Episode 2196

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Insert 	Gordon goes through a stretching routine in the yard during the early morning and explains to the camera that he like so get up this early because there's very little traffic and it's a pretty time of the day. He invites the viewer along for a jog, which is set to a spoof of the Chariots of Fire music, and consists of a montage of Gordon running through the city.
 	Cartoon 	A beaver does his exercises, while his friends make fun of him. He then uses his strength to save his friends when the dam breaks.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	Film 	Pizza is made.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Animation 	Sand X/x
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Oscar and Danny DeVito laugh it up.
 	Animation 	Seis flores
 	Film 	Elephants (African percussion soundtrack)
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray.
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover prepares a table for a family who's celebrating their grandmother's birthday, but Grover doesn't know her name, so when each family member refers to her as a different relative each time, Grover thinks there's more than one party going on, so he ends up bringing out seven cakes.
 	Cartoon 	More and more moths appear, and devour a man's clothes.Artist: Bob Kurtz
 	Cast 	Olivia sings "Listen to the Wind."
 	Cartoon 	A man tries to push a huge balloon elephant through a narrow doorway, and a girl helps him by deflating it.
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts "Name That Sound!" with contestant Mr. Honker. Mr. Honker honks when guessing sounds in this game show, but since Guy Smiley can't understand his honks, Mr. Honker brings the objects in. Sounds include a cow (to which he brings in Gladys the Cow), a horse (which he brings in Buster the Horse, accompanied by Forgetful Jones, who forgets whether or not he's a horse), and a fire engine (which Mr. Honker brings, full of honkers).
 	Cartoon 	A schoolyard of gloves invites other gloves to join them.
 	Song 	"Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar quizzes the Grouchketeers on opposites, namely ones that pertain to Grouches (being dirty instead of clean, loud instead of quiet, etc.).
 	Cartoon 	The uses of water
 	Song 	"Llama at Dentist"
 	Cartoon 	Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get.
 	Muppets / Cast 	Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with a dentist and a bus driver. (remake)
 	Cartoon 	Brand X
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar leads David and the Grouchketeers in a reading lesson using a Grouch newspaper. David reads from the “Grouch Gifts” section with such bargains as roller skates without wheels, then Oscar has them use their newspapers to gift-wrap some stinky fish.
 	Song 	David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster finds a newspaper.
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words.
 	Muppets 	In the woods, a nature-loving baritone (Jim Henson) sings "Ah, For the Joys of the Countryside" about how much he loves the country, without noticing that his surroundings are being converted into a city.
 	Film 	Counting six oryxMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar now leads David and the Grouchketeers in reading Grouch Music magazine. David reads about an out-of-tune concert, then Oscar has them roll up the magazines and use them as off-key flutes.
 	Cartoon 	The alphabet is presented in a chain reaction of events.
 	Film 	A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen.
 	Muppets 	Bert says his favorite number is Six.
 	Cartoon 	A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar displays an issue of Trashcan Magazine, which is so terrible that Grouches (and Grouchketeers) throw it away. David walks away from the nonsense and Elmo announces the sponsors (ad-libbing “Stop that, Oscar!” as Oscar struggles with his trash can lid).
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17