Episode 0691

Sesame Street
Maria imagines that she's a bus driver
Air date	December 9, 1974
Season	Season 6 (1974-1975)
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	At Hooper's Store, David sings "Subtraction Blues" while Mr. Hooper, Maria and Big Bird subtract his slices of pizza. He drops the last slice on the ground when a kid bumps into him, and tosses the dirty slice into Oscar's 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 Kermit the Frog witnesses how the mailman and salesman knock at the door while the Big Bad Wolf chases Little Red Riding Hood around the bed. Eventually, the Woodsman shows up, and Red and the Wolf chase him for cutting down a maple tree which was their favorite one. (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 & Bert — Bert says he's too cold, so Ernie goes overboard to get him warm by putting layer after layer of clothing upon him. This makes him too hot, so Ernie opens the window, gives Bert an ice bag, and brings his electric fan. (First: Episode 0418)
	Cartoon	A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest. (First: Episode 0371)
	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 imagines she's a bus driver. When her passenger, Oscar, tells Maria to take him to the dump, she decides to stop imagining she's a bus driver.
	Cartoon	What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488)
	Muppets	Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. Ernie has a drawing of an empty bird cage with an open door (the bird flew away), and a man lying on the ground with a banana peel next to him (he slipped on it). Then, Ernie shows Bert a blank page. The answer to that one is that there was a cow eating grass, but the grass is all eaten now, and the cow went home. (First: Episode 0030)
	Cartoon	Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007)
	Cartoon	What if a dog looked like a bird? Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0226)
	Muppets	The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains. (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 & Bert — 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. Ernie imagines the vase falling off the little shelf and Bert kicking him out of the apartment. Then, Ernie imagines putting the vase on the big shelf, and Bert rewarding him with a big surprise party. (First: Episode 0277)
	SCENE 3	Mr. Hooper assembles a coffee pot.
	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. (First: Episode 0434)
	Celebrity	The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row, but miss on the 21st. (First: Episode 0154)
	Muppets	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, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (First: Episode 0186)
	Film	A trip to the doctor's office. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0471)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster asks Ernie if he has any cookies. Ernie says that he doesn't have any cookies but an apple and he can't give the apple to him because "an apple a day will keep the doctor away." Later Cookie Monster comes disguised as Doctor Monster and gives Ernie a medical checkup. After the checkup, Ernie asks what he owes Doctor Monster. By sheer coincidence, his bill is one apple.
	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, would like someone to go with him to the movies, but everybody turns down his offer because they have business to attend to. Big Bird gets the idea for David to trade days off with Mr. Hooper, so he’ll be able to take them all to the movies tomorrow.
	Cartoon	"Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge (last dot shows up early) (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 5	The sponsors are announced.

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