Episode 0109

Sesame Street
Air date	April 9, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors A, Q, U, 8, 9

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• Sesame Street Animal Films: Animal feet.

• Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie", an anthem for his beloved rubber duck. (First: Episode 0078)

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

• Monsters look at a big A. (First: Episode 0083)

• Buddy and Jim struggle with buttons. (First: Episode 0015)

• Alphabet Bates makes the letter U. (First: Episode 0036)

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

• Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9's. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9's. (First: Episode 0079)

• "Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away. (Music by Peter Schickele.) (First: Episode 0077)

• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit watches some live bears do exercises. (This was done on a chroma-key background). (First: Episode 0044)

• Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!" (EKA: Episode 0017)

• 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)

• Speech Balloon: A--Ape (First: Episode 0006)

• Cartoon: A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is...before he is eaten by one. (First: Episode 0006)

• Cartoon: "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048)

• Cartoon: A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.” (First: Episode 0054)

• Cartoon: "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. (First: Episode 0036)

• Speech Balloon: “U” – Umbrella (First: Episode 0038)

• Jim Henson clay animation: The letter “U” is focused in a story involving a unicorn in his underwear and uniform upon a unicycle whilst under an unusually ugly umbrella. (First: Episode 0037)

• Cartoon: A boy counts while erasing things and people. (aired twice) (First: Episode 0008)

• "Jazz #8" (First: Episode 0016)

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

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