Episode 0387

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Tom welcomes the viewer, and uses a book about trains to demonstrate beginning and end. To a grand fanfare, he also says that right now is the beginning of Sesame Street.
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Goldilocks attempts to show the bears how many are in their family.
 	Cartoon 	A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F.
 	SCENE 2 	F quickies:
*David unfolds a fan.
*Susan folds a piece of paper.
*Oscar has a letter F covered with fur.
*Tom pours milk into a glass, making it full.
 	Cartoon 	F for FootballArtist: John and Faith Hubley
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird has a drum, and invites the kids to give him a rhythm to play. He also invites Luis and Linda, but Luis reminds him that Linda is deaf. She can see how the stick hits the drum, though, and she can also clap and feel vibrations, meaning she can still play with Big Bird.
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover).
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish).
 	SCENE 4 	Luis has been thinking about Linda, who is deaf, so he asks the viewer to imagine what it would be like if you couldn't hear anything. The kids are shown doing various activities such as popping balloons, hammering nails, and slamming a door, but without any sound.
 	Muppets 	A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #3
 	SCENE 5 	Tom shows Linda the door chime bell at Hooper's Store and wonders, how would he be able to mind the store if he was deaf? Linda shows him that he can feel the vibrations when someone stomps on the floor, and that customers can write down their orders.
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"Four Seasons"
 	SCENE 6 	Susan introduces an animal that has a lot of fun in winter.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: "It's an Otter!"Music: Joe Raposo
center 	Muppets 	Ernie has four apples, and wants to draw the number 4, showing that he has four apples. However, Cookie Monster wants to eat an apple, so Ernie crosses out the 4 and draws a 3. Then Cookie Monster decides not to eat the apple, causing Ernie to have to cross out the 4 again and draw another 3, over and over again.
 	Cartoon 	A flower picks up a man and says he smells beautiful.
 	SCENE 7 	Luis encounters an Anything Muppet girl named Emily (Fran Brill), who looks sad. She wants to get a birthday card for her Spanish-speaking friend Esteban, but couldn't find any Spanish cards at Hooper's Store. Luis cooperates by having Emily draw a picture on the card, and he writes down Emily's message in Spanish.
 	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.
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (shown in Spanish, then English)
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF
 	Cartoon 	A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies.
 	SCENE 8 	Linda signs a poem she wrote about the seasons, as David reads it.
 	Cartoon 	F for Football (repeat)
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob reads a story with F words featuring Frieda who ventures to her friend Flora's farm with flowers and fruit, but gets lost in a forest. Kermit keeps trying to insert himself into the story (since Frog is a great F word), mishearing Bob when he says "fog" and "log". When Frieda meets a farmer named Fred, who turns out to be a prince, she kisses Prince Fred, and he turns into Kermit.
 	Cartoon 	Country 3 (repeat)
 	SCENE 9 	Susan sings "Three of These Things" with pictures of a mitten, a sweater, a sock, and a teddy bear. She removes the teddy bear to play "Here Are Some Things" with the options being a woolen hat and a hamburger.
 	Cartoon 	K is for kiss.Animation: John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words. (repeat)
center 	Muppets 	Charlie is lost and finds a policeman. It's his Uncle Louie, but he doesn't recognize him in uniform. Without the uniform on, Charlie asks Uncle Louie to find him a policeman.
 	Cartoon 	The Pink Panther - K For Karate
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A woman makes a sandwich.
 	SCENE 10 	Tom explains to Linda how he used the train book to demonstrate beginning and end, and Linda shows him how to sign that it's now the "end of the day" and time to say "goodbye." Susan announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Tom holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Tom's book about trains is actually a dust jacket-less copy of The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone, previously read in Episode 0157. A few new pages are added for Tom's discussion, but a couple of real pages are as Tom thumbs through the book to get to the end.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3