Episode 0561

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon introduces an audience (consisting of himself, Susan, Mr. Hooper, and the kids) to Big Bird, who recites a poem about the otter, though it ends with a lackluster rhyme.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: "It's an Otter!"Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Kids narrate a letter 'Z' drawing
 	Film 	Five Song (Song of Five)
 	Cartoon 	A girl runs home to her CASA.
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar finishes spreading some sticky stuff onto his trash can, so people will get their hands messy and leave to wash it off instead of bothering him. Instead, Susan lets him know that the can is sticky, and Gordon rethinks giving him a gift of a couple of big, dirty rocks after getting his arm covered in the stuff. Biff comes by, singing "I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows" and suspects Oscar put the gunk on the can to keep the rain out, and compliments him on the idea. Oscar starts wiping the stuff off the can, berating his bad idea.
 	Cartoon 	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	Oscar has finished cleaning his can. Susan and Mr. Hooper pass by, and Susan happily lets Oscar know that the sticky stuff is no longer there. Oscar has a fit.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself.
 	Muppets 	Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 4 baskets in a row, but miss on the 5th.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #5
 	Film 	Jerry Nelson introduces the letters U and N. Other letters join them and become SUN, RUN and FUN.
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper is about to whip up some pancakes at his store when his wooden spoon reminds him of a game. He shows the viewer some pictures, and asks them to find the shape of a spoon hidden in each one.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	Film 	Things you can carryMusic: Joe Raposo
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X
 	Film 	The Alphabet Dancers make a letter X.
 	Muppets 	Western: A cowboy comes to see Adam T. Glaser, who is such a jack-of-all-trades that he forgets what a dentist does.
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird thinks about what he’d like to be when he grows up. He imagines himself as a birdseed salesman, pushing a cart of bagged seed and hawking it to Susan, but she doesn't care for any. Mr. Hooper also doesn't want it as he already has a big bag of it to sell, and Mauricio would rather have sandwiches for his lunch. Back in reality, Susan sees Big Bird moping over his potential failure to sell birdseed, and suggests he imagine selling birdseed to birds instead of people. In his fantasy, Big Bird successfully sells some bags of seed to Little Bird (Jerry Nelson) and a small group of flying canaries. After the fantasy, Susan mentions that she could also use some birdseed for Pete, her pet parakeet.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Ostriches walk and run. (piano music)
 	Cartoon 	Z In Space
 	Muppets 	"The Zizzy Zoomers"
 	Cast 	Wally and Ralph try to unroll a rug, but a chair in the way presents a problem.
 	Cartoon 	"Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: Z for zipper
 	SCENE 5 	Susan says, “Z … zipper.” The zipper animation transition reveals Mr. Hooper zipping up his jacket. The same setup occurs with Oscar introducing Gordon unzipping his coat, and Big Bird revealing Susan once more.
 	Muppets 	Grover, Herry, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (Spanish)
 	Cartoon 	A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th.
 	Cartoon 	The Square
 	Film 	George the Farmer saws the legs off a table.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall.
 	Muppets 	Lefty sells Ernie some air, but when Ernie waves to Bert, wanting to show it to him, he drops it. According to Bert (who didn't know what Ernie had), "It couldn't have vanished into thin air." But Ernie sobs, "Yes, it could, Bert! It could!"
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Song 	"Five Onstage Dancers"
 	Cartoon 	A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest.
 	Cartoon 	A man makes a CASA for both him and his dog, who then makes a CASA for a bird.
 	Muppets 	Zs come out of Herry Monster's mouth as he snores. (part two)
 	Cartoon 	Z In Space (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	Willie Wimple went a-boatin' and polluted the river.Artist: Abe Levitow
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon and Susan mingle in the yard with the kids as Big Bird announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5