Episode 1969

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar holds a Grouchketeers meeting, teaching them some Grouchy words, such as "rotten," "yucky," and "terrible." Buster the Horse appears and teaches him another word - "abominable," which he passes onto the kids. Maria is pleased he's learned a new word and gives him a kiss of congratulations, making him furious.
 	Cartoon 	Consonant Sound Limerick: D—DogArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet asks another "Is this the D train?" A subway train then arrives, letting out several letter Ds.
 	Film 	A behind-the-scenes look of Paul Simon recording "Bingo" with his son, and the manufacturing of the record it will be on. (ending trimmed)
 	Cartoon 	Crayon Animation Letter D
 	Muppets 	Professor Grover tries to teach his students what "school" is, but he instead gets the lesson.
 	Cartoon 	A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 2 	Seth has a riddle for Big Bird: "What do you call a glass full of stuff you get from a cow that's good and healthy to drink and a bunch of ducks?... Milk and quackers!" Big Bird enjoys the riddle so much that he tries to spring it on Maria, Bob and Luis, but he learns that Seth already told it to them. Big Bird asks Elmo (Richard Hunt) if Seth told him the riddle, which he denies. When Big Bird tells it, Elmo correctly answers and clarifies that he had told the riddle to Seth.
 	Song 	Olivia sings "The Riddle."
 	Cartoon 	Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Es un perro
 	Song 	"Five Onstage Dancers"
 	Cartoon 	Lots of bunnies are needed to pull the huge carrot from the ground.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	SCENE 3 	Bob brings his blender to the Fix-It Shop, describing to Luis how it broke by imitating the sounds it made (first going "brrrrrrr," and then "rrriketta rrriketta click click click clank clonk"). The two have a laugh about the silly noises, and Luis assures Bob that he'll do his best to fix it. Oscar enters the shop with his blender and describes his problem in the exact same fashion, though reversing the sounds to infer he wants it broken. Luis comments, "I love the fix-it business."
 	Film 	Sounds Around the House v2: chimes, snoring, a boy pretending to be an airplane, a man playing a trumpet, and a motorcycle outside.
 	Cartoon 	A delivery person delivers five tall things.
 	Insert 	The Count counts five children as they rearrange their positions.
 	Film 	"Indian Baby Bath"Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "You're Alive."
 	Film 	Five Song (Song of Five)
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Big Bird and Crystal Gayle perform "Songs."
 	Film 	What do birds eat?
 	Cartoon 	An orange creature shows things that measure.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster builds a Two-Headed Snowman. It's missing noses; they fight over a carrot which breaks in half, solving the problem.
 	Cartoon 	Two groups of mountain goats try to pass each other on a mountain road.
 	Song 	Luis sings "Three of These Kids" -- three kids are playing basketball, and one is playing baseball.
center 	Cartoon 	A caterpillar escapes a hungry bird by turning into a butterfly.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	SCENE 4 	Dr. Nobel Price is trying to catch a butterfly to study. He refreshes his memory on what they look like, not noticing that an actual butterfly is fluttering behind him. Dr. Price uses a net to catch what he thinks is a butterfly, but turns out to be a candy wrapper. He also mistakes some leaves and a ribbon in Maria's hair as butterflies. Dr. Price then takes notice of a kid carrying two bananas, declaring to Maria that all this hunting has made him hungry.
 	Cartoon 	Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin)
 	Muppets 	Grover tries to demonstrate first and last by being first in line, but the other monsters keep switching on him.
 	Cartoon 	C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
 	Film 	Olivia (in voice-over) identifies different vegetables.
 	Animation 	Sand C/c
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #1
 	SCENE 5 	As Dr. Price goes back to butterfly hunting, Big Bird introduces the Snufflepuppet Show, starring Mr. Snuffleupagus's snufflepuppet Gus who appears from behind the doors to Big Bird's nest. Big Bird and Gus begin reciting the alphabet, but Snuffy warns that he's about to sneeze from having the puppet on his snuffle. They rush through the alphabet and finish just as Snuffy sneezes, causing Gus to fly off his snuffle and up into the sky. Big Bird goes to see where Gus lands.
 	SCENE 5 cont'd 	Big Bird notices Dr. Price inspecting the falling object with his binoculars, believing it to be a strange specimen of butterfly. As Gus hurtles towards them, Big Bird has Dr. Price hold out his net to catch it. Dr. Price is discouraged when he realizes he didn't catch a butterfly, but Big Bird reassures him that he'll catch one someday. As they talk, neither of them see the butterfly fluttering around them. Maria announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 16