Speech Balloon

During the first season of Sesame Street, several animated inserts were produced called Speech Balloon,Lesser, Gerald Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street in which a character says a letter and a word that begins with that letter. The word appears in a word balloon, accompanied by an image.
According to the book Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street, these segments were inspired by the Muppet piece "Visual Thinking" as performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.
As part of the show's bilingual project, certain segments also aired on Sesame Street in Spanish.
==Season 1 (1969-1970)==
Picture	Segment / First 	Description
 	A - ApeEpisode 0006 	An ape appears with a menacing expression. Later, the ape wears a wig and plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"' on his ukulele.
 	B - ButterflyEpisode 0006	A man catches a butterfly in a net, only to find himself captured into another net.
 	C - CatEpisode 0029 	After a dog trots into the balloon, a cat angrily boots him out. Also in Spanish (gato).
 	D - DogEpisode 0016 	The roles between dog and master are reversed.Included in Sesame Street Test Show 1.
 	E - EggEpisode 0002 	A cow hatches a chick, which says, "Moo."
 	F - FlyEpisode 0032 	A man attempts to dislodge a fly with a swatter, but ends up smacking himself in the face instead.
 	G - GorillaEpisode 0085 	A man appears instead of a gorilla, but then he unzips his costume, revealing himself to be a gorilla, which growls.
 	H - HoleEpisode 0080 	A boy gets a pie in the face when he looks out of his speech balloon.
 	I - Ice creamEpisode 0033	An ice cream scoop scoops up a bowl of ice cream, runs away with the ice cream container leaving ice cream on the boy's face.
 	J - JamEpisode 0012 	A little boy gets jam poured all over him from within the balloon. But he doesn't mind -- it's strawberry, his favorite flavor.
 	K - KeyEpisode 0040 	A man puts a key into a keyhole, but instead of just opening a door, he opens the entire front of his house. His wife calls to him from the bathtub, "Close the house, Leonard!"
 	L - LunchboxEpisode 0031 	When the box is opened, a jack-in-the-box head pops out.
 	M - MailboxEpisode 0013 	A hand reaches out of the mailbox, attaches a stamp to the man's forehead, and pulls him into the box.
 	N - NailEpisode 0040 	A man pulls a nail out of his speech balloon which deflates.
 	O - OpenEpisode 0014 	After the man steps into the bubble through a door on the side, the bubble slams shut and cannot be opened. Also in Spanish (abierto).
 	P - PinEpisode 0054 	An abstract woman pushes a pin into her balloon, bursting it.
 	R - RabbitEpisode 0014 	A stage magician looks humiliated as a rabbit pulls him from a gigantic top hat.
 	S - SnakeEpisode 0063 	A snake charmer plays a tune on his recorder; the snake doesn't enjoy the tune and decides to play another tune on the recorder. Also in Spanish (serpiente).
 	T - TrainEpisode 0022 	A railroad engineer catches a ride on a train. Also in Spanish (tren).
 	U - UmbrellaEpisode 0046 	A gust of wind fills a woman's umbrella, pulling her upward through the top of the balloon.
 	V - ViolinEpisode 0052 	A musician plays a violin, which makes a sawing noise and instantly breaks in two.
 	W - WaterEpisode 0062 	A man's speech balloon becomes a water cooler. He attaches a faucet to the speech balloon and climbs up to the balloon and gets water in the face.
 	X - X-RayEpisode 0064 	A bald man steps behind an x-ray machine. When he steps out, his whole mid-section is gone!
 	Y - Yo-YoEpisode 0036 	After snipping a boy's yo-yo with scissors, a man becomes the boy's makeshift yo-yo.
 	Z - ZipperEpisode 0025 	The balloon unzips and falls onto the speaker.
==Later Seasons==
Picture	Segment / EKA 	Description
 	A - AguaEpisode 0510 	The Spanish version of "W - Water".
 	B - BugEpisode 0137 	A woman sprays an insect, which fights back with a cannon.
center 	C - CapEpisode 0153 	A man puts on an oversized cap.
 	C - CarrotEpisode 0203	A gigantic rabbit eats a man's speech balloon.
 	C - CowboyEpisode 0703	A cowboy strings up his identical twin.
 	E - EndEpisode 0460 	A man falls off of the end of his rope.
 	H - HorseEpisode 0474 	The horse rides on the cowboy.
 	I - IronEpisode 0314 	An iron irons the word.
 	I - IslandEpisode 0314	A man discovers that he is standing on the head of a crocodile.
 	L - LightEpisode 0147 	A man turns on a light, interrupting another man's sleep. Also in Spanish (luz).
 	L - LipsEpisode 0198 	A large pair of lips smooches a man.
 	L - LoudEpisode 0783 	A man complains that a musician's muted trumpet isn't loud enough; the musician retaliates with a deafening honk on his instrument ("Now that's loud!")
 	P - Pack Episode 0504 	A woman (inside the speech balloon) packs a suitcase and packs her husband in the suitcase, too.
 	Q - QuietEpisode 0675 	A man yells for a woodpecker chopping a tree to be quiet. The tree then falls down on the man.
 	S - SingEpisode 0824 	A woman puts her hat down on an off-key man.
 	U - UpEpisode 0650 	Two men demonstrate "up" on a teeter totter; one man ends up crashing through the ceiling.
 	W - WashEpisode 0485 	A man watches a woman (inside the speech balloon) hand-wash and hang clothes; she ends by grabbing the man, washing and hanging his clothes while he's still wearing them.
==Sources==
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