Episode 1311

Picture	Segment 	Description
center 	COLD OPEN 	10th Season Intro Still
 	Cast 	Gordon sings "Let Your Feelings Show."
 	Cartoon 	Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much.
 	Film 	Footage of an animal auction, where they auction off animals to dairy farmers and the like.
 	Cartoon 	Capital I, he's quite a guy
 	Film 	An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I."
 	SCENE 1 	Mr. Hooper blends the word PET and Barkley jumps on him. Maria assumes a safe spot away from Oscar's trash can to blend the word WET. Oscar appears from behind her instead and squirts her with a water gun.
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Grover informs Mr. Johnson that the restaurant is out of a lot of items that are on the menu. The only thing still at the restaurant is milk... but there are no glasses.
 	Film 	A boy talks his observations and experiences with the rain as he and his father go for a walk in it.
 	Cast 	"Sluggo the Great" (David) puts on his baseball gear, but isn't sure which body parts to put them on.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	Insert 	In a New York City park, the kids play "O'Leary."
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps."
 	Celebrity 	Ray Barretto and his fellow drummers play together.
 	Cartoon 	Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats.
 	Cast 	Big Bird drags Bob, Gordon, Susan and Linda to the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center to finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus, who comes to hear the opera rehearsals every day. However, once he arrives, he becomes blocked by the fountain in the plaza square.
 	Cartoon 	D-dart
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Stop-motion: in a park, a garbage man puts litter in a trash can. (Part 1)
 	Muppets 	Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
 	Film 	Stop-motion: in a park, a man reads a newspaper, then shamelessly drops it on the ground. A little girl finds this disgusting, and puts the newspaper in the trash bin. (Part 2)
 	Cartoon 	Letter I (Beep Beep)
 	SCENE 2 	Maria comes out from 123 Sesame Street to find Oscar's can area has been turned into a makeshift television studio. Oscar reveals he's created a new Grouch television station - WORM-TV. His first show, an interview program called Grouch to Grouch, is about to go on air and Oscar's guest, Norma Nasty, has cancelled. Maria is hastily brought on to replace her. Meanwhile, Mr. Hooper and Olivia tune in from the television set at Hooper's Store. Grouch to Grouch begins and Oscar spends the show asking insulting questions to Maria, who storms off the set. Oscar teases the upcoming weather program, as Maria stops at Hooper's to vent her frustrations. Olivia reveals she'll be facing the same fate on another program coming on later...
 	Cartoon 	"I'm six years old today!"
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet girl reads "hug" with Herry.
 	Cartoon 	Thelma Thumb: All the children's bicycles are stolen. Marcia asks Cyrus to watch her bike, but the thieves steal the bike and kidnap Cyrus. Thelma locates the thieves, locks them up in the garage, and calls the cops.Artist: John Korty
 	SCENE 3 	Maria sits out watching the next block of WORM-TV programming, still angry over how the interview went. Mr. Hooper watches the Late Grouch Weather, where Oscar forecasts freezing temperatures, pouring rain and a snow storm. Mr. Hooper bundles up properly, only to realize it's a sunny day as usual.
 	Animation 	The Queen of Six explores her garden.
 	Song 	"School Song"
 	SCENE 4 	The Grouch Game, WORM-TV's game show, begins with contestant Olivia. Due to not being able to think like a Grouch, she blows the first two questions and the prizes that went with them (a trip to Mudville and a fish-skin coat, not that she minds). She becomes interested when the final prize is a freezer. She correctly gets the question right and receives her prize...a block of ice.
 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog counts six happy little Twiddlebugs, and when he is finished, the Twiddlebugs have a party.
 	Cartoon 	Jack-in-the-Box School
 	Animation 	The number 6 is shown in a variety of ways.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: D - Daisy
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar has a newspaper reviewing his first day of WORM-TV programming. The reviewer is very unkind, delivering not a single ounce of praise to any of the shows. Oscar considers this fantastic news and rushes off to prepare tomorrow's script for As the Grouch Turns. As a grouchy version of the closing theme plays (and skips), Oscar announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Kermit and a girl hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Additional performers include Bob Payne as Oscar's camera grouch, Richie.
* The Grouchy/skipping closing theme during scene 5 is re-used from the end of Episode 0967.
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Category:Broadcasting
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 10