Episode 2144

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria and Luis welcome the viewer in Spanish, then Big Bird - or rather, "The Amazing Birdford," greets them. Big Bird has borrowed the Amazing Mumford's magic kit and is learning how to become a magician. He asks them if he can try out his disappearing trick on something, and they let him try it on a trash can. It doesn't disappear, not even when he tries saying the magic words in Spanish. Big Bird goes off to practice some more, and Maria and Luis notice that their tools are missing ...
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Peanut Butter."
 	Cartoon 	P is for Pillow
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey!
 	Film 	Slide puzzle - boy
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow.
 	Cartoon 	A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar the Grouch likes it when Susan looks filthy and greasy after working on her car, but is disappointed when he finds out she's going to take a shower and get all clean.
 	Cartoon 	Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills.
 	Muppets 	Polly Darton sings "I'm Under the Weather Over You."
 	Cartoon 	Three cannonball men switch spotlights as they dance.
 	Film 	Kids narrate footage of whales.
 	Muppets / Cast 	
 	Cartoon 	Picnic with P foods (carried away by ants)Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 3 	Susan sets three new plants on her window sill. Meanwhile, Big Bird tries to use magic to multiply three balls - but only ends up rearranging them in different ways, which he doesn't think is so amazing. He walks away in disgust, when Susan notices a lot more plants around the outside of her apartment!
 	Animation 	Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Families."
 	Cartoon 	Three doctors cure a sick 3.
 	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 	An owl flies, carrying a sign that says "PELIGRO."
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Sand R/r
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Tony Danza reads a note that makes him furious. He rips it up in anger. Oscar reads a piece of it and sees why he would've been so angry.
 	Film 	A scuba diver swims away from.
 	Muppets 	"Listen to the Bells"
 	Cartoon 	Howard Coolsell finds out about exercise.
 	Song 	Kevin Clash sings "Rush Hour" over sped-up footage of people leaving from work.
 	Animation 	Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish)
 	Insert 	The Count (in voiceover) counts three kids who arrange themselves in different configurations with three boxes.
 	Film 	Photographic collage demonstration of ALL, MOST, SOME and NONE of an apple.
 	SCENE 4 	Bob witnesses as Big Bird tries his magic on three apples and one banana - he will make the banana disappear, since it does not belong with the apples. He makes the apples disappear, but not the banana; instead it's taken away by a monkey (that Big Bird somehow conjured up).
 	Film 	Gibbons make screeching noises.
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
 	Muppets 	The Martians discover a radio. They tune into three different styles of music, none of which they like. Then they tune into some static, which they start joyfully dancing to.
 	Cartoon 	The Bridgekeeper: Square
 	Film 	The kids form a triangle and a square.
 	Cartoon 	A needle and spool of thread cooperate to fix the king's torn pants.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Time-lapse of seeds growing.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Little Plant."
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: GROW
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird swears to give up magic, since none of his tricks seem to turn out right. Maria, Luis, and Susan try to encourage him not to because his accidental magic has still been amazing in some ways. Big Bird lets them try out Mumford's magic kit, but they don't get any results when they use it. Bob announces the sponsors.
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Category:Magic
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17