Episode 0970

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	While working outside the Fix-it Shop, Luis can hear Bob and the kids rehearsing "Old MacDonald" up in his apartment. He's shocked by the realistic animal sounds he hears during each verse. Eventually, he calls up to Bob to get an explanation and finally understands when Simon Soundman pops out of the window as well.
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #10
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag.
 	Cartoon 	Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much.
 	Cast 	Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker.
 	Animation 	Slide puzzle - elephant
 	Muppets 	Here Is Your Life: A loaf of bread is profiled.
 	Film 	A girl narrates a film of her grandpa putting a horseshoe on their horse.
 	SCENE 2 	Bob and Linda play a “Three of These Things” game with three balls and a carrot.
 	Cartoon 	What if a turtle and rabbit switched appearances?
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Count it Higher."
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: Y is for Yo-Yo
 	Cast 	A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three.
 	Cartoon 	Which footprint doesn't belong?
 	Film 	A bumble beeMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Two men on a park bench turn their radios up louder and louder, each trying to drown the other's out, until they reach a station they can agree on.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A cat, bird and worm illustrate small, smaller and smallest.
 	Film 	A trip to the doctor's office.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y.
 	Animation 	Sand Y/y
 	Film 	Kids watch a silent movie with a man resting on the train tracks with an oncoming trolley - DANGER!
 	Cartoon 	Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus.
 	Muppets 	Sherlock Hemlock tries to figure out why there is a mess outside. He speculates that the Twiddlebugs made a mess after a Twiddlebug dance.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television
 	Cast 	Susan, Bob, and Maria give a lesson on addition and subtraction.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television (Spanish)
 	Muppets 	Grover reads a sign that says DANGER and looks around for said danger. He doesn't find it anywhere until he trips and falls on the sign.
 	Animation 	Three balls compare sizes. An orange ball (voiced by Daws Butler) boasts that he's the smallest, until his little brother comes onto the scene.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird sees Linda and Luis looking over her photos from previous jobs and headshots. He learns that Linda is looking for a job as an actress. Bob and Luis explain that finding work as a deaf actress is hard, but Linda is determined. Luis looks in the trades and finds roles that are either for non-deaf people, or are too far away from Sesame Street. Big Bird thinks she wants to stamp her feet and yell, but that won’t do any good; she just has to keep trying. Finally, she finds an open position that she can apply for, and proceeds to do so.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A small frog unveils a smaller man, who unveils the smallest elephant.
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about taking a nap.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: Y is for Yo-Yo (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Linda returns to the street and tells her friends that she's landed a gig on a soap opera, playing a deaf woman who falls in love with a doctor. Simon Soundman announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	The Count holds the Sesame Street sign, while Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign.
==Notes==
*Scene 1 would later be remade, with Maria in place of Luis, in Episode 2722.
==Gallery==
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8