Episode 0398

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Tom welcomes the viewer and introduces one of today's letters - C. Big Bird arrives and remembers that something he wanted to buy from Hooper's Store begins with C, but he can't remember what. Tom finds various C-word items on the shelves, such as a comb, a deck of cards, an umpire's cap, and a clock. None of these is what Big Bird wants, but finally he remembers that he wants some strawberry ice cream... in a cone.
 	Cartoon 	C is for clipper... and captain, crew, cargo, cookies, cantaloupe, cabbage, candy, cake, and corks that the crew eats (some by mistake).
 	Muppets 	Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse.
 	SCENE 2 	At the Fix-it Shop, Rafael gives Bob a Spanish lesson in the form of the song "No Matter What Your Language."
 	Cartoon 	Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Brian talk about colors.
 	Song 	"Doll House"
 	Muppets 	Grover has a box that can make the sound "ding-ding". However Grover can't make it to sound right so he attempts to fix it. When it's fixed and says "ding-ding", Cookie Monster comes because he thinks he heard the dinner bell ring and eats the box.
 	Cartoon 	Train #2
 	Film 	Kids identify pairs of animals in a zoo.
 	SCENE 3 	Susan and Bob try to help Oscar with the poetry contest in his Daily Grouch newspaper. The paper provides several first lines and the reader creates the second. Susan and Bob come up with nice rhymes based on their surroundings, including Reggie's kite and Brynne's balloon, but Oscar opts for more grouchy ones. He inadvertently comes up with a rhyme for "groan" when he tells everybody to leave him alone.
 	Cartoon 	C - Cake
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie."
 	Cast 	Gordon and Bob assemble a letter C.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates in and out.
 	SCENE 4 	Rafael puts his hand in a hat and pulls out a rabbit. Susan puts a coin in a machine and out comes a gumball. Bob throws a candy wrapper in Oscar's trash can, but Oscar tosses it out.
center 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C - Cap
 	Cast 	At a fancy restaurant, head waiter David teaches new hire Tom about the IN and OUT doors to the kitchen. This causes problems for fellow waiter Bob, as Tom can't remember which doors to use (and the song he was taught to remember it). Eventually, he comes up with a three-step plan - he applies the words IN and OUT to the doors, then he quits.
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Bridge Dot & Hill A-1
 	SCENE 5 	Susan and the kids swap drawings of children so that they properly go with the pictures of different kinds of weather.
 	Film 	Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide.
 	Muppets 	Grover and Oscar recite the alphabet. (intro dialogue cut)
 	Animation 	Dot & Hill A-2
 	Cast 	Because the lid of a box won't stay open by itself, Gordon can't put a large beachball in it alone, and Bob can't put a large inflated beach animal toy in it alone. They discover that if one of them holds the lid the other can easily put his article in the box.
 	Muppets 	Jerry Nelson narrates a letter F joining U and N to make the word FUN. They celebrate with streamers and confetti.
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird uses the Hooper's Store pay phone to call his cousin Freddy, who resides in the bird house of the local zoo. Tom and the kids listen in as Big Bird gets connected to other exhibits and guess what they are based on the animals sounds. Tom finally gets through to the bird house, where Freddy tells Big Bird about Auntie Tondalea's new batch of eggs.
 	Muppets 	The Martians find a telephone.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Two is You and Me."
 	Cartoon 	The uses of water (Spanish version)
 	SCENE 7 	Dexter Dolphin is using Oscar's swimming pool for tricks. Oscar tells Susan to watch closely...
 	Film 	A dolphin walks backwards on the water.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #2
 	Cartoon 	The uses of water
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him.
 	Cartoon 	A man gets a letter C in the mail.
 	Animation 	Dot & Hill A-3
 	SCENE 8 	Bob and the kids watch and feed the rabbit from Rafael's hat as Susan announces the sponsors.
center 	CLOSING SIGNS	Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Susan and Oscar hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* In scene 1, Tom offers Big Bird a candle, which Big Bird doesn't want. He cites that his mommy told him not to play with matches and that children don't play with them, making this one of the earliest examples of directly addressing Big Bird's preschool age, previously only vaguely referred to.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3