Episode 1039

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis, Maria, Jay and Oscar the Grouch watch as the Amazing Mumford demonstrates the art of Siamese levitation, aka making things go up and down without touching them. He magically makes a book and basketball fly up and down through the air. Everyone is impressed but Oscar, who asks Mumford to try the trick on something bigger. Mumford complies by sending Oscar's trash can skyward, then brings it crashing back to Earth.
 	Muppets 	Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup.
 	Cartoon 	A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment.
 	Film 	A girl and her mother go on a journey to find out where potatoes come from.
 	Cartoon 	La palabra cerrado
 	Cast 	Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing.
 	Cartoon 	A girl counts her 5 cats using ribbon to keep track.
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball.
 	Cast 	Buffy plays her mouthbow and sings “Ground Hog” to the kids.
 	Cartoon 	A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet.
 	Film 	A rhino and her baby
 	Song 	"1-2-3-4-5!"
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five."
 	Cartoon 	Five stripes make a circle.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about the word "Taxi." After describing how a taxi works, a small Muppet calls "taxi!" and the word drives up to him. He enters through the X, which opens like a door, and then the word TAXI takes off down the line.
 	Cartoon 	A boy needs a letter U to complete the word UP.
 	Film 	Examples of people and animals going down.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates "up" and "down".
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U.
 	Film 	Footage of wolves.
 	Cartoon 	A U train spells the words "unite," "U-turn," "underground," "up," and "universe."
 	Celebrity 	Luis tells the story of "The Sad Princess". In a faraway land, a beautiful princess (played by guest star Judy Collins) has a number of hard-working, happy subjects. Luis reads in the book that the princess is very happy, but the princess interrupts him. "Don't believe everything you read!" she cries, throwing the book away. "The fact is, I'm sick of being clean. I'm sick of being lovely... and I'm one sad princess." Her subjects insist that she must be happy, because she's a beautiful princess. She sings a sad song, explaining that she's very bored just sitting around and watching them work. She offers to join her subjects in their work. They object that she might tear her dress, or get dirty, but she says that she'd love to get dirty. The subjects are thrilled to have "a beautiful, working princess". Luis shrugs and says that they lived happily ever after, although the subjects point out that that's a generalization -- they have good days and bad days. The princess asks Luis to move so that she can fix his chair.
 	Song 	"Five Onstage Dancers"
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
 	SCENE 2 	Maria and the kids (including John Williams III and Joey Calvan) see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U .
 	Cartoon 	Boy and the UP balloons
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down".
 	Cartoon 	A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing.Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	Cast 	Big Bird and David try each other's beds but come to the conclusion that for David the bed is the best, for Big Bird his nest is best.
 	Cartoon 	Capital letter U for up
 	Film 	Traffic light.
 	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.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids comment over footage of an eagle's view of different kinds of roads.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 3 	Luis plays a Spanish “Here Are Some Things” game with Michelle and David using different sized 5s.
 	Cartoon 	Clouds that look like things.
 	Film 	The Fabulous Four Flying Flatirons, a group of trapeze artists, demonstrate up and down.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: N - Nail
 	Transition 	A circle appears on screen, expanding like a balloon until it pops.
 	SCENE 4 	Maria and the kids play as Luis announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Kermit and a girl hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8