Episode 2519

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Bob welcomes the viewer to Sesame Street, and says something exciting is happening today: Big Bird, Elmo, and Grundgetta are going to be contestants on TV's "My Best Friend Game Show." Bob is especially excited because Elmo asked him to be his best friend, which means he'll mention Bob on TV.
 	SCENE 1cont'd	He is about to head over to the yard to watch it on TV with everyone else, but Oscar stops him along the way, because he needs a favor: he needs someone to hold his Grouch TV antenna in a different position because he wants to make sure Grundgetta doesn't say anything nice about him on TV. Bob almost gets hit by a car while doing so, and Oscar decides he doesn't mind getting poor TV reception - he is a Grouch, after all.
 	Cartoon 	Hortense counts 3 peas.Artist: Michael Sporn
 	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 	Snacks on Parade: Peanut ButterArtist: Bruce Cayard
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play."Snow leopards version
 	SCENE 2 	Maria takes Big Bird, Elmo and Grundgetta over to the TV studio, and they look around in awe at the setup, amazed to be in a world they're used to seeing in a small box.
 	SCENE 2cont'd	Elmo looks into a funny-looking thing, which turns out to be a TV camera. Charlie, the camera operator, shows them how the camera works, and what the sound man does as well. The impatient Grundgetta wonders when the show will start, and the director (whose duties are also explained) announces over the loudspeaker that it's just about to begin. "One minute to air. Places, everybody."
 	Cartoon 	A caterpillar dances in ten socks.
 	Muppets 	
 	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.
 	Song 	"Four Seasons"
 	SCENE 3 	Bob, Gordon, Susan, Snuffy, David, and some kids get excited as they turn the TV on in the yard, and the "My Best Friend Game Show" comes on. Sonny Friendly, the host, introduces the first contestant, Elmo, and tells the audience to stand by. Each of the adults waits in anticipation, revealing through their thoughts how honored they are that Elmo chose each of them to be his best friend, oblivious to the fact that he picked more than one person.
 	SCENE 3cont'd	The show comes back on the air, and Elmo proceeds to talk about his best friend, giving clues about what his best friend does: reads him stories (Susan), sings to him (Gordon), gives him good things to eat (David), and plays games with him (Bob). Who is it? Elmo's answer is all four of the aforementioned adults, and everyone else on Sesame Street! The adults clear up the confusion amongst themselves as the show goes to commercial.
 	Film 	College students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, opossums, and chinchillas.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Celebrity 	Linda Ronstadt sings a special rewritten version of "Y Andalé" with a mariachi band.
 	Cartoon 	Pistons push a capital H through a tunnel, where it breaks and turns into a lowercase h. (with voiceover by Roscoe Orman)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
 	SCENE 4 	The show returns from commercial, and the next contestant, Big Bird, describes his best friend, Snuffy. He displays a blanket that they used when they went on a picnic in the park and got ice cream - Big Bird dropped his cone on the blanket, so Snuffy gave him his. He also brought a "few" notes which say why Snuffy is his best friend, but doesn't have enough time to read them all. The show goes to commercial again, and David decides to set up some lanterns and have a party in the yard.
 	Cartoon 	M is for Marvelous Martha
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin looks in a mirror and sees "ME." Maria's reflection is played by Linda.
 	Film 	A man and a little girl perform small aerobic workouts.
 	Animation 	An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns.
 	SCENE 5 	The show comes back from commercial, and the last contestant, Grundgetta, goes into detail about her best friend, Oscar. She likes him because he's a Grouch like she is, and he would never be caught on a yucky show with a bunch of nice people. Sonny thinks it's the most unusual story he's ever heard, and proclaims her the winner, which disappoints her.
 	SCENE 5cont'd	Meanwhile, Oscar is still struggling to get good TV reception with no success. He hears Sonny signing off and turns off the set, curious as to what Grundgetta could've said about him.
 	Cartoon 	Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles.Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift
 	Muppets 	"Long Time, No See"
 	Cartoon 	A runner leaps over letter H hurdles.
 	Film 	How Crayons are MadeMusic: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey
center 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit the Frog demonstrates to the viewer how your neck moves to different positions without moving your body, and how you'd have to move your body at different positions without your neck. In the process, he falls off his mushroom. "All in all, I'd say it's a good thing we have our necks," he says.
 	Song 	"Mom and Me"
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3"
 	SCENE 6 	At night, while everyone else is at the party in the yard, Oscar tells Grundgetta she should be happy that she won because it brings out the grouchiest in her, which he likes. When she thinks of it that way, she is happy that she won and is glad to have a best friend like Oscar, whom she can argue with. They announce the sponsors, and bicker as he tries to get her to tell him what she said on the show.
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Category:Game Shows
Category:Friendship
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 20