Episode 0037

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon plays a "what happens next" game with Reggie and Sarah, in which he points them to some clips of Buddy and Jim; the videos pause so that the kids can guess what will happen next. The first is of Buddy and a roller skate on the floor, and Jim performing a ball trick as a magician; the results are surprising.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #4"
 	Celebrity 	James Earl Jones counts to 10.
 	Cartoon 	Y is for Yo-Yo
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon overhears a distraught Oscar, whose trash can lid went missing as he was taking his nap. Oscar refuses to get a new lid to replace his ("Without a lid, a trash can is no longer a home."), and worries about his privacy and the weather. Gordon offers to look for it, since it's round.
 	Film 	"Round": A live-action film set to a lively soundtrack shows circles in every-day life, including Coca-Cola bottle caps, moving wheels, yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan and the kids look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U . Oscar explains to them what has happened, and has put an umbrella over his can as a temporary lid, but he's still upset, so he plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on his ukulele to relax.
 	Animation 	Clay animation film by Jim Henson: A unicorn talks about U words.
 	Cartoon 	"Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
 	SCENE 4 	Jennie tries to cheer up Oscar by playing a game with Oscar and Gayle, where she asks what's wrong with each picture she shows. Finally, Oscar shows a picture he drew of his lidless trash can, lamenting how he wants to go somewhere far away…
 	Film 	Transportation
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppets sing "Goin' for a Ride", while traveling in a car, train, and boat.
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar has packed up his bindle and ready to move away from his trash can, when Mr. Hooper suggests that he could use a newspaper as a lid. The idea works at first and Oscar decides to take a nap, but Mr. Hooper gets distracted by the newspaper's contents and keeps pulling it off Oscar's can.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #5
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Five Song (Song of Five)
 	Muppets 	"Five People in My Family"
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon, Susan, Mr. Hooper and Jennie have just about given up trying to find Oscar's lost lid, when Sam the garbage man (James Catusi) drops it off! He picked it up by mistake during his rounds, and returns it gift-wrapped. Oscar is almost ready to leave, reminiscing about what his granddaddy told him about trash cans and homes, but Oscar is happy once again to have his lid back (which he calls Lydia). He won't admit he's happy and tells everyone to scram, but he will admit that "lid" begins with L.
 	Cartoon 	L is for Lunchbox
 	SCENE 7 	Gordon reads a book: Tony and the Toll Collector by Eric Stevenson. When the story is done, he points out the letter L in the words "toll collector."
 	Cartoon 	L is for Ladder
 	SCENE 8 	In the kitchen, Susan tells Sarah a story her grandmother used to tell her. She uses her kitchenware as characters in a tale about a saucer that got tired of sitting under the cup and decides to switch places.
 	SCENE 9 	Jennie shows Gayle and Reggie some pictures of a snowy forest, with several animals and letters hidden.
 	Cartoon 	Y is for Yo-Yo (repeat)
 	Cast 	Buddy and Jim have trouble getting a pair of tennis shoes and heavy workboots into their boxes.
 	SCENE 10 	Gordon teases Susan as they sign off, and Jennie announces the sponsors and today's book.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign and Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
*Oscar would lose his lid again in Episode 0384.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1