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Sesame Street
Rafael moves to Sesame Street; Big Bird helps Susan inflate her bike tire
Air date March 25, 1974
Season Season 5 (1973-1974)
Production February 6, 1974
Sponsors C, Y, 4

SSShowID-0626

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0626a

0626b
SCENE 1 Gordon welcomes the viewer and finds the word "TELEPHONE" near Oscar's trash can. Oscar explains that it's for his latest invention: a Grouchophone. It looks just like a regular telephone, but when Gordon holds the receiver up to his ear, the mouthpiece squirts him in the face with water, making him grouchy.
CT Wordsworth telephone
Cartoon A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: TELEPHONE.
(First: Episode 0314)
0871t
Insert Cookie Monster explains the purpose of a telephone. Then, Maria and Luis tease Cookie by eating the telephone!
(First: Episode 0562)
1736h
Cartoon Boy and the UP balloons
(First: Episode 0364)
1186m
Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down.
(First: Episode 0565)
2059e
Film George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
(First: Episode 0239)
0626c

0626d
SCENE 2 At the Fix-it Shop, Luis meets Rafael, a new kid on the block who only speaks Spanish. Rafael tells Luis that he's sad because he just moved and doesn’t know anyone yet. Luis remembers when he moved to Sesame Street; in a flashback, Mr. Hooper invites him into Hooper's Store for a rest. On that day, Mr. Hooper gives Luis a hot chocolate on the house, and Luis proves to be a big help translating a Spanish-speaking customer’s phone order. Back in the present, Mr. Hooper asks for Luis’s assistance again in getting Mrs. Santiago's order; Luis helps out as Rafael is introduced to Mr. Hooper.
IThoughtaBigThought
Cartoon I Thought a Thought ... about big things.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0226)
Songofthecount
Muppets The Count sings "The Song of the Count."
(First: Episode 0469)
4fiddle
Cartoon Donnie Budd counts four lions.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0300)
EBSharingaCookie
Muppets Ernie & BertBert refuses to share his cookie with Ernie, who tells Bert that if the cookie was his, he wouldn't mind sharing. Ernie takes the cookie, and asks Bert to ask him if he would share it.
(First: Episode 0472)
Updownbrothersister
Cartoon A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0526)
1186z
Film A man bounces a ball up the steps, and then it falls down the steps.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0435)
0781-Lines
Animation Three lines attempt to individually reach the top of the TV screen, but fail. They succeed after they combine all of their lengths.
(First: Episode 0288)
0626e
SCENE 3 Susan encounters Oscar singing a grouchy version of "Rockabye Baby." He claims to be taking care of a baby, and proves it by showing her the baby's giant-sized rattle, diaper, and bottle. The baby happens to be a rhinoceros, whose mother charges into Oscar's back door and destroys the furniture.
Film-MomRhino
Film A rhino and her baby
(First: Episode 0408)
Y.Yawn
Cartoon Y for yawn
(First: Episode 0301)
Yolanda and the Youth 01

Yolanda and the Youth 02
Muppets / Cast Bob reads "Yolanda and the Youth", a story about a youth who wins the hand of Princess Yolanda by passing the "Y" test.
(First: Episode 0174)
1184-Sand
Animation Sand Y/y
0573y
Cartoon Only one of the two footprints can belong.
(First: Episode 0509)
Imaginekermit
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)
0600-Y
Cartoon A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y.
(First: Episode 0470)
No4
Film Four Song (Song of Four)
(First: Episode 0006)
Smocks
Cast Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting.
(First: Episode 0284)
Elephant toon
Cartoon Elephants have 4 legs.
(First: Episode 0560)
EBDrumSet
Muppets Ernie & BertBert has acquired some drums, but he doesn't know how to play them well. Ernie teaches him how to make drum playing exciting.
(First: Episode 0579)
Marchingband4
Film Marching Band #4
(First: Episode 0507)
Updowncartoonman
Cartoon A man demonstrates up and down.
Artist: Al Jarnow
(First: Episode 0276)
0626f
SCENE 4 Oscar displays shapes to the viewer, asking them if it is the shape of their television screen. He finally holds up the correct one, a rectangle, and puts it on the screen to get rid of everybody bothering him.
1708g
Cartoon A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta.
(First: Episode 0443)
Lourawls1969
Celebrity Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids.
(First: Episode 0043)
0600-Yacht
Film Y, for Yacht
(First: Episode 0471)
KidFatherBuild
Animation A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found.
(First: Episode 0268)
2040d
Film Pizza is made.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0416)
Cookie10
Muppets Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it.
(First: Episode 0283)
C- Cap
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C - Cap
(First: Episode 0154)
Stopwater
Film "What if you were magic, and could make things stop just by telling it to, or make it go backwards? Stop! Then you could see what things look like when they're moving. Go forwards! Stop! Well, film is magic, and this is a film, so you can be magic for three minutes. Like this: Go slow, water fountain! Now, you try it."
(First: Episode 0047)
0626g
SCENE 5 Big Bird offers to help Susan with her flat bike tire, believing he's a fixing expert after working with Luis. He tries to inflate it in different ways such as fanning the air with his wing and blowing at it, but Susan shows him how a tire pump works.
4fiddle
Cartoon Donnie Budd counts four lions. (repeat)
Dandy David flower pots
Cast "Dandy David" adds flowers and flower pots.
(First: Episode 0435)
Lazy UP
Cartoon A man pushes up a lazy UP.
(First: Episode 0316)
I'mpretty-original
Song David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.
(First: Episode 0389)
0573d
Cartoon C - Cake
(First: Episode 0153)
Gymnast-OnOff
Film A gymnast demonstrates on and off.
(First: Episode 0526)
KidFatherBuild
Animation A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version)
(First: Episode 0277)
0592.20
Film Counting to 20.
(First: Episode 0421)
0626h
SCENE 6 Susan finishes inflating the front tire, but Big Bird points out that now the back tire is flat. She thanks Big Bird for his "help" and starts pumping as Luis announces the sponsors.
HooperS05

ClosingSign-LuisGordonKidCTW-0626
CLOSING SIGNS Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and Luis, Gordon, and a kid hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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