Episode 2273

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird and Elmo beg Maria to take them to "The Best Friend Game Show," a television program where contestants talk about their best friends. Maria promises to take them tomorrow, when Elmo asks if he can call Maria his best friend. Maria is very flattered... but moments later, by Hooper's Store, Elmo asks the same of Bob.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #11Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Kids dancing.
 	Cartoon 	Gordon voiceover R/r
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin)
 	Cast 	The Flying Stupendos (Luis, Maria, and David) do a trick on the teeter-totter.Part 3 only
 	Cartoon 	A cat chases a mouse into a mouse hole. The cat and mouse make music as they hit the wall, until the cat breaks through the mouse hole.Artist: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 2 	Snuffy and the kids carry signs and chant, "Important!" outside of Big Bird's nest area to bring attention to Big Bird typing up his best friend story for the game show. After asking Big Bird several questions (and interrupting him in the process), Snuffy learns that he's not being very helpful and takes the kids over to the yard so Big Bird can concentrate on his very important task.
 	Cartoon 	"It's a Lovely Eleven Morning"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Bruce Stringbean, Clarice and S Street Band perform "Born To Add."
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	A man spins in circles while riding in his kayak.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	O for orangeArtist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley sings "I'll Love You in Springtime."
 	Cartoon 	A shoemaker shows how he measures (human) feet with his ruler.
 	SCENE 3 	Telly interrupts Oscar and Grundgetta's argument to ask if Oscar would be his best friend for the game show. Oscar declines wanting to do such a nice favor when suddenly Grundgetta offers to do it instead, realizing how rotten it would make Oscar feel. Telly disappointedly leaves until he bumps into Elmo, who asks him to be his best friend for the show. Once Telly is cheered up and leaves, Elmo immediately asks the same of David.
 	Cartoon 	A woman identifies farm animals by their sounds.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster drives a car, but puts on the seat belt first.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again."
 	Animation	It's a giraffeArtist: Ishu Patel
 	Muppets 	Grover asks The Amazing Mumford if he could make his carrot disappear, provided that some smoke appears. Mumford performs the trick and Grover is impressed by the puff of smoke, however he fails to notice Mumford chomping on his carrot. When Grover asks Mumford to make the carrot reappear, he replies that he can't because he ate it ("You didn't say anything about magic!").
 	Cartoon 	Slot-machine legs: Cowboy & horse
 	Film 	A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter.Music: Robert Dennis
 	Cartoon 	"Four Friends" - a reggae song about a group of animals who wash a car together.Artist: Michael Sporn
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon asks Grundgetta if she has any idea what to do on the game show tomorrow. Grundgetta has no idea, but this doesn't stop her from driving Oscar crazy by having him guess what her idea actually is. Elsewhere, Elmo asks Gordon if he'd like to be Elmo's best friend for the show. As he goes off, flattered, Elmo asks the same of Susan.
 	Animation	Sand R/r
 	Film 	Squares are shown in close-up.
 	Celebrity	The Pointer Sisters sing "Yes, We Can Can."
 	Cartoon 	A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
 	Muppets 	Grover the lumberjack thinks he is the first to arrive for supper, but he gets trampled by a gang of French-Canadian lumberjacks who get to the food table before he has a chance to get his snow boots off. By the time he finally gets them off, a grizzly bear grabs the last plate of food.
 	Cartoon 	An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O.
 	SCENE 5 	Elmo confirms with the Honkers that they can be his best friend too. Elmo realizes he's forgotten someone important - the viewer!
 	Cartoon 	A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers.
 	Muppets 	Live from the Nestropolitan Opera, Phil Harmonic introduces the staged production of Peligro starring Placido Flamingo.
 	Cartoon 	Five stripes make a circle.
 	Film 	Letter R hoistMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A wizard turns into R things.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman sounds out the word "call", and then demonstrates some calls of his own — including a bird call, cow call, pig call, and telephone call.
 	Cartoon 	Millie and Molly find a place for their picture of their favorite rock star, Danny.
 	SCENE 6 	At night, Maria checks on all the people she's taking to the game show tomorrow. Elmo is deep in thought, Grundgetta refuses to answer, and Big Bird has already written enough about Snuffy, but Maria inadvertently inspires him to write about another memory. Bob announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
* Though the show is called "The My Best Friend Game Show" in Episode 2275, everyone just refers to it here as the "Best Friend Game Show."
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Category:Game Shows
Category:Friendship
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 18