Episode 0143

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon, Susan, and Bob observe the giant mess of newspapers covering all of Sesame Street and surmise that the wind must've blown them away from the Hooper's Store newsstand. Mr. Hooper at first denies it, but realizes that the weights he usually puts on the papers were keeping the door open. They all agree to cooperate to clean up a mess of papers, but Oscar refuses to help, preferring to watch a rocket take off on his television.
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird frets that he's not able to help everybody in getting some of the blown newspapers due to his tall size. Gordon points out that he's tall enough to reach the ones in higher places, so he can help out. Big Bird finds a letter stuck in a tree (by air mail, according to Big Bird), which Susan puts in the mailbox.
 	Film 	"I Am a Letter" - Vocalists sing a song describing the process of how mail is sent.
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot.
 	SCENE 3 	Gordon displays a paper triangle and square to the kids, pointing out that a square folded at the corners can look like two triangles.
 	Cartoon 	A male voice narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to dance, and a square square. The triangle likes being flexible, but the square would rather be stiff and *square*.Music: "Waltz in Mean Time," David Lee
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
 	Muppets / Cast 	Bob reads "The Story of Ira and Inez."
 	Cartoon 	A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
 	SCENE 4 	Susan shows the kids pictures of words in the IG family: big, dig, pig, wig. The kids help figure out the missing initial letter.
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 	SCENE 5 	Gordon finds a distraught Oscar looking more miserable than usual. Oscar is sad because he just received a letter from his Aunt Sylvia, with details about his little nephew Gregory Grouch, who is the worst grouch in the family because he is polite in every way. The letter affects Gordon as well, who could use some cheering up...
 	Song 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face."
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet man holds up pictures and asks the viewer to find a square in each of them. Cookie Monster soon joins him when the man shows a picture of a cookie box, which Cookie Monster believes has cookies in it.
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird enters Hooper's Store, wanting to buy some candies. Mr. Hooper helps him count out four pieces of candy corn.
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off.
 	Celebrity 	Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!"
 	SCENE 7 	After Mr. Hooper finishes helping another customer, Big Bird shows him that he wanted more candies, and has made a pile of candy corn, rock candies, and jellybeans. Mr. Hooper shows how he can arrange them by shape before putting the remainders of the piles back into the jars, but to Mr. Hooper's detriment, he's also been snacking on them since they all wind up the same in his tummy.
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 	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 8 	Gordon and some kids sit on the steps of the garage, and Gordon reads Some of the Days of Everett Anderson by Lucille Clifton. After the story, Susan arrives looking for a niño, which means "boy" in Spanish.
 	Muppets 	Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4.
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 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #4"
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 	SCENE 9 	Gordon reads a newspaper, pointing out that one must know the alphabet to read -- like Burt Lancaster does.
 	Celebrity 	Burt Lancaster says the alphabet.
 	SCENE 10 	Susan finds Gordon and Oscar, who are upset over another letter with more sad news: he's just been named "Most Handsome Grouch of the Year!" Susan compliments him by telling him how ugly he is and how his voice sounds.
 	SCENE 10 cont'd	The camera abruptly cuts to Bob and the kids feeding a baby lamb in the yard. They say goodbye as Gordon announces the sponsors and today's book.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Mr. Hooper and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2