Episode 0642

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird displays a number 9, and demonstrates it by spinning around 9 times. ("Why, you'll really be able to call me a spinney!") He gets dizzy after his performance, and his eyes see Maria split into multiple people.
 	Muppets 	"Wonderful/Yucchy"
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: A mandrill carries her young.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Kids comment as Bob's legs, torso, and head move into place.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg.
 	Cartoon 	E for End
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges!
 	SCENE 2 	Outside Hooper's Store, Big Bird encounters Mr. Hooper about to level a table leg with a saw, pointing out how one leg is shorter than the other three. Mr. Hooper needs to attend to both Bob and the ringing phone in his store, so Big Bird offers to help him with the table. Big Bird gets to work, humming, "If I were a carpenter..."
 	Cartoon 	A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	Big Bird shortens the three long legs to make them look like the shorter leg, but still notices an imbalance: the shortest leg is now the longest.
 	Cartoon 	Do you know what it's like to be scared?
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	Big Bird has sawed off about half of each of the legs, but notices that one of them is still shorter than the others.
 	Cast / Muppets	Cookie Monster eats an egg with the letter E painted on it.
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	Big Bird finishes cleaning the area and beckons for Mr. Hooper, Bob, and Maria to have lunch outside at the table. To his horror, Mr. Hooper discovers that the table's legs are now only three inches long! Big Bird walks off in a huff after Mr. Hooper yells at him, and Bob and Maria try to console the seething storekeeper.
 	Film 	Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet family arranges themselves in different ways.
 	Cartoon 	Would you mind closing our OPEN?
 	Film 	Various objects become OPEN.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The more a man inflates a balloon with a tire pump, the less room he has.Artist: Bob Kurtz
 	Cartoon 	Find the camouflaged parrot.Voice: Paul Dooley
 	Muppets 	Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird presents the word WIND, and a gale blows Bob, Maria, and Mr. Hooper away.
 	Cartoon 	Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter).
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal.
 	Cartoon 	E for Erase
 	Film 	"Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
 	Cartoon 	Some kids wander into the word OPEN, where there's a party going on.
 	Film 	A flower opens and closes.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The profile of a man's face morphs into different faces to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Cast 	Wally and Ralph: Wally brings home a new waste basket inside a paper bag, but doesn't know how to discard the paper bag once he's removed the waste basket from it.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A police officer follows clues that lead to a bathtub stolen by a gorilla.
 	Cartoon 	A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors.
 	Animation 	Sand E/e
 	Film 	Seals make noise.
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets perform a "Handclapping Number".
 	Cartoon 	The story of an old woman who lived in a nine.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	E for End (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Bob and Maria notice an “ABIERTO” (open) sign on Oscar's trash can. Oscar explains that he’s opening "Oscar's El Rancho Oscar Restaurant," specializing in Spanish foods. Maria reads the menu, also in Spanish, and Bob thinks the food sounds good until Maria starts translating such delicacies as rock soup and soap tacos. Maria invites Bob for some better Spanish food, but not before turning Oscar's “ABIERTO” sign over to write the word “CERRADO” (closed).
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: W for water
 	Cartoon 	W for Wash
 	SCENE 5 	Maria rejects Oscar's revised menu options: Southern-fried doorknobs and rice, and chocolate gravy with prune tea. Bob announces the sponsors
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Maria and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5