Episode 0797

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar tries to get rid of three old cans, so he can have more room inside his trash can. Maria, Luis, and David find a good use for them and make offers to take them off his hands. Oscar says his cans are too good for what they want to do with them, and decides to keep them all.
 	Cartoon 	Five Purple Konkers
 	Muppets 	Grover is astonished to find that he's multiplied into four Grovers.
 	Animation 	Stop-motion: A hammer slowly pounds a nail into the ground.
 	Animation 	New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird finds David, Luis and Maria listening to the tail end of a speech by the President of the United States on the radio. Big Bird thinks being President would be great and launches into song ("President Bird"). He then begins planning his campaign as David and Luis carry him around on their shoulders.
 	Cartoon 	A boy talks about his various moods.Artist: Bob Kurtz
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird has set up his campaign rally, offering free bags of birdseed to his constituents. The grown-ups approach him and inform him of how difficult being President is. Big Bird thinks he'd do just fine, so the others decide to role-play and imagine he's been elected President. President Bird starts declaring national holidays pertaining to birds, which don't receive much ovation. He then gets bogged down by the many problems his citizens have, from broken bats to dirty streets. He becomes even more frustrated when he learns he can't take a break and go roller skating. Big Bird decides to quit the race, but considers taking it up again when he's older. The grown-ups return to their radio broadcast, where they hear the President is taking his own roller skating break tomorrow.
 	Muppets 	Here Is Your Life: A loaf of bread is profiled.
 	Animation 	Arthur and Annie look for the letter A, while a shadowy figure observes all the A words they say.Features the voice of Jim Thurman
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Little Things."
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster encounters a green napkin. Every time he squeezes the napkin, a new number appears, allowing Cookie to count up to twenty. This creeps him out, but what's even more creepy is when Kermit shows up inside the napkin at the end of the bit -- he's also green, after all.
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3"
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder.
 	Cartoon 	A girl demonstrates that she is scary-looking to a sleeping monster.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 	Maria, David, Luis and the kids sweep up the mess from Big Bird's rally and find some of his campaign buttons, which they use for a game of "One of These Things."
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A.
center 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Skeleton fish.
 	Cartoon 	I am dry, he is wet (Shark fishing)Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Song 	"Three Is My Favorite Number"
 	Muppets / Cast	Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the cleaner and shoemaker.
 	Animation 	A saw cuts a piece of wood.
 	Animation 	An orange pops out of a basket of fruits and gets "made up" as the face of Carmen, the role in the opera of the same name. While singing "Habanera," the famed aria from the opera, Carmen loses her "face" and can't resume singing until the wig returns.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A for Acrobats
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "I'm an Aardvark."
 	Cartoon 	I am dry, they are wet (Umbrella)Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	P is for Puddle
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppets with hair over their eyes recite the alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	P is for Puppy
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: A widow bird flies from one tree to another.
 	Cartoon 	"The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer.
 	Muppets 	Grover and John-John count a penny.
 	Animation 	A puzzle of a turtle is put together.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper is looking down and saying "Three sticks!" A man asks "Three sticks where?" Then Harvey says "3 sticks right here!" and sticks a number 3 on the man's head.
 	Cartoon 	A red man illustrates abierto, while an angry blue man shows cerrado.
 	Film 	Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball turns into a cherry which is devoured by a girl.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: A for airplane
 	Cartoon 	"Jazz #3" (repeat)
 	SCENE 5 	Oscar returns from the dump and fills his trash can with the spoils. David announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Maria and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, while David holds the CTW sign.
==Gallery==
Image:BBforPres02.jpg|"Me Birdium Hugeum": Big Bird's presidential seal, drawn by Michael Smollin.
Image:BBforPres_button.jpg|The official campaign button, from a CTW press kit.
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Big Bird for President.jpg
Spinney oscar performing.jpg|Behind the scenes of the closing segment.
==Notes==
* Jerry Nelson is heard as the reporter at the end of scene 3.
==See also==
* Episode 0923, Cookie Monster is inspired by Big Bird's campaign and decides to make a run himself.
* Big Bird Goes to Washington, proposal for a film in which Big Bird becomes president.
==External links==
* ToughPigs commentary
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Category:Politics
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7