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Sesame Street
Construction workers fill Sesame Street
Air date November 19, 1971
Season Season 3 (1971-1972)
Directed by Joost Van Rees
Production October 12, 1971
Sponsors G, N, 6

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 As Bob welcomes the viewers, Sesame Street is suddenly beset with an outburst of jackhammers and roaring compressors. Maria and Tom come by and see that workmen are fixing the street, and they complain about the noise. Oscar pops up wearing a hard hat and says he's heading to where they're digging, not wanting to miss all the noise, dirt and mess.
Nisfornifty
Cartoon An N-terview with an N
(First: Episode 0131)
1800-26
Song "Starfish"
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SCENE 2 Oscar shows Maria the items he retrieved from where the workmen were digging. Maria plays "One of These Things" with Oscar's trash, pointing out that the one rock doesn't go with the other pairs of things. She then helps him store it in his can.
100015
Cartoon Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!"
(First: Episode 0279)
E&BErniePlaystheDrumsWhileBertKnocks
Muppets Ernie & BertBert goes out to mail a letter, and depends on Ernie to let him in when he knocks. Instead of letting Bert in, Ernie repeats his knocks on the drums.
NancyNannyGoat
Cartoon Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles.
Artist: Tee Collins
(First: Episode 0240)
Sherlock-N
Muppets Sherlock Hemlock investigates the letter N.
(First: Episode 0253)
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SCENE 3 Rafael makes the letter N with a folding ruler, and teaches the kids how to say N in Spanish and English. Oscar appears to demonstrate some of his favorite words that start with N: nasty, noise, no, and nag. Rafael prefers the words nice, neat, and new. Oscar only has one word to say to that: nuts!
N naughty
Cartoon N is naughty, nice, nodding, nickel, noon, nibbling, nest, nut, nose, night, nine, and nursing.
(First: Episode 0140)
Shot.queenof6
Animation The Queen of Six explores her garden.
(First: Episode 0223)
Jazzyspies6
Cartoon Jazz #6
(First: Episode 0011)
MumfordPineapples
Muppets Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act
CatLion
Cartoon A black cat chases after a white bird, until a white lion steps in.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0255)
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SCENE 4 Rafael and the kids make a triangle and a rectangle with the folding ruler.
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Cartoon G is for Glue
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0279)
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SCENE 5 Big Bird shows walking forwards and backwards. He's stuck on something he's supposed to teach about walking backwards. He continues to walk backwards until he crashes offscreen. He remembers that one should be careful when walking backwards because it's hard to see where you're going.
Backwardsfilm
Film A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion!
(First: Episode 0166)
Listen My Brother Alphabet Song
Celebrity Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song."
(First: Episode 0228)
100015
Cartoon Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!" (repeat)
BabyMonkey
Film A baby monkey
Music: Joe Raposo
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Cast Bob narrates a short story of how Tom, Rafael, Maria, Oscar and the kids cooperate to create a library on Sesame Street.
0273 Flip Wilson 20
Celebrity Flip Wilson counts from 1 to 20.
(First: Episode 0147)
The.wrong.patient
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie's doctor comes over. Ernie keeps trying to tell the doctor why he called him, but the doctor is too occupied with checking on Ernie, hardly allowing him to get a word in edgewise.
(First: Episode 0137)
Toon-BalloonPopping
Cartoon A girl wonders what would happen if she popped her balloon. She imagines it would scare her sister, who would end up breaking a vase and getting in trouble.
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SCENE 6 A kid named John instructs the others to draw a 6 on a white cardboard. Bob helps them count the six sixes, six crayons, and six children. Bob then asks what happens when you have six Twiddlebugs, segueing to the next segment.
KermTwiddBugParty
Muppets Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts six Twiddlebugs. When he's done, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
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SCENE 7 Rafael shows how to read the word LOVE, comparing reading from left to right to driving on a one-way street.
NancyNannyGoat
Cartoon Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles. (repeat)
Shot.queenof6
Animation The Queen of Six explores her garden. (repeat)
Jazzyspies6
Cartoon Jazz #6 (repeat)
Eyelids.bert
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie comes home to a sleeping Bert and tries to think of things to do that won't wake him up. He can't watch TV, and he can't play with his ball. Bored, he decides to take a nap too -- but then he starts to snore. This awakens Bert, who wonders out loud where the noise is coming from, in the process arousing Ernie, who gets mad at being woken up.
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0280k
Cast In a series of quickies, Bob hammers in a nail, Rafael holds up a napkin, Maria has a medallion around her neck, and Tom has lined up some nuts on the counter in the shape of an N.
N naughty
Cartoon N is naughty, nice, nodding, nickel, noon, nibbling, nest, nut, nose, night, nine, and nursing. (repeat)
Chbq
Muppets Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up.
Nisfornifty
Cartoon An N-terview with an N (repeat)
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SCENE 8 Oscar has Maria and the kids imitate the rhythms he beats out on his can. He's surprised when everyone is able to match his rhythms, so he does a longer, more complicated one and enjoys the noise everyone makes.
2257d
Muppets The Miss Muffet Play: Little Miss Muffet rehearses for a play about her nursery rhyme. At the "Along came a spider" clue, Muffet's co-star enters wearing a number of different animal costumes, including a rabbit and a duck. Miss Muffet becomes increasingly annoyed -- and when he shows up as a fish, she grabs the parts of his fish costume off of him, and puts his spider outfit on. Naturally, once she sees the spider costume on him, Miss Muffet is frightened, and a crazy chase ensues.
1095u
Cartoon G is for Glue (repeat)
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Kidsonstreetclosing
SCENE 9 Bothered by the lack of noise now, Oscar says goodbye and bangs out some "goodbye rhythms." Rafael announces the sponsors, and the credits roll over the kids playing in the yard.
OscarSSsign

Bobsign
CLOSING SIGNS Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the CTW sign.

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