Episode 0214

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	On Oscar's trash can hangs a sign - "Grouchy Poems - Knock." Gordon, Bob, and the kids gather around as Oscar explains his service - simply knock on the can and he'll come up with a Grouchy poem using whatever words the customer suggests. Bob is amused that Oscar is able to take a nice word like "sweet" and make a grouchy poem using it. Gordon challenges Oscar to come up with another poem using the word "sun." After wracking his brain a bit, Oscar comes up with one: "When people are having fun in the sun, I hate it so much that away I run!"
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.”
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird sees two eggs sitting out on the table in the yard. He wonders where they came from, first thinking they're from some chickens. When he doesn't see any around, he tells Bob he now believes Mr. Hooper ordered them for the store. After a chase with Big Bird and Mr. Hooper attempting to meet with each other (they keep using opposite doors), Mr. Hooper denies claiming them as his eggs are kept in his refrigerator. Finally, Susan arrives and states the eggs are her lunch; she just left to get some salt.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot displays the letters E and T, mentioning that they're the ET family. He calls on Grover to add a heavy letter W to the letters, making the word WET. Grover rests for a minute after carrying the heavy W away.
 	Cartoon 	Girls play a jump rope alphabet game: “I’ve got an A in my ankle, I’ve got a B in my back,” etc. A boy wants to play, but one of the girls says the game is for girls only. Finally, when he contributes “I’ve got a Z in my zebra,” one of the girls says he can play.
 	Celebrity 	Burt Lancaster counts while doing pushups.
 	Muppets 	Some Anything Muppets and monsters (including Cookie Monster, an early Grover, Beautiful Day Monster, Scudge, and Fred's son) pile up and count to 10.
 	Cartoon 	A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot calls on Grover to add a heavy letter S to the letters, making the word SET. Grover rests for a minute after carrying the heavy S away.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan talks about places where things can get repaired instead of thrown away. She discusses how a shoemaker, a watch repairman, and a garage mechanic help people as photos of each worker are shown.
 	Cartoon 	Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes teaches about through.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks demonstrate over, around and through.
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob reads "The Queen's Questions". In the story, Queen Quinella, who lives in a Q-shaped palace and owns everything Q related, wants to give her fortune away to someone who loves the letter Q as much as she does. She meets a duck named Quincy and asks him some questions, which he answers with more Q words. She likes him so much that she gives him her entire fortune — a quarter.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar didn't like the previous story and wishes to see something up his alley...
 	Film 	A magnetic scrapyard baler is used to lift cars into a compacter.
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets sing "Octopus' Garden."
 	Song 	"What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 1)
 	Cartoon 	Q -- that funny looking thing.
 	Song 	"What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 2)
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon and the kids see Alphabet Bates write a Q in the sky . He asks if anybody has something that starts with Q; he has a quarter.
 	Cartoon 	A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.” (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Muppets 	Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber.
 	SCENE 6 	As the kids play in the playground space of Big Bird's nest area, Gordon introduces a playground in Africa...
 	Film 	African children play in a village, and in a modern playground.
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot calls on Grover to add a heavy letter M to the letters, making the word MET. Grover faints after being told to put the ET letters away.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.
 	SCENE 7 	Gordon sets out a baseball, tennis ball, football and an orange in the yard. He asks the kids to find out ways the items are different and the same. The football is a different shape, but the orange can be different as it's a fruit. Gordon then announces the sponsors, which are encased within the orange and tennis ball.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2