Episode 0198

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Sesame Street
Plot	Mr. Hooper asks Big Bird to open Hooper's Store for him.
Air date	February 10, 1971
Season	Season 2 (1970-1971)
Sponsors	L, O, 3
Syndication	Sesame Street Unpaved
DVD

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Miguel shows the audience that the brownstone building is called 123 Sesame Street. He counts out 1, 2, 3.
	Cartoon	Jazz #3 (First: Episode 0003)
	Muppets	Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them. (EKA: Episode 0168)
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over.
	Celebrity	Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' drawing board!" (First: Episode 0057)
	SCENE 2	Mr. Hooper has to run an important errand, and he asks Big Bird to open Hooper's Store for him. Big Bird is nervous, but agrees to do it.
	Cartoon	O limerick
	SCENE 3	Big Bird unlocks the store, but doesn't know how to turn the light on. He hears a scary noise in the dark, and panics. Mr. Hooper finds Big Bird alone in the dark, and turns the light on to reveal that the scary noise was just a telephone off its hook. Mr. Hooper reassures Big Bird -- but then Bob enters the store through the back door, startling them both.
	Cartoon	A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011)
	Cartoon	O is for Open (First: Episode 0014)
	Cartoon	An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O.
	SCENE 4	Bob sings "The OP Family Song".
	Celebrity	Basketball players demonstrate over, around and through.
	Muppets	Herbert Birdsfoot demonstrates "over" and "under" by having Grover lie over a mattress. Then Grover lies under the mattress, and Herbert drives the point home by adding more objects over Grover.
	Cartoon	Kids hear an L poem.
	SCENE 5	Miguel shows a kid how to set a table, until Oscar intervenes.
	Song	"Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away. Music by Peter Schickele.
	Muppets	Mahna Mahna and two Anything Muppet girls sing "Mahna Mahna". (First: Episode 0014)
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot.
	Cartoon	Jazz #3 (repeat)
	Celebrity	Bill Cosby tells his young friends a story that involves "over" and "under". He mixes the words up, and the kids correct him.
	Transition	A black circle appears on a blue screen, and grows until it covers the whole screen.
	Cartoon	A baby rescues a ball from on top of a column. Artist: John and Faith Hubley
	Cartoon	O limerick (repeat)
	Muppets	Gordon asks Ernie to put three balls and a balloon into four small boxes. When Ernie learns the trick, he tries to play the game with Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 0008)
	Cartoon	Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off.
	SCENE 6	Bob finds a string hanging in midair. He pulls the string, and a shutter clangs down over the TV screen.
	Muppets	Little Bird plays an imagination game, closing his eyes and imagining he hears sounds. At the end of the game, he imagines that he hears a scary monster -- and when he opens his eyes, Herry Monster is there, growling at him.
	Cast	Larry and Phyllis try to get Larry's galoshes on. (EKA: Episode 0167)
	SCENE 7	Gordon tells the kids about how kids play marbles in Africa.
	Film	African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie reads Bert a dramatic story that he's just written. The "story" is actually the alphabet, which Ernie reads in an overwrought manner. (First: Episode 0009)
	Cartoon	Checkerboard transition cartoon
	Cartoon	L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031)
	Cartoon	L is for Lips
	SCENE 8	Gordon and the kids say good-bye. Bob say good-bye too. Big Bird announces the sponsors. Then there is a blue background and a shutter closes.

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