Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Oscar the Grouch is happy to see the viewers for a change, because he is having a grand opening sale at the Oscar's Odds and Ends Store. He is selling dandy things like half a record, back issues of The Daily Grouch from 1935, and a knob from a color TV set (some assembly required). Susan walks by and Oscar compliments her dress and says he has the perfect necklace to go with it: a bicycle chain. Gordon comes by and is fascinated by an umbrella with nothing on it to keep you from getting wet.

Cartoon Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
(First: Episode 0038)

Celebrity The New York Knicks make 4 baskets in a row, but miss on the 5th.

SCENE 2 Bob comes by to sample Oscar's wares, and Gordon finds a trumpet that Oscar claims belonged to Louis Armstrong. Oscar learns he needs to use addition when running a store. Susan and Mr. Hooper help out, and after making more sales Oscar has more pennies than he can count, worrying him.

Cartoon "Jazz #4"
(First: Episode 0006)

Celebrity Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him.

Cartoon Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat)

SCENE 3 Susan comes back to Oscar's store to buy more flower pots, but finds a sign saying that he is out of business. He has learned that to run a store, you have to be open and wait on people when you'd rather be doing something else, and you have to learn to count and add to know how much money you made, but worst of all, you have to be helpful and courteous to people! What kind of a grouch would he be if he did that? So he is out of business forever.

Film Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places.
(First: Episode 0135)

Cast / Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: What Will Happen? — Gordon recruits Cookie Monster to assist in a prediction game with Ernie.
(First: Episode 0031)

Cartoon "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0036)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: What Will Happen? Part 2 — Ernie plans to play the prediction game with Bert, but it doesn't go as planned.
(First: Episode 0031)

Cartoon Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (repeat)

SCENE 4 Bob sits in the yard with some kids. He tells them that one of the things he bought from Oscar before Oscar went out of business was a picture book. The trouble is, like most of the things that Oscar was selling, there's something wrong with it: the last page of every story is torn out. For each of the picture sequences, he displays the final torn pages. Stories include a boy blowing some bubble gum, a tree during the four seasons, and a bus driving over a puddle (Oscar's favorite).

Cartoon A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it.
Artists: The Hubleys

Cast Larry and Phyllis: Separately, Larry plays a guitar while Phyllis plays drums. Then they play different songs at the same time (Larry plays "Hippopotamus Named Phil" while Phyllis plays "Rhinoceros Took a Bath"), until they cooperate to play "The Girl from Ipanema".

SCENE 5 Big Bird enters Hooper's Store singing "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" to himself and tells Mr. Hooper that he'd like to buy some presents. Mr. Hooper tells him to sort a pile of shoes, socks, and gloves while he decides.

Film Kids use shapes to make a train.
(First: Episode 0137)

SCENE 5
cont'd Big Bird has put the items in pairs, but Mr. Hooper points out that the pairs are not matching, and shows him how to match them properly.

Animation Scanimate Films #4
(First: Episode 0132)

SCENE 6 Susan asks some kids what the Spanish word "calle" ("street") means. Brynne asks how to say "Sesame" in Spanish, so Susan says she'll ask Mrs. Rodriguez.

Cartoon "Poverty U" (repeat)

Muppets An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!"
(First: Episode 0048)

SCENE 7 Bob plays two rounds of "Three of These Things" with Little Bird - the first with vehicles, and the second with tools. He then introduces a film about making something with clay.

Film Pottery
music: Joe Raposo

Celebrity The New York Knicks make 11 shots, but miss on the 12th.

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 0033)

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

Cartoon Speech Balloon: C - Cap

Celebrity Bill Cosby demonstrates what a surprised face looks like.
(First: Episode 0138)

SCENE 8 Susan gives Bob a surprise package. Bob demonstrates "surprise" by opening the package and seeing a jack-in-the-box pop out. He then sings "Feelin' Groovy," and introduces a film of a wombat scratching while he and the kids talk over it. (First: Episode 0008)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Football Chant — Ernie explains the meaning of his football chant to Bert.
(First: Episode 0009)

Cartoon A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over.
(First: Episode 0010)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down."

Celebrity The New York Knicks make 20 baskets in a row.

SCENE 9 Bob and the kids toss a ball around in the yard, Cedric makes a basket, and they all say goodbye as Susan announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Susan and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.