Episode 0917

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis and Susan come into Hooper's Store, where Mr. Hooper is focused on studying for an upcoming night school exam. He says a friend from his class is coming over to help study, but he can't mind the store while studying. Susan and Luis offer to run the store for the day to make sure he can get his studying done. They situate him under the arbor just outside the store's back door, but Mr. Hooper keeps coming in to make sure his business is running smoothly.
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates up and down.Artist: Al Jarnow
 	Film 	Examples of people and animals going down.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Jazz Alphabet: male vocalists shout each letter.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 2 	Margaret, a woman from Mr. Hooper's class, comes into the store looking for him. She refers to him as "Ace," a nickname his classmates gave him after they found out he was the only one to get an "A" on their last test. Susan and Luis take her to where Mr. Hooper is studying and continuously rib him by calling him "Ace" as well.
 	Cartoon 	A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh". The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppets sing "Me" in both English and Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	A man bounces a ball up the steps, and then it falls down the steps.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	In rhyme, a man points out animals who stole and/or ruined his clothing.
 	Muppets 	The Word Family Song: ET family
 	Cartoon 	Hats
 	Cartoon 	Jasper thinks that he has lost his elbow, but Julius shows him his elbow by bending his arm.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 3 	Herry Monster comes across the studying pair and offers to help in any way he can. Mr. Hooper doesn't think they need his help, saddening the monster. Margaret tries to perk him up by asking him to make sure they get peace and quiet while they study. He loudly assembles a whole crowd of people to tell them to be quiet, making sure they stick around so he can keep a close eye on them.
 	Cartoon 	A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian.
 	Muppets 	Alphabet Chat: Mr. Chatterly's poem on the letter L ends in chaos as usual.
 	Animation 	Sand L/l (backgroung color changes throughout)
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L.
 	Cartoon 	L is for Lips
 	Film 	Children narrate footage of a termite colony.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: L for lion
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
 	Cartoon 	L for Lion
 	Film 	A gymnast demonstrates up and down.
 	Cartoon 	Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP
 	Film 	A scuba diver shows up and down.
 	SCENE 4 	Mr. Hooper and Margaret stretch their legs by walking up and down the block as they review a section of the geometry chapter that Mr. Hooper is grappling with. Mr. Snuffleupagus follows behind them, completely unnoticed, and silently gives his support to Mr. Hooper.
 	Cartoon 	The profile of a man's face morphs into different faces to the sounds of a Moog synthesizer.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Muppets 	In the park, Harvey Kneeslapper comes up behind a man, asks him, "Wanna see something funny?" and then holds a mirror up. The man sees nothing funny...until he looks at Harvey!
 	Cartoon 	"Mi casa es su casa."
 	Film 	Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20.
 	Muppets 	Ice Follies: Big Bird tries to teach Snuffy to ice skate, but Snuffy keeps falling.
 	Cartoon 	Only one of the two footprints can belong.
 	Muppets 	John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	Marching band cymbal crash #2
 	Cartoon 	A man counts two ears, two eyes, and two arms. He picks up each leg to count two legs, and then falls down.Animation by Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 5 	Margaret and Mr. Hooper are on their way to take their test, repeating some math problems to each other. On his way out, Mr. Hooper distractedly instructs Susan and Luis to lock up the store: "check the circumference and lock up the Pythagoreans."
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
 	Film 	Old bottles are made into new bottles at a recycling plant.Music: "Black Eyed Peas" by Graham Preskett
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I for Island.
 	Song 	"Cow Dog Song"
 	Cartoon 	A bird subtracts two balloons from a group of three.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cast 	A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three.
 	Cartoon 	Five Purple Konkers
 	SCENE 6 	Mr. Hooper and Margaret take a relaxing walk back to Sesame Street. Luis assumes his cooler demeanor means he did well on the test. Mr. Hooper replies that the teacher was sick, so the test has been postponed to next week. Luis and Susan say to each other, "Next week?!" in reference to what they went through today to help Mr. Hooper prepare. Snuffy announces the sponsors.
In the script version. Mr. Hooper resorts to panic when he realizes the test is yet to come.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Mr. Hooper holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7