Episode 0682

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Bob finds a young Muppet girl named Jane, who thinks her name is boring. Bob assembles some friends to show her how many interesting rhymes her name has:
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	David does a few steps and shows off his cane.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	A kid's baseball shirt has a great big stain
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	Maria's bicycle has a broken chain.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	The kids pretend some boxes are a train.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	A Muppet horse (Richard Hunt) boasts about his lovely mane.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	Ernie tells Bert to say "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain." Moments later, a rainstorm begins and Ernie escapes with the only umbrella.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	David serves Big Bird a plate of chow mein, which birds don't usually eat, but Big Bird has only ordered it for its rhyming purpose.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	After hearing all these rhymes, Jane feels much better. She tells Bob, "You're a brain!" and rewards him with a kiss.
center 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts "Beat the Time". In order to win a cookie, Cookie Monster has to bring in three things that rhyme with the word "rain" before the hand goes around the clock. They turn out to be an old man's "cane", a "chain" (to which Frazzle is attached), and finally a "train" which destroys the set.
 	Cartoon 	The Alligator KingArtist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them.
 	Cartoon 	H is for horseshoe.
 	Cast 	Marvelous Maria rides her trike in 10 circles (then backwards).
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: H is for hole
 	Film 	Building a log cabin
 	Cartoon 	"That's About the Size of It"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	SCENE 2 	Maria continues to try and fix her bike chain. Set out on the sidewalk are her tools and can of soda, which she uses for a game of "Three of These Things."
 	Film 	Letter H hoistMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls.
 	Cartoon 	Abierto: Ali Baba arrives a bit late and gets run over by the 40 thieves leaving.
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 	Cast 	Two Luises illustrate near and far.
 	Muppets 	Kermit asks the viewers to play a weather imagination game. First, Kermit imagines it's a warm, sunny day. Then he imagines that it's raining hard. Then he imagines that it's a snowy, windy day.
 	Cartoon 	A caveman finds a rock on the ground, and visualizes the invention of the wheel and the car, ultimately deciding to toss the rock away: "Who needs it?"
 	Animation 	Sand H/h
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird finds David falling asleep in Hooper's Store. David hasn't gotten much sleep due to law school (and having joined the track team). He asks Big Bird to help keep him awake, which Big Bird does by poking him whenever he dozes off. Big Bird tries to think of a better way of accomplishing this.
 	Film 	An osprey flies around.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Two children, who can only read some words, resolve their fight over a large book by helping each other and reading alternate words.
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird has made an invention to help David - a straw hat covered with bells; whenever David begins to fall asleep, the bells will ring and wake him up. David finds the invention silly and Big Bird goes off to find another solution.
 	Cartoon 	A big elephant and a small elephant make lowercase Hs come out of their trunks.Artist: John and Faith Hubley
 	Muppets 	The Count counts seven flowers, and then explains that he loves to count flowers because then he gets to count sneezes.
 	Cartoon 	"Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes.
 	Film 	Footage of a leopard in the plain.
 	Cartoon 	I've Got a Mind: FishArtist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird attaches one cymbal to David's head and the other to the counter. When David starts to droop over to sleep, the two cymbals will crash together and wake him up. This again proves too silly to be an effective cure.
 	Film 	A police officer follows clues that lead to a bathtub stolen by a gorilla.
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola count fingers.
 	Cartoon 	Two heads think of F words, ending with "finished."
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird's latest scheme ask David to rest his hand on a switch. When he falls asleep, his hand flips it and a bunch of noisy appliances go off. All the work he's done starts to make Big Bird tired as well and the two fall asleep together. David's hand flips the switch, but they're both too tired to be bothered by the noise. Mr. Hooper comes down the street to check on David, knowing he's been working out with the track team. Maria is certain that David is doing fine, especially hearing all the noise coming from the store. They're shocked to see David and Big Bird fast asleep in the commotion.
 	Film 	Kids narrate a tortilla contest in English and Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
 	Film 	Prairie dogMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Insert 	Piano Bridge #6 - A pianist plays a short tune with glissandos, but fumbles at the end.
 	SCENE 7 	Mr. Hooper tip-toes around the store, turning off all the appliances. He then slips a pillow under Big Bird's beak as Maria announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	David and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and Maria, Luis, and the same kid hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 6