Episode 0855

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar observes Joey leading David, Maria, Mr. Hooper and the kids in a game of “Simon Says.” Oscar calls everybody over to his trash can to play a game of “Oscar Says” instead. He tells them to do grouchy things, but doesn’t say “Oscar says” when he tells them to do nice things. Finally, he tells them to walk away, then says “Stop.” David points out that he didn’t say “Oscar says” for the stopping part, and Oscar says that was intentional - he wants them to walk farther away so he can be left alone.
 	Muppets 	"J Friends"
 	Cartoon 	J - Jam
 	Film 	Things you can carryMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	J family jamboree
 	Muppets 	Grover attempts to sell a weather machine to Kermit the Frog.
 	Film 	A showcase of J words
 	SCENE 2 	With the kids gathered around, Mr. Hooper recites a poem about a boy who came to his store. Each rhyming couplet has an incorrect word in it, such as, "He turned the knob, and went through the window", at which the children yell out, "No!" Mr. Hooper then asks them what the correct word is, and he continues reciting the poem.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #5
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Tracy count to 5.
 	Film 	A little girl needs HELP getting on a horse.
 	Muppets 	Grover is carrying the word "HELP", which is very heavy. He asks Marty to help him carry the word. Instead, Marty gives Grover three more "HELP" words to carry.
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Insert 	Gordon hears Maria and Luis making small talk, but in Spanish, it sounds so much more interesting to him. The two perform a tango number about more phrases they can make more interesting by saying them in Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much.
 	Muppets 	Lefty wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas.
 	Cartoon 	Mr. Tweak can't sleep because his neighbor above snores, and his neighbor below sneezes.Artist: Abe Levitow
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates above and below.
 	SCENE 3 	At Hooper's Store, Biff buys 12 bottles of root beer for a union meeting, but given similar situations before, he points out that he doesn’t have enough hands to carry them all. A paper bag won’t work as the glass bottles could clink around and break, so Mr. Hooper packs them into two 6-pack cartons instead. Biff admires Mr. Hooper's intelligence, and invites him over for the next bowling night to help keep score.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall.
 	Film 	Footage of a city neighborhood; includes shots of a sno-cone vendor.Singer: "¡Linda paloma!"
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another hole.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	People jump.
 	Celebrity 	Richie Havens sings "Here Comes the Sun."
 	Cartoon 	Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg.
 	Muppets 	Caveperson Days: King Ernie has a problem -- the cavemen write everything on rocks, which are too heavy to carry around. He calls upon the Royal Smart Person to invent something lighter to write on.
 	SCENE 4 	Maria and David play a rhyming game with the kids.
 	Cartoon 	Harold and Howard think of H words.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Song 	David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.
 	Cartoon 	H for hello (voice of Gary Owens)
 	SCENE 5 	Maria has the viewer look for the embedded saw, screwdriver, and hammer shape inside three different pictures.
 	Cartoon 	Three little men climb up the three flower stems.
 	Muppets 	Story: Bob reads "The King and the Fireman", a story about a king who becomes so grateful for being saved by a fireman that he decides to make everyone in the kingdom a firefighter... and soon realizes what a mistake he's made.
 	Cartoon 	Two men on a park bench turn their radios up louder and louder, each trying to drown the other's out, until they reach a station they can agree on.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 6 	David plays a “Three of These Things” game with a knife, fork, spoon, and pencil.
 	Cartoon 	Two kids find different uses for a cooking pot.
 	SCENE 7 	Maria and the kids play an unorganized game of Simon Says. Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Mr. Hooper, Bob and a child hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and David hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7