Episode 0969

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Muppets 	Grover reads "The Cursed Prince" (David turns into Kermit)
 	Film 	A film shows parts of a flower.Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo
 	Celebrity 	A montage of kids at various ages are shown practicing tennis, who eventually turn out to be Arthur Ashe. Footage from one of his matches is shown.
 	Cartoon 	A ship captain orders the numbers 1-20 into a boat - which promptly sinks.Artist: Harvey Kurtzman
 	Film 	Footage of a baby learning to walk.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 1 	Maria and the kids play a Spanish "Three of These Things" game with three round things and a yield sign.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Three frogs show first, middle and last while hopping over each other.
 	Muppets 	Bob is approached by an Anything Muppet (Jim Henson) with no face, so he gives him eyes to see what a lovely day it is and a nose to smell a flower. The AM thanks him and leaves to gift the flower to a friend.
 	Cartoon 	A boy demonstrates why his dog's name is Happy.
 	Insert 	Jerry Nelson narrates three letters coming together to form the word FUN. The letters celebrate with confetti and streamers.
 	Film 	Bridge #3 - 4 Corner Bridge A
 	Muppets 	Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things.
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar the Grouch comes home with some groceries, asking Maria to help him put them into his can – but his can is missing! Where did it go?
 	Cartoon 	Jasper thinks that he has lost his elbow, but Julius shows him his elbow by bending his arm.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	David narrates some films showing the homes of animals.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment.
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar, Luis and Maria try to figure out what happened to Oscar's can. Suddenly, the sanitation man (Jerry Nelson) arrives with some shiny new trash cans for the block. Luis explains to the garbageman that Oscar would rather have his old can back, but it has unfortunately been melted down already. To make up for this, the garbageman agrees to take Oscar to the dump to get some of his stuff back.
 	Muppets 	Western: A cowboy comes to see Adam T. Glaser, who is such a jack-of-all-trades that he forgets what a dentist does.
 	Cartoon 	A man has a J under his hat.
 	Film 	A kid enters a tunnel made of snow to demonstrate "head first" and "feet first."
 	Insert 	Olivia sings "Quiet Is."
 	Cartoon 	Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin)
 	SCENE 4 	The two arrive at the dump, where Oscar (comparing it to a department store) finds more things to add to his trash collection, to the garbageman’s surprise.
 	Cartoon 	Willie Wimple went a-boatin' and polluted the river.Artist: Abe Levitow
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S.
 	Film 	As a boy plays with a tugboat in the bathtub, we watch footage of a real tugboat.
 	Animation 	Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks
 	Cartoon 	A disobedient jacket, illustrating words that begin with the letter J, annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it.
 	SCENE 5 	Back at the Fix-it Shop, Maria and Luis work on messing up the shiny new can that got delivered. Oscar is delighted at this, but the garbageman is stupefied.
 	Cartoon 	Subtracting three mules
 	Celebrity 	Tennis player Arthur Ashe counts to twelve.
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter: J for jump
 	Muppets 	David says he can count to twelve hundred, but Farley would prefer just hearing him count to twelve.
 	Cartoon 	"Egg Chant": A girl skips rope as a boy sits with an egg on his knee. They recite an alphabet poem together. The egg hatches and a dancing lizard emerges.
 	Cartoon 	Dot Bridge #1
 	SCENE 6 	Maria and Luis load Oscar’s new trash into his new can, managing to wrench out a "thank you" from him. The kids (including John-John) rush over to help as Mumford announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* The plot for this episode is a remake of Episode 0390.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 8