Episode 3222

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Telly greets the viewer, saying that today he's going to play doctor with Betty Lou (and her dolly) and Nathan - but each of them thinks they will be the doctor.
 	SCENE 1 	The gang finds a bench in the park to set up the "Betty Lou Clinic." Each of them pretends to be sick, and Telly gives such a good performance that the others vote for him to be the sick person.
 	Cartoon 	What if I looked like George Washington...
 	Film 	Caitlin gets her eyes examined, and picks out a pair of glasses.
 	Animation 	Playing cards form an M, then dance the mambo.
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot explains what the letters M and W look like with a very uncooperative letter that keeps switching itself. The letter eventually stops switching, and Herb solves the problem by rotating the camera angle, turning the letter upside down.
 	Cartoon 	Me and My MArtist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 2 	At Betty Lou's instruction, Telly pretends to be sick with "alphabetitis," and Betty Lou and Nathan pretend to operate on him. One by one the letters are extracted from Telly's head, and he feels better when they're all done... but Betty Lou still wants to keep playing, so he keeps pretending to be sick.
 	Cartoon 	A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Apple: a riddle
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants to order a couple of poached eggs on toast, but Grover informs him that the restaurant is out of eggs, so he brings two corn cobs on toast to him. Grover gives a lecture on where eggs come from, by bringing a cornstalk, chicken feed, and a chicken to the table.
 	Cartoon 	A chicken sings "It Ain't Heavy, It's My Feather".
 	SCENE 3 	Telly is now sick with "numberitis," so Betty Lou and Nathan extract the numbers 1 to 40 from his tummy.
 	Cartoon 	A man counts forty stars at night.
 	Film 	Michael introduces his friend to the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira.
 	Muppets / Transition	Big Bird's eyes get wider as the next segment plays ... (edited; new music added)
 	Cartoon 	Animals who eat crunchy things have nice teeth.
 	Muppets 	"The Ten Commandments of Health"
 	Cartoon 	Kids around the world say "ME."
 	Film 	Looking for squares in the city (Maria voiceover)
 	SCENE 4 	Telly is now sick with "Spanish numberitis" in his chest. Betty Lou uses the open mouth cure, which makes the numbers uno to diez come out of his mouth. Telly is done with being the sick person (having gone through three procedures already), so they decide to find someone to take his place.
 	Song 	"Counting Alarm Clock"
 	Film 	A girl in Jamaica goes to school and attends drum class.
 	Cartoon 	Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain.
 	Muppets / Celebrity 	Oscar the Grouch puts a sign on his trash can which reads "DON'T BOTHER ME!" A sassy postal worker (Rosie O'Donnell) knocks on his can, and when he asks her "Can't you read?" she shows him how many things she can read. She then walks off to find out where Oscar the Grouch lives so she can deliver the sardine cologne he ordered. Oscar angrily rips up the sign.
 	Cartoon 	Two green martians fight over a flower, until they see a monolith crumble to form the word AMOR.
 	Muppets 	Grover and Christopher talk about what love is.
 	Cartoon 	A man shows the difference between a regular slice of bread and a toasted one.
 	Muppets 	Polly Darton sings "Save Your Energy for Me," a song about energy conservation.
 	Cartoon 	The Bellhop must take Mrs. Stein's bags to floor 16.
 	Muppets 	"Sixteen Samba" (ending trimmed)
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #16Artist: Jane Aaron
 	SCENE 5 	Ruthie is the new sick person, since she is also good at pretending. Betty Lou pretends that Ruthie is sick with "rhymenitis," and the doctors extract the words that rhyme with Ruthie's body parts. Afterwards, Ruthie takes the doctors out for some ice cream as payment.
 	Animation 	Sand X/x
center 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts "Mystery Guest," where the blindfolded panel of Cookie Monster, Don Music, and Sherlock Hemlock must guess the identity of a special guest - the letter X.
 	Cartoon 	The great Alphonso and his trained X's
 	Film 	Wegman: Fay shows on the bench and under the bench.
 	SCENE 6 	Everyone dines outside Hooper's Store, and Ruthie thinks that she could eat ice cream all day. Betty Lou pretends that Ruthie has "ice cream-itis," and the doctors pretend to operate on her again. Big Bird announces the sponsors as Ruthie goes wild, grabbing at the other's cones.
==Notes==
*The episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3413.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25