Episode 2656

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird presents a new game entitled "What's Alive?" He tries to see which thing is alive - a rock or Telly Monster, who hopes that he's alive. After testing both in their ability to eat, breathe, and grow, Big Bird determines that Telly is alive! Telly is given a bouquet of flowers and showered with confetti as he makes a proud speech about being alive.
 	Cartoon 	"Why Bears Smile" - a story of a bear who learned which body part to cover when sneezing.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Camp Wannagohoma: Grover tries to teach his campers (including Roosevelt Franklin) about what an island is, but he gets his vocabulary mixed up. He also fails to notice when the campers board the motorboat for lunch, leaving him stranded.
 	Cartoon 	A for Ape (who crashes into a tree and forms a SHAPE)
 	Film 	Empty / full playground (time-lapse)
 	Muppets 	Herry Monster sings "Two Heads Are Better Than One."
 	Cartoon 	King Minus and the Disappearing Dragons
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird plays a guessing game with Susan; he makes animal sounds and gives clues for her to guess what animal it is. He finally makes the sound "Quack-ah-choo!," which Susan can't figure out. A duck with a cold steps out and provides the answer.
 	Cartoon 	At a construction site, a blue man builds a cuckoo clock, which gives him his lunch.
 	Song 	Sesame Street Creature Feature: Joe Raposo sings "Goats."
 	Muppets 	Clementine plays a game with the viewer to see if they can guess what Forgetful Jones is riding on.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: A for airplane
 	Song 	Gina and Maria sing "The Word is "No"."
 	Cartoon 	A snake displays shapes, which are identified in Spanish.
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar hosts "The Trash Report," which he thinks is futile because the nearby wastebasket in front of Hooper's Store is empty so there's no story. Bob and Luis soon dump their trash in and make it full, but the can is then emptied by the passing trash collector before he can talk about it.
 	Cartoon 	Rap #17
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts a dinner for all things that begin with the sound SH. Guests include a shirt, a shrieking shovel, a shepherd, and a shark.
 	Cartoon 	Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	A kindergarten class takes a field trip to the fire station.
 	Cartoon 	R for rhinoceros, raquet, robot
 	SCENE 4 	Telly asks Bob if he ever worried about things as a child. Telly mentions some things he's worried about (such as turning green and saying, "Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here!"), none of which Bob had ever worried about. Bob claims he was worried about his shoelaces being knotted up. Telly is glad he's not alone in worrying about things, but goes home in a panic to check on his own shoelaces.
 	Cartoon 	A Rube Goldberg device is used to turn on a television as the numbers one through twenty are featured.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "Me Gotta Be Blue."
 	Song 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face."
 	Cartoon 	A for astronaut, airplane, airport and automobile.
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar places a "GO" sign near his can, and enjoys telling passersby like Luis and Bob to "go fly a kite" or "go take a hike." Susan instead thinks of all the nice things she likes to go and do (such as go to the park, go to a concert, etc.) which spoils his fun.
 	Cartoon 	A little girl shows the building and apartment where she lives -- both with the number 6.
 	Film 	A girl and her friend David, a blacksmith, talk as he makes an iron wolf for his door.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Harry Belafonte sings of about the "Coconut Counting Man," who is actually The Count.
 	Cartoon 	A man slips on his daughter's skate, and she points out that it makes him feel angry.
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus star in another episode of the daytime soap opera, The Young and the Curious. The two ask Luis a series of questions, when he remarks how curious they are. He defines the word for them, only prompting them to ask even more inane questions. The announcer teases the next installment, where Susan becomes the target of their curious minds.
 	Cartoon 	A girl goes around the city to look for her lost kitty, and sees its image in a variety of signs and in nature.Artists: Don Duga and Irra Verbitsky
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of a camel.
center 	Muppets 	
center 	Cartoon 	R for Rhinoceros (poem)Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 7 	Bob tries to read out on the stoop, but is disturbed by the noise caused by Fluffy as she practices various tricks inside Oscar's trash can. Making noise happens to be her best trick, which she continues to do (while wrecking Oscar's can) as Bob announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
* In addition to playing Telly and Snuffy, Martin P. Robinson serves as the announcer for scenes 3 and 6.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 21