| Sesame Street | |||||
| Oscar buys some healthy food / Herry's niece | |||||
| Air date | April 27, 1977 | ||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||
| |||||
| Picture | Segment | Description |
|---|---|---|
 |
SCENE 1 | Susan sings "How Do You Walk" with the kids, Mr. Macintosh, and Bob, demonstrating how people's feelings affect how they walk. |
 |
Animation | Sand R/r (First: Episode 0635) |
 |
Film | Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0315) |
 |
Cast | Maria assembles an R, which is broken in several parts. (First: Episode 0936) |
 |
Cartoon | A rabbit crosses the STREET, and almost gets run over. Artist: Cathryn Aison (First: Episode 0778) |
 |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Surprise Present — Bert has wrapped a surprise present which Ernie thinks is for him. (First: Episode 0165) |
 |
Cartoon | A boy says he has a big surprise in his hand. (First: Episode 0557) |
 |
Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up! (First: Episode 0149) |
 |
Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET. (First: Episode 0423) |
 |
Film | A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground. (First: Episode 0149) |
 |
Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
 |
SCENE 2 | Bob shows the kids a "secret" way of putting on their coats: by laying them down on the ground and flipping them over their heads. |
 |
Cartoon | A song about the parts of a boy's body and the sounds they can make. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0923) |
 |
Muppets | A hippie lines up a group of monsters to demonstrate first and last, but Grover doesn't want to be last in line. The hippie compromises and lets him be first... but the line keeps changing directions. (First: Episode 0116) |
 |
Animation | First leaf, last leaf (First: Episode 0794) |
 |
Film | A scuba diver collects shells, which some kids count in voice-over. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0474) |
 |
Cartoon | Pinball #10 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0990) |
 |
Muppets | Alphabet Chat: Mr. Chatterly tries to discuss the letter R, but everything goes awry. (First: Episode 0876) |
 |
Film | Folk song: Have You Ever Been To The Farm? (First: Episode 0138) |
 |
Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
 |
Song | David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389) |
 |
Cartoon | Three frogs show first, middle and last while hopping over each other. (First: Episode 0411) |
 |
Muppets | "City-Country Song" (First: Episode 0681) |
 |
Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
 |
SCENE 3 | Susan and Bob stop by Mr. Macintosh's fruit and vegetable cart to buy some potatoes, spinach, and prunes; "Mac" gives them the goods, explaining all the ways they are healthful and delicious. Oscar the Grouch comes along, not caring for all the healthy good-for-you food that the others usually buy, so Mr. Macintosh gives him some "grouchtatoes," "yuckach," and "wrinkly fruits" instead. They're all the same foods that he sold Bob and Susan earlier, but Mr. Macintosh describes them in negative ways for the Grouch. ("You know, you gotta use applied psychology with Oscar," Mac secretly tells the others.) |
 |
Cartoon | Little girl and cat (she imagines role reversal) (First: Episode 0784) |
 |
Cast | Olivia sings "Everything Grows." (First: Episode 0998) |
 |
Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Gets Bert Warm — Ernie covers Bert with several layers of clothes when he gets cold. (First: Episode 0418) |
 |
Cartoon | The Typewriter: H for Hand (First: Episode 0771) |
 |
Cast | Luis comes across a table with only three legs, yet still stands up fine. He searches in his box of junk for a proper leg. |
 |
Insert | Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0120) |
 |
Muppets | Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges! (First: Episode 0192) |
 |
Cartoon | A caterpillar escapes a hungry bird by turning into a butterfly. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0639) |
 |
SCENE 4 | Herry Monster shows Big Bird how his niece Manda Monster plays with cinder blocks and empties a giant bottle in seconds. When it's time for her nap, Herry shouts a lullaby from the top of his lungs. After she falls asleep and begins a guttural snore, Big Bird tells the audience he hopes Buffy's baby isn't like that. |
 |
Cartoon | Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls. (First: Episode 0926) |
 |
Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets sing about a "Bus Stop" sign. (First: Episode 0978) |
 |
Film | Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0032) |
 |
Cartoon | A man tells a confused boy that he saw a bird on a tree, with both of their thoughts appearing on the screen. (First: Episode 0565) |
 |
Celebrity | Flip Wilson talks about arms and legs. (First: Episode 0174) |
 |
Film | 1-20 Ice Skaters Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0451) |
 |
Cartoon | A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (First: Episode 0020) |
 |
SCENE 5 | Big Bird tries to announce the sponsors, shouting over the ground-shaking snores of Manda Monster. |
  |
CLOSING SIGNS | A kid holds the Sesame Street sign, while David holds the CTW sign. |
| Previous episode: | Next episode: |
| Episode 1032 | Episode 1034 |