Episode 0315

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon brings a bulletin board over to Tom to suggest some spots on the street where it might go. He brought it home from school where they were throwing them out, and thought it would work well as a place to post notices for the residents of Sesame Street. Tom knows just the place for it to hang: on the side of Hooper's Store facing the yard.
 	Film 	A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion!
 	Cartoon 	A ribbon wraps itself around a woman, then turns itself into an R.
 	Film 	Letter R hoistMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird has the first message to post on the community bulletin board. It's a long roll that Little Bird wrote out for him that reads "Used Bird Bath For Sale". Big Bird says Little Bird made a mistake, though, and claims that it reads "Sale For Bath Bird Used". Tom and Gordon explain that sentences are read from left to right, not from right to left.
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight"
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets sing "Octopus' Garden."
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions.
 	SCENE 3 	Little Bird asks the audience to use their imagination; pretend to see something that's not really there. As he describes people in a variety of roles, they appear standing next to him on the construction doors of Big Bird's nest. He imagines Luis as a pirate, Susan as an astronaut, and Tom as a king. He then tries something much harder: imagining Oscar the Grouch as real nice. The camera pans over to Oscar in his can who says he can't imagine him being nice at all.
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I".
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite".
 	SCENE 4 	Luis sings "Three of These Things" with lettuce, a pumpkin, cabbage, and an onion.
 	SCENE 4cont'd 	They then turn their gaze to the sky to observe Alphabet Bates writing a letter R .
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts four eggs. A chick hatches out of one egg, so he counts the three eggs -- then two, then one. Then he counts the four chickens.
 	Cartoon 	Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Film 	Traffic lights
 	SCENE 5 	Gordon and Susan help Oscar read music for his Grand Grouch Grumble and Groan Marching Society Band. They show him how to properly play different rhythms on the trash can lid, milk bottle, and rusty pipes. The music sounds even worse when they play again, which Oscar loves to hear.
 	Muppets 	Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster, disguised as Ernie.
 	Cartoon 	Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates forward and backward using a wind-up toy.
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat)
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird looks for R words while Gordon rests in a hammock reading and listening to the radio.
 	Muppets 	Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up.
 	Film 	PeacockMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 7 	Tom explains that a surprise is when you see something you weren't expecting. He ducks behind the counter and emerges wearing a mustache.
 	Transition 	Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill
 	SCENE 7 cont'd	Tom has another surprise: he's wearing a beard.
 	Transition 	Bridge #17 - Hourglass Fast/Empty
 	SCENE 7 cont'd	Tom says that another kind of suprise is when you hear something you weren't expecting. He goes on to speak with Susan's voice.
 	Cartoon 	A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 7 cont'd	Tom explains that a surprise can also be when you don't see what you were expecting.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Batman and Robin catch the Penguin's gang who has dirty windows, teaching the opposite pairings of clean and dirty.
 	Animation 	Dot & Hill B-2 — A dot tries to get up a hill after a cart, but doesn't make it up.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet boy teaches "forward" and "backward" with a group of Muppet kids, hippies, and Grover who keep running over the boy when his back is turned.
 	Cartoon 	A boy and a dog fight over a letter "I". (repeat)
 	Cast 	A Howard Cosell-type voice narrates Terrific Tom as he subtracts one chair from three chairs.
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight" (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS.
 	SCENE 8 	As Big Bird talks about his Remembering Book, he forgets where he put it.
 	Cartoon 	Birds appear around the numerals one through twenty as jazz music plays.Artists: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 9 	Big Bird tells Gordon he lost his Remembering Book so he forgets what to say. Gordon tells him to say goodbye, and Big Bird realizes that's what he forgot. Susan announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Susan and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, while Antonio and an Anything Muppet hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3