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Sesame Street
Gordon buys flowers for Susan
Air date May 20, 1971
Season Season 2 (1970-1971)
Directed by Joost Van Rees
Production March 12, 1971
Sponsors I, V, 7

SSShowID-0269

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0269a
SCENE 1 Gordon is going to the flower shop and asks Oscar to tell anyone who needs him he'll be back soon. Oscar asks why he's buying flowers. Gordon states they're for Susan, and not for any special occasion - he just wants to show her he cares. Oscar asks him to buy a second bunch of flowers for Susan from himself, and even offers to pay for one. Gordon leaves, confused of Oscar's kindness, and Oscar tells the viewer, "Every year or two I do something nice, just to confuse people."
ImaginationV
Cartoon "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0050)
0269b

0269c
SCENE 2 Gordon and Oscar have arranged their flowers, and Gordon presents his vase of his flowers to Susan when she comes home from work. He even adds an impromptu poem, but the mushiness sickens Oscar. Oscar then gives her his rusty tin can filled with just the stems of the roses he got. Gordon is repulsed by them, but Susan is flattered nonetheless - "When else does a girl in her lifetime get a bouquet from her husband and a bouquet from a Grouch?"
Film-FlowersEverywhere
Film A female vocalist sings about the many different types of flowers found all over.
(First: Episode 0141)
0269d
SCENE 3 Bob has a simplified picture of a city street on the outside wall of Hooper's Store. He helps Chris and Kim recreate the image using a toy car and blocks of varying sizes.
Bath Precautions
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie brings an umbrella, a flashlight, and Bert's bowling ball to the bathtub, just in case the electricity goes out, the roof leaks, and somebody shows up asking to borrow a bowling ball. Bert thinks that Ernie is being ridiculous -- but everything happens, just as Ernie predicted.
ThatsMyLetterI
Cartoon A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
(First: Episode 0143)
1261-LowercaseI
Cartoon A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
(First: Episode 0032)
0487 05
Insert Big Bird plays in his nest with a set of blocks that Roosevelt Franklin had gifted him. Herry Monster comes along and helps him sort them according to how they want to play with them.
(First: Episode 0178)
ChickenCloud
Cartoon Clouds that look like things.
(First: Episode 0211)
Grover
Muppets Grover sings "What Do I Do When I'm Alone?"
VirgilVeep
Cartoon Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V.
(First: Episode 0110)
Sherlock-V
Muppets Sherlock Hemlock encounters the letter V.
(First: Episode 0267)
HubleyV01
Cartoon Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc.
Artist: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0167)
SpeechBalloon.V
Cartoon Speech Balloon: V for Violin
A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks.
(First: Episode 0052)
0269e
SCENE 4 Gordon starts a remembering game with Big Bird (who peers from the window of Gordon and Susan's apartment) and the kids. He places a record, plate, and a wheel in a box and asks the players to remember the items. He then has everybody count to twenty...
PaddleballCount
Cartoon A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird.
(First: Episode 0152)
0269f
SCENE 4 cont'd Gordon asks if everyone remembers what items were in the box. After the game, Big Bird remembers why he's in Gordon's apartment: he's using their bathtub to put his large goldfish in. He also remembers that he didn't turn the water off.
Sendak-7monsters
Cartoon Seven monsters cause havoc in a village.
Artists: Maurice Sendak, Fred Calvert
(First: Episode 0247)
0269g
SCENE 5 Bob describes how elevators work, particularly the doors. The screen wipes open and closed like elevator doors as a visual aid as Bob attempts to describe how an elevator works, moving from the top and bottom of the stoop as the doors open and close.
Elevator10.oldschool
Cartoon An elevator fills up with 10 passengers, but quickly breaks when the mouse gets on.
(First: Episode 0003)
BDM Girl
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie struggles to save a plate of cookies for Bert. Beautiful Day Monster disguises himself as a baker and a little girl to trick Ernie out of four of the five cookies, but Bert blames Ernie.
(First: Episode 0041)
CatLion
Cartoon A black cat chases after a white bird, until a white lion steps in.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0255)
0269h
SCENE 6 Gordon, Brynne, and Caridad talk about the Spanish words for different kinds of stores - tienda, bodega, and carniceria, focusing on tienda specifically.
I'vegotamind bird
Cartoon I've Got a Mind: Bird
Artist: Cliff Roberts
Herbert and Grover 2
Muppets Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges!
(First: Episode 0192)
1247-Crane
Film A steam shovel picks up debris.
(First: Episode 0004)
ErnDressesBalls
Muppets Ernie wonders what it would be like if everyone was exactly the same, and sees four balls who can't discern each other. Ernie decides to help the balls recognize each other by dressing each of them.
(First: Episode 0166)
0269i
SCENE 7 Big Bird observes the differences between Bob and Susan's feet. He then compares his own to Gordon's. They're pretty different, but Big Bird likes his big three-toed ones anyway, and uses them to do a dance.
Stopwater
Film "What if you were magic, and could make things stop just by telling it to, or make it go backwards? Stop! Then you could see what things look like when they're moving. Go forwards! Stop! Well, film is magic, and this is a film, so you can be magic for three minutes. Like this: Go slow, water fountain! Now, you try it."
(First: Episode 0047)
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.
(First: Episode 0261)
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over.
(First: Episode 0010)
Baby Monster IS
Muppets A baby monster sees the word "IS", and asks some other monsters to tell him what the word is.
(First: Episode 0168)
0269j
SCENE 8 Gordon, Kim, and Chris say goodbye as one of the kids announces the sponsors.
ErnieandBertsign

SherlockHemlockCTWclassic
CLOSING SIGNS The Sesame Street sign floats above Ernie and Bert, and Sherlock Hemlock observes the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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