Episode 0680

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	While Biff and Sully dig up Sesame Street, Oscar loses his phone service and Susan's water stops running. Just as Biff tells them all will be restored after the work, Susan gets a call from Oscar's grouch hotline on her hose, and water starts spraying out of Oscar's phone. Biff yells down to Sully to check that they didn't get their connections crossed.
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert, and Shola observe a letter A. Ernie calls out, "A, Bert!"
 	Cartoon 	A shoemaker shows how he measures (human) feet with his ruler.
 	Muppets 	When Maurice, a hapless casanova, puts an Anything Muppet woman's head together, he tells her that he loves her, but it turns out she doesn't love him. He then proceeds to take her head apart, bit by bit, as he sings "I Want to Hold Your Ear" (as well as eyes, nose, tooth, and hair). After she walks off in a huff, he notices to his shock that the parts he set aside have attached themselves to the tablecloth, who thinks he's kinda cute.
 	Song 	"Watch the Dance": A calypso singer points out the body parts of a dancer.
 	Animation 	Sand A/a
 	SCENE 2 	Letter "A" quickies:
* The alarm on Big Bird's clock goes off, waking him up.
* Luis gets pounced upon by some kids - his amigos.
* David recites the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man walks in an IN.
 	Film 	Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent movie of a girl who is stuck IN the quicksand.
 	Cartoon 	Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks.
 	Film 	Five Song (Song of Five)
 	SCENE 3 	Luis calls two strikes on Frankie "Four Eyes" (Jerry Nelson) up at bat in a yard baseball game. He asks the boy what's going on, he's usually pretty good at this game, and notices he's missing something he'd been wearing lately. Luis pulls a pair of eyeglasses out of his shirt pocket, but Frankie doesn't want to wear them because people call him names. Luis shows him that Susan wears glasses when she has to look at something close and small like removing a splinter from a girl's hand, and David wears them when he reads. After putting the glasses on, Frankie hits the ball and runs the bases to the adoration of an unseen crowd.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Grover and Polly count five fingers.
 	Film 	One of These Things (3 starfish and 1 crab)
 	Cartoon 	Building a dog house is easy if you have a ruler.
 	Muppets 	Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. When the monster discovers that the cookies are locked up tight, he eats the safe.
 	Cartoon 	A man sees a giant OUT, yells the word, and everyone runs out of it.
 	Film 	Kids watch as construction workers paint a number 5 on the street using a stencil.
 	Cartoon 	One of These Footprints says "excuse me."
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster: The Count and Cookie Monster see a plate of cookies. The Count wants to count them, and Cookie Monster wants to eat them. After arguing over whether the cookies are for counting or eating, they decide to share them -- the Count will count the cookies, and then Cookie Monster will eat them.
 	SCENE 4 	Susan has Big Bird guess which of the kids' instruments is different. After Alice, B.J., Trey, and Cookie each play their instruments, Big Bird still can't figure it out until he sees that Alice's violin is different than the three toy trumpets. The kids play a celebratory fanfare, but Big Bird asks them to stop because it's giving him a headache.
 	Cartoon 	A ship captain orders the numbers 1-20 into a boat - which promptly sinks.Artist: Harvey Kurtzman
 	Muppets 	Bert sings "Doin' the Pigeon".
 	Film 	Detective Fred (Joe Raposo) is sent by his boss (Danny Epstein) to locate the number 20. Throughout the office and on the streets of New York, Fred tracks down the numbers 11 through 18 in numerical order by spying his surroundings. When he finds his way to Apartment 19, he discovers it is occupied by a gorilla, who leads him directly to the elusive 20.
 	Cartoon 	A boy demonstrates why his dog's name is Happy.
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Kermit asks Grover and Debo to identify his letter A. Grover has no idea. When Debo says "A," Kermit says "Ay" to someone offscreen.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Agua
 	Cast 	In the desert, Luis desperately searches for AGUA, but all the pumps are dry.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape (repeat)
 	Film 	"It's an Otter!"Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A picture of a girl playing a guitar is drawn as off-screen kids (speaking English and Spanish) try to guess what the drawing will be.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Big Daniel Boone looks for a bear.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 5 	David tells Sam the Robot that since he's always saying machines can do anything, he asks Sam to make him a hot dog. So, poof, Sam turns him into a hot dog.
 	Cartoon 	At the beach, the Bee Bee and the Barker family greet each other while saying their names that begin with the letter B.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet boy and girl have a conversation using the letters of the alphabet.
 	Film 	Footage of a rattlesnake
 	Muppets 	Maria reads "The Boy Who Cried Monster." A terrible, cookie-stealing monster helps to teach a mischievous Anything Muppet boy an important lesson.
 	Cartoon 	The word AGUA fills up with water.
 	SCENE 6 	David explains to Luis what Sam did to him, but Luis just quietly does a take to the camera and continues with his sweeping. David then tells Trey, who just shouts back in his face, "RIDICULOUS!" David tries to convince the other kids as Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis and David hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 6