Episode 0089

Sesame Street
Air date	March 12, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors C, H, T, 8, 9

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• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit demonstrates his "What Happens Next" machine, which is designed to turn on his radio. None of the parts of the machine work properly.

• 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. (Caroll Spinney performs Cookie Monster here.)

• Anything Muppets: Father and son.

• Sesame Street Animal Films: "Rockabye Baby" is sung to a sleepy koala. (First: Episode 0048)

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie doesn't want to eat his cheese, because it has holes in it, but Bert tells Ernie that holes make cheese taste better. (First: Episode 0010)

• Film: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise. (First: Episode 0007)

• The Anything Muppets sing "Goin' for a Ride", demonstrating travel by car, train and boat. (First: Episode 0037)

• Alphabet Bates makes the letter C. (aired twice) (First: Episode 0029)

• Speech Balloon: C--Cat (with a dog impostor) (First: Episode 0029)

• Cartoon: "Poverty H" -- an orange figure tries to talk about the letter H, but a yellow figure keeps listing H words. (First: Episode 0020)

• Cartoon: A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains how H starts the word "Hello", which is then demonstrated by people calling him and asking for someone named Harold. (First: Episode 0020)

• Cartoon: A woman explains the letter H and its use in "horseshoe", when a horse comes to reclaim his shoe and starts tickling the woman. (First: Episode 0020)

• Cartoon: A Casey Kasem-voiced man explains the letter T with a TV that plays a concert. When the man begins to sing with it, the conductor on the TV set "turns him off" by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0024)

• Speech Balloon: “T” – Train (First: Episode 0022)

• Cartoon: A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". (aired twice) (First: Episode 0024)

• James Earl Jones says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0002)

• "Jazz #8" (First: Episode 0016)

• "Eight Song (Song of Eight)" (First: Episode 0016)

• "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016)

• Pat Paulsen counts to 10. (First: Episode 0069)

• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about "same" by showing two identical rectangles. Cookie Monster eats one of them, making them different. (First: Episode 0018)

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