Episode 0665

Sesame Street
Air date	May 17, 1974 (season finale)
Season	Season 5 (1973-1974)
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird approaches Luis who is working on a cuckoo clock on the bench in front of the Fix-It Shop. Luis is having trouble fixing it, so Big Bird suggests keeping it warm and giving it lots of juice until it gets better. Luis tries to explain that it's a mechanical cuckoo, but when the clock strikes the hour, the bird emerges and throws a sneezing fit.
	Cartoon	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (First: Episode 0281)
	Cartoon	Z for zipper (First: Episode 0025)
	Film	"Pig's Love Song" (live-action version) (First: Episode 0572)
	Insert	Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker. (First: Episode 0558)
	Cartoon	What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0422)
	Muppets	Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on. (First: Episode 0409)
	Film	The Mad Painter #10. (First: Episode 0328)
	Cartoon	Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320)
	Cartoon	Z In Space (First: Episode 0509)
	Animation	Sand Z/z (First: Episode 0614)
	SCENE 2	The Count would like to play a game in the arbor with Gordon, Susan, and the kids, but Gordon's not having any of it, because every time he participates, he stands around while the Count counts to a zillion. Susan bets him cleaning up the arbor if the game doesn't get out of hand and decides to play, so the Count lines everyone up and counts their noses an ears. Susan thinks she's going to win the bet until the Count starts counting the hairs on everyone's heads.
	Film	Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker! (First: Episode 0437)
	Cartoon	Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards (First: Episode 0277)
	Cartoon	A baby cries whenever he gets a beso. (First: Episode 0433)
	Cartoon	The letters in the word BESO kiss each other. (First: Episode 0433)
	Muppets	Simon Soundman tries to buy a saw at Sam's General Store. (First: Episode 0409)
	Cartoon	What if I had big feet? (First: Episode 0514)
	Film	Joe Raposo: On the beach (instrumental) (First: Episode 0411)
	Cartoon	Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193)
	Cartoon	Counting 10 to 1. (First: Episode 0480)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie answers the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a bologna sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number. (First: Episode 0305)
	SCENE 3	Jay is fixing a table with only three legs in the arbor. Luis sings "One of These Things" for the kids to help them guess which replacement leg fits best.
	Cartoon	A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie thinks that he isn't special. Bert tells Ernie to feel his nose -- "That's an Ernie nose!" -- and then feel his hair, and wiggle his fingers. Bert says that nobody else is just like Ernie. Encouraged, Ernie tells the audience to do the same. (First: Episode 0276)
	Animation	Three balls try to match three holes. (First: Episode 0572)
	Muppets	Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part two) (First: Episode 0307)
	Muppets	"Fat Cat" (First: Episode 0536)
	Animation	Counting six red balls (First: Episode 0278)
	Film	Trees are very nice places, for animals and for people. (First: Episode 0455)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little. (First: Episode 0559)
	Muppets	Farley goes to the hat shop. (First: Episode 0244)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Run." (First: Episode 0372)
	SCENE 4	Jay, Susan, and Gordon approach Biff, who is jackhammering the sidewalk in front of 123 Sesame Street. He explains that the noise is necessary to make way for the Trans-African Highway, until Gordon explains that that's on another continent. Biff reveals that Oscar the Grouch put him up to it, and he leaves with Sully. Oscar wants to know who stopped his beautiful music, calling Biff the Sidewalk Stravinsky and the Mick Jagger of Jackhammers. When he promises not to call Biff back, Jay, Gordon, and Susan soon hear the noise again when Oscar starts playing his greatest hits on record; he owns all his recordings, including this one, the "Canta Curbstone".
	Cartoon	The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd (First: Episode 0325)
	Cartoon	Brand X (First: Episode 0299)
	Muppets	Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin, in a somber tone, tells his class to spell the word POISON and recognize what it means. (First: Episode 0514)
	Cartoon	Z for zipper (repeat)
	Cartoon	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it. (repeat)
	Cartoon	"Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425)
	SCENE 5	Biff observes Gordon cleaning up the sidewalk and corrects him on the right way of doing it. Oscar then plays his latest record for Biff, the "Concrete Concerto". Jay announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. So ends the 5th season of Sesame Street.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Susan and Gordon hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Luis, and the kids hold up the CTW sign at the end.

Notes

• Despite Episode 0640 introducing a new live-action driving sequence for the closing credits, the previous illustrated building closing is re-used one last time here.

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