Episode 0077

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon overhears Oscar cheering for the Grouch Bowl on TV. The opposing teams playing today are the Midtown Meanies vs. the Dodgeville Drudges — and both of them are bad, according to Oscar, who waves an "M" flag.
 	Cartoon 	M for mouse, mud, and mother
 	Cartoon 	M is for Marvelous Martha
 	Cartoon 	M for Mail
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	SCENE 2 	Bob joins Gordon in listening along with Oscar. The halftime show begins when the band (an octopus) starts playing …
 	Song 	"Octopus One-Man Band"
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	“Song of Eight”
 	SCENE 3 	Susan joins Bob, Gordon and Oscar. Oscar laments that the Meanies are now winning, so he switches flags and begins cheering for the Drudges, who are losing.
 	Cartoon 	A small man and his assistant, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.
 	Cartoon 	"The D Commercial:" Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime."Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert
 	Cartoon 	D for Dog: the roles between dog and master are reversed.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar's favorite part of the game is when it's over — then he can watch the garbagemen pick up trash from the field. Gordon introduces the next film …
 	Song 	"Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away.Music by Peter Schickele
 	SCENE 5 	Bob takes a break from fixing a chair to play a "Three of These Things" game.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
 	Song 	(new footage included)
 	SCENE 6 	After "washing" himself, Bob introduces a film of a mother mandrill and her young.
 	Film 	A mandrill carries her young.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 7 	Big Bird asks Susan to read a letter from his mother. He recalls the things she and his father did for him, and observes what a family is. Bob introduces the next film of a family of lemurs.
 	Film 	Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 8 	Susan reads I Have a Treeby Lillie D. Chaffin.
 	SCENE 8cont'd 	Big Bird tries to guess what time it is now. Susan says it's silly song time.
 	Muppets / Cast	The Anything Muppets sing "Before and After." In between the verses, we see Buddy figuring out how to eat his slice of cake, aided by an unseen voice (Frank Oz). Eventually, he's left to his own devices and causes a mess when he tries to eat his cake before he opens his mouth.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	SCENE 9 	Susan asks Big Bird what comes after 8, and he struggles to answer.
 	Film 	"Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (repeat)
 	SCENE 10 	Mr. Hooper asks Gordon to help him look for his glasses. Mr. Hooper is also stressed because he can't remember the alphabet.
 	Celebrity 	Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.
 	SCENE 10cont'd	Bob and Susan assist Mr. Hooper in trying to remember where his glasses might have fallen. He recalls spilling some milk outside and getting his mop and bucket to clean it up. They find the mop, but no bucket in sight.
 	Song 	“Song of Eight” (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	SCENE 11 	Bob hasn't found any glasses, but he did find a letter E.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: E for eggA cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Cast 	Gordon and Bob assemble an E.
 	SCENE 12 	Gordon sees Oscar fishing out of a bucket — is it the one?
 	Film 	A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat.
 	SCENE 13 	Gordon leads Susan and Mr. Hooper to Oscar's bucket, where Oscar catches a pair of glasses. Mystery solved!
 	SCENE 13cont'd	While Oscar is still fishing, Gordon signs off. Bob announces the sponsors, and the book read on today's show.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Susan holds up the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1