Episode 0170

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Susan and company sing the "IG Family Song," using the letters perched on Kwame's tricycle. Susan sings about big, Bob sings about dig, Gordon enters with a live pig, and Susan sings about Oscar's wig. Big Bird observes all this nearby as he reads his Mother Goose book.
 	Film 	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.
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 	SCENE 2 	Bob introduces the letter X with Lance and Frannie. Inside Hooper's Store, they learn about how an X-ray works with Dr. Powers (Jerry Nelson), whose speech is a bit muffled from the mask he's wearing.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: X for X-ray
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 	Celebrity 	Lorne Greene and the Bonanza cast subtract two horses from three horses to equal one horse.
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 	Cartoon 	"Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
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 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people.
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 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people. (repeat)
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 	Cartoon 	"Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob plays "Three of These Things" with Lance and Frannie using groups of candies.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon, Bob, and the kids observe the piglet that Gordon had with him earlier. They talk about its snout and hooves as the pig nibbles on the kids' shoelaces and Gordon's watch.
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 	SCENE 5 	Bob serves up some ice cream treats for Farley and the other kids. Bob notes that not all ice cream is shaped like Ernie's cone, and look at a circle-shaped piece of ice cream cake, and ice cream shaped into a rectangle and square. Bob divides the rectangular-shaped portion to form two triangles.
 	Muppets 	Three Anything Muppets sing "Everyone Likes Ice Cream." (edited)
 	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.
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar has put an X on his can. Gordon, Susan and Bob ask him why he put it there, and he says that X marks the spot they're supposed to stay away from.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: Kermit and Grover count nine blocks.
 	Film 	Transportation
 	SCENE 7 	Bob sings "Special" to Farley and the kids as they enjoy their ice cream.
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 	Cast 	Gordon gets Bob unstuck from a large number 9.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: A female and male vocalist sing "Bird is a four-letter word" over a film about birds.
 	SCENE 8 	Gordon and Susan cooperate on making a sandwich before it's time to say goodbye.
 	SCENE 8 cont'd	Back in the yard, Bob and the kids pet the piglet as Big Bird announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bob and Susan hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon, Mr. Hooper and Oscar hold up the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* Bob's performance of "Special" from this episode would later appear on the album 60 Favorite Songs from Sesame Street.
* The Joe Raposo background music for scene 4 was previously used for a film segment about animals with horns.
* Oscar's brief "X Marks the Spot" segment in Scene 6 would be repurposed in Episode 1146 with Mr. Hooper.
* At the end of the episode, Big Bird erroneously says, "Sesame Street has been brought to you by the Children's Television Workshop" instead of "...is a production of..." The mistake is noticeable as there's a slight pause between his words.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2