Episode 0198

Sesame Street
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

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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Miguel shows the audience that the brownstone building is called 123 Sesame Street. He counts out 1, 2, 3.
	Cartoon	Jazzy Spies #3
	Muppets	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.
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over.
	Celebrity	Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" Also in episode 0162
	SCENE 2	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.
	Cartoon	O limerick
	SCENE 3	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.
	Cartoon	A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley
	Cartoon	O is for Open
	Cartoon	An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O.
	SCENE 4	Bob sings "The OP Family Song".
	Celebrity	Basketball players demonstrate over, around and through.
	Muppets	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.
	Cartoon	Kids hear an L poem.
	SCENE 5	Miguel shows a kid how to set a table, until Oscar intervenes.
	Song	A song explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away.
File:Originalmahnamahna.jpg	Muppets	Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mahna Mahna".
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot.
	Celebrity	Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (repeat)
	Cartoon	Jazzy Spies #3 (repeat)
	Celebrity	Bill Cosby tells his young friends a story that involves "over" and "under". He mixes the words up, and the kids correct him.
	Transition	A black circle appears on a blue screen, and grows until it covers the whole screen.
	Cartoon	A baby rescues a ball from on top of a column. Artist: John and Faith Hubley
	Cartoon	O limerick (repeat)
	Muppets	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. Also in episode 0008
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off.
	SCENE 6	Bob finds a string hanging in midair. He pulls the string, and a shutter clangs down over the TV screen.
File:Littlebirdherry.jpg	Muppets	Little Bird plays an imagination game, closing her eyes and imagining she hears sounds. At the end of the game, she imagines she hears a scary monster -- and when she opens her eyes, Herry Monster is there, growling at her.
	Cast	Larry and Phyllis try to get Larry's galoshes on.
	SCENE 7	Gordon tells the kids about how kids play marbles in Africa.
	Film	African kids play a game with stones.
	Muppets	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.
	Cartoon	Checkerboard transition cartoon
	Cartoon	L is for Lunchbox Also in episode 0043
	Cartoon	L is for Lips
	SCENE 8	Gordon and the kids say good-bye.