Episode 2786

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Uncle Wally and his barbershop singing group of horses, the Kentucky Derbies, sing "One of Us Here is Not Like The Others" and has the viewer guess which one is different. Wally is the only one that isn't a horse, but Buster points out that he's also the only one not wearing a derby hat, so there are two possible answers.
 	Cartoon 	A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely.
 	Film 	Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others.Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	P for Planet
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	How paper is recycled
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: SCHOOLAfter a bunch of kids come running by, a girl goes before the man and says it's Saturday. That leaves him to say: "No school."
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon encounters Clementine and Buster waiting for a letter from Forgetful Jones, who's away visiting his parents. It finally arrives, and they know it's from him because there's no stamp (they have to pay for it), the envelope has not been sealed, and the letter itself is not signed and filled with mistaken identities. They love him, despite his forgetfulness.
 	Cartoon 	A boy learns to put his mom's letter in the mailbox all by himself (with a little help).
 	Film 	Kids paint P-word animals on glass. (shortened)Full version:
 	Cartoon 	A letter "P" sits on an island before a rotating sunset. The ridges of the letter "P" moves along the letter and flash in different colors.
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog sings "When I Listen".
 	Cartoon 	Number Creatures #20
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "What Do You Do With a Fruit?"
 	Cartoon 	Peacock with 20 feathers.
 	SCENE 3 	In the art studio, Big Bird, Snuffy, and Felice prepare to make a "television birthday card" with Hiroshi's help. Hiroshi mans the camera, Snuffy displays the "Happy Birthday" card on himself, and the card is verbally "signed" by all of them at the end of the video.
 	Cartoon 	V for Van (live-action/animation hybrid)Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	Film 	Wendy makes cookies with her grandmother. They later visit Wendy's great-grandmother at the nursing home, and give her some of the cookies.
 	Animation 	"¡Ella juega ténis!"
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Elmo thinks that Whoopi's skin is a very pretty brown. Whoopi likes Elmo's soft red fur. Elmo admires Whoopi's bouncy hair, too. Elmo suggests that they trade, but Whoopi says that they can't -- it doesn't come off. But even if she could trade, she wouldn't want to. She likes her skin and her hair, and she wants to keep them. Elmo says that he wants to keep his fur, too.
 	Film 	Empty / full classroom (time-lapse)
 	Muppets 	In the park, Harvey Kneeslapper comes up behind a man, asks him, "Wanna see something funny?" and then holds a mirror up. The man sees nothing funny...until he looks at Harvey!
 	Cartoon 	The Bellhop is sent to the grocery store to get twenty grapefruits. He counts to 20 on the way there so that he can remember the quantity, but forgets what item he was sent for.
 	SCENE 4 	Hiroshi brings Gordon and Susan into the garage studio to give Gordon a surprise for his birthday. Felice connects the camera to the TV set, and displays the video they made earlier.
 	SCENE 4cont'd 	Gordon is pleased with the card, and is even more pleased when he learns that the camera they used is a present from Susan. Big Bird realizes that they made a TV birthday card, but they didn't make a TV birthday cake!
 	Cast 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V.
 	Cartoon 	Violet climbs a vine with V words.
 	Muppets 	The Count has prepared himself a picnic not far from his castle. As he counts the ants who come to take away his food, he eventually has nothing left. Which is just as well, since it has started to rain.
 	Animation 	Stop-motion: tap-dancing shoes
 	Film 	Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster blows bubbles.
 	Cartoon 	Spike's Scribble Theatre Presents: "Island"
 	SCENE 5 	Bob and Linda (and later, Uncle Wally) encounter Oscar and the Grouchketeers conducting a scientific experiment: Oscar believes that umbrellas cause it to rain, since he always sees people carrying them whenever it does rain. Oscar notices that nothing's happening, and thinks it would help it rain faster if the Grouchketeers walked around in a circle while he "sings in the rain." When Gordon comes by and sees what they're doing, Oscar claims to have learned from the experiment that umbrellas don't make it rain... and when people see open umbrellas, they look around for raindrops and ask silly questions.
 	Cartoon 	Kids observe cloud formations, until it starts to rain.
 	Animation 	Teeny Little Super Guy: R.W. Shipshape gets a hat for his birthday, and it blows into the street. R.W. remembers not to cross the street without an adult; Teeny Little Superguy helps him across.
 	Muppets 	Grover takes several dogs for a walk, explaining that dogs need exercise as much as people do.
 	Cartoon 	"You know what it's like to be scared?"
 	Film 	Kids pick green beans in the field. Later their mom cooks the beans, and they eat them.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: V for Vacuum
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar gathers up Hiroshi, Bob, Linda, Uncle Wally, and the Grouchketeers so they can see his "art collection" - that is, a collection of artists' palettes and paint and oil-stained blankets. Hiroshi thinks it's not bad, which upsets Oscar. Buster announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22