Episode 0656

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Cartoon 	H is for horseshoe.
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar agrees to watch the Fix-it Shop while Luis steps out for a few minutes. Before Luis leaves, Oscar answers the phone twice and is rude to both customers. Luis reprimands him for his behavior, saying it'll ruin his business if he's not nice and polite to the customers. After Luis exits, an old Anything Muppet man (Jerry Nelson) brings his cuckoo clock into the shop. He tells Oscar about how much he enjoys hearing the cuckoo come out to tell the time. Oscar proceeds to treat the man respectfully, and is so satisfied with his work he decides to fix the clock himself. Luis comes back, and sees that Oscar has "improved" the clock by replacing the cuckoo bird with a grouchy one (Nelson).
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: H is for hole
 	Film 	Children in a movie theater tell a man on the screen not to open a door that says "DANGER" on it. He opens it, and there's an explosion.
 	Muppets 	Farley explains things one can do with their mind - he plans on going to the door, he imagines who's knocking at it, he remembers it's not his mother and he hopes there's not a scary monster at the door. Herry Monster surprises him by bursting through the door, frightening Farley away. Herry's sorry Farley ran away; he wanted to play.
 	Cartoon 	"Ladybugs' Picnic"
 	Muppets 	Herry asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down.
 	Cartoon 	A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12.
 	Muppets 	Grover sings "Still, We Like Each Other".
 	Film 	Examples of people and animals going down.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 2 	Bert sits outside on the street, pretending to fly a helicopter. Maria sits down with him, and the segment becomes animated as they fly through the air before returning to the Street.
 	Cartoon 	A man instructs someone on how to use a wrench to tighten a pipe.
 	Film 	While walking and reading the newspaper, a man barely avoids DANGER on three occasions, but then gets hit by a revolving door.
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Sand H/h
 	Film 	Letter H hoistMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Grover climbs a tree and finds a bird's nest with some eggs in it. The eggs hatch, and the baby birds think Grover is their mommy. When the real mother bird arrives, she mistakes Grover for one of her babies. She gives them all a flying lesson, but Grover promptly falls to the ground.
 	Cartoon 	An elephant and a bear try to cross a bridge to deliver their packages, but they're in each other's way.Voices: Hal Smith
 	Cast 	Maria, Susan, Luis and David put together a fractured letter H.
 	Film 	A woman asks a boy how a glass of milk was spilled on the table, so the boy offers several outlandish scenarios before telling her the truth: it was him.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down".
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates "up" and "down".
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Otters in the zoo
 	Cartoon 	A shoemaker shows how he measures (human) feet with his ruler.
 	SCENE 3 	An offscreen deliveryman (voice of Caroll Spinney) tosses David his set of newspapers, which he puts out on the stand outside Hooper's Store. Big Bird comes by wheeling his red wagon, collecting newspapers for the new recycling center down the street. David encourages him to get all the newspapers he can to help, and Big Bird manages to fill his wagon within seconds. He heads down the street with them when Susan stops at Hooper's to buy a newspaper. The newsstand is bare, and David realizes what has happend and takes off after Big Bird to get his papers back.
 	Cartoon 	Numbers from 1 to 20 line up, but 17 is missing.
 	Muppets 	The Martians find a telephone.
 	Cartoon 	A man weighs five pounds of bubble gum. He chews it all, blows a huge bubble, and flies away.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man pushes up a lazy UP.
 	Film 	A gazelle runs fast across a plain.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F.
 	Cartoon 	Fleas have fun in fur!Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Cartoon 	A boy leads his sister up and down a staircase.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about the word "Taxi." After describing how a taxi works, a small Muppet calls "taxi!" and the word drives up to him. He enters through the X, which opens like a door, and then the word TAXI takes off down the line.
 	Film 	A girl gets a pair of earrings, intercut with shots of other people's earrings.
 	Cartoon 	Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks.
 	Film 	F for Factory
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Boy and the UP balloons
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: H is for hole (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	David wheels the newspapers back to the store, telling Big Bird that he should recycle the old newspapers instead. He starts restacking them on the stand as Maria announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Oscar and the Count hold the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* Oscar's customer in scene 1 closely resembles Mr. Fussbudget, but isn't meant to be the same character as the man here is much more kind.
* The puppet used for the cuckoo bird in scene 1 is modified from Little Bird, with smaller pupils and a blue covering.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5