Episode 3679

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird zooms by the Fix-It Shop with his wings spread apart, confusing Maria and Gabi. He tells them he's pretending to be a little airplane, a new fad all the kids are doing, then points to the following for evidence...
 	Song 	"I'm a Little Airplane"
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	Maria observes that not all the kids are doing it, using Gabi as an example. Gabi promptly starts to fly around the worktable. "You were saying, Maria?" comments Big Bird.
 	Animation 	Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase A.
 	Film 	The letter A dances at the beach.
 	Animation 	Pencil box A/a
center 	Muppets / Celebrity	Bert and Rick Moranis sit next to each other on a plane, and learn that they (and the rest of the passengers) are alike in more ways than they realized, singing the song "Stick Out Your Hand and Say Hello". (new music added)
 	Cartoon 	Dinah from South Carolina exchanges letters with her friend Ling Lu in China.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Film 	A girl narrates a film of helping her dad, a pilot, fly a small plane. They fly through New York City, past the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird and Gabi continue to fly around the yard and sing a song about the different ways they can fly.
 	Film 	Amelia pretends she's an astronaut.
 	Animation 	Wooden shapes group themselves by color, then regroup by shape, then assemble themselves into a rocket ship.
 	Muppets 	At night, Ernie sings "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon."
 	Film 	A for action, acrobat, art, artichoke, and applause.
 	Cartoon 	Soul A!
 	Muppets 	The Martians investigate an A.
 	Cartoon 	A baby bird tries and tries again to fly from its nest.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	SCENE 3 	The two "airplanes" find Tarah and invite her to join. Tarah thinks she's too old to play along, but the others find this ridiculous. (Big Bird: "Are you too old to enjoy life?!") Tarah is convinced to join and becomes a "Tarah-plane."
 	Song 	"Me and My Chair"
 	Cartoon 	A paranoid bird doesn't like to be surprised ... unless it's a surprise party.Artist: John Korty
 	Celebrity 	Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song.
 	Animation 	A girl skips home through the city, hearing all kinds of noises. When she gets home, she repeats all the noises she heard with a little dance.Artist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	Telly hosts "Here and There" from the library, where it's quiet. His co-host, Deborah Starr, is at the airport, where it's loud. The loud noises of the airport eventually make it hard for Telly to hear Deborah, so he has to talk louder into the microphone for Deborah to hear him, which results in his expulsion.
 	Animation 	The word AIRPORT (with photographs of such)
 	SCENE 4 	Carlo takes lunch orders in Hooper's Store from Michael and another kid when Big Bird and Gabi fly in, pretending it's their airport. "We just flew all the way from around the corner," Big Bird states. Gabi quips, "Yeah, and boy are our arms tired!" earning her a rimshot. Carlo allows them to land, but it's not too long before they start flying around the store again.
 	Muppets 	Elmo imagines that he can fly, singing "Elmo Can Fly." (repurposing footage from Episode 2824)
 	Animation 	Cats appear in the clouds as Vivaldi music plays.
 	Film 	What sound does a cat make?
 	Muppets 	Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse spot a kitty stuck in a tree. Grover tries to find ways to get the kitty down such as shaking the tree trunk. He finally came to the conclusion that to get the kitty down, he would climb up the tree to bring it down. However, Fred has another idea to bring the kitty down by calling the kitty by saying "Kitty" and the kitty comes down. Now that the kitty is down, they now have another problem - how is Grover going to get down?
 	Film 	Nicholas is now old enough to rollerblade, and ride a bike without training wheels.
 	SCENE 5 	Carlo asks the two planes to keep the noise level down, but they can't; airports are noisy places!
 	Film 	Kids play bongo drums loud and soft.
 	Muppets 	In a subway, two Anything Muppets observe how loud and quiet it is.
 	Cartoon 	The word "Subway" rides the MBTA subway.
 	Song 	14 Karat Soul sings about what's "Down Below the Street."
 	Film 	Coverage of a spring kite-flying festival, where both kids and grownups can participate.
 	SCENE 6 	Carlo's customers join Big Bird and Gabi's game, so Carlo assumes the role of control tower and tells them they can't stay flying around going "Nyooowww." They all fly out, but return with two more kids for their game - only this time, everybody's going "Zoooom!" (Carlo: "I wonder if they have this problem at JFK.")
 	Animation 	Rubber Stamp #20
 	Muppets 	Grover asks a boy how much he can count. The boy says he can count "millions of hundreds," and is hesitant at first, but Grover assures him that they have enough time to count. The boy gets up to 22 before Grover cuts him off.
 	Animation 	A chicken lays 20 eggs, which hatch.
 	Insert 	None, some and all of the dancers dance as Big Bird narrates.
 	Animation 	All, none, some and one fish swim around.
 	Film 	Wegman dogs: Jack and Jill
 	Animation 	A chair (voice of Martin P. Robinson) keeps bumping into things, until he finds his glasses. "See ya later!"
 	SCENE 7 	Carlo tells Maria about his trouble getting rid of the pretend airplanes. Maria wonders if she should do something about it, but Carlo says he's got this covered. He once again becomes the control tower, telling them they have to find someplace else to turn into an airport, so everybody flies out.
 	SCENE 7 cont'd 	Maria steps out of the store to find that their new airport turns out to be the Fix-It Shop! Carlo announces the sponsors, throwing in an extra "Nyooww!" to an annoyed Maria.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 29