Episode 1578

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Video 	Scanimate kids intro
 	SCENE 1 	Bob happens into today's Grouchketeer meeting, where Oscar teaches the members about loud and quiet. At first, they bang pots and pans loudly, then quieter and quieter, then not at all, providing enough quiet for Oscar to loudly tell Bob to scram.
 	Cartoon 	Q for QuietArtist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Q -- that funny looking thing.
 	Film 	Green Tree Snake Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet sings a "Pretty Little Song" with a canary, but neither of them can figure out when it ends.
 	Cartoon 	In still photographs, a boy asks his friend what his mother does. The mother's shoes become animated, as she describes what she did today. She turns out to be a policewoman.
 	Cartoon 	A man finds and eats five apples, counting the number left after each one.
 	Celebrity 	Diana Ross sings "Believe in Yourself" to Big Bird and the kids.
 	Cartoon 	A boy and girl fight over the word YO. Luckily, he has a spare.
 	Film 	Old paper, new paper Music: "Blue Nosed Gopher" by Graham Preskett
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: The man unscrambles the letters in a HELP sign.
 	Muppets 	Sherlock Hemlock tries to figure out why there is a mess outside. He speculates that the Twiddlebugs made a mess after a Twiddlebug dance.
 	Film 	Mad Painter #8
 	Cartoon 	Eight buttons are counted on a monkey's shirt.Artist: Owe Gustafson
 	Insert 	In voiceover, David sings a song asking the listener to name the game being played while Gordon and Susan help the kids draw a hopscotch on the city asphalt.
 	Film 	A man talks about his working horses.
 	Cartoon 	Don't mess with the Mighty M.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets 	Grover gets under his blanket, pretending that he is on the moon.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: M for Mail
 	Film 	Kids dancing.
 	Cartoon 	A pirate gives a girl a treasure map, where X marks the spot.
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird invites Maria and Bob over at his nest for lunch and polite chit-chat. He's prepared some birdseed recipes for them, such as birdseed burgers and birdseed stew, and reminds them of the importance of trying new foods. They each sample some birdseed treats and find that they like it. Big Bird, however, is getting his lunch from Hooper's Store (a hamburger and French fries).
 	Cartoon 	A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet.
 	Cast 	Gordon preaches the importance of rain as it starts to do so in his office.
 	Song 	Caroll Spinney sings "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a sleepy koala.
 	Cartoon 	Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles.Music: Dick Lavsky and Alan Cagan, Narrator: Allen Swift
 	Muppets 	Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but then Cookie Monster takes off his hat, and cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape.
 	Cartoon 	Thelma Thumb: A soap box racer loses its front wheel. Thelma comes to the rescue by pulling the racer.
 	Muppets 	Grover and Oscar the Grouch recite the alphabet.
 	Animation 	Sand Q/q
 	Film 	"There's a Bird On Me" (Joe Raposo)
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	1-20 Ice Skaters (Maria voiceover)Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Q-quiet! (tree chopping)
 	Song 	"Sliding Up-Sliding Down"
 	Cartoon 	A boy and girl fight over the word YO. Luckily, he has a spare. (repeat)
 	SCENE 3 	Bob and the kids play a matching game in the yard. They've set out three horns and see who fits in with the group - a Honker or his round, fuzzy friend. The Honker belongs since his nose can honk, while Bob consoles the other creature and explains that his nose can't honk either. The creature happens to be a Dinger, who shows how it can ding with the bell on its head! Everybody starts to honk and ding as Maria announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Olivia holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 13