Episode 1997

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis wakes up and adjusts to having his arm in a cast. After getting a phone call from Gordon checking in on him, he has struggles with brushing his teeth, eating breakfast, and getting dressed. Although he manages to do things on his own, he asks Olivia to help tie his shoes.
 	Cartoon 	The CarrotArtist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA.
 	Cartoon 	F - FaceArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Cast 	David and Bob play firemen at the fire station. The alarm signals a fire and they rush to get ready. Bob has trouble finding his axe in his messy locker. When he finally does, he notices he's also missing his boots and starts searching through his locker again.
 	Cartoon 	Frances Fairy displays several F words.
 	SCENE 2 	The Fix-It Shop has hired a teenage girl named Sam to help out while Luis recovers, though he thinks he can manage just as he did before. While Maria goes out, Luis struggles to fix the wheel on a toy truck. Sam tends to a phone call, then casually helps Luis with the truck until he relents.
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates short and tall.
 	Cartoon 	A scientist adds legs, feet, then knees to his robot and tells it to walk, but it dances out of shot instead (as does the scientist).
 	Muppets 	Some fruits in a bowl sing a "Bilingual Fruit Song" about their Spanish names, and agree that two names are better than one.
 	Cartoon 	They'd play with me if I had...
 	Film 	The kids form a triangle and a square.
 	Cartoon 	A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F.
 	Celebrity	Menudo demonstrates different ways of using agua.
 	Cartoon 	A man saws a letter E through the wall.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	E for End
 	Song 	"Windy Day"
 	Cartoon 	A short bird stands under a tall bird, which lays an egg on its head.
 	Muppets 	Grover asks Maya to help him follow an arrow. The arrow changes direction until Grover falls down, exhausted.
 	Cartoon 	Henson: Eleven Cheer
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird kicks off another meeting of the Future First Graders, with Snuffy present as well. Big Bird has them all imagine being in a school as they run through a pretend fire drill at his nest, though Snuffy has a little trouble getting through the doors. After they safely return back to the "school," Snuffy suggests they do a rain drill next, pointing to the impending clouds overhead. Luckily, Big Bird has everyone place their books over their heads.
 	Cartoon 	Today's Secret Drawing is a fireman.
 	Animation	David spots a rectangle in space.
 	Song 	Luis sings "Follow the Arrows" as a man does so.
 	Muppets 	The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1)
 	Cartoon 	A mad scientist (voiced by Daws Butler) teaches his monster how to say the words "Fred," "foot", and "Friday."
 	Film 	Squares are shown in close-up.
 	Insert 	Buster and Fred, dressed as cows, approach Olivia, asking if she knows where Gladys the Cow is. They're helping with a song of hers and the lack of local cows forces them to play some. Gladys arrives and Olivia questions Gladys' loyalty to her species, due to the fact that she's always pretending to be other animals. Gladys is surprised and tells her she is proud, which is the subject of her song. The animals set up by some boxes and Gladys performs "I'm Proud to Be a Cow." Afterward, Olivia is speechless.
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster displays 11 purple pooches.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A boy compares the growth of the sunflowers to his own height.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man uses a wheelbarrow to carry blocks needed to make a staircase.Artist: Tom Gabbay
center 	Muppets 	Ernie has four apples, and wants to draw the number 4, showing that he has four apples. However, Cookie Monster wants to eat an apple, so Ernie crosses out the 4 and draws a 3. Then Cookie Monster decides not to eat the apple, causing Ernie to have to cross out the 4 again and draw another 3, over and over again.
 	Cartoon 	A man finds and eats five apples, counting the number left after each one.
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird sees how much attention and gifts Luis is receiving. He bandages up his beak and alerts others that he's broken it. Gordon gives him a talk, knowing he's faking and gently tells him why it's not a good idea. He helps Big Bird undo the bandage as Maria announces the sponsors.
==Note==
* This is the first episode to utilize the funding credits on a dark blue-background (instead of light-blue from the beginning of season 16), with the text centered instead of left-aligned. This would continue up until the end of season 22.
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 1997
 1997
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 16