Episode 1495

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Muppets / Celebrity	C-3PO and R2-D2 help Big Bird with his counting with a performance of "Beep."
 	Cartoon 	B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee.
 	Film 	Kids paint pictures of things that start with B.Producer: Ken Snyder Enterprises
 	Cartoon 	The story of Aesop's "The Lion and the Mouse".
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	The Fabulous Four Flying Flatirons, a group of trapeze artists, demonstrate up and down. (edited)
 	Cartoon 	A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram.
 	SCENE 1 	Bob observes all the different kinds of things the kids are sculpting with clay at the Day Care Center, including a castle, a ball, and a house. Oscar intrudes on today's activities as he likes using sticky, messy clay, and wants to show how he's the "Michelangelo of Grouchdom." Oscar lets himself in, hushing Bob not to ruin his inspiration.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	Bob checks out more of the kids' sculptures before looking at what Oscar has made, which appear to be just a series of flattened pieces. Oscar specifies how each one has been given more thought than that: a vase of flowers hit by a steamroller, a rocking chair after an elephant sat on it, and a refrigerator hit by a Conrail train.
 	Animation 	Three balls try to match three holes.
 	Cartoon 	A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster presents 9 elephants.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Luis announces "And now, the octopus!"Music: "Pomp and Circumstance"
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog, Shola, and Fanny have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!"
 	Film 	Some kids watch a film of a man working in a greenhouse, and try to guess what his job is.
 	Cartoon 	Kids on a bench wait for the bus: "Here comes the bus!"
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Grover tells Mr. Johnson the menu, which has the items numbered. Number 9 is the special of the day. It turns out to be a real number nine, but Mr. Johnson doesn't want it. (It's medium rare, and he likes his nines well-done.)
 	Cartoon 	"Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	Kids comment as they watch tomatoes grow in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 2 	A young girl enters Hooper's Store to use the phone, but she's too small to reach it. Mr. Hooper offers to dial the number and hold her up, but she insists that she do it herself and cites the call as a personal one. She then asks for a box to stand on, and is able to use the phone. "That's a smart kid," Mr. Hooper observes to the viewer.
 	Cartoon 	A for Acrobats
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about taking a nap.
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
 	Cartoon 	A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow.
 	Film 	A scuba diver shows up and down.
center 	Muppets 	Super Grover: A boy is confused -- his mother told him to take a bus home, but he doesn't know where to find the bus. Super Grover arrives, and they soon discover a sign that says "Bus Stop". The boy believes they found the answer, but Super Grover insists that his mother told him to take a bus home, not a sign.
 	Cartoon 	A woman displays a BUS STOP sign to a crowd.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	SCENE 3 	Back at day care, Linda and Telly Monster have joined Bob and the kids in making clay sculptures. Jim, one of the kids' caretakers, arrives with his guitar and everyone sings "I Know a Cute Monster Who Swallowed a Fly" as Linda signs the lyrics, with everyone doing the signs for all the animals. Telly chimes in after each verse to sing, "I think she'll cry!"
 	Cartoon 	A boy does an addition problem in his head: 2 + 1 = 3.
 	Film 	Spinning Bus Stop sign
 	Cartoon 	A boy solves a math problem: 3 + 1 = 4.
 	Muppets 	The Beetles perform "Letter B."
 	Cartoon 	Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B.
 	Muppets 	Herry Monster asks Kimberly to identify geometric shapes.
 	SCENE 4 	Everyone at day care makes sock puppets, and Bob instructs the viewer on how they can do the same with an old sock and some markers. Telly finishes making one and introduces it to everybody as "Socko," and Bob uses his to announce the sponsors with Stephanie's help. The credits follow.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Maria holds both the Sesame Street sign and the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 12