Sesame Street | |||||||||
Cleaning up on Sesame Street | |||||||||
Air date | March 19, 1971 | ||||||||
Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Oscar the Grouch is happy because today is trash collection day, meaning he can scour through the trash people leave out around him before it gets collected. Gordon brings over some rocks and bricks cleaned out from the garage, Mr. Hooper throws out a couple of old soda bottle crates, and Susan brings a broom with a broken-off handle. To Oscar's dismay, everyone finds another use for each other's trash, such as paperweights or a stick for stickball, leaving Oscar empty-handed. | |
Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over. (First: Episode 0018) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie struggles to save a plate of cookies for Bert. Beautiful Day Monster disguises himself as a baker and a little girl to trick Ernie out of four of the five cookies, but Bert blames Ernie. (First: Episode 0041) | |
Cartoon | Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off. (First: Episode 0018) | |
Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!" (First: Episode 0061) | |
SCENE 2 | Bob plays two games of "Three of These Things" using pictures on the construction doors. The first round features things that give light, and the other round uses gardening tools. | |
Film | A steam shovel picks up debris. (First: Episode 0004) | |
Animation | Bridge: Dot & Hill A-1 (First: Episode 0146) | |
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) | |
Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Artists: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) | |
Animation | Dot & Hill A-2 (First: Episode 0146) | |
Animation | "The King of Eight" | |
Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — After watching the Jazz #8 cartoon, Ernie gets Bert to play a game with him, in which he says, "I one the sandbox," and Bert says, "I two the sandbox,” and so on until Bert gets to "I eight the sandbox." "You ate the sandbox? How'd it taste?" Ernie asks. (First: Episode 0019) | |
Muppets | Gordon puts some features on some Anything Muppets, forming them into a family. They all sing "Consider Yourself". (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 3 | Susan readies her new planter box that she recycled from one of Mr. Hooper's soda boxes. She recites some poems for Sally and two other kids about how to plant flowers, leaving out rhymes for the kids to fill in. | |
Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot displays the letters O and P, mentioning that they're the OP family. When he adds an M for "mop", he has Grover fetch a mop. When he adds a DR for "drop", he has Grover drop a heavy rock. When he adds an H for "hop", he has Grover hop repeatedly until he faints. Herbert then adds a FL for "flop" and a ST for "stop". (First: Episode 0148) | |
Animation | Dot & Hill A-3 (First: Episode 0146) | |
SCENE 4 | Gordon points out many people are cleaning today. Susan cleans a window. Mr. Hooper washes his dishes. Bob dusts a table and accidentally mistakes Little Bird's topknot for part of his feather duster. Even Oscar has set out a clothesline for his laundry, which remains dirty (just as Grouches like it). | |
Film | You can clean almost anything. Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers. (First: Episode 0001) | |
Animation | Dot & Hill A-4 (First: Episode 0146) | |
SCENE 5 | Susan draws an O on the glass she's cleaning. | |
Cast | Gordon and Bob put together the letter O. (First: Episode 0111) | |
Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) | |
Cartoon | A song about a rolling O (repeat) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) | |
SCENE 7 | Susan now draws a letter Y (in fairness for the letter Y fans), then draws another O next to it. To balance it out she draws another Y and O, making the word "YOYO." | |
Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0036) | |
Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) | |
Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "Yolanda and the Youth", a story about a youth who wins the hand of Princess Yolanda by passing the "Y" test. (First: Episode 0174) | |
Cartoon | Jazz #8 (repeat) | |
Celebrity | Jim Nabors sings The Alphabet Song. (First: Episode 0176) | |
SCENE 8 | Susan writes out one more word before she finishes cleaning: GOODBYE. Gordon announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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