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00:00You
00:40Sesame Street, show 70 in color.
01:22Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away.
01:29On my way to where the air is seen.
01:35Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
01:42Call and play, everything's A-OK.
01:49Friendly neighbors there, that's where we meet.
01:54Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
02:00How to get to Sesame Street?
02:04How to get to Sesame Street?
02:10Hello.
02:11Well, hi, honey.
02:12How come you're so late?
02:14Well, because we had a meeting and class went a little over time.
02:18How's your cold?
02:19Oh, it's not, I don't hurt, but you know, I'm so hoarse.
02:22Yeah, it still sounds a little bit like a, you know, little stuffy or something like that.
02:26Does your throat hurt at all?
02:27No, but I'm just very hoarse.
02:29Yeah.
02:30What's that?
02:32Does that sound like a trumpet to you?
02:34Sounds like a little hoarse.
02:35What is it?
02:36Sounds like I feel.
02:38Oh, you know what it is?
02:39It's coming from Oscar's trash can.
02:41Oh, no.
02:42What's he doing there?
02:42I don't know.
02:43Let's find out.
02:44What?
02:45This is it.
02:47That's something else.
02:47Is that a saxophone?
02:48It may have been a saxophone at one time.
02:53Oscar?
02:56Oh, what?
02:58Well, you know, if you're going to hammer on my trash can, you can at least get with a beat.
03:05Oscar, what is going on in there?
03:07What's the matter?
03:09Don't you dig good music, man?
03:11Oscar, we didn't know you were a musician.
03:14Oh, of course I'm a musician.
03:15I even have a combo called the Groovin' Grouches.
03:21The Groovin' Grouches.
03:21Yeah, this afternoon they're coming here to practice.
03:24Coming here this afternoon?
03:25Yeah.
03:26Oh, my God.
03:26I was just tuning up the instruments.
03:28Oh, boy.
03:28Well, Oscar, what kind of music do you play down there?
03:32Oh, everything.
03:33Soul, rock and roll, country and western.
03:37Even the old standards like Grumpy Days Are Here Again.
03:41Grumpy Days Are Here Again.
03:43Yeah, accentuate the negative.
03:45That's positive, not negative.
03:47No, it's negative with us.
03:48And let a scowl be your own bro.
03:51Let a scowl be your own bro.
03:52That one's my favorite.
03:54It's a smile, not a scowl.
03:55Listen, what instrument do you play?
03:57All of them.
03:58But I'm still trying to decide which to play this afternoon.
04:02Oh, I see.
04:03I know.
04:04I could play my, uh, exlophone.
04:07Exlophone?
04:08Oh, no, Oscar, no, come on.
04:11Xylophone.
04:12You see, xylophone begins with the letter X.
04:15Do you see?
04:17Down there.
04:17See?
04:18No, no, no.
04:19Well, it begins with the letter X anyway.
04:20It does, huh?
04:21Yeah, but it's not pronounced like exlophone or anything like that.
04:24Well, mine is an exlophone.
04:27I invented it myself.
04:29Invented it yourself.
04:30Yeah, I'll show it to you.
04:32His would be the X.
04:34What?
04:36Hey, don't hold that.
04:37That's really an X.
04:38That's a...
04:40Now, listen to this.
04:42Here's an A.
04:43That's an A?
04:44Yeah, now listen to the, uh, high C.
04:47Ah.
04:49Yeah, now listen to this.
04:52Oops, let me get a clear shot at it.
04:54E flat.
04:56Isn't that beautiful?
04:56That is the flattest E I've ever heard, Oscar.
04:59Anymore?
04:59You certainly are right about that.
05:01Well, do you want to hear an F?
05:02Yes.
05:02There's an F?
05:03That's terrific.
05:04Oscar, do you want me to tell you what that really sounds like?
05:07What?
05:07It really sounds like you just took a wooden mallet and hit a wooden X with it,
05:11and that's the sound that made, like, absolutely nothing.
05:14Are you kidding?
05:16Listen to this tone.
05:18Here's B again.
05:19Man.
05:21It's excellent.
05:24It's exquisite.
05:27X.
05:29X-ray.
05:33X.
05:38This is an X.
05:41Even upside down, it's still an X.
05:45Many words begin with X, such as, uh, well, of course we, uh,
05:51X, uh, begins, uh, did I show you when you, yeah, I showed you that.
05:59All right.
06:00Uh, X is a very important letter.
06:03Many words end with X.
06:06Such as, uh, how you, uh,
06:08I didn't keep running out of the phone.
06:11Pardon me?
06:11He, oh, yeah, uh, Fox.
06:15Box.
06:19Ox.
06:20Uh, fix.
06:23X.
06:26Uh, uh, uh, one more X I should mention.
06:30Exit.
06:31Goodbye.
06:35X.
06:37X-ray.
06:51Oh, wow.
06:59Oh.
07:01Hey, Oscar.
07:04Oscar.
07:06Well, just a minute.
07:08I'm not, uh, quite finished with this song.
07:10Oh.
07:11Not for...
07:14Are you finished now?
07:16There.
07:16How did you like the obbligato I just played?
07:19The obbligato?
07:20To tell you the truth, Oscar, it sounds pretty terrible.
07:23Ah, good, good.
07:25That's the only kind of music that the grooving grouches play.
07:29The worst, the better.
07:30Oh, yeah.
07:31You should hear us when we're really terrible.
07:34It's beautiful.
07:35I'll bet it's beautiful.
07:38Oh.
07:40You know what?
07:41I was going to tell Oscar that I've,
07:42I met some traveling musicians coming down the street.
07:45But if they all make music like he does,
07:48I hope they keep right on going.
08:00I am a fine musician.
08:02I practice every day.
08:04And people come from miles around just to hear me play.
08:08My trumpet, my trumpet.
08:10They love to hear my trumpet.
08:12Ta-ra, ta-ta, ta-ra, ta-ta, ta-ra, ta-ta, ta-ta, ta-ta.
08:18I am a fine musician.
08:20They love to hear my tuba.
08:39I am a fine musician.
08:41My music is so gay.
08:44Why people come from miles around just to hear me play.
08:47My trombone, my trombone.
08:50They love to hear my trombone.
08:51Ra, ra, ra, ta-ta, da, ta, ra, ra, ra, ra, ya.
08:56Ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra.
09:05I am a fine musician.
09:07That's what the people say.
09:09And all the children follow me when they hear me play.
09:13My piccolo, my piccolo.
09:15They love to hear my piccolo.
09:35We all are fine musicians, we practice every day.
09:41And if you'd like to play with us, we'll show you the way.
09:47Come join us, come join us, just take a part and join us.
09:59Oh, my piccolo broke.
10:03This is called a paddle board or paddle ball, a ball with an elastic band and a wooden paddle.
10:11We're going to give it to Guy and we're going to see how far he can go.
10:14We'll count with him.
10:16One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
10:26Oh, I can think of an easier way to count than that though.
10:28Guy, why don't you sit down and just count with us, okay?
10:31One, two, three, four.
10:39One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
10:47Four.
10:57Four.
10:59Four.
11:01Four.
11:02Four.
11:05Four.
11:05Four.
11:07Four.
11:11Four.
11:12Four.
11:13One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
11:20Oh, when it's summertime in Lawnside, New Jersey.
11:24What?
11:25No.
11:25Wait a minute.
11:27Oh, no.
11:28No, no, no.
11:28Not with this machine.
11:29With this machine, you have to do something special.
11:32You have to either give it a shove this way or push that way.
11:37Otherwise, you'll lose a penny.
11:38Now, wait a minute.
11:39How do you do?
11:40You...
11:41Some way you have to do.
11:42The real special kind of, kind of way you do.
11:45Oh, hi.
11:46Hi.
11:46Oh, what's wrong, Gart?
11:48Uh, with your machine, Mr. Hooper, uh, as many times as I've gotten gum out of it,
11:53there's some special little thing you do.
11:56You know, I mean, it's, but I, I can't remember what it is.
11:58After all those times that you've gotten gum out of this machine, you still can't remember what to do?
12:04Mr. Hooper, I know it's something very simple.
12:06Of course it's simple.
12:09Mm-hmm.
12:09First, you put a penny in it, huh?
12:11Right.
12:12Then, you kick the bottom of it with your right foot.
12:15Then, turn the crank a full turn, slide the lever sideways, twist the knob, then hit the top of it
12:22four times.
12:24Now, what could be simpler than that?
12:26I don't know.
12:26I don't know how I could have forgotten that.
12:28Just remember at the end, you hit it four times.
12:32Not five.
12:33No.
12:34Okay.
12:35Okay.
12:36Think hard.
12:37First thing you do, right, you put the penny in it.
12:42Then, kick it with your right foot.
12:47Then, oh, knob, full turn.
12:53The lever, slide it all the way over.
12:56And then, a twist on the knob, all right?
13:01And then you hit it.
13:03Uh-oh.
13:04Now, how many times do I hit it?
13:06Was it four?
13:07Like, one, two, three, four?
13:12One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
13:21Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
13:26One, two, three, four, four, four, four.
13:34One, two, three, four.
13:50One, two, three, four.
13:56Four fish.
13:58One, two, three, four.
14:02Four vinyl toys.
14:05One, two, three, four.
14:10Four arms.
14:12One, two, three, four.
14:18Four root beer floats.
14:25Four, four, four.
14:31Four, four, four.
14:34Now, it sounded to me like he said four times.
14:37I'm almost sure he...
14:38But, you know, did he say to hit it five times?
14:44Like, one, two, three, four, five?
14:54One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
15:00One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
15:13One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
15:23One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
15:36Now, Jim, he said five, five times.
15:40Hit it five times, right?
15:42All right, wait a minute, I'd do everything else?
15:44Got the penny in there...
15:47analyses, got the penny in there...
15:57One, two, three, four, five.
16:05Man, what's... What's happening out here?
16:08I don't know, Mr. Hooper. I just hit it five times like you told me to.
16:11I said four times! If you hit it five times...
16:26One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
16:32One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
16:37Five, five...
16:41Five!
16:45Five!
16:50Five!
16:53Five!
16:55Five!
16:55Five!
17:00One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
17:08B is for bubble.
17:10B is for bubble.
17:12B is for bubble.
17:15Bubble, bubble, bubble.
17:18Bubble, bubble, bubble.
17:21B is for bubble in bubble gum.
17:24And B is your brother who brought you some.
17:26And B is better than any letter for bubble gum.
17:36Bob, bubble, bubble, bubble gum.
17:45And B is your brother who brought you some.
17:48And B is better than any letter for bubble gum.
17:54And B is the bubble in bubble gum.
17:57And B is your brother who brought you some
17:59And B is better than any letter for bubblegum
18:07Pow!
18:13Ernie?
18:16Ernie?
18:17The telephone's ringing.
18:19Ernie, where'd you put the telephone?
18:21Uh, let's see. I think it's in the basket here.
18:24In the basket.
18:25Yeah.
18:27Hello?
18:27Hello?
18:28Hello?
18:30Let's see.
18:32Here we go.
18:32Hello?
18:33Wrong end.
18:35Hello?
18:36Hello?
18:37Hello?
18:39Hello?
18:41You dodo.
18:42Hello?
18:42Don't you know what a telephone looks like?
18:44Of course I do.
18:46Let's see.
18:47This must be a telephone.
18:49Hello?
18:50That's a banana, you meatball, not a telephone.
18:53Shh.
18:54Hello?
18:54Huh?
18:55Oh, he's right here.
18:57Well, hold on.
18:58It's for you.
19:00Hello?
19:02Hello?
19:04I'm sorry, you can't come to the phone now.
19:06No, he's talking on the banana.
19:09Weep.
19:09Weep.
19:10Weep.
19:11Weep.
19:11Weep.
19:12Weep.
19:12Weep.
19:14Weep.
19:19Oh!
19:21Weep.
19:30Oh!
20:00Hey, kids, you feel the rhythm?
20:01You know, there's rhythm all around us, the waves break in rhythm.
20:09People walk in rhythm, people breathe in rhythm too, people work in rhythm.
20:18The whole world is made up of rhythm.
20:23So come on, let's go play the rhythm of the world.
20:26Let's go.
20:27Let's go.
20:27Let's go.
20:28Let's go.
20:29Let's go.
20:30Let's go.
20:32Let's go.
20:35Let's go.
20:36Let's go.
20:36Let's go.
20:39Let's go.
20:40Let's go.
20:44Let's go.
20:45Let's go.
20:48Let's go.
20:48Let's go.
20:50Let's go.
21:12Let's go.
21:14Let's go.
21:15Let's go.
21:18Let's go.
21:28Let's go.
21:30Let's go.
21:37Let's go.
21:39Let's go.
21:44Let's go.
21:53Let's go.
21:55Let's go.
21:56Let's go.
21:58Let's go.
21:59Let's go.
22:01Let's go.
22:02Let's go.
22:04Let's go.
23:54If you guess it, raise your hand.
23:56Don't say it out loud.
23:57Did you guess it?
23:58Huh?
23:59What is it?
24:00Reg?
24:01Twinkle, twinkle.
24:01Twinkle, twinkle little star, right?
24:04Twinkle, twinkle.
24:05Here's another one.
24:05See if you can get this one.
24:07Now listen carefully.
24:11That's the first line.
24:12Did you get it?
24:13Here, listen again.
24:19Did you get it, huh?
24:20Jack and Jill.
24:21Jack and Jill.
24:22Jack and Jill went up the hill.
24:24Here's the third one now.
24:33Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run, see how they run.
24:43They all run out the far, huh?
24:45Who's right?
24:46Did you ever...
24:49Would you excuse me, please?
24:52Yes, Oscar?
24:54Bob, I wish you wouldn't sing while I'm trying to practice.
24:59Oh, sorry, Oscar.
25:02Didn't mean to interrupt your beautiful music over there.
25:05Hey, you know, Oscar's got some of his musician friends coming over,
25:09and they're going to play some songs this afternoon.
25:11Do you know that?
25:12Do they hear?
25:13And the only problem is, you see, Oscar plays so many different kinds of instruments
25:20that he doesn't know which one to play first.
25:22So he's practicing and tuning up on all of them.
25:25Listen to that.
25:27Hey, you know what we ought to do?
25:29I've got another idea.
25:31Every time Oscar changes instrument, you raise your hand to a new sound,
25:37and then we'll see if we can tell what instrument it is, okay?
25:40And you do this with us at home also, okay?
25:43Okay, now let's listen to this one.
25:48Do you know what it is?
25:51Guy?
25:52A tuba.
25:52A tuba.
25:53Hey, that's very, very good.
25:55You know what a tuba looks like?
25:57It's a great big instrument, right?
25:59It comes around the body here and has a big horn.
26:03That's it.
26:04That's it.
26:07Can you tell what it is?
26:10Right.
26:11You're absolutely right.
26:13Robin?
26:14Piano.
26:14A piano, right.
26:16What's he playing?
26:17Do you know the name of that song?
26:18Jingle Bells.
26:18Jingle Bells.
26:19He's playing Jingle Bells on the piano.
26:21I wonder if he's got any more in there.
26:23He's pretty talented, you know.
26:29Listen carefully now.
26:30This is kind of a hard one.
26:33Now just listen with your ears and see if you can tell what instrument he's playing.
26:39Okay, Reg.
26:40A flute.
26:40A flute?
26:41You're very, very close.
26:42It sounds almost exactly like a flute.
26:44It's a piccolo, but a piccolo and a flute sound almost exactly alike.
26:49Here's another one.
26:54Oh, I bet you know what this one is.
26:55They use a lot of them in symphony orchestras, right?
27:02Okay, before you pop.
27:04Violin.
27:04A violin.
27:05Hey, that's very good.
27:06You have good ears, right?
27:07You can tell.
27:08I'm a music keeper.
27:09Oh, a music keeper.
27:11Here's another one.
27:13Can you guess what this one is?
27:19A trumpet.
27:19A trumpet.
27:21Very good, right?
27:22You play it like this and you blow through it.
27:24Trumpets are kind of hard to play, aren't they?
27:35One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
27:42One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
27:45Five.
27:46Five.
27:51Five.
28:10One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
28:18Want a seed?
28:21Do you know what we have here?
28:24Robin?
28:25Parrot.
28:25A parrot, right.
28:27This is called an Amazon parrot.
28:30Aren't they beautiful colors?
28:32Yes.
28:33What are some of the colors you see?
28:35Go ahead.
28:36Red.
28:37Red.
28:38Red.
28:39Green.
28:39Green.
28:40Blue.
28:41Blue.
28:42All those beautiful colors.
28:43And black.
28:43Hey, you know, and black, right.
28:45Hear them cawing like that, making that sound?
28:47No, yeah.
28:48Do you know, you know one reason that they have all of these colors and can make that kind
28:54of a sound?
28:55Because when they're in the jungle where they live, sometimes their friends find food, like
29:01trees that have fresh fruit on them, right?
29:04Yeah.
29:04And if they're flying overhead, their friends that are down eating the delicious fruit set
29:10up this tremendous cawing sound, and then they hear them, and then they fly down, and
29:17they eat from these trees also.
29:18And the bright colors help the other parrots find their friends easier in the dark jungle.
29:26Isn't that interesting?
29:27Yes.
29:29He's a hungry bird.
29:31How do we crack the shells open?
29:33Well, he uses his beak.
29:34He uses his beak in all sorts of different ways.
29:37In fact, he uses it sort of like a tool, like a, oh, a hammer.
29:41He can break things open with it.
29:43Or a chisel.
29:44Ah.
29:46Like a chisel, and he uses it like a nutcracker, or he can spear things with it.
29:51He can climb with it.
29:54He can do all kinds of things with his beak.
29:58Can't you?
29:59Oh, what do you have?
30:01Hi, Susan.
30:02Hi, kids.
30:03Oh, we've got a little Amazon parrot here.
30:05Oh, he's pretty, isn't he?
30:06Isn't he pretty?
30:07Mm-hmm.
30:07Yeah.
30:08It's beautiful.
30:08What have you got there?
30:09Oh, I just brought my plant out.
30:10I just dusted and wiped off the...
30:13Oh, hey there.
30:14Just dusted and wiped off the leaves.
30:16I thought I'd bring it out in the water.
30:17I see.
30:18He likes fingers, too.
30:20Did you know that?
30:21You've got to be careful of these with your pet.
30:23Yeah, he's got a big...
30:24Yeah, it's a good idea to give that little sunshine once in a while.
30:27Mm.
30:28Do you know how most plants start, Reggie?
30:33Guy?
30:33Little seeds.
30:34From seeds, right.
30:35Just like the seeds that we're feeding this parrot right here.
30:42In fact, well, most plants have a beginning from a seed like this.
30:47If we planted this sunflower seed and gave it plenty of water and sun and everything,
30:53we could grow a sunflower 10 feet tall.
30:55Do you know that?
30:56Yeah.
30:59You know, uh, in fact, you know, everything has a beginning of some sort, doesn't it?
31:05Yeah.
31:05Mm.
31:08This is one big, tough bird.
31:11He's a rooster, and every other chicken in the yard does what he says.
31:17But once the rooster was small, so small he lived in an egg, the way all chickens do at the
31:26beginning.
31:49Every city, every town was once a grassy field or a forest, but then there was a beginning.
31:57Someone decided to build, and one block went on top of another block, and another, and another.
32:34A lake of water stretches on and on, but way back at the start, the beginning, there was the first
32:43drop,
32:43which joined other drops, and splashed and dashed, wider and stronger, and became a stream, and then a river,
32:55and finally, held in by the hills and the land, it became a lake.
33:07And the cup which holds your milk also had a beginning.
33:13You'd say it was nothing more than a mud ball, and be right, but then someone made it grow, and
33:21take shape.
33:37A happy birthday keg didn't always look so good.
33:43Once, it looked pretty muddy itself.
33:54But into the oven, on with the icing, light up the candles, and there it is.
34:13A tall, strong tree was once so small, a boy could step on it by mistake.
34:21Or he could hold it in his hand.
34:25But give it some good earth, and some sun, and some rain, and some time, lots of time.
34:35And there it stands, ready for climbing, or for making shade, and for making the world green and lovely for
34:47years and years.
34:58But the best beginning of them all is a baby.
35:06Who knows what the baby will be?
35:11The whole world waits and watches, and loves the baby.
35:19For a baby is the best beginning of them all.
35:28Hey, it's kind of interesting to think about the beginnings of things, isn't it?
35:32Yes.
35:32Babies and all those things?
35:34Yes.
35:34Hey, have you ever thought about how much plants and people are alike?
35:40No.
35:41No? You don't think plants and people are alike?
35:43Well, let's think about it for a minute.
35:44Now, in order to be healthy, we said that plants need what kind of things?
35:49Reg?
35:49Food.
35:50Food.
35:51Robin?
35:51Water.
35:52Water.
35:52Need sun.
35:53Need sun.
35:54What's it growing in?
35:56Soil.
35:57Soil or dirt, right?
35:59People can use some of those things too, right?
36:01Yeah.
36:02They need what?
36:03Water.
36:04Sun.
36:04Sun.
36:06And food.
36:08Food.
36:08Right?
36:08They don't need dirt, do they really?
36:10But it's kind of fun to play in anyway, isn't it?
36:12Yeah.
36:13Hey, but you know what people really need more than almost anything else?
36:18No.
36:18They need to know that other people really like them and that they're loved by other people.
36:25That's really the most important thing of all.
36:30Wouldn't it be nice if people all over the world really got along with each other and loved each other?
36:36It'd be nice, wouldn't it?
36:39What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
36:46It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
36:52What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
36:59No, not just for some, but for everyone.
37:06Lord, we don't need another mountain.
37:11There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb.
37:18There are oceans and rivers enough to cross, enough to last till the end of time.
37:28What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
37:38It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
37:44What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
37:51No, not just for some, but for everyone.
37:57Lord, we don't need another meadow.
38:02There are cornfields and wheatfields enough to grow.
38:07There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine.
38:14Oh, listen, Lord, if you want to know.
38:22What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
38:29It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
38:35What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
39:02What the world needs now is love.
39:08What the world needs now is love.
39:08Oh, hi there, Big Bird.
39:09Hi, kids.
39:10How's everything?
39:11Oh, fine.
39:12Say, I was talking to Susan, and she said that she had a nice little plant around here somewhere.
39:18Well, it's right here, Big Bird.
39:20See it?
39:20Oh, boy, that's the plant.
39:21She said I could take care of the plant because I love plants, and I'm going to take care of
39:26that plant.
39:27Oh, I think that's a great idea, Big Bird.
39:28Good.
39:29And I'm going to water it and brush all the dust and set off the leaves so I can breathe.
39:35Oh, that's nice.
39:36And I'll take good care of it, and it'll grow up to be as tall as I am.
39:42Uh, as tall as Big Bird?
39:45Not quite, Big Bird.
39:46It won't grow quite that tall.
39:48Um, as tall as you, Bob?
39:51Uh, nope.
39:53No.
39:54As tall as Reg.
39:55Reg?
39:56Hmm.
39:57Think it'll grow as tall as you, Reg?
39:59No.
39:59No, I don't think so either.
40:00Not quite that big, Big Bird.
40:01I guess it's just because I'm such a big bird that everything looks kind of small to me.
40:06Well, that's true.
40:07Especially this little plant.
40:08You know, you know, Big Bird, though, if, if, uh, if you were a little tiny bug, like a, like
40:15a ladybug or something,
40:16and you were underneath this leaf, I'll bet it'd look very different from where you stand right now.
40:21You mean, wait a minute, if I were a teeny tiny bug, let me see what it would look like.
40:27Yeah, let me see how it'll look from underneath there.
40:29Let me get underneath as though I was a little teeny bug.
40:32Now, pretend that you're a tiny, tiny bug.
40:33Looking up underneath the leaf there.
40:35There, now I've got my eye way underneath.
40:37Right.
40:37And I can look up through the leaf.
40:38Can you see it?
40:39Yep.
40:40How, how, how does it look under there, Big Bird?
40:42I'm a teeny tiny bug.
40:44And it looks.
40:45How does it look, little Big Bird?
40:46It looks huge.
40:47Looks huge?
40:48Yeah, I can see those, the leaves and branches towering way up above my head.
40:53Right.
40:53Up high as the sky, and I can't even see through the, through all the leaves.
40:57It looks gigantic.
40:58It looks huge.
40:58It's really big, huh?
41:00See, Big Bird, so, uh, sometimes the same thing, even like this little plant here,
41:05can look different if you look at it from a different point of view.
41:08Ha, ha, ha.
41:08But I learned about something today that looks the same no matter how you look at it.
41:13Oh, really?
41:14Mm-hmm.
41:15Well, well, what's that, Big Bird?
41:16The letter X.
41:20This is an X.
41:22Even upside down, it's still an X.
41:26Uh, many words begin with X, such as, uh, well, of course we, uh, X, uh, begins, uh, did I
41:36show you when you, yeah, I showed you that.
41:40All right, uh, X is a very important letter.
41:44Many words end with X, such as, uh, how you, uh, pardon me?
41:53Oh, yeah, uh, oh, yeah, uh, uh, Fox.
41:57Box.
42:00Uh, fix.
42:05Axe.
42:06Uh, fix.
42:08Uh, one more X I should mention.
42:12Exit.
42:13Goodbye.
42:16There, little plant.
42:18Just drink this water that I'm going to give you here.
42:20And you've got to grow up nice and big and strong.
42:23Boy, you need lots of water to, uh-oh.
42:28The watering can's empty.
42:30Hmm.
42:30You need to drink more water than that.
42:32You won't go big and tall unless you get lots of water.
42:36I'll go get some more water in this watering can.
42:38And you wait right there, little plant.
42:40When I come back, I'll give you some more water to drink.
42:42Boy, oh, boy, I like taking care of plants.
42:57Hey, Bobby, did you water this plant for me?
43:00Uh, no, I didn't, Susan.
43:02Oh, you know who did it, probably?
43:04No.
43:04Big Bird, because he was, he was talking about, you know,
43:07you were telling him to take care of the plants and everything?
43:09I told him to watch it, but I didn't tell him to water it.
43:12He was all excited about taking care of them for you.
43:14Oh, that's sweet of him.
43:16Mm-hmm.
43:16You know, I think I'm going to take this one in the house.
43:19And this one has gotten so big,
43:20I'd like to put it in that garden behind the house, you know?
43:23Oh, that's a nice idea.
43:24Yeah.
43:25Hey, listen, can I give you a hand?
43:27Yeah.
43:27As a matter of fact, you can.
43:29I'll, uh, I'll go get a shovel, okay?
43:30All right.
43:31And I'm going to put this one back in the kitchen.
43:33Okay.
43:35Okay, little plant.
43:37I got you some more water, little plant.
43:39Let me just...
43:41Hark.
43:42What is this?
43:43The little plant has grown up.
43:45It's gotten bigger and bigger.
43:47Bob said it wouldn't grow, but I knew it wouldn't.
43:49Look how you've grown.
43:51My, little plant, you're amazing.
43:53You've grown tall.
43:54My, it's just a ma...
43:55What's the matter, Big Bird?
43:57Oh, nothing's a matter,
43:58except this was just a little plant a few minutes ago,
44:01and I watered it,
44:02and guess what?
44:04It grew into this great, big, tall plant
44:06in just about one minute.
44:08Oh, Big Bird,
44:09a plant can't grow that quickly.
44:11It just doesn't happen that way.
44:12Well, I just went away for a second.
44:13I came back, and it's gotten this.
44:15I'll bet if I get...
44:16give it some more water,
44:17it'll grow taller and taller
44:20and taller and taller
44:22and taller and taller and taller and taller.
44:22I don't want to tell Big Bird,
44:23but, uh, for a plant to grow like that
44:25is about as hard as...
44:27Well, it's about as hard as Ernie
44:29drawing the letter X.
44:31Let's see.
44:31I'm going to make an X on this blackboard here.
44:33That is, I'm going to try to make an X.
44:35I'm not really sure I remember
44:36what an X looks like.
44:38Hmm, maybe an X looks like this.
44:42No, no, no.
44:43That's not an X.
44:44That's nothing but a 2.
44:46I'll get rid of that.
44:50Let's see.
44:51Maybe an X looks like this.
44:54Is that an X?
44:55No, no, no.
44:56That's not an X.
44:57That's nothing but a dumb 3.
44:58Huh.
44:59Get rid of that one.
45:00I guess I really give up on it.
45:02I'll wait till old Bird comes along.
45:03He'll tell me how to make an X.
45:05But meanwhile, I'll play myself
45:07a game of tic-tac-toe.
45:15And then we go...
45:18Tic...
45:21Tac...
45:21And toe...
45:23Ha!
45:24I win!
45:25But I still don't know what an X looks like.
45:28Hey, Ernie.
45:28Hey, Bert.
45:29Hey, listen, Bert.
45:30Hey, Ernie.
45:31Yes?
45:31Hey, I see you're doing pretty good
45:33with your X's there.
45:34My what?
45:35Yeah, your X's on the board.
45:37Hey, let's count them, okay?
45:38Yeah, okay.
45:39There's one X.
45:40You mean that thing with that and the net?
45:42That's an X?
45:42Yeah, that's right.
45:43That's an X.
45:44Let's count them now.
45:45One X.
45:45One.
45:46Two X's, three X's, four X's, five X's down in the corner.
45:51Hey, that's great, Ernie.
45:52You've been studying.
45:54Okay, keep up the good work.
45:55See you later.
45:56Oh, wow.
45:58Look at that.
45:58I made an X.
45:59I made five X's.
46:00I knew what an X was all along,
46:02and I didn't even know that I knew it.
46:03Gee whiz.
46:04I'm going to go out and make myself an X
46:05that I can carry with me wherever I go.
46:07Boy, am I happy.
46:08Wow.
46:09Oh, I wonder how tall that plant has grown now.
46:13I'll bet it's, it's, it's, it's, it's gone.
46:19Well, I must have watered through it,
46:22watered it too much.
46:23It, it's disappeared.
46:26Oh, no.
46:27Oh, how am I going to tell Susan her plant is gone?
46:32Tell Susan what?
46:33Hi, Big Bird.
46:34Oh, Susan, this is terrible.
46:36What?
46:37Well, I was taking care of your little plant,
46:39and I watered it, and it grew up real tall.
46:43And then I watered it some more,
46:45and it disappeared.
46:47Oh, Big Bird.
46:49It didn't disappear.
46:50I took it back into the house.
46:52And I was the one that brought the big plant out.
46:54Right, and I took the big plant
46:56and planted it right over in the yard there, Big Bird.
47:00That's where it went.
47:02Boy, that sure wasn't very smart of me,
47:05thinking that a little plant could grow so big that quick.
47:09Oh, well, you didn't know.
47:10That's, that's understandable.
47:11You know, it was very, Big Bird,
47:13it was very nice of you to help me, though,
47:14and so I brought you some flowers.
47:17Oh.
47:17Flowers?
47:18Mm-hmm.
47:18Aren't they pretty?
47:19Yeah.
47:20I, I love flowers.
47:22You do?
47:22Yeah.
47:23Oh, oh, they're beautiful.
47:26Oh, that's good.
47:27Boy, do you think if I plant these,
47:30they'll grow nice and big and tall?
47:32Uh, no, well, Big Bird, see,
47:34I bet if I put these in a nice, warm, sunny place,
47:38No, no, no.
47:39And part of them every day,
47:40they'll grow up to be ten times as big as this.
47:43No, no, no.
47:43They'll be beautiful and bright.
47:45See, flowers like that have to...
47:46A nice spot right over here.
47:48Oh, I can't believe it.
47:50I, I guess we'll have to explain to Big Bird later
47:52that, uh, you grow flowers from seeds,
47:55not from planting full-grown flowers like those.
47:59Oh, here it is.
48:00My very own X.
48:01You know, X, without an X,
48:03you couldn't make a word like,
48:04well, you couldn't make box,
48:06or you couldn't make X-ray.
48:08Huh.
48:10Yeah, my very own X.
48:11Hey, Ernie.
48:11Ernie.
48:12Oh, Ernie.
48:13Oh, Ernie, it's terrible.
48:14It's just awful what just happened to me.
48:15Well, what's the matter, Bird?
48:16Oh, see, I was, I was in the kitchen,
48:18so he was making some bacon.
48:20Yeah.
48:20And this monster appeared,
48:21this huge monster appeared,
48:23and he ate all my bacon.
48:24Every strip of my bacon he ate.
48:26Oh, that's awful.
48:27Well, that, that, that's terrible, Bird.
48:28Yeah.
48:28I mean, we can't just sit still
48:30while a monster comes and eats all your bacon.
48:31No.
48:32I mean, what are we going to do about it?
48:33I mean, is it...
48:35Hey, Ernie.
48:36What are you doing, monster?
48:38Oh, my very own X.
48:40Uh, why do you do that, monster?
48:42I always like to eat bacon and X.
48:51Stupid monster.
48:53One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
49:02Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
49:06One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five fingers on the line.
49:19How many is high?
49:22Five fingers
49:24One, two, three, four, five, five, two, three, four, five.
49:29Five ice cream sodas
49:32One, two, three, four, five
49:38Five
49:44Whatever they are
49:46One, two, three, four, five
49:53Five frogs
49:55One, two, three, four, five
50:00Five frogs
50:01One, two, three, four, five
50:07Five
50:08Fancy fruitcakes
50:11One, two, three, four, five
50:16And I want to go out and fly
50:23A
50:25Ape
50:32Tiptoe through the tulips
50:35Ape
50:37A
50:39Oh, I'm sorry
50:41This is the capital letter A
50:43Next to it is the small letter A
50:45Many words begin with this letter
50:48Alligator, for instance
50:49An alligator is an American reptile
50:52Similar to the crocodile
50:54But having a shorter and flatter head
50:58They have also been known to be extremely dangerous
51:02Okay, world
51:04Stop what you're doing
51:05Because I am here again
51:06Old Kermit the Frog
51:08To tell you all about another really great groovy word
51:11Find fantastic fun type word
51:12Now today's really fine fantastic fun type word
51:15Is between
51:16Between
51:17See right there
51:18That right there is the word between
51:21Okay
51:22Okay, now maybe you're asking yourself
51:24Just why is it that between is one of those great groovy fine fantastic fun type words
51:32Hmm
51:32Well, I'm here to show you why
51:36Now you will notice that on my table over here
51:38Is a phonograph record of the Beatles
51:41And on top of the phonograph record of the Beatles is a donut
51:44And on top of the donut is a ping pong ball
51:48You with me so far?
51:51Hmm?
51:51Good
51:52Okay
51:53Now the ping pong ball is on the top
51:56And the phonograph record of the Beatles is on the bottom
51:59And the donut, here it comes now
52:02The donut is between the two of them
52:05You see there?
52:07It's in the middle
52:08And when anything is in the middle like that
52:10Then it is between
52:12Okay
52:13Now then
52:14Let me give you another
52:17Another example
52:20There
52:22You see, now I am under the table
52:26And now the ping pong ball
52:29The donut
52:30And the phonograph record
52:31And the top of the table
52:33Are between me
52:34And one of the ugliest monsters I've ever seen
52:39Ping pong ball
52:46Now you will notice
52:47That there is just the donut
52:49And the phonograph record
52:51And the top of the table
52:53Between me
52:54And that ugly monster
52:56Donut!
52:57Donut!
53:03Now you see
53:05It's just the record
53:06And the top of the table
53:07Between me
53:08Record!
53:10Record!
53:11Record!
53:15R.F.
53:24And now you will notice that there is absolutely nothing between me and this monster
53:43But I sure wish there was
53:45Frog!
53:47Oh!
53:50Mwah!
53:52Mwah!
53:54Mwah!
54:03Man!
54:04Man!
54:06You know what that sounds like?
54:08Sounds like Oscar's grouch band has finally arrived!
54:12Come on, let's go over and see what it's all about!
54:16Oscar!
54:18Hey, hey, hey, this is a closed rehearsal.
54:21No visitors allowed.
54:22Well, you've got to keep that rehearsal closed, man.
54:25That's the worst sound of music I've ever heard.
54:28Yeah, well, listen, that means we've practiced long enough.
54:31Hey, listen to that.
54:32You've practiced that?
54:33Well, we have to work to get that sound.
54:35Listen to that beautiful note.
54:36Is that Dizzy Grouch, man?
54:38Listen to that.
54:41Oh, that's music to my ears.
54:43Oh, yeah.
54:45Oh, boy.
54:49How do you like that, huh?
54:50I guess you're ready to begin now, huh?
54:52Oh, yeah, that's right.
54:53I'm about to give him the old downbeat.
54:56Give him the old downbeat.
54:57Turn him loose.
54:58Right. A one, and a two, and a three, and a...
55:08Well, it happens every time.
55:14What happens?
55:15I can't think of what comes after the number three.
55:18Oh, try four.
55:21One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
55:30Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
55:35One, two, three.
55:39Four, four, four, four.
55:42Four, four, four.
55:43Let's see, that's all my four.
55:46How many is four?
55:49Four thousand.
55:50One, two, three, four.
55:54Four balloons.
55:59One, two, three, four.
56:05Four fish.
56:07One, two, three, four.
56:11Four, four, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten, ten.
56:19Four....
56:23Four...
56:27...root beer floats.
56:33I got one, two!
56:36I got one, four!
56:41Four. That's it.
56:42All right, you grouches, are you ready?
56:44Get the whole band ready.
56:46Here we go.
56:46A one and a two and a three and a four.
56:51Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:52That's it, guys.
56:53Come on.
56:54Oh, Oscar, Oscar, that sounds rotten.
57:01Come on, I'll keep it off key, you guys.
57:03Oscar, how long is this going to go on?
57:05Speak up, I can't hear you.
57:07I said, how long are these guys going to be practicing down there in your trash can, huh?
57:12Only till our concert.
57:13To your...
57:14When's your concert?
57:16A year from next Wednesday.
57:18A year from...
57:19Oh, God.
57:20It's a grand challenge.
57:21I'm not really hearing you guys.
57:23Awful.
57:24Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but somehow we'll get rid of the grouches, man.
57:29You come back.
57:31Believe me, we'll get rid of it.
57:32I'll see you later.
57:33I'm gone.
57:35Terrible.
57:53This is a sweet, heavenly meal.
58:04Oh, that was beautiful.
58:07Oh, that was beautiful.
58:09Oh, that was the worst that I've ever heard.
58:11Oh, that's incredible.
58:17Oh, come on.
58:21Come on.
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