Episode 0963

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar reads Bob a joke from his Grouch Book of Riddles: "What did the rock say to the mud puddle? Nothing - rocks can't talk!" He tells Bob a different riddle about a rotten apple, but the punchline to it is the same as the last riddle. Bob thinks that the jokes aren't funny, which is precisely the point: Grouches don't like having fun. Oscar continues reading more riddles - all with the same punchline - irritating Bob further until he sounds like a Grouch himself.
 	Animation 	The Queen of Six explores her garden.
 	Animation 	The number 6 is shown in a variety of ways.
 	Film 	Counting six oryxMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Children and animals numbered 1-12 race in a marathon. The #9 runner wins.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hair. According to Kermit, "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." He points out that some people have hair on their heads, while others have it on their faces. But if you have hair all over your body -- like Beautiful Day Monster, who emerges brushing himself and singing "A pretty girl is like a melody ..." -- then you're a monster!
 	Film 	Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work.
 	Cast 	Luis serves as the announcer for a ping pong match between Maria and David, who can't find his paddle. Once they're ready to go, they're pelted by several dozen ping pong balls.
 	Animation 	A 3 looks for its house.
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson orders bacon and eggs, but he can't decide how many of each he wants. Mr. Johnson says that Grover takes too long and asks for two hot dogs and two pickles for lunch. Grover then throws a tantrum in the kitchen.
 	Cartoon 	Z In Space
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppet cheerleaders sound out the word "rocket," then witness a rocket blasting off.
 	Cartoon 	Two alpine climbers hike up a letter Z and stake a claim on it.
 	Video 	Scanimate kids intro
 	SCENE 2 	Mr. Hooper observes how messy the yard is, and asks the kids to help him put the litter in a trash can.
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut.
 	Cartoon 	A boy acts out his feelings as animals. ("There's a zoo in me!")
 	Film 	A gymnast demonstrates beginning and end.
 	Cartoon 	An elephant and a bear try to cross a bridge to deliver their packages, but they're in each other's way.Voices: Hal Smith
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty H”
 	Film 	A hand tickles another with a feather. When it tries again, the ticklish hand growls and frightens the other away.
 	Cartoon 	Howard and Harold think of H words
 	Film 	Elephants (African percussion soundtrack)
 	SCENE 3 	Outside the Fix-it Shop, Linda and the kids play a “One of These Things” game, sorting by size using cut-outs of smiling ladies' faces.
 	Film 	Kids narrate a tortilla contest in English and Spanish.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	H is for horseshoe.
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird poses a question to some kids: "What is it that makes different people angry?" He sets out to learn the answer, starting with Maria, who is upset with teachers who give out too much homework.
 	Cartoon 	H - Horse
 	SCENE 4cont'd	What else makes people mad, Big Bird wonders? For Mr. Hooper, it's when someone doesn't come through on a promise... like the milkman who didn't show up by lunchtime.
 	Cartoon 	H for hair
 	SCENE 4cont'd	Big Bird encounters Linda, who tells him that the bus she wants to catch is late, and she plans on telling the bus driver how angry she is.
 	Cartoon 	The letter "k" walks away from the word "walk."
 	SCENE 4cont'd	Humming "Oh, who is angry in your neighborhood?" to himself, Big Bird encounters an irate Bob because his door key is jamming and he can't get into his apartment. Big Bird reflects on everything he's learned thus far, and wonders what makes himself angry. He realizes he doesn't have any of the same problems his friends have today, believing he's just a “silly old bird” with nothing worth getting upset over, which gets him so mad he lets out a growl.
center 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 4cont'd	Maria takes a break from studying to ask the kids what makes them mad; Chris mentions getting hot and bothered while tying his shoes, and Debo dislikes cleaning his room. An angry Big Bird joins the group using ersatz swear words ("Golly gosh, gee whiz!"), feeling left out that he's got nothing to be angry about. The group points out that he's angry about something right now, which gets Big Bird out of his funk.
 	Film 	The WALK sign flashes in a montage of people (and even dogs) walking in the city.
 	Cartoon 	Panels flip to reveal different ways things WALK.
 	Song 	David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.
 	Cartoon 	"Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator operator stops at ten floors to pick up passengers, including a witch, a fireman, and a kangaroo. The tenth passenger, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode.
 	Muppets 	Three Anything Muppets (including George) individually try to sell lemons, water, and sugar. After all of their businesses fail, the three cooperate to start a lemonade stand.
 	Film 	Alone Song
 	SCENE 5 	Bob continues to fume about his key, telling Maria, "This makes me so... so..." "Angry, right Bob?" Big Bird responds in voiceover. He continues to announce the sponsors as Maria and Bob confusingly look around for where his voice is coming from. (Big Bird: "My, your eyes get so blue when you're so cross!")
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8