Episode 2783

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird and Snuffy visit Maria at the Fix-It Shop, who has decided to work outside and has brought the telephone with her so she could keep working. She needs to go inside to find her screwdriver, and tells them to answer the phone if it rings while she's inside. The phone does ring, but Big Bird and Snuffy argue over who will answer the phone and miss the call. They realize they've made a mistake, and the next time it rings Big Bird insists that Snuffy go first, and vice versa... and they miss the call again.
 	SCENE 1cont'd 	When it rings for a third time, Big Bird decides to pick up the phone while Snuffy answers it, thus cooperating. Maria comes outside and takes the call, which is from Luis (who called two times earlier). She says she'll meet him at the supermarket, and Big Bird and Snuffy ask if she'll let them follow her there. Before that happens, someone has to call Snuffy's mommy and tell her where he's going... and the three begin to argue on who will do so.
 	Cartoon 	A man laughs out loud as an alligator uses the telephone to call his wife - then he eats the phone booth.
 	Song 	"Rollin' on the River"
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
 	SCENE 2 	At the supermarket, Maria and Luis tell Big Bird and Snuffy that they have to be careful walking down the aisles - but they're already aware of that.
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	Snuffy walks up and down an aisle (as his traveling music plays) to show how careful he is. When he succeeds in not knocking anything over, he jumps for joy... which causes a pyramid of cheese ball cans to collapse.
 	Cartoon 	A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh." The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV.
 	Muppets 	Herry Monster sings "Two Heads Are Better Than One."
 	Film 	A girl goes to school somewhere in Africa. We see the girl getting ready to go to school, as she washes herself and brushes her teeth, puts on her clothes, brushes her hair, and takes her lunch, all with some help from her mother. We see her walking past her neighbors and watching her classmates play outside as she arrives at school. The bell rings, and the girl enters the school, where the teacher is passing out chalk to her students. We see the teacher teaching the students the English words: "a boy," "a girl," "a man," "a woman," which she has written on the board, along with a drawing for each word. The students repeat the words, then write them down on their individual chalkboards as the girl remarks, "We are learning to read and write." The students then jump up and down, as the teacher looks on, smiling. Next, we see the students jumping outside excitedly, now that school has finished.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: I for Island.
 	Muppets 	Elmo bumps into Kermit the Frog on the way to the post office, begging to help him with one of his demonstrations, during which the post office closes - a perfect prompt to demonstrate closed.
 	Cartoon 	"Animal Elevator": 1-10
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird and Snuffy love to push the shopping cart when they go to the supermarket, but they get into an argument over who will push it today. They quickly realize that they have to cooperate (just like they did with the phone) and ask Maria and Luis for a turn.
 	SCENE 3cont'd 	Big Bird takes his turn first and then Snuffy takes his turn, but he whacks the cart with his snuffle, and it rolls around a corner and makes another mess. Now they have to decide who gets the cart, and while they modestly hand the duty back and forth, Maria and Luis go for it instead.
 	Cartoon 	"Four Friends" - a reggae song about a group of animals who wash a car together.Artist: Michael Sporn
 	Muppets 	Grover waits in line at a supermarket. He generously lets two people go in front of him, but then explains that you can't always let everyone go before you, or else you'll never get to the register yourself. When he finally gets to the register and is first in line, the cashier says the register is closed. Grover considers following a customer to a pickle party.
 	Cartoon 	Number creatures 18
 	Film 	Two girls walk on an island together, and a map of the island is shown.
 	Cartoon 	Name That Food ("Will you eat it?")
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird remembers that there's a new birdseed cereal he wants to try, "Captain Birdflake." He wonders if he should get the big box or the small box. If he gets the big box, he'll be fortunate if he likes it, but if he doesn't he'll think he should have got the small box (which would only be enough for one bowl). After Maria keeps switching boxes, Big Bird eventually decides on the big box in case the other birds want to try it.
 	SCENE 4cont'd 	Snuffy is taking home a small box of his cereal of choice, "Snuffleupagus Puffs." Of course, the small box is bigger than Luis, who has trouble carrying it.
 	Cartoon 	Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever.This airing omits the part where the gorilla falls backwards.
 	Muppets 	"Cereal Girl"
 	Film 	An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I."
 	Cartoon 	Shooting stars form the letter I/i.
 	Muppets 	Dicky Tick hosts "Lifestyles of the Big and Little".
 	Cartoon 	Geronimo 10-0: Instead of a parachute, she has a helicopter propeller.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Susan Sarandon learns the Meryl Sheep method of acting: switching emotions while saying the alphabet.
 	Film 	Alphaquest: RRunning down a road past a rabbit, a radio, some rocks, and a rainbow.
 	Cartoon 	An orange ball tries to pet a green ball, which growls, scaring him away.
 	Muppets 	Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes that he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works.
 	Cartoon 	A green man demonstrates dark and light.
 	Film 	A montage of the evolution of mechanical technology, from wind-up toys to robots that can spell "SESAME STREET" with blocks, to satellite transmitters. Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	R for rhinoceros, racquet, robot
 	Muppets 	"Readers of the Open Range"
 	Cartoon 	The Bellhop is told that somebody at table 18 has a phone call, and after he struggles to get to the table, he is told to take a message.
 	SCENE 5 	As Big Bird and Snuffy eat their cereal at Big Bird's nest, the closing music begins and they realize it's time to say goodbye. They argue over who will do it, and eventually decide to mention the sponsors together at the same time.
==Notes==
*Many years later, in the 2010s, the prop boxes of Captain Birdflake cereal would later resurface on the shelves of Hooper's Store.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22