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Sesame Street
Big Bird explains to Mr. Hooper what happened to a bucket of water
Air date December 7, 1976
Season Season 8 (1976-1977)
Production August 25, 1976
Sponsors P, S, 3, "and by my camel and me"

SSTitle-0932


StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Mr. Hooper decides to wash the windows of Hooper's Store, feeling that today is a nice peaceful day where nothing unusual will happen. He entrusts Big Bird to watch his bucket of water while he goes back inside the store to get a sponge and squeegee.
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SCENE 1 cont'd While he's gone, an Anything Muppet man (Jerry Nelson) stops by and asks Big Bird where he can get some water. Big Bird notices he's come with his pet camel Calvin, who's in serious need of a drink after lasting six days without water. The camel downs the entire bucket within seconds, leaving it empty.
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SCENE 1 cont'd After Calvin and his owner leave, a small raincloud produces a downpour directly into the bucket and nowhere else, making it full of water again. Needless to say, Mr. Hooper doesn’t believe Big Bird’s story about what just happened, likening it to one of his stories about Mr. Snuffleupagus.
3956l
Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0299)
Ssnews.humpty
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Humpty DumptyKermit doesn't help Humpty Dumpty's situation.
(First: Episode 0657)
2257p
Cartoon I am dry, he is wet (near swimming pool)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0309)
Painter3
Film The Mad Painter #3
(First: Episode 0343)
Umm... butterfly
Cartoon A caterpillar escapes a hungry bird by turning into a butterfly.
Artist: Etienne Delessert
(First: Episode 0639)
OscarAdams
SCENE 2 At City Island, Maria and Bob ask Oscar to take their photo. He tells them to step back further and further until they fall off the dock.
3142u
Cartoon I am dry, they are wet (Umbrella)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0344)
Raposo-3isMyFavoriteNumber
Song "Three Is My Favorite Number"
(First: Episode 0429)
CookieNapkin01

CookieNapkin02
Muppets Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all.
(First: Episode 0619)
2795z
Animation New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball.
(First: Episode 0777)
FlyingStupendos-pt1
Cast Part 1: The Flying Stupendos (Luis, Maria, and David) attempt a trick on the teeter-totter, in which Luis will jump onto one end and catapult Maria onto David's shoulders. On the first try, the teeter-totter breaks.
(First: Episode 0585)
Hubley.snake
Cartoon A voice asks a face if it's aware of the letter S, and it is revealed that the face belongs to a snake.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0278)
FlyingStupendos-pt2
Cast Part 2: On the second try (with a new teeter-totter), Maria is launched out of shot and winds up hanging off-screen from the ceiling.
(First: Episode 0585)
There's a Bird on Me
Film "There's a Bird On Me" (Joe Raposo)
(First: Episode 0416)
Toon-WhatsThatCircle
Cartoon Kids guess what two circles drawn onscreen will become. They turn out to be the eye of a friendly monster.
(First: Episode 0248)
Film-TrainSong
Song "Train Song"
(First: Episode 0423)
Flying Stupendos one last time
Cast Part 3: On the third and final try, Luis lands on the floor missing the teeter-totter, and then sits down on his end, whereupon he and Maria see-saw together, as David walks away unimpressed.
(First: Episode 0585)
Handdrawncastle
Cartoon A hand draws a castle with a growling dragon inside, which scares the princess until her knight in shining armor leads the dragon away.
1092-14
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Bert Is SickErnie consults a medical book to discover that Bert is sick.
(First: Episode 0435)
Typewriter-S
Cartoon Typewriter: S for Spring
(First: Episode 0792)
Headball-BabyBreeze
Muppets Baby Breeze participates in Headball at Roosevelt Franklin Stadium. His question: what would you do if your ball rolled into the street?
(First: Episode 0877)
Hubley.stop
Cartoon S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0279)
1220-Song
Cast Big Bird conducts a choir of Susan, Mr. Hooper, Gordon and Mr. Macintosh, who say the "S" sound in "SONG."
0932-SandS
Animation Sand S/s
(First: Episode 0622)
Gloria2
Cartoon Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version).
(First: Episode 0140)
Kings-Nose
Muppets Maria reads the story of "The King's Nose".
(First: Episode 0537)
2096v
Cartoon A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S.
(First: Episode 0414)
Nightshade-Shuffle
Celebrity The Deadly Nightshade plays a tune with the kids accompanying on various instruments.
(First: Episode 0896)
3161k
Cartoon I am dry, he is wet. (dog washing)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0309)
1041numbers
Cartoon Numbers from 1 to 20 line up, but 17 is missing.
(First: Episode 0536)
2257ze
Film Joe Raposo: Wet & Dry (Falls in pool; kid VO's)
(First: Episode 0467)
3154w
Cartoon A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado."
(First: Episode 0771)
EBwindow
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Arkansas TravelerBert urges Ernie to close the window while it's raining.
(First: Episode 0344)
BirdBalloonSub
Cartoon A bird subtracts two balloons from a group of three.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0507)
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SCENE 3 Mr. Hooper notices there’s one newspaper left on the newsstand. As he sits down in the yard to read it, Big Bird asks to use some of it so he and the kids can crumple it up and use it as a makeshift ball. Susan then asks for some newspaper to catch the drips as she paints, then a couple of kids ask for some newspaper to make more paper cutouts. Gordon is about to ask Mr. Hooper for something, but Mr. Hooper refuses to give him what’s left of the paper. It turns out Gordon just wants a pencil so he can finish the crossword. After he’s done with his own newspaper, he gives it to Mr. Hooper. "You know, sometimes it's worthwhile to share things with your friends," Mr. Hooper tells the viewer.
PatPilot
Cartoon Pat the Pilot skywrites a letter P with her plane.
Artist: John Korty
(First: Episode 0478)
PIYN-FishFarmer
Cast / Muppets Bob and The Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood," introducing a fisherman and a farmer.
(First: Episode 0892)
2485u
Cartoon A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers.
(First: Episode 0416)
1220-Tools
Cartoon A hammer and chisel cooperate to carve a triangle out of wood, which a pencil uses to draw some.
Sheep-1232
Film A boy talks about feeding sheep in the winter.
Music: Robert Dennis
(First: Episode 0786)
3141z
Cartoon P is for Puddle
(First: Episode 0452)
Film.AnimalAuction01

Film.AnimalAuction02
Film Footage of an animal auction, where they auction off animals to dairy farmers and the like.
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SCENE 4 Mr. Hooper watches the kids making their paper dolls as Calvin's owner announces the sponsors.
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ClosingSign-GordonCTW-0932
CLOSING SIGNS Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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