Episode 0870

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Luis brings David some fresh baked oatmeal cookies. He thinks they’re the best, but David has him try one of the vanilla cookies he made in the store this morning. They argue over whose cookies are the best, when Cookie Monster interjects: he offers to hold a cookie contest with himself as the judge.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd	Maria and Big Bird happen by and learn of what's going on. Maria believes she can bake good cookies too and dashes off to her apartment to get some ready, while Big Bird runs off to get one of his "birdseed-bonanza cookies" to enter.
 	Film 	A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas".
 	SCENE 2 	The Sesame Street Bake-Off commences in the yard, though Luis and David are baffled by there being some extra competitors in the mix. Judge Cookie Monster starts sampling all the cookies (except Big Bird's) for various qualifications such as texture, flavor, and "cosmic stability." Afterwards, he declares that all the cookies have won, but hands out some first prize ribbons anyhow - David gets one for texture, Luis is awarded one for flavor, and Maria gets the ribbon for "all around good sport." Big Bird protests the results, since Cookie Monster didn't even try his cookie. He awards the bird a first prize ribbon for his plate, which he eats.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta.
 	Cartoon 	Y for yawn
 	Film 	Kids narrate a film about water in hoses, fountains, puddles, streams, bathtubs, rivers, oceans, and other places.
 	Cartoon 	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Using pictures on the blackboard, Roosevelt Franklin tells the class a story about two little dogs who find a big ol' bone in a doghouse. They try to take the bone, but it turns out that it belongs to a big, mean dog, who chases them away. The moral of the story: "If something's not yours, leave it alone; could be a big ol' dog in the doghouse."
 	Cartoon 	Words that rhyme with BALL (voices of Bob Arbogast and Daws Butler)
 	Cartoon 	A boy can yell and yodel, and his dog can yelp and yowl. They can both yawn.
 	SCENE 3 	Luis and some kids play a "Here Are Some Things" game, classifying triangles by size.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A janitor sweeps up his own footprints the wrong way, then the right way. Just then, a giant centipede leaves tracks all over the floor.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Film 	A little horse gets near and far from the camera.
 	Insert 	Scanimate Films #10
 	Cartoon 	A red man tries to get apples from a tree by himself, while a yellow man builds a ladder.
 	Celebrity 	Clive Thompson and Tina Yuan of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater dance to a blues number.
center 	Cartoon 	A minstrel sings about a fox who outsmarts a crow.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Film 	Several people help a man when his car is stuck in the mud.
 	Muppets 	Grover demonstrates near and far.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby animals are fed milk.
 	Cartoon 	U for uniform.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
 	SCENE 4 	At Hooper’s, David is still hung up on Luis suggesting he makes the better cookies. Cookie Monster appears and offers to perform his "special cookie alphabet" in exchange for two cookies. He then performs a fairly standard recitation of the alphabet; what's special about it is that he gets to eat two cookies afterward.
 	Muppets 	As ominous music plays, the Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and then he does.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #10
 	Muppets 	Five Anything Muppets sing the "Numerical Correspondence Song."
 	SCENE 5 	As Grover asks “Why?”, Big Bird and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make a Y in the sky .
 	Muppets 	Some Muppet kids (including Farley) plan to decorate their clubhouse, but each one is only able to find one item. They are upset at their individual failures, until they see what a difference each item makes when they're all hung up.
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: Y for Yo-Yo
 	SCENE 6 	Big Bird and Cookie Monster have gone into business together, forming the "Big Bird and Cookie Monster HIGH and Low Company." They explain to David that they will use their unique heights to help people, with Big Bird handling things that are high and Cookie dealing with problems that are low. Luis hires Big Bird's services in the Fix-It Shop to retrieve an XJ-27 transducer from a high shelf. Then, "Vice President Cookie" goes down low to find Maria's bus token she dropped on the sidewalk.
 	SCENE 6 cont'd	David now needs the High and Low Company's help in finding his key at Hooper's, citing he last saw it on the front counter. However, Big Bird deems the counter too low for him to work with, and it's too high for Cookie Monster. Instead of helping, they offer David a spot in "the firm" as an "in-between" specialist and he can find the key himself.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 6cont'd 	While closing up shop, David finds he's lost his key again. Cookie Monster shouts suggestions and recommendations ("We got minutes of experience!") as Maria announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Luis holds the street sign, and David and Maria hold the CTW sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 7