Episode 1947

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Linda and Timi meet a poor Honker who has hurt his nose and can't honk to communicate. They educate him on sign language and teach him to sign the entire alphabet, which can help him learn to spell words he can't sign. He uses this new skill to spell the word "honk."
 	Cartoon 	A pig sings "Pig's Love Song."
 	Cast / Muppets	Olivia reads the story of "How the King Got His Kazoo."In the story, a king wants to have a party and asks his subjects to bring the royal kazoo. The subjects don't listen and instead bring the royal canoe, then shampoo and finally, zoo. One little girl tries listening and successfully brings him his kazoo. He appoints her the Royal Listener, who will listen to the king and tell the rest his requests.
 	Cartoon 	"Wanda the Witch"Animation by Tee Collins
 	Insert 	Three of These Kids are playing policeman, but the other one is playing fireman.
 	Cartoon 	W for witchArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	While building a doghouse with Sully, Biff sings "We Coulda," listing all the jobs they could've done outside the world of construction.
center 	Animation 	2 houses plus 3 houses equal 5.
 	Muppets 	Bert and Sherlock Hemlock ask John-John if he wants to count, and John-John enthusiastically rises to the occasion.
 	Cartoon 	Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain.
 	Song 	"Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure.
 	Cartoon 	A boy shares his bubbles with some kids dancing in a field.
 	Muppets 	Wearing oven mitts, Telly places an H and an OT together to make the word HOT.
 	Cartoon 	One of these shoe pairs ...
 	Film 	David asks the viewer to find a rectangle and two circles in the picture of a doorbell.
 	SCENE 2 	In the Fix-It Shop, David and Big Bird boot up a disk with information about all the known animals of the world. Big Bird wants to look up one creature in particular and describes it bit by bit to David, who slowly inputs the info. The program registers many animals at first, but as the details get more specific, it finally narrows down Big Bird's descriptions to one animal - Snuffleupagus. David takes this in for a moment, then remarks, "I'm beginning to lose my faith in technology."
 	Film 	A mandrill carries her young.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	It's a squirrelArtist: Ishu Patel
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #4
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Four elephants at the circusArtist: Owe Gustafson
 	Film 	A marching band counts from 1 to 20.
 	Cartoon 	A troll draws different faces on herself in front of a mirror.
 	SCENE 3 	Linda and Timi prepare to tell the kids a story, teaching them the signs for "happy" and "sad." Oscar appears and complains, so they tell a story about a Grouch that he'd like. Every so often, the kids must use the signs they've learned to express how the main character, Grimy, is feeling about his birthday party.
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster presents four lions.
 	Celebrity 	Victor Borge plays a short note, followed by a very long note (that even puts himself to sleep).
 	Cartoon 	The long rattlesnake thinks he's better than the short one, until the short one outsmarts him by making him bite his own tail. "Wanna borrow my snakebite kit?"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent film about an automobile that can be either long or short.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria talks about 'W'
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: W, Wall
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar recruits the kids to help him prepare some alphabet soup. They call out different letters, which starts a random ingredient that Oscar adds to his soup pot. The recipe concludes a Z entry - a zooming zucchini. Timi peers into the can to see this and gets splashed.
 	Cartoon 	Small letter b (ball/bat)
 	Film 	George the Farmer's ladder gets taller and shorter, as does his box of berries.
 	Cartoon 	How do frogs make more frogs? The birth and growth of a frog is documented. At the very end, the fully-grown frog hops in the middle of a field and calls out, "Hey, Kermit!"Artist: Cathryn Aison
 	Muppets / Cast	In a grid, Big Bird, Herry Monster, David, Olivia, Gladys the Cow, The Count and two kids rhyme the word "Hi."
 	Animation 	Sand B/b
 	SCENE 5 	Bob and Linda find Timi and Oscar enjoying soup together; they both say its delicious. Linda boldly wants to try some and samples Timi's bowl, finding it delicious as well. Bob looks in the bowl and finds it's not a yucky alphabet soup at all. Timi reveals that she sent out for Chinese and has some wonton soup; Oscar's bowl has the actual alphabet soup. Bob and Linda leave once Oscar offers some of his, and Bob announces the sponsors.
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 1947
 1947
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 15