Episode 0723

Sesame Street
Bad Barney blackmails Big Bird.
Air date	January 22, 1975
Season	Season 6 (1974-1975)
Sponsors I, K, 4 This episode guide has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives. ⓘ

• Bad Barney blackmails Big Bird into doing his work after threatening to tell Willy the fruit vendor that Big Bird has stolen a zucchini.

• Ernie & Bert — At the movie theater, Ernie makes some loud noises while he unwraps his candy bar, eats his peanuts, and drinks his soda. Finally, Bert loses his temper and shouts at Ernie to be quiet, at which point the usher enters and throws Bert out. (EKA: Episode 0536)

• Stevie Wonder sings "Superstition". (EKA: Episode 0514)

• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Cookie Monster demonstrate the letter K in a 3-part sketch. (First: Episode 0044)

• Gordon and Maria sing "Believe in Yourself".

• Cookie Monster sees styrofoam letters that spell the word FOOD. After he sounds them out, he dons a bib, sprinkles salt and pepper on the letters, and not only eats those ... but the salt and pepper shakers AND the bib to boot!

• Stevie Wonder and Grover demonstrate soft and loud. (EKA: Episode 0514)

• Sesame Street News Flash: Jack Be Nimble can't figure out how to jump over the candlestick.

• Guy Smiley hosts "The Remembering Game", a game show in which the contestants must match pictures based on memory. The winner gets whatever item was in the pictures he matched, and the other contestant wins the item from the remaining two pictures as a consolation prize. Bill Smith wins a cookie, and Cookie Monster wins a jet plane. Disappointed, Cookie Monster suggests that they switch prizes. (EKA: Episode 0310)

• Film: A Stool For Me (EKA: Episode 0536)

• Song: "Five Onstage Dancers" (EKA: Episode 0671)

• Gordon and Maria sort by function using some drinks and a potato.

• David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.

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