Episode 0087

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Sesame Street
Plot
Air date	March 10, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors	G, O, Z, 4, 5
Syndication
DVD

• Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green".

• Grover: Grover demonstrates the difference between "near" and "far" by running away from the camera and back, eventually fainting from exhaustion. (First: Episode 0057)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Footage of all types of birds on land, including flamingos and pigeons. (First: Episode 0019)

• Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Grocer and Doctor. (First: Episode 0067)

• Film: Transportation (First: Episode 0005)

• Ernie and Bert have difficulty scratching their backs, so both help each other scratch their back. While Ernie's itch takes a little too long to scratch, he introduces a film called "Everybody Scratch". After the film, Ernie notices that Bert has stopped scratching his back; Beautiful Day Monster is. (First: Episode 0012)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gerswhin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006)

• Ernie and Bert count 4 footballs. (First: Episode 0009)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: A wombat itches its four legs. (First: Episode 0008)

• "Five Song (Song of Five)" (First: Episode 0006)

• Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0079)

• Ernie and Bert: Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005)

• Ernie and Bert: Bert sees Ernie talk to "an elephant" while using a banana as a phone. Ernie explains to Bert that he is just pretending, but then he tells Bert that the elephant wants to talk to him. (First: Episode 0004)

• Speech Balloon: G--Gorilla (First: Episode 0085)

• Cartoon: A goat discusses the letter "G". A man comes by to also talk about G, but rather than point out that "goat" is a G word, he observes the grass. Disgusted, the goat butts the man out of the way. (First: Episode 0085)

• 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)

• Cartoon: "Poverty Z" -- A figure tries to sell a Z. His only customer stops him by locking him inside a zoo cage. (First: Episode 0085)

• Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to get an ironing board from one room to another. (First: Episode 0002)

• Cartoon: "Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator stops at ten floors to pick up passengers, including a witch, a fireman, and a kangaroo. The tenth passenger, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode. (First: Episode 0003)

• "Four Song (Song of Four)" (First: Episode 0006)

• "Jazz #5" (First: Episode 0007)

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