Episode 0293

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Molly welcomes the viewer, toting around an oddly noisy bunch of packages. They all are addressed to Mr. Hooper via his store, and Molly shakes each package as Trey, Gordon, and Michael guess what's inside each one. They are revealed to be clocks, baby rattles, and a talking mama doll, but Molly says she can't guess what's in the last package as it's the quietest. Mr. Hooper opens it and says it's the noisiest of them all: his transistor radio.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppet boys are in the park, playing Hide and Seek. One hides while the other says the alphabet. Unfortunately, he doesn't know the whole alphabet, so he asks for help when he gets stuck. The other boy has to come out of his hiding place to help him finish the alphabet. He helps with Z, and then gets caught.
 	SCENE 2 	Molly points at the word "MAIL" as she talks about one of today's letters - the letter A.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues."
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates in and out.
 	SCENE 3 	Luis sings "Here Are Some Things" in Spanish and English as he regroups a beachball, a basketball, and a baseball with either a football or an orange, showing there's more than one answer.
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.Artist: John Paratore
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
 	Cartoon 	"I've Got a Mind" -- bouncing a ball (shown in English and Spanish)
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet family arranges themselves in different ways.
 	SCENE 4 	In/out quickies: Mr. Hooper explains that ice cream, milk and chocolate syrup go in the mixing can, and a milkshake comes out; Luis demonstrates that cheese sandwich comes out of his lunch bag and goes in his mouth; a kid climbs in one end of a barrel tunnel and comes out the other end.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper: Do Ya Have an A on Ya?
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Little Jerry and the Monotones perform "Mad."
 	Film 	Tracks from a race car cross paths until most of the screen is blank. A pair of foot prints crosses the screen to blank out the last bit.
 	SCENE 5 	Luis tells Molly that he thinks it must be great delivering the mail, which Molly scoffs at. Luis closes his eyes and imagines that he's a mailman, walking along in beautiful weather, meeting friends, and saying hello to nice dogs and cats on his route. Molly sets him straight, and suggests that he imagine hiking along in the cold rain, with no friends around, a great big dog barking at him, and some of the mail blowing away in the wind. Back in reality, Molly acknowledges that her sore feet aren't a figment of her imagination, either.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	What if an elephant and a mouse had their features switched around?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper approaches a man and says, "Knock, knock!" The man asks, "Who's there?". Harvey says, "Dion." The man asks, "Dion who?" Then Harvey slaps a letter D on the man's chest and says, "D on you!"
 	Muppets / Cast	Kermit's Lectures: Bob holds an American bullfrog and asks Kermit to talk about frogs. However, due to living a somewhat different life than normal frogs, what Kermit says about frogs is somewhat incorrect; for example, Kermit believes that frogs eat fried chicken and pizza, and live in apartment houses.
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party. (repeat)
 	Film 	George the Farmer uses barrels to count to ten.
 	SCENE 6 	Luis requests a pretzel from Mr. Hooper. He rejects a stick pretzel and a nugget pretzel, but is satisfied when he finds an 8-shaped pretzel.
 	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.
 	Cartoon 	D-dart
 	Muppets 	The Busby Twins buy a candle from the shopkeeper.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A" (repeat)
 	Muppets 	Fran Brill narrates as The Hands show different ways to count 3 fingers.
 	Film 	An osprey flies around.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Grover is going to teach the audience about "surprise" by sneaking up on Ernie. He sees Ernie sitting in his chair -- and he knows that it's Ernie, because he can see Ernie's shirt and Ernie's hair. Grover sneaks up to surprise Ernie -- but then it turns out to be Herry Monster, disguised as Ernie.
 	Film 	George the Farmer uses barrels to count to ten. (repeat)
 	SCENE 7 	Molly fans out 8 letters, each with an 8-cent Eisenhower stamp on it; Mr. Hooper shows an old clock that rings 8 times; Luis plays with a train with 8 cars on an 8-shaped track.
 	Animation 	"The King of Eight"
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A. (repeat)
 	SCENE 8 	Luis and a few kids play with the toy train as Molly announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, while Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3