Episode 0693

Sesame Street
Bert loses his favorite bottlecap.
Air date	December 11, 1974
Season	Season 6 (1974-1975)
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• Bert loses his favorite bottlecap while giving a lecture about his incredible bottlecap collection.

• Grover climbs a tree and finds a bird's nest with some eggs in it. The eggs hatch, and the baby birds think Grover is their mommy. When the real mother bird arrives, she mistakes Grover for one of her babies! She gives them all a flying lesson, but Grover promptly falls to the ground. (First: Episode 0570)

• The Twiddlebugs try to get to the zoo. (First: Episode 0603)

• Cookie Monster is going on vacation, starting with one suitcase and ending with seven suitcases full of cookies.

• The Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives". (First: Episode 0045)

• Dragnet: Sergeant Thursday and Ben hunt for a wanted W.

• James Earl Jones recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0002)

• Sesame Street News Flash: Simon Soundman does a weather report using sounds for different kinds of weather. News anchorman Kermit fires him and calls for another weatherman (Richard Hunt), who has a more "visual" approach to reporting the weather. (First: Episode 0631)

• Maria refuses to scratch Oscar's back because of the nasty way in which he asks.

• Grover the Assistant: Kermit has Grover help him demonstrate up and down by having Grover climb UP a sky-high flight of stairs -- while Kermit takes the elevator to the top. Exhausted, Grover faints and rolls DOWN the staircase.

• Cartoon: A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase

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