Episode 3304

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	The street shakes around while dance music plays as Oscar announces two of today's sponsors: S and T, which stand for "Someone Tap Dancing." He'll reveal who it is after the opening theme.
 	SCENE 1 	Savion climbs out of Oscar's trash can, having just finished giving a tap dance lesson to Oscar's elephant Fluffy ("She got tired of ballet," says Oscar). Bob is amazed that an elephant can tap dance, so Savion has Fluffy show him what she can do by repeating all the steps he does. Fluffy gets so excited that she breaks through several floors and into the basement of Oscar's can, while her massive steps cause the ground to continue shaking and results in Bob losing grip of most of his groceries.
 	Cartoon 	An elephant, a zebra, a hedgehog, an ostrich, a frog and a ladybug create a rhythm with their footsteps.Artist: Karen Aqua
 	Animation 	Playing cards form the letter T; the jack and queen tango.
 	Cartoon 	T is for tiger, teapot, television and taxi.Animator: Bill Davis
 	Film 	The floating kids form a capital T.
 	Cartoon 	Lillian is proud because she climbed a mountain all by herself.Artist: Craig Bartlett
 	Muppets 	Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Proud"
 	Cartoon 	Counting 40 pigsArtist: Keith Haring
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird encounters Linda writing a letter to her mom in the yard, where Linda's thoughts are seen as well as heard in voice-over narration (voiced by Ivy Austin, signed by Linda in a vignette). She describes what happened yesterday when she went to the clothing store to buy a winter hat as seen in a flashback. It took the saleswoman (Judy Graubart) a while to figure out what Linda wanted, as she didn't know any sign language. The first hat picked out was too big for Linda, the second one too small, the third one just right. Back in the present, Linda finishes writing her letter, stating that while they eventually understood each other, it would've been easier if the saleswoman knew sign language. Bob then uses signing to invite her to go for a walk.
 	Cartoon 	I Love You, in American Sign LanguageArtist: Steve Finkin
 	Film 	Kids rehearse a large group African dance in the park, get their faces painted, and perform.
 	Cartoon 	"We Are Kids from Far and Wide": West Africa
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster follows the arrows.
 	Song 	"One of These Things" (with Wegman's dogs and a poodle)
 	SCENE 3 	Humphrey has to go to the dentist, so he asks Big Bird and Savion to watch her while she takes her nap. She doesn't want to go to sleep, so Humphrey tries singing her "Na-Na-Na-Na-Natasha's Lullaby." Though he says it always works, it ends up doing a better job of keeping Natasha awake. Savion and Big Bird agree to help Natasha while Humphrey is away, though Savion thinks it'll be very hard to get her to sleep...
 	Cartoon 	Abstract count to 17
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #17
 	Muppets 	Grover and Morgan talk about body parts.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps" (re-filmed version)
 	Muppets 	Big Bird wakes up from his nap, "Everybody wha —?" then goes back to sleep.
 	Cartoon 	Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes.Artist: Abe Levitow
 	SCENE 4 	Savion finishes reading Natasha the story of Cinderella, but it doesn't make her tired either. Chicago the Lion comes by and suggests a method his mother used on him as a cub - roaring her to sleep. Natasha remains wide awake, but all the roaring makes Chicago fall asleep instead.
 	Song 	"Beautiful Baby" song, over footage of various babies and their parents.
 	Cartoon 	A baby looks at a DANGER sign and imagines what it means.
 	Muppets 	How Now Brown and the Moo Wave perform the song "Danger's No Stranger." (ending trimmed)
 	Cartoon 	A man talks about how much he loves his bones.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird borrows a letter S from a couple of Honkers, thinking it'll work because the word "sleep" starts with S. Savion tries swaying it in front of Natasha's face, thinking she'll go to sleep through hypnosis. Big Bird and the Honkers also watch the swaying letter, and end up snoozing instead of Natasha.
 	Animation 	Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase S.
 	Muppets 	"Sammy the Snake"
 	Cartoon 	Kids try to guess what a bunch of shapes will form; eventually they form a chicken.
 	Song 	"Hot in the City"
 	SCENE 6 	With everyone else around him dozing, Savion has no idea what else to do. At the sound of the word "awake," a short, funny-looking man materializes out of nowhere; he explains that he is the Sandman. Savion asks for his help, knowing that the Sandman is good at making people fall asleep. He makes two attempts to throw some of his magic sand onto Natasha's eyelids, but she spits it out when it goes in her mouth instead. When he considers putting a rock on her eyelids as an alternative, Savion suggests a safer idea: he'll sprinkle some of his sand on the ground and do a nice quiet dance to lull Natasha.
 	Cartoon 	Jill walks up a hill to pick a daffodil.Artist: Jim Jinkins
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Dance Myself to Sleep."
 	Animation 	Two caterpillars form a T.
 	Film 	The letter T is a very useful letter.
 	Film 	A little boy sings the "Cold Ocean Blues" at the beach.
 	SCENE 7 	Savion finishes setting up his dancing mat, and sprinkles the Sandman's sand on it. He dances gently on the sandy mat, but fails to get Natasha to go to sleep. The Sandman gets frustrated and makes one last attempt to blow sand in Natasha's face, but when he puts it on her crib she blows it into his face, and he drops off to sleep himself!
 	Film 	Kids talk about how they like sledding down snowy hills.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Garth Brooks sings about two kids who are "Different."
 	Animation 	A montage of boys, all of whom are named Joe, saying what their favorite sports are. The last one turns out to be a girl named Joanne.Artist: John Korty
 	SCENE 8 	Savion looks around, and sees that he and Natasha are the only ones awake. Humphrey comes back and Savion explains that they tried everything to get her to sleep. Humphrey knows that she'll have to nap eventually and tells her it's time to go home, which causes Natasha to zonk right out! Relieved, Savion announces the sponsors, with Humphrey chiming in with the CTW slogan. Offscreen, Oscar then tells Fluffy it's time to do her somersaults and she causes a brief earthquake; thankfully, it doesn't wake Natasha up.
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Category:Sleep
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 26