Episode 3287

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Oscar explains that he's too busy to point out the letters and number of the day. He's trying to sort his trash, but he's also babysitting a particularly belligerent Irvine, and says he could sure use some help.
Right on cue and underscored by heroic music, a Superman-esque announcer (Martin P. Robinson) says, "Look, in the sky! Faster than a speeding mommy, nicer than a friendly doggy, it's a plane, it's a nurse... it's Super Nanny!" Hearing the distressed cries, Super Nanny heads to Sesame Street to be cheerful, sing songs, and clean up.
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar asks Irvine to settle down so he can work. Suddenly, Super Nanny lands and introduces herself as Penny Pipkins, and offers to take care of Irvine while Oscar works. Oscar considers himself lucky until he realizes Super Nanny is concerned primarily with cheering her up.Super Nanny sings a happy song which always works, "Chirrup," while a dubious Oscar covers his ears. The song summons three birds (yellow, blue, and red) who join in the chorus. Irvine stubbornly refuses to cheer up, so Super Nanny resorts to singing the song again.
 	Song 	"This is The Way We Count and Sing" (from 1 to 10).
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Kids talk about families, often mentioning having rhinoceroses as pets.
 	Cartoon 	A salesman hawks the letter W in a commercial.Artist: Mo Willems
 	Cast 	Gordon and the word "wand." (new music added)
 	Song 	Ornate Ws spin around in accompaniment to a song.
 	SCENE 2 	Back at Oscar's trash can, Super Nanny is still singing while a group of discontented Grouchketeers sit and rustle trash bags. Gina, witnessing everything from Hooper's Store, notes that Super Nanny has been singing the song continuously for ten minutes. Oscar tells Super Nanny to forget about making Irvine smile, but Super Nanny concludes she's crying because of Oscar's home. Super Nanny peers down and observes the china closet on the sofa floating in the swimming pool, while Oscar's pet rhino charges by it.
Oscar jeers that she can't possibly clean all that up with her feather duster. Super Nanny insists that it can be done as it's a super feather duster, showing different ways she can use it (as a baton, a bouquet, or a tickling implement, among others). She then claims it also doubles as a magic wand, and proceeds to show Oscar.
 	SCENE 2cont'd	With a wave of the feather duster and the word "Alakazam," Super Nanny instantly transforms the surrounding area. Oscar's trash can is now a shiny new receptacle. The Grouchketeer girls are well-scrubbed in nice Sunday dresses while the boy wears a Fauntleroy-style suit. The unsteady stack of barrels, crates, and rags has become a single wooden box. Garbage bags are brightly colored and neatly tied, while a white picket fence and roses growing on a frame complete the decor. Oscar's hair is neatly scrubbed (save a cowlick sticking up à la Our Gang member Alfalfa) and he's wearing a collar and bowtie, while Irvine sports a brand-new bonnet.
Oscar regrets opening his big mouth, but he's even more appalled when he looks closely at his clean trash can: curtains everywhere, no furniture in the swimming pool, a Princess phone, and track lighting. Irvine laughs at her uncle's neat look, while Oscar bemoans the fact that 24 years of work have been destroyed. As the last straw, Fluffy's trunk surfaces from the can, adorned with pink ribbons.
 	Cartoon 	Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot.
 	Song 	Jeff Redd sings "Between"
 	Cartoon 	A mouse demonstrates between by squeezing between two elephants.
 	Film 	Farmer McFay counts six lemons and limes.
 	Muppets 	Bert says his favorite number is Six.
 	Cartoon 	Six camelsArtist: Owe Gustafson
 	Insert 	Prairie Dawn plays "Do the Dog" at Angela's care center with the kids and Barkley.
 	Cartoon 	A poem about dogs of different sizes, feelings, and colors.Artist: Deanna Morse
 	Film 	A child in a classroom draws a picture of her dog Puck, and goes over the care required to keep a pet. A Bert and Baby Fozzie plush can be seen in the little girl's bedroom.
 	Cartoon 	African quilt pattern #1
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A cartoon man is irritated to find that he has a succession of animal noses. (new music added)
 	Film 	A girl named Jyah narrates about her dance class doing some stretching exercises, then dancing in their own ways, then ending with the tango (instrumental: "Naughty Door Opera").
 	Cartoon 	Shooting stars form the letter I/i.
 	Film 	An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I."
 	Cartoon 	CGI sheep graze out I and i.
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar and the Grouchketeers are working on the trash can, banging it with hammers to create new dents and rubbing some "Mr. Dirt" to make it filthy again. It doesn't seem to be working though, and Gina admits it still looks clean. Super Nanny refuses to dirty it up again, saying he'll learn to like it. Oscar hates it, likening it to life on Sunnybrook Farm, and fears it will remain that way forever once the nanny leaves.
Oscar asks Gina to intercede for him, noting that if he weren't a Grouch, he'd go so far as to say "please." Gina talks to Super Nanny and explains the essential cultural and physical differences between Grouches and people, explaining that Grouches take extreme pleasure and pride in amassing a mess. Super Nanny finally realizes she remodeled Oscar's house against his wishes without even asking.
With her newfound multicultural awareness, Super Nanny utters another "Alakazam!" and restores the status quo. Oscar admits that Super Nanny isn't "so bad for a neatnik." Penny Pipkins returns the compliment and tickles Oscar, who asks her to keep it up. Oscar opines that "This could be the start of a beautiful mismatch."
 	Film 	"Box City Recycling Rap"Kids sing a rap song about recycling. They build a city out of boxes and cartons.
 	Muppets 	Big Bird's Video PostcardsBig Bird explores the mask gallery at the Museo del Barrio in New York City. Edna, the art instructor, shows him and some kids how to make their own masks for a parade.
 	Cartoon 	A Spanish-speaking man falls into a hole, and a dragon helps him out.Artist: Chris Hinton
 	Muppets 	"Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco"
 	Cartoon 	Two cavemen argue, each chanting "Me!" A large monolith bearing the word ME puts fear in both of them. (new sound effects added)
 	Film 	A girl narrates a segment about her friend, Billy, who swims with dolphins.
 	Cartoon 	A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh", despite what the other boys had heard on TV.
 	Celebrity 	The Neville Brothers sing "Believe in Yourself," with a montage of clips from films including "I'm the Big One Now," "Reach Your Hand Up High" and "Hot in the City."
 	Cartoon 	One cube plus two equals three. Three cubes plus two equals five.
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	W for water, wind, wave and wet
 	Film 	The floating kids form the letter W.
 	Transition 	Crystal bridge: diagonal crossway (sharp edges)
 	Song 	"(The Name of the Place is) The Laundromat"
 	SCENE 4 	Everyone's gathered around Oscar's trash can when Super Nanny's super hearing picks up a distress cry (as the heroic music starts again). Parents in Chicago must go to work, but their baby is crying and the sitter hasn't arrived. Clearly another job for Super Nanny beckons, so she tells everyone to keep smiling (except for Oscar). She also tells Irvine not to cry, so the infant defiantly cries anyway and nips at Gina's hand. With a final "Alakazam!" Super Nanny flies into the air again, with everyone (even the Grouches) waving farewell. Super Nanny announces the sponsors as she floats along the sky, asking a passing pigeon for directions to Chicago.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 26