Episode 0912

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Mr. Hooper is having trouble with a geometry problem for his night school homework. Bob offers a solution he thinks will work. Gordon comes in and demonstrates the way he thinks will work instead. Mr. Hooper resolves to solve the problem both ways, then compare with the answer in the back of the book.
 	Cartoon 	A kitten is knittin' a kerchief, a kite, and a polka-dot mitten.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	Mr. Hooper solves the problem and sees both Bob and Gordon's ways of figuring out were correct, to their amazement. They take his worksheet and book to see it for themselves. Unable to do his homework now, Mr. Hooper sighs and starts catching up on his Latin instead.
 	Muppets 	Three Anything Muppets (including George) individually try to sell lemons, water, and sugar. After all of their businesses fail, the three cooperate to start a lemonade stand.
 	Cartoon 	Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Kangaroo Blues."
 	Cartoon 	"K" - Kangaroo - A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains what a kangaroo is, and ends up in the pouch of one.
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Count it Higher."
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: K - Key
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"Eight Song (Song of Eight)”
 	Cartoon 	"Candy Man"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Genelle count to 20.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty K" - Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. Featuring the sped-up voice of Gene Moss.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog draws the letter K on the screen with his "magic finger."
 	Cartoon 	K is for kitten.
 	Cartoon 	Which footprint doesn't belong?
 	Film 	A little boy narrates the various activities his family partakes in on a typical Monday.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The Pink Panther - K For Karate
 	Cast 	Maria as Chaplin gets their suspenders stuck on a wall while reaching for the door, demonstrating long, longer, and longest.
 	Animation 	Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A female head is drawn as its voice-over lists its parts, ending with earrings that "do nothing" ...
 	Celebrity 	Edgar Kendricks plays and sings a song about counting to 10.
 	Muppets 	Sesame Street pageants: Prairie Dawn directs the cast in a pageant about the face. Ernie talks about eyes, Cookie Monster talks about the mouth, Bert and Grover talk about ears, and Herry Monster talks about the nose. At the end of the pageant, they assemble a picture of a face.
 	Cartoon 	A horse is drawn as kids guess what it is.
 	Cartoon 	Can a horse fly? No.
 	SCENE 2 	A cow looks through an issue of Variety, dismayed that there's "just the usual cattle calls" and no listings for an actual cow. She asks Mr. Hooper if he needs a cow and despite her claims of strong recommendations, he turns her away. "What would I do with a cow?" he asks the viewer with puzzlement.
 	SCENE 2 cont'd	Big Bird comes down the block looking for a flock of pigeons he made a playdate with. He bumps into the cow, who starts cooing and claiming she's a pigeon. Big Bird finds this ridiculous and points how all the ways she's different from your standard pigeon. Even though she gives an attempt at flying ("Pigeon to control tower!"), Big Bird too gives her the brush off. The cow resigns back to probing Variety and muses, "Maybe I could get a job in summer stock."
 	Cartoon 	K is for kiss.Animation: John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	People jump.
 	Cartoon 	K for keyhole, ketchup, and kitten
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar is in a dour mood; not only have the sanitation men taken away one of his cans filled with precious trash, but Slimey ran away from home. The cow overhears this and offers her services as his new worm ("I'm from Texas," she says to explain her large size). Oscar reminds her that worms don't talk and move about by squirming. The cow silences herself and contorts herself to move like a worm. She then tries to burrow into the concrete sidewalk, but Oscar tells her that Slimey usually burrows into a pot of dirt, which he'll then eat. This is enough to drive the cow to seek employment elsewhere, though Oscar admits he liked "that big worm."
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Grover helps Kermit demonstrate "long" and "short" by picking up a short ladder. Then Kermit says he'll help Grover bring in a long ladder, but Grover says he'll get it alone. He carries the long ladder past Kermit, who's amazed that Grover can get it all by himself. When the other end of the ladder passes by, Grover is holding that end too.
 	SCENE 4 	On the stoop, Susan and Gordon discuss whether they should get a dog or a cat as a pet. The cow listens in and starts to bark and meow, hoping they'll take her in. Gordon reacts, "Maybe we should just settle for a canary."
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: E-Ear
 	Film 	Footage of a leopard in the plain.
 	SCENE 5 	The Count counts the cow as she sadly moseys by. He's counting animals today, but admits he hasn't seem many around. The cow starts doing her various animal impressions for him to count. The Count shrugs and goes along with it, getting into the spirit of things the more and more animal impressions he counts.
 	Cartoon 	Can a cat bark?
 	Cast 	Buffy and Mr. Macintosh perform a song and dance about the letter K.
 	Cartoon 	A man chases a runaway "no."
 	SCENE 6 	The Count continues counting the various animals the cow impersonates (which include a laughing hyena, a humming bird, and a herd of elephants, setting up the classic joke). Big Bird announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Big Bird holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
*In the original script, Bert was to appear during scene 2, but was rewritten for Big Bird by the final airing.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7