Episode 1544

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Buffy emerges from Oscar's trash can, complaining about the living conditions she and Cody have to endure there while staying. She needs to run to the store and asks Oscar to get her bag. Oscar refuses since she says "please," something a Grouch should never have to hear. Buffy admits she dislikes it when Oscar yells just as much as he hates the P-word. She strikes a deal with him: she agrees not to say "please" as much and be grouchy sometimes, as long as Oscar keeps down the noise and says "please" once himself. "I think this is the start of a beautiful relationship," Oscar says when he and Buffy begin to argue over whether being nice or grouchy is easier.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #11Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #11
 	Cartoon 	At the circus, Tommy Trueheart displays his 11 trick-performing lions.
 	SCENE 2 	Cody assists in today's edition of Ask Oscar, handing Telly the letters. After answering a question from a Grouch in Cincinnati (Oscar: "Isn't that a little bit redundant?") about water polo, Telly reads another letter from someone in Dayton asking for help counting their 20 old cans. Oscar refuses to participate this time and leaves Telly up to the task. Cody helps Telly count to 20, and the two share a hug. Oscar assures the Grouches watching that the hugging part is not preferred.
 	Cartoon 	I've Got a Mind: Wind-up toy
 	Film 	A metal crane and a real crane look alike.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit and Grover demonstrate "here" and "there."
 	Cartoon 	Kids hear an L poem.
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L.
 	Film 	A farmer takes care of baby calves.
 	Cartoon 	L for Lion (poem)Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar stops by Hooper's Store to do some grocery shopping. He hands David the list of items, which includes such tasty things like candied clams and peas in chocolate sauce. With each item David doesn't have in stock, he crosses them out on the list. Since David has nothing to sell him, Oscar has him cross out the whole list afterwards. He then celebrates another successful shopping trip; although he didn't buy anything, he does get a nice piece of trash to take home - the marked-out list. "Another piece of trash, and I didn't have to spend a penny!"
 	Cartoon 	L for Lion
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: L--Loud
 	Song 	"Beet Beet, Sugar Beet."
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television
 	Muppets 	Various letter Ts have a T party.
 	Cartoon 	La letra T es para tigre, tomate, taxi, toro, telefono, televisión, y el terrible tiburon.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar asks Maria to help him with something, promising her a nice, special gift when she's through. She attaches new vanity license plates (reading SCRAM) to the front and back of the Sloppy Jalopy. As she works on the back, parts of the car fall off. Oscar tells her to open the trunk to find her reward - a perfect, yellow rose, which gets tarnished by the exhaust as Oscar drives off.
center 	Muppets 	The Rhymies go camping, but a bear disrupts their campsite.
 	Cartoon 	A voiceover asks kids to name where a fireman and policewoman work.
 	Film 	Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Celebrity 	Itzhak Perlman plays the "Gavotte en Rondeau" from Bach's Partita for Violin No. 3 for the kids (Jessica Marrero, Kathleen Reilly, Jodi Stahl, Matthew Schwartz, and David Patent) between the garage and the fire escape of 123 Sesame Street.
 	Cartoon 	A boy's friends bring him flowers to cheer him up, not knowing that he's allergic to them.
 	Muppets 	Grover tries to ignore three monsters who look big and scary to him. When they notice him carrying a flute, they grab his attention and ask -- in what appears to be a threatening way -- if Grover wants to play. The three monsters pull out a clarinet, an oboe and a bassoon and begin to play, urging Grover to join in.
 	Cartoon 	A cube tries to fit through wall holes of different shapes.
 	Film 	A kid narrates footage of a termite colony.
 	Cartoon 	Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks.
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Trey talk about how to get from one place to another.
 	Cartoon 	The weary traveler asks the Wise Man to demonstrate "here" and "there." He does so by throwing his household items off the cliff.
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird helps Mr. Snuffleupagus find out how many feet he has. After losing his place trying to walk around him and count Snuffy's feet, Big Bird suggests Snuffy lift each foot as he counts it, but Snuffy notes that he'll have nothing left to stand on if he does so. Finally, Big Bird has Snuffy lift only one foot to figure out where to stop.
 	Cartoon 	A white boy hangs out with his Latino friend.
 	Muppets 	Pageant: Tooth
 	Cartoon 	A rabbit crosses the STREET, and almost gets run over.Artist: Cathryn Aison
 	Film 	Kids climb in and out of a tire.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	I thought a thought ... about circles.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 6 	As Oscar and Buffy dine inside the trash can, they each speak to the other as they previously agreed upon. Maria and David pass by and overhear Buffy speaking grouchy and Oscar speaking nicely; the two can barely believe it. Snuffy announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Linda hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 12