Episode 0979

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis gives Big Bird a box to put things away while he cleans out his nest, but Big Bird realizes he'll need more. He goes to Hooper's Store and places his box on one of the stools. David gives him one, then another one, and quizzes Big Bird on adding all two boxes together; Big Bird keeps saying he has three. David is driven crazy until Big Bird tells him that he already got a box from Luis, showing him the one that had previously been out of David's view.
 	Cartoon 	Sally the Spider skates with different combinations of her legs.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"Cracks"A girl lying in bed imagines seeing cracks in the wall turning into animals and a monster.
 	Film 	A girl meets a blind woman who has a seeing-eye dog.
 	Cartoon 	M is for Marvelous Martha
 	Cast / Muppets	Maria reads the story of "Ike and the Ilk."
 	Cartoon 	Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles.Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift
 	Film 	A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA.
 	Cartoon 	The word AGUA fills up with water.
 	Song 	"Three of These Kids" (barbells)
 	Cartoon 	Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #2)
 	Cartoon 	A mouse takes a bite out of a good-smelling M.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird paints a big letter M on a giant piece of paper outside his nest. Luis asks him why he's doing it, and Big Bird says it's for Mother's Day, which Luis points out is not today. Big Bird decides to paint it for “midnight,”, but Luis explains it's daytime. Big Bird decides to have “macaroni and meatballs” for lunch, which Luis reminds Big Bird that birds don't eat. Luis lists several more M words that he likes, and Big Bird decides to give the M to him since he'll have more use for it.
 	Cartoon 	A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Children and animals numbered 1-12 race in a marathon. The #9 runner wins.
 	Cast 	David charms a 1 and a 2 out of their baskets to form a 12.
 	Film 	Photographic collage demonstration of ALL, MOST, SOME and NONE of an apple.Artist: Frank and Caroline Mouris
 	Film 	Lemurs rest on tree branches.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely.
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar gets bothered by the activity he overhears from Luis, David, Bob, Susan and the kids hanging around his trash can, and gets an idea. He hangs up a sign bearing a red cross, pretending to be a doctor. When the gang goes to investigate this Oscar examines Bob and Susan, making up a bunch of diseases like the greeblies and the lumps, and the only ailment is to stay home and keep quiet. David catches on and begins to examine Oscar, diagnosing him with the “quiet wobbles,” which can only be cured by being around people making lots of noise, so the gang goes back to playing catch.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty K" - Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. Featuring the sped-up voice of Gene Moss.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing.Artist: Paul Fierlinger
 	Film 	Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other.
 	Cartoon 	"Ladybugs' Picnic"
 	SCENE 4 	Still bothered by the others’ activities, Oscar comes out of his can as a conductor by the name of "the Great Grouchanini." The gang lines up and he assigns them specific notes as part of the choir for his concert titled, "All of Sesame Street Sings." Oscar instructs them not to sing unless he points to them with his baton, but he instead chooses to point to the doors, the sky, and other silent things. They catch on to his trick, and when Oscar leaves to "conduct" his kitchen the others startle him by loudly singing their notes at the same time into his can.
 	Cartoon 	M is for MooMusic: Larry Rosen and Charles Myers
 	Film 	A male frog hops around and bulges his throat.
 	Cartoon 	Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles. (repeat)
 	Celebrity 	Ray Barretto talks with Maria and the kids about las claves.
 	Cartoon 	A girl draws her version of a (stick-figure) man. A boy draws his version of a woman - the Mona Lisa.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 5 	In a final attempt to get people to be quiet, a bespectacled Oscar opens a library in front of his can. The others sit down to read his selections, but Oscar becomes paranoid when he hears everybody whispering to each other. Combined with their laughter, Oscar finds this new quieter noise to be even more annoying and yells for everybody to leave, causing him to get shushed by the group. David, in voiceover, whispers the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bob, Luis, and a kid hold the Sesame Street sign, and David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8