Episode 2217

Picture	Segment	Description
 	SCENE 1	Itzhak Perlman and a Honker accompany Placido Flamingo in the tenor aria "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci. At the end, he says "Bueno, Bueno!! Excellent!! Such feeling! Such depth!" Perlman thanks him for the compliment, but Placido is quick to correct him: "I was talking to the little fuzzy one. But you were good, too. And I...I was brilliant!"
 	Cartoon	A boy learns to play his violin.
 	Film 	In stop-motion, a boy makes landscapes out of sand and water.
 	Muppets	A Muppet girl (Ivy Austin) approaches a sad Herry and asks him what's wrong. He laments about being left out of the baseball game, and she offers to cheer him up by taking him to the zoo.
 	Cartoon	A cat desperately tries to open a can of cat food by himself while his mistress is on the phone.Animation by Dan Haskett
 	Muppets	"Rebel L"
 	Cartoon	Kids hear an L poem.
 	SCENE 2	Piri kicks his soccer ball toward Itzhak Perlman in the arbor, and he catches it. Perlman explains that he used to practice after school when he was a kid and that his crutches helped him tend goal; they had to let him play because he was so good. Piri says his team has to let him play too, but it's because he owns the ball.
 	Song 	"The Ball Goes Up, The Ball Goes Down"
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin obeys the word HOP, then switches it to STOP.
 	Cartoon	Two itchy gorillas agree to scratch each other's backs.
 	Film 	Marching band forms a square
center 	Muppets	Kermit attempts to direct a scene from Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but he is having problems with both the stagehand and Goldilocks, who has problems showing surprise and fear.
 	Cartoon	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
 	Film 	Prairie dogMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon	After the big game, a bird skeleton and an elephant skeleton get their skins mixed up in the locker room. The coach helps them out.
 	Cast 	Maria and Olivia visit the bandshell at Lincoln Center, where Olivia admits she likes to imagine being a singer on that very stage. She envisions herself as a famous performer, singing "Filling the Air with Love."
 	Cartoon	Small, smaller and smallest men will cut a log with a saw.
 	Muppets	The Count croons "Count Up to Nine."
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #9
 	Cartoon	Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays.Artists: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 3	Itzhak Perlman sits on the steps of 123 Sesame Street explaining that the letters of the alphabet are also the names of the notes he's playing on the violin. Oscar the Grouch interupts him saying he doesn't want anyone doing anything with the alphabet so near to his trash can. Perlman explains that what he was actually doing was telling a story about a town who held a banquet for a grouch whose attendants used the letters of the alphabet to describe him. Oscar is annoyed with letters A through L because they characterize him in a positive light, but warms to M through Z because they portray the grouch unfavorably. Perlman eventually reveals that he made the story up on the spot just so he could sit by his trash can and use the alphabet. (Oscar: "I've been diddled!")
 	Cartoon	"The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise"Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets	In the kitchen, Ernie bakes some cookies of different shapes, which he lets Cookie Monster eat after he finishes displaying each one to the viewer.
 	Film 	Olivia (in voice-over) identifies different vegetables.
 	Cartoon	A cat follows its ears to a squeaking noise, which he thinks is coming from mice, but it's coming from swings.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	Film 	A kindergarten class takes a field trip to the fire station.
 	Cartoon	L for locomotive, letter, lamp, light, lion, lettuce, lips
 	SCENE 4	Oscar instructs Itzhak Perlman to play some fast and slow music while Slimey judges between the two. He picks the fast piece, but not to listen to; he wants to take a ride. Perlman extends his bow out to Slimey who wraps his body around the end. As Perlman proceeds to play fast, Slimey holds on while Oscar cheers him on.
 	Cartoon	Pistons push a capital H through a tunnel, where it breaks and turns into a lowercase h. (no voiceover)
 	Film 	Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays.
 	Cartoon	A peasant tries to woo a pretty girl by reciting the famous "Roses are Red" poem. The lines are fed to him by a poet behind a bush, whom she eventually runs off with.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	Muppets	Captain Breakfast unsuccessfully encourages a little girl to eat breakfast, the most important meal of the day.
 	Cartoon	A little boy puts his mother's mail in the mailbox.
 	SCENE 5	Slimey is still riding Perlman's bow, but the violinist is getting tired. Oscar asks him to go one more time to make it an even 11. Piri announces the sponsors in voiceover.
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