Episode 2240

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar gathers all his "friends" (Susan, Gordon, Luis, David, Bob, Willy and three of the kids) to take a picture for his Grouch club. He asks them to move closer and closer together, until they're all concealed behind the lamppost.
 	Cartoon 	A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Some kids learn how to use Logo, a computer programming language, to draw shapes on computers.
 	Insert 	Big Bird reads a poem about how hard it is to be a sheep, and become cold when giving up one's wool: "So let's be fair when snow is deep, let's put the sweater on the sheep." Accompanied with cotton sheep illustrations.
 	Cartoon 	The secret drawing is a mailman.
 	Film 	A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!"
 	Animation 	Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks
 	Muppets 	"Honk Around the Clock"
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of a camel.
 	Cartoon 	Actor demonstrates anger towards casting director - literally!
center 	Muppets / Celebrity	Oscar and Andrea Martin talk about being angry.
 	Cartoon 	A man appears out of a yo-yo string and narrates two poems about over, under, around, and through: one about a fish swimming around the wreck of the good ship Mary Lou, and another about a worm who eats through the center of an apple.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Peanut Butter."
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster goes on a picnic, with a basket full of cookies. A bug flies by, and tries to get into the basket, buzzing furiously. Cookie Monster tries to give the bug a little cookie if it'll go away. The bug refuses, buzzing even more strenuously. Cookie tries a big cookie, but it still refuses. Cookie offers an almond cookie, a raisin cookie, a pistachio nut cookie, and a crunchy granola cookie. He realizes that the little bug doesn't like cookies. All he has left is a letter Z. The bug is excited, and buzzes off with the Z.
 	Cartoon 	Z for zipper
 	Film 	Prairie dogMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Kids narrate as Snuffy takes a walk in the park and Barkley follows him.
 	Cartoon 	A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
 	Muppets 	Bert can't go on a trip with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. Ernie puts a mitten on Bert's hand to cover it, but Bert still won't go because he looks silly wearing one mitten. So Ernie completes the outfit with another mitten, a hat, a scarf, and a sled. Ernie then reveals that they are going to the beach.
 	Animation 	A/a (Gordon voice-over)
 	Film 	Tomatoes grow in a field. (edited)
 	SCENE 2 	Luis shows Telly and the kids different parts of a fire engine and what they do. Telly wishes he could be a firefighter one day and thinks he can become one right away.
 	Cartoon 	In rhyme, a man points out animals who stole and/or ruined his clothing.
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin falls in love with a painting (Linda) at the art museum.
 	Cartoon 	Counting 10 to 1.
 	SCENE 3 	Telly dons a firefighter helmet and has a small fire extinguisher. After giving himself a pep talk, he calls out to see if anyone needs his help. Gordon, Susan, Willy, and Bob all tell him they have no need for his services at the moment.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd 	Telly checks with Luis if he has any fires, disappointed to find again he's of no use. Luis explains that firefighters don't solicit for work; people call for them when there's a fire. He provides Telly with another helpful bit of advice - "Where's there's smoke, there's fire." He takes this to heart when he smells smoke coming from Hooper's Store. He darts over and sprays his extinguisher all over David's heavily-toasted English muffins. David angrily tells him, "You just extinguished my breakfast!"
 	Cartoon 	Z for zebra and zoo
 	Film 	A young girl talks about her friend, Joe, who's training to be a fireman.
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
 	SCENE 4 	Bob informs Telly about how much work actually goes into becoming a firefighter, such as taking exams and going to school. He states this applies to many careers and sings "You Can Be Anything You Want To" with Telly.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of Princess Twelvia".Artist: Irra Verbitsky
center 	Muppets 	How Now Brown and the Moo Wave performs "Wet Paint."
 	Cartoon 	Simple Simon meets some strange-looking animals, all of whom have their parts switched around.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Jerry Nelson counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey.
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird watches Luis paint a "WET PAINT" sign to position by a door he's just painted. While he goes for some coffee, Big Bird realizes the sign is wet as well and believes making a "WET PAINT" sign for it would help. Luis comes back to find Big Bird has created several more "WET PAINT" signs to account for each other (and even sticks one on Luis in jest). Bob announces the sponsors and the credits follow.
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