Episode 1257

Picture	Segment 	Description
center 	COLD OPEN 	10th Season Intro Still
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird welcomes the viewer and tells them about being a baby and how he used to be fed as one. He then introduces a film about it...
 	Film 	Baby animals are fed milk.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"That's About the Size of It"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	The Count sings "The Song of the Count."
 	Film 	Kids comment over footage of an eagle's view of different kinds of roads.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Insert 	Cookie Monster explains the purpose of a telephone. Then, Maria and Luis tease Cookie by eating the telephone!
 	Cartoon 	The Story of the Crow and the Pitcher
 	Film 	Footage of an animal auction, where they auction off animals to dairy farmers and the like.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Grover helps Kermit show the number 5 using blocks, but Grover doesn't know how many to get (he can't count to 5). Kermit has him go back and forth bringing one until there is five.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #5
 	Film 	A turtle walks slowly.Music: "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod
 	Cartoon 	A boy says he has a big surprise in his hand.
 	SCENE 2 	While Mr. Hooper tends to business in his store, a strange character zooms in and frantically asks Mr. Hooper to plug him in before rushing out again. Afterward, Mr. Hooper has a delayed reaction as to what just happened. David enters and Mr. Hooper tries to explain what happened to him. They follow the cord outside to find the mystery person.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	The cord leads them to a TV outside, where the monster is focused on it ("I'm glued.") David and Mr. Hooper try to introduce themselves and find that the monster is making his home right there in the middle of the street, considering that his TV is already there. He reveals himself to be Telly Monster and shows off his spinning, dazed eyes.This street scene appears on the 40 Years of Sunny Days DVD.
 	Cartoon 	A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet.
 	Muppets 	"The Ballad of Casey McPhee"
 	Cartoon 	Nancy the nanny goat nibbles her nails and notices noodles.Artist: Tee Collins
 	Film 	There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one.
 	SCENE 3 	David tells Olivia about how odd Telly is, but Olivia thinks otherwise. They try to invite him to play baseball with them four blocks away, but he's unable to -- his cord only reaches three blocks.
 	Cartoon 	The IT knows a lot about vacuum cleaners.
 	Celebrity 	Judy Collins sings "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" with some kids on the shore.
 	Animation 	Slide puzzle - elephant
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Sand M/m
 	SCENE 4 	Olivia talks about the letters "m" and "n." Barkley shows her a few N words. She goes over to Telly and asks for some M words. He begins listing some shows beginning with M (including M*A*S*H, Masterpiece Theatre, Mickey Mouse and "Muppet Show").
 	Cartoon 	M for mouse, mud, and mother
 	Film 	George the Farmer is near when he's on a barrel; he's far when he's on the porch.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A STOP sign commands a train to stop.
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
 	Cartoon 	Stop! (Moving Colored STOP signs in fast-motion)
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper plans to use a hand buzzer when he asks someone to slap him five. Instead, the joker slaps a 5 on his chest.
 	Cartoon 	A mouse tries looking for his pet, describing to his friend what they did yesterday.
 	Cast 	Maria, Luis, Bob and David, dressed as scarecrows, sing about the ankle, shoulder and knee.
 	Cartoon 	5s go through a space-shredder and produce 5 objects.
 	Film 	Prairie dogMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: N for Nose
 	Animation 	Bridge #9 - Rectangle Bridge C
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird shows an amazing trick: when he takes 6 steps backward, he ends up on the stoop; when he takes 6 steps forward, he's back on the sidewalk. As he continues doing this, Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign.
==Gallery==
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==Notes==
*A draft of the script included a few extra scenes with Telly Monster, which weren't included in the broadcast version. These included a scene with Telly eating TV dinners, a scene where David and Olivia put on a play in an attempt to get Telly to ignore the television, and a different closing scene.See Talk: Telly Monster
==Sources==
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 10