Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Tom welcomes the viewer, and uses a book about trains to demonstrate beginning and end. To a grand fanfare, he also says that right now is the beginning of Sesame Street.

Film Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog.

Cartoon Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0299)

Muppets Goldilocks and the Three Bears: How Many Bears
(First: Episode 0277)

Cartoon A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F.
(First: Episode 0309)

SCENE 2 F quickies:

• David unfolds a fan.
• Susan folds a piece of paper.
• Oscar has a letter F covered with fur.
• Tom pours milk into a glass, making it full.

Cartoon F for Football
Artist: John and Faith Hubley
(First: Episode 0135)

SCENE 3 Big Bird has a drum, and invites the kids to give him a rhythm to play. He also invites Luis and Linda, but Luis reminds him that Linda is deaf. She can see how the stick hits the drum, though, and she can also clap and feel vibrations, meaning she can still play with Big Bird.

Film Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
(First: Episode 0254)

Cartoon Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover).
(First: Episode 0222)

Cartoon Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish).
(First: Episode 0277)

SCENE 4 Luis has been thinking about Linda, who is deaf, so he asks the viewer to imagine what it would be like if you couldn't hear anything. The kids are shown doing various activities such as popping balloons, hammering nails, and slamming a door, but without any sound.

Muppets Anything Muppets: Letters vs. Numbers — A group of Muppets split into two separate teams.
(First: Episode 0298)

Film The Mad Painter #3
(First: Episode 0343)

SCENE 5 Tom shows Linda the door chime bell at Hooper's Store and wonders, how would he be able to mind the store if he was deaf? Linda shows him that he can feel the vibrations when someone stomps on the floor, and that customers can write down their orders.

Cartoon Frances Fairy displays several F words.
(First: Episode 0335)

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0283)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: The Case of the Broken Window — Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie discover how his window got broken.
(First: Episode 0238)

Cartoon "Four Seasons"
(First: Episode 0276)

SCENE 6 Susan introduces an animal that has a lot of fun in winter.

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: "It's an Otter!"
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0284)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Counting Apples — Cookie Monster changes his mind on eating an apple causing Ernie to draw and redraw his numbers.
(First: Episode 0140)

Cartoon A flower picks up a man and says he smells beautiful.
(First: Episode 0284)

SCENE 7 Luis encounters an Anything Muppet girl named Emily (Fran Brill), who looks sad. She wants to get a birthday card for her Spanish-speaking friend Esteban, but couldn't find any Spanish cards at Hooper's Store. Luis cooperates by having Emily draw a picture on the card, and he writes down Emily's message in Spanish.

Cartoon A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
(First: Episode 0337)

Muppets The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (shown in Spanish, then English)
(First: Episode 0092)

Film Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut.

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Everybody Scratch — Ernie and Bert have difficulty scratching their backs.
(First: Episode 0012)

Cartoon Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF

Cartoon A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies.

SCENE 8 Linda signs a poem she wrote about the seasons, as David reads it.

Cartoon F for Football (repeat)

Muppets / Cast Bob reads a story with F words featuring Frieda who ventures to her friend Flora's farm with flowers and fruit, but gets lost in a forest. Kermit keeps trying to insert himself into the story (since Frog is a great F word), mishearing Bob when he says "fog" and "log". When Frieda meets a farmer named Fred, who turns out to be a prince, she kisses Prince Fred, and he turns into Kermit.
(First: Episode 0095)

Cartoon Country 3 (repeat)

SCENE 9 Susan sings "Three of These Things" with pictures of a mitten, a sweater, a sock, and a teddy bear. She removes the teddy bear to play "Here Are Some Things" with the options being a woolen hat and a hamburger.

Cartoon K is for kiss.
Animation: John and Faith Hubley
(First: Episode 0131)

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse
(First: Episode 0183)

Cartoon Frances Fairy displays several F words. (repeat)

Muppets Anything Muppets: Lost Boy — Charlie doesn't recognize his uncle in a police uniform.
(First: Episode 0135)

Cartoon The Pink Panther - K For Karate
(First: Episode 0241)

Film Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A woman makes a sandwich.

SCENE 10 Tom explains to Linda how he used the train book to demonstrate beginning and end, and Linda shows him how to sign that it's now the "end of the day" and time to say "goodbye." Susan announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Tom holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds the CTW sign.