Sesame Street | |||||||||
Mr. Hooper gives Oscar some letters | |||||||||
Air date | May 12, 1971 | ||||||||
Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon welcomes the viewer, wearing a sweater with an E on it. Mr. Hooper sets out some newspapers, shouting, "Extra, extra!" which Gordon points out is an E word. | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot displays the letters E and T, mentioning that they're the ET family. He calls on Grover to add a heavy letter W to the letters, making the word WET. Grover rests for a minute after carrying the heavy W away. (First: Episode 0138) | |
Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot calls on Grover to add a heavy letter S to the letters, making the word SET. Grover rests for a minute after carrying the heavy S away. (First: Episode 0138) | |
SCENE 2 | Gordon displays the letter E on his sweater, again. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot calls on Grover to add a heavy letter M to the letters, making the word MET. Grover faints after being told to put the ET letters away. (First: Episode 0138) | |
SCENE 3 | Susan calls Gordon from Hooper's Store and asks him to describe their platter so she can buy another one that matches it. Gordon describes it as round, with a blue stripe and a flower in the middle. He ends up dropping it, so he adds one more thing to the platter description: it's broken. | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin shows that he knows the "Days of the Week". (First: Episode 0107) | |
Cartoon | Batman and Robin catch the Penguin's gang who has dirty windows, teaching the opposite pairings of clean and dirty. (First: Episode 0099) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty H” (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0162) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar sips on a cup of hot mud in his can, when Mr. Hooper accidentally rides his delivery cart into his can area. He shows Oscar that he's made a "SALE" sign, and gives Oscar the leftover letters -- L, B, O, I, V, G, and E. Then, he remembers that he was going to make the sign say "BIG SALE," and takes back the B, I, and G. This leaves Oscar with the word "LOVE," much to his dismay. | |
Cartoon | H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: H is for hole (First: Episode 0080) | |
Cast | Gordon appears as a magician sitting in a chair. He magically brings in Susan and Mr. Hooper, as well as a number counting them all. The other two pop in and out, forcing Gordon to change the number until he makes them all vanish. (First: Episode 0233) | |
Cartoon | Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!" (First: Episode 0001) | |
SCENE 5 | Susan asks kids where to wash a car. Still pictures show their options, such as a sink, bathtub, or laundromat. Ultimately, they guess that it gets washed at the car wash. | |
Film | Kids use shapes to make a train. (First: Episode 0137) | |
Cast | Bob assembles a number 12. (First: Episode 0173) | |
Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) | |
Celebrity | Pat Paulsen counts to 20. (First: Episode 0101) | |
SCENE 6 | Big Bird encounters Kimmy, who just hurt her knee. He reassures her it was just a mistake, and sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes." As he wraps up, he makes a mistake himself by bumping into Mr. Hooper as he stacks items in the store. | |
Film | Apes play at the zoo. (First: Episode 0045) | |
Muppets | Ernie finds a big yellow ball, which belongs to Herry Monster. (First: Episode 0191) | |
SCENE 7 | Mr. Hooper shows a Muppet kid (Jerry Nelson) how to use a reaching device to get a pack of light bulbs down from the top shelf. | |
Cartoon | Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version). (First: Episode 0140) | |
Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) | |
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. (First: Episode 0261) | |
SCENE 8 | Reading quickies:
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Cartoon | H is for horseshoe. (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: H is for hole (repeat) | |
Cartoon | A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks. (repeat) | |
SCENE 9 | Big Bird wants to play basketball with some kids, but first Gordon has to put up the hoop, Ronald has to get the basketball, and Brian has to round up more kids for the teams. Once all that happens, something else occurs that nobody could plan for: it starts to rain. One kid offers Big Bird a kiss, but Big Bird feels too dejected. | |
Cartoon | "Poverty H” (repeat) | |
Cartoon | A male voice narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to dance, and a square square. The triangle likes being flexible, but the square would rather be stiff and *square*. Music: "Waltz in Mean Time," David Lee (First: Episode 0007) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg (repeat) | |
SCENE 10 | Under the shelter of the arbor outside Hooper's, everyone sings "Rain, Rain, Go Away." Big Bird angrily cries out to the heavens, "You're not listening!" Gordon gets everyone to wave goodbye and Susan announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper and Oscar hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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