Episode 0123

Sesame Street
Air date	April 29, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors R, V, 3

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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Mr. Hooper welcomes the viewer, and says he's going to go through some boxes of musical instruments. He has a box of three harmonicas, a box of three toy trumpets, and a box that only has one toy flute. He mentioned that Gordon bought one of these flutes for a friend of his.
	Muppets	Part 1: Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, he asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon asks what else will happen. Ernie doesn't think anything else is supposed to happen. Gordon says that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert. (First: Episode 0031)
	Cartoon	A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (First: Episode 0083)
	Muppets	Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when he rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies. (First: Episode 0031)
	SCENE 2	Gordon shows the kids a coatimundi.
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby reindeer (First: Episode 0003)
	SCENE 3	Susan and the kids count to 10 with the help of numbers written on a piece of cardboard, but the 3 is missing.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert Sketches: Apartment: Part 1: Ernie draws a llama, but Bert says it doesn't look anything like a llama. He asks a filmed llama for advice, but the llama doesn't like it either. So Ernie decides to draw a 3 instead, but he can't remember what it looks like. (First: Episode 0002)
	Cartoon	"Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002)
	Muppets	Part 2: Ernie draws what looks like a squiggle, so Bert recommends that he watch the 3 film again. (First: Episode 0002)
	Cartoon	"Jazz #3" (repeat) (First: Episode 0002)
	Muppets	Part 3: Ernie finishes his drawing. Bert asks, "You call that a three?" Ernie answers, "No, I call that a tree!" (First: Episode 0002)
	Cartoon	A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (repeat) (First: Episode 0083)
File:AlphabetBatesR.jpg	SCENE 4	Alphabet Bates draws an R.
File:AlphabetBatesR.jpg	SCENE 4 cont'd	Mr. Hooper has the kids guess the word "radio".
	Cartoon	A man 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)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie has a collection of R's in a box. He shows Bert, who says that Ernie will be the laughingstock of Sesame Street if anyone else finds out. Ernie sadly throws away his R's -- and Bert asks to have the box for his J collection. (First: Episode 0014)
	Cartoon	"Story of R" -- A man and his dog show a film about the letter R, involving a robber who steals a rooster and escapes by rowboat. (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 5	Part 1: Big Bird can't remember how to draw the letter R, when a lowercase r falls from the sky and helps him. He writes a lowercase r on an easel, but then the lowercase r disappears. Big Bird tries to tell Gordon and Mr. Hooper about it, but they think he just imagined it. Big Bird starts to look for the lowercase r.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: "R" – Rabbit (First: Episode 0014)
	Cartoon	A man explains the letter R with a radio. When he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat) (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 6	Part 2: The little r comes back with a capital R. Big Bird draws a capital R, and then the r's leave. Mr. Hooper and Gordon come back and think that Big Bird is still imagining things, but then the r's show up again, much to Gordon and Mr. Hooper's surprise.
	Cartoon	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (lowercase version) (First: Episode 0010)
	Film	Noises: Magic Glasses-Chris.
	Cast	Susan sings "One of These Things" with 3 lowercase r's and 1 capital R.
	Cast	Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to get an ironing board from one room to another. (First: Episode 0002)
File:ErnieCMPhone.jpg	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Part 1: Ernie is expecting an important phone call from Bert, but Cookie Monster needs to use it to call his mother. (First: Episode 0064)
	Film	The “unsung beauty of manhole covers” is explored. (First: Episode 0004)
	Cartoon	"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes, among other things beginning with V. (First: Episode 0050)
	Cartoon	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (lowercase version) (repeat) (First: Episode 0010)
File:ErnieCMPhone.jpg	Muppets	Part 2: Ernie impatiently waits for Cookie Monster to finish. (First: Episode 0064)
	SCENE 7	Mr. Hooper shows the kids a crow.
File:0123-EatingSong.jpg	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings a song about eating over film footage of eating animals. (First: Episode 0106)
File:ErnieCMPhone.jpg	Muppets	Part 3: Ernie tries to give Cookie Monster a cookie if he hangs up, but he just eats the whole box of cookies and keeps on talking. (First: Episode 0064)
	SCENE 8	Susan talks about rectangles.
File:RectanglesCityCountry.jpg	Film	Rectangles in the city and the country.
File:ErnieCMPhone.jpg	Muppets	Part 4: Cookie Monster finally finishes with the phone, and he "thanks" Ernie by eating it. Then Bert calls. (First: Episode 0064)
File:0123GordonSusanMrHooper.jpg File:0123Sponsors.jpg	SCENE	Gordon says it's time to say goodbye, and Bob announces the sponsors.
File:Cookie123.jpeg	CLOSING SIGNS	Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign (repeated from episodes 0005 and 0115) while Cookie Monster holds up the CTW sign at the end.

Known edits

Picture	Segment	Description
File:1800-14.jpg File:Mooch.jpg	Film	A kid taking a shower explains how animals, people, and things get clean. (First: Episode 0001) This segment is missing from the iTunes version.

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