Episode 0041

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon is about to pick up his newspaper from Hooper's Store, when he looks up and sees Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter N . He asks Big Bird and Carlos if they know any N words. Big Bird thinks of his neck, and Carlos thinks of his nose.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: N - Nail
 	SCENE 1cont'd	Gordon also remembers that N is for newspaper, then notices that the newspaper stand is missing. Mr. Hooper has just replaced the old-fashioned stand with his new invention: Hooper's Super Duper Newspaper Machine. Mr. Hooper demonstrates it by having Gordon ask for a paper. With the turns of the dials and a push of the button, the machine reveals a gold-gloved hand that tosses him a rolled-up newspaper. After getting a second paper, the machine goes haywire, and the hand begins tossing out newspapers everywhere. Big Bird counts seven of them.
 	Film 	"Seven Song (Song of Seven)"
 	SCENE 2 	The front of Hooper's Store is now littered with newspapers. Mr. Hooper is able to shut the machine off and is determined that he can find something to replace the old stand. To Gordon's surprise, Big Bird decides to build Mr. Hooper a new stand, using some wood from Bob's wood shop class, and a hammer and some nails.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: N - Nail (repeat)
 	SCENE 3 	Bob, Chet, and Norma look at a crow, while nearby they hear Big Bird hammering away.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Tree kangaroo and baby.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	K is for kitten.
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird has finished building a newspaper stand for Mr. Hooper, which is much taller than Mr. Hooper expected, since Big Bird is so big. Big Bird, however, has come up with a solution: a ladder to get to the top. Mr. Hooper notes how complicated this is just to get a newspaper, which Big Bird acknowledges.
 	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 	Bob follows a group of signs with arrows pointing from Hooper's Store to Oscar's can. Oscar is selling copies of The Daily Grouch while Hooper's is out of the newspaper business. The grouch newspaper contains stories of grouchy things happening, such as a man getting drenched by a speeding truck and ants spoiling a picnic. One story sounds much happier, but it's incomplete as the Daily Grouch doesn't cover good stories.
 	Film 	There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.
 	SCENE 6 	Mr. Hooper reveals to Gordon and Bob that he's sticking with his old newspaper stand and invites everyone in the store for ice cream.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I - ice cream.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)"
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6 (repeat)
 	SCENE 7 	Bob plays two rounds of "One of These Things" with three N's and a 6, and three vehicles and a fork.
 	Film 	Different kinds of wheels are shown and what they’re used for.
 	Cast 	Buddy and Jim struggle with replacing a light bulb.
 	Muppets 	Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mah Na Mah Na".
 	SCENE 8 	Mr. Hooper talks about the leashed ocelot he has with him. Mr. Hooper wonders how small it was when it was a baby.
 	Film 	Film footage of a 1-day-old baby reindeer taking its first steps.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	K is for kitten.
 	SCENE 9 	Gordon shows Chet and Jill how different shapes can be used to make objects, such as an arrow, a face, and a sailboat.
 	Film 	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be.
 	SCENE 10 	Gordon signs off, and Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper and Bob hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1