Episode 0212

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Tom tries to present today's number, but he loses his copy on hand. He lies down on the toybox in the yard and forms his body into the rough shape of a number 6.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6
center 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on tall and short using two Snerfs, who keep changing their size.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit presents a lecture on big and small with the Beautiful Day Monster and a small monster. Splurge comes in at the end to show what a really big monster looks like.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly
 	SCENE 2 	Sitting at the counter in Hooper's Store, Big Bird wonders what it would be like to be short, so he tells Mr. Hooper he's going to do some imagining. He closes his eyes and Big Bird sees himself small enough to walk around on the counter where he interacts with, compared now to his tiny stature, is a large bowl of ice cream and large squeak toy which scares him now because he's so small. When Mr. Hooper cleans up, Big Bird notes that he's now too small to notice, so he imagines himself back to reality. Mr. Hooper leans in to Big Bird from overhead to excuse himself, making Big Bird wonder if he's still imagining. The camera pulls back to reveal Mr. Hooper standing on a step ladder, and Big Bird resolves to being his normal size again.
 	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 	What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 3 	Tom now tries to show one of today's letters, but he again doesn't have one on hand. He can't make it by himself, so he calls Bob over and uses them both to make the shape of the letter H.
 	Cartoon 	A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks.Artist: John and Faith Hubley
 	Cartoon 	H is for horseshoe.
 	Cartoon 	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
 	Cartoon 	A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!"
 	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.
 	SCENE 4 	Bob sings "The ET Family Song" as he swings Patty back and forth on the tire swing.
 	Muppets 	Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie an empty box, explaining that he can fill the box with things like a pet mouse (if Ernie had one) and jellybeans (if they rained from the sky). Ernie wants an empty box, but doesn't have any money. However, Bert brings a box of cookies, and Ernie throws the cookies out so he can catch jellybeans from the sky.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others
 	Muppets 	The Hands Part 1: Kids provide voiceover commentary as a green hand builds a face out of pieces. A purple hand tries to do the same, but gets all the parts mixed up. The green hand helps the purple hand make the face look like the one on the left.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Pretty Baby."
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people. (repeat)
 	SCENE 5 	Susan calls out to Mr. Macintosh from her window; she orders six oranges, but can't leave because she's cooking. Mr. Macintosh can't leave his stand unattended to deliver them, so he rallies the kids to bring them to her one-by-one.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6 (repeat)
center 	Muppets 	Grover, lost in a scary forest, sings "I Whistle a Happy Tune" to keep his spirits up. He bumps into a monster -- but it's Cookie Monster, who happily joins in the song. Then they run into a little boy, and they run away, panicked.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit."
 	Muppets 	Part 2: The hands make faces again (with continued commentary by the kids), but this time the green hand copies the mixed-up arrangement of the face made by the purple hand.
 	Cartoon 	A male voice narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to dance, and a square square. The triangle likes being flexible, but the square would rather be stiff and *square*.
 	SCENE 6 	Susan plays two rounds of "Three of These Things" with Polly and another girl, first using glasses, then stuffed animals.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: H is for hole
 	Cartoon 	A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	H for hello (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	H is for horseshoe. (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks. (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry
 	SCENE 7 	Tom drives Hooper's Store's delivery bike past Oscar, who offers him some candy from a small can. Tom finds this uncharacteristically nice of him, only to be frightened by the spring-loaded snakes inside. Oscar claims Grouches are never frightened like that, but Tom nonchalantly drives away, raising Oscar's suspicion.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red
 	SCENE 8 	Tom returns, claiming to deliver a bucket of ice water to Gordon. He begins traveling an odd way around Oscar's can, concerning Oscar. Tom eventually gets up the bannister and spills the contents of the bucket all over Oscar - confetti, rather than water as Oscar had feared. Tom has a good laugh, but Oscar doesn't find anything funny about trying to frighten someone like that.
 	Cartoon 	The uses of water
 	SCENE 9 	Tom picks the confetti out of Oscar's fur while he grumbles over Tom's stunt; he complains how the confetti is all over his chiffonier and between his piano keys. After Oscar yells goodbye, Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, and Bert and Ernie hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2