Sesame Street | |||||
Mr. Hooper asks Big Bird to open Hooper's Store for him. | |||||
Air date | February 10, 1971 | ||||
Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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Miguel shows the audience that the brownstone building is called 123 Sesame Street. He counts out 1, 2, 3. | ||
Jazz #3 | ||
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. | ||
Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. | ||
Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (EKA: Episode 0162) | ||
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 | ||
O is for Open | ||
An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. | ||
Bob sings "The OP Family Song". | ||
Basketball players 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. | ||
A song explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away. | ||
Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mahna Mahna". | ||
Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot. | ||
Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (repeat) | ||
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. (EKA: 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 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. | ||
Larry and Phyllis try to get Larry's galoshes on. | ||
Gordon tells the kids about how kids play marbles in Africa. | ||
African kids play 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. | ||
Checkerboard transition cartoon | ||
L is for Lunchbox (EKA: Episode 0043) | ||
L is for Lips | ||
Gordon and the kids say good-bye. |