Episode 0965

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Mr. Hooper struggles to fill orders in Hooper's Store. He explains to Maria that David called out sick, so he's hired someone from a temp agency to help out for the day. He continues to rush around when a woman comes in and tries to get his attention. He asks her to wait her turn as he continues; the woman patiently continuing to intercede. Finally he slows down long enough for her to introduce herself: her name is Mrs. Sharp and she was sent by the temp agency in response to Mr. Hooper's request for help.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	Film 	Mad Painter #8
 	Cartoon 	A boy looks for the telephone as it rings.
 	Muppets 	Super Grover: Grover Kent sees a lost little girl in trouble and tries to find a phone booth to change in, the same one she wants to use to call home.
 	SCENE 2 	As Mrs. Sharp asks Mr. Hooper to show her where everything in the store is, a delivery man (played by Jerry Nelson making a cameo) leaves a bag of bird seed outside the front door. Mrs. Sharp believes she can handle carrying a bag of birdseed, until she realizes it's the one hundred pound bag that Mr. Hooper orders every week for Big Bird. She scoffs at the idea of a bird so large, until Big Bird appears behind her and introduces himself. Mrs. Sharp is taken over nearly speechless at his size.
 	Cartoon 	I thought a thought ... about circles. (shown in English, then Spanish)Artist: Cliff RobertsSpanish:
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Joey count to 20.
 	Cartoon 	A girl tries on big, bigger, and the biggest shoes.
 	Muppets 	Old West: Sinister Sam is looking for the biggest man in the saloon. The frightened customers point him towards Big Barney, who's cowering under the table. When Sam discovers that Barney is the biggest man there, he gives him a hat: "This ol' hat here don't fit me. I thought maybe you could use it, huh? I'll see you, fellers." Sinister Sam leaves the baffled customers behind. "Now, that's a nice gesture," one says. "He's a little weird, but he's okay after all, isn't he?"
 	Film 	This is the desert.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A small frog is jealous of how big an ox is, so he expands himself into a very large, round frog. He becomes so self-important and big he ends up exploding.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Muppets 	Three monsters (Billy, Fenwick, and Pamela) demonstrate big, bigger, and biggest.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: A for airplane
 	SCENE 3 	Mrs. Sharp shows Mr. Hooper how to operate a take-a-number machine. He sees that the store is in good hands, so he goes out to the yard to study. The Count walks into the store and immediately becomes enamoured with the machine. His lightning and thunder prompts Mrs. Sharp to alert Mr. Hooper of his arrival, but he tells her not to worry; he's a regular customer. When she hears the machine ringing, she assumes she has a lot of customers, but upon her return, she finds The Count flipping through numbers on the machine and counting the tickets it produces.
 	Film 	James narrates a film of his life on a pueblo in New Mexico.
 	Cartoon 	Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls.
 	Muppets 	A long-haired hippie sings "Adding" to Cookie Monster.
 	Cartoon 	Find the camouflaged parrot.Voice: Paul Dooley
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	I for iron
 	Muppets 	Grover sings "I Stand Up Straight and Tall" while using some fast cutting camera trickery.
 	Cartoon 	A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
 	Cast 	Maria, Luis, Gordon, and three kids all have umbrellas with different patterns, which a voiceover (Jerry Nelson) uses to put them into different groups.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I for Island.
 	Film 	A farmer takes care of baby calves.
 	SCENE 4 	Mrs. Sharp has finished preparing an enormous amount of spaghetti, only to learn from Big Bird that it's not for him but for his best friend. After he describes Mr. Snuffleupagus to Mrs. Sharp, she retreats to the yard again to consult Mr. Hooper, who is still studying. Mr. Hooper explains how Snuffy is just Big Bird's "imaginary" friend and they can make sure the spaghetti doesn't go to waste. All the while, Snuffy arrives at the store and gets stuck in the door (leaving some fur behind) so he leans in the window to enjoy the enormous bowl of spaghetti Mrs. Sharp has prepared. He finishes up and leaves with his musical theme just as Mrs. Sharp returns to find an empty bowl left on the counter. When she remembers Big Bird doesn't eat spaghetti, notices the fur stuck in the doorway, and recalls hearing a musical sound, she questions herself, "Mr. Snuffleupagus?"
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"I in the Sky"
 	Cast 	The Alphabet Dancers: Lowercase letter I.
 	Cartoon 	Hats
 	Song 	Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the TV Repairman (Jim Henson) and Clock Maker (Jerry Nelson).
 	Cartoon 	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8
 	SCENE 5 	Mrs. Sharp returns from making a delivery and prepares to clean up to finish out the day, but Mr. Hooper, Big Bird, Maria, and the kids have surprised her with a party as thanks for helping out today. She admits to being amused by the strange characters she's met on Sesame Street, but agrees that she'd like to come back sometime. Big Bird is relieved because Snuffy loved her spaghetti. When Maria points out that Snuffy isn't real, Mrs. Sharp contests that somebody ate that huge bowl of spaghetti. Via voice-over, Snuffy comments that it was delicious and announces the sponsors. The credits follow.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Kermit and a girl hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8