Episode 0158

Sesame Street
Oscar puts up a Wet Paint sign; the Happy family struggles in their Hunt for Happiness.
Air date	December 16, 1970
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors A, 8

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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Susan sings "If You're Happy and You Know It" with a group of sad kids. Oscar the Grouch watches.
	Cartoon	A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie shows Bert his A machine. Also in Episode 0083
	Celebrity	Jackie Robinson says the alphabet. Also in Episode 0054
	Muppets	Monsters, including Fuzzyface, Flute-Snatcher, Cookie Monster, Beautiful Day Monster, and Scudge, are looking at something. Baby Monster appears, and is reprimanded with "Eyy!" After a few times, Baby Monster turns toward the viewer and yells "A!", revealing that the group is staring at the letter A. Also in Episode 0083
	SCENE 2	Mr. Hooper and Gordon try to decipher a smeared note ordering bird seed. It turns out that the note is from Big Bird.
	Song	"Fireman, He's Ready to Go" Also in Episode 0131
	Muppets	Hunt for Happiness: Helen Happy tells Harold Happy that she has mud on her sneaker.
File:Jazzyspies8.jpg	Cartoon	Jazzy Spies #8
	Muppets	Grandmother Happy suggests that Helen wipe the mud off her sneaker with a rag... but now... there's mud on the rag!
File:Jazzyspies8.jpg	Cartoon	Jazzy Spies #8
	Muppets	Grandmother Happy tells Harold to wash the mud off the rag with soap. It works... but now there's mud on the soap! Grandmother Happy gives up.
File:Basketballcounting1.jpg	Celebrity	Basketball players count 4 lay-ups.
	SCENE 3	Bob tells a joke in English, and Carlos translates it into Spanish.
	Cartoon	Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes explains wet and dry. A monster spoils her explanation, and then kisses Alice.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie and Bert watch the Alice cartoon on TV, and Ernie laughs when he sees Alice being kissed by the monster. Bert says Ernie wouldn't think it was so funny if a monster kissed him. Beautiful Day Monster appears, and kisses Ernie.
	Song	"Octopus One-Man Band"
	Celebrity	Walt Frazier and Dick Barnett of the New York Knicks bounce a round basketball. Bill Cosby tries to bounce a square basketball.
	SCENE 4	Kids on the Street make shapes with their fingers.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Bert says that he saw Ernie eating his cookies. The culprit turns out to be Cookie Monster, who's disguised in Ernie's hair and shirt.
	Cast	Larry and Phyllis make car noises. Also in Episode 0131
	SCENE 5	Big Bird tells Herbert Birdsfoot a poem about the "AN" family.
File:Basketballcounting2.jpg	Celebrity	Basketball players count 16 lay-ups.
	SCENE 6	Bob plays "One of These Things" with fruit.
File:Jazzyspies8.jpg	Cartoon	Jazzy Spies #8
	SCENE 7	Bob plays "One of These Things" again with knick-knacks.
	Cartoon	Today's secret drawing: A camel.
	Muppets	Ernie demonstrates the word "Apple"; Cookie Monster eats Ernie's apple.
	Cartoon	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.
	SCENE 8	Oscar puts a "Wet Paint" sign on his trash can so that he can go to sleep without anybody banging on his can and bothering him. Susan knocks on his can to tell him that the paint is dry.
	Cartoon	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. Also in Episode 0008
	SCENE 9	Gordon sees Oscar's "Wet Paint" sign, and bangs on his can to tell him that the paint's dry.
	Cartoon	A is for Ape.
	SCENE 10	Mr. Hooper bangs on Oscar's can to tell him that the paint's dry; Oscar gets frustrated and takes the sign down.
	Cartoon	A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A. (repeat)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play".
	SCENE 11	Mr. Hooper, Gordon and Susan all bang on Oscar's can to tell him that his sign fell down.