Episode 2290

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Celebrity 	The Four Tops sing "Standing at the Bus Stop Sign," while waiting for the bus to arrive. Big Bird pulls up in an imaginary bus.
 	Cartoon 	A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come.
 	Film 	Kids count 20 penguins going down a slide.
 	Animation 	Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog tries to explain the difference between happy and sad, two emotions which Elmo displays while trying to get Kermit to play with him.
 	Cartoon / Film	Things that begin with N: nail, nest, net, notebook, needle, noodle, nuts, napkins, nose. (Don't make noise at night). The letter N is nice.
 	Insert 	Oscar the Grouch and Grundgetta imagine what their wedding would look like.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: The man spells out the word HELP.
 	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.
 	Cartoon 	Bus Stop
 	Film 	Kids comment as they see how corn grows in a field.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: N for Nose
 	Muppets 	NTV host Nora Nicks introduces Nick Normal and the Nickmatics singing "The Letter N."
 	Cartoon 	A Spanish-speaking man falls into a hole, and a dragon helps him out.Artist: Chris Hinton
 	Insert 	Maria makes the bus just in time, but Gordon and Linda miss it. Snuffy invites them to follow him to the Snuffleupa-bus stop, where he'll catch the Snuffleupa-bus to Snufflegarden. Gordon and Linda are amazed at the size of the bus stop and the bus itself. After he gets on the Snuffleupa-bus and goes off to school, Gordon and Linda notice their bus leaving at another stop, and they run to catch it.
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster treats us to the balancing feats of ten brown bears.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	The Martians find a telephone.
 	Cartoon 	An N-terview with an NArtist: John Paratore
 	Celebrity 	Rubén Blades sings "Ayuda" with Piri and the kids, who shout out the title word throughout the song.
 	Cartoon 	When a bird pops a balloon, the balls represent Sad and Happy.
 	Film 	How Crayons are MadeMusic: "Water Course A" and "Exchange" by Richard Harvey
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	L for life, love, lizard, leap and lump
 	SCENE 1 	Forgetful Jones is at the Fix-It Shop to remind Luis about taking him to lunch in honor of today's holiday - Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day. To Luis' surprise, Forgetful is able to remember every little detail when Luis agreed to take him last week (even what Luis wore), explaining he made sure to mark the date on his calendar.
 	Animation 	6 dots - 1 = 5 dots
 	Muppets 	Polly Darton sings "I'm Under the Weather Over You."
 	Cartoon 	"The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise"Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 2 	At Hooper's Store, David makes sure he has all the proper food prepared for "Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day" - baked beans, biscuits, carrots, and hay (for the animals). He takes the cart outside in the yard and gets the orders from Luis and all the cowpokes, including Forgetful, Clementine, Buster, a Honker, and a Grouch.
 	Animation 	Three balls compare sizes. An orange ball (voiced by Daws Butler) boasts that he's the smallest, until his little brother comes onto the scene.
 	Muppets / Cast	Cookie Monster has agreed to help Maria on her lecture on good things to eat. Unbeknownst to Cookie, she has raisins, cucumber spears, carrot sticks and apples. Cookie tries all of them and he likes them. He finishes by eating all the dishes.
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a match slowly falls to the ground.
 	Cartoon 	A Mouth whistles Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
 	Film 	A construction worker yells "Timber" and a tree falls to the ground, but then bounces back up!
 	SCENE 3 	Luis and the cowpokes have had a great time at lunch. He wonders about the origin of the holiday, and Forgetful shows him the origin book, The Story of Forgettinest Jones or How Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day Began. In the story, all the other cowboys and cowgirls are upset that Forgettinest (Forgetful's great, great grandfather) always forgets his lunch and takes parts of everyone else's. He arrives at the saloon, without lunch as usual, but is shot down by his friends who've had enough of his forgetting. As he exits, he spots a stampede of sheep heading toward the joint and warns everybody, who quickly take cover as the sheep trample through. All the cowpokes thank him by sharing their lunch and declare him a hero before promptly taking a nap.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd	Luis has finished the story and sees the rest of the group asleep, which Forgetful explains is part of the tradition. He nods off too as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
==Notes==
* This episode was later repeated in Season 20 as Episode 2505.
* The date on Forgetful's calendar for Take a Cowboy/Cowgirl to Lunch Day is marked on February 13 - the exact day the episode originally aired in 1987.
* Additional performers include Martin P. Robinson (Pumpkin cowboy), Pam Arciero (horse), Michael Elizabeth Huston (Grouch cowgirl and Green cowgirl), Jerry Nelson (Lavender cowboy and sheep), and Fran Brill (Lavender cowgirl), with Richard Hunt (sheep).
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 18