Episode 1270

Sesame Street
Air date	March 23, 1979
Season	Season 10 (1978-1979)
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Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	10th Season Intro Still
	SCENE 1	Mr. Snuffleupagus comes across Big Bird and the kids dancing. He imagines himself as the finest dancer in the world, as he sings and dances to the "Snuffleupagus Waltz."
	Cartoon	A fat man and a small man demonstrate top and bottom. (First: Episode 0525)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert tells Ernie not to eat cookies in bed, because he might get crumbs in the bed. Ernie decides to eat cookies in Bert's bed instead. (First: Episode 0282)
	Cartoon	The Magnificent Splasho goes from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the water tank. (First: Episode 0655)
	Cast	A voiceover instructs Maria as Chaplin where to put the shirts and the towels. (First: Episode 0541)
	Cartoon	The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Me." (First: Episode 0421)
	Cartoon	He, She and It: The IT knows about locks and keys. (First: Episode 1172)
	SCENE 2	Big Bird, Susan and the kids watch as Alphabet Bates writes the letter E in the sky.
File:Eatingapeach.jpg	Cartoon	E ... see me eating a peach (First: Episode 0001)
	Muppets	Anything Muppets (including Farley) shout "E!" (First: Episode 0408)
	Cartoon	What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465)
	Film	The WALK sign flashes in a montage of people (and even dogs) walking in the city. (EKA: Episode 0581)
	Cartoon	Animals walk. (First: Episode 0926)
	Film	Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292)
	Cartoon	The alphabet is presented in a chain reaction of events. (First: Episode 1113)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster goes to the carnival and plays the "test your strength" game. Unbeknownst to him, the carnival barker rigged the game so nobody can win -- until Cookie finds out what the prize is. (First: Episode 0449)
	Cartoon	A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0616)
	SCENE 3	Herry Monster sets out some items to use in a series of poems. He demonstrates his strength using each one as the kids guess what he will do with each one with a rhyme. He ends his rhymes by heavily exhaling, blowing Gordon and the kids away.
	Cartoon	A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (First: Episode 0406)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster helps Ernie match mittens, shoes, and gloves and put them away. Guess how he puts away two matching cookies. (First: Episode 0135)
	Cartoon	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall. (First: Episode 0440)
	Film	Kids narrate a film of animals moving in different ways. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0098)
	Cartoon	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0440)
	Film	The walrus (First: Episode 0296)
	Animation	A number 9 looks for a house with his number on it.
	SCENE 4	The Count has a counting problem - he's forgotten what number follows 8. He sees David spraying the Hooper's Store window in the shape of a 9, helping the Count remember the number.
	Cartoon	A lost man in the desert asks a stranger for directions to the city. He builds a pretend city out of sand to show what it looks like. As it turns out, the stranger is an alien. (First: Episode 0763)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert play tricks on each other in order to sit in the TV chair, until they realize they both fit in it. Herry Monster comes over to trick Ernie and Bert into leaving their chair so that he can sit in it. Ernie and Bert decide that if the chair can hold two, it can hold three as well, so they cram their way into the chair with Herry. When Ernie and Herry realize that they're watching something only Bert would enjoy, they leave Bert alone. (First: Episode 0207)
	Cartoon	E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002)
	Muppets	A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet closes everything.
	Cartoon	The Typewriter: E-Ear Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0807)
	Celebrity	José Feliciano sings "The Gypsy." (First: Episode 0763)
	Cartoon	The letter J Artists: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0133)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Kermit interviews Christopher Columbus before he begins his voyage to discover America. Kermit tries to tell him that the third ship is tied to the dock, but it's too late -- the dock breaks free, and takes Kermit along with the ship. (First: Episode 0578)
	Cartoon	Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137)
	Film	Joe Raposo: Swinging Gibbon (First: Episode 0009)
	Cartoon	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (First: Episode 0071)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #4
	SCENE 5	Goodbye

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