Episode 0635

	Sesame Street
	Big Bird's family album; Oscar's book of Grouch poems
Air date	April 5, 1974
Season	Season 5 (1973-1974)
Sponsors	P, R, 2
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Susan tells Bob, Luis and Gordon what she heard from Big Bird: he couldn’t see when he was very young. They all assume he had a troubled childhood because of that, so they visit him. Big Bird shows them his family album, and finally reveals why he couldn’t see when he was young: he hadn’t come out of his egg yet.
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233)
	Cartoon	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011)
	Cartoon	A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410)
	Muppets	Farley goes to the hat shop. (long take) (First: Episode 0244)
	Cast	Maria and David find two sets of sacks, which have incorrect numerical labels. (First: Episode 0505)
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse (First: Episode 0183)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird builds a model of himself and calls it "ME."
	Muppets	Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS. (First: Episode 0194)
	Film	Kids narrate a film about where you get ice cream: from the cow, to the factory, to the ice cream shoppe. (First: Episode 0168)
	Cartoon	The word EXIT walks out of the room.
	Muppets	Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman. (First: Episode 0023)
	Cartoon	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall. (First: Episode 0439)
	Cartoon	P is for Puddle (First: Episode 0452)
	Cartoon	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0439)
	Muppets	Caveman Days: EXIT sign (First: Episode 0300)
	Film	The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309)
	Cartoon	Train #2 (First: Episode 0353)
	SCENE 3	At Hooper's Store, Bob and Susan play a “Here Are Some Things” game with pictures of fruit.
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0285)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie says that he has "flying fingers," and tries to find ten different things that his fingers can do. (First: Episode 0617)
	Cartoon	I've Got a Mind: Bird Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0269)
	Film	Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!" (First: Episode 0536)
	Celebrity	Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together. (First: Episode 0131)
	Muppets	A boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285)
	Film	"Doll House" (First: Episode 0131)
	Cartoon	Julius and Jasper: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!" Animation by Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0406)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppets sing "Me" in both English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0372)
	Cartoon	A letter "P" sits on an island before a rotating sunset. The ridges of the letter "P" moves along the letter and flash in different colors. (First: Episode 0452)
	Cartoon	A man teaches his dog Rover how to read the word SIT. (First: Episode 0304)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola demonstrate "big," "small," "smaller, and "smallest" with four balls. (First: Episode 0544)
	Insert	Susan sings “Believe in Yourself” to the kids. (First: Episode 0552)
	Cast	Wally and Ralph: Wally borrows Ralph's comically-large pencil, but has trouble writing because he's holding it upside down. (First: Episode 0360)
	Animation	A dune buggy is assembled. (First: Episode 0506)
	Cast	The cast puts together a fractured letter R. (First: Episode 0531)
	Cartoon	Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320)
	Muppets	Ernie and Cookie Monster note that they're the same in a lot of ways, and then become paranoid that they can't tell each other apart. An Anything Muppet tells them how they are different, which relieves them of their stress.
	Film	Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295)
	SCENE 4	Oscar digs up his book of Grouch poems, and reads one with a lot of words that rhyme with “trash”.
	Film	Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315)
	Animation	Sand R/r
	Cartoon	Train #2 (repeat)
	SCENE 5	The sponsors are announced and the credits roll.