Episode 1162

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Everyone wakes up from a good night's sleep to a beautiful morning in New Mexico. Everyone except Oscar, that is - he can't get to sleep without the loud noises of the trucks and buses back home, sounds which the others would rather avoid. And the sweet-smelling lilacs make it even worse for him! He decides to find someplace else to sleep.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls.
 	Muppets 	Cheers: F Cheer #1
 	Cartoon 	F - FaceArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F.
 	Muppets 	Cheers: F Cheer #1 (Spanish soundtrack)
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar finds a little clay hut that has a door, but no windows. Bob and Maria try to warn him against going in, but he insists -- and then flies out again, covered in hot ashes. They tell him that he was trying to sleep in the hot oven. Luis tells him that he knows the perfect place for a Grouch to sleep -- it's messy, away from the house, and has a good view of the dump.
 	Cartoon 	A mad scientist (voiced by Daws Butler) teaches his monster how to say the words "Fred," "foot", and "Friday."
 	Film 	Baby turtles swim around.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
 	SCENE 3 	Luis takes Oscar to the compost heap. Mrs. Romo explains that they dump the table scraps and peelings on the heap, and let it rot so they can use it as fertilizer. Oscar is delighted, and settles down in the compost heap to watch everything rot.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Five bugs are counted, until one bug engulfs the other four.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Celebrity 	Whitman Mayo tries to display the concept of UP, but soon discovers that he can't stay up in the air when he jumps. However, a group of kids can jump and stay up in the air (with the help of video trickery).
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Marlena observe their knees.
 	Cartoon 	Panels flip to reveal different ways things WALK.
 	Film 	The crosswalk light says WALK.
 	SCENE 4 	Maria is up on a ladder working on the roof when she hears the phone ringing. She runs down the ladder and into the house to get the phone and talk to The Count, calling long-distance from Sesame Street. After they talk, Maria goes back outside and up the ladder again -- and then she has to run back inside to get another call. It's the Count again! After Maria goes back up the ladder and then runs back inside for the third time, the Count reveals that he's been counting the long-distance calls he makes to Maria.
 	Cartoon 	"Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
 	Film 	Mad Painter #7
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #7Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	"The Rhymies at Sea" - Larry, Mary and Barry sail on a ship, which sinks.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: DON'T WALK
 	Film 	A marching band counts from 1 to 20.
 	Cartoon 	G is for Goat
 	Cast 	"Sluggo the Great" (David) puts on his baseball gear, but isn't sure which body parts to put them on.
 	Cartoon 	A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job.
 	Film 	A boy climbs up a tree to gather coconuts.
 	Cartoon 	Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks.
 	SCENE 5 	Luis and his grandfather are planning to ride to their neighbor's ranch to get some nails. Bob and Gordon offer to go instead, but Luis says they'll have to ride horses. He doesn't think they can do it, but they insist that they can. Luis gives them directions to the ranch. When Luis is gone, Bob and Gordon admit to each other that they don't know what a "mesa" or an "arroyo" is, and they don't know how to ride horses. They ask a kid to help; she knows how to ride.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A football player talks about his favorite sport.Artist: John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	Silent film: Two men (played by Richard Belzer and Brian Doyle-Murray) are about to share a picnic lunch, but first decide to try rowing a boat on the lake. A brown dog arrives and starts to eat the sandwiches. Panicking, the men try to steer the rowboat back to the shore but they can't direct the boat. Eventually, they realize that to return they must cooperate. They get back just in time to take back the last wrapped sandwich out of the dog's mouth.
 	Cartoon 	F stands for flower, forest, fox, frog and fantastic.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Cookie Monster appears to Ernie as the Cookie Bunny.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: F for Fly
 	SCENE 6 	A boy bottle-feeds a baby goat.
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (repeat)
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Grasshopper
 	Muppets 	Mr. Johnson has been served a bowl of soup, but flags down his waiter to make a complaint. He asks Grover to inspect the fly that's in his soup, but Grover looks under; next to; and above the soup before he agrees to bring out a new bowl. The kitchen is all out of what Mr. Johnson ordered, so he brings him Cream of Mosquito.
 	Transition 	Bridge #5 - 4 Corner Bridge C
 	SCENE 7 	Maria and Gordon appreciate the peace and quiet of the New Mexico ranch, but then they're startled to hear loud traffic noises. They follow the sound to Oscar's trash can, where he's playing street noise on his stereo set. He feels homesick, so he's playing loud noises to make it feel more like home. Maria and Gordon tell him that he's bothering the animals, so he has to listen to the noise through headphones. Realizing that they're a little homesick for the city too, Maria and Gordon ask if they can share the headphones with Oscar. The three city dwellers listen to the familiar sounds of traffic as the sun goes down over the ranch. Maria announces the sponsors.The story of the New Mexico trip continues in Episode 1163.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Oscar and The Count hold the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 9