It's a Mistake to Throw Trash in a Lake

"It's a Mistake to Throw Trash in a Lake" is a Sesame Street song originally intended for a Season 29 episode written by Tony Geiss. The script identifies the episode was intended to air as 3687, but the entire plot line was scrapped.
In the episode, Oscar's Scottish cousin Tavis McGrouch arrives on Sesame Street to locate his family's pet sea serpent, Messie the Loch Mess Monster. Using a self-written storybook, he details to Luis, Rosita, and Lexine that Messie resided in the Grouch lake of Loch Mess. However, when human beings moved into the area, they polluted the loch with garbage, an act even Grouches can't stand. With less and less space for swimming, Messie escaped through an underwater river. Tavis and the others have since cleaned up the lake and he's been scouring the globe trying to find her again, with Sesame Street being the last place to look.
Messie is on the street, hiding out in Oscar's trash can pool. Using some extra trash cans, the gang tries to get Messie to rise up and come home. They first try singing "The Grouch Scottish Alphabet," to no avail. Their next attempt involves the original song, "It's a Mistake to Throw Trash in a Lake" (which is partially sung as "It's a Mistoch to Throw Trosh in a Loch"). The song gets Messie's tail and middle moving up, but not fully. Finally, the Grouchketeers do a traditional Scottish dance that gets Messie's attention and she finally emerges in full to be taken back to Scotland.
==See also==
*Loch Ness Monster
==Sources==
*Tony Geiss Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
*ASCAP Work #392459633
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Category:Unfinished Sesame Street Songs
Category:Environmentalism