Episode 2494

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Insert 	Big Bird sings about "Wheels on My Feet" while roller skating down the street.
 	Cartoon 	"Why Bears Smile" - a story of a bear who learned which body part to cover when sneezing.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Joe Raposo: On the beach (instrumental)
 	Muppets 	Mr. Johnson has been served a bowl of soup, but flags down his waiter to make a complaint. He asks Grover to inspect the fly that's in his soup, but Grover looks under, next to, and on the soup before he agrees to bring out a new bowl. The kitchen is all out of what Mr. Johnson ordered, so he brings him Cream of Mosquito.
 	Cartoon 	B for boats, bouquet, baby, bonnet, etc.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (hand)
 	Muppets 	Telly notices that Isaac doesn't have fur like he does.
 	Cartoon 	A lost man in the desert (voiced by Jim Thurman) asks a stranger for directions to the city. He builds a pretend city out of sand to show what it looks like. As it turns out, the stranger is an alien.
 	Film 	Operation Playground: A group of students at P.S. 87, with help from playground designer Bob Leathers, 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.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Billy Dee Williams and Mr. Honker count backwards from 10 to 1. Homer has to blow his nose before he can honk the last number.
 	Cartoon 	"Ten Turtles"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon has a really bad headache, so Susan puts his slippers by the bed, unplugs the phone, and goes to get Miles from day care so Gordon can relax. Right after she leaves, Telly comes in to make sure Gordon's okay. He understands that Gordon needs rest, peace, and quiet, so he makes sure everything stays that way. He hears such sounds as a barking dog, a honking car, and an airplane, and yells at them to be quiet. Soon, they hear the birds sing, which Gordon doesn't mind... until he hears Big Bird singing loudly!
 	Animation 	The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods.
 	Muppets 	Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian."
 	Cartoon 	Small letter b (ball/bat)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Geronimo 10-0 (parachute under haystack)
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon can't find his slippers and thinks they're under the bed. Elmo comes in, hoping to make Gordon's headache go away. Gordon tells him to look for his slippers under the bed, and Elmo looks on the bed, under the blankets, and finally under the bed, where he sees "two fuzzy blue monsters" that tickle him. He shows up on the other side of the bed, surprising Gordon enough to fall out.
 	Animation 	The word ICE is formed with ice cubes, which melt.
 	Muppets 	A series of trailers for school-related dramas are shown on WCTW's "School in the Afternoon" block.
 	Cartoon 	The Villain in the Panama Hat (V)
 	Cast 	Olivia sings "Everything Grows."
 	Cartoon 	A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird and Snuffy enter Gordon's apartment to help him with his headache by reading him a story, "The Lion and The Mouse." They react in fear towards the lion in the story, but Gordon finishes reading it for them only to suffer through Snuffy's ground-shaking jumps for joy.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball #10Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
 	Muppets 	Game Show: Bring That ThingStevie and Jonathan Martian need to find three things that help to see in the dark in sixty seconds. They bring a flashlight, a lamp, and the moon, (which they have to quickly zoom back into space to get). Their jackpot prize is a pot of lightning bugs.
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon has yet another visitor - Count von Count, who has a Transylvanian home remedy for headaches: counting backwards from ten to zero. Gordon rushes through it and is met with a loud boom of thunder. The Count explains that he's counting too fast, and must do it slowly. Gordon does so and finds this method surprisingly effective as he counts slowly and closes his eyes while the Count hums, reducing the thunder to small soothing rumbles.
center 	Catoon 	V in space
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Colored sand forms the letter B and a buffalo.
 	SCENE 5 	After several minutes of counting backwards from ten to zero, Gordon's headache is finally gone. Oscar arrives, hoping to see Gordon suffer through his headache. Gordon finds this act heinous, but Oscar explains that Grouches don't like to see people in pain - they enjoy hearing them complain about it. However, Oscar becomes upset when he learns he's too late.
 	SCENE 5cont'd 	Susan and Miles come home and greet Gordon, and all the happiness in the room irritates Oscar into his own headache. The Count tries to introduce his home remedy to Oscar, which only makes him want to escape, with the Count pursuing him. The two then announce the sponsors in voiceover.
==Notes==
*This episode was later repeated in Season 22 as Episode 2787 (which was later altered in summer 1991 rerun airings). 
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Category:Medical
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 20