Episode 0851

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	David shows Maria and the kids how a tape recorder works by sampling some audio of their voices and playing it back. He flips the tape over to side B to hear what else he's recorded, thinking maybe it's some notes he took for class. After a moment, his voice is heard in a poetic cadence, "Just a few thoughts I'd like to say about Maria..." He immediately switches it off, but Maria wants to hear the rest after hearing her name. David insists the Maria he's talking about is his sister's new cat, but she convinces him to play the rest back anyway. Finally he admits that the poem was about her, which Maria says was very nice.
 	Film 	A rhino and her baby
 	Cartoon 	Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills.
 	SCENE 2 	David and Maria use the recorder to capture audio of Oscar the Grouch inside his can telling them to leave him alone. Oscar eventually emerges and they play back the tape out of view on the 123 Sesame Street steps. The resulting exchange with his own voice recording convinces Oscar that he's quarreling with another grouch.
 	Film 	Six children go down a slide.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #4
 	Film 	A man spins in circles while riding in his kayak.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird demonstrates "before" and "after" by opening and walking through the construction doors next to his nest, but he knocks Maria over in the process.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Four construction workers build a number 4.
 	Film 	Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide.
 	Cast 	In a circus routine, Luis the ringmaster demonstrates "before" and "after". Freeze-frame technology allows his assistant, Linda, to show each action as she jumps through a hoop, slips on a banana peel, and gets a bucket of water thrown at her face.
 	Cartoon 	A clam tells a fisherman why he's not catching any fish: he pulled all the plants out of the pond.
 	Muppets 	The Martians find a telephone.
 	SCENE 4 	Sam the Robot offers to make change for Bob to use on the bus. After inserting a one dollar bill into him and making a comment about the weather, Sam goes on and on with meteorological details. Bob asks if Sam knows what the word "stop" means, and Sam goes into another overly-detailed lesson on the word. He mentions having a STOP button on his back, which Bob proceeds to push. This shuts Sam down completely, resulting in Bob missing his bus because he couldn't get the change back from Sam.
 	Cartoon 	A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.”
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Ants carry a huge letter 'Q' uphill.
 	Insert 	Three of These Kids are playing policeman, but the other one is playing fireman.
 	Film 	One of These Things (3 starfish and 1 crab)
 	Celebrity 	Clive Thompson and Tina Yuan of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater dance to a blues number.
 	Animation 	Sand S/s
 	Cartoon 	A voice asks a face if it's aware of the letter S, and it is revealed that the face belongs to a snake.Artists: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird reads a poem he forgot he'd written and hadn't finished. It's called "My Friend" and describes someone who's big and brown, but the name is left off of the end. Mr. Snuffleupagus comes along and can't think of who it might be since he's never met any of Big Bird's friends. After he leaves, Big Bird thinks about writing a poem for Snuffy. Bob helps him rhyme Snuffleupagus which makes Big Bird think about his previous poem mystery.
 	Cartoon 	Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs.
 	Film 	A male voiceover and his friend Myrtle observe a macaw in a tree.
 	Film 	Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds.
 	Muppets 	Grover demonstrates high and low by asking Heather to scratch his back.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Run."
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: "Q", Quiet
 	Cartoon 	A duck sings about all the reasons why q should be remembered.
 	Film 	No matter how they're arranged, George the Farmer always has three barrels, four milk jugs, and five cartons.
 	SCENE 6 	Oscar gathers everyone around for some grouch lessons, having them stick their tongues out, glower with their eyebrows, and hold their noses. He finishes by having everybody imagine making a sandwich out of disgusting things like moldy bread, mud, earthworms, and hair tonic; everyone vocalizes their disgust, which Oscar thinks make them sound even more like Grouches.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 7 	Snuffy announces the sponsors while everyone plays in the yard.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7