Episode 0972

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird has a special welcome prepared for David's grandmother Grace, who is coming to visit today - a banner reading "Welcome Grandma," some balloons and a trumpet fanfare. However, David, Luis and Susan are all too busy getting their own things ready for Grace's visit.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	Grace finally arrives and helps Big Bird set up the banner. She even shows him how to properly play a fanfare on the trumpet. This alerts David and company, who rush out to meet Grace.
 	Cartoon 	Four construction workers build a number 4.
 	Muppets 	The Count's bats are upset because the Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count.
 	Cartoon 	A colorful, rhythmic demonstration of the word IN
 	Film 	Kids climb in and out of a tire.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Kids hear an L poem.
 	SCENE 2 	Grace admits to not liking the city all that much, compared to her tranquil home in the country. She starts to sing "My Home is the Country," while David sings about living in the city. He then promises to visit her in the country some time.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: L--Loud
 	Film 	Traffic lights
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 1: WET
 	Animation 	Apples fall from a tree, which bothers the hill beneath it, as Irish music underscores the segment.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 2: SET
 	Cartoon 	One of these shoe pairs ...
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 3: MET
 	Film 	A young baboon sits on the back of their parent as they cross the plain.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 3 	Luis provides Grace with a chair to sit on as she watches the kids play hopscotch. She becomes a little offended, claiming just because she's old, it doesn't mean she's so fragile. She and Mr. Hooper show how young they feel by taking over the kids' hopscotch game. Afterwards, she rests in the chair and shares a laugh with Mr. Hooper when Luis takes notice.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman goes to Marvin's Music City to buy a nice shiny trumpet. However, Marvin keeps bringing the wrong instrument.
center 	Cartoon 	I've Got a Mind: BirdArtist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: L for lion
 	Film 	Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds.
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
 	Cast 	The cast shows different L words - Maria turns on a lamp, Luis finds an L in his lunchbox, and Bob lassoes a letter L.
 	Film 	Footage of a rattlesnake
 	Animation 	Sand L/l
 	Muppets 	Grover the elevator operator gives a demonstration of in and out which annoys the passengers.
 	Cartoon 	Four motorcycle-riding chickens hatch out of an egg.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #4
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: R - rabbit
 	SCENE 4 	Susan takes some photographs of Grace with the kids. Big Bird wants a picture of her too, then calls out everyone on the block to pose with her as well. He gets some people to join in, then more, and finally the most he can gather around Sesame Street. However, he doesn't intend to use a camera - he's going to paint a picture of them all.
 	Song 	David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding one seat bicycle, and two kids riding two seat bicycle
 	Film 	Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
 	Cartoon 	A ribbon wraps itself around a woman, then turns itself into an R.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R.
 	Film 	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music)
center 	Animation 	Scanimate Films #4
 	Film 	A woman holds a painting of five chickens.
 	Cartoon 	A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow.
 	SCENE 5 	David and the gang say goodbye to Grace as she prepares to head back home. Willy pulls up on his tandem bike to take her to the train station. Luis announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	David holds the Sesame Street sign, and Oscar holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Gallery==
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Category:Family
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8