Episode 1118

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis, Susan, and Mr. Hooper have difficulty in explaining what "away from" means to the kids. Luis gets the idea to get Oscar involved by knocking on his trash can, then lingering until Oscar yells at him to get away from his can. Susan and Mr. Hooper do the same thing, and finally tell him what they're up to. They refuse to leave until Oscar tells them to get away from him one more time, so the Grouch drives everybody away when he produces something he's cooking up: a foul-smelling concoction of limburger, anchovies, liverwurst, and garlic.
 	Cartoon 	A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings.
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of a swan.
center 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 2 	The kids gather at the playground barrels near Big Bird's nest to watch Alphabet Bates write a letter S in the sky.
 	Muppets 	"Sammy the Snake"
 	Cartoon 	Superman demonstrates the letter S and some of the words it stands for.
 	Insert 	Musical Bridge #2: close-ups of guitars, an organ, and drums.
 	Video 	Scanimate kids intro
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird finishes painting a picture of a field in the yard, depicting only the sky and grass. When Susan points this out, the kids add their own touches to it by adding their cut-out drawings of various animals and trees. The picture then spontaneously begins to make animal noises.
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight"
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts "The Trading Game" with contestants Oscar the Grouch and Sally Screamer.
 	Cartoon 	A boy looks for the telephone as it rings.
 	Film 	Hamburger bun factory
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 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird plays a “Three of These Things” game using the kids' cut-outs of a gorilla, a tree, a crocodile, and a giraffe.
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant.
 	Cartoon 	Counting 10 to 1.
 	Film 	Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer". The object is a tire.
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts 10 stairs as he climbs them with his sack of toys.
 	Film 	Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs.
 	Cartoon 	Footprints move over to the tune of "Here Are Some Things".
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar holds a Grouchketeer meeting, where he admires the dirty faces of Damian, Jenny, and Ricardo. In hoping to educate the youth in his own grouchy way, Oscar produces a ratty number 3 and sends them off on a treasure hunt for things in groups of three. Damian returns with three wilted flowers, Jenny brings three moldy pieces of bread, and Ricardo gives him three old shoes. They all line up so he can count the faces of four Grouches (including his own).
 	Celebrity 	Helen Reddy sings "I Make Up Songs."
 	Film 	A man and children observe the life along the river.
 	Cartoon 	S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #8
 	Muppets 	: Grover and his friend Debo notice the letter "S" sitting on a brick wall. He exclaims that the letter is an old friend, and shouts, "Hey, S, babyyyy!" and slaps it off the wall. He remarks, "I hope he did not take that personally."
 	SCENE 6 	Susan sits in as Oscar asks the Grouchketeers what they had for breakfast. He sees that they're all in a good mood since they all ate nice things; Oscar recommends that they should've had nothing instead, holding up an empty cereal box and listing the "benefits" as if he's a pitchman. Susan tells him that even Grouches need breakfast so they will have energy to be even more cantakerous. Oscar ends the meeting with the Grouchketeer cheer ("How can you spot a Grouchketeer? / He's the one with the thumb in his ear!") before the kids run off and he goes to get some breakfast of his own.
 	Animation 	Sand K/k
 	Cartoon 	"K" - Kangaroo - A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains what a kangaroo is, and ends up in the pouch of one.
 	Cast 	Maria and David find two sets of sacks, which have incorrect numerical labels.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Jerry Nelson counts 20 backflips performed by a monkey.
 	Cartoon 	In rhyme, a man points out animals who stole and/or ruined his clothing.
 	Cartoon 	Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Elk feeding.Music: Robert Dennis
 	Muppets 	Salesman Harvey Kneeslapper asks Tony if he gets attacked by monsters and run over by crowds. Herry Monster attacks him and a crowd walks all over him, so the answer is yes. Harvey has a simple solution for Tony: AWAY FROM! The next time those things happen to Tony, he can get AWAY FROM them.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: The man unscrambles the letters in a HELP sign.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #1
 	SCENE 7 	The Grouchketeers sneak back to Oscar's trash can and loudly bang on it before dashing away. "Bless their little rotten hearts," Oscar muses as Susan announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 9