Episode 0168

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Susan greets the viewer, displaying a lamp she just got. Gordon openly rejects the lamp, saying it looks like something Oscar threw out. The two get into a fight as Susan explains that she got the lamp to help him read at night. Gordon refuses to have it in their house, even though her intentions were good. (Gordon: "You've got the right string, baby, but the wrong yo-yo.") He leaves, declaring the issue settled.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version; no piano accompaniment).
 	SCENE 1cont'd 	Susan sits on the steps admiring the new lamp with Troy. Gordon arrives, having just bought a lamp of his own. Susan dislikes this lamp, so they each go to someone for advice: Susan to Mr. Hooper, and Gordon to Bob.
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
 	Cartoon 	A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
 	SCENE 1cont'd 	Mr. Hooper thinks the lamps look nice, but Bob doesn't like either of them. Oscar thinks the lamps would look better with some damage. Susan and Gordon realize that their disagreement is nothing worth fighting over and agree to go to the store together and pick one out that they both like. Mr. Hooper offers to buy Gordon's lamp, and Bob does the same for Susan's so he can gift it to his mother for her birthday. Gordon and Susan leave, but now Bob and Mr. Hooper disagree about their new lamps.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Pretty Baby."
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I - ice cream.
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon and Susan stop by Hooper's Store to show off the lamp they picked out together, but neither Bob nor Mr. Hooper care for it. Gordon hands the empty box to Bob so he can use it to box up the lamp for his mother, and the Robinsons take off with their selection without a further concern for whether or not anyone else likes it.
 	Muppets 	A Muppet inchworm and a bug sing "The Inch Worm" in a field of flowers.
 	Celebrity 	Arte Johnson tries to count from one to ten. (He makes it.)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #7
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives."
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #7 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	A baby monster sees the word "IS", and asks some other monsters to tell him what the word is.
 	Celebrity 	Bill Cosby demonstrates silly.
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper presents … the IG family! First, Little Bird observes that Big Bird is big. Next, we see Susan using a trowel to dig, and Oscar wearing a wig. Finally, a Muppet boy (Jerry Nelson) sees a pig (Frank Oz).
 	Cartoon 	A male voice narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to dance, and a square square. The triangle likes being flexible, but the square would rather be stiff and *square*.Music: "Waltz in Mean Time," David Lee
 	SCENE 4 	Bob sings the "Multiple Classification Song" using an art card with shapes.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	James narrates a film of his life on a pueblo in New Mexico.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (repeat)
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob reads "The Story of Ira and Inez."
 	Cartoon 	A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Betty Lou teaches the meaning of "beginning", "middle", and "end", and introduces two of her friends: Beginning and End. The duo tell a story, but it lacks something in between the beginning and end parts. Beginning and End recruit their pal Middle to fill out the rest of the story. Middle, however, cannot stop telling the exciting part of the story, and the three friends begin a quarrel, forcing Betty Lou to declare the end of the lecture.
 	Film 	Tracks from a race car cross paths until most of the screen is blank. A pair of foot prints crosses the screen to blank out the last bit.
 	Film 	Kids narrate a film about where you get ice cream: from the cow, to the factory, to the ice cream shoppe.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (repeat)
 	Film 	How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (edited)
 	SCENE 5 	Bob helps Kevin get up on stilts to present the letter I and the number 7 on a sandwich board. Gordon then announces the CTW slogan.
center 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bob holds up the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds up the CTW sign at the end.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2