Episode 1237

Picture	Segment 	Description
center 	COLD OPEN 	10th Season Intro Still
 	SCENE 1 	In the early hours of the morning, Luis strolls over to the Fix-It Shop and discovers that the door is already unlocked. He hears some sounds coming from within and suspects a robber is in the store, and leaves to call the police. The two officers arrive to catch the culprit; one orders for them to come out with their hands out while they both draw their pistols at the ready. The culprit turns out to be... Maria, who also got in early to work on Mrs. Miller's radio! Luis sheepishly invites the cops for some coffee, relieved that Maria isn't a criminal.
 	Cartoon 	A scientist adds legs, feet, then knees to his robot and tells it to walk, but it dances out of shot instead (as does the scientist).
 	Film 	A boy makes fruit salad.
 	Cartoon 	A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Jason identify the letter C, for carrot.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him.
 	Cartoon 	C - Cake
center 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish.
 	Insert 	Bob, Luis and Gordon sing "Three Musketeers."
 	Celebrity 	Tennis star Arthur Ashe demonstrates over and under.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Cookie Monster helps Kermit the Frog illustrate through.
 	Film 	An ice cream man hands a boy too many cones. The boy cries out for "HELP" and some kids eat the extras.
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar studies his Spanish for Grouches book so he can learn how to insult people in any language. Mr. Hooper, Maria, and Linda pass by and Oscar tells them off in both English and Spanish. He thinks he's finally one step ahead of everybody, but soon realizes that he doesn't know how to tell Linda anything mean in sign language.
 	Cartoon 	A bee looks for a flower.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Grover opens a menu and shows Mr. Johnson a large picture of the special sandwich, which comes with potato chips on the side, a pickle on the top, and olive stuck in with a toothpick. When the sandwich arrives, Mr. Johnson complains that it doesn't match the picture on the menu -- it doesn't have potato chips, a pickle or an olive.
 	Cartoon 	Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Film 	City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover)
 	Muppets 	While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream, and finally, some whipped cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does.
 	Cartoon 	Abierto: Ali Baba arrives a bit late and gets run over by the 40 thieves leaving.
 	Film 	African children play in a village, and in a modern playground.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird feels like having a friendly chat with somebody and designates Linda as his conversation partner. Linda, however, is unable to talk as she's carrying packages in her arms. Linda tries to communicate with him, but Big Bird takes it as her wanting to ignore him and gets upset. Maria intervenes and explains that Linda needs her hands to talk, but can't do it when she's busy using them. Maria holds Linda's packages so she can give Big Bird a hug.
 	Cartoon 	G is for GlueArtists: The Hubleys
 	Film 	A boy compares the growth of the sunflowers to his own height.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A wizard walks through a door. A boy in pajamas tries to imitate him without success.
 	Insert 	Bob and the kids sing "Right in the Middle of My Face."
 	Cartoon 	A goose and gander visit the land of the G's.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A girl goes to the shoemaker and watches him as he repairs her shoes.
 	Muppets 	Super Grover: Young Willy Nilly is scared to get his hair cut. Super Grover tells Willy that haircuts are scary, but he must be brave. However, Max the barber shows them both that haircuts do not hurt, and soon they are no longer afraid of hair cuts.
 	Cartoon 	C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
 	SCENE 4 	Luis, Maria, Linda, Big Bird, and the kids are planning a surprise birthday party for Mr. Hooper in the yard while he's busy inside his store. They concoct a plan to keep it a surprise: they'll each separately buy something for the party to keep him from catching on, then Big Bird ensures he stays inside the store until they're done setting things up. Each time someone goes in to get something Mr. Hooper questions if somebody is having a party, which Big Bird overhears and causes him to go into a panic that the storekeeper will find out about the plan.
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	Big Bird goes in to try to stall for time while everybody is setting up, but he again worries that the plan has been foiled by Mr. Hooper. Instead, the party turns into a big surprise as Mr. Hooper had forgotten the occasion himself. Everyone congratulates Big Bird on making the party a success.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
 	Cartoon 	"I'm six years old today!"
 	Film 	A bumble beeMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Pageant: The Four Seasons
 	Animation 	Sand C/c
 	SCENE 5 	Mr. Hooper and the others raise their cups of apple juice in a celebratory cheer as Maria announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, and Maria holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 10