Episode 0842

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird excitedly calls everybody over for a surprise he has for them. Gordon, Bob, Maria and the kids all try to guess from the clues Big Bird gives: it makes music, it travels a lot, and is now standing behind them. The surprise is… a visit from Buffy! Everyone gathers around and hugs her.
 	Cartoon 	A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: L is for Lunchbox
 	Cartoon 	A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper tells a man that "stickys" are really useful. The man asks, "What's a sticky for?" Then Harvey slaps a number 4 on the man's chest and says, "This is sticky, and it's a four!"
 	Film 	Marching Band #4
 	SCENE 2 	Maria and Buffy reminisce about their trip to New Mexico when they notice a sign near Oscar's trash can advertising a fortune telling service. "Madame Oscar" arises and offers to tell Buffy's future for one penny. Buffy gives him a penny (then eventually another and another) as Oscar looks into his dingy rubber ball, and tells Buffy she’s going to lose something valuable... three pennies. He slinks back into his can as Maria takes the ball to give to the kids to play with.
 	Animation 	Sand L/l
 	Cast 	Bob puts up a drawing of Big Bird on a billboard. His partner, David, has trouble putting up a duplicate in the same manner.
 	Cartoon 	Kids hear an L poem.
 	Song 	"Fireman Ready to Go"
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act
 	Cartoon 	Subtracting three mules
 	SCENE 3 	Buffy and Fred the Wonder Horse sing "Country Song."
 	Muppets 	Old West: Sinister Sam is looking for the biggest man in the saloon. The frightened customers point him towards Big Barney, who's cowering under the table. When Sam discovers that Barney is the biggest man there, he gives him a hat: "This ol' hat here don't fit me. I thought maybe you could use it, huh? I'll see you, fellers." Sinister Sam leaves the baffled customers behind. "Now, that's a nice gesture," one says. "He's a little weird, but he's okay after all, isn't he?"
 	Cartoon 	Big, bigger, biggest (strongmen)
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: L--Loud
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: L for lion
 	Film 	The WALK sign flashes in a montage of people (and even dogs) walking in the city.
 	SCENE 4 	Bob plays a “Here Are Some Things” game with a kid using drawings of things one sits on and a gumball machine. The kid has a little trouble comprehending the game, but Bob helps her understand.
 	Muppets 	Alien Alphabet
 	Cartoon 	The letter "k" walks away from the word "walk."
 	Muppets 	While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream, and finally, some whipped cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does.
 	Film 	Kids narrate a film of animals moving in different ways.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	M in space
 	Film 	Things that start with M
 	Cartoon 	A farmer plants big, bigger and biggest trees.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 5 	The Count tells the kids at Hooper's Store that he feels he's counted everything in any way he could, including counting the buildings in New York and the lakes of Minnesota. Buffy teaches him how to count to five in Cree, an Indian language. He is thrilled after counting Buffy and the kids, and goes to look for more things to count in Cree.
 	Film 	Four Song (Song of Four)
 	Cartoon 	Four construction workers build a number 4.
 	Cartoon 	A girl tries on big, bigger, and the biggest shoes.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Celebrity 	Richard Pryor uses his hat to participate in playing cars with kids.
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L.
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar challenges Herry Monster to a game of hide-and-seek, claiming to be the game's champion on Sesame Street. To prove it, he hands Herry a sheet of clues where he’ll be hiding, believing that not even that will guarantee a win for Herry. As Herry closes his eyes and counts, Oscar sneaks away and hides in the Hooper's Store delivery cart in the yard.
 	SCENE 6 cont'd	Herry's list says that Oscar's hiding spot has a seat, so he upends the bench Maria is sitting on, knocking her to the ground. After apologizing, Herry's next clue is that the hiding spot has wheels. Bob drives by on his bicycle; Herry dive-bombs Bob to the pavement, thinking that maybe he's Oscar in disguise.
 	SCENE 6 cont'd	Herry makes his way to the delivery cart, reviewing the final clue: the hiding place has a box on it. Herry mulls over the answer, slamming his hand on the cart's top several times (bonking Oscar on the head) and deduces that Oscar must be hiding on a streetcar in Cincinnati. Herry trots off, leaving Oscar to comment, “Sometimes winning isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.”
 	Film 	To a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree.
 	Muppets 	The Count's bats are upset; he always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats... but there's only one Count.
 	SCENE 7 	The kids play in the yard as Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7