Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Big Bird watches closely as Mr. Hooper sweeps in front of his store, but he tells Big Bird to move away from him as he does it. Big Bird doesn't know the meaning of away from, so Mr. Hooper shows him by moving further away into the yard. Big Bird gets the idea, but now asks how Mr. Hooper is going to clean his storefront from way over there.

Muppets Grover: Addition and Subtraction with Tangerines — Marty teaches Grover about adding and subtracting using three tangerines.
(First: Episode 0290)

Cartoon G is for Glue
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0279)

Cast Bob and Gordon assemble a fractured number 10.
(First: Episode 0120)

Cartoon Jazz #10 (Spanish)
(First: Episode 0306)

SCENE 2 David sings "Here Are Some Things" with the kids using three plain squares, a plain triangle and a striped square.

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Hope — Ernie uses a brown paper bag to discuss the concept of hope with Cookie Monster.
(First: Episode 0233)

Cartoon Clouds that look like things.
(First: Episode 0211)

Film A boy pretends a wagon is a bus. His friend tells him it's not a bus, and explains what her father, a real bus driver, does.
(First: Episode 0181)

Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey!
(First: Episode 0353)

SCENE 3 Maria shows that G is for glass, and drinks from an imaginary glass. Big Bird points out that it's merely pretend then tosses it – and it breaks.

Insert Scanimate Films #10
(First: Episode 0134)

Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and Loren count to twenty.
(First: Episode 0290)

Cartoon "I've Got a Mind" -- bouncing a ball
(First: Episode 0279)

SCENE 4 Maria shows that G is for gate, and opens an imaginary gate. Big Bird tries to prove it's not real as well and walks right into it.

Cartoon Imagination (Boy Imagines Being Zoo Animals)

Film The Mad Painter #10
(First: Episode 0328)

Muppets Little Jerry and the Monotones perform "Mad."
(First: Episode 0240)

SCENE 5 Maria shows that G is for gong, and strikes an invisible one, but it doesn’t make a sound. Big Bird laughs at Maria, then hears the delayed sound of the gong. He heads off to rest, feeling a headache coming on.

Cartoon A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job.
(First: Episode 0131)

Film While watching her goldfish, a girl wonders what the world is like from her goldfish's perspective.
(First: Episode 0288)

Cartoon "I've Got a Mind" -- bouncing a ball (Spanish)
(First: Episode 0279)

SCENE 6 Bob and the kids make tails out of paper, and Bob helps tape them to their backs. Everybody wags their fake tails as Bob introduces the next film.

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails.
(First: Episode 0017)

Cartoon Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes displays a G, for "good." She gets kissed by a monster, who says, "Gee, that was good!"
(First: Episode 0279)

Cast Mr. Hooper adds 3 chairs as a sportscaster narrates.
(First: Episode 0288)

Cartoon S is for subway, sailboat, sled, scooter, skates, skis, and stop.
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0279)

Muppets The Busby Twins want to buy a ham...mer.
(First: Episode 0330)

SCENE 7 Walking down the street, Big Bird observes that just about everybody uses their feet to walk, with the exception of his dolphin friend...

Film A dolphin walks backwards on the water.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0278)

Cartoon G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift)
(First: Episode 0357)

SCENE 8 Bob finishes eating a candy bar, and throws it into Oscar's trash can, waking Oscar from his nap and bothering him. Oscar realizes this could happen more than once, so he decides to find somewhere else to nap – like the mailbox.

Muppets Prairie Dawn: Shoes — Prairie Dawn explains to Herry Monster about the similarities and differences between three shoes.
(First: Episode 0199)

Cartoon Letter G drawing with kid voice-over
(First: Episode 0306)

SCENE 9 Oscar rests inside the mailbox, but is bothered when letters from Mr. Hooper and David fall on his head. David explains what a mailbox is for, and Oscar decides to nap somewhere else.

Muppets Grover and George sing "Two G Sounds." (first half cut)
(First: Episode 0358)

Celebrity Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0002)

SCENE 10 Oscar takes a nap in a tree, but is startled when the wind blows leaves onto his head.

Muppets Anything Muppets: Picnic in the Sun — An AM family plays in the sun.
(First: Episode 0226)

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Animal camouflage with kid voiceovers.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0366)

SCENE 11 Oscar takes a nap in Big Bird's nest. Big Bird and Lance come in to add some straw to his nest, bothering Oscar. He agrees with Big Bird that he should just go back to his own can and take a nap there.

Cartoon What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0212)

Cartoon Checkerboard transition cartoon
(First: Episode 0105)

SCENE 12 Oscar figures out how to sleep soundly: his new handcrafted "nightcap" - a football helmet (with an umbrella attached) so he won’t be bothered when someone drops trash on him. He goes to sleep, and David announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Maria and Bob hold the Sesame Street sign, while Big Bird and Mr. Hooper hold the CTW sign.