Episode 0204

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	As Susan greets the viewer, she hears some thumping coming from Oscar's trash can. Inside, Oscar says that he slammed the lid down so hard that it's stuck shut. Susan and Gordon try to open it without much luck. They feel they'll have more luck if they recruit some more help.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird employs several ideas to unstick Oscar's lid. First, he ties a string to the top, connected to an arrow. He has Bob shoot the arrow with a bow, thinking the string will pull the can open; this fails. Big Bird then produces a can opener, which Oscar orders him to keep away. Everyone else agrees it won't work. Finally, Big Bird sticks a magnet to the lid, tied to a string, which he will pull as he quickly runs down the block. He darts off, ripping the magnet from the lid and crashing offscreen.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper joins the group as Gordon explains his plan: Oscar will push from inside the can, while everyone else pulls from outside. This opens the lid, but also shoots Oscar up in the air and onto Big Bird's doors.
 	Cartoon 	A dog learns about U.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!"
 	Muppets 	Sherlock Hemlock tries to figure out why there is a mess outside. He speculates that the Twiddlebugs made a mess after a Twiddlebug dance.
 	SCENE 4 	Bob points out the different shapes of some blocks, which he and the kids use to make a building with.
 	Film / Animation	Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry...
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Cast 	Gordon gets Bob unstuck from a large number 9.
 	Film / Animation	Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 8 baskets in a row, but miss on the 9th.
 	Insert 	Gordon will reward Grover with a bag of jellybeans if he can get next to him. Grover struggles with this concept, but ultimately ends up next to the bag of tasty treats instead.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 16 baskets in a row, but miss on the 17th.
 	Muppets 	A voice (Jerry Nelson) presents the word YOU. Two Anything Muppet girls greet each other as such, then the viewer.
 	Muppets 	Grover sees the word YOU, then points to the viewer.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Knicks make 20 baskets.
 	Muppets 	Gordon has four things lined up in a row--a harmonica, a whistle, a trumpet, and a banana. He tells Ernie that one of these doesn't belong, and Ernie chooses the banana because you can make music with the instruments, but you eat the banana... or so he thinks. Gordon tells Ernie to blow into the banana and Ernie appears to be playing a horn until Gordon reveals he was honking a horn behind his back the whole time. Amused by the trick, they decide to play the same joke on Cookie Monster, but Cookie has a different idea--you eat the harmonica, whistle, and trumpet, and make beautiful music with the banana!
 	Cartoon 	A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
 	SCENE 5 	The cast shows C words - Susan has a coat, a boy draws with a crayon, Oscar lives in a can and likes to complain, Gordon decorates a cake, and Bob takes a photo of Little Bird with a camera.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster hopes his box has a special C-word inside, but instead finds crumbs. He begins to cry, until Ernie provides him with a coconut crunch cookie.
 	Cartoon 	C - Cake
 	Muppets 	Monsters pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C.
 	Film 	There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Professor Hastings discuss the importance of exercise.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Gordon puts some features on some Anything Muppets, forming them into a family. They all sing "Consider Yourself".
center 	Celebrity 	Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon, Susan, and Bob ask Oscar to say goodbye. He refuses and slams the lid shut, once again getting it stuck. As they try prying it back open, Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Cookie Monster holds the Sesame Street sign, while Roosevelt Franklin and Betty Lou hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2