Episode 1557

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Celebrity 	Telly Monster and Itzhak Perlman play Beethoven together -- Telly on the tuba, and Perlman on the violin.
 	Cartoon 	Two ElephantsArtist: Owe Gustafson
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Marching band cymbal crash #2
 	Cartoon 	A rooster finds a purpose in his life when he's given the job to wake everyone on a farm.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Things you can carryMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster says RUN!
 	Cartoon 	King Minus and the Disappearing Dragons
 	Insert 	After watching the King Minus cartoon, Cookie Monster tells Big Bird how great it would be if everything he touched turned into cookies. He imagines a scenario where he holds this power, but he panics when he turns Susan and Bob into a pile of cookies. Big Bird and David rouse him back to reality where he begins to realize his imagination had run away with him... until Susan presents him with a plate of cookies where Big Bird had been standing.
 	Cartoon 	Five Purple Konkers
 	Film 	Footage of a leopard in the plain.
 	Cartoon 	Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin)
 	Muppets 	Grover the lumberjack thinks he is the first to arrive for supper, but he gets trampled by a gang of French-Canadian lumberjacks who get to the food table before he has a chance to get his snow boots off. By the time he finally gets them off, a grizzly bear grabs the last plate of food.
 	Cartoon 	A girl sorts everything she finds which is alive and not alive.
 	SCENE 1 	Luis invites Big Bird to join himself and two kids in some drawing. Big Bird isn't in the mood and wanders off. The four of them are left with a problem: there are only two crayons and two pieces of paper. Luis encourages the kids to come up with a solution: they'll split each of them in half. Big Bird returns, having changed his mind and takes Luis' paper and crayons, assuming he'd anticipate his return. Big Bird and the kids decide to draw R2-D2, a house, and a bear.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for carrot
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet boy goes to the lost and found to reclaim his lost letter C. As he tries to describe it, the clerk produces a myriad of items - a pizza, a ball, an orange, a Rolling Stones record, a letter O and G. The clerk finally finds the missing C and stashes the other items away, which turn out to also belong to the boy.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
 	Cast 	Olivia sings "Win or Lose."
 	Cartoon 	Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain.
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A film insert of kittens playing, with child voiceovers in English and Spanish.
 	SCENE 2 	Osvaldo, el Gruñón has come for a surprise visit, bringing along his Santruce stinkweed, which has a foul smell. Oscar points out that his spare bedroom is being used by Buffy and Cody, so Osvaldo will have to sleep in his pet hippo's room. Maria and Luis try to settle the argument and give Oscar an idea. They return to the Fix-It Shop and find that Osvaldo is staying in their sink; it's directly connected to Oscar's guest wing by way of the sewer.
 	Cartoon 	D-dart
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Luis announces "And now, the octopus!"Music: "Pomp and Circumstance"
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: D - Daisy
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Alphonso talk about the word "ME."
 	Cartoon 	A letter for "me"
 	SCENE 3 	As Luis tries doing some work, Osvaldo practices his singing and guitar playing. At first, he sounds just fine, but gets progressively worse and worse (as Grouches prefer). Luis can't concentrate, so Osvaldo goes to read a book, requesting Luis provide some hammering to read by.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: DON'T WALK
 	Insert 	Buffy sings "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl."
 	Cartoon 	A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
 	SCENE 4 	Osvaldo translates for Oscar as Maria and Luis have an argument in Spanish about what time Maria was supposed to be back. Things start to cool down, so Osvaldo interjects to keep it going. Oscar is annoyed that he's missing the fun by being unable to understand anything.
 	Cartoon 	A showman hawks his invisible chicken, which turns out to be a duck.
 	Film 	A man writes the word ME in the snow.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man gets a letter C in the mail.
 	SCENE 5 	Osvaldo teaches Oscar some basic Spanish vocab to use in an argument. The two Grouches soon become entangled in one, to Oscar's delight. Maria and Luis announce the sponsors in Spanish.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Oscar holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Michael Earl voices the unseen bus driver who yells at Osvaldo when he arrives on Sesame Street in scene 2.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 12