Episode 0132

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon shows four of things: the number of fingers he's holding up, then how many kids are playing. Mr. Hooper counts four comic books, and Gordon listens for four car horns.
center 	Animation 	Scanimate Films #4
 	Muppets 	Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4.
 	SCENE 2 	Susan borrows a skate from Chris and Mary, and sings "How Many Wheels Has a Roller Skate?"This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Celebrity 	Carol Burnett runs the gamut of emotions while counting to 20.
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper sorts pieces from games. He has a city game and a country game, and the pieces got mixed up in shipment. The barn and the tractor go in the country, while the taxi goes in the city. Dogs are found in the city and the country...maybe the dog should go in the city because there are already two pieces in the country. Mr. Hooper observes that the dog has no leash, and may like to run around, so he puts it in the country.
center 	Animation 	Scanimate Films #4 (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Mr. Hooper demonstrates big, bigger and biggest with four balls. Little Bird, a Muppet boy (Frank Oz), and Herry Monster all compare sizes, but Gordon outsizes all of them when he introduces the next segment.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
center 	Muppets 	Tony sings "Windy" to his girlfriend, Beautiful Day Monster.
 	SCENE 5 	Mr. Hooper shows a small apple, then the big, bigger, and biggest apples.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Cartoon 	A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Celebrity 	Arte Johnson adds apples and gets applesauce.
 	SCENE 6 	Mr. Hooper displays some apples, one of his tasks of being a grocer.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" about a grocer and a doctor.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	SCENE 7 	Gordon explains how money works by purchasing an apple from Mr. Hooper. He and Susan work hard at their jobs. They get paid for working, and they get their money and use it to buy things they need. When Gordon buys an apple from Mr. Hooper, now Mr. Hooper has money to buy the things he needs. Gordon laments that the only problem is, when you’re a teacher sometimes you don’t have enough money. Mr. Hooper sympathizes: “Ah, that’s a big trick for anyone, Gordon.”
 	Film 	Two boys each have five cents - one has five pennies, one has a nickel. They see a dime along the way, which is worth ten. They ask the man at the store for change for the dime, and he gives them a nickel and five pennies. They spend their pennies, but then they want to buy an ice cream for ten cents and the machine only takes dimes. They give the store man their nickels in exchange for a dime and they share a fudgesicle.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 8 	Circles are found everywhere on Sesame Street.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Celebrity 	Tim Conway wonders what letter begins the word "toe."This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	SCENE 9 	Mr. Hooper displays a letter A.
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 10 	Susan displays a letter A; at Big Bird's doors, Herry also displays a letter A.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A" (repeat)This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Cast 	Mr. Hooper and Bob build an A.
 	Muppets 	Monsters look at a big A.
 	SCENE 11 	Gordon displays a capital and lowercase A on the sides of Big Bird's door.
 	Cartoon 	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is, but he gets eaten by the alligator.
 	SCENE 11cont'd	Gordon displays the two A's again, in reverse order.
 	Film 	City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover)
 	SCENE 12 	Gordon displays things that end with the sound AN, including Oscar's trash can.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.
 	SCENE 13 	Gordon, Chris, and Vanessa listen to the ambient noises around Sesame Street, especially Mrs. Callahan's radio.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Kids narrate footage of humans and animals overcoming obstacles, particularly a boy trying to ride a two-wheeler.This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	SCENE 14 	Big Bird spots a boy (Jerry Nelson) and a girl (Oz) arguing over a sandwich; the little girl doesn't want to share, but Big Bird convinces her it's best they share it. Big Bird is about to dig into his birdseed, when a hungry Little Bird pops over. Big Bird almost doesn't follow his own advice, then realizes that sometimes a lesson is easier to teach than to follow.
 	Muppets 	This segment was cut from the 1972 Dutch broadcast.
 	SCENE 15 	Big Bird and Little Bird give a brief recap of their favorite things from today's show and say goodbye. They watch the kids and Grover play as Gordon announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper, Oscar, and Gordon hold up the CTW sign at the end.
==Notes==
*Scenes from this episode were included in an episode of VH1's I Love the 70s.
*Short clips from Scenes 10 and 13 appear (dubbed) in the Sesamstrasse special Als die Sesamstrasse nach Deutschland kam.
*This episode can be viewed at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.UCLA Library Catalog Record
*In the Netherlands, an edited version of this episode was partially dubbed and broadcast for VARA on June 11, 1972. This was the Dutch viewers’ introduction to Sesame Street, since the program (presented by Ruud Jans) was a test to see if the series could be adapted for the Netherlands. After a local test pilot was produced in 1974, the country’s co-production, Sesamstraat was made two years later.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2