Episode 1169

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar plays water-related sounds (such as a dripping faucet, a thunderstorm, and crashing ocean waves) on his beat-up tape recorder as Maria and the kids guess what each sound is. He plays one final sound of Maria yelling at Oscar. Maria doesn't understand the connection until Oscar splashes her with a bucket of water and she berates him.
 	Cartoon 	The Magnificent Splasho goes from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the water tank.
 	Muppets 	Kermit talks about "top" and "bottom" using a stack of boxes Grover carries.
 	Cartoon 	The 'J' TrainVoice: Daws Butler
 	Muppets 	Biff sings "This Is My J."
 	Cast 	A voiceover instructs Maria as Chaplin where to put the shirts and the towels.
 	Film 	A group of Hispanic children pick members for their baseball team. A new kid, Ramon, joins them.
 	Cartoon 	The IT knows how a magnifying glass works.
 	SCENE 2 	Bob and Olivia talk with two kids about names, then sing "I Like My Name."
 	Cartoon 	I - ice cream.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag.
 	Cartoon 	An old woman goads a man into guessing who she met today. Through the clues she gives, he soon finds out she's referring to him.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	The Deadly Nightshade star in a story of "Old MacDonald." The three live in a New York City apartment, but when they get fed up with the noise, they relocate to the country. There, they sing "Old MacDonald" and soon get weary of the noisy animals.
 	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".
 	Cast 	Desert Agua, part 1: Maria drags herself across the sands of a limbo desert until she comes to a soda fountain staffed by David. She weakly asks for agua, but David doesn't understand the word leaving Maria to pantomime various clues that mean water. David interprets that she's asking for a telescope, an umbrella, a muffler, and a rubber duckie to take a bath with. Maria slaps her head in frustration.
 	Cartoon 	Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version)
 	Cast 	Desert Agua, part 2: The props are stacking up as Maria continues to pantomime her plea for water while David guesses that she's asking for slippers, a snorkel, and a fish.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd counts four lions.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Cast 	Desert Agua, part 3: David and Maria have been at this for years now, and are showing their old age. Many, many items have piled up as David guesses Maria is asking for a shovel and pail, a live skunk, and a boat. David says he needs a break from 86 years of guessing, and drinks a glass of water. Maria goes crazy over the beverage, so David offers her some. Maria refreshed, David asks to continue guessing what agua means.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: Coffee
 	Celebrity 	The Fonz points out his body parts.
 	Film 	A baby monkeyMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun.
 	Song 	"Look Around, Look Around," a song about seasons.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 3 	Bob returns a folding ruler to Maria, which reminds Oscar that he just so happens to have a ruler collection. He digs through it and produces a normal ruler, which measures Bob and Maria being just a mere foot away from his trash can. He then gives them a yardstick, which measures even further. He finally gives them a retractable tape measure, which puts them further and further away (even beyond the bus stop and across the street).
 	Cartoon 	Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg.
 	Film 	A girl named Jennifer visits family friend Mrs. Wilson in the country, and together they pick food from her garden.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #4
 	Cast 	Bob demonstrates a J word - juggle.
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him.
 	Celebrity 	Edgar Kendricks sings about the "Parts of the Body."
 	Cartoon 	A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Nim Chimpsky matches his nose to that of a picture of himself.
 	Cartoon 	A green man demonstrates dark and light.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar checks his tape measure, estimating that Bob and Maria must be in Sandgate, Vermont by now (to his delight). He yells for them to keep moving as Olivia announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	A kid holds the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 9