Episode 3003

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Big Bird, Rosita, Telly, Elmo, Jyah, Deija, and Keila have pooled all their money together to buy something they can all share. Big Bird plops down their combined three dollars onto the Hooper's Store counter, but they start arguing over what they should spend the money on.
 	SCENE 1 	The gang has reduced their desired purchase to be for either juice or crayons. Mr. Handford informs them that they don't have enough to buy both and says that conducting a vote will be the fairest way of deciding. Big Bird and Elmo make passionate speeches for their respective choices (crayons and juice, respectively) before everyone starts their vote. It ends up in a two-way tie and Telly is left as the tie-breaker. He leaves in anguish to think about the best way to use his vote.
 	Animation 	Cecille sings "I Wanna Be Me."
 	Film 	A baby messes around (literally) with a chocolate cookie, as Cookie Monster (in voice-over) wishes it were for him.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Kids observe cloud formations, until it starts to rain.
 	SCENE 2 	Luis reads a story, The Kingdom That Had No King. In the story, the citizens of a kingdom are devastated when their king leaves them, and ultimately decide what to do on their own.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts down to 0 as he eats his soup.
 	Song 	"My New Computer"
 	Muppets 	Grover's Health Minute: Kermit the Frog and Grover talk about teeth. Grover notices that Kermit does not have any teeth at all, so he puts a pair of teeth in Kermit's mouth. Grover says to see a "tooth checker," to eat crunchy things like bananas and to clean teeth with a "tooth comb."
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up."
 	Cast 	Maria and Linda sew quilts with a Q on them.
 	Animation 	Sand Q/q
 	SCENE 3 	Telly paces around Big Bird's nest, still unable to decide what to vote on. He imagines what would happen if he voted for each option and envisions his friends struggling without crayons or juice. Meanwhile, everyone waiting for him votes to check if Hooper's even still has their options, leaving Telly behind. Gordon passes by and informs Telly that his vote is based on what he wants, not what everyone else wants. Telly realizes what his vote should be for and rushes off to Hooper's.
 	Film 	How Crayons are MadeMusic: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey
 	Cartoon 	C is for Candle (the candle blows back)
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Robin Williams and a robin observe how similar they are. Afterwards, the robin sings "Lullaby of Birdland."
 	Film 	The Count (in voiceover) subtracts from five to one to zero children on a park bench.
 	SCENE 4 	Telly returns to Hooper's just in time to place his vote. He gives a very dramatic speech on his thought process as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays, finally decided on buying... crayons! Elmo is very disappointed, having wanted juice. There's fifty cents in change left, which is enough to buy him a glass, but Elmo realizes it will leave out the others who wanted juice as well. Mr. Handford solves the problem by putting seven straws into the glass for everyone to share.
 	Animation 	Fans unveil Q and q.
 	Film 	Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)
 	Muppets 	The Count is all dressed up for Bat Day, which is when he takes his bats for an outing downtown. He counts the votes from his bats, which is more fun to him than an outing.
 	Animation 	Carrot subtraction (4-1)
 	Song 	"Frog Kick"
 	Cartoon 	Black cat, white cat, orange cat, marmalade cat, mouse cat, bird cat, chasing balls of string cat.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon and Susan tell the youngsters how adults can vote too, describing how they voted for the President of the United States. A flashback shows Gordon and Susan taking Miles with them to a polling station to show how it's done, demonstrating how the levers on a voting machine work. They then field questions about all the other grown-ups who can vote (except Barkley, since he's a dog).
 	Cartoon 	Q for QuietArtist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	"They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero.
 	Film 	A boy makes fruit salad.
 	Cartoon 	A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail.
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 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Film 	A park ranger speaks to a group of kids about trees and the fruits that come from them. Then all the kids hug a tree.
 	Song 	"Zero Song": A female voiceover sings about the food that keeps being taken away to make 0.Artist: Jane Aaron
 	SCENE 6 	Everyone votes on whether to announce the sponsors; they are all unanimously in favor of it and say it together.
==Notes==
*In an earlier draft of the script, Rosita's role was filled by Roxie Marie instead.Tony Geiss Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
*An additional scene was also present in the earlier draft, where Bob finds Oscar the Grouch monitoring a vote from his pet elephants. Unfortunately for Bob, the elephants are voting about spraying him with water and the affirmative votes win.
==See also==
*Episode 4169, in which Telly serves as a tie-breaking vote once more
==Sources==
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Category:Politics
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 23