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Sesame Street
Big Bird dusts chairs
Air date December 8, 1970
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Directed by David Roth
Production October 26, 1970
Sponsors U, 2

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0152 01
SCENE 1 Gordon greets the viewer, and lists a few of the things we'll be seeing today.
Princess&Cookie01

Princess&Cookie02
Muppets / Cast Bob reads the story of "The Princess and the Cookie". In the story, a king is looking for someone to marry his daughter, the small princess Eunice. He is having trouble, because all the princes in the kingdom keep bringing her cookies that are too big for her. Finally, the baker (Cookie Monster) enters with the smallest cookie in the kingdom, which the princess immediately wants. The baker is disinterested in marrying the princess, until the prince offers him the other three cookies that the princes brought. And they lived happily ever after.
Stopwater
Film "What if you were magic, and could make things stop just by telling it to, or make it go backwards? Stop! Then you could see what things look like when they're moving. Go forwards! Stop! Well, film is magic, and this is a film, so you can be magic for three minutes. Like this: Go slow, water fountain! Now, you try it."
(First: Episode 0047)
The pigeon footage in this film was re-used for the introduction of "Doin' the Pigeon."
0152 02a

0152 02b
SCENE 2 Big Bird finishes dusting the four chairs in the yard, which Mr. Hooper told him to do. Proud that he is being helpful, he goes to find Mr. Hooper to show him the chairs. Meanwhile, Mr. Hooper comes back and sees the chairs. He counts four clean chairs, and thinks Big Bird did a marvelous job. He takes a chair out in front of the store so he can get some sun. Meanwhile, Big Bird comes back to find only three chairs. He thinks that the fourth has run away, and goes to tell Mr. Hooper. Meanwhile, the sun has gone behind the clouds, so Mr. Hooper puts the chair back. Big Bird finds Mr. Hooper, but now there are four chairs. He thinks the chair ran away and ran back. As they go into the store, Mr. Hooper explains that chairs can't run away.
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)
0152 03
SCENE 3 Gordon watches the kids in a game of horseshoes and shows them that a horseshoe looks like the letter U.
Awardu
Cartoon "Poverty U" (repeat)
Ernie.CM.Ukelele
Muppets Ernie demonstrates the letter U with a ukulele; Cookie Monster plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on it, then eats it.
(First: Episode 0047)
0152 04
SCENE 4 Mr. Hooper observes how cloudy it is. Anticipating rain, he opens his umbrella.
SpeechBalloon.Umbrella
Cartoon Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
(First: Episode 0038)
PaddleballCount
Cartoon A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird.
0152 05a
SCENE 5 Susan sings "One of These Things" using patterns on circles on the newsstand outside Hooper's Store.
0152 05b
SCENE 5 cont'd Bob sings "Three of These Things" with similar shapes attached to the front of 123 Sesame Street.
HubleyJazzBirds
Cartoon Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0134)
Kermit'sBearExc
Muppets Kermit's Lectures - Kermit watches some live bears do exercises.
(First: Episode 0044)
Cookiecoat
Muppets Tony tends to an Anything Muppet shopping for a fur coat who ends up wearing a monster (Cookie Monster, to be exact).
(First: Episode 0145)
0152 06
SCENE 6 Gordon announces that skates have wheels, Mr. Hooper says tricycles have wheels, and Susan points to wagons that have wheels. Bob says that lots of things have wheels...
0013.wheelsfilm
Film Different kinds of wheels are shown and what they’re used for. (edited, with new music track)
(First: Episode 0137)
Spinning Wheel intro

SS-SpinningWheel
Muppets Gordon meets Professor Hastings and Professor Goldfinch, who will be performing a number. A wild Anything Muppet arrives as their drummer and the trio performs "Spinning Wheel".
(First: Episode 0012)
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0152 07b
SCENE 7 Susan sets out some shapes and numbers for the kids to figure out what to make from them: a clock. When she asks them what time it is, Oscar the Grouch appears in the dumbwaiter and reports that it's time to watch...
Larry and Phyllis penny potatoes
Cast Larry and Phyllis retrieve a lucky penny from under a bag of potatoes.
(First: Episode 0133)
Ivegottwo
SCENE 8 Bob and Susan sing "I've Got Two."
Dollhouse
Film "Doll House"
(First: Episode 0131)
Ridingbikefilm
Film A film of kids riding their bikes to the zoo. The kids look at zoo animals.
(First: Episode 0131)
Ernie Bert umbrella
Muppets Ernie & Bert — During the rain, Ernie stands under an umbrella explaining how the weather makes him feel happy, sad, and mad. Bert has been trying to get under the umbrella with him, telling Ernie that all it has made him feel is wet. Ernie wonders why he doesn't have his umbrella; Bert explains that it's because Ernie is using it. Ernie thanks him and leaves Bert sneezing in the rain.
(First: Episode 0137)
RoosterDANGER
Cartoon Various renderings of the word DANGER.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0151)
Burtlancaster
Celebrity Burt Lancaster says the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0006)
0573s1
Film Folk song: Have You Ever Been To The Farm?
(First: Episode 0138)
Awardu
Cartoon "Poverty U" (repeat)
0152 09
SCENE 9 Gordon draws a picture of a hand for some kids, and explains that "mano" means "hand" in Spanish. They use their hands to wave goodbye as Bob announces the sponsors.
BBsignS02

ClosingSign-BertErnieCTW-0152
CLOSING SIGNS Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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