Episode 2177

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria welcomes the viewer from the yard, where Telly and the kids are writing their own stories today. Telly hasn’t started on his because he’s scared that the wind will blow his paper away, all the way to the Amazon jungle where he’ll have to go to fetch it, and maybe ask a monkey for help. His imagination runs away with him until Maria offers a solution: he can hold the paper down with his right hand while holding his pencil in his left hand. Telly likes this, only now he doesn’t know what to write about. Maria suggests the scenario he just imagined, but he’s already forgotten it.
 	Cartoon 	A salesman offers a passerby the letter N for next to nothing.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Brian talk about here and there.
 	Cartoon 	A painter paints a Number Nine, then hangs it.Artist: Tom Gabbay
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A hippo tries to get a coconut from a tree.Artist: John Korty
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Hippopotamus Round."
 	SCENE 2 	Maria encounters Oscar, who is watching Slimey take a picture of his pet slug, Sluggy. Maria finds Sluggy repulsive, and Oscar tells her everything he knows about slugs. Slimey indicates he wants a picture of Maria, but Oscar clarifies that he wants it to be with Sluggy.
 	Cartoon 	A photographer tries to look for some animals quietly, but they all end up secretly following him.
 	Film 	Alone Song
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob reads "The Turtle Who Wanted to Make Friends" about a turtle who comes to the forest, but is afraid of every potential animal friend he sees.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Film 	A boy visits the hospital to see his mother's new baby.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan and the kids watch as Slimey blends “P” and “ET” blocks to form the word “pet.” Susan thinks Slimey is asking to be petted, but Oscar says he really wants them to pet Sluggy. They ask Slimey if it's okay, but he tells Susan and the kids to pet Oscar instead, which they do.
 	Cartoon 	Millie and Molly argue over whether to get a pet cat or a dog, so their mom gets them a turtle instead.
center 	Muppets 	The Twiddlebugs get a new postage stamp portrait of George Washington, but have trouble getting it to stick to the wall. They finally get it to work, but it is upside down.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play."
 	Cartoon 	Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat. Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	As ominous music plays, the Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does.
 	Cartoon 	A postal worker tells the viewer what the post office is good for.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin obeys the word HOP, then switches it to STOP.
 	Cartoon 	Uncle Al tells his nephew a story about a dog he had, but gets mixed up with the details.Artist: Marv Newland
 	SCENE 4 	Piri brings his boombox to the Fix-it Shop for Luis to fix. He wants Luis to fix it soon, as he dislikes being without his music. Luis suggests that Piri can make music on his own, talking about how his family used to do that in New Mexico. After playing a bit of "La Bamba" he loans Piri his guitar and begins to teach him how to play a couple of chords.
 	Cartoon 	A hand draws a guitarist serenading a maiden, as well as the background.
 	Muppets 	"The Opposite Song"
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought ... about circles.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Kids narrate a tortilla contest in English and Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought ... about circles. (Spanish)Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Celebrity 	Whitman Mayo recites the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	A man gets a letter C in the mail.
 	SCENE 5 	Luis gives Piri back his boombox, and Piri says he wants to get better at playing the guitar. He fantasizes about hearing his solo performance at Carnegie Hall on his boombox.
 	Cartoon 	Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated by their group, teaching a lesson in counting backwards.
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Dance Myself to Sleep."
 	Cartoon 	Nine penguins slide down a hill.Artist: Owe Gustafson
 	Film 	Seashells form various patterns in the sand.
 	Cartoon 	A boy listens to his surroundings by the ocean, until his mom calls him for lunch.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A bird transforms into a plane, a car, a cat, a fish, a submarine, Submarine Man, and back to a bird.Artist: Vince Collins
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird and the kids watch Piri practice guitar, and talk about playing musical instruments. Luis announces the sponsors as a solo guitar version of the "Sesame Street Theme" plays.
==Notes==
* Additional performers include Kevin Clash, heard as a radio announcer during Piri's fantasy during scene 5.
==Gallery==
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==See also==
Episode 4175 - Slimey gets another pet named Dirty
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17