Episode 0551

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon observes that people aren't always happy on Sesame Street; for example, Susan is mad when her garbage bag has a hole in the bottom, Mr. Hooper gets angry after picking the newspapers up that the wind blew about, and Jay is upset over a flat tire on his bicycle. Oscar the Grouch finds joy in all of these situations; in response, they dump their garbage on him, furthering his glee. Gordon says he's too much.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6
 	SCENE 2 	Susan, Trey, Doris, and John-John sit on the steps of 123 Sesame Street to guess the sounds Big Bird intends to play on a record in his nest, but the sounds they hear (a train, fog horn, and fire engine) are actually Mr. Snuffleupagus trying to whistle. Attempting one last time, Snuffy ends up making a bird-like twittering noise with his snuffle, and happily leaves. Big Bird is ready to start the game with the others, but Susan thinks that the game is already over after not believing the sounds came from Mr. Snuffleupagus.
 	Cartoon 	Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross.
 	Muppets 	The Martians find a telephone.
 	Cartoon 	Two heads think of F words, ending with "finished."
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F.
 	SCENE 3 	F Quickies: an AM farmer (Jim Henson) shows Herry Monster a fiddle; Gordon carries some boxes that fall, but with a reverse tape-edit, they end up back in his arms ("Fantastic!"); Grover whacks Kermit the Frog on the back and declares him a froggy and a friend.
 	Film 	F for field
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
 	Cast 	Luis, dressed as a magician, demonstrates addition by conjuring up the correct numeral when David and Maria arrive. As each person leaves, Luis switches the numerals to present subtraction.
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
 	Cartoon 	The more a man inflates a balloon with a tire pump, the less room he has.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar offers Gordon a trade for one of the flower pots he just bought that turns out to be broken, but he has to hand over the pot first. Once he has his wares, Oscar hands over a bag of dirt, thinking he pulled one over on Gordon. Except, Gordon is thankful for the bag of dirt so he has something to fill his other pots with. Oscar is disgusted with himself for cooperating.
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)."
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
 	Film 	A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas".
 	Muppets 	Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves.
 	Cartoon 	A STOP sign commands a train to stop.
 	Song 	Three kids dance to a rock version of "Three of These Things" while one of them sits and reads.
 	Cartoon 	A showcase of things that begin with A, ending with avalanche and ambulance.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A wheel rolls away from a junkyard. A boy captures it to complete his wagon.
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert, and Shola observe a letter A. Ernie calls out, "A, Bert!"
 	Film 	A film of things that make sounds, including birds and farm animals. Is silence a sound? (edited)
 	Muppets 	Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Mad."
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Weaver Bird."
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words.
 	SCENE 5 	Mr. Hooper and the kids observe Alphabet Bates write the letter F in the sky.
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
 	Muppets 	Beautiful Day Monster is part of a group of cheerleaders who cheer up to the letter F. When the leader asks what "ABCDEF" spells, they are all stumped, and Beautiful Day Monster comments on how weird that is.
 	Cartoon 	F for FootballArtist: John and Faith Hubley
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon and the kids come up with body parts that start with F, but Big Bird keeps guessing unrelated F-words like "freeway" and "firehouse." Eventually he remembers one qualifying part of his body: "feathers."
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F.
 	Film 	"Hey, let's make a road!" Kids do so at the beach, while a construction crew does the real thing.
 	Muppets 	Alien Alphabet
 	Film 	A dolphin walks backwards on the water.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 7 	Jay dribbles his basketball over to the other kids in the yard as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Susan and Gordon hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5