Episode 3770

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Cast / Celebrity 	Arrested Development performs "Pride" as everyone on Sesame Street joins them.
 	Cartoon 	A pencil tries to write the word DANCE.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Film 	A girl dances a butterfly dance.
 	Animation 	The word LOVE is formed on paper.
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "D-U-C-K-I-E."
 	Film 	What sound does a duck make?
 	Cartoon 	A for Acorn
 	Animation 	Letter Garden: A
 	Muppets 	The Martians investigate an A.
 	Cartoon 	Various alien creatures perform in an otherwordly music performance conducted by a trumpet-nosed creature. (new sound effects added)
 	Film 	Kids in Jamaica play bongo drums.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Telly makes sure Dennis Franz knows the alphabet, and offers to be his "alphabet partner."
 	Cartoon 	"Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes. (re-recorded soundtrack)
 	Animation 	Elephants appear in the clouds as Vivaldi music plays.
 	Muppets 	Elmo sings "In Your Imagination." (new overdubs added)
 	Cartoon 	An opera house is full when an operatic tenor sings, but it becomes empty when his partner (of lesser musical talent) attempts to sing. On their way home, the tenor and his partner become stuck on the freeway, where the lanes are full - but all it takes to make them empty is some bad singing.Artist: Gene Barretta
 	Film 	Chinese kids practice tricks at an acrobat school.
 	Cartoon 	A caterpillar sings "Exercise Song."Artist: ArtistMike
 	Muppets 	Prairie Dawn plays a game in her home with Cookie Monster, where Cookie must locate a cookie without seeing it. Wearing a blindfold, Cookie is able to identify the cookie, a plate, and a telephone by feeling them, smelling them, and eating them.
 	Cartoon 	Suzie Kabloozie tries to demonstrate what a telephone is, but keeps getting calls.Artist: Mo Willems
 	SCENE 1 	A prince and a pig, the main characters of "the greatest story ever told," approach Kingston Livingston III and ask him if he's a writer. Kingston confirms it, and they commission him to write a journal about them. He won't do it, but says he'll show them how to do it themselves.
 	Film / Animation 	A class makes up a story about going to the zoo, which is told through animation based on the kids' drawings.
 	Song 	"I'm a Polar Bear"
 	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.
 	Film 	The letter A dances at the beach.
 	Animation 	Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase A.
 	Muppets 	Mr. Johnson wants something to read, so Flight Attendant Grover suggests reading the EXIT sign, the safety manual and the tag on the collar of his shirt. After he informs Mr. Johnson that the airplane is out of newspapers and magazines, he sets the fat blue man on his lap and tells him to read his lips as he recites a story.
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates what newspapers are made of, and finds an ad for "One slightly used monster."
 	SCENE 2 	Kingston gives the prince and the pig all the supplies they need, including paper, a pencil and some crayons. He tells them to dictate what they want to go into the journal, and notices that they don't really have anything relevant to say ... but he doesn't mind!
 	Cartoon 	A pig dances a jig while wearing a wig.Artist: Joey Ahlbum
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Cab Callomouse demonstrates here and there in song.
 	Muppets 	Carrington tells Grover he's three years old.
 	Song 	"It's Number 3!" (on trike/on hike)
 	Animation 	I see a 3! Do you see a 3?
 	Film 	A boy anticipates the arrival of his new baby sibling. He listens to the heartbeat of both his mom and the baby, then sounds them out with pots, colanders and a grater.
 	Animation 	Alligators, rabbits, birds, cheetahs, lizards and a monkey contribute to a rhythm and dance together.Artist: Karen Aqua
 	SCENE 3 	Gina and Linda notice Kingston writing for the prince and the pig, and say that they both keep journals too. When they leave, the prince and the pig want to write in their journal about meeting Gina and Linda just now. When Kingston lets them do it themselves, they realize that they don't know how to write. Kingston suggests they could draw, and while they do, he treats himself to watching the following segment ...
 	Film 	Wegman's dogs form numbers from 0 to 9.
 	SCENE 3cont'd 	The prince and the pig have finished their drawing, and Kingston likes it. They don't want him to leave, but they feel more confident when he calls them "writers." The prince and the pig toss ideas back and forth, while Kingston announces the sponsors and reports the status of Slimey's spaceship. The credits roll.
 	COMING SOON 	Coming soon on Sesame Street: Baby Bear and Telly vow to make sure that Elmo's boo-boo remains untouched, so they make way for him as they pass Hooper's, telling Mr. Handford to back off.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 29