Episode 0927

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon practices playing his guitar (a pastiche of "What's the Name of That Song?") on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street, attracting the discriminating ear of Oscar the Grouch. Oscar thinks that Gordon can help him practice for his act at the Grouch talent show. ("You should see me in my sequin jumpsuit," Oscar brags.) Oscar whips out his ratty guitar and manages to play a complex flamenco tune perfectly, which shocks Gordon. Oscar explains that's his trouble - he plays too good and would be laughed off the stage. Gordon helps him practice sounding worse and worse, and Oscar eventually perfects his technique by smashing the guitar and playing the wreckage. ("Pete Townshend, eat your heart out!")
 	Cartoon 	Monster in the dark (finding a light switch)
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Kids compete in a speed skating competition. (version one)
 	Muppets 	John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
 	Cartoon 	Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot.
 	Cast 	David sings "Wet Paint" as Gordon and Maria ignore the WET PAINT signs around them.
 	Cartoon 	3 song (butterflies, birthday presents, waving pennants etc.)
 	Celebrity 	Tennis star Arthur Ashe plays slow and fast.
 	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.
 	Cartoon 	What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The great Alphonso and his trained X's
 	Celebrity 	Tennis star Arthur Ashe says the alphabet.
 	Film 	A male frog hops around and bulges his throat.
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X
 	Insert 	During a downpour, Bob sings "I Don't Always Like the Rain."
 	Cartoon 	The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd
 	Film 	A gemsbok runs fast, then faster.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	5s go through a space-shredder and produce 5 objects.
 	SCENE 2 	David and the kids (including Debo) invite Maria for a bike ride, but she has to stay and work at the Fix-it Shop. David invites Gordon to take Maria's place, but Gordon claims he's waiting for Susan. Maria informs him that she called earlier and will be arriving late, so Gordon comes up with another excuse. Maria catches on with Gordon's real problem when she offers her bicycle to him and he claims the wheel is loose. When the others leave, Gordon confesses to Maria that he doesn't know how to ride a bike. She tells him that grown-ups don't always know what kids do and teaches him how to ride. Eventually he gets the hang of it, and Maria tells him to return after riding around the block.
 	Animation 	Sand X/x
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot!
 	Film 	The making of a jumpsuit, from the initial design to the finished product.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her imagination while sitting on a sofa.
 	Song 	"Cow Dog Song"
 	Cartoon 	A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
 	Muppets 	Biff hangs numbers under Salvador Dada's paintings in an art museum.
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about going to the city, without noticing he's walking right through it.
 	SCENE 3 	Gordon returns, having got the skill of cycling licked now. He decides to take the bike for a ride around the neighborhood...
 	Film / Cast 	Gordon rides his bike around the city.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: I for Ink
 	Muppets 	A group of female Anything Muppets sing about the many things "Women Can Be."
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I."
 	Insert 	In a parody of the 120 Music Masterpieces commercial, Milton Crust (Luis) promotes a wonderful new opportunity being offered by the Long John's Rhyming Word Society: for only $9.98, the customer will get a key and a pea. In addition, anybody that calls right at that very second will receive other items (and even more items 6 months later) that rhyme with "key" and "pea," free of charge, all of which are brought in by Milton's assistants (David and Maria) until he gets dragged away.
 	Cartoon 	Abierto: Ali Baba arrives a bit late and gets run over by the 40 thieves leaving.
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird is amazed at how quickly Gordon has learned to ride a bike and wishes he could do the same. "I've tried and I've tried, and I know if I can't do something I can't, and two wheels - I'm a flop," he says before riding off on his unicycle. The others stare in bewilderment and applaud him as David announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8