Episode 3158

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Elmo asks Big Bird if he can guess what game he's about to play: it involves a toy golf club, a beach ball, and a butterfly net. Elmo reveals that they're going to play miniature golf all over Sesame Street today! He gives the ball a whack, and needs Big Bird's help with the net for a later task.
 	SCENE 1 	Elmo's beach ball lands on the crate where Betty Lou, Tarah, and Eva are making up a story about a princess' tea party. Elmo declares it a successful "tea-off" and prepares to hit the ball towards Luis in front of the Fix-It Shop, who will throw it into the butterfly net Big Bird is holding. However, Betty Lou insists on pretending that the ball is "Prince Ted," who, in their story, had a spell cast on him by a wicked witch to prevent him from marrying the princess (her dolly), and thus proposes that Elmo can break the spell by hitting the ball through the net. Elmo likes the idea and hits the ball, which Luis proceeds to pitch into Big Bird's net. Everyone cheers - except for Betty Lou, who says that Prince Ted is still a ball. They decide that the "spell" will be broken by the time the last hole is played, and so they go on with the game. Big Bird explains all this to a confused Luis.
 	Film 	The floating kids form a capital T.
 	Animation 	Two caterpillars form a T.
 	Film 	A group of kids paint a mural with the help of a mural artist.
 	Cartoon 	Something's missing ... is it a frog or a dog?
 	Muppets 	Bip Bipadotta sings about "Air."
 	Cartoon 	Dr. Annie Eyeball looks at air.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Celebrity 	The Neville Brothers sing "Believe in Yourself," with a montage of clips from films including "I'm the Big One Now," "Reach Your Hand Up High" and "Hot in the City."
 	Cartoon 	A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself.
 	Muppets 	(new music added)
 	Animation 	Planet Y / y
 	Animation 	Pencil box Y / y
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "What Do You Do With a Fruit?"
 	Cartoon 	A bird watches as two monkeys climb above and below each other in a tree.
 	SCENE 2 	Elmo arrives at the next hole in front of 123 Sesame Street, where he will hit the ball so that it rolls between Mr. Handford's legs into Hooper's Store through the front door, come out the back door, and into the net. Elmo makes another successful shot, and they tell a confused Mr. Handford what's going on. He understands the importance of Prince Ted changing back to his former self: "It makes sense to me - you know, it's hard to dance at a wedding with a golf ball!"
 	Cartoon 	Pinball #10Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	Fred the Wonder Horse bets Marshal Grover that he can't count backwards from ten. Grover tries standing with his back to him and counting up to ten. Since he can't do it, Grover has to let Fred ride on his back.
 	Animation 	Rubber Stamp #10
 	Film 	A boy takes dance lessons at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
 	Animation 	A picture puzzle of the letter T is put together. A man walks up to it, and calls a taxi.
 	Cartoon 	Spinning T (to the tango beat).
 	SCENE 3 	The next hole is the "Grouch-in-a-Can" hole. Elmo will hit the ball into Oscar's trash can, with the intention that it will be passed around by one of Oscar's elephants and Spot before hitting his piano, then tossed out by an irate Oscar. Miraculously, everything goes exactly as Elmo predicted (judging by the sounds they hear) and they head off to the next hole; Oscar demands that he not be invited to Prince Ted's wedding.
 	Cartoon 	The Great Inventors Series: John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, invents a new type of food that can be eaten while playing cards.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Animation 	In stop-motion, sandwich ingredients square-dance in a ring and arrange themselves into a sandwich, which gets a bite taken out of it in a refrigerator.
 	Muppets 	Bert sings "Keep the Park Clean for the Pigeons" to address the importance of proper trash disposal for the sake of pigeons.
 	Film 	Kids narrate a film about how Yufka, a Turkish flat-bread, is made.
 	Cartoon 	A boy gets lost in a mall, and a security guard shows him how to use a map.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Cast 	Linda shows a boy how to sign the word "telephone."
 	Animation 	The word TELEPHONE is displayed, followed by a ringing telephone.
 	Film 	A group of girls do a playground cheer ("One step forward, one step back").
 	Cartoon 	Dr. Frankenstein makes sure his monster knows about front and back. (Voices: Rick Cimino)
 	Muppets 	Pageant: How a flower growsGladys the Cow stars as a seed. Ernie plays a rain cloud and Herry Monster is the sun, whose attentions cause the seed to bloom into a flower.
 	Song 	A piece of land with water all around it is an "Island."Artist: Jane Aaron
 	Cartoon 	A poem about Hannah and Anna who lead similar lives in the city and the country.
 	SCENE 4 	The last hole in the game is the "Playground Hole" in the park. Elmo hits the ball to the top of the slide, where it rolls down and lands in the net. The girls pretend that the ball will now turn back into Prince Ted who will marry the princess, but then Betty Lou decides that maybe the princess should finish nursery school before getting married. The others wonder about Prince Ted's fate, to which Betty Lou replies, "Well, he'll be sad at first, but he'll get over it and write a book about it."
 	SCENE 4cont'd	Everyone heads off to Betty Lou's for a tea party, leaving the ball and the net behind. Once they're gone, the ball transforms into a bewildered, aching Prince Ted! He feels like he's been whacked with a golf club and lies down for a rest as Luis announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
*This episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3419.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25