Episode 0253

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Mr. Hooper greets the viewer and tells them that today's number is the same as his eyes - two.
 	Song 	"Doll House"
 	Muppets 	
 	Celebrity 	Jim Nabors counts from one to twenty, demonstrating soft and loud.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird enters Hooper's Store (singing "I'm Movin' On #2") and finds Miguel repairing the malted machine. He has to step out for a moment and asks Big Bird to do something - tell Mr. Hooper not to turn the machine on, otherwise the motor will short out. As soon as Miguel leaves, Big Bird immediately forgets the message.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #2"
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper returns to the store and Big Bird tries to remember the message he's supposed to convey. He remembers it involves turning on the malted machine, so Mr. Hooper turns it on to see if it helps jog Big Bird's memory. The machine shorts out and starts to smoke, finally helping Big Bird remember the message. He thanks Mr. Hooper for helping him remember and bids Mr. Hooper goodbye, while Mr. Hooper bids his machine goodbye.
 	Cartoon 	Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never."
 	Muppets 	Sherlock Hemlock investigates the letter N.
 	SCENE 4 	Susan sings "Smile" to the kids, with some commentary from Oscar and Little Bird.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 5 	Bob wants to show a letter, so Miguel paints the TV screen; Bob is chroma keyed in to present the letter C.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster hopes his box has a special C-word inside, but instead finds crumbs. He begins to cry, until Ernie provides him with a coconut crunch cookie.
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
 	Muppets 	Jerry Nelson narrates a letter F joining U and N to make the word FUN. They celebrate with streamers and confetti.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Muppets 	The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun.
 	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.
 	Muppets 	Little Jerry and the Monotones spell out RUN.
 	Cartoon 	C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake).
 	SCENE 6 	Bob lead the kids into Big Bird's nest area where Big Bird has placed a bunch of cardboard boxes. Bob and the kids figure it would be better to cooperate and turn the boxes into a playhouse, which they do.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself.
 	Film 	"Two Song (Song of Two)"
 	Muppets 	Grover, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint.
 	Film / Animation	Part 1: A boy declares he wants to build a building. He and an adult voiceover describe how the building will be made, intercut with stop-motion animation and live-action footage. The two then wait for the foundational cement to dry...
 	SCENE 7 	Bob uses three groups of soda bottles to play two games of "Here Are Some Things." He uses the middle group to match the first set of bottles (which are big), and then the second set (small bottles).
 	Film / Animation	Part two: With the cement dried, the boy's building is brought to completion.
 	Muppets 	Bob reads the story of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World."
 	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 8 	Miguel calls over Bob, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Big Bird (playing "Road Runner" again) and some kids so they can all count the feet they have together: 20.
 	Muppets 	
 	Muppets 	Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C.
 	SCENE 9 	Miguel paints on the screen again, this time revealing Susan with a letter C.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for cat (repeat)
 	Cast 	Bob and Gordon cooperate to get apples from a tree.
 	Film 	A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat.
 	SCENE 10 	Oscar wants Susan to take his picture, but he refuses to smile for it. She tries to get him to smile by making him say "cheese" (he responds with, "Cheddar.") and tell a joke, but Oscar refuses one for the "Mathew Brady of Sesame Street." Susan and Miguel manage to trick him; Susan drops the camera, which Miguel catches below. Oscar doesn't see the catch and happily thinks she's busted her camera, just as Miguel snaps the photo.
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Bob meets Samuel Snively, a circle salesman who can't tell the difference between a circle, square, and triangle.
 	Cartoon 	As voices speculate what a squiggle will become, the squiggle is joined by other lines and bumps, eventually forming into a talking picture of Big Bird.
 	SCENE 10 cont'd 	Susan starts showing off the picture to the neighbors, while Oscar frets. Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper holds the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2