Episode 3122

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	Oscar explains that he's too busy to point out the letters and number of the day. He's trying to sort his trash, but he's also babysitting a particularly belligerent Irvine, and says he could sure use some help.
Right on cue and underscored by heroic music, a Superman-esque announcer (Martin P. Robinson) says, "Look, in the sky! Faster than a speeding mommy, nicer than a friendly doggy, it's a plane, it's a nurse... it's Super Nanny!" Hearing the distressed cries, Super Nanny heads to Sesame Street to be cheerful, sing songs, and clean up.
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar asks Irvine to settle down so he can work. Suddenly, Super Nanny lands and introduces herself as Penny Pipkins, and offers to take care of Irvine while Oscar works. Oscar considers himself lucky until he realizes Super Nanny is concerned primarily with cheering her up.Super Nanny sings a happy song which always works, "Chirrup," while a dubious Oscar covers his ears. The song summons three birds (yellow, blue, and red) who join in the chorus. Irvine stubbornly refuses to cheer up, so Super Nanny resorts to singing the song again.
 	Animation 	A chicken lays 20 eggs, which hatch.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"One Thousand Faces"
 	Cartoon 	6 pigsArtist: Owe Gustafson
 	Animation 	Computer: in/out
 	SCENE 2 	Back at Oscar's trash can, Super Nanny is still singing while a group of discontented Grouchketeers sit and rustle trash bags. Gina, witnessing everything from Hooper's Store, notes that Super Nanny has been singing the song continuously for ten minutes. Oscar tells Super Nanny to forget about making Irvine smile, but Super Nanny concludes she's crying because of Oscar's home. Super Nanny peers down and observes the china closet on the sofa floating in the swimming pool, while Oscar's pet rhino charges by it.
Oscar jeers that she can't possibly clean all that up with her feather duster. Super Nanny insists that it can be done as it's a super feather duster, showing different ways she can use it (as a baton, a bouquet, or a tickling implement, among others). She then claims it also doubles as a magic wand, and proceeds to show Oscar.
 	SCENE 2cont'd	With a wave of the feather duster and the word "Alakazam," Super Nanny instantly transforms the surrounding area. Oscar's trash can is now a shiny new receptacle. The Grouchketeer girls are well-scrubbed in nice Sunday dresses while the boy wears a Fauntleroy-style suit. The unsteady stack of barrels, crates, and rags has become a single wooden box. Garbage bags are brightly colored and neatly tied, while a white picket fence and roses growing on a frame complete the decor. Oscar's hair is neatly scrubbed (save a cowlick sticking up à la Our Gang member Alfalfa) and he's wearing a collar and bowtie, while Irvine sports a brand-new bonnet.
Oscar regrets opening his big mouth, but he's even more appalled when he looks closely at his clean trash can: curtains everywhere, no furniture in the swimming pool, a Princess phone, and track lighting. Irvine laughs at her uncle's neat look, while Oscar bemoans the fact that 24 years of work have been destroyed. As the last straw, Fluffy's trunk surfaces from the can, adorned with pink ribbons.
 	Film 	Kids shout "empty" and "full" to describe a subway car.
 	Cartoon 	CGI sheep graze out I and i.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	W for witchArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	"It's Zydeco"
 	Film 	The floating kids form a triangle.
 	Muppets 	Elmo writes his own song and sings it for Big Bird and Snuffy, who then wish that they had their own songs. Elmo lets them insert their own names into the lyrics, resulting in "Big Bird's Song" and "Snuffy's Song."
 	Cartoon 	6 mice, 6 snakes, 6 fish, 6 monkeys, 6 witches (kids' voiceovers added)
 	Film 	Six children dance in a colorblock grid.
 	Muppets 	"Daddy Helps with the Dishes": Three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking and homework. They all agree that when they all do it, "It soon gets done!"
 	Film 	Kids talk about building sand castles and sand structures at the beach.
 	Song 	"There's an Exercise That's Right" even for a snake.
 	Muppets 	Humphrey thinks Natasha will help him demonstrate the words GO and STOP, but she does the opposite of whatever he says.
 	Animation 	Scribbles move around a black screen, until they see a STOP sign.
 	Muppets 	Telly and Shaun make happy and sad faces.
 	Cartoon 	A scientist builds a robot that has real feelings, such as sad, happy and afraid.
 	Muppets 	As a Sesame Street Travel Tip, a pair of Anything Muppets sing about the latest travel destination, Antarctica!
 	Cast 	Luis and Linda assemble the word COLD, and it snows.
 	Song 	"The First Time": Children try various activities (riding tricycles, tying shoes, etc.) and progressively improve.
 	Animation 	Sand I/i
 	Muppets 	Maria and some kids rap along with Moo Cow Hammer and the Barnyard Rappers.
 	Film 	Ornate Ws spin around in accompaniment to a song.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	"Six Circus Balls"Artist: Jane Aaron
 	Film 	Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
 	Muppets 	Tim Robbins and Elmo talk about surprise.
 	Cartoon 	A man pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but the rabbit turns out to be a cow. "Surprise!"Artist: John Schnall
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar and the Grouchketeers are working on the trash can, banging it with hammers to create new dents and rubbing some "Mr. Dirt" to make it filthy again. It doesn't seem to be working though, and Gina admits it still looks clean. Super Nanny refuses to dirty it up again, saying he'll learn to like it. Oscar hates it, likening it to life on Sunnybrook Farm, and fears it will remain that way forever once the nanny leaves.
Oscar asks Gina to intercede for him, noting that if he weren't a Grouch, he'd go so far as to say "please." Gina talks to Super Nanny and explains the essential cultural and physical differences between Grouches and people, explaining that Grouches take extreme pleasure and pride in amassing a mess. Super Nanny finally realizes she remodeled Oscar's house against his wishes without even asking.
With her newfound multicultural awareness, Super Nanny utters another "Alakazam!" and restores the status quo. Oscar admits that Super Nanny isn't "so bad for a neatnik." Penny Pipkins returns the compliment and tickles Oscar, who asks her to keep it up. Oscar opines that "This could be the start of a beautiful mismatch."
 	Cartoon 	W for Wash
 	Film 	Alphaquest: W
 	Muppets 	John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
 	Film 	Scuba diver - on, into, under, through, around Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Letter I (Beep Beep)
 	SCENE 4 	Everyone's gathered around Oscar's trash can when Super Nanny's super hearing picks up a distress cry (as the heroic music starts again). Parents in Chicago must go to work, but their baby is crying and the sitter hasn't arrived. Clearly another job for Super Nanny beckons, so she tells everyone to keep smiling (except for Oscar). She also tells Irvine not to cry, so the infant defiantly cries anyway and nips at Gina's hand. With a final "Alakazam!" Super Nanny flies into the air again, with everyone (even the Grouches) waving farewell. Super Nanny announces the sponsors as she floats along the sky, asking a passing pigeon for directions to Chicago.
==Notes==
*This episode was later repeated in Season 26 as Episode 3287.
*Two additional scenes were initially scripted for the episode, but were later cut. In one scene, Big Bird introduces H. Ross Parrot, who delivers a rousing speech about the letter I. In the other scene, Super Nanny, failing to cheer up Irvine, acknowledges her foul mood and sings "It's All Right to Cry," which causes everyone but Irvine to weep.Tony Geiss papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 24