Episode 0239

Sesame Street
Oscar has a wall built around his trash can.
Air date	April 8, 1971
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors B, E, 11

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• Gordon, Susan, and kids find John, a carpenter, building a wall around Oscar's trash can.

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie lies in bed and starts talking about how a square looks like and how many lines it has, then goes on to compare a a square with a triangle. And then starts to ponder about how many sides a circle has, and goes to sleep just as Bert is about to attempt to answer the question, and ends up not being able to sleep.

• John and kids make numbers using folding rulers.

• Ernie and Bert: Part 1: Ernie is a barber, and cuts all of Bert's hair off. Part 2: Ernie tries to disguise Bert until his hair grows back, but a monster (later known as Grover) mistakes Bert for his father. Part 3: Bert has grown his hair back, but now he talks like Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0068)

• Bob and Gordon magically make a number eleven.

• Three Anything Muppets (including Farley) wait for a bus at a bus stop. To their surprise, the bus is very small, and two small Muppets get off of it.

• "B is for Bubble" (First: Episode 0008)

• Cookie Monster: Cookie Monster explains the purpose of the Bus Stop sign. However, the bus zooms pasts him, resulting in Cookie Monster ripping the part of the sign that reads "STOP".

• Gordon sorts cleaning tools.

• Professor Hastings uses a pogo stick to demonstrate "up" and "down", and ends up jumping into a pond.

• John sorts carpenter's tools.

• An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down.

• John talks about subtraction with kids.

• Film: a boy learns to ride a bike.

• In song, Roosevelt Franklin shows that he knows how to spell his name.

• George the Farmer goes up and down on ladders.

• Animation: "E Imagination": A surreal story of a boy eating a peach atop an eagle witnessing a queen on her knee, dreaming of eating ice cream in a land of steam. (First: Episode 0001)

• Bob finds a girl crying because she thinks she's not pretty, and doesn't have nice clothes. Bob sings "Don't You Know You're Beautiful?" to her to cheer her up.

• Countdown series: After countdown, the director himself is launched into space as the rocket stays put. (First: Episode 0018)

• Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down". (EKA: Episode 0154)

• Cartoon: Today's Secret Drawing - Nurse

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