Episode 3255

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Celebrity	Maya Angelou leads Big Bird and some kids in a ring game, "Little Sally Walker."
 	Cartoon 	What if an anteater had the features of a giraffe?Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	"African Alphabet Song"
 	Cartoon 	Cap'n Feenie asks, "What is it?" It's the ocean.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Film 	A girl learns to write "river" in Chinese.
 	Cartoon 	Fleas have fun in fur!Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Cast 	Savion displays the letter F, for fast, and tap-dances fast.
 	Cartoon 	A mad scientist (voiced by Daws Butler) teaches his monster how to say the words "Fred," "foot", and "Friday."
 	Film 	The McDouble twins know how to help each other.
 	Muppets 	The Count sings about "The First Day of School".
 	Cartoon 	A boy demonstrates why his dog's name is Happy. (music tag added)
 	SCENE 1 	Herry Monster welcomes the viewer, planning on playing a game of football. However, Benny Rabbit, Jennifer, Tamara, Phillip, and Maria are all too busy to play with him. Wolfgang the Seal comes around looking for fish, and Herry thinks he'd make a fine creature to play with. He makes a deal that if he gets some fish, Wolfgang will play football with him.
 	Cartoon 	Three scribbles exercise.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Muppets 	Bip Bippadotta and friends show none, some and all.
 	Cartoon 	Either none, some or all of a pony's legs are on the ground as it runs and trots.
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"Fixin' My Hair"
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation	A Navajo blanket is formed as tribal music plays.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A Spanish-speaking man falls into a hole, and a dragon helps him out.Artist: Chris Hinton
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"It's All Right to Cry"
 	SCENE 2 	Herry doesn't have any fish, but instead has written the word "FISH" on his football. He believes Wolfgang will enjoy reading the word as much as he loves eating the food. Wolfgang sees the word and believes that means the football has fish inside it. Herry throws Wolfgang a long pass and Wolfgang catches it, but runs away with the football.
 	Animation	Fred the fish needs water to swim in, and Betty the bird needs air to fly in. Vanessa the vacuum cleaner sucks up all the air and water, but can't hold it all in. (new narration by Jim Thurman added)
 	Animation	15 kinds of Japanese crests are counted.
 	Film 	Growing Numbers #15
 	Cartoon 	Rap #15
 	Film 	Korean girls do a spring dance.
 	Animation	A poem about oranges.
 	SCENE 3 	Wolfgang tries opening the football to get to the alleged fish when H. Ross Parrot arrives with his "volunteers" for another of his alphabet rallies. He tells Wolfgang that without the alphabet, there'd be no fish at all, nor would there be any place for fish to live. Together they recite the alphabet and Ross and his group head off (though Ross isn't quite successful in convincing Wolfgang that the alphabet is more important than fish).
 	Cartoon 	A man explains to a girl what a surprise is. (ending sound effect added)Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Song 	"Drink of Water"
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: In a miraculous feat for Mr. Johnson, Grover serves up a large bowl of spaghetti exactly to his liking. While Grover tends his other tables, he keeps bumping up behind Mr. Johnson and forcing his face into the meal. Grover solves the problem by moving the table away from him, so he can run in front of Mr. Johnson.
 	Cartoon 	A map of Brazil morphs into the shape of animals that are found there.
 	SCENE 4 	Wolfgang struggles breaking open the football. He acquires a pickaxe, then a mallet, then a larger mallet, but nothing seems to work. Herry and Maria stop him before he smacks the ball anymore.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Doggy Paddle."
 	Animation	Planet Y / y
 	Animation	Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase letter Y.
 	Muppets 	Phil Harmonic hosts another evening at the Nestropolitan Opera, featuring a performance by Placido Flamingo, "The Telephone of Brazil", to the tune of "Finiculi Finicula." (music button added)
 	Cartoon 	Figures dance around a telephone as it rings.Artist: Keith Haring
 	Film 	A little girl narrates a film about how cans can be recycled. She washes them and collects them in a wagon, which she takes to the recycling center. There it is sorted and separated with a magnet. After its loaded onto trucks, it is taken to a factory to be melted and shaped into new cans like the ones seen in her fridge at home.
 	Cartoon 	Two balls follow an arrow down a hole.
 	SCENE 5 	Herry and Maria tell Wolfgang that there's no fish inside the football. Wolfgang becomes disappointed, but perks up when Herry gets a fish to cheer him up. Maria announces the sponsors, and the credits follow.
==Notes==
*This episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3500.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25