Episode 0539

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird joins Maria, Bob, and the kids for a game of hide-and-seek. Maria, designated as "it," sees Big Bird having trouble finding a spot he can convincingly hide (having tried hiding behind a tree, then a spoon provided by Oscar). Big Bird asks to be "it" instead, thinking he'll have better luck with the game. He counts to 10, but this puts him to sleep instead of going to look for everyone. The rest of the players simply let him nap, deciding to play the game in the yard.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #5
 	Song 	"Five Onstage Dancers"
 	Film 	Five Song (Song of Five)
 	Muppets 	Grover and Polly count five fingers.
 	SCENE 2 	Bob sings "Five Fingers on My Left Hand."
 	Muppets 	Story: "The Geefle and the Gonk"The Geefle and the Gonk, two aliens, learn how to cooperate and gather nectarines together.
 	Film 	Things you can carryMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	One of these things doesn't belong (shoe pairs)
 	Celebrity 	Joe Namath tosses a football forward to a kid. The film then runs in reverse to demonstrate backward.
 	SCENE 3 	Reacting to the previous segment, Big Bird throws a forward pass himself, which smashes into something offscreen.
 	Film 	A figure skater illustrates forward and backward.
 	Cast 	"David the Daring" does his famous forwards and backwards trick.
 	Muppets 	"The Ballad of Casey McPhee"
 	Film 	HipposMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 4 	Maria makes a tower out of five cigar boxes. At first, she stacks them like stairs and the boxes don't fall; she reveals she's used sticky tape to hold them together. She asks what would happen if she did that without the tape, using a second set of boxes to do so. She then demonstrates the proper way to stack them as a tower.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #5 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to twenty.
 	Cartoon 	A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one.
 	Muppets 	While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream, and finally, some whipped cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does.
 	Cast 	Gordon, Brynne, David, Maria, Luis, and Bob sit on a bus seat with newspapers numbered 1-6, as a voiceover (Jerry Nelson) counts them.
 	Cartoon 	Letter G drawing with kid voice-over
 	Film 	Things that begin with G
 	Cartoon 	G is for Goat
 	SCENE 5 	Bob finds Big Bird repeating "G, G, G" to himself. Big Bird forgets why he's saying it, so Bob lists some G words that will help jog his memory, such as Grouch, Grandmother, Gordon, and Grover. Big Bird recalls that his memory trick is to help remember a letter he received from his sister Tondalea regarding her 14 newly-hatched eggs - his immediate response was, "Gee!"
 	Cartoon 	G for Gorilla (in man suit)
 	Muppets 	Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds."
 	Cartoon 	La palabra cerrado
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music)
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird proudly demonstrates to Maria how he can count to 10 in Spanish. She congratulates him in Spanish, which he can't understand. He beams when she says she assumed he could speak Spanish as well as her.
 	Animation 	Dot & Hill B-3: Silhouetted dots use carts to climb a steep hill.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman goes to Marvin's Music City to buy a nice shiny trumpet. However, Marvin keeps bringing the wrong instrument.
 	Cartoon 	A man tries to explain how to put wallpaper up.
 	Muppets 	Kermit talks with Chris about teaching his little sister, Stephanie, to talk. Chris practices the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: E for eggA cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me."
 	SCENE 7 	Big Bird, Maria, and the kids play soccer in the yard while Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5