Episode 0371

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis and Tom are rushing to open their respective shops and bump into each other, dropping their keys. They pick them up, but a Muppet boy named Seth observes that both keys look alike - how can they know whose belongs to whom? Tom tests the keys in the Hooper's Store lock; the first doesn't work, meaning it's the key to the Fix-It Shop.
 	Cartoon 	A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Dot & Hill -- C-1
 	Film 	Most animals have two eyes, ears, etc. ... but some snakes have two heads.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon tries to count how many kids are playing tag, but can't keep track as they run all around. He has them hold still as he counts the nine kids.
 	Cartoon 	"Martian Beauty" has nine hairs, nine bows, nine eyes, nine nostrils, nine arms, and nine toes.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 15 hits in a row, but miss on the 16th.
 	Muppets 	Old West sketches: A couple of cowboy Muppets meet the Alphabet Kid, who claims that he can write the alphabet faster than any man alive. To prove it, he quickly draws his crayon and speedily writes out the whole alphabet.
 	Film 	D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs and hobbies that begin with D.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird finishes a house of cards in his nest space, when Gordon drops by quickly; his opening of the door causes the cards to fall over, though Gordon doesn't notice. Big Bird gets upset, finds Gordon and tries hinting for an apology. Gordon doesn't get the hint, making Big Bird angrier and angrier. When Big Bird finally explains what's happened, Gordon claims he didn't even know he knocked over Big Bird's cards. He apologizes now and starts helping him make a new house of cards.
 	Cartoon 	Dot & Hill -- C-2
 	Muppets 	Ernie demonstrates the word "Apple"; Cookie Monster eats Ernie's apple.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape
 	Film 	Kids narrate a visit to an automobile factory, and watch a taxi being made.
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon, Rafael, Tom, Susan, Luis, and Oscar sing "What Makes Music?"
 	Cartoon 	"Bumble Ardy #9" -- Young Bumble Ardy invites nine pigs to his birthday party while his mother, Sweet Adeline, is away.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #9
 	Cartoon 	D-dart
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 20 hits in a row, but miss on the 21st.
 	Cartoon 	An ape escapes from the A train and heads over to a birthday party.
 	Cartoon 	Words that begin with A, ending with ambulance (Spanish soundtrack)Animated by Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	Farley looks for his lost toy box.
 	Cartoon 	A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Song 	Northern Calloway sings "Who You Looking At, Tiger?"
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape (repeat)
 	SCENE 5 	Tom plays a rhyming game with the kids, where they have to find something in Hooper's Store that rhymes with the words in Tom's poem.
 	Transition 	Bridge #10 - Bricks Bridge A
 	Film 	Gibbons make screeching noises.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper: Do Ya Have an A on Ya?
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: A pair of feet stand on a wall while Kermit the Frog talks about them and what they can do.
 	SCENE 6 	Luis places a sign in the flowerbed near Big Bird's nest reading, "Please Don't Pick the Flowers." Big Bird gets the idea, but still tries to pick one. He justifies that he's only taking one mere flower, but Luis has him imagine that if everyone took just one flower, there wouldn't be any left. Big Bird tells Luis to add an extra bit to the end of the sign - "Please Don't Pick the Flowers...not even one."
 	Cartoon 	D-dart (repeat)
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob reads the story of "The Princess and the Cookie". In the story, a king is looking for someone to marry his daughter, the small princess Eunice. He is having trouble, because all the princes in the kingdom keep bringing her cookies that are too big for her. Finally, the baker (Cookie Monster) enters with the smallest cookie in the kingdom, which the princess immediately wants. The baker is disinterested in marrying the princess, until the prince offers him the other three cookies that the princes brought. And they lived happily ever after.
 	Transition 	Bridge #11 - Bricks Bridge B
 	SCENE 7 	After finishing their sandwiches, Gordon tells Susan that since she made the food, he'll clean the dishes.
 	Cartoon 	A turtle, a bird, and a butterfly demonstrate small, smaller, and smallest.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself.
 	Film 	"It's an Otter!"Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 8 	The sponsors are announced.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 3