Episode 0576

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis is concentrating on work outside the Fix-It Shop and is dismayed when the Count appears. Luis insists that he needs to concentrate and claims the Count's counting always distracts him. The Count agrees, and instead lists the things he won't count, though he goes ahead and counts them in passing.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9
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center 	Film 	Russian nesting dolls 1-10
 	Film 	Empty / full playground (time-lapse)
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Genelle say the alphabet.
 	SCENE 2 	Susan sees it's about to rain and proposes Big Bird and the kids play a game finding things that rhyme with "rain." Big Bird digs through his nest area, finding only a toy locomotive, a toy jet and a stick. Susan and the kids regroup, where they show what they have brought (including an Anything Muppet girl named Jane). Susan points out that the items Big Bird has set out are actually a train, plane and cane. Big Bird declares, "What a brain!"
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Using pictures on the blackboard, Roosevelt Franklin tells the class a story about two little dogs who find a big ol' bone in a doghouse. They try to take the bone, but it turns out that it belongs to a big, mean dog, who chases them away. The moral of the story: "If something's not yours, leave it alone; could be a big ol' dog in the doghouse."
 	Cartoon 	A man tries to explain how to put wallpaper up.Artist: Jim Simon
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 	Cartoon 	A is for ape.
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 	SCENE 3 	Gordon sings "Which of These is a Square?" with the kids, asking them to identify the shape on an art board.
 	Muppets 	The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches.
 	Film 	Subway Train Empty & Full.
 	Cartoon 	A jar is full of jellybeans. The jar becomes empty, while a hungry boy is full.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Two glasses are filled with fluid, but one glass overflows as a hand keeps pouring into it. The same thing happens using salt shakers and bowls of nuts. Finally, the glasses are filled again, only one glass barely fills up as fluid is poured into it. The camera pulls out, revealing the glass is filling into another one below, which overflows as before.
 	Cast 	A Volkswagen Beetle pulls up in a limbo space. A voiceover (Jerry Nelson) points out that the car is full. Some of the cast exits and the voice assumes the car is empty, until more and more people (including Big Bird and even Mr. Snuffleupagus) exit from the car.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #9
 	Cartoon 	What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper: Do Ya Have an A on Ya?
 	SCENE 4 	At his nest, Big Bird reads a brief poem he's written about the turtle. He doesn't like the rhyme he's crafted ("shirt-le"), so he tells the viewer to hang tight...
 	Film 	Baby turtles swim around.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	Big Bird now rhymes "turtle" with "dessert-le," another bad rhyme. He brings up the previous film once more...
 	Film 	Baby turtles swim around. (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	Big Bird now instead rhymes "dirt" with "turt." Frustrated, he tosses his pad and pencil away. He makes a wish to jump in the river like a fish, realizing this makes a perfect, rhyming poem. He frantically searches for his writing tools to record this.
 	Film 	A garfish swims around.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet demonstrates empty by leaving his room, soon Grover and his friends, including Cookie Monster, occupy the room making it full. The Anything Muppet comes in and scares the monsters away leaving it empty.
 	Cartoon 	Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Two kids cooperate on putting on smocks for painting.
 	Cartoon 	The story of an old woman who lived in a nine.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird notices Gordon fiddling around with an accordion, Susan biting into an apple, Willy adjusting his apron, and Luis fixing an axe. Big Bird senses a pattern here, prompting him to sing "The Sound of the Letter A."
 	Cartoon 	Words that begin with A, ending with ambulance (Spanish soundtrack)Animated by Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	A film shows parts of a flower.Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo
 	Cartoon 	"Bumble Ardy #9" -- Young Bumble Ardy invites nine pigs to his birthday party while his mother, Sweet Adeline, is away.
 	Cast 	No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people.
 	Cartoon 	A STOP sign commands a train to stop.
 	Muppets 	Lefty tries to sell Ernie a STOP sign.
 	Cartoon 	B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee.
 	Film 	A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas".
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #9 (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	A boxer explains the letter "B".
 	SCENE 6 	The sponsors are announced.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5