Episode 1254

Picture	Segment 	Description
center 	COLD OPEN 	10th Season Intro Still
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar asks why Gordon, Maria, Olivia, and Luis are wearing funny clothing: "What is this, a masquerade from a rummage sale?" The cast explains they're wearing jogging outfits to go for a jog through the park. Oscar wants no part in something that makes one feel good, until he hears Luis comment that there's plenty of trash baskets to see...
 	Cast 	The song "Jogging" plays over scenes of the adults and kids jogging through Central Park and the city, with Oscar jogging in his can.
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover).
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
 	Song 	"Beet Beet, Sugar Beet."
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish).
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter has an electric train.
 	Film 	T is for toes.
 	Cartoon 	La t minuscula
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar calls Mr. Macintosh who comes by with his fruit stand for an apple. Mr. Mac assumes Oscar wants a rotten apple with a worm inside, but Oscar wants a nice, fresh apple instead. After several guesses (including as a gift for Hermine), Oscar reveals that the apple is a gift for Slimey as something to live in.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television
 	Muppets 	The Word Family Song: ET family
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television (Spanish version)
 	Film 	Lizard!Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds")
 	Cartoon 	T for TurtleArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin tries walking against a stream of foot traffic following a sign that reads ONE WAY.
 	Cartoon / Film	Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice.
 	Animation 	4 people, 4 wheels, 4 doors, and 4 windows make a carpool.
 	Film 	A kid narrates footage of a termite colony.
 	Celebrity 	Richard Pryor demonstrates emotions.
 	Animation 	Two houses plus 2 equals 4.
 	Film 	George the Farmer shows embedded shapes using drawing of geometric forms and household objects with the same shape.
 	Cartoon 	An N-terview with an NArtist: John Paratore
 	Muppets 	Little Bird explains "next to". Then Cookie Monster cuddles up next to Little Bird.
 	Cartoon 	A girl imagines being next to a tree, a house and a car. "Now I'm going over there," she says. "There's nothing here to be next to!"
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird leads a "Sesame Street By Day" tour group of several kids. He shows them the sights of the street and some kids stop to hang around each destination. By the time he reaches the final destination, his nest, he wonders where the group has gone to.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd counts four lions.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Old West: Sinister Sam comes to the saloon, looking for Doc Holiday. He questions the frightened townspeople, looking for the doctor, but all he can find is a mailman and a fire fighter. Sam says they'd better find the doctor, because he's got an itchy trigger finger. The doctor is found, cowering under a table. The doctor asks what Sam wants with him, and the mean hombre says that his finger is really itchy -- it's driving him crazy. Is it a mosquito bite? Should he use some lotion on it? Doc Holliday faints. Sam shrugs, and joins the other patrons at the bar for some milk.
 	Film 	A kid recites a poem about adding penguins.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Linda stars in the Theater Without Words production of "The Batter and the Ball."
 	Cartoon 	Two men on a park bench turn their radios up louder and louder, each trying to drown the other's out, until they reach a station they can agree on.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar rehearses with his Grouch singing group, the Grouches. They can't stand the sight of Maria's nice flowers and sweater. She snaps back that Grouches don't love anything. Oscar and the group counter with a song about the things Oscar loves.
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	When the song is over, Maria admits that she liked the music (as opposed to the lyrics), much to the Grouches’ dismay. It doesn’t help that Maria wants them to have her flowers… until they see that they’re now wilted.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts 10 stairs as he climbs them with his sack of toys.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Thelma Thumb: A giraffe in the zoo has swallowed a whistle. Thelma flies inside the giraffe's throat to find it.Artist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	Big Bird announces that Grover will demonstrate the number 2 by doing two chin-ups. He does it, but then Big Bird asks him to do two more sets, to make sure the audience gets it. When Big Bird thinks they've got it, he announces that Grover will now demonstrate the number 18! Grover faints.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: SCHOOLAfter a bunch of kids come running by, a girl goes before the man and says it's Saturday. That leaves him to say: "No school."
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	In Spanish, a man makes everything in the room cerrada, and considers making the basket abierto if only for the guitar band inside.
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon and Susan celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a nice, quiet dinner at home. The dinner is interrupted by the loud sounds of hammering coming from the apartment above. Gordon goes to check it out and returns with Maria, who was building them a bookcase as an anniversary gift. They thank her by inviting her to join them for dinner, and she accepts their invitation. Mr. Macintosh announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob and Linda hold the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Additional performers include Michael Earl (Slimey and purple Grouch) and Bob Payne (dark green Grouch).
* Oscar's jogging segment was filmed at the Central Park Reservoir."Sesame Street Takes To The Streets Of New York", Sunday News (Lancaster PA), 26 November 1978, TV Week page 55.
==Sources==
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 10