Episode 3989

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird is pretending to be a tree and opens with a tree joke. Alan and some kids join him, and Alan sings "Let's Be Trees."
 	Muppets 	Robert De Niro explains to Elmo what an actor is, and proceeds in imagining himself variously as a dog, cabbage, and a clone of Elmo.
 	Muppets 	The Number of the Day: 8Eight bats show up when the Count reveals that 8 is the number of the day.
 	Film 	Eight children dance in a colorblock grid.
 	SCENE 2 	Alan shows us the poster for Prairie Dawn's play, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Oat Bran Cookies," which will be performed today. Ingrid and Baby Natasha are going to attend, but Natasha is slightly apprehensive about it (it's her first theatrical experience). Alan calmly explains what a play is like to help ease her nerves and Natasha shows her appreciation by grabbing his nose.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	Just when Alan wonders who's part of the cast of the show, Elmo turns up in his costume as the Noble Woodsman (struggling with the weight of his bundle of sticks) and delivers a brief synopsis of the play. Telly enters in his Big Bad Wolf costume, accompanied by a theater-loving duck. Prairie Dawn calls all the actors to the stage, including Big Bird, who darts by dressed as a tree.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	The cast gathers with director Prairie, who makes sure her actors not only remember their lines, but know how to properly portray their characters. Big Bird launches into a lengthy monologue about being a tree, and Elmo demonstrates his skills at chopping wood. On the other hand, Telly is having a hard time finding his character. With some acting tips from Prairie, Telly is able to channel his inner wolf.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	Gabi arrives to deliver Lulu's costume to play Little Red's grandmother, but Lulu is nowhere to be found. The cast calls out to her, when Alan relays a message he just got from Lulu's mother; Lulu came down with a cold and can't perform. The play is nearly ruined, when the duck reveals that she's an actor (having featured in "The Wild Duck"). Prairie relents and instructs the duck on when to enter, then tells her, "You're going out a duck, but you're coming back a grandma!"
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	A small crowd gathers for the play. Prairie sings a brief musical intro to the show before assuming the role of Little Red Riding Hood. She is on her way to her granny's house with a basket of oat bran cookies and catches the attention of the Big Bad Wolf, who loves oat bran cookies and wants them for himself. He disguises himself as her granny in the cottage and attempts to take the cookies from her. The Noble Woodsman hears her cries for help and fends off the wolf. The duck misses her cue and needs Big Bird to translate her lines. She has re-written her part (she's also a playwright) so that she brings oatmeal cookies for everybody. This attracts Cookie Monster, who begins gobbling them all up; "Me first love - cookies. Me second love - the theatre!"
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	With the duck's revised ending, Prairie improvises a new closing verse for the play. The crowd applauds for the show, and the cast encourages Prairie to write another one (preferably one for ducks).
 	Song 	"Dressed Up" (remake)
 	Muppets 	Journey to ErnieBig Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie. First, Big Bird looks for Ernie's box across the tightrope.
 	Film 	A boy named Anthony and his parents are trapeze artists in a circus.
 	Muppets 	Journey to ErnieBig Bird looks for Ernie's box by dancing at the discotheque. We found him!
 	Muppets 	Ernie's Show and TellRebecca shows Ernie the white wire-like crown she made. Ernie asks to try it on, and suggests that Bert will be envious.Come back tomorrow for another Journey to Ernie.
 	Muppets 	Hero GuyBaby Bear wants to have a Flying Adventure in the Sky with Hero Guy, but he can't fly by himself.
 	Muppets 	The Letter of the Day: KTo prevent himself from eating it, Cookie Monster sends the Letter K Cookie away on the Letter K train. However, the train arrives back a few moments later.
 	Muppets 	Worms In SpaceThe worms, fearlessly, form the letter K.
 	Cartoon 	Pencil box K/k
 	Muppets 	The Spanish Word of the Day: zapatoProfessor Grover tries to teach the kids where to wear a zapato (a shoe).
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: Dogs
 	SCENE 3 	The duck reads the sponsors, with Big Bird translating, and announces that she's won a part in the touring company of Cats (as she quacks out the tune of "Memory").
==Notes==
*John Tartaglia performs the duck.
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Category:Fairy Tales
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 33