Episode 2230

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria, Gordon, Bob, Tichina, and Luis comment on the cold weather and sing about what they wear "When It's Cold Out."
 	Cartoon 	What does the word COLD match with?
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	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 	The weary traveler asks the wise man to demonstrate none, some, most and all with a basket of oranges.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper is looking down and saying "Three sticks!" A man asks "Three sticks where?" Then Harvey says "3 sticks right here!" and sticks a number 3 on the man's head.
 	Cartoon 	3 doctors cure a sick 3.
 	SCENE 2 	Elmo feels very cold and wishes he had a way of making himself and Maria warm. She tells him various ways people warm up, as he rushes off to fetch her earmuffs and hot chocolate; he's unable to bring a radiator from his house. All the running back and forth has made Elmo feel warm, giving him another idea to stave off the chill - hugging Maria.
 	Cartoon 	"Four Seasons"
 	Muppets 	Telly sounds out the word COLD and is struck with a snow storm.
 	Cartoon 	With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Muppets 	The Beetles perform "Letter B."
 	SCENE 3 	Bob visits Oscar, who has set up his Grouch Heater (resembling a carnival strength tester). Oscar's instructions are for one to hit the base with a sledgehammer strong enough so that the ball will reach the "Warm" marker at the top. Bob assumes there's some trick involved, but goes along anyway. Oscar recommends Bob remove his various pieces of winter gear to allow a better hit. Bob successfully hits the ball to the top, then notices Oscar has started wearing all his gear; the Grouch Heater has made him warm after all!
 	Cartoon 	Big Daniel Boone looks for a bear.Artist: Bruce Cayard
center 	Muppets 	Baby Rocky performs "Cry" from his crib.
 	Film 	Kids paint pictures of things that start with B. (edited)Producer: Ken Snyder Enterprises
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin is out in the cold.
 	SCENE 4 	Telly discovers that his glass of water has turned into ice, due to the cold weather.
 	Muppets 	Western: A cowboy comes to see Adam T. Glaser, who is such a jack-of-all-trades that he forgets what a dentist does.
 	Cartoon 	"Three Waltzing Chickens"Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts The Weather Show.
 	Cartoon 	N is for nose.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster sounds out the word "Fall" and leaves fall on them. Then, they fall over.
 	Cartoon 	A ball goes up and down a musical staircase.
 	Insert 	While fixing Big Bird's record player, Luis tells him of a story he's reading about Captain Swashbuckle, a pirate. He tells Big Bird a synopsis of what he's read so far, but Big Bird throws several ideas what happens next, such as Swashbuckle having run-ins with a giant fish and bird. Luis reads him the remainder of the story: Captain Swashbuckle is sailing in a storm, when Luis' phone rings, and he must put the story on hold. Big Bird then thinks up the obvious ending - the bad guys call Swashbuckle and call off the fight because of rain.
 	Cartoon 	Billy Jo Jive and Smart Susie Sunset solve the case of the midnight voices.Artist: Ray Favata
 	Cast 	Linda signs the word "snow," and David gets caught in the snow.
 	Song 	"Water, Wind, and Sun"
 	Cartoon 	A mother bird adds her eggs that hatch.
center 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert build a snowman, but Ernie fears that the snowman will be cold if they don't dress him. Even though Bert tries to tell him that snowmen aren't alive and can't feel the cold, that doesn't stop Ernie from dressing the snowman in Bert's clothing.
 	Cartoon 	A large bird munches on rectangle edges, forming the word "BIRD."
 	Film 	Snow in the cityMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 5 	At nighttime, some kids play in the courtyard. While Bob, Gordon and Maria enjoy the snow, Oscar tries to ruin it for them by mentioning the negative facts about snow like snow balls and cars getting stuck. Elmo announces the sponsors, and the credits roll as Maria and the kids play in the snow.
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