Episode 0636

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	At Hooper's Store, Mr. Hooper has Big Bird guess what we'll be learning about today using a glass. When he fills it with water, it's full, but when he drinks it, it's empty. It takes a while for Big Bird to grasp the concept, forcing Mr. Hooper to slug glass after glass until he's the one that's full.
 	Cartoon 	A jar is full of jellybeans. The jar becomes empty, while a hungry boy is full.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates empty and full.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet demonstrates empty by leaving his room, soon Grover and his friends, including Cookie Monster, occupy the room making it full. The Anything Muppet comes in and scares the monsters away leaving it empty.
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	Cast 	David, Luis and Linda count in different languages.
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppets sing "How Do You Get From Here to There?"
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon shows Paul, Spencer, and Ruth the drawing one of his students made of his Volkswagen Beetle. Oscar doesn't care for it much, preferring his Grouchmobile. He produces a drawing of it, and Gordon and the kids point out the differences between the two cars: namely, Oscar's car has broken windows, tin cans for headlights, and flat tires. Gordon declares it the junkiest car he's ever seen, which Oscar takes as a compliment. "I never go anywhere in it. You know, when you play all your silly, dopey games here, it's so stupid and boring around here, who'd want to leave? I love it!" says Oscar.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty T”
 	Muppets 	The City Mouse and the Country MousePart 1 of 2The Country Mouse lives peacefully on the farm when his cousin, the City Mouse, comes to visit. The City Mouse is appalled that his cousin lives in a haystack, eats acorns, and listens to birdsong. He invites his cousin to come visit him in the city.
 	Cartoon 	T for typewriter and toeArtist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	The City Mouse and the Country MousePart 2 of 2The Country Mouse visits the City Mouse's apartment, and finds that his cousin eats pizza, doesn't mind traffic sounds, and listens to groovy music on his stereo. The Country Mouse is startled when he hears a cat. The City Mouse sighs, "Oh, that's just the cat. That means he's hungry, and he wants to catch us and eat us for dinner." Horrified, the Country Mouse goes back to the country, where he's safe. The City Mouse offers the cat a bite of pizza.
 	Film 	Footage of a city neighborhood; includes shots of a sno-cone vendor.Singer: "¡Linda paloma!"
 	SCENE 3 	Gordon rallies Mr. Hooper, Big Bird, Susan, Maria, and the kids with the toots of his party horn. He starts a rhyming game, having everyone go on a hunt for things that rhyme with “toot.”
 	Animation 	Sand T/t
 	SCENE 3cont'd	The gang brings back their items: Susan and Spencer each show off a boot, Eric found a root, Mr. Hooper wears a snazzy suit, and Maria has a flute. Big Bird, however, can only find a banana, an orange, and a pineapple, which don't rhyme with “toot”… but they are all fruit!
 	Muppets 	Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his rhyming magic trick, making three things come out of his hat that rhyme with "knee". Grover guesses the first one (key), but doesn't get the last two (ski and tree) right.
 	Film 	Two glasses are filled with fluid, but one glass overflows as a hand keeps pouring into it. The same thing happens using salt shakers and bowls of nuts. Finally, the glasses are filled again, only one glass barely fills up as fluid is poured into it. The camera pulls out, revealing the glass is filling into another one below, which overflows as before.
 	Cartoon 	Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cast 	A Volkswagen Beetle pulls up in a limbo space. A voiceover (Jerry Nelson) points out that the car is full. Some of the cast exits and the voice assumes the car is empty, until more and more people (including Big Bird and even Mr. Snuffleupagus) exit from the car.
 	Cartoon 	Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Three birds enter a cuckoo clock to do their job.
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought ... about circles.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Dot & Hill - C-1
 	Muppets 	Grover is carrying the word "HELP", which is very heavy. He asks Marty to help him carry the word. Instead, Marty gives Grover three more "HELP" words to carry.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television
 	Cast 	Gordon displays a giant letter T, then sets it as if it were a table.
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
 	Film 	A male frog hops around and bulges his throat.
 	Cartoon 	A ribbon wraps itself around a woman, then turns itself into an R.
 	Film 	A little girl needs HELP getting on a horse.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Ice Capades #2
 	SCENE 4 	Maria plays a bilingual “Here Are Some Things” game with the kids using pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Otters in the zoo
 	Muppets 	Kermit asks Trey to name some words that rhyme with two.
 	Cartoon 	A wizard turns into R things.
 	Cast 	Gordon, Luis, and Maria put together a fractured letter T.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #3
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper is looking down and saying "Three sticks!" A man asks "Three sticks where?" Then Harvey says "3 sticks right here!" and sticks a number 3 on the man's head.
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird skates along the block to an organ arrangement of the "Sesame Street Theme." He thanks an imaginary crowd before backing into his home area, ending in a crash. Maria announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* Five years after this episode, Oscar would get a different kind of Grouchmobile that would (usually) work - the Sloppy Jalopy.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5