Episode 1736

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Today, Bob is giving music lessons to his friends on Sesame Street, first briefly checking up on Gordon's flute playing before going to his apartment. As Gordon practices, Oscar, Grundgetta, and a couple of other Grouches arrive to enjoy the "concert," cheering whenever Gordon hits some sour notes.
 	Cartoon 	Z for Zebu Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	"I Can Do It By Myself"/"Old Button Hole"/"It's Easy"Films of children trying to put on their clothes.
 	Cartoon 	It's a squirrelArtist: Ishu Patel
 	Muppets 	Prairie Dawn presents a pageant about feelings. Bert dresses as Cupid to represent love, but his lines don't ring true. Instead, he sings his own song — "That's Love" — expressing that, to him, love means pigeons, oatmeal... and Ernie.
 	Cartoon 	A boy chases a butterfly, and watches the clouds form into different objects.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon's slowly improving on his flute playing, much to the disgruntlement of Oscar and the other Grouches. However, they're relieved when Gordon decides to continue the rest of the piece and makes more mistakes.
 	SCENE 2, cont'd	In his room, Bob gives the Two-Headed Monster a singing lesson: singing "Sing."
 	Cartoon 	A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself.
 	Song 	"Water, Wind, and Sun"
 	Film 	A voiceover lists many R words.
 	Muppets 	Herry and John-John: Up and Down
 	Cartoon 	Boy and the UP balloons
 	SCENE 3 	Telly watches Gordon practice playing his flute and compliments how good he's getting.
 	SCENE 3, cont'd	Back in Bob's apartment, he is giving Biff and Sully a piano lesson. Biff wants Bob to listen to him play first. He pounds out the notes to London Bridge, starting off adequately but then goes off-key halfway through. All the same, he tells Bob that the piano lesson is for his partner rather than for him, saying that Sully sometimes fools around while playing. Sully proves him wrong, however, by playing a beautiful, full Chopinesque piece. Biff seems oblivious to his obvious gift, though, and asks Bob if he could teach Sully to play like him. Bob says it would be impossible. "There it is, Sul," says Biff. "Some people got talent, some people don't." "You can say that again," Bob says softly to the camera.
 	Celebrity 	Victor Borge talks about practicing by showing how he's "improved" at playing the scales from a young age.
 	Animation 	Sand Z/z
 	Film 	Buffalo in the water (jazz soundtrack)
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	The Count sings about "The First Day of School".
 	Cartoon 	A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
 	SCENE 4 	Bob's next student is Fluffy, whom by Oscar's request only learns to play an E flat on his trumpet. After which, Fluffy is able to join Herb Elephant and the Yucatán Brass.
 	Cartoon 	Indian guru counts to twenty.
 	Cast 	Maria as Charlie Chaplin tries to leave through the door marked EXIT, but the sign keeps moving, and a brick wall appears behind each opened door. Finally, she makes her own exit through a hole in the wall.
 	Muppets 	Kermit tells Alphonso what an EXIT is.
 	Film 	EXIT
 	Cartoon 	A young bespectacled man with an accordion asks how much it costs to cross the bridge. The Bridgekeeper says admission is free, but requires that the young man show him three triangles. Two of them are found in the bridgework, and the man uses the bridgekeeper's staff to draw a third triangle in the dirt. Although the bridgekeeper has his order filled, he asks the man to play a tune on his accordion. This additional request takes the young man by surprise, but he is told to do so for the opportunity to cross the bridge.
 	SCENE 5 	Bob plays "Practice, Practice" on the piano as he gives three kids a violin lesson.
 	Cartoon 	A boy learns to play his violin.
 	Film 	Sounds Around the House v1: a dripping water faucet, a man playing the violin, a woman vacuuming, a teenager listening to pop music, and a passing elevated train.
 	Cartoon 	R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ...Artist: Fred Calvert
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A wizard turns into R things.
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon is up in Bob's apartment and shows him how his practice has been coming along. Accompanied by Bob on the piano, he's able to play the flute without making any mistakes. Outside the window, Oscar and the Grouches voice their disapproval and begin to argue with each other, claiming that's the best part of listening to music.
 	Cartoon 	Nine Striped CatsOwe Gustafson
center 	Muppets 	A cowboy hears his echo in Spanish for the numbers one to ten.
 	Cartoon 	What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts?
 	Film 	Saxophone Factory
 	Cartoon 	"Dinner for Nine"Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	Transition 	Bridge #8 - Rectangle Bridge B
 	SCENE 7 	A weary Bob is finished with music lessons for today until Oscar stops him and asks that Slimey be given a lesson on his sousaphone. Bob finds this ridiculous until Slimey begins to play the "Sesame Street Theme." "Wait till the worm parade next week, when he carries this thing in the marching band!" Oscar comments. Grundgetta announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Kermit and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign.
==Supporting cast==
*Violin students: Sharon Roffman, Andrew Olevik, Steven Gerard
*Muppets: Richard Hunt (tan Grouch), Martin P. Robinson (purple Grouch)
==Notes==
*This episode's street plot would later be adapted and reshot for Episode 2906.
==Sources==
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 14