Episode 0691

Sesame Street
Maria imagines that she's a bus driver
Air date	December 9, 1974
Season	Season 6 (1974-1975)
Production September 10, 1974 Sponsors X, Z, 5

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	At Hooper's Store, David sings about his "Subtraction Blues" while Mr. Hooper, Maria and Jay subtract his slices of pizza as David makes his way down the street. He drops the last slice on the ground when the kids bump into him, and tosses the final dirty slice into Oscar's trash can.
	Cartoon	Z for zebra and zoo (First: Episode 0281)
	Cartoon	zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman — Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman chase the Big Bad Wolf. (First: Episode 0621)
	Cartoon	A girl runs home to her CASA. (First: Episode 0503)
	Cartoon	A man makes a CASA for both him and his dog, who then makes a CASA for a bird. (First: Episode 0561)
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish. (First: Episode 0287)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (First: Episode 0064)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie Gets Bert Warm — Ernie covers Bert with several layers of clothes when he gets cold. (First: Episode 0418)
	Cartoon	A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0356)
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: A baby reindeer takes its first steps. (Music: Joe Raposo) (First: Episode 0003)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself. (First: Episode 0253)
	Cartoon	I've Got a Mind: Wind-up toy (First: Episode 0255)
	SCENE 2	Maria wonders what it would be like to be a bus driver. In her imagination, she pictures herself in a uniform and driving up to the corner, humming "Ven a Mi Brazo." Her passenger, Oscar, tells Maria to take him to the dump. The bus route doesn't go there, so Oscar begins to argue with her. Fed up with his fussing, Maria decides to stop imagining she's a bus driver and pops out of frame, leaving Oscar stranded.
	Cartoon	What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: What Happened Here — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. (First: Episode 0030)
	Cartoon	Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007)
	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	What if a dog looked like a bird? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie Works for The Count — The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. (First: Episode 0539)
	Cartoon	Sand Z/z (First: Episode 0614)
	Muppets	"The Zizzy Zoomers" (First: Episode 0359)
	Film	Apes play at the zoo. (edited) (First: Episode 0045)
	Song	"1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144)
	Celebrity	The New York Knicks make 4 baskets in a row, but miss on the 5th. (First: Episode 0154)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie Puts the Vase Away — Ernie can't decide which of the two different shelves he should place a large vase on, so Bert tells him to use his imagination. (First: Episode 0277)
	SCENE 3	Mr. Hooper uses a diagram to help him assemble a new coffee pot for his store.
	Muppets	"The UN Family Song" (First: Episode 0155)
	Celebrity	The New York Knicks make 11 shots, but miss on the 12th. (First: Episode 0154)
	Film	David asks the viewer to find a rectangle and two circles in the picture of a doorbell. (ending shortened) (First: Episode 0434)
	Celebrity	The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row, but miss on the 21st. (First: Episode 0154)
	Muppets	Anything Muppets: Who's That? — A little boy explains how he can be a son, a brother, a paperboy, a friend, and a grandson all at the same time.
	Film	The Mad Painter #5 (First: Episode 0345)
	Muppets	Grover: Three Monsters — Grover, Herry Monster, and a little pink monster rearrange themselves in different ways. (First: Episode 0186)
	Film	A trip to the doctor's office. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0471)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Dr. Monster — Cookie Monster works for Ernie's apple by pretending to be a doctor.
	Film	"Five Song (Song of Five)" (First: Episode 0006)
	Animation	Kids narrate a letter 'Z' drawing (First: Episode 0359)
	Cartoon	Z In Space (First: Episode 0509)
	SCENE 4	David, who's just been paid and given the day off, offers Maria a date to the movies, but Maria can't make it since she has to study. David then asks Jay, but he's got music practice. Big Bird is next, but he needs to repair a hole in his nest. David is bothered as everyone is busy today, and everyone he has met offers to go tomorrow. Big Bird gets an idea: he calls out for Mr. Hooper to let David work today, and Hooper agrees to it. Since David now has the day off tomorrow, Big Bird begins to excitedly tell everybody about the theater party David's going to have (on his money).
	Cartoon	"Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early. (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 5	Big Bird, Jay, Maria, and the kids meet up with David, who frets when he learns that Big Bird has invited about twenty people to the "party." They discuss what they're going to watch (Big Bird wants to see Jonathan Livingston Seagull) as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Mr. Hooper and David hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria, Luis, and a kid hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.

Notes

• In a continuity error, the first close-up of Mr. Hooper's diagram in scene 3 was actually taken in front of the Fix-it Shop rather than at the store as evident by the background.

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