Episode 0158

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Susan welcomes the viewers and notices a group of frowning kids. She sings "If You're Happy and You Know It" to help cheer them up. Oscar the Grouch watches and plays along.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
 	Cartoon 	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.Artist: John Paratore
 	Celebrity 	Jackie Robinson says the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Monsters, including the puppet who would become Grover, Flute-Snatcher, Cookie Monster, Beautiful Day Monster, and Scudge, are looking at something. Billy appears, and is reprimanded with "Eyy!" After a few times, Fred's son turns toward the viewer and yells "A!", revealing that the group is staring at the letter A.
 	SCENE 2 	Mr. Hooper and Gordon try to decipher a smeared note ordering a bag of birdseed. Gordon points out that the first initial of the signature is a "B," and a yellow feather is found inside the envelope. It turns out that the note is from Big Bird, who also asks for some paper and pencils to practice writing lots and lots of notes for Mr. Hooper.
 	Song 	Fireman Ready to Go
 	Muppets 	Hunt for Happiness: Helen Happy tells Harold Happy that she has mud on her sneaker.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	Muppets 	Grandmother Happy suggests that Helen wipe the mud off her sneaker with a rag... but now... there's mud on the rag!
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grandmother Happy tells Harold to wash the mud off the rag with soap. It works... but now there's mud on the soap! Grandmother Happy gives up.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 3 baskets in a row, but miss on the 4th.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob buys a hot dog from Willy, and talks to Carlos about English and Spanish. He stage-whispers a joke in English, and Carlos translates it into Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes is standing next to a bathtub full of water. She is dry. A monster appears and throws the water at her, causing her to be wet, and then kisses her. "Bleah!" she says.
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"Octopus One-Man Band"
 	Celebrity 	Tim Conway says, "One more time!"
 	Song 	"Octopus One-Man Band" (repeat)
 	Celebrity 	Walt Frazier and Dick Barnett of the New York Knicks bounce a round basketball. Bill Cosby tries to bounce a square basketball.
 	SCENE 4 	Kids on the street make shapes with their fingers as Gordon names them.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cast 	Larry and Phyllis attempt to sing.
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird tells Herbert Birdsfoot a poem about the "AN" family, as he moves around the letters on his magnetic board. "An amazing exhibition of verbal dexterity, Big Bird," observes Herbert.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 16 baskets in a row, but miss on the 17th.
 	SCENE 6 	Bob plays "Three of These Things" with different amounts of fruit.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	SCENE 7 	Bob plays "Three of These Things" again with different amounts of toys and knick-knacks.
 	Cartoon 	Today's Secret Drawing: A camel.
 	Muppets 	Ernie demonstrates the word "Apple"; Cookie Monster eats Ernie's apple.
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A. (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (repeat)
 	SCENE 8 	Oscar shows Susan the "Wet Paint" sign on his trash can, which he put there so that he can go to sleep without anybody banging on his can and bothering him. Shortly after Susan leaves, Bob knocks on the can to inform Oscar that the paint is dry.
 	Cartoon 	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (repeat)
 	SCENE 9 	Gordon sees Oscar's "Wet Paint" sign, and bangs on his can to let him know that the paint's dry.
 	Cartoon 	A is for Ape.
 	SCENE 10 	Mr. Hooper bangs on Oscar's can to tell him that the paint's dry; Oscar gets frustrated and takes the sign down. Susan now bothers him to point out his sign's missing.
 	Cartoon 	"Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A. (repeat)
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play".
 	SCENE 11 	Before saying goodbye to the viewer, Susan hopes Oscar can get some rest; however Mr. Hooper and Gordon come and bang on Oscar's can to tell him that his sign fell down. Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Big Bird holds up the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds up the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2