Episode 1208

Sesame Street
Air date	December 27, 1978
Season	Season 10 (1978-1979)
Sponsors M, V, 2

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• Ernie wakes up and tells Bert it's time to get up, but notices that Bert isn't in his bed. He slowly ponders what happened to his best friend, coming to the conclusion that maybe some Martians took him away in their spaceship. As it turns out, Bert just got up early to fix some oatmeal. Ernie is relieved... until a real spaceship lands and the Martians enter the room.

• Two men hammer a stake into a hole. (EKA: Episode 1064)

• Film: A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter. (EKA: Episode 0796)

• Joe Raposo sings "Touch, Hold, Feel". (EKA: Episode 0926)

• Film: Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798)

• Film: Kids train for the special olympics. (EKA: Episode 0953)

• Guy Smiley hosts "The Remembering Game", a game show in which the contestants must match pictures based on memory. The winner gets whatever item was in the pictures he matched, and the other contestant wins the item from the remaining two pictures as a consolation prize. Bill Smith wins a cookie, and Cookie Monster wins a jet plane. Disappointed, Cookie Monster suggests that they switch prizes. (EKA: Episode 0310)

• Cartoon: After a kid sees a jumble of shapes, he tells his father about it. The father finds a way to turn the stuff into a cart and tells his son, who remembers to assemble it. (EKA: Episode 0231)

• Cartoon: After a kid sees a jumble of shapes, he tells his father about it. The father finds a way to turn the stuff into a cart and tells his son, who remembers to assemble it. (Spanish version) (EKA: Episode 0298)

• Film: Bus trip around town (EKA: Episode 0926)

• An Anything Muppet girl sings, "I Want a Monster to Be My Friend". (EKA: Episode 0810)

• Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges! (EKA: Episode 0309)

• Cartoon: A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed. (EKA: Episode 0668)

• Big Bird can't find his storybook.

• Ernie and Bert: Bert can't go on a trip with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. Ernie puts a mitten on Bert's hand to cover it, but Bert still won't go because he looks silly wearing one mitten. So Ernie completes the outfit with another mitten, a hat, a scarf, and a sled. Ernie then reveals that they are going to the beach. (EKA: Episode 0514)

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