Episode 0596

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird is holding an arrow and barking orders to the falling snow, making sure it knows where and how to fall. Maria tells him the snow doesn't have a brain, and there's no need to help give it direction. Big Bird asks Maria if she's sure the snow won't know what to do without some instructions, and she says it will absolutely continue to fall in place on its own. Big Bird leaves, and as Maria scoffs at the idea, the snow briefly reverses direction until she blinks when it returns to normal again.
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley hosts The Weather Show.
 	Cartoon 	The Alligator KingArtist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	Examples of people and animals going down.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh.
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Count it Higher."
 	Cartoon 	A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S.
 	Cast 	Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing.
 	Cartoon 	What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Mad Painter #7
 	Cartoon 	A man demonstrates up and down.Artist: Al Jarnow
 	SCENE 2 	In his nest area, Big Bird stands next to a scale that uses chickens as a unit of measurement and announces (side show style) that he will guess anyone's weight. When he guesses David's weight at three chickens, David stands on the scale to confirm Big Bird's guess. Gordon says it's not funny: he gained two chickens and has to go on a diet.
 	Cartoon 	A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over.
 	Muppets 	Maria reads "The Boy Who Cried Monster." A terrible, cookie-stealing monster helps to teach a mischievous Anything Muppet boy an important lesson.
 	Cartoon 	A man doubts a carpenter's knowledge of the saw.
 	Film 	Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory.
 	Cartoon 	A song about a rolling OAnimation by John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	A gymnast demonstrates up and down.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down".
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar the Grouch berates Gordon for shoveling the steps of 123 Sesame Street because of all the great things that would happen otherwise. The screen shifts to Oscar's scenario depicting Maria slipping down the steps and Gordon yelling at her for being such a cry baby. Oscar explains this would lead to an investigation by Stanley Stinker, the Secretary of the Disagreeable Order of Grouches (played in the scenario by David), who would award Gordon with being such a great grouch. The scene shifts out of Oscar's imagination and back to reality where he's now changed his mind: Gordon has to shovel those steps so as not to steal Oscar's thunder for being a better grouch.
 	Cartoon 	La palabra cerrado
 	Cartoon 	A man pushes up a lazy UP.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #7 (Spanish version)
 	Film 	Lemurs leap and play in a zoo cage.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Boy and the UP balloons
 	Cartoon 	What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts?
 	Film 	A wheel rolls away from a junkyard. A boy captures it to complete his wagon.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin has his students stand up and sit down to learn about the opposites.
 	SCENE 4 	David returns to Hooper's Store from a delivery and finds Big Bird-like footprints on the floor. On the counter, there's a note explaining that someone took some bird seed, left some money, and will return later for the change. It's not signed, but there's a yellow feather at the bottom of the note. David queries the audience and puts the clues together. He deduces that it was either a man carrying a yellow bird with large feet, or it was Big Bird. Just as he decides it would more logically be Big Bird, he hears Big Bird's voice from off screen. It's followed by a man (Caroll Spinney) wearing large boots who's carrying a bird cage containing a yellow bird. David is in disbelief, and the man asks who he expected otherwise. David does a slow take as the man leaves and says he needs to get some rest.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	"Stop and Go" — film footage plays forward, freezes, and runs backward on command.
 	Cartoon 	S - Snake: A snake charmer irritates the snake.
 	Cartoon 	S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh. (repeat)
 	Muppets 	: Grover and his friend Debo notice the letter "S" sitting on a brick wall. He exclaims that the letter is an old friend, and shouts, "Hey, S, babyyyy!" and slaps it off the wall. He remarks, "I hope he did not take that personally."
 	SCENE 5 	Maria takes shelter from the cold in the Fix-It Shop where she and Luis sing "Snow." David announces the sponsors.The sponsor announcement is cut from the HBO Max version.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, while David holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
__NOWYSIWYG__
 0596
 0596
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5