Episode 2849

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Big Bird looks in his mailbox, and to his surprise he finds a square. He goes outside to find out who it belongs to, and finds that Mike and Maria also have squares of their own which they got in the mail. Telly shows up, displaying the triangle he got in the mail, which confuses them further. Finally, Elmo pops up to reveal to them that he put those shapes in their mailboxes so they could all play a "Three of These Things" game with him. When the game is over Telly worries that he'll have to give back the triangle, but Elmo lets him keep it. Telly happily runs off with the triangle, and Elmo announces that he'll be playing "Three of These Things" all day long today.
 	Cartoon 	The Four Squares sing "It's Hip To Be a Square."Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel
 	Muppets 	Super Grover: "Dial S for SuperGrover" - A little girl had plans to play with a friend, Bobby, but she has too much homework and has to cancel. Super Grover arrives to help her figure out how to tell him, but while Super Grover is busy coming up with ridiculous ploys, the girl decides to just telephone him.
 	Song 	"Elbows and Knees"
 	Cartoon 	A shy girl wants to join a group bouncing a ball. (audible dialogue)Artist: Joanna Priestley
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Billy Joel and Marlee Matlin bring Oscar a used piano, but Billy uses it one last time to sing "Just the Way You Are" to Oscar while Marlee signs the lyrics.
 	Animation 	Abstract count to 13.
 	Muppets 	Polly Darton sings "Wavin' Goodbye to You with My Heart."
 	Cartoon 	The O falls off a man's grocery store sign; he tries replacing it with a donut, then a pizza, neither of which work. Finally, the sign man paints it on.
 	SCENE 2 	Elmo has set some shape blocks on a table in the yard, and invites Daniel (Daniel Kean) to play "Three of These Things" with him. Daniel is blind and can't see the shapes, but he can tell what they are by feeling them, so he can still play the game. He decipers that three of the blocks are rectangular, but one of them is a circle.
 	Cartoon 	Two white squares try to push a great big object, and are reluctant to let a black square join them at first.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Muppets 	The Bicuspids sing "Kids Just Love to Brush."
 	Cartoon 	'j' minuscula
 	Song 	"Starfish" by Joe Raposo (re-filmed version)
 	Cartoon 	Colonel Travel takes the viewer on a tour of New Zealand.
 	Cast 	Gordon sings "I Heard My Dog Bark" as Susan, Bob, Uncle Wally, and some kids make the animal sounds.
 	Cartoon 	A little boy describes a time when he got angry after his toy truck was destroyed by a big kid.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)
 	Cartoon 	"Young MacDonald Went to Town"
 	Animation 	Pieces of fruit make their way out of a basket and arrange themselves into groups.
 	SCENE 3 	Maria has her lunch at Hooper's Store, where Elmo pops up and asks Mr. Handford for one bagel and three bananas. Maria stops him and explains to Mr. Handford what Elmo's been doing all day, taking the game away from Elmo in the process - until Elmo explains that he wanted to eat the food, not play with it.
 	Animation 	Thirteen hamburgers dance around.
 	Muppets 	Guy Smiley sings "I'll Love You in Springtime."
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: TAXI
 	Film 	Maria and some kids count katydids hiding in the leaves.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	O for orangeArtist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 	Elmo asks Maria to come over so she can play with him and Snuffy. In this "Three of These Things" game, Maria guesses that the book is what doesn't belong (among the four "objects"), and she's right. Elmo then requests for Maria to read the book to him and Snuffy, and she almost does so but Elmo then introduces the next segment ...
 	Cartoon 	A mouse riding an armadillo sings a song about 13, his lucky number.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Planet J / j
 	SCENE 5 	Elmo and Snuffy are now ready for Maria to read the book to them. The book, entitled The Snuffleupagus and the Rope, is about a rope who works as a tightrope in the circus, then as a clothesline, and finally as a jump rope for a Snuffleupagus.
 	SCENE 5cont'd 	When the story is over, Elmo wants to play "Three of These Things" some more, but Maria tells him it's time to go and helps him announce the sponsors.
==Notes==
* A blooper from scene 1 with Big Bird and his mailbox appears in the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22