Episode 2497

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Insert 	Big Bird and the Birdketeers show the viewer how "You Can Be a Birdketeer."
 	Cartoon 	M is for Marvelous Martha
 	Celebrity 	Madeline Kahn sings, "Mmm...Madeline."
 	Muppets 	Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works.
 	Film 	Wendy makes cookies with her grandmother. They later visit Wendy's great-grandmother at the nursing home, and give her some of the cookies.
 	Video 	Triangle in space (David voiceover)
 	Insert 	Mr. Snuffleupagus is invited to jump on Big Bird's trampoline, and the Count decides to count how many times Snuffy jumps. He counts a total of 19½, with his last jump bouncing him to the top of 123 Sesame Street.
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster displays 11 purple pooches.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A figure skater illustrates forward and backward.
 	Muppets 	Tony tends to an Anything Muppet shopping for a fur coat who ends up wearing a monster (Cookie Monster, to be exact).
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster finds a pencil with a broken point, and demonstrates the fun you can have with it.
 	Film 	Scenes of flowers set to harmonica music
 	SCENE 1 	David is beside himself when he arrives to open Hooper's Store and finds 40 gallons of milk sitting outside the front door. David tries calling the Happy Heifer Milk Company, insisting he was only supposed to receive 14 gallons from them. The delivery man can't be reached, nor can they send over somebody to correct the order; their recommendation - start drinking. Oscar comes over to witness David's bad mood first hand.
 	Cartoon 	M in space
 	Film 	Three dolphins jump together.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"The Stranger" - a song about a baseball team hesitantly allowing a newcomer to join them, who ends up helping them win the game.Artist: Michael Sporn
 	Animation 	Stop-motion: what goes in the hot dog bun?
 	Muppets 	Pageant: The Four Seasons
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: A man rearranges a LIMK sign to make the word "MILK".
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar hangs around the store to keep witnessing David in a sour mood, while Gina remains certain they can sell all the milk before any of it spoils. Maria and Luis stroll up to the window and Gina pitches various things they could eat that require milk in the recipe. She hopes they'll take several gallons, but they only walk away with one.
 	Cartoon 	A needle and spool of thread cooperate to fix the king's torn pants.Artist: Bruce Cayard
center 	Muppets 	"Big Kids Cry"
 	Cartoon 	A captain and a first mate think they have planned ahead well for their trip at sea, but they forgot to take in the anchor.
 	Film 	Footage of a city neighborhood; includes shots of a sno-cone vendor.Singer: "¡Linda paloma!"
 	SCENE 3 	Placido Flamingo has caught word of Hooper's milk problem and has a solution of his own - he's written an opera entitled "The Student Cow," where a cow goes to college and all the students drink milk. He believes the opera will put milk on the audience's brains and make them want some. Outside the store, Placido and the kids sing their milk-drinking song to a small crowd.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd	After the performance, a cow (Camille Bonora) approaches David, so entranced by the opera that she offers him some of her own milk.
 	Cartoon 	La letra O - opera, oeste, orquidea, ojos, ocho, y el orquestra de orangutanes.
 	Film 	In time-lapse footage, a construction crew builds a house and paints it green, and a family moves into it.
 	Muppets 	Elmo bumps into Kermit the Frog on the way to the post office, begging to help him with one of his demonstrations, during which the post office closes - a perfect prompt to demonstrate closed.
 	Cartoon 	M for Mask
 	Muppets 	Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup.
 	Cartoon 	The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar is upset to see all the milk is gone, save for a couple of glasses to share between David and Gina. Gina informs him that someone from the delivery company was able to come over and take back all the unneeded milk. A Muppet woman (Bonora) enters and orders a glass of milk, just as the supply is all gone. She begins to rant and rave, to Oscar's delight, as Luis announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 20