Episode 0538

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	The Count bothers Luis as he works on a radio with his incessant counting. Luis tries distracting the Count by having him count something different - termites...
 	Film 	A kid narrates footage of a termite colony.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	In the short time during the film, the Count manages to count over 18,000 termites featured. Nearing the end of his rope, Luis pours a can of nails on the ground for him to count; the Count finishes in a matter of seconds (counting over 2,000 nails). Luis tries getting rid of him by telling him to count grains of sand on the beach. The Count has already done this and further annoys Luis by listing various statistics he's counted (such as blades of grass in Central Park).
 	Cartoon 	Four construction workers build a number 4.
 	Muppets 	Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4. (shown in English, then Spanish)
 	Cartoon 	A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird watches over Hooper's Store while David is out for a minute. Maria needs David in a hurry, so she leaves a message with Big Bird - she really needs a bottle of ink. To remember this, Big Bird repeats "wink," which rhymes. However, once David returns, the new word has replaced the old one in Big Bird's memory, so he tells David to give Maria a wink. David finds this odd, but when Maria returns, he tries out several different winks. She thinks he's gone crazy until they come to the conclusion that Big Bird misremembered. David produces some ink for her just as Big Bird returns, seeing he's done a good job remembering after all.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	E ImaginationArtists: The Hubleys
 	Film 	Joe Raposo sings "Look at This" over footage of something ... can you guess what it is?
 	Insert 	Jerry Nelson narrates three letters coming together to form the word FUN. The letters celebrate with confetti and streamers.
 	SCENE 3 	Maria takes a break from working on her report for school to sing a Spanish version of "Three of These Things" using her textbooks and notepad.
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppets (including Farley) shout "E!"
 	Cartoon 	E for Elephant & Elk, the nominees for best E animal.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	E for Erase
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	What if my hair were grass?
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar sets up his can space as a fortune-telling stand, having borrowed the Amazing Mumford's rubber kickball to use as a crystal ball. He intends to give only negative predictions, telling David he's going to flunk his next law school exam and Maria will catch a cold. David is especially miffed by Oscar's scheme, insisting there's nothing magic about his supposed "crystal ball." Suddenly, Mumford magically appears from within the ball, assuring the two that Oscar's fortunes are fraudulent and reminding Oscar to return the ball tonight. Oscar faints in shock.
 	Cartoon 	An elephant and a bear try to cross a bridge to deliver their packages, but they're in each other's way.Voices: Hal Smith
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "J Jump."
 	Muppets 	Grover the Elevator Operator demonstrates front and back by telling the passengers on his elevator where to stand.
 	Cartoon 	"Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Muppets 	The Count sings "The Song of the Count."
 	Film 	Marching Band #4
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Stop-motion: in a park, a garbage man puts litter in a trash can. (Part 1)
 	Muppets 	Farley looks for ME.
 	Film 	Stop-motion: in a park, a man reads a newspaper, then shamelessly drops it on the ground. A little girl finds this disgusting, and puts the newspaper in the trash bin. (Part 2)
 	SCENE 5 	David and Luis try to decipher a note left outside Hooper's - "H_LP M_." Sam the Robot wheels in and reveals he wrote the note, as he's having trouble making words lately. He prints out the words LOVE and STREET, but the words are missing a letter E. Luis makes a quick trip back to the Fix-It Shop where he has a spare letter E and he and David load it into Sam's back compartment. He's able to print words properly again, but now can't stop repeating himself.
 	Cartoon 	Kids around the world say "ME."
 	Muppets 	Grover sees the word "me" and shouts the word.
 	Animation 	Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish)
 	Film 	Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory.
 	Cartoon 	W for Wilhelmina
 	Film 	Paper-cut triangles fade into live-action shots of triangle-shaped things.
center 	Muppets 	Billy wants to know about here and there, so Herry and Grover demonstrate by spreading apart, each calling the monster over to their side. However, whenever the monster gets to "there," he always finds himself "here".
 	Film 	A kid recites a poem about adding penguins.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	"Dandy David" adds flowers and flower pots.
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar asks Mumford's projected image in the ball what his own future holds. Mumford jokingly tells him that tomorrow, his neighbors are going to clean up his can, which is bad news to Oscar. Luis announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Mumford's kickball is seen being used for its original purpose in later episodes, such as Episode 0539 and Episode 0542.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5