Episode 4049

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Telly and Baby Bear have just finished making a book they wrote and illustrated. Stinky the Stinkweed, Zoe and Gordon assemble to be the first to hear their story - "The Little Merbear." In the story, Baby Bear plays a "Merbear," with his best friend, a fish (Telly). They sing songs and enjoy their marine life, when they're approached by a shark (Joey Mazzarino). He turns out to be an "alphabet shark," who sings "The Alphabet Song" with them. They all then eat the letters for lunch and live happily ever after.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	Stinky loved the story and wishes he could write one too, but believes he can't because he's a plant. Gordon tells him writers can still come up with stories and offers to write down his first line: "Once upon a time..." He and Zoe start coming up with how the story will go...
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	As the story begins, Stinky plays a plant who encounters a dancing princess. He loves her dancing, but can't dance with her because he's confined to his pot. He then makes a wish to be able to dance, summoning the "Lovely Magic Gordon Guy." His wish is granted and he becomes a real boy.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	The newly-transformed plant finds the princess and they dance together. He soon becomes thirsty, so the princess fetches him a cup of water and is surprised he wants to pour it on his head. He starts to miss his original plant form and wishes to be a plant again. The Lovely Magic Gordon Guy appears to grant it and the princess makes him her royal plant, then gives him some water.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	Stinky is amazed he's written an entire story and feels so great, he wants to write another! Gordon reluctantly stays to transcribe about a little octopus...
 	Cartoon 	"Animal Books"
 	Muppets 	Prairie Dawn gives Grover thirty seconds to show what someone looks like when they are surprised, much to his exasperation.
 	Muppets 	The Number of the Day: 18A jumping number 18 arrives as the Number of the Day.
 	Cartoon 	Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #18
 	Film 	Kid mural painting #18
 	Cartoon 	Martin P. Robinson narrates a cartoon about a green violinist.
 	Celebrity / Muppets	Oscar the Grouch loves the dissonant sounds of the Tokyo String Quartet tuning their instruments. When they start playing a classical piece, he’s disgusted and asks them to tune up again.
 	Cartoon 	Hop, Hop and Shake Your Head and Wriggle Like an Octopus.
 	Muppets 	Journey to Ernie: Musical Instrument Land
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Imagine That" about things that he sometimes imagines to be: first a knight in shining armor who battles a dragon, then a sailor, and finally, himself.
 	Muppets 	Global Grover: Grover returns from Trinidad on a pair of stilts. In his film , Asha and her friends practice and dance on stilts in preparation for a carnival. Afterward, Grover muses about the things he's learned to do on stilts...including the need to practice more!
 	Cartoon 	Global ThingyEveryone sings out of tune until the globe teaches them to sing in harmony.
 	Muppets 	The Letter of the Day: RCookie Monster sings a rap song about the letter R, naming R words and singing about how he shouldn't eat the letter of the day while singing the song, but then he finishes the song (and after that, he finishes the cookie).
 	Cartoon 	Leaves form R and r
 	Song 	"Big R and Little R" (Christopher Cerf)
 	Cartoon 	The letter R is pulled from a scrap pile and is used to make the word "RUN."
 	Muppets 	The Spanish Word of the Day: libroProfessor Grover can't remember what a libro is, despite the fact that he's holding one.
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: Books
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird presents Stinky, who reads his latest story about today's sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 34