Episode 0142

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Susan passes Herry Monster (performed here by Caroll Spinney) selling hot dogs and buys a newspaper at Hooper's Store. She's thinking about things that are the same and things that are different. She says that when she comes back out of her apartment, there will be something different about her.
 	Muppets 	Kermit talks about "same" by showing two identical rectangles. Cookie Monster eats one of them, making them different.
 	SCENE 2 	Susan comes out of her apartment wearing pants. Her clothes are different, but she is still the same person. Oscar the Grouch tells her she looks lovely. She asks him whether he feels all right, and he says he thought it would be fun to be different, too. They continue their pleasantries, and Gordon comes along, also surprised at Oscar’s polite behavior. Oscar says he must leave now, because he promised to take some little children to the zoo, and he mustn't keep the little darlings waiting.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3"
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar is ready to go to the zoo, but there are only two out of the three children with him. Susan helps distribute bag lunches and balloons amongst them, when the third kid finally shows up.
 	Film 	"Three Song (Song of Three)."
 	Film 	A film shows parts of an elephant.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Children describe how to draw an elephant.
 	Cartoon 	K is for kitten.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: K - Key
 	Muppets 	Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #1)
 	SCENE 4 	Susan tells the kids and Freddie a story about a pig getting stuck in a fig tree, using lots of other "IG" words. She spells the words out of magnets whenever the kids prompt her.
 	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.
 	SCENE 5 	Mr. Hooper and Gordon are surprised and skeptical when they see the new, nice Oscar. They ring his cheerful-sounding doorbell, and Oscar tells them about his trip to the zoo. He even goes as far as to treat all of the kids on Sesame Street to dessert over at Hooper's Store.
 	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...
 	SCENE 6 	Mr. Hooper serves dessert to the kids, mumbling to himself about Oscar.
 	Film / Animation	Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
 	SCENE 7 	Big Bird enters Hooper's, and asks Mr. Hooper for his most delicious dessert. It isn't chocolate layer cake … nor a triple scoop ice cream cone … nor lemon meringue pie. Big Bird gives him some clues: it's got crunchy little bits and it comes in a sack. It's bird seed!
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: N - Nail
 	Cast 	Larry and Phyllis: Larry tells Phyllis that he invited their friend Fred to dinner. Without listening to him any further, Phyllis tries to do multiple chores at once, until she realizes that they have to cooperate in order to spiff up the place. They do so in sped-up tape, then Larry reveals that Fred can't come to dinner tonight.
 	Cartoon 	N is naughty, nice, nodding, nickel, noon, nibbling, nest, nut, nose, night, nine, and nursing.
 	Muppets 	Someone has eaten Ernie's cookies, and Sherlock Hemlock investigates the case. He asks Ernie questions about the cookies, when Cookie Monster comes by with cookie crumbs on his fur. Sherlock interrogates Cookie Monster, and he comes to the conclusion that Cookie is the thief. Cookie Monster admits it, saying that he is full now and gives Ernie the last cookie, but Sherlock ends up taking it as payment.
 	Cartoon 	Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. Featuring the sped-up voice of Gene Moss.
 	Cartoon 	"K" - Kangaroo - A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains what a kangaroo is, and ends up in the pouch of one.
 	Muppets 	"K" Cheer #2
 	SCENE 8 	Oscar gets a call from his grouch friend Melvin Grouch (voiced by Bob McGrath), who mistakes Oscar for a nice person. When Melvin considers having him kicked out of the Disagreeable Order of Grouches, Oscar finally snaps back into his old self. Susan and Gordon want to invite the new Oscar to a picnic, but are glad to have the old Oscar back when he yells at them and berates their plans.
 	Muppets 	Kermit tries to give a lecture on being happy, but Cookie Monster eats Kermit's happy face prop, which makes him mad.
 	Celebrity 	Bill Cosby demonstrates happy.
 	Film 	A bumble beeMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber.
 	SCENE 9 	Gordon shows the kids that "ven aqui" is Spanish for "come here."
 	Film 	"Three Song (Song of Three)." (repeat)
 	SCENE 10 	Gordon rings Oscar's pleasant-sounding doorbell to get some help saying goodbye. Oscar emerges with the working parts of the bell in pieces and tears the welcome sign off of his can. Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Oscar holds up the Sesame Street sign with Gordon and the CTW sign with Susan at the end.
==Gallery==
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==Notes==
*Additional performers include Jerry Nelson as Freddie and Anything at Hooper's Store.
*An image of scene 3 from this episode is used as the cover for the of Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2