Episode 3290

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird and Zoe are surprised to see Gordon in the park, since he should be teaching at school. Gordon notes today's a school holiday and he has the day off. He plans to spend it reading, listening to music, and watching the clouds. Big Bird adds another thing he'll be doing: spending time with himself and Zoe! The two start singing to entertain him, though Gordon doesn't seem to be enjoying it.
 	Cartoon 	A boy chases a butterfly, and watches the clouds form into different objects.Artist: Irra Verbitsky
 	Song 	"Let's Go Tubbin' Today"
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: A for Ape
 	Film 	A for action, acrobat, art, artichoke, and applause.
 	Animation 	A/a (Gordon voice-over)
 	Insert 	The Tokyo String Quartet and some kids show how important it is to practice, as Big Bird provides voiceover.
 	Cartoon 	How to know a hippo when you find one. (new sound effects added)Artist: ArtistMike
 	Muppets 	The Singing Dentists sing "Say Toothpaste, Somebody!"
 	Animation 	"Toothpaste ... coming soon to a mouth near you!"
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon tells the two he'd like to be left alone, though they suggest he read his book to them (or rather, they guilt him into it). Since his book is too advanced for them, they get him a fairy tale book instead.
 	Cartoon 	"Beginning, Middle, End"Artist: Sally Cruikshank
 	Film 	A zydeco band plays "Allons a Lafayette" while people dance.
 	Cartoon 	A spoof of Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" - the number of sandwiches the singer has to choose from.
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #18
 	Animation 	Abstract #18
 	Muppets 	"Do De Rubber Duck"
 	Cartoon 	Two ducks look the same height when they're in the bathtub, but one duck (Joe Flynn) is short and the other is tall.
 	SCENE 3 	Now that the story is finished, Gordon moves on to watching the clouds through his binoculars. Zoe and Big Bird watch them too and Gordon recalls being in a play about clouds when he was Zoe's age. The two rush off and come back with two kids, all dressed like clouds for Gordon to observe.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd 	Big Bird even has a surprise cloud: an elephant (Joey Mazzarino), who shows off his skills as a pretend cloud (and dog).
 	Video 	Fay Ray dresses up as different animals. ("It's Kermit the Dog!")
 	Cartoon 	Falling leaves form H and h.
 	Muppets 	Spaceship Surprise: The Next GenerationThe crew lands on Planet H. They are greeted by Hopalong Hamster, and see Happy Harry the Hopping Haystack and hula dancing hens.
 	Film 	The floating kids form H.
 	Animation 	Cecille sings “Up Down, In Out, Over and Under.”
 	Film 	The Count (in voiceover) counts five children standing behind a park bench.
 	Muppets 	Wanda's friends beg her to stay in the water, but she'd rather explore land and be "A Fish Out of Water."
 	Cartoon 	A boy puts together a fishbowl, and watches his fish swim around in it.
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon has relocated himself on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street as he listens to Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony," imagining being in the country. Big Bird and Zoe find him and provide him with a chicken (Mazzarino) to enhance the experience, which attracts its angry owner (Camille Bonora). She lets it slide when she sees how relaxed the chicken is by his music, claiming she needs a day off.
 	Cartoon 	A chicken gets an idea to sit on a football and hatch it like an egg.Artist: Dan Haskett
 	Song 	"Playground Map Song"
 	Animation 	A big paper clip and a small paper clip can hold papers together, and so can a small staple, with the help of its "mommy."
 	Film 	Various situations of before and after, to a hip-hop beat.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Kadeem Hardison says the alphabet with Natasha.
 	Cartoon 	Letters appear over a sky-view of a neighborhood.
 	SCENE 5 	Zoe and Big Bird find Gordon writing a letter to his sister in the yard, and learn as he reads it back to himself how much trouble they've caused him. They conclude the best way to help him enjoy his day off is to leave him alone and alert Bob of the fact (Big Bird: "He's really over the edge."). Finally at peace, Gordon watches the clouds and enjoys his music.
 	Film 	Alone Song
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster and Lexine talk about the letter A.
 	Animation 	Sand A/a
 	Song 	"Write Your Name"
 	Cartoons 	Backward and forward: dancing, flying and swimming.
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon catches up with Big Bird and Zoe in the park, claiming to be free for playing now. The two, however, are pretending to have a day off themselves and watch the clouds through binoculars, asking to be left alone. Gordon announces the sponsors and is shooed away; the credits follow.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 26