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Sesame Street
Observing seeds and eggs
Air date April 6, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Directed by Robert Myhrum
Production March 9, 1970
Sponsors A, Q, U, 8, 9

0106 00

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0106 01a

0106 Sally
SCENE 1 While Susan works late, Gordon is stuck making sandwiches with Sally and Mauricio. Sally's favorite food is spaghetti, which Mauricio's is hamburgers. They agree that people aren't the only ones who eat; animals do too...
Raposo.Eating
Song Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat.
CE9
Muppets Ernie sings "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake" when a hungry Cookie Monster demands a cookie.
(First: Episode 0031)
0106 01b
SCENE 1
cont'd
Gordon and the kids sit down to eat their sandwiches and they talk about where food comes from.
Closer-Tomato
Film Close-ups of a tomato are shown.
Music: Peter Schickele
(First: Episode 0006)
0106 01c
SCENE 1
cont'd
After the tomato film, Gordon shows the kids seeds from a packet and explains how they grow.
0106 clay seed growing
Animation A clay seedling grows into a flower.
0106 01d
SCENE 1
cont'd
Gordon and the kids wash the dishes and says that alligators eat some pretty strange things.
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
(First: Episode 0006)
Erniecookiemonsterapple
Muppets Ernie demonstrates the word "Apple"; Cookie Monster eats Ernie's apple.
(First: Episode 0047)
0006.munchmunch
Cartoon "All right, now that you've eaten everything in sight, would you mind telling me what you plan to have for dessert?"
(First: Episode 0006)
0106 01e
SCENE 1
cont'd
Gordon displays some "which came first" pictures of a girl brushing her teeth and has the kids put them in the correct order. He also mentions the importance of dental hygiene, introducing a song from Bob.
PIYN-0106
Muppets Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Dentist and Bus Driver.
Toon-ElephantDrawing
Cartoon Children describe how to draw an elephant.
(First: Episode 0052)
Shalom6-12
Cartoon Jazz #8
(First: Episode 0016)
0106 02a
SCENE 2 Bob encounters Big Bird looking at a large egg, expecting a dancing lizard to hatch out. Bob explains that birds come out of eggs, and points him to the next film …
0106 clay single egg growing
Animation A clay bird hatches out of an egg, grows as it eats, and flies away.
0106 02b
SCENE 2
cont'd
Big Bird insists that the egg he's watching is a special egg. Bob shows him another film of eggs.
0106 clay several eggs growing
Animation Three clay birds hatch from eggs and grow as they eat. Upon reaching maturity, each produces a different bird call.
0106 02c
SCENE 2
cont'd
Big Bird insists that Bob watch this one egg very carefully …
Eggontheknee
Cartoon "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
(First: Episode 0003)
0106 02d
SCENE 2
cont'd
Big Bird boasts about the dancing lizard shown in the previous cartoon and admits he knew about birds coming out of eggs all along. After all, he hatched from one himself. Big Bird walks off, singing and dancing "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair". Bob concedes, "Well, I guess the yolk's on me."
Apesatplay
Film Apes play at the zoo.
(First: Episode 0045)
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
(First: Episode 0048)
2269k
Cartoon Q - quarter
(First: Episode 0046)
No9
Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
(First: Episode 0016)
0106 03
SCENE 3 Gordon and the kids observe a live anteater, then turn their attention to Professor Hastings.
ProfHastingsFeelings
Muppets Kermit introduces Professor Hastings, who conducts a lecture about the ways people feel, but keeps drifting off. Meanwhile, two groups of Muppets behind him pass by; one cheering for their winning team, and the others crying for the losing team.
Awardu
Cartoon "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0036)
0106 04
SCENE 4 Gordon uses an orange to describe to Mary, Ford, and Carlos what skin is, leading to the next film …
0010.skinfilm-Schickele
Film Skin is shown in close-ups.
Music: Peter Schickele
(First: Episode 0010)
Kermit Cookie glass of milk
Muppets Kermit's Lectures: Kermit teaches "full" with a full glass of milk until Cookie Monster drinks it all (with a straw). Disgusted, Kermit complains that he didn’t want to teach "empty", and asks who can talk about the word "full".
(First: Episode 0081)
Pat Paulsen empty full
Celebrity Pat Paulsen demonstrates the different between a full and an empty wastebasket.
(First: Episode 0081)
0106 05
SCENE 5 Bob sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things" using images of boats and animals.
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (repeat)
Aisforape
Cartoon Speech Balloon: A for Ape
(First: Episode 0006)
0106 06a
SCENE 6 Gordon talks with Ava and Ford about the long sound of the letter A.
Aisforape
Cartoon Speech Balloon: A for Ape (repeat)
0106 06b
SCENE 6
cont'd
Gordon moves over to talk with Mary and Carlos about the short sound of the letter A.
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (repeat)
0106 07
SCENE 7 Bob pokes a live baby alligator with a stick until it moves. He and the kids talk about the differences between alligators and crocodiles; Mauricio quotes what he heard from the previous cartoon. Everybody says goodbye, and Gordon announces the sponsors.
ClosingSign-BobSS0106

0130-sign2
CLOSING SIGNS Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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