Episode 0273

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Sesame Street
Plot	Big Bird pretends to be Mr. Hooper.
Air date	May 26, 1971
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors	O, Y, 11
Syndication
DVD

• Big Bird thinks people don't like him the way he is, so he pretends to be Mr. Hooper, and then Sherlock Hemlock. He discovers that people like him better as Big Bird.

• Flip Wilson counts from one to twenty.

• Susan and Miguel sing "Sing" in English and Spanish.

• A rabbit named Howie comments on Cookie Monster's poem about cookies.

• Bill Cosby teaches the concepts of "yesterday" and "today."

• Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Mad".

• Anything Muppets: Baseball.

• An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet. (EKA: Episode 0267)

• Bob and Gordon make a letter "O" out of two giant pieces. (First: Episode 0111)

• Cartoon: "Y" -- The story of the Yellow Ya-Hoo. (First: Episode 0043)

• Speech Balloon: "Y" -- Yo-yo. (First: Episode 0036)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Bees (First: Episode 0082)

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie wants to show Bert his ice cube collection, however, they were too cold so he put them in a box covered with an electric blanket. Much to Ernie's surprise, the ice cubes have disappeared. Since they were replaced with water, Ernie suspects that a fish might have stolen them. Bert tells him that it's because they've melted. Ernie, however, is now convinced that a fish melted the ice cubes, and angrily walks out the door to "tear him fin-from-fin." (First: Episode 0033)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: Grasshopper (First: Episode 0084)

• Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (EKA: Episode 0168)

• An Anything Muppet boy and girl share a bag of jellybeans, but they're scared away by a monster. They make friends with the monster, and share the jellybeans with him. (3-part sketch) (First: Episode 0016)

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