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Oscar sets up his own postal service
Air date May 10, 1971
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Production March 4, 1971
Sponsors E, 10
This episode guide has been compiled from script materials provided by a trusted source.

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0261-01
SCENE 1 Gordon, Susan, and Oscar await their incoming mail. Oscar is especially impatient for his delivery of the latest issue of Trash Beautiful, and thinks the job of a mailman isn't so hard. He declares he's opening his own post office.
Toon-ThoughtAThought-Red
Cartoon I Thought a Thought...about the color red.
0261-02

0261-03
SCENE 2 A trash can rolls past Gordon. Oscar pops out with a postal worker's hat on, claiming this is his new mobile post office. He explains how it works - for a small fee, people give him mail, he applies homemade stamps with pictures of famous Grouches in history like George Grouchington (backed with delicious strawberry-fish flavored stickum), then he cancels the process and has things sent back to their original address. He has also recruited Little Bird to handle airmail.
Henson Scanimate 10
Insert Scanimate Films #10
(First: Episode 0134)
Jazz10
Cartoon Jazz #10
(First: Episode 0193)
0261-04
SCENE 3 Oscar can barely make out some of the handwriting on the envelopes he's received. Susan is able to read one name - Roosevelt Franklin.
Roosevelt-SpellsName
Muppets Roosevelt Franklin spells his name.
(First: Episode 0182)
0261-05
SCENE 4 Gordon tries to give Oscar some letters to mail, only to find the mobile trash can abandoned. He consults Oscar, whose mouth has been stuck shut from licking too many stamps; he still has a Grouchington stamp stuck to his tongue. When he finally gets his mouth open, he says he has closed his post office since he liked the taste of the stamp glue so much that he licked it all off, leaving no way for them to be applied to the envelopes. Gordon resolves to just put his mail into the mailbox.
Henson Scanimate 10
Insert Scanimate Films #10 (repeat)
0598.Appletree
Film Apples grow on a tree.
(First: Episode 0093)
2059f
Cartoon E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg.
Voice: Casey Kasem
(First: Episode 0002)
Bedrawer
Muppets Ernie & BertBert and Ernie try to figure out who owns a cabinet containing cookies. Bert says that the cabinet is his, because he has his first initial, B, on the door. However, the B is spread between two doors, and Ernie opens one door, making the other look like an E.
(First: Episode 0019)
Eaticecream
Cartoon E Imagination
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0001)
GroverMonsterTug-Of-War
Muppets Grover tries to show some monsters that they need to be on both sides of a rope in order to have a proper game of tug-o-war.
Lemurs
Film Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0032)
Bob-Starshine
Muppets Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. Bob notices the sun rise -- the beginning of a new day.
(First: Episode 0003)
1446d
Cartoon Speech Balloon: E for egg
A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
(First: Episode 0002)
0115r
SCENE 5 On the stoop, Susan and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make an E in the sky (First: Episode 0061). Afterwards, Susan names an E word - EXIT.
Grover--Exit (Original Version)
Muppets Grover explains the word "EXIT" with some Anything Muppets running over him as they run through the exit.
(First: Episode 0210)
Exitpolarbearcartoon
Cartoon A polar bear learns what "EXIT" means.
Animation: John and Faith Hubley
(First: Episode 0131)
UpandDownMonsters
Muppets Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down".
(First: Episode 0154)
Noimage
SCENE 6 Gordon shows up and down with a yo-yo. Oscar does the same with his trash can lid.
2059e
Film George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
(First: Episode 0239)
ProfHastingsUpDown
Muppets Professor Hastings uses a pogo stick to demonstrate "up" and "down", and ends up jumping into a pond.
(First: Episode 0216)
Noimage
SCENE 7 Susan describes one of her favorite animals - it's tall, yellow and handsome. Big Bird thinks she's talking about him, but she's instead referring to giraffes.
0010.giraffes
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0010)
Matchingcookies
Muppets Ernie tries to find another cookie with a criss-cross of icing. He has trouble matching cookies, but Cookie Monster "matches" them by eating them (putting them all in the same place, his stomach).
(First: Episode 0169)
Song.LittleBit02
Song Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit."
(First: Episode 0160)
Noimage
SCENE 8 Susan and the kids make shapes from clay, using them for a game of "Here Are Some Things."
2059f
Cartoon E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. (repeat)
Bob Gordon mess
Cast Bob and Gordon cooperate to clean up a mess.
(First: Episode 0209)
Jazz10
Cartoon Jazz #10 (repeat)
LeftyAlphabet
Muppets Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0236)
1836n
Cartoon A bear counts bees.
(First: Episode 0083)
Dot Bridge 05 all red
Cartoon Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red
(First: Episode 0001)
IThoughtaBigThought
Cartoon I Thought a Thought ... about big things.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0226)
Erniebertstring
Muppets Ernie & BertBert notices that Ernie has a piece of string tied on his finger. Ernie says that the string tied on this finger helps to remind him that there's a piece of string tied on this finger. And so on. The string on the last finger is there to remind him that they're out of string.
(First: Episode 0163)
0261-06
SCENE 9 Susan is about to go shopping, but first she gets ready for an incoming rainfall.
Folge1b
Film A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it.
(First: Episode 0149)
Groversurpriseernie1

Groversurpriseernie2
Muppets Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster, disguised as Ernie.
(First: Episode 0183)
0261-07
SCENE 10 The kids rush inside from the rain as Susan signs off.


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