Episode 0696

	Sesame Street
	Oscar reprograms Sam the Robot
Air date	December 16, 1974
Season	Season 6 (1974-1975)
Production	August 28, 1974
Sponsors	F, G, 10

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Luis and Linda are washing the windows above the Fix-It Shop when the store's phone rings. Luis asks Linda to answer it, but then remembers that she’s deaf, and climbs down from the ladder to answer it himself, more than once. Not knowing that Luis has been going down the ladder every time the phone rings, Linda believes that he's a slow window washer.
	Muppets	Grover is carrying the word "HELP", which is very heavy. He asks Marty to help him carry the word. Instead, Marty gives Grover three more "HELP" words to carry. (First: Episode 0287)
	Film	An ice cream man hands a boy too many cones. The boy cries out for "HELP" and some kids eat the extras. (First: Episode 0484)
	Animation	Sand F/f (First: Episode 0629)
	Muppets	Game Show: "Dialing for Prizes Movie": Guy Smiley gives the lucky caller a group of monsters as a prize. (First: Episode 0629)
	Song	Three kids dance to a rock version of "Three of These Things" while one of them sits and reads. (First: Episode 0551)
	Cartoon	A flower picks up a man and says he smells beautiful. (First: Episode 0284)
	Film	"Indian Baby Bath" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0444)
	Cartoon	A man blows 7 bubbles. (First: Episode 0639)
	SCENE 2	The Count joins David, Maria, Linda, Luis and some kids (including Debo) in a game of Blind Man’s Bluff. The Count volunteers to be “it,” so Linda blindfolds him and David tells him to spin around a few times and not to start the game until he is dizzy. The Count takes this suggestion to heart and continues spinning, claiming not to be dizzy yet (and enjoying counting each spin).
	Cartoon	Jazz #10 (First: Episode 0193)
	SCENE 2 cont'd	The gang starts to disperse after the Count has spun and counted twenty turns, still not getting dizzy - or finishing counting his spins.
	Cartoon	A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end. (First: Episode 0337)
	SCENE 2 cont'd	The rest of the group leaves as the Count finishes spinning at 477 turns, after which he stumbles and falls down. He gets up, and decides to continue counting how many times he falls down and bumps his noggin.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: F for Fly (First: Episode 0032)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Old Mother Hubbard — Kermit points out the lackluster cadence of Old Mother Hubbard's nursery rhyme. (First: Episode 0642)
	Cartoon	What if my best friend were a gorilla? (First: Episode 0598)
	Film	"Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version) (First: Episode 0021)
	Cartoon	Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF (First: Episode 0387)
	Muppets	The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (First: Episode 0092)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play". (First: Episode 0047)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert go to bed, but they hear water dripping. Bert asks Ernie to do something about the sound, so Ernie puts the radio on to drown out the dripping sound. But that doesn't work, so Ernie also turns on the vacuum cleaner. When Bert finally gets the vacuum cleaner, the radio, and the water off, he finally can go to sleep...until he hears Ernie snoring. (First: Episode 0131)
	Cartoon	G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357)
	Film	Close-ups of animals. Kids try to guess what they are. (First: Episode 0326)
	SCENE 3	Oscar watches from inside his can after reprogramming Sam the Robot to say the opposite of what people want to hear. Sam tells Maria and Linda that their sandwiches look yucky, then dismisses David when he shows pictures of his cousins. When Oscar reacts positively to Sam’s doings, Sam says affectionate things to Oscar, which is the opposite of what Oscar wants to hear. Maria is about to reprogram Sam back to his old self, but decides to wait a moment as she, Linda and David delight in watching Sam torture Oscar with kindness. (In a continuity and editing error, Maria ends up saying her line about reprogramming Sam twice; once while Sam is complimenting Oscar and another in a close-up. As a result, Linda sets down her lunch twice, and the group walks up to Oscar's can twice as well.)
	Film	Kids ride horses. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0541)
	Cartoon	"Ten Turtles" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0425)
	Muppets / Cast	"The People in Your Neighborhood": A butcher and a zookeeper.
	Cartoon	Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335)
	Muppets	Guy Smiley hosts "What's My Part?" The contestants are Bennett Snerf, Arlene Frantic and Professor Hastings, and the mystery part is a foot. (First: Episode 0164)
	Film	F for Factory (First: Episode 0447)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Everything is getting wet because it's raining and a window is stuck open. But Ernie explains that he can't fix it now because he'd get wet in all that rain. When the rain stops, he explains to Bert that since it's not raining anymore, nothing's getting wet, and there's no reason to fix it. (First: Episode 0344)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: G for Gorilla (in man suit) (First: Episode 0085)
	Cast	Mr. Hooper and Susan play astronauts on a mission on the Moon. Susan attempts to tally up the three moon rocks, which float off into space one by one (followed by her superior). (First: Episode 0524)
	Film	A man and children observe the life along the river. (First: Episode 0409)
	Cartoon	Fleas have fun in fur! Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0629)
	Muppets	The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) Spanish soundtrack (First: Episode 0387)
	Cartoon	I am dry, he is wet (near swimming pool) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0309)
	Film	Joe Raposo: Wet & Dry (Falls in pool; kid VO's) (First: Episode 0467)
	Cartoon	I am dry, they are wet (Umbrella) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0344)
	SCENE 4	David finds a baby carriage, observing that the baby inside was dry, but now he’s wet.
	Cartoon	I am dry, they are wet (man laying on the beach) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0309)
	SCENE 4 cont'd	Luis and Linda proceed to fill up a washtub in the yard with a hose. Linda waits for Luis to turn the water on, but when he does no water comes out. When Linda looks into the hose, she goes from being dry to being wet.
	Cartoon	I am dry, he is wet (circus elephant) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0309)
	SCENE 4 cont'd	Luis, Linda and some kids wash a big dog in the tub; the dog shakes suds everywhere after coming out of its bath, making them all wet! Maria announces the sponsors.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Luis holds the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and David hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.