Episode 2963

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Elmo watches as the Count counts Maria's spoonfuls of cereal as she eats. When she finishes at 18, the Count's trademark thunder and lightning flash, which Elmo enjoys listening to ("Kaboom-kaboom!" is how he puts it). Elmo wants to count her spoonfuls too and "make kabooms" like the Count, but Maria explains to him that he won't be able to since he's not the Count. Elmo says he will find a way to do so and leaves.
 	Video 	Alphaquest - Letter D: dry dusty desert, drums, dance, dinosaur
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Which legs belong on the man?
 	Muppets 	John-John and Herry Monster count to twenty.
 	Cartoon 	A girl explains the concept of relativity by explaining how her house is a part of a neighborhood, the neighborhood is part of a city, the city is part of a country, etc.
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon finds that Rosita has opened a hot chocolate stand, only to find she serves imaginary hot chocolate. She criticizes his method of imagination and demonstrates by having a mug of pretend chocolate, imagining she's in a cabin in the woods and seeing a marshmallow in the cup. When Gordon starts playing along the same way, Rosita says that she drank the last one and is all out.
 	Film 	Colored sand forms the letter B and a boat.
 	Film 	In a village in Africa, people catch fish and celebrate afterwards.
 	Animation 	OP words (Drop / stop / top / hop / pop)
 	Muppets 	"Street Garden Cooperation"
 	Cartoon 	Lady Marple-Bug solves "The Case of the Four Fliers" by identifying that the bird doesn't fit in amongst the group of butterflies.
 	SCENE 3 	Elmo plans on hitting a cardboard box that he borrowed from Christopher with a wooden spoon to make the "kaboom." Just as he finishes counting to 18, Christopher arrives stating that he needed the box after all, taking it away. Elmo suddenly gets another idea on how to make his own "kabooms."
 	Cartoon 	A spoof of Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" - the number of sandwiches the singer has to choose from.
 	Muppets 	Super Grover: "Dial S for SuperGrover" - A little girl had plans to play with a friend, Bobby, but she has too much homework and has to cancel. Super Grover arrives to help her figure out how to tell him, but while Super Grover is busy coming up with ridiculous ploys, the girl decides to just telephone him.
 	Cartoon 	Wilma Wiggins makes the very best of a very silly situation by hiccoughing her way through an opera.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Film 	Two apples balance on a block seesaw.
 	SCENE 4 	Elmo enlists the boisterous Frazzle to help him make "kabooms," but before he is able to he is called home for lunch. "This 'kaboom' business (is) harder than Elmo thought," a crestfallen Elmo says.
 	Cartoon 	Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D.
 	Film 	Kids climb in and out of a tire.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Mr. Johnson goes to Pizzeria Dos to get a piece of pizza, but comes to find that at this restaurant there is two of everything, including himself.
 	Cartoon 	Lillian is proud because she climbed a mountain all by herself.Artist: Craig Bartlett
 	Celebrity 	Robin Williams demonstrates with his shoe how to tell if something is alive.
 	Cartoon 	"Part of the Whole"Artist: Sally Cruikshank
 	SCENE 5 	Sherlock Hemlock finds Maria on the ground in front of the Fix-It Shop. Using the clues of Maria feeling around and a broken clock on the workbench, he deduces that Maria has given up on fixing the clock and is going on a jolly bug hunt instead. Maria informs him that she's actually looking for a gear that came loose from the clock, which Sherlock observes is stuck to the bottom of her shoe. He declares the case closed and goes off on a jolly bug hunt himself.
 	Cartoon 	Letter B/b (bouncing circles)
 	Muppets / Cast	"Singing in the Shower" - Olivia, Ernie, Oscar, and Big Bird sing about how they like to sing in their various modes of cleaning (shower, bathtub, mudbath, and birdbath respectively.)
 	Cartoon 	A boy builds a house out of blocks, and when the girl builds a Victorian house, the boy calls her a copycat.
 	Film 	"Operation Playground" Kids at a school come up with ideas for a new playground, and raise money for the effort. Together with their parents and other people from the neighborhood, they build the playground.
 	Animation 	A Navajo blanket is formed as tribal music plays.
 	SCENE 6 	Elmo has stacked up a bunch of objects in the middle of the yard and plans to knock them down with the pull of the string to make the "kabooms." Maria talks Elmo out of it, not only because of the mess and commotion it would cause, but Elmo also realizes it would be a lot of work to do it again when he wanted to count. Maria agrees to help Elmo come up with a better way to make "kabooms," but he ends up knocking the pile over when he forgets he's still holding the string when leaving with Maria.
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #18
 	Muppets 	Muppets cheer on a rocket launch.
 	Film 	Stop-frame animation of a girl on a beach, reading a book containing pictures of various sea creatures that come to life as she comes to their pages.
 	Video 	A family prepares a picnic lunch in fast and slow motion with synthesized music in the background.
 	Film 	Colored sand forms the letter B and a buffalo.
 	SCENE 7 	Maria suggests that Elmo listen to a pre-recorded thunder clap for his "kabooms" with a Walkman and headphones, pressing play and stop whenever needed. He gives it a try and counts to 18, enjoying the thunder sounds with Maria afterward. Rosita announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
*According to the original script, Frazzle's role was to be played by a "large AM" named Gargo.
*Joey Mazzarino voices Frazzle's offscreen parent.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 23