Episode 2535

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird discovers a pair of sleeping birds near his nest. They wake up and introduce themselves as Peter-Paul and Marilou. Peter-Paul begins to explain how they've been flying south for the winter and need some rest, when Marilou suggests they sing instead. The two birds proceed to sing about how they've flown "Forty Miles" from home. Big Bird allows them to stay and rest.
 	Film 	A bald eagle flies over houses, a beach, and other locations.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus.
 	Muppets / Cast	"Sing Your Synonyms"
 	Cartoon 	R for Rhinoceros
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Elephants (African percussion soundtrack)
 	Cartoon 	Circle in Space (with voiceover by Northern Calloway)
 	SCENE 2 	Snuffy and Alice stop by the nest to play with Big Bird. Alice has a hard time being quiet to prevent the migrators from waking up. They do anyway, and ask for someplace to get some birdseed. Big Bird leads them to Hooper's Store while Snuffy stays behind with Alice, who's fallen asleep herself.
 	Cartoon 	Three owls blink.Artist: Owe Gustafson
 	Muppets 	How Now Brown and the Moo Wave perform the song "Danger's No Stranger."
 	Cartoon 	G - gorilla (in man suit)
 	Film 	People of all ages ride bicycles.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	The story of sheep, or where wool comes from.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 3 	Gina comes over to the outside table to take the birds' order. They open their mouths wide, acting as if a mother bird is going to feed them. Peter-Paul apologizes and, at the suggestion of Marilou, the two sing about how they used to be fed ("Tweet For Your Birdseed"). Since they're so used to being fed, Gina acts like a mother bird to feed them their birdseed.
 	Cartoon 	A red man tries to get apples from a tree by himself, while a yellow man builds a ladder.
 	Film 	Shopping for soup ingredients.
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls.
 	Cartoon 	R for rhinoceros, raquet, robot
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird wonders why the birds have to fly south, since he doesn't do it himself. Peter-Paul and Marilou recite a poem their mother taught them about why some birds migrate during the winter. The two then fly off to Miami, leaving Big Bird saddened.
 	Cartoon 	3 doctors cure a sick 3.
 	Celebrity 	Linda Ronstadt sings a special rewritten version of "Y Andalé" with a mariachi band.
 	Cartoon 	Footprints move over to the tune of "Here Are Some Things".
 	Muppets 	Pageant: How a flower growsGladys the Cow stars as a seed. Ernie plays a rain cloud and Herry Monster is the sun, whose attentions cause the seed to bloom into a flower.
 	Song 	"What to Do Before We Eat?" We wash our hands, not our feet.Animation: Paul Fierlinger
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird laments to the viewer how he misses the birds ("Sometimes, life just isn't a barrel of birdseed.") when his phone rings. The call is from Peter-Paul and Marilou, who've made another pit stop and decided to call Big Bird on a payphone. He asks where they are, and based on the descriptions of their surroundings and the nearby people, he sees that they're merely down the block by the Fix-It Shop. They hang up and head off, though Big Bird assumes their trip is going to be longer than expected.
 	Cartoon 	Gordon voiceover R/r
 	Song 	David sings "Can You Tell Me What Belongs Here?"
 	Animation 	See the lion walk.
 	Muppets 	Kermit sings about his youth, or as he calls it, "My Polliwog Ways".
 	Film / Cast 	Gordon hangs out in a classroom. He joins the kids and the teacher as they play with an elastic rope and get into different shapes.
 	Cartoon 	A gorilla names "G" words.
 	SCENE 6 	Peter-Paul and Marilou write Big Bird a postcard, wishing he were there with them. It turns out they're still on Sesame Street (specifically, in the yard) and Big Bird happens by them; the two are happy to see their wish came true. Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 20