Episode 0072

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar needs to mail a letter to his mother, then another one to his friend Hubert Rotten, the president of the Disagreeable Order of Grouches. Gordon helps him out with the first letter, which is picked up by Claude, a beatnik mailman, who explains to Oscar how a letter gets to its destination. When Claude leaves, Oscar gives Gordon a letter — the letter J.
 	Cartoon 	"The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug."Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: J - Jam
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets sing "Seven Days."
 	SCENE 2 	After a kid named Jill says that her favorite book is The Wizard of Oz, she tells Ethel Kennedy that she has a friend who's bigger than her whose name is Sam. Sam is also the name of the book that Kennedy reads for two children in the yard. It's written by Ann Herbert Scott with illustrations by Symeon Shimin, and it tells the story of a little boy whose family sternly reject his requests to play with him.
 	Cartoon 	While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan asks Ava and Ronald if they have any baby siblings, and to try to think of some things that they can do but babies can't. Susan points out that babies have to learn to walk, even animal babies.
 	Film 	Film footage of a 1-day-old baby reindeer taking its first steps.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird asks Mr. Hooper for some cardboard boxes, then asks Bob for two long skinny pieces of wood, then asks Gordon for a big sheet of colored paper, and Susan for some jar tops.
 	Cartoon 	Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated from their group, teaching a lesson in counting backward.
 	SCENE 4cont'd	Big Bird has assembled all these different items together to build a makeshift TV set so he can watch The Mr. and Mrs. Game. To the adults' surprise, the set works — the Anything Muppet from "Seven Days" (Jim Henson) announces that the show is coming up next.
 	Muppets 	Part 1: Guy Smiley hosts "The Mr. and Mrs. Game", a quiz show for newlywed monsters.
 	Cartoon 	R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert
 	Muppets 	Part 2: Mr. and Mrs. Monster win the game, and Guy offers the choice of three prizes: a new house, a trip to Hawaii, or a cookie. Mr. Monster ravenously devours the cookie.
 	Cartoon 	A song about a rolling OAnimation by John and Faith Hubley
 	Muppets 	A Snerf demonstrates shorter and longer as narrated in voiceover by Frank Oz.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Snerfs like to cuddle up to little children, and think they're the cutest and cuddliest animals of all. The narrator responds, "silly snerf", prompting an abrupt reaction from the creature.
 	Film 	"My Kitten"A boy narrates a film about his playful kitten, Dusty, who has a big imagination.
 	SCENE 5 	Susan sings two games of "Here Are Some Things" using pictures of shapes. The first group is of circles, and the second is of rectangles. She introduces someone else who knows all about rectangles...
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!"
 	Film 	"Seven Song (Song of Seven)"
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: R - rabbit
 	Muppets 	Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Garbageman and Barber.
 	SCENE 6 	Mr. Hooper tells Maurice to draw a capital and lowercase J.
 	Cartoon 	"The J Commercial" (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Cookie Monster drinks both of Kermit's glasses of milk, which he was going to use to explain "more" and "less". When Kermit insults Cookie Monster, several of Cookie Monster's monster pals gang up on Kermit, prompting him to point out that now there are more monsters and less frogs.
 	SCENE 7 	Gordon and Ronald look through the doors to the construction site to see what's going on...
 	Film 	A steam shovel picks up debris.
 	SCENE 7cont'd	Gordon notices that it's time to go, so Ronald shouts goodbye. Susan announces the sponsors and today's book.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, and Kermit holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* The music for "Hey, Big Bird" from Episode 0044 plays as the cast builds Big Bird's makeshift TV.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1