Episode 1072

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Bob and Linda play basketball with Jonas and Leslie until the kids' mother calls them for supper. They go home and take the ball with them, so Linda suggests she and Bob play “pretend” basketball with an imaginary ball. They really get into it, and soon Mr. Hooper and David join in the game. Big Bird sees them and remarks, “And they say I have some imagination!”
 	Cartoon 	A hand draws a farm backdrop for the animals.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk.
 	Film 	Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack)
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	S is for snow, Santa, and sleigh.
 	Film 	"Stop and Go" — film footage plays forward, freezes, and runs backward on command.
 	Muppets 	Alien Alphabet
 	Cartoon 	A song tells the story of Max, who loves to chop down trees. One tree turns out to be a magic genie, who turns Max into a tree. Max soon grows respect for trees and once returned human, vows to never chop one down again.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (hand)
 	Celebrity 	Edgar Kendricks plays and sings a song about counting to 10.
 	Muppets 	Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup.
 	Film 	Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory.
 	Cartoon 	A cat, bird and worm illustrate small, smaller and smallest.
 	SCENE 2 	Mr. Hooper listens in on a conversation between Bob and Linda, who are trying to make up with each other after yesterday. He attempts to intervene, but Bob would rather keep it between them, so he decides not to talk and just sign.
 	Cartoon 	A small frog unveils a smaller man, who unveils the smallest elephant.
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppet kids argue over a cookie. Cookie Monster arrives and says that the smallest person should get the cookie, and then, as the kids argue over which one is smaller, Cookie Monster shrinks himself.
 	Cartoon 	S for sing
 	Muppets 	"Sammy the Snake"
 	Film 	A man karate chops 5 boards.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Fred, a singer, fails to figure out the words that rhyme with his name in the song he sings.Artists: The Hubleys
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	You can clean almost anything.Music: Bach's "Gavotte" performed by the Swingle Singers.
 	Muppets 	Big Bird and Scottie read a "Don't Walk" sign.
 	Cartoon 	At the circus, Tommy Trueheart displays his 11 trick-performing lions.
 	Muppets 	Muppet Hands count to 11.
 	Cartoon 	"It's a Lovely Eleven Morning"Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Muppets 	Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob is composing some music at his apartment when Linda shows up with her new TTY machine, which allows a deaf person such as herself to talk on the phone with other TTY owners. She demonstrates how it's used by putting Bob's phone receiver on the device, and makes her first phone call to her father. Bob watches as the typed messages from both people are scrolled onto the machine's screen. As she continues her conversation, David arrives with a message for Linda. Word has got around about the TTY machine and she now has requests to call her aunts, cousins, brother, and uncle on the phone; Bob hopes they will all be local calls.
(Blooper: the director can be heard saying, "Action," at the beginning of the scene.)
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: W for water
 	Film 	The sign CLOSED spins around.
 	Cartoon 	A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment.
 	SCENE 4 	The TTY machine is scrolling a message saying if Bob and Linda can come to dinner on Sunday, which they accept. David then rushes out the door, hoping he's not too late for something. Linda winds up her call to her father as David (now in voiceover) announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Bob's apartment number is revealed to be #2F, though in Episode 2799 it is changed to #2B.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 9