Episode 2874

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to..."Telly interrupts the opening sequence: "Birdland! Can you tell me how to get to Birdland?!" Susan, Gordon, Miles, and some kids happen to be going there, and they say he can come with them.
 	Animation	Number creatures #19
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree."
 	Film 	A montage of the evolution of mechanical technology, from wind-up toys, to robots that can spell "SESAME STREET" with blocks, to satellite transmitters. Music: "Portrait d'un robot," composed by Janko Nilovic
 	Cartoon 	Hypnotic "Q" rainbow
 	SCENE 2 	Hoots welcomes everyone to Birdland, and introduces conductor Duck Ellington and the Sesame Street All-Animal Jazz Ensemble, with special guest Wynton Marsalis on trumpet. They perform a new version of "No Matter What Your Language."
 	Animation	Two seemingly identical machines - one black, one white - cooperate to make the sound of a choo-choo train.
 	Film 	Fay Ray subtracts three balls.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Gloria sings the alphabet (uppercase version)
 	Muppets 	"Daddy Helps with the Dishes" - three families sing about how they help each other doing chores, cooking, and homework.
 	Cartoon 	"L" for "Large" and "l" for "little"
 	SCENE 3 	Wynton says he's ready to do not one number, but twenty - maybe even more. He has help from Count von Count, who counts the twenty notes Wynton plays before doing a more complicated tune. The Count manages to count every little rapid note he plays on the trumpet, fainting from exhaustion but tallying up 237 notes in all (give or take).
center 	Cartoon 	"One to Five Counting Animals Song"
 	Film 	Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack)
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster observes the letter Q, then the word QUIET.
 	Cartoon 	A woman serves milk to her cat. Several other cats join him, including a lion.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	SCENE 4 	Hoots introduces Biff and Sully and the Hard Hats (including Stella), who perform "This Song Is for the Birds."
 	Film 	Two birdsMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	L for LaughArtists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel
 	Muppets 	Prairie Dawn talks about three important parts of the face which are the eyes, the nose, and the ears, with assistance from Cookie Monster. Prairie agrees that cookies can be seen and smelled, but not heard - unless eaten by Cookie Monster.
 	Cartoon 	A pattern of daisies and tulips - can you tell what comes next?
 	Film 	A man makes a shadow puppet of a dog.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: WALK TALL
 	SCENE 5 	Hoots introduces Bobby McFerrin, who does a call-and-response scat song with the audience.
 	Cartoon 	Q -- that funny looking thing.
 	Muppets 	Marshal Grover and Fred the Wonder Horse look for water in the desert. Grover sees mirages of a waterfall and a fountain, and Fred reminds him that he brought a canteen.
 	Cartoon 	A hand draws a bridge, which a train crosses.
 	Film 	Counting the circus clowns
 	Cartoon 	A boy gets lost in a mall, and a security guard shows him how to use a map.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 6 	Hoots tells everyone to imagine that it's turning from nighttime to morning, and the birds are waking up in the forest, while Bobby sings "Tweet in the Mornin'."
 	Cartoon 	Millie and Molly take a walk, and have different perspectives of their surroundings.
 	Muppets 	The Martians are a "Yip Yip Family."
 	Cartoon 	Nineteen kernels of popcorn pop.
 	Insert 	Big Bird watches the shape dancers form a rectangle.
 	Song 	"Above and Below" (Christopher Cerf)
 	Film 	Sounds Around the House v2: chimes, snoring, a boy pretending to be an airplane, a man playing a trumpet, and a motorcycle outside.
 	Animation	Today's Secret Drawing will be a nurse.
 	Song 	"Elbows and Knees"
 	SCENE 7 	For the closing number, Hoots, Wynton, and the animals perform the closing theme, with Duck Ellington quacking along and Hoots announcing the sponsors.
==Notes==
*Additional performers include Rick Lyon (Teddy) and Pam Arciero (pink egret).
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Category:Sesame Street Jazz
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 22