Episode 0221

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon welcomes the viewer and sees the kids sitting on a giant letter, which he says is an M; the kids claim it's a W. When Gordon tries picking it up to portray it as an M, he has trouble. The kids pick it up with ease and display it as the intended letter - W.
 	Cartoon 	"Wanda the Witch"Animation by Tee Collins
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about the letter W. Cookie Monster eats the W.
 	Cartoon 	A worm declares that the word "worm" is the only important word that begins with "W". A walrus retaliates by dumping a bucket of water on it.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit tries to start his W lecture again, but the W comes to life and attacks him.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: W for water
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar shows Gordon the new grouch phone hanging on his trash can. His old phone bothered him as people continued to call him again and again, but he guarantees that with the new one, people will only end up calling him once. Right on cue someone calls Oscar, and the phone makes a cacophony of animal sounds, train whistles, clanging, and a Tarzan yell instead of rings. Oscar happily retreats into his can singing, "One less bell to answer..."
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 13 hits in a row, but miss on the 14th.
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges!
 	Song 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Caroll Spinney sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a sleepy koala.
 	Muppets 	"Everybody Moo": Cookie Monster and Herry make monster noises and animal noises and invite the viewer to do the same.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 3 hits in a row, but miss on the 4th.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #4"
 	Celebrity 	Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob and some kids admire the pebbles they found around the playground near Big Bird's nest. Bob comments that some kids in Africa do more than collect rocks just for admiring them.
 	Film 	African kids play at various activities, including a game with stones.
 	SCENE 4 	Susan plays a “Three of These Things” game using a feather duster and three kinds of brushes.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppets who keep running over the boy when his back is turned.
 	Film 	A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion!
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon plays a “Three of These Things” game using three fruits and a hot dog from Willy's cart.
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot recites a poem with OP words, counting on Grover to hop whenever he says "hop" — repeatedly, until Grover faints.
 	Cast 	Gordon, Susan and Bob each wear hats corresponding to different transportation modes, but find they're wearing the wrong hats when they get to their (pretend) vehicles.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #4" (repeat)
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center 	Animation 	Scanimate Films #4
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 	SCENE 6 	Brian, Gillian, and another kid help Mr. Hooper take the trash out. He then asks the kids how they help their parents, and how their parents help them. Mr. Hooper points out that even animal parents help their children, leading to the following...
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Tree kangaroo and baby.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 20 hits in a row, but miss on 21.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: A mandrill carries her young.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Grover asks Little Jerry and the Monotones (who are tired and don't seem to care about what they are doing) to hold up signs with letters that make up the word "walk". When Grover tells them what it spells, they walk over him.
 	Cartoon 	"Wanda the Witch" (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grover walks past the letters that spell "walk" and tells the viewers what the word is. The letters then walk over Grover.
 	SCENE 7 	Susan learns from Enrique that “vamos a caminar” means “let's walk” in Spanish.
 	Muppets 	Tony sings The Beatles song "Help!" because his date can’t go to the dance tonight and he needs someone to go with.
 	SCENE 8 	Big Bird asks Mr. Hooper for a cookie, even though he doesn’t have any money. Mr. Hooper explains that he just can't give him a cookie for free; otherwise he'd have to do it for everybody. Big Bird really wants to test this hypothesis, so Mr. Hooper gives him the cookie to prove it. Big Bird starts to show off his free cookie, and suddenly Gordon and the kids bombard Hooper's Store for one!
 	Film 	City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover)
 	Cartoon 	W for worm (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: W for water (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grover sees his shadow follow him around, and thinks it's a person following him. However, Herbert Birdsfoot explains what a shadow is.
 	SCENE 9 	Everyone says goodbye as they collect their free cookies from Mr. Hooper. Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Big Bird holds the Sesame Street sign, and Grover holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 2