Episode 2817

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Susan tells the viewer that today, everyone will be discussing times when they felt sad. Prairie Dawn is the first to go, describing the day she got sick on the premiere of her new pageant, "The Life of a Potato."
 	SCENE 1cont'd	A flashback shows Susan tending to a bed-ridden Prairie. Despite her pleading, Susan had insisted she was too sick to go to school, pageant or no pageant. In the present, Prairie says that while she felt very sad, the experience allowed her to write what she considers her best pageant ever, "The Nose and the Cold," and she sings a sample of it.
 	Cartoon 	Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot.
 	Song 	"There's a Lot of Different Ways to Get to School" (sung by Jerry Nelson)
 	Muppets 	Game Show: Happiness Begins at 40Guy Smiley gets the Sad Family out of their rut by having them count to 40.
 	Cartoon 	A snake has a knot in his middle, and he can't find his end. The detective helps the snake find his end ... playing drums in a band.
 	Muppets 	Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian."
 	Cartoon 	Gordon voiceover N/n
 	SCENE 2 	Luis now introduces Telly with his sad story.
 	SCENE 2cont'd	Telly recalls when they played baseball in Big Bird's nest area and Telly (wearing two mitts) missed a catch in his direction, causing his team to lose.
 	SCENE 2cont'd	In the present, the kids invite Telly to join their game, making him very happy.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup.
 	Song 	"Rollin' on the River"
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A fan reveals the letter C.
 	Song 	Sesame Street Creature Feature: The Marmoset.
 	Cartoon 	Willie Wimple: Tree Destruction
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar now recalls a time when even he felt sad.
 	SCENE 3cont'd	On a rainy day, he takes his favorite toy, Rubber Yucchy, with him as he runs some errands at the Fix-It Shop and Hooper's Store. Afterwards, he realizes the toy has fallen out of the hole in his slicker pocket. He retraces his steps, but to no avail. He returns to his can, sobbing, where Telly returns the toy, having found it on the ground by the trash can.
 	SCENE 3cont'd	Back in the present, Oscar plays with the Rubber Yucchy as Luis observes that Grouches can get sad, too.
 	Animation 	Draw a circle around the bus. Cross out the telephone.
 	Cast 	Big Bird, Susan and Bob sing "Can Read" while at a newsstand.
 	Cartoon 	A salesman offers a passerby the letter N for next to nothing.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	College students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, opossums, and chinchillas.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Cluck Around the Clock."
 	Cartoon 	A family of snakes makes shapes, and rolls away.
 	Film 	Pizza is made.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Insert 	Mr. Snuffleupagus shows Oscar a picture of the Snuffle-fairy in a book while he looks up in the air for her. Oscar tells him that the Snuffle-fairy isn't real, which Maria then confirms. Though Snuffy is disappointed, Maria explains that he can still imagine that she exists. The two look up at the sky and pretend she's there with her wings and wand, and even Oscar finds himself believing she's flying above them. Later, he tells Alice how he used his imagination.
 	Cartoon 	A boy sits in a forest and plays the flute along with the birds' songs, but becomes sad when woodsmen demolish the forest. He plants more trees for the birds to live in.Artist: Richard Condie
 	Muppets 	Ernie is in a counting mood, and decides to count all of the cookies in a box of them. Cookie Monster overhears this and asks if he can have all of the cookies after they are counted, and Ernie agrees. But after opening the box, Ernie finds that there are 0 cookies in it. Ernie has another box, but it also has 0 in it. Ernie then remembers that he put all of the cookies into a cookie jar, and starts to count, but Cookie Monster impatiently eats all of the cookies before Ernie can finish counting.
 	Cartoon 	Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Song 	"Frog Kick"
 	Cartoon 	A lost man in the desert asks a stranger for directions to the city. He builds a pretend city out of sand to show what it looks like. As it turns out, the stranger is an alien.
 	Cast 	Gina plays and sings "Follow the Leader" with the kids.
 	Cartoon 	A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "What Babies Are Called"
 	Cartoon 	Dr. Annie Eyeball looks at air.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Imagine That" about things that he sometimes imagines to be: first a knight in shining armor who battles a dragon, then a sailor, and finally, himself.
 	Cartoon 	A cowboy adds two different herds of cows.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
 	SCENE 4 	Everyone celebrates their now happy endings to their sad stories - Telly was able to catch a ball during the game today, Prairie feels happy that she got to do her new pageant, and Oscar plays with his Rubber Yucchy inside his can. Big Bird announces the sponsors.
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Category:Feelings
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22