Episode 0123

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Mr. Hooper welcomes the viewer, and says he's going to go through some boxes of musical instruments. He has a box of three harmonicas, a box of three toy trumpets, and a box that only has one toy flute. He mentioned that Gordon bought one of these flutes for a friend of his...
 	Cast / Muppets	Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, Gordon asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert.
 	Cartoon 	A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive.
 	Muppets 	Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when Ernie rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies.
 	SCENE 2 	At the Pet Shop, Gordon shows the kids a coatimundi.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby reindeer (Gordon and kid voice-over)
 	SCENE 3 	Susan and the kids count to 10 with the help of numbers Big Bird has written on a piece of cardboard, but the 3 is missing. Susan introduces someone who knows what the number looks like...
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 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3"
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 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3" (repeat)
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 	Cartoon 	A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Mr. Hooper and the kids hear an airplane and watch Alphabet Bates make an R.
 	SCENE 4cont'd 	Mr. Hooper has the kids guess the word "radio".
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
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 	Cartoon 	R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake...Artist: Fred Calvert
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird can't remember how to draw the letter R, when a lowercase r falls from the sky and helps him. He writes a lowercase r on an easel, but then the lowercase r disappears. Big Bird tries to tell Gordon and Mr. Hooper about it, but they think he just imagined it. Big Bird starts to look for the lowercase r.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: "R" – Rabbit
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. When he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat)
 	SCENE 6 	Part 2: The little r comes back with a capital R. Big Bird draws a capital R, and then the r's leave. Mr. Hooper and Gordon come back and think that Big Bird is still imagining things, but then the r's show up again, much to Gordon and Mr. Hooper's surprise.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions.
 	Film 	"Noises"A boy named Chris uses "magic glasses" to see invisible things that make noises, including construction equipment, a baby crying, people coughing and sneezing, a car honking, a telephone, and a typewriter. Can you make those noises?
 	SCENE 7 	Susan sings "One of These Things" with 3 lowercase r's and 1 capital R.
 	Cast 	Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to carry an ironing board (horizontally) from one room to another.
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 	Film 	The “unsung beauty of manhole covers” is explored.
 	Cartoon 	"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Cartoon 	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (repeat)
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 	SCENE 8 	Mr. Hooper shows the kids a crow.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat. (edited)
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 	SCENE 9 	Susan talks about rectangles.
 	Film 	"Rectangles"Rectangles in the city and country are shown to a percussion soundtrack.
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 	Film 	You can clean almost anything.Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers.This segment was initially missing from the iTunes version. Later closed captioned releases of the full episode included the film intact.
 	SCENE 10 	Gordon reads in the newspaper that it's time to "Go Goodbye," and Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign while Cookie Monster holds up the CTW sign at the end.
==Notes==
* This episode's storyline with Big Bird and the "frisky matted 'R's" was cited as part of a week-long focus on pairing a certain letter's uppercase and lowercase forms not looking alike. Gibbon, Samuel and Palmer, Edward. 
Pre-Reading on Sesame Street. Final Report, Volume V of V Volumes (ED047825). ERIC. pp. 48-49, December 1970
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1