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Sesame Street
Big Bird learns that people have supper and go to bed at about the same time
Air date January 5, 1972
Season Season 3 (1971-1972)
Production November 3, 1971
Sponsors J, 6

SSShowID-0313

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0313a
SCENE 1 It's late afternoon as Bob welcomes the viewer. Kwame rides his bike home for supper, and Mr. Hooper is taking the tablecloth off his café table. While waiting to buy some groceries, Bob pulls a letter from his pocket - the letter J.
Toon-JackInTheBox
Cartoon A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him.
(First: Episode 0071)
Song.Adding-CM
Muppets A long-haired hippie sings "Adding" to Cookie Monster.
(First: Episode 0243)
Cosbytwinsalphabet2
Celebrity Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together.
(First: Episode 0131)
0313b
SCENE 2 Big Bird decides it's a good time to visit and play with some of his friends (including Maria and David), but everyone he meets is busy going home for dinner. Mr. Hooper has just enough time to explain why everyone eats dinner at the same time before he goes to prepare his own supper of vegetable soup. Big Bird is hungry himself, and heads off to his nest.
ChickenCloud
Cartoon Clouds that look like things.
(First: Episode 0211)
Dot Bridge 14 squares dominate
Cartoon Dot Bridge #14: Dots line up at the same time as some squares who ultimately dominate the board
(First: Episode 0297)
0313c

0313d

0313e
SCENE 3 Big Bird is busy having dinner when Mr. Snuffleupagus appears. He's hungry too, but declines Big Bird's offer of birdseed. Big Bird and his friend search the neighborhood for something to eat, and finally wind up at Hooper's Store. To Big Bird's shock, the Snuffleupagus finishes off an entire jar of jellybeans for his dinner (despite Big Bird recommending something healthier like vegetables). Mr. Snuffleupagus, who comments whether or not the friends of Big Bird that he's yet to see are imaginary, shuffles off. Some of the grown-ups appear, and again Big Bird is unable to prove the existence of the elusive Snuffleupagus.
0573za
Muppets Muppet & Kid MomentCookie Monster and Genelle count to 20.
(First: Episode 0289)
Hubley-SmallJ
Cartoon The letter J
Artists: John and Faith Hubley
(First: Episode 0133)
Fourelephants
Muppets Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away.
(First: Episode 0292)
Toon-OCowboy
Cartoon A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O.
(First: Episode 0286)
0313f
SCENE 4 Maria puts on the lights of 123 Sesame Street before she sings a round of "Here Are Some Things" for David with the kids, using drawings of articles of clothing and a cob of corn.
Olimerick
Cartoon O limerick
(First: Episode 0146)
Spilled milk film
Film A woman asks a boy how a glass of milk was spilled on the table, so the boy offers several outlandish scenarios before telling her the truth: it was him.
(First: Episode 0212)
Dot Bridge 16 crumpled
Cartoon Dot Bridge #16: Dots kick aside a crumpled object
(First: Episode 0283)
0313g
SCENE 5 It's evening now, and Teddy (Jerry Nelson) is upset because his mother has called him to come home for bed. Bob explains to Teddy the importance of sleep, especially for younger children like him, and Teddy decides that an early bedtime isn't so bad after all.
CRoberts.Mouseelephant
Cartoon What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0212)
AMs-DangerBoy
Muppets Tough Luck Lester, a little boy, 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.
(First: Episode 0161)
Hubley-SmallJ
Cartoon The letter J (repeat)
0313h
SCENE 6 In the dark, Maria accidentally throws a bag of garbage into Oscar's trash can, waking Oscar up. To avoid further accidents, he decides to move his trash can to a safer place where there's more light - like under the Sesame Street lamppost.
Olimerick
Cartoon O limerick (repeat)
0313i

0313j
SCENE 7 Having moved his can to the streetlight, Oscar prepares for a good night's sleep, only to be continually disturbed. First Bob uses the light to help get a knot out of Troy's shoe, then David and Kwame use the light to look at some baseball cards. Oscar gives up all hope of sleep when Maria accidentally throws a paint rag into his trash can, not knowing it's his home.
Toon-OCowboy
Cartoon A cowboy tries to lasso a rolling letter O. (repeat)
1041school
Film James narrates a film of his life on a pueblo in New Mexico.
(First: Episode 0153)
0313k
SCENE 8 Bob counts to six by blowing out six candles on the garage bannister.
KermTwiddBugParty
Muppets Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
(First: Episode 0280)
Shot.queenof6
Animation The Queen of Six explores her garden.
(First: Episode 0223)
0313l
SCENE 9 At twilight, Mr. Hooper closes the store. He goes through the whole process of closing the windows, taking the trash out, locking the back door, retrieving his hat and sweater, turning off the lights, and locking the front door. Once outside, he realizes that he forgot to take off his apron.
George Farmer saw table
Film George the Farmer saws the legs off a table.
(First: Episode 0297)
Cosby-Angry
Celebrity Bill Cosby demonstrates what an angry face looks like.
(First: Episode 0144)
BertGetsMad
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie wants Bert to pretend to be mad, but Bert says that he can't, because he has nothing to feel angry about. Ernie asks Bert to pretend that he borrowed Bert's paper clip collection, and lost his favorite paper clip. The thought makes Bert really mad. Bert gets tired out, and tells Ernie that he can't get mad anymore. Ernie makes a confession -- he really did lose Bert's favorite paper clip.
(First: Episode 0216)
0313m
SCENE 10 With the stars and moon shining, Maria sits on the stoop as she braids a girl's hair, and recites some poems in Spanish, then translates them to English.
Jughead
Cartoon Jughead Jones's J story
(First: Episode 0231)
Gibbons
Film Gibbons make screeching noises.
(First: Episode 0276)
1709p
Cartoon A man has a J under his hat.
(First: Episode 0231)
0313n
SCENE 11 Everyone on Sesame Street is going home to bed. Big Bird notices that like having supper, going to bed is something else that just about everybody does at about the same time every day, and heads back to his nest.
Toon-JackInTheBox
Cartoon A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (repeat)
Cookie10
Muppets Cookie Monster goes to the bakery for a special birthday cookie. The baker lists all the ingredients of the cookie, as Cookie visualizes it. The visualized image looks so delicious that he eats it.
(First: Episode 0283)
0313o
SCENE 12 Big Bird signs off, then turns out the light and goes to sleep. Some of the indoor lights go off one by one in the neighborhood, and a sleepy David announces the sponsors.
CookieMonsterSSsign1970

0333 - CTW sign
CLOSING SIGNS Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Maria hold the CTW sign.

Notes[]

  • This episode marks the first time that music plays as Mr. Snuffleupagus enters a scene, which would become one of his trademarks.
  • Sonia Manzano voices Teddy's offscreen mother during scene 5.
  • This is the earliest use of a special "lullaby" celesta version of the closing theme (although an alternate recording is used in this episode), which would often play during scenes that place at night.


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