Episode 0198
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| Sesame Street | |
| Plot | Mr. Hooper asks Big Bird to open Hooper's Store for him. |
| Air date | February 10, 1971 |
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) |
| Sponsors | L, O, 3 |
| Syndication | Sesame Street Unpaved |
| Releases | |
| This episode guide is missing segments cut from Noggin's broadcast. |
| Picture | Segment | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | | Miguel shows the audience that the brownstone building is called 123 Sesame Street. He counts out 1, 2, 3. |
 | | Jazz #3 (First: Episode 0003) |
 | | Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (First: Episode 0133) |
 | | Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. |
 | | Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (First: Episode 0057) |
 | | Mr. Hooper has to run an important errand, and he asks Big Bird to open Hooper's Store for him. Big Bird is nervous, but agrees to do it. |
 | | O limerick |
 | | Big Bird unlocks the store, but doesn't know how to turn the light on. He hears a scary noise in the dark, and panics. Mr. Hooper finds Big Bird alone in the dark, and turns the light on to reveal that the scary noise was just a telephone off its hook. Mr. Hooper reassures Big Bird -- but then Bob enters the store through the back door, startling them both. |
 | | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
 | | O is for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
 | | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. |
 | | Bob sings "The OP Family Song". |
 | | The New York Knicks demonstrate over, around and through. |
 | | Herbert Birdsfoot demonstrates "over" and "under" by having Grover lie over a mattress. Then Grover lies under the mattress, and Herbert drives the point home by adding more objects over Grover. |
 | | Kids hear an L poem. |
 | | Miguel shows a kid how to set a table, until Oscar intervenes. |
 | | "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) |
 | | Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mahna Mahna". (First: Episode 0014) |
 | | Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot. |
| | | Jazz #3 (repeat) |
 | | Bill Cosby tells his young friends a story that involves "over" and "under". He mixes the words up, and the kids correct him. |
 | | A black circle appears on a blue screen, and grows until it covers the whole screen. |
 | | A baby rescues a ball from on top of a column. Artist: John and Faith Hubley |
| | | O limerick (repeat) |
  | | Gordon asks Ernie to put three balls and a balloon into four small boxes. When Ernie learns the trick, he tries to play the game with Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0008) |
 | | Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off. |
 | | Bob finds a string hanging in midair. He pulls the string, and a shutter clangs down over the TV screen. |
 | | Little Bird plays an imagination game, closing his eyes and imagining he hears sounds. At the end of the game, he imagines that he hears a scary monster -- and when he opens his eyes, Herry Monster is there, growling at him. (First: Episode 0148) |
 | | Larry and Phyllis try to get Larry's galoshes on. (EKA: Episode 0167) |
 | | Gordon tells the kids about how kids play marbles in Africa. |
 | | African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones. |
 | | Ernie and Bert: Ernie reads Bert a dramatic story that he's just written. The "story" is actually the alphabet, which Ernie reads in an overwrought manner. (First: Episode 0009) |
 | | Checkerboard transition cartoon |
 | | L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) |
 | | L is for Lips |
 | | Gordon and the kids say good-bye. Bob say good-bye too. Big Bird announces the sponsors. Then there is a blue background and a shutter closes. |
  | | Gordon holds up the Sesame Street sign and Bob holds up the CTW sign at the end. |
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