Episode 0785

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria and Luis greet the viewer, and Maria invites them to do some imagining with her. She imagines that she's almost as small as a group of jacks, and is worried that the enormous kitten that Luis is petting might want to eat her.
 	Cartoon 	Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / patVoice: Daws Butler
 	Film 	Field of hay (kid voice-overs)Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Light and heavy (ball and seal)
 	Muppets 	John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
 	Film 	The letter T is a very useful letter.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter has an electric train.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird recites a poem he wrote after pretending to be a woodpecker: he banged his beak on a tree all day, and now it's bandaged.
 	Film 	Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker!
 	Cartoon 	Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter).
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Light and heavy (bird falls on man)
 	Insert 	Gordon sings "A Kid Like You."
 	Cartoon 	Two men hammer a stake into a hole.
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty T”
 	Film 	A letter T drives through a tunnel.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Lena Horne and the Anything Muppets sing an upbeat version of "The Alphabet Song."
 	Cartoon 	A cartoon man (Bob Arbogast) is irritated to find that he has a succession of animal noses.
 	SCENE 3 	A voiceover instructs Maria to try to pick up Mr. Hooper, who is heavy, then to pick up Luis, who is light (because he's chroma-keyed into the shot).
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola discuss the difference between "heavy" and "light".
 	Cartoon 	A man can't lift heavy barbells.
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10
 	SCENE 4 	After trying to play hopscotch with the kids, Mr. Snuffleupagus leads them into a game they can all play: “Doin' the Snuffleupagus.”
 	Cartoon 	A boy talks about his various moods.Artist: Bob Kurtz
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet brings his broken BUS (the word) to a garage for a mechanic to fix up.
 	Cartoon 	B ... US! We're on the bus!
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog, Smart Person, helps Max Ferbilfeemer (Luis) learn the difference between happy and scared.
 	Cartoon 	A girl and elephant show heavy and light.
 	Film 	"Indian Baby Bath"Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	T es para telefono
 	Muppets 	Ernie explains how a scale can determine what is heavier than another object. With the scale, he was planning to split some cookies with Bert, but can't figure out how to do it. Cookie Monster shows him his way of solving the problem: he eats the cookies off each side of the scale until there are no cookies left. Ernie is disappointed since all he's left with is a "really good scale". Cookie disagrees--he's tasted better.
 	Film 	Counting to 20.
 	SCENE 5 	Mr. Hooper and Luis find Oscar in Hooper's Store, preparing to interview a number of Grouches lined up outside since he will be leaving for a few days and he wants a replacement Grouch. A Southern Grouch with a cowboy hat is the first applicant, and Oscar hands him a flowerpot with a flower in it, asking what he'd do with them. The applicant says he'd throw the flower in the wastebasket, but Oscar says a real Grouch would throw away the flower and the pot, and throw the dirt everywhere – which he does, to Mr. Hooper's dismay.
 	SCENE 5cont'd 	The next applicant, a Grouch from Denver with bushy hair, comes in. Oscar asks him what he'd do with a dirty old torn shirt like the one he produces, and the Grouch says he'd wear it to the opera. Oscar counters that a real Grouch would tear the shirt up even further and hang it up on the living room wall. Next!
 	SCENE 5cont'd 	Oscar asks the third applicant what they'd do with a bunch of old newspapers. The mustached applicant proceeds to tear them to shreds, dirtying up the store even further. Oscar lauds this display of grouchiness, and gives the applicant the job – but the applicant makes the mistake of showing gratitude (a big Grouch no-no). Oscar concludes that it's up to him to keep Sesame Street grouchy.
 	Cartoon 	Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R.
 	Film 	George the Farmer saws the legs off a table.
 	Muppets 	"How Do You Do" (Grover and Lena Horne) (alternate take)
 	Film 	An osprey flies around.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 6 	Luis plays a “Here Are Some Things” game at the Fix-it Shop. What goes with the three big circles: the big square or the small circle?
 	Film 	"Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version)
 	Animation 	Sand T/t
 	SCENE 7 	Mr. Snuffleupagus gives hopscotch with the kids another try as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and Luis hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 6