Episode 2188

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	At dusk, Oscar shows Luis and the kids a demonstration of how the Earth revolves around the sun, using a large apple as the Earth (with Slimey inside) and a flashlight as the sun, which Luis operates. Slimey turns the apple again and again to mimic the Earth's rotation, going faster and faster making Oscar dizzy.
 	Animation 	Circle In Space
 	Song 	"The Ball Goes Up, The Ball Goes Down"
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie."
 	Cartoon 	Travis Travel demonstrates different methods of transportation.
 	Animation 	A dune buggy is assembled.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet asks another "Is this the D train?" A subway train then arrives, letting out several letter Ds.
 	Cartoon 	D-dart
 	SCENE 2 	Bob encounters Oscar arguing with Telly about whether nighttime is a happy time or a sad time. Oscar gives his reasons why it’s a happy time, and Telly gives his reasons why it’s sad. Bob thinks of nighttime as an old friend, and sings a song about it – “Evensong.” By the end of the song, Telly and Oscar have switched their views on nighttime.
 	Cartoon 	A face is drawn, but the mouth complains when it is drawn last.
 	Muppets 	Grover tries to demonstrate first and last by being first in line, but the other monsters keep switching on him.
 	Animation 	D / d (drums and drumsticks)
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again."
 	Animation 	Where do the Ds fit?
center 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog tries to explain the difference between happy and sad, two emotions which Elmo displays while trying to get Kermit to play with him.
 	Cartoon 	An owl and a bluebird work out a compromise.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob, Linda, and some kids look at the moon and the stars. Linda teaches them how to sign “moon,” “star,” and “comet,” then how to act out the roles.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version).
 	Film / Animation	Oranges are peeled and sliced in stop-motion, and some kids eat them.
 	Cartoon 	A frog looks for AGUA.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster sounds out the word "Fall" and leaves fall on them. Then, they fall over.
 	Cartoon 	A moving truck takes the number 8.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A still of construction equipment fades into a shot of a parrot.
 	SCENE 4 	Yo-Yo Ma plays “Sarabande” on his cello.
 	Cartoon 	A sleepy man counts 8 sheep. (Spanish version)
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A girl puts on her coat all by herself.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Eight buttons are counted on a monkey's shirt.Artist: Owe Gustafson
 	Muppets 	Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird catches Bob, Linda, and Luis as they are about to head home and asks them to watch while he wishes on a star, hoping that some extra ears and eyes will help make them come true. He picks out a star, then starts reading from a long list of wishes.
 	Cartoon 	Lightbulb subtraction.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse.
 	Cartoon 	At a circus, teddy bears count 1-10 and 10-1.
 	Film 	A kid marching band forms a triangle.
 	Cartoon 	G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift)
 	Muppets 	"Frazzle" with Frazzle and The Frazzletones
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter gets stuck in a spot of glue, and types "G: Glue."
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Ostriches walk and run. (piano music)
 	SCENE 6 	The grownups decide to go home before Big Bird finishes reading from his long wish list. Susan emerges from her apartment window wondering what the commotion is about, and Big Bird begins reading his list to her. A yawning Luis announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
*Some of the wishes on Big Bird's list written but not mentioned include:
**I wish Herry Monster would join the "Y."
**I wish that Christmas was tomorrow.
**I wish that I could fly.
**I wish that Maria could make birdseed chili.
**I wish all the graffiti in New York would vanish.
**I wish that it were spring.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17