Episode 2198

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria has just finished making a small table to give to Linda for her birthday. Telly comes by with a potted plant and asks Maria to build him a table to put it on. He isn't sure what it should be like and what he describes matches the table Maria has made perfectly. He intends to give Linda the plant and a table to put it on, so he proposes they give their gifts together.
 	Animation 	Stop-motion: A bunny tries to make a bench with blocks, but needs a chick's help.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie."
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: T for train
 	Film 	A girl meets a blind woman who has a seeing-eye dog.
 	Cartoon 	T es para telefono
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
 	Cartoon 	A bear (Jim Thurman) stacks 10 cans.
 	Film 	A mom and her son comment on a film of various animal babies and their moms.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Insert 	Susan and the kids sing "My Little Game," a song with loud and soft parts.
 	Cartoon 	Passengers on a crowded subway illustrate "between."
 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit attempts to demonstrate between by standing between two poles, which are actually mops held by Grover and Herry.
 	Cartoon 	A man (Jim Thurman) is interrupted as he tries to recite the alphabet.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	A rhino and her baby
 	Film 	The letter T is a very useful letter.
 	SCENE 2 	Buster the Horse greets Oscar and remarks that he looks rather slovenly, a word Oscar has never heard before. Buster explains it and gives various synonyms which are new to Oscar as well. Oscar decides to put all these new words into a Grouchonary, but he can't write them down - he's broken all his pencils and glued the pages of his notebook shut. He becomes very upset, as he can't write anything down as Buster starts to spew out more Grouchonary-worthy words.
center 	Cartoon 	The word "YES" follows a man.
 	Film 	Topi antelopes nod "yes."Music by Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	"We Got a Brand New Baby"
 	Cartoon 	An ostrich is born on a football field, and learns that he can't fly. He saves the game by scoring the winning touchdown.
 	Film 	Two apples balance on a block seesaw.
 	Cartoon 	The secret drawing is a mailman.
 	SCENE 3 	David tells Big Bird not to stand around all day in the way of the newspaper stand; Big Bird says he just wants to listen for awhile. Big Bird soon watches a farcical situation occur with the grown-ups in the yard. Gordon comes out to read his newspaper. As he comments on the scores of the Mets game, David comes by to clear some dishes and offers Gordon some lemonade; Gordon isn't listening, but his comments regarding the sports page are misconstrued by David as a drink order.
 	SCENE 3cont'd	Gordon realizes he's forgotten to put dinner in the oven and goes home for a moment. Just then, Maria takes a break from the Fix-It Shop and starts reading Gordon's paper, which conceals her when David drops off the lemonade, then tends to the phone. She thinks he's brought it just for her and she drinks it down. Refreshed, she heads back to work just before Gordon returns. His comments about the sports page again make David think he's responding to him about the lemonade.
 	SCENE 3cont'd	David once again tells Big Bird not to stand in front of the newspaper stand, adding that he’d better learn to listen.
 	Cartoon 	Two scribbles are hesitant to let a tall green one join them, until it protects them from the rain.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit."
 	Muppets 	Kermit explains the importance of listening, using the Two-Headed Monster as an example.
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #8
 	Film 	Two kids help an old man (Taro Yashima) get his dragon kite in the air.
 	Animation 	Where does the triangle fit?
 	Cast 	Susan, Bob, and Maria give a lesson on addition and subtraction.
 	Cartoon 	A sleepy man counts 8 sheep. (Spanish version)
 	Celebrity 	Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe and Malcolm-Jamal Warner notice Telly and Keshia Knight Pulliam pretending to look sad, which escalates into the three of them arguing over what's more sad: losing a purple pen with a picture of Prince on it, not making the football team, or a best friend moving away. Telly and Keshia then pretend to look angry, and then notice that they look just like them.
 	Cartoon 	Vaudeville duo Herman Happy and Stanley Sad sing a song about how they live up to their names.
 	Film 	Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack)
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet girl reads the word "hug" with Herry.
 	Animation 	A snail shell is uncovered in the sand.
 	Cartoon 	A peacock counts 20 feathers on his tail.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #8
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Find the Circle quiz
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird shows Gordon the glued notebook that Oscar just gave him; neither knows what they could use it for. Buster announces the sponsors as Big Bird joins Gordon and the kids playing in the yard.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 17