Episode 2363

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria and Luis welcome the viewer in Spanish, then Big Bird - or rather, "The Amazing Birdford," greets them. Big Bird has borrowed the Amazing Mumford's magic kit and is learning how to become a magician. He asks them if he can try out his disappearing trick on something, and they let him try it on a trash can. It doesn't disappear, not even when he tries saying the magic words in Spanish. Big Bird goes off to practice some more, and Maria and Luis notice that their tools are missing ...
 	Cartoon 	Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
 	Film 	Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays.
 	Cartoon 	An alien comes across a pair of tree trunks; one with multi-colored leaves, the other without. He finds and grows leaves to mount on the other tree, then strings a hammock between the two.
 	Muppets 	Grover the Waiter at La Casa de Comidas
 	Animation 	P for Pyramid
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar the Grouch likes it when Susan looks filthy and greasy after working on her car, but is disappointed when he finds out she's going to take a shower and get all clean.
 	Cartoon 	Monster in the dark (finding a light switch)
 	Film 	"Hey, let's make a road!" Kids do so at the beach, while a construction crew does the real thing.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet family sings "Let's Go Driving."
 	Cartoon 	A girl sorts everything she finds which is alive and not alive.
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan sets three new plants on her window sill. Meanwhile, Big Bird tries to use magic to multiply three balls - but only ends up rearranging them in different ways, which he doesn't think is so amazing. He walks away in disgust, when Susan notices a lot more plants around the outside of her apartment!
 	Animation 	El numero tres (Luis V.O.)
 	Muppets 	Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: GROW
 	Song 	Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?"
 	Cartoon 	Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller.
 	Muppets 	Gordon reads the story of "Stan and Dan." Dan copies everything that Stan does, until Dan becomes a hippie.
 	Animation 	I see a 3! Do you see a 3?
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Telly tries to speed up his growth by eating vegetables and exercising, but Smokey Robinson explains that "It Takes Time" to grow up big and strong.
 	Cartoon 	A blue man demonstrates in and out with the help of a barrel.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. When he discovers that the cookies are locked up tight, he eats the safe.
center 	Cartoon 	R for Rhinoceros (poem)Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster fights over the letters P and R, one of them displaying P foods and the other one displaying R foods (and a radio). They have a picnic, which is cut short due to rain.
 	Cartoon 	Pat the Pilot skywrites a letter P with her plane.Artist: John Korty
 	Song 	Spanish Food Market Song
 	Muppets 	Honkers count to 3. (only part 3 is shown)
 	Animation 	Teeny Little Super Guy: Two boys are fighting over a swing, so Teeny Little Superguy shows them how to share.Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	SCENE 4 	Bob witnesses as Big Bird tries his magic on three apples and one banana - he will make the banana disappear, since it does not belong with the apples. He makes the apples disappear, but not the banana, which is instead taken away by a monkey (which Big Bird doesn't see).
 	Cartoon 	The Alphabet Song (country, gospel, Mexican)Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	Film 	Kids paint P-word animals on glass. (shortened)Full version:
center 	Muppets 	At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie has accidentally buried Bert under the sand.
 	Cartoon 	Un circulo
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster shows David a sign that says STREET.
 	Cartoon 	R for rose
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird swears to give up magic, since none of his tricks seem to turn out right. Maria, Luis and Susan try to encourage him not to, because his accidental magic has still been amazing in some ways. Big Bird lets them try out Mumford's magic kit, but they don't get the results they want when they use it. Bob announces the sponsors.
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Category:Magic