Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Susan greets the viewer, and introduces the number 6 by having Kim count on her fingers.

Cartoon Jazz #6
(First: Episode 0011)

Animation The Queen of Six explores her garden.
(First: Episode 0223)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Herry sing "Circles."
(First: Episode 0131)

Celebrity Peggy Fleming makes a number 6 on the ice.
(First: Episode 0234)

SCENE 2 Susan takes out a pitcher with a glass’s worth of homemade lemonade. Oscar visits her via the dumbwaiter and asks for something to drink. Susan pours him a glass, but now she sees that his glass is full and hers is empty. Oscar flip-flops between wanting the full glass and the empty one, but Susan divides the lemonade between them. When Oscar learns she made it with lemons, water and sugar, instead of pickle juice, garlic and mustard, he gives her the rest of his lemonade, claiming he’d rather have an empty glass.

Celebrity Pat Paulsen demonstrates the difference between a full and an empty wastebasket.
(First: Episode 0081)

Muppets Grover: Full/Empty Room — An Anything Muppet boy demonstrates an empty room, while some monsters show how it's full.
(First: Episode 0148)

Film George the Farmer demonstrates empty and full.

SCENE 3 Bob holds up a pebble and asks the kids what kind of game children in Africa could play with it.

Film African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones.
(First: Episode 0136)

SCENE 3
cont'd Bob reveals it was marbles, and watches some kids play marbles in the yard.

Cartoon Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (role reversal between man and dog)
(First: Episode 0016)

Cartoon A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.
(First: Episode 0016)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Alphabet Test Part 1 — Referencing a wall chart, Ernie tells Bert he can say the alphabet forwards and backwards. He needs a hint when he gets to the fourth letter...
(First: Episode 0019)

Cartoon Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime."
(First: Episode 0016)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Alphabet Test Part 2 — Ernie figures out that dinosaur starts with D, but needs another hint after H-I-J-K-L...
(First: Episode 0019)

Cartoon M for Mail
(First: Episode 0013)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Alphabet Test Part 3 — Having finished reciting the alphabet, Bert reminds Ernie that he also said he could do it backwards.
(First: Episode 0019)

Cartoon Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles.
Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift
(First: Episode 0207)

Cartoon Marvelous Martha knows many words that start with the letter "M".
(First: Episode 0013)

SCENE 4 At Hooper's Store, Mr. Hooper deduces which of two Muppet kids had the ice cream soda, and which one had the cake slice. Based on the clues, Prairie Dawn had the soda, and her friend (Jerry Nelson) had the cake.

Cartoon Today's Secret Drawing: the letter M
(First: Episode 0131)

Muppets Grover: Bird — Grover, Herry Monster, and Cookie Monster fawn over Little Bird.

Cartoon I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father!
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0241)

Film "The Little Baker": A boy imagines that he's a baker.
(First: Episode 0020)

SCENE 5 In the kitchen, Susan has baked six rolls. She puts four in one bag for Mr. Hooper and two in another bag for Bob, but first she has David write the corresponding numbers on each bag.

Film "Six Song (Song of Six)"
(First: Episode 0011)

Cartoon Jazz #6
(First: Episode 0011)

Celebrity Carol Burnett runs the gamut of emotions while counting to 20.
(First: Episode 0132)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Ice Cubes — Ernie wants to show Bert his ice cube collection.
(First: Episode 0033)

Cartoon Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes uses two water buckets to show empty and full. She inadvertently empties some water on a monster, who dumps the bucket on her head.
(First: Episode 0148)

SCENE 6 Big Bird is cleaning up his nest by putting things away in boxes, but he's having some trouble sorting a few of his items. Bob helps him figure out what belongs in his tool box, his toy box, and his eating utensil box. Bob discovers a fourth box with some random items, confused as to what kind of box it's supposed to be. Big Bird says that all of the things do belong together, as they're to put in the trash.

Cartoon Marvelous Martha (repeat)

Cartoon Melvin the Moving Man (repeat)

Muppets Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" about a baker and a shoemaker.
(First: Episode 0208)

Cartoon M for Mail (repeat)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Herry's M Sound — Ernie confuses Herry Monster when trying to make the sound of the letter M.
(First: Episode 0255)

Cartoon M for mouse, mud, and mother
(First: Episode 0073)

Muppets Herbert Birdsfoot: AN Family Part 1 — RAN
(First: Episode 0160)

SCENE 7 Susan admits she’s afraid of blindly going down the steps while carrying armfuls of packages, until Gordon helps her down. Bob admits he can be afraid of big dogs, until he approaches one and acts friendly.

Muppets Herbert Birdsfoot: AN Family Part 2 — CAN
(First: Episode 0160)

SCENE 7 cont'd Mr. Hooper is afraid of dark places, unless he has a flashlight. Oscar is afraid of thunder, but knows he’s safe inside his can.

Muppets Herbert Birdsfoot: AN Family Part 3 — FAN
(First: Episode 0160)

SCENE 8 Gordon and the kids see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter D (First: Episode 0016).

Cartoon Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (repeat)

Cartoon A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. (repeat)

Cartoon D story (repeat)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Bert's Bottlecap Collection — Bert shows off his bottlecap collection to Ernie, who remembers that he found a Figgy Fizz bottle cap -- the very one that Bert needed to complete his collection.
(First: Episode 0240)

Cartoon A man tries to get to sleep, but is woken up by a fly, a chicken and a drum-playing rabbit, all of whom call him on the phone after he throws them out.
Artists: The Hubleys

SCENE 9 Bob introduces the children and Mr. Hooper to Bandon, the big dog he met earlier. Everyone pets Bandon as they say goodbye, and Gordon announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Grover holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.