Episode 0123

Sesame Street
Big Bird draws lowercase and uppercase R's
Air date	April 29, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors R, V, 3 Releases Sesame Street Classics

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.
	Cast / Muppets	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, Gordon asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states 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 Ernie 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 (Gordon and kid voice-over) (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. Susan introduces someone who knows what the number looks like...
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie draws a llama, but Bert says it doesn't look anything like a llama. Ernie 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	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	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	Mr. Hooper and the kids hear an airplane and watch Alphabet Bates make an R.
	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 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	R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 5	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. (First: Episode 0010)
	Film	A boy with magic glasses listens to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, and a parrot. (First: Episode 0008)
	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 carry an ironing board (horizontally) from one room to another. (First: Episode 0002)
	Muppets	Ernie is expecting an important phone call from Bert, but Cookie Monster needs to use the phone to call his mother. Ernie lets him use it, provided it's a short call. The monster starts to tell his mother about his day, which wasn't very short... (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. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050)
	Cartoon	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (repeat) (First: Episode 0010)
	Muppets	Ernie impatiently waits for Cookie Monster to finish. (First: Episode 0064)
	SCENE 7	Mr. Hooper shows the kids a crow.
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat. (First: Episode 0106)
	Muppets	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. (First: Episode 0005)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster finally finishes with the phone, and he "thanks" Ernie by eating it. Then Bert calls. (First: Episode 0064)
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.
	SCENE 9	Gordon reads in the newspaper that it's time to "Go 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.

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