Episode 0559

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Number 3 quickies:
*Luis screws three screws into a birdhouse for Little Bird (performed here by Caroll Spinney). 
*Maria displays the three patches on her dungarees. 
*Bob wears three cowboy hats. 
*At Hooper's Store, Cookie Monster eats three big cookies, then eats the three plates.
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #3
 	Cartoon 	Simple Simon meets some strange-looking animals, all of whom have their parts switched around.Artist: Jeff Hale
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cast 	A Howard Cosell sound-alike narrates Luis and Gordon running a race in a demonstration of short and long.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Television (Spanish)
 	Cast 	David and Maria dine in spaghetti. Maria polishes off her plate in a short time, but David starts to eat each piece individually, which takes very long. (part 1)
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Cast 	David's plate is about half-empty now. (part 2)
 	Cartoon 	Three men in a horse costume want three cups of coffee.
 	Cast 	Maria has fallen asleep by now, when David finally finishes eating his spaghetti. He then beckons a waiter (Bob) to bring him another serving... (part 3)
 	Film 	Marching Band #3
 	SCENE 2 	Despite his belief that he doesn't have a nice singing voice, Mr. Hooper encourages Bert to sing "One of These Things" for the kids with pictures of different-sized pigeons.
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson wants a bowl of hot alphabet soup, and he really wants it to be hot. He looks to make sure that each letter of the alphabet is in his soup, but he is missing some. By the time Grover brings in all the missing letters, the soup is cold.
 	Cartoon 	"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Song 	"Starfish"
 	SCENE 3 	Cookie Monster asks Maria to guard his last cookie for him that he wants to save for dessert, no matter how much he begs her for it. He immediately changes his mind, and she eventually gives in to his begging; he eats the cookie, then scolds her for not listening to him when he told her not to. Mr. Hooper gives him another cookie, which he gives to Maria to guard. Maria refuses to give him the cookie this time and walks away, and Cookie Monster vows to get it back.
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby pigs run in a field, and drink their mother's milk.
 	SCENE 4 	Cookie Monster disguises himself as a hungry old man who hasn't eaten for three months. Luis and Maria play along with it, but then Maria gives in and gives him the cookie. He devours it, but then scolds her again. Mr. Hooper gives Maria another cookie, which she swears she will not give to Cookie Monster this time.
 	Cartoon 	This is a big letter V poem
 	Film 	A man takes some blindfolded kids around the city and they have to guess a parking meter, a rabbit, a man smoking a cigarette, and produce at the market.
 	SCENE 5 	Cookie Monster approaches Maria disguised as a farmer, singing "The Farmer in the Dell." He's seeking to plant a cookie tree and needs the cookie as a seed, but he doesn’t fool Maria.
 	Song 	"Three Is My Favorite Number"
 	Cartoon 	The Villain in the Panama Hat (V)
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: a herd of giraffes move their way through a field.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty T”
 	SCENE 6 	Cookie Monster disguises himself as a fairy godmother who will give Maria three wishes in exchange for her cookie. No dice.
 	Film 	Kids compare animals and human tools and technology.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse.
 	Cartoon 	Two men, one named Virgil Veep, discuss the letter V as they stand atop a capital V.
 	Muppets 	Kermit and Joey count to 20.
 	Muppets 	
 	Muppets 	Big Bird and Crystal demonstrate big and little.
 	Cartoon 	Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy VArtist: John Hubley
 	Film 	David asks the viewer to find a rectangle and two circles in the picture of a doorbell.
 	SCENE 7 	Reading clumsily from a script, an Anything Muppet (Spinney) announces — within earshot of Maria — that a gorilla is on the loose. Maria nods to the camera as a small gorilla comes running out of Big Bird's nest and chases Maria. Playing it up, Maria surrenders on the 123 Sesame Street steps and asks what the gorilla wants of her. When he answers "cookies," she removes the head from the gorilla suit to reveal Cookie Monster, and can't stop herself from laughing at him.
 	Film 	An Hispanic boy gets up, gets dressed, and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo).
 	Cast 	Gordon is a street corner salesman hawking umbrellas. No one wants to buy them on a hot sunny day, but then it rains. Gordon sells all his umbrellas, but then doesn't have one himself, so he uses his box instead. (Jerry Nelson narrates).
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc.Artist: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 8 	As Luis and the kids play in the yard, Maria announces the sponsors, with Cookie Monster still begging her for the cookie. She relents and gives it to him; he eats it, then he scolds her again.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Grover and Cookie Monster hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5