Episode 2059

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	After waking up, Big Bird welcomes the viewer and awaits his morning mail. He wonders what it would be like being a mailbox, and the scene transitions into his imagination. Big Bird stands completely rigid with a "MAIL" sign hung around his neck. Linda and Maria pass by and put their mail into Big Bird's beak to hold, which Big Bird doesn't seem too thrilled about.
 	SCENE 1cont'd	Back in reality, Big Bird gives a visiting Maria some important advice: "Whatever you do for the rest of your life, don't - and I repeat DON'T - don't ever be a mailbox!"
 	Film 	A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky.
 	Cartoon 	Seven animals in a tree.Artist: Owe Gustafson
 	Muppets 	The Count's bats are upset because the Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while the Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count.
 	Cartoon 	They'd play with me if I had...
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
 	Cartoon 	E for elephant, eat, eagle, everybody, empty, and egg.Voice: Casey Kasem
 	Muppets 	Grover compares himself and the viewer, noting how much they are alike (except for the viewer's lack of blue fur).
 	Cartoon 	A man saws out a letter E.
 	Celebrity 	James Taylor performs "Jellyman Kelly" with a bunch of kids.
center 	Cartoon 	R for Rhinoceros.Animation by Jeff Hale
 	Film 	Shopping for soup ingredients.
 	Cartoon 	Boy and the UP balloons.
 	Cast 	Sleeper tries to wake up in the morning. (David as "Sleeper").
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: R for Rope
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit."
 	Cartoon 	Can a cat bark?
 	Muppets 	Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives."
 	Cartoon 	The Ringmaster introduces seven swimming seals.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 2 	Linda, Maria, Bob, Oscar, and the kids watch Piri do some breakdancing. When the performance is over Oscar compliments the teen's skill, but finds it strange to call it "breakdancing." He asks Piri to turn on his music so Fluffy can show him from inside his can what Grouches consider "break-dancing," as Fluffy dances around breaking everything in sight!
 	Film 	Joe Raposo: Elephant (instrumental).
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A pencil tries to write the word DANCE.
 	SCENE 3 	Bob interrupts Piri's lunch to ask for a lesson in breakdancing so he can surprise Linda for their date. Piri shows him how to do a simple move involving his hands, elbows, and shoulders before leaving. Bob practices the move alone as Big Bird observes him from behind, thinking Bob is attempting to fly. When Linda arrives, Big Bird tells her what he believes is going on before breaking the news to Bob that it's impossible for him to get airborne.
 	Cartoon 	A scientist adds legs, feet, then knees to his robot and tells it to walk, but it dances out of shot instead (as does the scientist).
 	Film 	Letter R hoistMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS.
 	Song 	"Water, Wind, and Sun"
 	Muppets 	Herry and John-John: up/down
 	Cartoon 	Square in space.
 	Cartoon 	A man chases a runaway "no."
 	Insert 	Big Bird, David and the kids play an animal guessing game.
 	Film 	"Sharing Swing with Kids Song (Share in Your Fun with Another Someone)"
 	Cartoon 	The 3 Numero Brothers show addition and subtraction.
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "D-U-C-K-I-E."
 	Cartoon 	I Love You (in American sign language).
 	Film 	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music)
 	Cast 	Luis and Gordon clean up.
 	Cartoon 	Mi kat iz ... gone.
 	SCENE 4 	For story time, Big Bird is tired of Maria reading him his storybooks, so he asks to hear about her life story. She decides to focus on telling him about all the jobs she's had since high school. As she narrates, the scene cuts to flashbacks of Maria working at the lending library (singing a song to Grover); next she recalls her job as a construction worker (meeting with her foreman - Jerry Nelson making a cameo); finally, she talks about starting work in the Fix-It Shop, specifically the day she asked Luis for a raise and became a full-time partner. She then confides that when Sally Ride visited, she thought about going to work with the space program. When she finishes her story, Maria notices that it has put Big Bird to sleep. She quietly reassembles his books as Bob announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 16