Episode 3162

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Big Bird is excited because Ruthie is allowing him to look for something to play with at Finders Keepers. He looks around and notices today's sponsors before catching his eye on a musical pipe. He tries playing it, and out of the pipe comes some pretty music (a variation of "When the Saints Go Marching In"). He marches off playing the pipe when Ruthie shows up, wondering what Big Bird chose to play with...
 	SCENE 1 	Gina is having a hard time dealing with some loud, furry customers outside Hooper's Store, who all talk over one another. She asks them to cooperate and tell her one at a time what they want for lunch. They all decide to have salad, but once she goes inside to get it, Big Bird shows her the music he can play with his pipe. Gina drops what she's doing and begins dancing merrily, following Big Bird as he exits and forgetting about the hungry monsters.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me."
 	Cartoon 	B for Beard (poem by Edward Lear) (new music added)Artist: Jeff Hale
center 	Muppets 	Alphabet Chat: Mr. Chatterly and Mr. Bull have a conversation about sporting goods that begin with B such as baseball, bowling and ballooning as the staff gives Mr. Chatterly some things that begin with B, like balls and balloons.
 	Cartoon 	Letter B/b (bouncing circles)
 	SCENE 2 	Inside the Fix-It Shop, Luis shows Zoe how to do addition with three hammers. It takes some time, but he is able to show her how one hammer plus one equals two, and two plus one equals three. Just then, Luis hears some pipe music and goes outside to investigate.
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	Big Bird stops playing the pipe, and Luis asks what's going on. Gina stops dancing and comes to her senses, not sure of what's going on herself. She remembers she was at Hooper's and Big Bird adds that he started playing the pipe, and starts playing it again. Luis and Gina tell him to keep playing as they follow him and dance merrily. Meanwhile, Zoe has learned how to count the three hammers, but wonders where Luis went.
 	Cartoon 	A boy does an addition problem in his head: 2 + 1 = 3. (new music added)
 	Film 	A girls' jump-rope team trains for a contest. They end up winning second place.
 	Animation 	A girl plays in, on and under a sculpture.
center 	Muppets 	The Hispanic community of Anything Muppets sings "It Sure is Hot!"
 	Cartoon 	Two itchy gorillas agree to scratch each other's backs.
 	SCENE 3 	Back at Hooper's, the monsters are still waiting for their salad. Savion comes in and learns that Gina left earlier. They all cooperate again and tell Savion what they want, so he gives each of them a bowl of salad. Suddenly, he hears the pretty pipe music and spots Gina outside. He follows her and joins the line behind Big Bird as he plays his pipe, while the monsters are oblivious to the pipe music as they gobble their salads.
 	Cartoon 	A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion. (new music added)Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets / Celebrity	The Count teams up with Kid 'n Play for a rap song about how they argued whether they should rap or count.
 	Cartoon 	A red scribble demonstrates out and in.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Film 	A boy who lives in Alaska narrates a film of himself going ice-fishing with his grandfather and sister.
 	Cartoon 	A horse falls apart into a jigsaw puzzle.
 	SCENE 4 	Maria encounters Zoe still counting the three hammers at the shop. Zoe quizzes Maria on what she's learned before heading out, saying Luis had been there helping her but suddenly had to leave. Maria finds this strange before hearing the pipe music herself and starts merrily dancing, following the sound to Big Bird's entourage.
 	Animation 	Sand W/w
 	Film 	Alphaquest: W
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree."
 	Cartoon 	Dr. Nancy Einstein learns about ice cubes. Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air.
 	Cartoon 	"Pirate Plan"Artist: Michael Sporn
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird leads his merry parade past Finders Keepers, where Ruthie realizes what he chose to play with: the Pied Piper's magic pipe! She puts on her earmuffs so she won't be affected by the pipe music and rushes over to tell Big Bird to stop playing the pipe... he's got the grown-ups dancing on the playground wall! Her method works - Big Bird stops playing, and the grown-ups stop dancing and become frightened when they realize how high they are.
 	SCENE 5cont'd 	Ruthie explains that Big Bird had chosen the Pied Piper's pipe to play, which is why they couldn't help but dance. She specifies that she doesn't mean the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but the Pied Piper of 57th Street. The adults go back to work, and Big Bird follows Ruthie into Finders Keepers to hear the story...
 	Cartoon 	Light and heavy (bird falls on man) (new music added)
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Water Baby" over footage of seals and kids swimming.
 	Cartoon 	The Bellhop has to make 12 wake-up calls.
 	Muppets 	Sesame Street Movie Classics presents: "High 12"In a parody of High Noon, Clementine doesn't want Forgetful Jones to meet Sinister Sam, the meanest man in the west, at the traintracks at noon, especially since it's their wedding day. But both Forgetful Jones and a horse (in song, referencing "Do Not Forsake Me" from High Noon) convince her that "a man's got to do what a man's got to do". Sinister Sam shows up and, in a threatening manner, informs Forgetful Jones that he's got something to say to him ... "I think it was mighty nice of you to remember to meet my train!" They all hit the saloon for lemonade, leaving Clementine dejected.
 	Cartoon 	"Ladybugs' Picnic"
 	SCENE 6 	Ruthie reads Big Bird the story of The Pied Piper of 57th Street. In the story, a family (portrayed by Maria, Luis, Gina, and Savion) goes out for a picnic when it starts to rain. Just then, the main character (played by Ruthie) comes along and has a solution: she'll play her "follow-me pipe," and the rain will follow her out of the park; in exchange she asks for the family's cookie supply. Her plan works, but the boy and the girl forget about their deal and eat all the cookies. Thus, the Piper gets upset and uses her dancing pipe to make the grown-ups dance uncontrollably, making them unable to play soccer with the kids. The girl offers the Piper a chicken sandwich as an apology, so she stops piping and accepts it.
 	Cartoon 	A story of a cat who hated rain, wished for it to stop, and witnessed the disastrous effects of no rain.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Film 	A girl narrates a segment about a Korean festival she attended with her two friends.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A boy acts out his feelings as animals. ("There's a zoo in me!")
 	SCENE 7 	Ruthie looks for something else for Big Bird to play with at Finders Keepers. She finds the harmonica which belonged to the main character in The Handsome Harmonica Player of Harlem, but Big Bird prefers that Ruthie read him the story instead. Maria announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
* Stephanie D'Abruzzo makes her debut in this episode, performing the tan monster. Other monster performers include Martin P. Robinson (purple), David Rudman (periwinkle), and Camille Bonora (blue).
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25