Episode 3361

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN	Lexine, Big Bird, and Telly have their dolls dance to some mambo music in preparation for a surprise birthday party for Telly's doll Freddy (who wears earmuffs and sunglasses to keep the surprise hidden). Telly realizes that Freddy doesn't know why he's dancing since he can't hear the music - he'll really be in for a surprise!
 	SCENE 1 	At Hooper's Store, Mr. Handford shows Telly the cake he's prepared for the party, but needs to know how many candles to put on. Telly can't make up his mind as to how old Freddy could be, so Mr. Handford settles for six years old (since that's all the candles he has).
 	Cartoon 	A man pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but the rabbit turns out to be a cow. "Surprise!"Artist: John Schnall
 	Muppets 	Sesame Street Game Shows: The Count is a contestant on Beat the Time, where today's wacky stunt is to bring back two things that come from the sky before the time runs out. The Count has too much fun counting the seconds but ends up bringing his thunder and lightning.
 	Animation	Counting 20 shells
 	SCENE 2 	The young ones assume Mr. Handford finds their doll party idea silly until they learn he too had a doll - Rusty the Bear, which he believes is somewhere in the basement storage. The kids both scold him for his poor treatment or assume Rusty doesn't exist. Mr. Handford decides to look for him until Gina returns, and agrees to tell Rusty about Freddy's party.
 	Cartoon 	A gorilla outgrows his toy fire truck, and is about to throw it away, when he decides to pass it on to his little brother.
 	Muppets 	Bushman Bill introduces Didi O'Day and the Dew Drops performing "D Duah Duah."
 	Animation	D-draw, dent, drop, dancer, done
 	Animation	D / d (space paint)
 	Film 	A class goes on a field trip to Prospect Park, where Ranger Roseanne gives them a tour.
 	Insert 	Snuffy sings a song about Alice, "She's My Sister."
 	Cartoon 	"Angry Annie": A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange.Artist: John Korty
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again."
 	Animation	Sixteen TV sets are counted.
 	Muppets 	"Sixteen Samba"
 	Cartoon 	Abstract count to 16.
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Handford has successfully found Rusty, and Big Bird introduces him to the other guests at the party in the yard: Rupert (Herry's doll), Cora (Lexine's), Gloria (Rosita's), and Radar. Telly shows up with Freddy, who is so surprised by the party he "faints." They all convince Mr. Handford to stay a little while longer and they all practice their own surprise faints.
 	Cartoon 	A man tries to figure out where a squeaky sound is coming from; it turns out to be a giant's squeaky shoes. "Surprise!"
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster demonstrates surprise.
 	Film 	A Puerto Rican family get-together includes cooking, playing soccer, and finally the big dinner.
 	Cartoon 	Anansi the Spider tells a story of how he helped the monkey and the baboon reach a compromise.
 	Film 	On a windy day, Maria (in voice-over) asks a man (Bill Irwin), "Does air move things?" The wind speaks for him.
 	Animation	Where do the Ds fit?
 	Cartoon 	Ds are found on a city street
 	SCENE 4 	Mr. Handford lights the candles on the cake, which Freddy is unable to "blow out" on his own. Rupert (aided by Herry) cooperates and blows the candles out together with Freddy, but Rupert and Herry's combined breath sends the cake flying and covering Telly and Freddy! Herry apologizes and thinks he's ruined the party when Gina happens to have another cake ready and serves it to everyone.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall.
 	Muppets 	The Martians are looking for the Earth and find pigs in space and the Moon along the way.
 	Cartoon 	A girl explains the concept of relativity by explaining how her house is a part of a neighborhood, the neighborhood is part of a city, the city is part of a country, etc.
 	Film 	Some kids have a bike race by the river.
 	Cartoon 	The Villain in the Panama Hat (V)
 	Animation	Ornate Vs spin around as a song about them plays.
 	Cartoon 	Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Muppets 	Grover's Health Minute: Kermit the Frog and Grover talk about teeth. Grover notices that Kermit does not have any teeth at all, so he puts a pair of teeth in Kermit's mouth. Grover says to see a "tooth checker," to eat crunchy things like bananas and to clean teeth with a "tooth comb."
 	Cartoon 	A monster named Doug has trouble getting to sleep at night, until the teeth in his dream remind him to brush his own.
 	Film 	A girl goes to school somewhere in Africa. We see the girl getting ready to go to school, as she washes herself and brushes her teeth, puts on her clothes, brushes her hair, and takes her lunch, all with some help from her mother. We see her walking past her neighbors and watching her classmates play outside as she arrives at school. The bell rings, and the girl enters the school, where the teacher is passing out chalk to her students. We see the teacher teaching the students the English words: "a boy," "a girl," "a man," "a woman," which she has written on the board, along with a drawing for each word. The students repeat the words, then write them down on their individual chalkboards as the girl remarks, "We are learning to read and write." The students then jump up and down, as the teacher looks on, smiling. Next, we see the students jumping outside excitedly, now that school has finished.
 	SCENE 5 	Everyone dances the mambo, then departs once the party ends. Mr. Handford briefly considers putting Rusty back in the basement but decides to display him proudly on the shelf behind the store counter. Gina then announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
*The mambo music heard during the cold open would later be reused in Episode 3820, where a lady customer at the Fix-It Shop realizes that her broken toaster is actually a radio.
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Category:Birthday Episodes
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 26