Episode 3087

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Savion, Lillian, Duane, and the kids sing about the word "original."
 	Animation 	Rubber Stamp #15
 	Film 	A girl narrates a film of herself taking care of her horse, Strawberry.
 	Animation 	Pencil box Y / y
 	Muppets 	"Barn in the USA"
 	Cartoon 	A cartoon shows a few Spanish words - which are also English words.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Song 	"Ja, Ja, That is the Mountain"Artist: Jane Aaron
 	SCENE 2 	Roxie Marie visits her uncle Biff at his workshop to tell him she did well on her math test. Biff reveals something he's working on that's number-related too. He brings out a birdhouse with one final nail left to be hammered, saying it needs to be hit exactly 15 times; he's even made a note on the wall to remind himself. After he hits it the right number, Roxie wonders what happens if he hits it more than 15 times. He gives it a try and the entire birdhouse collapses.
 	Cartoon 	Abstract count to 15
 	Muppets 	Big Bird's Video PostcardsBig Bird visits a Puerto Rican casita in East Harlem. He tries to find out what people do there, but everyone is too busy feeding chickens, planting tomatoes, cooking, and planning music to answer.
 	Cartoon 	A boy puts a red and green monster together using a diagram.
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"Around and Around"
 	Cartoon 	The Great Inventors Series: John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, invents a new type of food that can be eaten while playing cards.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 3 	Duane has Christine, who is blind, identify the shapes of a triangle, a rectangle, and a circle by feeling them. He then gives her another kind of circle: a big cookie, which they share.
 	Animation 	Looking for shapes on the Aztec Calendar Stone (Maria voiceover)
 	Muppets 	"Body Rhythms" by Little Jerry and the Monotones.
 	Film 	Two boys walk though a city neighborhood to some funky break dancing music.
 	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 	"Crocodile Smiles Song": A crocodile sings about good oral hygiene.Artist: Michael Sporn
 	SCENE 4 	Merry Monster brings Herry to the yard so they can show Prairie Dawn how they sound alike. Prairie notes that their voices are distinctly different: by her words, Herry has a deep, "furry-sounding" voice while Merry's is rather shrill. Merry reveals that what she's referring to is how their names rhyme, and she and Herry laugh at their little trick.
 	Cartoon 	"What Do You Do With a Pet?"
 	Cast / Celebrity	Wanda the Word Fairy introduces the viewer to her parents.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"Magic Pig"Artist: Vince Collins
 	Film 	Kids narrate a film of how a river is formed.
 	Animation 	Planet Y / y
 	SCENE 5 	Lillian reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to the kids and the Count, who naturally takes joy in counting the different foods the titular character eats. Following the story, the Count lists the other groups of food the caterpillar would eat if he had written it.
 	Cartoon 	Jerry Nelson sings "In My Book."
 	Cast 	Linda signs the word snow, and Gordon gets snowed on.
 	Muppets 	"Daddy Helps with the Dishes" - three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. They all agree that when they all do it, "It soon gets done!"
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: J for jump
 	Song 	"Me and My Chair"
 	Cartoon 	Shorty reaches a water fountain with a stool.
 	SCENE 6 	Savion teaches Lillian and the kids some basic tap dance moves that they should learn before they can do original ones. When Savion demonstrates a more complicated step, Duane jokes that he did the same thing yesterday. Lillian then does something she knows how to do: announce the sponsors.
==Notes==
*Duane and Christine have previously appeared together to demonstrate what it's like being blind in Episode 2935.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 24