Episode 0270

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Sesame Street
Plot	Big Bird's moon shot.
Air date	May 21, 1971
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors	X, 8
Syndication
DVD

• Big Bird's moon shot.

• Grover the Assistant: Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot discuss the OP family.

• George the Farmer demonstrates "over" and "under".

• Bob meets Samuel Snively, a circle salesman who can't tell the difference between a circle, square, and triangle.

• Listen My Brother sing a song about body parts.

• A Muppet boy tells his mother that a robber spilled his glass of milk.

• Peggy Fleming skates the number 8.

• "The King of Eight" rules over his kingdom.

• Cartoon: As voices speculate what a squiggle will become, the squiggle is joined by other lines and bumps, eventually forming into a talking picture of Big Bird.

• Pete Seeger sings "Imagination Song".

• "Eight Song (Song of Eight)" (First: Episode 0016)

• "Jazz #8" (First: Episode 0016)

• Ernie and Bert: After watching the Jazz #8 cartoon, Ernie gets Bert to play a game with him, in which he says "I one the sandbox", Bert says "I two the sandbox", and so on until Bert gets to "I eight the sandbox." "How'd it taste?" Ernie asks. (First: Episode 0019)

• Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes uses a brick wall to demonstrate around (by going around the wall), under (by pretending to climb under it), and over (by jumping over it, and crashing when she lands). (First: Episode 0076)

• Joe Raposo sings "Kids". (First: Episode 0116)

• Cookie Monster: Cookie Monster makes a sandwich with a little girl. (EKA: Episode 0241)

• Gordon and Tom cooperate as they stack blocks. (First: Episode 0262)

• Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster eats Bert's bacon, and Ernie's X. ("I always like to eat bacon and X!") Later on, Ernie erases Cookie Monster when he shows up at the blackboard. (First: Episode 0008)

• Cartoon: A boy counts while erasing things and people. (First: Episode 0008)

• Cartoon: "Poverty X"--A figure explains how X is used at the end of words. (First: Episode 0006)

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie has a treasure map of the living room, leading to a spot marked with an X. As Bert watches, he digs up a treasure chest with a letter X inside. (First: Episode 0013)

• Speech Balloon: X -- X-ray (First: Episode 0064)

• Film: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work. (First: Episode 0003)

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