Episode 0261

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon, Susan, and Oscar await their incoming mail. Oscar is especially impatient for his delivery of the latest issue of Trash Beautiful, and thinks the job of a mailman isn't so hard. He declares he's opening his own post office.
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought...about the color red.
 	SCENE 2 	A trash can rolls past Gordon. Oscar pops out with a postal worker's hat on, claiming this is his new mobile post office. He explains how it works - for a small fee, people give him mail, he applies homemade stamps with pictures of famous Grouches in history like George Grouchington (backed with delicious strawberry-fish flavored stickum), then he cancels the process and has things sent back to their original address. He has also recruited Little Bird to handle airmail.
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #10
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar can barely make out some of the handwriting on the envelopes he's received. Susan is able to read one name - Roosevelt Franklin.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin spells his name.
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon tries to give Oscar some letters to mail, only to find the mobile trash can abandoned. He consults Oscar, whose mouth has been stuck shut from licking too many stamps; he still has a Grouchington stamp stuck to his tongue. When he finally gets his mouth open, he says he has closed his post office since he liked the taste of the stamp glue so much that he licked it all off, leaving no way for them to be applied to the envelopes. Gordon resolves to just put his mail into the mailbox.
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10 (repeat)
 	Film 	Apples grow on a tree.
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	E ImaginationArtists: The Hubleys
 	Muppets 	Grover tries to show some monsters that they need to be on both sides of a rope in order to have a proper game of tug-o-war.
 	Film 	Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage.Music: Joe Raposo
center 	Muppets 	Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. Bob notices the sun rise -- the beginning of a new day.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: E for eggA cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
 	SCENE 5 	On the stoop, Susan and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make an E in the sky . Afterwards, Susan names an E word - EXIT.
 	Muppets 	Grover explains the word "EXIT" with some Anything Muppets running over him as they run through the exit.
 	Cartoon 	A polar bear learns what "EXIT" means.Animation: John and Faith Hubley
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down".
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon shows up and down with a yo-yo. Oscar does the same with his trash can lid.
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
 	Muppets 	Professor Hastings uses a pogo stick to demonstrate "up" and "down", and ends up jumping into a pond.
 	SCENE 7 	Susan describes one of her favorite animals - it's tall, yellow and handsome. Big Bird thinks she's talking about him, but she's instead referring to giraffes.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Ernie tries to find another cookie with a criss-cross of icing. He has trouble matching cookies, but Cookie Monster "matches" them by eating them (putting them all in the same place, his stomach).
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit."
 	SCENE 8 	Susan and the kids make shapes from clay, using them for a game of "Here Are Some Things."
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg. (repeat)
 	Cast 	Bob and Gordon cooperate to clean up a mess.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #10 (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Lefty's boss makes sure Lefty knows the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	A bear counts bees.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought ... about big things.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 9 	Susan is about to go shopping, but first she gets ready for an incoming rainfall.
 	Film 	A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it.
 	Muppets 	Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster, disguised as Ernie.
 	SCENE 10	The kids rush inside from the rain as Susan signs off.
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Category:Mail
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2