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Episode 0266

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Sesame Street
Plot
Air date May 17, 1971
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors Q, T, 4
Syndication
DVD
This episode page has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives.
  • Big Bird recites a short poem about triangles.
  • Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie is happy because he is about to eat his cookie, but Cookie Monster is sad because he hasn't had a cookie all day. Ernie gives him his cookie, but now Cookie is happy and Ernie is sad. The two keep passing the cookie to each other as both their emotions exchange. When the two decide to share they cookie, both end up breaking it, and now neither of them are happy!
  • Cartoon: A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one.
  • Film: Counting 4 penguins.
  • Tough Luck Lester, an Anything Muppet, explains why he is in bandages; he is never cautious about what he does. With his friends help, Lester is able to stay away from dangerous items like matches and broken glass.
  • Film: city alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover)
  • Herry spots a rectangle first. Grover tells Herry it isn't a triangle, and becomes frustrated. Next he spots a square, Grover tells him it isn't a triangle, and once again is frustrated. Grover suggests that Herry should cut the square in half and make two triangles.
  • Cartoon: "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048)
  • Cartoon: A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that "Q" starts the word quarter. (First: Episode 0054)
  • Cartoon: A man hangs a "Q" in mid-air as another man comments on how funny-looking it is. (First: Episode 0131)
  • Cartoon: A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". (First: Episode 0024)
  • Cartoon: A Casey Kasem-voiced man explains the letter T with a TV that plays a concert. When the man begins to sing with it, the conductor on the TV set "turns him off" by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0024)



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