Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Gordon displays a letter F which he cut from a piece of paper.

Muppets The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 4)

Cartoon A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
(First: Episode 0034)

SCENE 1
cont'd Gordon lists another "F" word: "frog", as in Kermit …

Muppets Kermit Lecture: Between — Beautiful Day Monster becomes a component in Kermit's demonstration about being "between" things.
(First: Episode 0070)

Cartoon Fly & frog (repeat)

Muppets The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 5)

SCENE 2 Mr. Hooper asks Big Bird to mind the store for a few minutes as he goes to the bank. Big Bird is inexperienced in using the phone, so Gordon shows him how to do it. The phone rings, and Big Bird answers. A man (voice of Bob McGrath) calls, asking if the store has any light bulbs. Big Bird still misunderstands the concept of using the phone as he tries to show the customer around the store.

Cartoon A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
(First: Episode 0032)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: I - ice cream.
(First: Episode 0033)

SCENE 3 Big Bird notices the phone is off the hook. He goes to put it back on, when Susan addresses him from behind. Big Bird thinks Susan's voice is coming from the phone, until she tells him to turn around. Susan asks him for two light bulbs.

Film "Two Song (Song of Two)"
(First: Episode 0001)

SCENE 4 Mr. Hooper returns to the store, and thanks Big Bird for minding it for him. Big Bird lists the customers that have been to the store today, which add up to three.

Cartoon "Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)

Film "Three Song (Song of Three)"
(First: Episode 0001)

Celebrity Listen My Brother sings a counting song.
(First: Episode 0026)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Ernie Dusts the Shelf — Bert convinces Ernie to start dusting the shelf, despite forgetting to do something first.

Film A boy enters a zoo to observe the simulated environments of various animals.
(First: Episode 0078)

SCENE 5 Gordon and Bob cooperate to fix Josh's tricycle. Bob observes how many parts a tricycle has, and that kids also have parts.

Song "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 1)
(First: Episode 0003)

SCENE 6 Bob instructs Josh, Troy, and Robin to make different sounds with the different parts of their bodies.

Song "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part 2)
(First: Episode 0003)

SCENE 7 Bob plays two rounds of "One of These Things" using pictures of abstract shapes.

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.
(First: Episode 0032)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
(First: Episode 0029)

Film Alphabet Bates skywrites the letter C.
(First: Episode 0029)

Cartoon "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
(First: Episode 0003)

SCENE 8 Big Bird, taking a cue from the dancing lizard, tries it himself and stumbles. He counts two reasons he can't do it as well: his feet.

Film "Two Song (Song of Two)" (repeat)

SCENE 8
cont'd Big Bird counts the three toes on one of his feet.

Film "Three Song (Song of Three)" (repeat)

Cartoon "Jazz #3" (repeat)

Muppets Kermit Lecture: Sorting Shapes — Kermit plays a sorting game with squares and circles, until Cookie Monster arrives and takes a bite out of the shapes.

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. (repeat)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (repeat)

SCENE 9 Oscar asks Bob to hold a rope while he goes to get a glass of milk. Bob overhears Oscar making a table, then sewing a napkin, then milking a cow — which is attached to the rope Bob's holding.

Film "Noises"
A boy named Chris uses "magic glasses" to see invisible things that make noises, including construction equipment, a baby crying, people coughing and sneezing, a car honking, a telephone, and a typewriter. Can you make those noises?
(First: Episode 0004)

SCENE 10 Gordon bends a piece of foam rubber into the letter C, but Bob says it's time to talk about the letter I. Gordon changes the C into an I.

Cartoon Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (repeat)

Cartoon A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (repeat)

SCENE 10
cont'd When no one is looking, Gordon bends the I back into a C.

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. (repeat)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (repeat)

Cartoon "Egg Chant" (repeat)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (repeat)

Muppets The Anything Muppets sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
(First: Episode 0073)

SCENE 11 Mr. Hooper signs off, and Gordon announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Mr. Hooper hold up the Children's Television Workshop sign.