Episode 0930

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar's TV is busted, only showing picture and no sound. He frets missing his favorite programs on Grouch TV, until he remembers that Linda can read lips and help transcribe the shows for him. She shows him signs for different types of weather so he'll know them when she signs them. "The Grouch Weather" with Dr. Frank Freeze comes on, but Dr. Freeze's large, bushy mustache hides his mouth, thus preventing Linda from being able to read his lips.
 	Cartoon 	"Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes.
 	Cast 	Maria and the kids (including Joey) put together a fractured B.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: B for Ball
 	Cartoon 	With one mighty blow of his baseball bat, a boy knocks several B items (including a basket, bandit, and ball) off of a wall.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Song 	"B is for Bubble"
 	SCENE 2 	Today is Linda's birthday and Maria, Gordon, Mr. Hooper and the kids have prepared surprise gifts for her. They've also prepared to sign "Happy Birthday," but as a special code, they will do it when they mention "birthday begins with B." Linda stops by before she has to catch the bus to work and they play a game naming words beginning with B. Before they can get their code phrase out, Linda points out another B word - Bus - which she then catches.
 	Cartoon 	Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B.
 	Muppets 	Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse are hot and thirsty, so they stop in at the Short Branch Café for a nice cold glass of milk. The bartender is distressed to see Grover riding his horse right inside, knocking over tables. "I just redecorated the place, too," he sighs. Grover orders a glass of milk, and the bartender asks if he wants the big glass, the bigger glass or the biggest glass. Fred tells the bartender that Marshal Grover doesn't know the difference, so the bartender shows off all three sizes. Marshal Grover and Fred come behind the bar to get a closer look, breaking bottles and glassware. The annoyed bartender shouts at Grover to choose a glass, and Grover picks the biggest glass. The bartender asks if Fred wants anything, but Fred says, "No thanks, I'm drivin'." As Grover rides his horse out of the café, the bartender asks who's going to pay for all this stuff. Grover says he'll be back to pay for it tomorrow. Panicked, the bartender says not to come back; it's on the house!
 	Animation 	Big, bigger, biggest (oxen pulling rocks)
 	Insert 	Bob and the kids sing "Right in the Middle of My Face."
 	Film 	The snouts, tails and bodies of pigs, with a soundtrack of pigs squealing.
 	Cartoon 	Big, bigger, biggest (strongmen)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"I'm six years old today!"
 	Cast 	Surgeons Maria, David, Susan and Luis "operate" on a motorcycle.
 	Film 	Six children go down a slide.
 	Muppets 	Five Anything Muppets sing the "Numerical Correspondence Song."
 	Film 	Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide.
 	Cartoon 	"Four Seasons"
 	Celebrity 	Joe Namath: Pass On 6
 	Cartoon 	A race announcer doubles as the man who holds up the START and STOP sign.
 	Muppets 	The Twiddlebugs try to get to the zoo.
 	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.
 	Film 	A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky.
 	Cartoon 	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly.
 	SCENE 3 	While waiting for Linda's bus to return, everyone shares what gifts they got her. Big Bird wheels over his gift - a phonograph and speaker. Everyone points out that Linda won't be able to use the gift because she can't hear the music. Big Bird sulks over what a "dumb dodo" decision he made. Linda's bus drops her back on the street and she admires everyone's gifts. She comes across Big Bird's and, to everyone's surprise, shows how she can enjoy it - by feeling the vibrations of the music by feeling the speaker.
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words.
 	Film 	A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas."
 	Cartoon 	I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father!Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	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 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	Film 	A STOP sign spins around.
 	Cartoon 	Jack waters a B, which grows into a B-stalk. He climbs it and travels to the Land of B. (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird announces the closing sponsors, while Mr. Hooper plays the same music again (a disco version of the Sesame Street Theme) which plays during the credits.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
*The credit sequence for this episode appears on Old School: Volume 2.
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Category:Birthday Episodes
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8