Episode 0071

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird wants to help Mr. Hooper in his store. Mr. Hooper is planning to paint a sign advertising orange juice, and Big Bird says he can do the job… but he's a little forgetful about the alphabet. Mr. Hooper points him to Lou Rawls.
 	Celebrity 	Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids.
 	SCENE 1cont'd	Gordon helps Big Bird figure out that the first letter in the word "orange" is the letter O. He can't recall what an O looks like, so Gordon asks him what shape an orange has, and Big Bird knows that oranges are round like a circle — also the shape of an O.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: O for Open
 	Cartoon 	A song about a rolling OAnimation by John and Faith Hubley
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: O for Open (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird has finished painting the word "orange" on the sign, but he doesn't know how to spell "juice." Susan helps him by listing some J words, and shows him how to write one.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: J - Jam
 	Cartoon 	"The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug."Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird has finished the sign, and Mr. Hooper is proud of him for learning how to make letters.
 	Celebrity 	Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn."
 	SCENE 4 	Bob and Chris look at an anteater, which is able to climb trees for fun.
 	Film 	Apes play at the zoo.
 	SCENE 5 	Susan sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things," first with pictures of things that make light, and one with winter clothing.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)"
 	Muppets 	A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!"
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon shows Chris and Lance the way a balance scale works by showing that the scale is tipped one way with no weights on one side. With some weights added, the scale begins to slightly balance itself out, and with all the weights, the scale tips the other way. He says that it's pretty easy to make the ends of this scale go up and down like a seesaw -- that is, unless you're Buddy and Jim.
 	Cast 	Buddy and Jim try to use a seesaw.
 	SCENE 7 	Bob observes that there are families everywhere, besides on Sesame Street.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Lion family.
 	SCENE 8 	Susan points out that families are good at sharing, leading to the following segment.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 9 	Gordon and Susan encounter Oscar, who just got some new trash from the Grouches' Yearly Bargain Basement Discount Sale. He shows off some of his new possessions: a soup bowl with holes, a telephone with no receiver, and a non-working TV set — which is actually a radio that Oscar insists on watching.
 	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.
 	Cartoon 	R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: R - rabbit
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets sing "Up, Up and Away."
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Seven Song (Song of Seven)"
 	SCENE 10 	Bob says it's important to count, and that James Earl Jones can do it well.
 	Celebrity 	James Earl Jones counts to 10.
 	SCENE 11 	Bob, Brynne, and Lance play a guessing game with Big Bird: what animal does Bob have inside the box? After Big Bird makes several wrong guesses, he learns that they're actually two Angora guinea pigs. Brynne helps Bob count one of the guinea pig's six toes.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6 (repeat)
 	SCENE 12 	Gordon signs off before joining Big Bird, the kids, and the guinea pigs. Bob announces the sponsors.
center 	CLOSING SIGNS	Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and a bunch of Muppet hippies hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1