Episode 1105

Sesame Street
Nonsense words (repeat of 0840)
Air date	February 3, 1978
Season	Season 9 (1977-1978)
Directed by Jon Stone Sponsors C, U, 2

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	As she cleans off the fire escape amid the icy breeze, Maria sings "Snow."
	Cartoon	A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0526)
	Muppets	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. (First: Episode 0693)
	Cartoon	A man gets a letter C in the mail. (First: Episode 0294)
	Film	The shoe repairman (First: Episode 0987)
	Cartoon	The profile of a man's face morphs into different faces to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0642)
	Film	The sign CLOSED spins around. (First: Episode 0955)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: What Happened Here — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. (First: Episode 0030)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird yells to Gordon outside 123 Sesame Street; they're going to be late for their meeting. Maria tells him to use the doorbell instead of making so much noise, but he continues shouting even when he finds the right bell. Maria asks what all the yelling is about and where he and Gordon are going. Big Bird says they have a meeting to discuss how to stop all the neighborhood noise pollution.
	Cartoon	The Typewriter: C-cat (First: Episode 0779)
	Film	Sheep dog (First: Episode 1012)
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 1: WET. (First: Episode 0473)
	Cartoon	C is for Cowboy (First: Episode 0703)
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 2: SET. (First: Episode 0473)
	Cartoon	Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342)
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 3: MET. (First: Episode 0473)
	Song	"I'm Not a Baby Anymore" (First: Episode 0652)
	SCENE 3	At Big Bird's nest area, Luis plays "Here Are Some Things" with the kids using pictures of scissors, an axe, a saw, a knife, and a key.
	Muppets	Biff asks Sully to recite the alphabet, but recites the whole thing without giving him a chance to speak. (First: Episode 0873)
	Animation	A roof finds its way to the top of a house. (First: Episode 0505)
	Film	A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!" (First: Episode 1036)
	Cast	David sings "Wet Paint" as Gordon and Maria ignore the WET PAINT signs around them. (First: Episode 0927)
	Cartoon	C is for Canary (First: Episode 0703)
	Muppets	Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C. (First: Episode 0089)
	Cartoon	C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703)
	Muppets	Toothy Takes a Partner - Toothy, a set of teeth, has his agent look for the perfect new partner to help regain his shine.
	Cartoon	5s go through a space-shredder and produce 5 objects. (First: Episode 0864)
	SCENE 4	When Gordon cuts through Big Bird's nest area, Big Bird (engrossed in his book) calls him "Luis" and immediately identifies his mistake. He finds it funny how things wound up with the names they have, and supposes that some things could have been named any number of words. For example, Big Bird's mom could have called him Sweet Patootie, a nest could be called a dumdeedingle, and books could be called tomatoes. When Maria enters and offers some apples Gordon takes one, but posits that "Sweet Patootie's" going to sit in his "dumdeedingle" and read his "tomato."
	Cartoon	A man demonstrates up and down. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 0276)
	Film	A gymnast demonstrates up and down. (First: Episode 0526)
	Cartoon	Boy and the UP balloons (First: Episode 0364)
	Muppets	Roosevelt Franklin shows that he knows the "Days of the Week". (First: Episode 0107)
	Cartoon	A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram. (First: Episode 1014)
	Film	What do birds eat? (First: Episode 0495)
	Cartoon	Pinball Number Count #2 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0987)
	Muppets	The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0469)
	Cartoon	A hammer and chisel cooperate to carve a triangle out of wood, which a pencil uses to draw some. (First: Episode 0932)
	SCENE 5	Oscar the Grouch is mulling over some papers as he works on a contraption near his trash can when Luis and Gordon stop by. Oscar explains that he's trying to put together his left-handed frammis with corrugated valves. Gordon and Luis look over the instructions and deduce that they make no sense (either parts don't fit or they're missing) and the frammis serves no purpose. When they ask why he keeps bothering with it, Oscar says he paid good money for the kit and he hasn't been this angry since he fell in a hole and broke his foot, and continues futzing with his frammis.
	Cartoon	A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U. (First: Episode 0416)
	Film	The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: U-Umbrella (First: Episode 0038)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001) The colors are altered, so it becomes purple instead of red.
	SCENE 6	Maria, Gordon, and Luis are happy to see that the snow's finally melting. They're sick of it... but then it suddenly starts to snow again! Oscar announces the sponsors as the credits roll over the grown-ups mingling with the kids.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Luis holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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