Episode 0897

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird, not having gotten enough sleep, sits on the steps of 123 Sesame Street to take a short nap. He sets an alarm clock next to him, which will go off in a few minutes. Cookie Monster happens by, spies the alarm clock, and eats it. Maria wakes Big Bird up, and Big Bird notices his clock is missing. They search for it, but soon figure out where it went when they hear ticking and ringing every time Cookie opens his mouth. When asked why he ate it, he says it's because he thought it was a toaster.
 	Muppets 	"It's Funny"
 	Film 	Four Song (Song of Four)
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole and says that he fooled the viewer. He then walks into a wall.
 	Muppets 	Maria reads "The Boy Who Cried Monster." A terrible, cookie-stealing monster helps to teach a mischievous Anything Muppet boy an important lesson.
 	Cartoon 	Elephants have 4 legs.
 	Film 	A film insert of kittens playing, with child voiceovers in English and Spanish.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy jumps over a hole, and falls into another one.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Male and female snow people narrate their own construction.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A child runs through a crowd shouting for MAMA.
 	SCENE 2 	After seeing Gordon and Susan leave for work, Big Bird wonders what it would like to be married. Grover comes along and helps imagine what it's like by pretending to be the wife and Big Bird is the husband. Soon Grover's imagination runs wild when he starts inventing children, a pet dog named Butch, and neighbors coming to visit. All of this tires Big Bird out, so he suggests playing pirates instead. Grover agrees, and calls all of the imaginary family and neighbors to come onboard his husband's pirate ship.
 	Muppets 	Four Anything Muppet cheerleaders give four big cheers for the number 4.
 	Cartoon 	Triangles are found in various things such as a see-saw, ice cream cone, etc.
 	Film 	Geese and their goslings swim in the water.
 	Cartoon 	Christopher Clumsy demonstrates shapes.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola count fingers.
 	Cartoon 	A man goes to the grocery store to buy apples, but he can't decide how many to get. This frustrates the grocer, who has to keep adding and subtracting the amount of apples on his scale.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Insert 	Child voiceovers declare the street wastebasket is empty. The adults and Big Bird toss their trash into it, making it full. After a garbage man (Richard Hunt, making a cameo) collects its contents, the kids announce that it is now empty.
 	Muppets 	The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches.
 	Cartoon 	Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Song 	David sings Three of These Things: Three kids riding one seat bicycle, and two kids riding two seat bicycle
 	Cartoon 	One of these shoe pairs ...
 	Celebrity 	Edgar Kendricks sings about the "Parts of the Body."
 	Animation 	Sand Y/y
 	Cartoon 	The life of a Yellow Yahoo
 	Film 	Various sporting events involving throwing things are shown from around the world.
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates Spanish words that start with the letter Y.
 	SCENE 3 	Grover encounters a sad Maria, and tries to cheer her up with a coloring book, a joke from a jokebook, a funny hat, his teddy bear, and a radio playing music. Maria feels better, knowing she has Grover as a friend.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn.
 	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.
 	Film 	Lizard!Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds")
 	Cartoon 	In Spanish, a man makes everything in the room cerrada, and considers making the basket abierto if only for the guitar band inside.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The Villain in the Panama Hat (V)
 	SCENE 4 	After Oscar the Grouch finishes telling a Grouch version of Cinderella to his nephew (Richard Hunt), he sings him "The Grouch's Lullaby."
 	Cartoon 	This is a big letter V poem
 	Animation 	A dune buggy is assembled.
 	Cartoon 	Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / patVoice: Daws Butler
 	Film 	Empty / full cafeteria (time-lapse)
 	Muppets 	Bert & Ingrid count backwards from ten to one.
 	Film 	Empty / full classroom (time-lapse)
 	Cartoon 	Counting 10 to 1.
 	Film 	Empty / full subway car (time-lapse)
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar falls asleep, but his nephew wakes him up screaming. Oscar complains of never babysitting again as Grover announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7