Sesame Street | |||||||||
Grover the doorman | |||||||||
Air date | March 25, 1971 | ||||||||
Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Bob notices a sign on Oscar's trash can which reads “please knock.” He does so, and Oscar pleasantly greets him. Oscar explains that he's put an ad in the newspaper for a doorman, someone who will answer the knocks on his can and run other errands. Bob observes that the newspaper that Oscar placed the ad in is The Monster Gazette, and the one that applied for the job is Grover. Oscar has never met Grover, and when he witnesses Grover’s friendly nature and joking with Bob, he realizes he may have made a mistake. | |
Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) | |
SCENE 2 | Gordon knocks on Oscar’s can, and Grover (now in uniform) answers. Gordon asks to see Oscar, but Grover has Oscar guess who’s there. He tricks Oscar into coming up by saying it's someone standing on their head, and muses about the kind of jokes he and Oscar will enjoy having. Gordon dismisses what he was going to tell him and leaves. Oscar fumes at Grover, telling him to leave him alone. | |
Cartoon | "Poverty U” (First: Episode 0036) | |
SCENE 3 | Grover brings Oscar a folded paper message from a little girl, which turns out to be the word LOVE. Grover cries about the beauty of the message, while Oscar blows up at him again. | |
Muppets | Marty sings The Beatles's song "The Word" with a trio of Anything Muppet hippies while assembling the word "love" with blocks. (First: Episode 0197) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar tells Miguel that he’d rather not have Grover as a doorman, and Miguel suggests he break it to him gently. When Grover returns, Oscar slowly tells him the bad news, making Grover switch between happy and sad throughout the process. Grover ultimately doesn’t mind being fired, because now he and Oscar can be friends instead of co-workers. He is happy, but now Oscar is sad! | |
Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Grocer and Doctor. (First: Episode 0067) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) | |
Muppets | Simon Soundman comes to Ernie's apartment because he has some car trouble and needs to use Ernie's phone, but Ernie doesn't understand what he is trying to say. (First: Episode 0132) | |
SCENE 5 | Miguel and the kids count as a cuckoo clock strikes 12, waking up Big Bird from his nap in the process. | |
Cast | Bob assembles a number 12. (First: Episode 0173) | |
Celebrity | Carol Burnett runs the gamut of emotions while counting to 20. (First: Episode 0132) | |
Muppets | Lefty tries to sell a letter U, which he claims to have had in his family for years. The U is actually a string tied to two poles. However, Ernie already has a U, but when he says that yesterday he could have used a V, Lefty stretches out the U's bottom to turn it into a V. (First: Episode 0126) | |
Cartoon | Letter U salesman (First: Episode 0202) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat) | |
SCENE 6 | Grover thanks Oscar for all the games they got to play (all 46 of them). He gets Oscar to join him in listing words that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Grover says wholesome words while Oscar uses insulting words. | |
Cartoon | A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0132) | |
Muppets | Game Show: Pick Your Pet Lucy Jones insists upon a pet that purrs, has silky hair, and likes milk... the Beautiful Day Monster. (First: Episode 0067) | |
SCENE 7 | Big Bird "invents" a game called "One of These Things" (minus the singing) with the help of Bob and the kids. They use a cookie, a Frisbee, and a licorice whip, and find that each item is different than the others in some way. Big Bird declares this a sorting game as everyone was "sorta right." | |
Film | "Head To Toe Puzzle": Two kids put together a life size jigsaw puzzle of a human body. (First: Episode 0024) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 1: Ernie expects a call from Bert, but lets Cookie Monster make a phone call to his mommy, provided it's short. He proceeds to tell her about show and tell at school. (First: Episode 0064) | |
SCENE 8 | Miguel (using an eyedropper and some milk) and Bob (using two kinds of saws) demonstrate the difference between a short time and a long time. | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 2: Cookie Monster tells his mommy about jumping rope after school and counts the jumps he made. (First: Episode 0064) | |
Cartoon | Letter U salesman (repeat) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 3: Cookie Monster has counted up to 4,614 by now and asks how his brother Fred is. Ernie offers him a box of cookies to get off the phone. (First: Episode 0064) | |
Film | Joe Raposo: Elephant (instrumental). (First: Episode 0034) | |
Muppets | Cookie Monster Uses Ernie's Phone part 4: Cookie Monster finally gets off the phone, and then eats it. When Bert calls, Ernie has to talk to him through Cookie Monster's mouth. (First: Episode 0064) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat) | |
Muppets | Granny Fanny Nesselrode tries to solve the problem of why ketchup won't come out of a bottle. Her co-host points out that she should remove the bottle cap first. Having solved the problem, Granny ends up pouring ketchup all over the place. (First: Episode 0199) | |
SCENE 9 | Bob, Miguel and the kids say goodbye in English and Spanish as Grover announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | The Sesame Street sign floats above Ernie and Bert, while Grover holds the CTW sign. |
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