Episode 2843

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gina gushes to the viewer about the tape of the opera La Bohème she watched late last night. She then attends to Wolfgang the Seal's fish needs in the yard and finds herself falling asleep. She dreams herself in a Victorian opera setting, where a well-dressed Wolfgang (in fluent English) sings about his love for fish. By the song's end, Wolfgang's barking brings her back to reality.
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Fay Ray dresses up as different animals. ("It's Kermit the Dog!")
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #10
 	Muppets 	Grover teaches the campers at Camp Wannagohoma about trees.
 	Cartoon 	A pig sings "There Are Chickens in the Trees" until a rooster tells him that chickens don't live in trees.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 2 	Elmo's toys are all jumbled up with Luis' tools on the Fix-It Shop workbench. Before Elmo can do something about it, he runs home to help his father make some alphabet soup. Luis sets out the respective toy and toolboxes and has the viewer help discern what goes where.
 	Song 	14 Karat Soul sings “Hand Talk."
 	Film 	Colored sand forms the letter B and a buffalo.
 	Muppets 	"They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero.
 	Cartoon 	Dinah from South Carolina exchanges letters with her friend Ling Lu in China.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 3 	Elmo wants Luis to take him miniature golfing, but Luis has work to do on the computer and wants Elmo to help out; Elmo would rather golf and refuses to learn about the computer, throwing a mini-tantrum. Luis cheers him up with a game of make believe, pretending to be Elmo's father preparing some alphabet soup. Elmo pretends to go to the store and picks out a "B" and a "Z" for the soup on the keyboard. They print out the letters so Elmo can take them home, though Elmo still doesn't want to learn about the computer when asked. He exits, and Luis comments, "Sometimes you've just gotta be a little sneaky."
 	Cartoon 	The Bellhop must take 10 terriers for a walk.
 	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.
 	Cartoon 	B for boats, bouquet, baby, bonnet, etc.
 	SCENE 4 	Elmo continues to bother Luis about going miniature golfing, listing the benefits of exercise (and that Bob and Maria couldn't take him). When Luis puts his foot down, Elmo now asks about how he's able to hear. Luis gives an explanation on sound, which Elmo already knows; he wants to know how he can hear without any ears. Luis fumbles for an explanation, then decides to just take Elmo mini golfing instead.
 	Animation	Two seemingly identical machines - one black, one white - cooperate to make the sound of a choo-choo train.
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert: "That's What Friends Are For": Ernie sings to Bert about friends being tolerant of each other's differences, while Bert just wants to sleep.
 	Cartoon 	Dr. Frankenstein makes sure his monster knows about front and back. (Voices: Rick Cimino)
 	Film 	Footage of a Chinese noodle factory.
 	Cartoon 	How they say "good night" in Haiti and in India.
 	Film 	Workers in a watch factory work on watches.
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about the letter Z, but it turns up and becomes an N.
 	Cartoon 	A man juggles until he is told to STOP.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Celebrity	Big Bird lets Lou Diamond Phillips try out his nest... where he subsequently falls asleep.
 	Film 	Alphaquest: B
 	Cartoon 	Esme's wooden clown breaks, and she is about to throw it away, when it suggests she use glue to fix it.Artist: Lisa Crafts
 	Muppets 	Mother Goose tries to write a nursery rhyme for the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, while her many children wreck havoc on her office.
 	Cartoon 	"Five Baby Oysters"
 	SCENE 5 	Luis and Elmo return from golfing, where Elmo is totally zonked out. After a discussion with Gina (which Elmo partially repeats in his sleep), Luis brings him home as Mike announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22