Episode 0254

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon plays a trick on Mr. Hooper as he greets the viewer, and observes the many people playing games on Sesame Street today. When Gordon joins a game of marbles with a couple of kids, Big Bird asks if he can join. Since he's so tall, he moves the marbles with his foot, which only spoils the game. Next, Big Bird tries jump-roping with Susan, Benjamin, and Troy, but gets tangled in the rope; Susan points out that he’s too tall for the rope to go over him. Bob invites Big Bird to play “Follow the Leader” with him and some kids, but Big Bird is too tall to fit under the garage steps. He gets very upset and starts to cry since it seems like he can't play in anybody's games. Gordon suggests a game of basketball, and suddenly he and Bob both want Big Bird on their team. Big Bird feels a lot better after blocking Bob's attempts at making a basket: "I'm a regular Arnold Palmer! A regular Bobby Orr."
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty U”
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
 	SCENE 2 	Bob notices a doormat with a big letter U below Oscar's trash can. Oscar says the U is for “unwelcome.”
 	Cartoon 	Letter U salesman
 	Muppets 	"The UN Family Song"
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3"
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper has Christopher and Troy sort a jumble of items into three groups: cake ingredients for Susan, tools and painting implements for Bob, and grouchy things for Oscar’s party.
 	Muppets 	The Hands: A yellow hand tries to match plastic baby animals to their plastic mother animals. A purple hand tries to help it out.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over.
 	Muppets / Cast	"Surprise!": A band of Anything Muppet hippies sing about the good and bad parts of surprises, and how people respond to them, with various characters demonstrating them in cutaways.
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off.
 	SCENE 4 	In limbo, Bob displays the capital and lowercase U on a window shade.
 	Cartoon 	A dog learns about U.Artist: John Paratore
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!"
 	Cartoon 	Rocket countdown: Unlike previous segments, the rocket successfully launches at the right time as everyone celebrates, and the director grins at the camera.
 	Cartoon 	What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 5 	Susan transitions between segments.
 	Film 	Joe Raposo: What Babies Are Called
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar is watching Mrs. Gonzales’ baby for her. When it cries, he sings a grouchy version of "Rock-a-bye Baby," which puts the baby to sleep.
 	Film 	A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mah Na Mah Na".
 	Film 	"Three Song (Song of Three)."
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3" (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	The uses of water
 	Film 	A garfish swims around.
 	SCENE 7 	Big Bird wakes up from a nap to recite his poem about seahorses.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Cartoon 	A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap
 	SCENE 8 	Gordon uses a toy crane to crank up the letter C.
 	Film 	A magnetic crane picks up large pieces of metal.
 	Muppets 	A Muppet inchworm and a bug sing "The Inch Worm" in a field of flowers.
 	Celebrity 	Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together.
 	Cartoon 	C - Cake
 	Cast 	Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C.
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap
 	Film 	A woman asks a boy how a glass of milk was spilled on the table, so the boy offers several outlandish scenarios before telling her the truth: it was him.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty U” (repeat)
 	SCENE 9 	Bob and the kids put some chairs, a bench, and other things together and take a pretend truck ride. They shout goodbye, and Gordon announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Betty Lou and Roosevelt Franklin hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2