yawns before taking a nap.
Cookie Monster eats a letter Y, which is yummy.
Maria gives a yell after the cup tower she's helping build falls apart.

Cartoon

A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta.
(First: Episode 0443)

Film

Y, for Yacht
(First: Episode 0471)

Muppets

Grover, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (shown in English, then Spanish)
(First: Episode 0186)
Spanish – (First: Episode 0364)

Song

Joe Raposo sings "Flying."
(First: Episode 0394)

Muppets

Ernie and Bert: Reading the Newspaper — Ernie has a question but decides to wait until Bert is done reading the newspaper to ask.
(First: Episode 0042)

Cartoon

A boy does an addition problem in his head: 5 + 1 = 6.

SCENE 5

Jay tries to glue a leg onto a chair, but can’t get it to stand properly. Luis brushes off the situation and even chuckles, but Jay stands up to him and tells him that just because Luis may have a lot of knowledge on how to fix things doesn't mean everybody does. Luis realizes that he's right, and helps him fix the chair with a C-clamp and two wooden boards. Jay thanks him for showing how to fix his chair, but Luis believes that he learned a more important lesson from Jay.

Cartoon

A girl imagines she's a rock, which becomes a statue.
(First: Episode 0513)

Muppets

Simon Soundman tries to buy a saw at Sam's General Store.
(First: Episode 0409)

Muppets

Muppet & Kid Moment — Chris, with his sister Stephanie, counts to 20 for Kermit.
(First: Episode 0422)

Film

Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
(First: Episode 0254)

Cartoon

Would you mind closing our OPEN?
(First: Episode 0438)

Muppets

Grover watches Mumford practice a trick, making a rabbit come out of his hat. Mumford has trouble getting a rabbit to come out of the hat, and both are oblivious to the fact that Grover is turning into a rabbit.
(First: Episode 0407)

Cartoon

A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y.
(First: Episode 0470)

Film

Kids narrate a tortilla contest in English and Spanish.
(First: Episode 0456)

Cartoon

C - Cake
(First: Episode 0153)

Film

"Three Song (Song of Three)."
(First: Episode 0001)

SCENE 6

Luis and Maria watch as Robert and Kim try to make letters out of one, then two, then three, then four sticks.

Muppets

Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day.
(First: Episode 0325)

Animation

The story of Dan and Nan, as told with words ending in "an."
(First: Episode 0450)

Muppets

Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola count fingers.
(First: Episode 0464)

SCENE 7

Big Bird finds Mr. Snuffleupagus at his nest, sick with a cold. Big Bird recommends he go home and rest, but Snuffy feels a sneeze coming on. Big Bird rushes to fetch him a tissue, only to find that Maria doesn't have one big enough at Hooper's Store. He sees Bob putting up a bedsheet on the clothesline, and fights with Bob as it's just the right size. But it’s too late: Snuffy’s sneeze ends up blowing a huge gush of wind down the street, scattering paper and leaves everywhere. Snuffy goes home, and Big Bird, Maria and Bob come back to an empty nest area. They still don't believe that a Snuffleupagus exists, though Maria is curious as to what made the sneeze.