Episode 1596

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Donning a cape, Big Bird declares himself "Helping Bird," the bird who helps those in need. Nobody seems to need his help until he sees Gordon has twisted his ankle while jogging. Helping Bird insists on aiding him, so he tries finding a walking stick. When he can't find an appropriately-sized one, he allows Gordon to lean on him as they go down the block. Maria sees this and recalls twisting her ankle and having no one to aid her. Gordon tells Helping Bird he feels fine now, so the bird takes Maria under his wing in case she twists her ankle soon.
 	Film 	Body part shout-out
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: V for ViolinA musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet girl (Kathryn Mullen) imagines she's a doctor, movie director or firefighter.
 	Cartoon 	A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle.
 	Film 	HipposMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A troll draws different faces on herself in front of a mirror.
 	SCENE 2 	At Hooper's Store, David sees Telly fully engrossed in a book - Taking Care of Your Cold. David assumes Telly himself has a cold and describes the various ways to take care of a cold, which Telly also sees in his book. He corrects David that he doesn't have a cold; he's just being prepared and no longer needs the book thanks to David's advice. He proceeds to read his next book - What to Do When You Don't Have a Cold.
 	Muppets 	At a library, Cookie Monster asks an Anything Muppet librarian for a box of cookies. The librarian becomes extremely frustrated because Cookie Monster doesn't understand the library doesn't have cookies!
 	Cartoon 	Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy VArtist: John Hubley
 	Film 	A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first."
 	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.
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant.
 	Cartoon 	W for witchArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	The crosswalk light says WALK.
 	Muppets 	Grover the lumberjack thinks he is the first to arrive for supper, but he gets trampled by a gang of French-Canadian lumberjacks who get to the food table before he has a chance to get his snow boots off. By the time he finally gets them off, a grizzly bear grabs the last plate of food.
 	SCENE 3 	Maria takes the kids over to see if Oscar can identify the number she's holding - 11. He wants no part in her game, when Charles the Robot wants to give it a shot. He guesses 8,420 at first and makes several more guesses of decreasing value, despite Oscar's threats of leaving him in the rain and cutting off his oil supply. Oscar demands that Charles doesn't say another word; Charles instead whizzes and shakes precisely 11 bolts off of him, confirming the right answer.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: W, Wall
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A girl sorts everything she finds which is alive and not alive.
 	Celebrity 	A Mummenschanz performer acts out being a frog.
 	Animation 	A scoop of ice cream makes its way to the top of a cone.
 	Film 	A baby chick hatches from an egg. (Music: Joe Raposo)
 	Film 	Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Linda holds up a "One Way" sign for Damion Brown in front of Big Bird's nest construction doors. Damion reads the word, then learns to sign it.
 	Cartoon 	A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond.
 	Song 	"Do the Wash"
 	Muppets 	The Hands count to 11.
 	Cartoon 	"It's a Lovely Eleven Morning"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon sings "Animal Sounds," a musical guessing game.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Cars WALK.
 	Film 	A film of camels eating.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin notices a short thread on Luis' tuxedo, which becomes long as he pulls it, unraveling Luis's trousers!
 	Cartoon 	A kid travels through an extra-dimensional map inside a mono-wheeled box while a narrator reads a series of One Way signs.
 	Muppets 	Old West: A saloon full of horses try to figure out what is making Weepin' Willie cry.
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of a cow.
 	Celebrity 	The Fonz walks out of the "Guys" room and points to the "W" flag, reminding him of a W word he forgot before leaving the bathroom...
 	Cartoon 	W for Wilhelmina
 	SCENE 5 	Maria and Olivia have some trouble getting Barkley to take his bath. David appears in a fine three-piece suit to tend to some business downtown and insists he can help, even though it may cause potential harm to his suit. He can't get near Barkley and his pool nor risk his suit getting wet or soapy, so he resolves to cooperate by standing out of the way.
 	Muppets 	In a Dragnet parody, Sergeant Thursday and Ben hunt for a wanted W.
 	SCENE 6 	Barkley's bath is done, and David offers to take him for a walk. Barkley drags him around the yard, where David lets go of the leash and ends up falling into the pool of water, where he sheepishly announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Ernie and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign.
==Note==
*The original, shaggier Barkley puppet is used for scene 5 and looks slightly different than the then-current one used for the following scene. Olivia and Maria account for the difference by remarking how Barkley seems slightly bigger, and that he may have grown overnight.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 13