Episode 0899

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird enters Hooper's Store and is surprised to see Buffy singing a song without moving her mouth. She explains that what he heard was a recording she just made on her tape recorder, and shows how the machine works. She hands Big Bird the microphone for him to try it out and he says the alphabet, pausing nervously in-between some letters while Buffy, David, and Mr. Hooper quietly hint at the letters he forgets. When he hears the recording played back, he feels he has to cue his own voice whenever he pauses on the recording, thinking the machine doesn't know the alphabet.
center 	Muppets 	Grover tells Herry's secret (which is actually the alphabet) to Pamela, who tells Fenwick, who tells Rosemary. Herry says to Grover, "You're very good at reciting the alphabet ... but you're lousy at keeping secrets!"
 	Cartoon 	At the beach, the Bee Bee and the Barker family greet each other while saying their names that begin with the letter B.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Song 	"B is for Bubble"
 	Animation 	Sand B/b
 	Film 	While watching her goldfish, a girl wonders what the world is like from her goldfish's perspective.
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
 	Cartoon 	"I'm six years old today!"
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)."
 	Muppets 	Herry Monster asks Kimberly to identify geometric shapes.
 	Film 	Circles in everyday objects.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman goes to Marvin's Music City to buy a nice shiny trumpet. However, Marvin keeps bringing the wrong instrument.
 	Cartoon 	"Mad Goat Song"Artist: Derek Lamb
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey!
 	SCENE 2 	Buffy sings "Worrying Blues" with the kids.
 	Cartoon 	A painter paints all around the screen, eventually painting over himself.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Film 	Russian nesting dolls 10-1
 	Film 	Ten hats on a hatrack
 	Cartoon 	Big Daniel Boone looks for a bear.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Kids paint various things that begin with the letter B on a window (edited version)Full edit--
 	Celebrity 	The Pointer Sisters sing "Hush Little Baby."
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A black cat chases after a white bird, until a white lion steps in.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Film 	A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it.
 	Cast 	Surgeons Maria, David, Susan and Luis "operate" on a motorcycle.
 	Cartoon 	A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A little girl imagines what would happen if she dropped her bag of ping pong balls.
 	Film 	Apples grow on a tree.
 	Song 	"Four Seasons"
 	Cartoon 	"I'm six years old today!" (repeat)
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 3 	The Count looks around for things to count, pestering David and Mr. Hooper as they read and study in the yard. Maria sneaks up behind the Count, covers his eyes, disguises her voice and says "Guess who?" The Count's not sure what's going on until he realizes that it's a game that somebody's playing with him. More importantly, the Count has finally found something to count: wrong guesses! He starts guessing wildly, much to the annoyance of everyone else.
 	Cartoon 	A blue man (voiced by Casey Kasem) explains that “Q” starts the word “quarter.”
 	SCENE 3 cont'd	The Count has reached over 35 wrong guesses as Mr. Hooper and David manage to escape the game (to Maria's detriment).
 	Cartoon 	Q for QuietArtist: John Korty
 	SCENE 3 cont'd	The Count has come to over 80 wrong guesses when Maria gives up. The Count wants to finish the game though, so Maria reluctantly stays.
 	Muppets 	Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd	It's nighttime and Maria begins to fall asleep, still closing the Count's eyes as he surpasses 200 guesses. Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Mr. Hooper, Bob, and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
*The song Buffy sings for her tape recording is "I'm an Indian," the same one she sang while in New Mexico in Episode 0814.
*Among the Count's wrong guesses are Rose Ann Scamardella, Rita Moreno, Norman Stiles, Aretha Franklin, Catfish Hunter, Pancho Villa, Mr. Rogers, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Gerry Ford, Pearl Bailey, Yoko Ono, Totie Fields, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Mary, Queen of Scots, Susan Saint James, Ella Fitzgerald, The Flying Nun, Sara Teasdale, Edith Bunker, Supergirl, and Rhoda.
*Names guessed by the Count in the script but not the aired episode: Connie Francis, Ricky Nelson, Helen of Troy, and Lily of the Valley (the name of a flower).
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7