Episode 1081

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ... and promptly wiggle around.Artist: James Rizzi
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Families."
 	Cartoon 	A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado.
 	Film 	A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first."
 	Cartoon 	The Story of Cowboy X, with the voices of Jean Shepherd
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon and Susan present Oscar with an old, decrepit chair, which he thinks will be perfect for his living room. They move it around in different ways trying to get it to fit into Oscar's trash can, but nothing seems to work. Oscar offers a solution, and asks them to hand him the chair. He tosses it out in front of him, smashing the chair into rubble on the pavement. Now all the pieces will fit, and it looks even better to Oscar than before!
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot!
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X
 	Film 	Joe Raposo: Insects (instrumental w/ kid VO, same music as "Peacock")
 	Animation 	Sand X/x
 	Muppets 	Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about the letter X.
 	Cartoon 	One of These Footprints says "excuse me."
 	Cast 	A king (David) and his knights (Luis, Bob and Maria) assemble for their meeting at the round table, but discover their table is actually a square. They fetch a triangle, then rectangle table before finally getting a round one, which they eat their lunches off of.
 	Cartoon 	First, Middle, Last (men on horse)
 	Animation 	First leaf, last leaf
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Magical Herman's number trick
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Addition and subtraction using three trapeze artists (version "A")
 	Cartoon 	A girl demonstrates that she is scary-looking to a sleeping monster.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Body part shout-out
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar shows off his "Grouch earplugs" so he doesn’t have to listen to all the friendly conversations around him, including those that he may hear during his trip to Hawaii. He then witnesses an argument between Gordon and Susan about who needs to use the car, but he can't hear them at all. Right as he gets his earplugs off, the couple settles their argument.
 	Cartoon 	A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Three Song (Song of Three)."
 	Cartoon 	Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls.
 	Film 	Luis announces "And now, the octopus!"Music: "Pomp and Circumstance"
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog, Shola, and Fanny have just finished watching the previous film. Shola hugs Kermit, and he comments, "She learned a lot from the octopus ... how to squeeze!"
 	Cartoon 	"I in the Sky"
 	Muppets 	Benny and his boss have been waiting for Lefty for a long time. Benny wonders how they will know when it's Lefty at the door, so he reminds him that Lefty will knock three times - their secret knock to enter their hideout. Lefty forgets the number, and has to be hinted from his boss what the number of knocks are to gain access, finally giving the correct amount. When they let him in, the boss reprimands him for his poor memory, and warns him that he'll be in big trouble if he forgets again. To test his memory, the boss and Benny lock themselves out, telling him not to let them in until they give the secret knock. Despite the boss' warning, Lefty forgets once again, and finally having enough, he fearfully runs out the back door, leaving the other two stranded outside yelling, "Let us in!" as they angrily pound on the door trying to get in.
 	Film 	Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
 	SCENE 3 	Mr. Hooper reads with Big Bird when Susan comes by and shows them a present she's gotten for Gordon to make up for the argument they had earlier. After she leaves, Gordon also comes by and shows them the gift he's going to surprise her with. Angling to get a present too, Big Bird asks Mr. Hooper if he'd like to get in an argument as well.
 	Cartoon 	Letter I (Beep Beep)
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	Cartoon 	3 song (butterflies, birthday presents, waving pennants etc.)
 	Film 	David narrates some films showing the homes of animals.
center 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts "Beat the Time". In order to win a cookie, Cookie Monster has to bring in three things that rhyme with the word "rain" before the hand goes around the clock. They turn out to be an old man's "cane", a "chain" (to which Frazzle is attached), and finally a "train" which destroys the set.
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X (repeat)
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon shows Big Bird the gift Susan got him - a can of car polish. Big Bird begins to pester him about the spots he misses while polishing as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, and the Count holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* The scripts for scenes 1 and 2 would later be recycled for Episode 2012.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 9