Episode 2127

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	"Explorer Jones" and the kids (including Tatyana Ali) pretend to be explorers. They're looking for the alphabet, but Forgetful doesn't know what it looks like. After identifying it as Maria's hot plate and Bob's shovel, he finds it in the direction of the viewer...
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F.
 	SCENE 2 	In Big Bird's nest, the kids find something in Barkley's mouth. Forgetful brushes it off as a bone or something else, but it turns out to be the alphabet!
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays.
 	Muppets 	Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand."
 	Cartoon 	F - FaceArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A boy takes dance lessons at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster treats us to the balancing feats of ten brown bears.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 3 	Bob helps Linda show the kids how to use sign language to say "happy" and "grouchy." Oscar pops up to enjoy the grouchy sign, but Linda and the others tease him by alternating the happy and grouchy signs causing Oscar to retreat and return each time.
 	Cartoon 	Vaudeville duo Herman Happy and Stanley Sad sing a song about how they live up to their names.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #10.
 	Muppets / Film	
 	Cartoon 	The weary traveler asks the wise man to demonstrate none, some, most and all with a basket of oranges.
 	Insert 	Olivia watches Grandma Grace teaching David how to dance, prompting her to remember times with her own grandmother as she sings "Grandma's Way."
 	Cartoon 	How they say "good night" in Haiti and in India.
 	Film 	A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat.
 	Muppets 	Polly Darton sings "Counting One to Five."
 	Cartoon 	A man thinks of H words while sitting on a horse.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson orders soup, roast beef, and peach pie, wanting them in that order (one at a time). Grover doesn't understand the order and keeps bringing the wrong item. Upon being brought the pie twice, Johnson explains that he wants that after "everything else," prompting Grover to bring everything else on the menu.
 	Cartoon 	A painter pops out of a box and paints a lion, then hangs a "wet paint" sign on it.
 	Celebrity 	Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe and Malcolm-Jamal Warner notice Telly and Keshia Knight Pulliam pretending to look sad, which escalates into the three of them arguing over what's more sad: losing a purple pen with a picture of Prince on it, not making the football team, or a best friend moving away. Telly and Keshia then pretend to look angry, and then notice that they look just like them.
 	Cartoon 	A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!"
 	Cast 	Susan, Luis, Gordon and Maria are competing on a potato bag race. Maria's bag is full of vegetables, which she gives to the others. They hop off to make them into meals, leaving Maria as the only racer.
 	Film 	A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!"
 	Animation 	Bridge #14 - Hourglass Slow/Fill
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Fleas have fun in fur!Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 	Bob and Linda ask the kids to guess different ASL signs and explain how they came into being. The sign for "girl" originates from an era in which girls wore bonnets, "boy" depicts the brim of a hat, and "baby" mimics cradling a baby in one's arms. Maria annouces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17