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Sesame Street
Oscar cleans house
Air date December 5, 1969
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Directed by Neil Smith
Production November 4, 1969
Sponsors H, R, T, 8, 9

SSShowID-0020

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0020 01

0020-sc1b
SCENE 1 Gordon observes how peaceful Sesame Street is today, but a barrage of flying trash ruins it. He encounters Oscar doing something uncommon: cleaning house! Oscar's way of cleaning house is by throwing trash onto the street. Gordon tells him that the trash usually stays in the trash cans, but Oscar ropes him into helping out anyway. He pulls a hose out of the can (from his front hall), then catches a horseshoe.
Hladycartoon
Cartoon H is for horseshoe.
Hisforhorn
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!!"
1708t
Cartoon H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
Hisforhorn
Cartoon Poverty H (repeat)
0020-sc2a
SCENE 2 The area beside Oscar's can is even more littered by now; among the strewn items are a tattered armchair, a steamer trunk, and his chiffonier. Gordon explains to Susan what's going on, but Oscar can't put anything back yet (he just waxed the floor). Gordon and Susan put together several items of trash that used to go with each other, then put them together to find what they used to make: an umbrella, then a bicycle, and a chair. Gordon sees a big letter R, which Oscar says is his "initial" because grouches do things backwards.
Toon.R.Robber
Cartoon R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ...
Artist: Fred Calvert
(First: Episode 0011)
SB-Rabbit
Cartoon Speech Balloon: "R" – Rabbit
(First: Episode 0014)
Toon.R.Robber
Cartoon R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... (repeat)
0020-sc3
SCENE 3 The waxed floor has dried, so Gordon and Oscar begin putting things back in. Gordon notices that Oscar has a lot of round things such as a ball, a frisbee, and a "Hooper hoop." (Oscar: "You know, I live in a round trash can; what did you expect, triangles?") Gordon decides to show him a film about circles…
Pitchreel-circles
Film "Round": A live-action film set to a lively soundtrack shows circles in every-day life, including Coca-Cola bottle caps, moving wheels, yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons.
(First: Episode 0002)
0056.ow-my-elbow
Cartoon A boy's jump rope rhyme identifies the parts of his body that hurt - "otherwise I feel fine!"
(First: Episode 0003)
0020-sc4

0020-sc4-steam
SCENE 4 Gordon and Oscar have just finished the cleaning process. Gordon remembers that Oscar got a telegram earlier, and produces it from his pocket. It reads, "Dear Oscar. Plans changed. Cannot come to visit you tomorrow as planned; Hope you didn't go to any trouble for me. Love, Mother." Upon hearing this, Oscar proceeds to mess up the street yet again and (literally) blow off some steam.
Tisfortrash
Cartoon Poverty T
0020-sc5
SCENE 5 Bob, holding a letter T, invites the viewer to have a "T party" and look around for T's on Sesame Street. He finds them on the door of Hooper's Store, the yard fence, and the gate at 123 Sesame Street. He hears water splashing from inside Ernie and Bert's apartment…
The Bath Story
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie tells Bert that he calls his bathtub Rosie, because after his bath, he leaves a ring around Rosie. Bert then tells Ernie to get out of the tub, because other people are waiting to use it: Solomon Grundy, for instance. (beginning cut)
(First: Episode 0001)
Solomongrundy
Cartoon Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!"
(First: Episode 0001)
Everybodywash

0020-everybodywash
Song Ernie leads the cast in "Everybody Wash."
(First: Episode 0001)
0020-sc6
SCENE 6 Big Bird observes that some rain may be coming, and plans to hide on the house and sit in the floor. He gets some help from the kids in distinguishing between on and in. As Big Bird leaves to take a bath on his bathtub, Gordon thinks he's still mixed up, but not as much as Buddy and Jim…
BuddyJim.shoes
Cast Buddy and Jim have a difficult time in matching up a pair of tennis sneakers and a pair of heavy workboots with the right boxes.
(First: Episode 0003)
0020-sc7a

0020-sc7b
SCENE 7 In the kitchen, Susan reads a book with Gayle: Who Will Wake Up Spring? by Sharon Lerner. When she finishes, she realizes she needs to bake bread for supper, and needs to fetch the eggs from the fridge.
Eggscookies
Film Counting eleven eggs and one cookie.
(First: Episode 0002)
0020-sc7c
SCENE 7
cont'd
Susan has assembled the ingredients for the bread on the counter and begins mixing them. She observes that with a teacher, baking can be easy.
Thelittlebaker
Film "The Little Baker": A boy imagines that he's a baker.
0020-sc7d
SCENE 7
cont'd
Susan sets the bread out to rise, and observes that it's been quiet at Ernie and Bert's today…
1800-30
Muppets Ernie & BertBert asks Ernie about his day. Ernie says nothing interesting happened. Bert points out that Ernie went to the zoo, but Ernie says nothing interesting happened at the zoo. Then he talks about a scratch he got on his finger, and talks about how he got it, realizing in the process that something interesting did happen after all.
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine)
(First: Episode 0016)
0020-sc8a
SCENE 8 Gordon has two sets of cigar boxes. He constructs a funny-looking tower with the first set and reveals that the boxes have glue on them, allowing them to stay up. Then Gordon constructs a regular tower with the second set and counts nine boxes.
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine) (repeat)
0020-sc8b
SCENE 8
cont'd
Gordon stacks the remaining glued boxes (which will only stay up if he holds them) and counts a total of nine.
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine) (repeat)
0020-sc8c
SCENE 8
cont'd
Gordon rearranges the nine unglued boxes to form a wall.
Walls film
Film A funky soundtrack plays over a film about a kid interacting with walls of all kinds: tall walls, brick walls, fences, stone walls, and walls you never thought of like the side of a fishbowl.
No8b
Film Eight Song (Song of Eight)
(First: Episode 0016)
0020-sc9a

0020-sc9b
SCENE 9 Susan leaves to take the bread out of the oven and says goodbye; they converse with Bob as the credits roll. Big Bird announces the sponsors, and the book read on today's show.
0021 - Sesame sign

0020-sign2
CLOSING SIGNS Bob holds the Sesame Street sign and a group of Muppet hippies (including a bearded hippie) holds up the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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