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Sesame Street
Oscar's lid gets stuck
Air date February 18, 1971
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Directed by David Roth
Production December 21, 1970
Sponsors C, U, 9

0204

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0204a
SCENE 1 As Susan greets the viewer, she hears some thumping coming from Oscar's trash can. Inside, Oscar says that he slammed the lid down so hard that it's stuck shut. Susan and Gordon try to open it without much luck. They feel they'll have more luck if they recruit some more help.
400031
Cartoon Jazz #9
(First: Episode 0137)
0204b
SCENE 2 Big Bird employs several ideas to unstick Oscar's lid. First, he ties a string to the top, connected to an arrow. He has Bob shoot the arrow with a bow, thinking the string will pull the can open; this fails. Big Bird then produces a can opener, which Oscar orders him to keep away. Everyone else agrees it won't work. Finally, Big Bird sticks a magnet to the lid, tied to a string, which he will pull as he quickly runs down the block. He darts off, ripping the magnet from the lid and crashing offscreen.
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)
0204c
SCENE 3 Mr. Hooper joins the group as Gordon explains his plan: Oscar will push from inside the can, while everyone else pulls from outside. This opens the lid, but also shoots Oscar up in the air and onto Big Bird's doors.
Udogcartoon
Cartoon A dog learns about U.
(First: Episode 0131)
AMs-UTag
Muppets An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!"
(First: Episode 0048)
Humbug-001
Muppets Sherlock Hemlock tries to figure out why there is a mess outside. He speculates that the Twiddlebugs made a mess after a Twiddlebug dance.
(First: Episode 0178)
0204d
SCENE 4 Bob points out the different shapes of some blocks, which he and the kids use to make a building with.
Film-BuildingGrows01
Film / Animation Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry...
(First: Episode 0142)
400031
Cartoon Jazz #9 (repeat)
Crossover-9
Cast Gordon gets Bob unstuck from a large number 9.
(First: Episode 0129)
Film-BuildingGrows02
Film / Animation Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
(First: Episode 0142)
0573g

0573g1
Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster helps Ernie match mittens, shoes, and gloves and put them away. Guess how he puts away two matching cookies.
(First: Episode 0135)
400031
Cartoon Jazz #9 (repeat)
Knicks make 8, miss 9
Celebrity The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th.
(First: Episode 0146)
GordonGrover-NextTo
Insert Gordon will reward Grover with a bag of jellybeans if he can get next to him. Grover struggles with this concept, but ultimately ends up next to the bag of tasty treats instead.
(First: Episode 0167)
KnicksMiss-17
Celebrity The New York Knicks make 16 baskets in a row, but miss on the 17th.
(First: Episode 0146)
0174-YOU
Muppets A voice (Jerry Nelson) presents the word YOU. Two Anything Muppet girls greet each other as such, then the viewer.
(First: Episode 0174)
Grover-YOU
Muppets Grover sees the word YOU, then points to the viewer.
(First: Episode 0174)
Knicks make 20, miss 21
Celebrity The New York Knicks make 20 baskets.
(First: Episode 0154)
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Vlcsnap-2015-07-30-07h02m28s111
Muppets Gordon has four things lined up in a row--a harmonica, a whistle, a trumpet, and a banana. He tells Ernie that one of these doesn't belong, and Ernie chooses the banana because you can make music with the instruments, but you eat the banana... or so he thinks. Gordon tells Ernie to blow into the banana and Ernie appears to be playing a horn until Gordon reveals he was honking a horn behind his back the whole time. Amused by the trick, they decide to play the same joke on Cookie Monster, but Cookie has a different idea--you eat the harmonica, whistle, and trumpet, and make beautiful music with the banana!
(First: Episode 0016)
0033.cat
Cartoon A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
(First: Episode 0029)
Cat toon2
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
(First: Episode 0029)
0204e
SCENE 5 The cast shows C words - Susan has a coat, a boy draws with a crayon, Oscar lives in a can and likes to complain, Gordon decorates a cake, and Bob takes a photo of Little Bird with a camera.
SB--CCarrot
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for carrot
(First: Episode 0203)
C- Cap
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C - Cap
(First: Episode 0154)
ErnieCM-Cwords
Muppets Cookie Monster hopes his box has a special C-word inside, but instead finds crumbs. He begins to cry, until Ernie provides him with a coconut crunch cookie.
0573d
Cartoon C - Cake
(First: Episode 0153)
0573e
Muppets Monsters pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C.
(First: Episode 0089)
Whathandscando
Film There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.
(First: Episode 0007)
ProfHastingsExercise
Muppets Kermit and Professor Hastings discuss the importance of exercise.
(First: Episode 0129)
400031
Cartoon Jazz #9 (repeat)
Anythingfamily
Muppets Gordon puts some features on some Anything Muppets, forming them into a family. They all sing "Consider Yourself".
(First: Episode 0001)
Jejalphabet
Celebrity Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0002)
0204f
SCENE 6 Gordon, Susan, and Bob ask Oscar to say goodbye. He refuses and slams the lid shut, once again getting it stuck. As they try prying it back open, Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
CookieMonsterSSsign1970

RooseveltBettyLouCTWsign
CLOSING SIGNS Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, while Roosevelt Franklin and Betty Lou hold the CTW sign.


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