Episode 0423

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird hears the sound of Joey playing his drum in the Fix-it Shop. Big Bird loves drums, even to the point of standing around waiting for a parade just to hear them. ("You know, there's not many parades some days," he observes.) Big Bird becomes inspired to build a drum exactly like Joey's.
 	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."
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird thinks he has finished building his own drum, and starts to play it. It doesn't make any noise, and Luis points out that while they may look the same, his drum doesn't have any sides like Joey's does. Big Bird continues working on his drum.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: J - Jam
 	Muppets 	"J Friends"
 	Cartoon 	Jughead Jones's J story
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird has finished making his drum, but has trouble trying not to drop it. Luis shows that Joey's drum has a strap attached to it, but points out that he doesn't need one in order to still have fun with his drum. Luis celebrates by playing his guitar. Big Bird becomes awestruck at the instrument and throws down his drum, declaring he's now going to make a guitar.
 	Cartoon 	A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: STREET. He sings about it with a boy who wears a crown.
 	Muppets 	Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s.
 	Cartoon 	"Candy Man"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #8
 	SCENE 4 	Susan and the kids sing "If You're Happy and You Know It" in the yard.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty H”
center 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hands, with some assistance from a human hand. Kermit counts the hand's fingers and lists off various things it can do. The hand gradually becomes more aggressive with Kermit in demonstrating, but the two eventually make up by shaking hands.
 	Cartoon 	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up."
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon lifts a shade on the construction doors to reveal a picture of a kid with balloons. He pulls the shade back down, and asks some kids to remember what they saw in the picture.
 	Song 	"Eight Song (Song of Eight)”
 	Muppets 	Two boys notice that the number 8 looks the same right side up and upside down.
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight"
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon is grading some papers, but the point of his pencil breaks. He is about to sharpen it when Sam the Robot offers to be a pencil-sharpening machine for him. Gordon inserts all his pencils into Sam's front slot, and Sam returns them all trimmed to little stubs. Gordon can't work with such short pencils, so Sam obliges by producing a long, yet oversized, pencil. Fed up, Gordon leaves to get some regular pencils from Hooper's Store.
 	Song 	"Train Song"
 	Muppets 	"Has Anybody Seen My Dog?"
 	Cartoon 	J family jamboree
 	Muppets 	Little Bird explains "next to". Then Cookie Monster cuddles up next to Little Bird.
 	Cartoon 	A man has a J under his hat.
 	Film 	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit" over a film about tomatoes growing in a field.
 	SCENE 7 	Luis sings "One of These Things" in Spanish with the kids, with four circles in one square and three circles in the others.
 	Film 	A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat.
 	Muppets 	Alien Alphabet
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people.
 	SCENE 8 	Oscar observes the window shade Gordon used earlier. He likes how they can be pulled down to hide something from view, so he pulls down a black screen wipe as if it were a window shade; that way, he can't see the viewer.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #4: third dot wants to be red (altered graphics)
 	Cartoon 	J family jamboree (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 9 	Susan plays "Three of These Things" using different shapes: three shapes in one square, and two shapes in the others.
 	Muppets 	Beat the Time with Grover.
 	Cartoon 	A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: J - Jam (repeat)
 	Cast 	A narrator (Jerry Nelson) demonstrates why it's easier to address people by their names. David, Gordon, Susan, Luis, and some kids are lined up in limbo as the voice calls out for a man to raise his hand (David, Gordon, and Luis comply). The voice then asks for a black man to raise his hand (David and Gordon). Finally, the voice asks for the black man wearing a tie to raise his hand, which leaves only Gordon.
 	Cartoon 	"Candy Man" (repeat)
 	Film 	Jerry Nelson introduces the letters U and N. Other letters join them and become SUN, RUN and FUN.
 	SCENE 10 	Big Bird leads Luis and the kids in a parade as Susan announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 4