Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | March 26, 1973 | ||||||
Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Maria observes Oscar putting up a "WET PAINT" sign on his trash can, thinking it will trick everybody into believing that he painted the can and they'll stay away. Shortly after Maria leaves, Gordon walks by and sees the sign, not believing Oscar actually painted the can. Gordon knocks on Oscar's can to inform him that the "paint" is dry; the same thing happens when Luis passes by, so Oscar angrily removes his sign. Moments later, Maria comes back and knocks on Oscar's trash can to tell him somebody took down the sign, frustrating Oscar enough to bang his head against his can lid. | |
Cartoon | "The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug." (First: Episode 0009) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie keeps taking glasses of water outside the apartment. Bert thinks of possible uses Ernie could have for this water. As it turns out, the kitchen faucet is broken, and Ernie's trying to get rid of the water before the apartment floods. (First: Episode 0425) | |
Cartoon | J family jamboree (First: Episode 0365) | |
SCENE 2 | Luis sings “Stop!” as the kids (including Ronald, Jay, and Troy) play along. | |
Cartoon | "Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0316) | |
Film | Js appear in a junkyard. (First: Episode 0449) | |
Cartoon | "Bumble Ardy #9" -- Young Bumble Ardy invites nine pigs to his birthday party while his mother, Sweet Adeline, is away. (First: Episode 0283) | |
Film | A voiceover counts nine cars at an intersection. (First: Episode 0424) | |
Cartoon | A man has a J under his hat. (First: Episode 0231) | |
Muppets | "The ET Family Song" (First: Episode 0139) | |
SCENE 3 | Luis lets Big Bird help him at the Fix-it Shop by answering the ringing telephone. The caller, Mr. Jackson (voiced by Hal Miller), asks if his radio has been fixed, so Big Bird holds the phone up around so Mr. Jackson can see it. Luis fields the rest of the call, and Big Bird remembers that you can't see through the phone. Luis then asks Big Bird to watch over his shop as he delivers the radio. With Luis away, Big Bird picks up the phone again as Maria enters from behind to say hello. Big Bird thinks that Maria is on the phone and gets excited when she says she sees him until he turns around, realizing what really happened. | |
Cartoon | A mad scientist puts together a capital H. (First: Episode 0284) | |
Muppets | Juanita looks for "YO," asking, "¿Esto es yo?" Nope, it's a toy car, and a tomato, and a mirror. Looking in the mirror, she finds herself. "¡Hola, yo!" she cries. (First: Episode 0454) | |
Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) | |
Film | A pride of lions feasts on an animal carcass. (First: Episode 0407) | |
Cartoon | A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449) | |
Muppets | Simon Soundman comes to Ernie's apartment because he has some car trouble and needs to use Ernie's phone, but Ernie doesn't understand what he is trying to say. (First: Episode 0132) | |
Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (First: Episode 0231) | |
SCENE 4 | Oscar has noticed that all the other residents have numbers on their houses, and he wants the same thing. He asks Gordon to help put the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on his trash can, but isn't satisfied on how Gordon first arranges them. Once the numbers are placed to Oscar's liking, Gordon tells him that by having numbers on his trash can, people will be able to come visit and send him mail. Oscar is bothered by this, and takes the numbers down. | |
Cartoon | A cat chases a mouse into a mouse hole. The cat and mouse make music as they hit the wall, until the cat breaks through the mouse hole. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0244) | |
Insert | Five signs are counted forward and backward as they appear on the stoop, followed by five kids holding the signs. (First: Episode 0417) | |
Cartoon | A man uses drinking glasses on his eyes and pours water over his seeing glasses. (First: Episode 0485) | |
Insert | Five kids appear on the stoop, rising up one step each time a new kid is added. They are then counted backwards. (First: Episode 0417) | |
Cartoon | A boy and girl fight over the word YO. Luckily, he has a spare. (First: Episode 0486) | |
Insert | Three of These Kids (upside-down girl) (First: Episode 0413) | |
Cartoon | 'j' minuscula (First: Episode 0475) | |
Film | The Mad Painter #9 (First: Episode 0338) | |
Cartoon | A man has a J under his hat. (repeat) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wants to have some cookies. Bert asks Ernie if he knows what "before" means, and Ernie demonstrates by saying that before he can have a cookie, he has to open the lid to a cookie jar, and after he closes the lid, he eats the cookie. He demonstrates a few times, until he loses his appetite for dinner. (First: Episode 0007) | |
SCENE 5 | Big Bird shows the kids some of his noise boxes that his Granny Bird gave him. The kids guess the noises they hear, which include a train, a telephone, and a dog. Big Bird warns that the boxes have to be kept shut so the noise doesn't get out. He accidentally drops one of the boxes, and Big Bird runs around trying to wrangle the sounds of a cow. | |
Cartoon | H for hair (First: Episode 0475) | |
Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids narrate a film of baby eagles getting fed. Music: Joe Raposo | |
Cartoon | "Martian Beauty" (repeat) | |
Film | A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them. (First: Episode 0440) | |
Cast | A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three. (First: Episode 0431) | |
Cartoon | "The J Commercial" (repeat) | |
Muppets | "J Friends" (First: Episode 0339) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: J - Jam (First: Episode 0012) | |
Film | A kid narrates footage of a termite colony. (First: Episode 0408) | |
Cartoon | Jughead Jones's J story (repeat) | |
Film | Counting the circus clowns. | |
SCENE 6 | The kids and grown-ups play as Big Bird announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Much of this episode was rewritten from previous street scenes. Scene 1 is rewritten from Episode 0158, scene 3 is rewritten from Episode 0094, scene 4 is rewritten from Episode 0169, and scene 5 is rewritten from Episode 0110.
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