Episode 0337

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis shows that four kids have their hands up in the air to represent the letter of the day: V. He also counts their hands, which add up to 8, the number of the day.
 	Cartoon 	"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Mad Painter #8
 	Muppets 	Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird wants to play a game with Lillian (Vinnette Carroll), who is occupied with reading some books and declines his suggestions to play baseball, football, and basketball with him. Big Bird thinks Lillian doesn't like him and threatens to run away.
 	Cartoon 	A mad scientist puts together a capital H.
 	Film 	George the Farmer counts 20 barrels.
 	SCENE 3 	Suitcase in hand, an angry Big Bird informs David that he's running away because of Lillian. David has Big Bird talk things out with Lillian, who explains that she said no because she's too old to play rough sports. She also says she's been thinking of something to do with him, such as reading a story. Big Bird loves the idea and decides to not run away. Lillian has an appropriate book to read: Boy, Was I Mad! by Katheryn Hitte and Mercer Mayer.
 	Muppets 	Two children, who can only read some words, resolve their fight over a large book by helping each other and reading alternate words.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "New Life."
 	Cartoon 	Howard and Harold think of H words
 	SCENE 4 	Lillian starts to read Boy, Was I Mad! to Big Bird and the kids. Lillian stops partway through and says they'll read more after a break.
 	Cartoon 	Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc.Artist: The Hubleys
 	Muppets 	Sherlock Hemlock encounters the letter V.
 	Cartoon 	Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V.
 	SCENE 5 	Lillian reads the rest of Boy, Was I Mad!. Afterwards, Lillian notes that the boy never said what he was mad about, concluding that all of us just get mad sometimes. Big Bird agrees.
 	Cartoon 	Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy VArtist: John Hubley
 	Muppets 	Granny Fanny Nesselrode is asked by a viewer if there's a way to memorize the letters in the alphabet. Granny thinks it's impossible, while the announcer is able to recite it with ease. Instead, Granny shows off her "alphabet box," containing an item beginning with every letter of the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover).
 	Cartoon 	Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish).
 	SCENE 6 	David finds a poem entitled "The Fisherman" on the sidewalk. He reads it to the kids, leaving out the last word in each verse so that they can figure out the appropriate rhyme. The final word of the last verse, which rhymes with "man," is left a mystery as the edge of the paper is torn off. Oscar, who turns out to be the poem's author, supplies David with the missing words: "old shoe." David confronts Oscar, who reveals he couldn't think of a rhyme for "man." The kids mention several rhyming words, but Oscar prefers "old shoe."
 	Muppets / Cast	The Anything Muppets sing "Before and After." (retaped version)
 	Animation 	Dot & Hill A-4
 	Cast 	Gordon notices two groups of potato sacks with the wrong numbers matted above them: the group of two has the number 3, and the group of 3 has the number 2. He and Bob cooperate to carry one sack from one group to the other.
 	Film 	Elephants in the zoo.
 	SCENE 7 	Luis sings "One of These Things" with pictures of Raggedy Ann dolls.
 	Film 	There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.
 	Cartoon 	A colorful, rhythmic demonstration of the word IN
 	Muppets 	A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks.
 	SCENE 8 	Lillian explains that we can sometimes tell how somebody feels by looking at their face. She then asks the kids to make a mad face. Lillian also explains that another way we can tell how somebody feels is by the tone of their voice. As an example, she says, "The weather report says it's going to snow tomorrow" and variations of that in two ways -- first mad, then happy. She ends by telling everybody how happy they made her, but she does it in a sad voice, which the kids also pick up on.
 	Transition 	Bridge #2 - Scoring
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight"
 	Muppets 	Anything Muppet kids and upside-down 8
 	Cartoon 	A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
 	SCENE 9 	The kids play in the yard while Luis announces the sponsors and the book read on today's show.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, and Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Among the books Lillian has with the kids are several prop books made for Sesame Street segments, including "The Princess and the Cookie" and "The Story of Quiet and Loud."
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3