Episode 1397

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird shows Susan his coloring book, but she points out he's colored things incorrectly. Big Bird sings "In My Coloring Book" to explain why he makes things the colors he wants.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: Hand
 	Muppets 	Grover asks The Amazing Mumford if he could make his carrot disappear, provided that some smoke appears. Mumford performs the trick and Grover is impressed by the puff of smoke, however he fails to notice Mumford chomping on his carrot. When Grover asks Mumford to make the carrot reappear, he replies that he can't because he ate it ("You didn't say anything about magic!").
center 	Cartoon 	V in space
 	Cast 	The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V.
 	Cartoon 	Small v... (Spanish version)Artist: John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	The celebration of Chinese New Year
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: V for Vacuum
 	Film 	A wall painter on a high-rise spells and paints the word "WET PAINT" in red, but accidentally puts his hand on one of the painted letters and looks at his hand, all painted red, and shouts, "WET PAINT!"
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon paints a picture of the façade of Hooper's Store/the Fix-It Shop, which Big Bird admires. ("It's almost impressionistic, and yet somehow it makes me think of Edward Hopper.") Gordon heads off to lunch and asks Big Bird to make sure nobody touches it while the paint is still wet. Big Bird accomplishes this by retrieving his WET PAINT sign, which he sticks right onto the painting itself...
 	Cartoon 	A painter pops out of a box and paints a lion, then hangs a "wet paint" sign on it.
 	Muppets 	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Exit" as the audience leaves the room.
 	Animation 	Sand V/v
 	Film 	Kids ride horses.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: U for UP
 	Celebrity 	Joe Namath tosses a football forward to a kid. The film then runs in reverse to demonstrate backward.
 	Film 	A very busy man is asked by a voice what "forwards" and "backwards" means, but the man doesn't have time to listen. Instead, he is shown what "backwards" means by watching everything around him go in reverse motion!
 	Cartoon 	U for Ugly: A man removes his mask, revealing a hideous monster face.
 	Insert 	Bob, Linda and Timi show some kids how to say "butterfly" in sign language. They sing a song about it.
 	Cartoon 	A child learns there's many things one can do with a stick.
 	Muppets 	Caveman Days: EXIT sign
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #3Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #3
 	Cartoon 	A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive.
 	Cast 	A Howard Cosell-type announcer narrates as athlete Maria subtracts a chair from a group of three.
 	Cartoon 	"Uncle Gus and all of us went for a ride to Ho-Ho-Kus". Features a Snuffleupagus cameo.
 	Song 	"Three Is My Favorite Number"
 	Cartoon 	A bird subtracts two balloons from a group of three.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Cartoon 	Look both ways before you cross the streetArtist: Ray Favata
 	SCENE 3 	Gordon brings some cookies for the kids to snack on. However, there are six in total of them and only five cookies. They try to think of a way so they'll each have a cookie until Katie breaks each cookie in half, giving each of them a portion.
 	Cartoon 	A little girl shows the building and apartment where she lives -- both with the number 6.
 	Cartoon 	A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk.
 	Muppets 	A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo. "Yippee ki-yi-yo!" is repeated back to him perfectly. When he shouts "One!", the echo repeats back, "¡Uno!" The cowboy is startled. "Two!" he shouts, and the echo repeats, "¡Dos!" "You s'pose that's Mexico over there?" he asks. He continues to count to ten, with the echo repeating the numbers back in Spanish. Frustrated, he shouts, "How are you?" "¡Muy bien, gracias!" is the reply. "Oh, this is ridiculous," the cowboy says, and throws his cowboy hat into the canyon. A sombrero is thrown back in return.
 	Cartoon 	What if we celebrate Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts?
 	Cartoon 	A photographer tries to look for some animals quietly, but they all end up secretly following him.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster comes to the bakery looking for something delicious that rhymes with BUY. He tries the I (from the MIKE'S BAKERY sign) and the baker's TIE, both of which aren't that delicious. Finally, Guy Smiley comes in and loudly announces that he would like to BUY a PIE. Cookie then knows what he can get in the bakery that rhymes with BUY and is delicious: it's GUY! A chase ensues, and Cookie requests for the baker to send him the bill.
 	Cartoon 	On a snowy day, a cold man desires firewood. He carries a huge log up the hill multiple times, but it rolls down each time. Using his "wits", he pushes his house down to the bottom of the hill to be closer to the giant log.
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar has made a complicated contraption involving ropes attached from his trash can lid to Big Bird's front door. He tells the viewer that when Big Bird opens his door, the contraption will open the lid without Oscar having to do any work at all. He calls for Big Bird and ducks inside the can. Big Bird opens his door, but the lid lifter only yanks the handle from the lid.
 	Muppets 	Harvey Kneeslapper sets up a bucket of confetti above a door, so that whoever pulls the rope attached to the bucket will get the confetti dumped on them. Instead, a little girl walks by and pulls the rope, so that the confetti lands on Harvey!
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	Oscar sets up his lid lifter again, hoping this time it works properly. Big Bird comes out to Oscar's call and the lifter pulls the lid from the can, but now it's much too high for Oscar to even reach.
 	Cartoon 	An old man recites a poem about the time he had the flu.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 cont'd	Oscar reattaches the lid lifter and calls for Big Bird. The lifter now lifts the entire can off its place and into the air. Oscar calls for help while announcing the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* Big Bird and Oscar are never seen in the same shot during their scenes together, allowing Caroll Spinney to perform both characters thanks to various camera edits.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 11