Episode 1837

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Muppets / Cast	The Count listens to Olivia read the story "The Two Headed Monster", enacted by the titular monster. The book is about how the monster cannot decide on what to do because both heads want to do different things. Eventually they learn that together, they are able to lift weights, play doctor ("Kildare! Kildare!"), play the piano ("Tchaikovsky! Mozart!"), and eat a salami-and-cheese sandwich.
 	Cartoon 	Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat.Artist: Jeff Hale
center 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Sand C/c
 	Song 	Caroll Spinney sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a sleepy koala.
 	Cartoon 	An old woman goads a man into guessing who she met today. Through the clues she gives, he soon finds out she's referring to him.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	At a fiesta, a group of kids try to break through a piñata.
 	Celebrity 	Richard Pryor sits on a park bench with a basket of strawberries; a kid wants him to share them.
 	Muppets 	Grover demonstrates high and low by asking Heather to scratch his back.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Film 	"Three of These Kids" — Football and Baseball
 	Cartoon 	"Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes. (re-recorded soundtrack)
 	Muppets 	Four greaser Anything Muppets sing about being afraid.
 	Cartoon 	C is for Cowboy
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster tells his little cousin monster to get him something special that starts with the letter C. He hopes she'll bring him a cookie, but she brings a carrot, a cucumber, a cauliflower, and an ear of corn. Finally, she realizes that cousin also starts with C, and assumes he was referring to her.
 	Animation 	A car drives through blocks.
 	SCENE 1 	Maria wraps up a late night at the Fix-It Shop. As she heads home, she hears Big Bird crying in fear from his nest. She goes inside and sees he's in the midst of having a bad dream about trying to get down from a high tree. She wakes him up and offers to stay around until he falls back asleep. He doesn't feel sleepy now, so Maria tells him how she relaxes herself to get to sleep; she falls asleep as she describes this, while Big Bird remains wide awake. "Gee, grown-ups are cute when they're asleep," he observes.
 	Cartoon 	A bird subtracts two balloons from a group of three.Artist: Cliff Roberts
center 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	4 red balls minus 1 equals 3.
 	Film 	Some kids watch a film of a man working in a greenhouse, and try to guess what his job is.
 	Cartoon 	Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus.
 	SCENE 2 	Susan comes to the window and sees Maria asleep by the nest. She tells Big Bird to stay still and count sheep to fall asleep. Big Bird only manages to count 20 sheep - he can't count any higher!
 	Cartoon 	1-10, 10-1 count with stripes.
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog sings "When I Listen".
 	Cartoon 	The Bridgekeeper: Square
 	Film 	Marching Band #3
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: HOT DOG
 	Muppets 	Grover climbs a mountain and counts from one to ten with his own echo.
 	Cartoon 	Three tigers dance and play music.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan has read Big Bird a number of bedtime stories and falls asleep herself as she wraps up "The Ugly Duckling." The Honkers drop by to help and their honking wakes up Maria and Susan. They begin to honk "Brahms' Lullaby" to Big Bird, which finally gets him to sleep.
 	Cartoon 	A boy learns to put his mom's letter in the mailbox all by himself (with a little help).
 	Film 	A rhino and her baby
 	Cartoon 	A boy thinks it's raining outside, so he puts on his rain gear and goes outside, only to find sunny weather. It turns out the lawn sprinkler was near his window.
 	Film 	People of all ages ride bicycles.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow.
 	Cartoon 	K-kick
 	Film 	A piece of construction equipment and a giraffe are shown side-by-side.
 	Cartoon 	The Pink Panther - K For Karate
 	SCENE 4 	Maria tucks Big Bird in and says goodbye to Susan. The Honkers have fallen asleep as well and honk in their sleep. Maria announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
* The Big Bird puppet used for scenes 2 and 3 has the ability to fully close its eyes (unlike the main puppet used for the rest of the episode), and was one of several utilized during production of Follow That Bird.
* A brief clip of scene 2 is used in the TV special Sesame Street Unpaved.
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Category:Sleep
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 15