Episode 0071

Sesame Street
Air date	February 16, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors J, O, R, 6, 7 This episode guide has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives. ⓘ

• Cartoon: A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him.

• Cartoon: "Story of J" -- Two boys are told of a man named Joe who is sent to jail after jamming a june bug into a jar and a tire pump. (First: Episode 0009)

• Speech Balloon: J -- (strawberry) Jam (First: Episode 0012)

• Ernie skips. (First: Episode 0015)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Apes play at the zoo. (First: Episode 0045)

• The Anything Muppets sing "Up, Up and Away". (First: Episode 0049)

• Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn". (First: Episode 0002)

• Lou Rawls sings the alphabet. (First: Episode 0043)

• Ernie & Bert — Ernie has six jellybeans, and Bert has seven. Bert thanks Ernie for giving him the extra jellybean. Ernie says that isn't fair -- they should have an equal amount. To make it even, Ernie eats the extra jellybean. That's fair, isn't it? (First: Episode 0014)

• James Earl Jones counts to 10. (First: Episode 0005)

• Ernie & Bert — Ernie struggles to save a plate of cookies for Bert. Beautiful Day Monster disguises himself as a baker and a little girl to trick Ernie out of four of the five cookies, but Bert blames Ernie. (First: Episode 0041)

• A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Fred's son, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!" (First: Episode 0061)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Lion family. (First: Episode 0018)

• Ernie & Bert — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. Ernie has a drawing of an empty bird cage with an open door (the bird flew away), and a man lying on the ground with a banana peel next to him (he slipped on it). Then Ernie shows Bert an empty page. The answer to that one is that there was a cow eating grass, but the grass is all eaten now and the cow went home. (First: Episode 0030)

• Buddy and Jim try to use a seesaw. (First: Episode 0010)

• Cartoon: "Imagination O" -- A surreal story about a boy, a goat, and a bulldozer that closes up a hole in a cloud that blows the cold. (First: Episode 0011)

• Speech Balloon: O – Open (aired twice) (First: Episode 0014)

• Cartoon: "Story of R" -- A man and his dog play a film about the letter R, involving a robber who steals a rooster and escapes by rowboat. (First: Episode 0011)

• Cartoon: A man (voiced by Casey Kasem) 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)

• Speech Balloon: “R” – Rabbit (First: Episode 0014)

• "Jazz #6" (First: Episode 0011)

• "Six Song (Song of Six)" (First: Episode 0011)

• "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011)

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