Episode 3471

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Zoe, Natasha, Lexine, and Michael are among the members of Gina's day care today. Gina announces they will be visited by four special guests throughout the day, and gives clues for the first one: you can count on him and he hails from Transylvania. It's none other than Count von Count, who is there to do some counting (what else?). He and the kids count 26 blocks, but he doesn't stop there and plans for him and the kids to enumerate the blocks in different groups.
 	Animation 	Colored tools build a house out of colored rectangles, squares and triangles.
 	Muppets 	Baby Fats Domino sings "Shake Your Rattle and Roll," encouraging babies to exercise.
 	Cartoon 	A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him.
 	Film 	A girl named Maria and her family are having a Cuban barbecue. She invited her friend, Stewart, to enjoy in the fun and learn about Cuban culture.
 	Cartoon 	A cat catches a TELEPHONE and eats it.Artists: The Hubleys
 	SCENE 2 	The Count interprets Natasha's babbling as trying to count along with them as they count her five baby books. He reviews this over and over again, while Natasha would rather chew on her fingers and play with her doll. Gina tries to point out to the Count that Natasha isn't old enough to count yet, but catches on that the Count is only doing this to keep counting.
 	Cartoon 	A girl counts her 5 cats using ribbon to keep track.
 	Cartoon 	A kid voice-over says, "Ocean," as a fish is seen swimming in the ocean.
 	Muppets 	Super Grover: A fat blue girl loses her wind-blown hat in a tree, but she can't cross the street to get it. Super Grover comes to the rescue, and tries to call the cap back. The girl realizes that she needs a grown-up to cross the street, and with her Aunt Edna she gets her hat back. (new music added)
 	Cartoon 	Why did the chicken cross the road?
 	Film 	A zydeco band plays "Allons a Lafayette" while people dance.
 	Cartoon 	Sign Sounds: BINGO
 	Film 	A child voice-over talks about a Hawaiian party that her family has.
 	Cartoon 	Leanna Williams tells a story of how she traveled to Hawaii and bought a Hawaiian shirt.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 3 	The Count takes Natasha for a walk before taking her home. Gina brings in the next guest at day care: Kingston Livingston III, who recalls when he used to attend day care not too long ago. He intends to recite the alphabet, and although everyone present is already familiar with it, Kingston demonstrates his own unique way of saying it - by rapping it and with lots of crazy dance moves.
 	Cartoon 	Madrigal AlphabetArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	A girl floats around in a circle.
 	Muppets 	The Count takes Natasha to the park to teach her to count and sings about how much fun it can be.
 	Cartoon 	Three scribbles exercise.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Muppets 	Bert sings "I Gotta Be Clean."
 	Film 	Girls do a hand-clap game about the letter Q.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster observes the letter Q, then the word QUIET.
 	Cartoon 	Q for Quiet (new sound effects added)Artist: John Korty
 	Insert 	Snuffy, Alice and some kids do "The Snuffleupagus Polka."
 	Animation 	Parade of Numbers #17
 	Animation 	Ornate 17s swing by.
 	Animation 	Rubber Stamp #17
 	Muppets 	Elmo explains the importance of sleep, but the audience won't stop applauding and let him sleep afterwards. (ending truncated)
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps" (re-filmed version)
 	Cartoon 	Something's missing ... is it a frog or a dog?
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird is the next visitor to day care, bringing Radar along with him. He recites a poem about his favorite place - being next to his teddy bear. The other kids like being next to each other as well.
 	Cartoon 	"Ooh What a Fabulous Party"Artist: Sally Cruikshank
 	Film 	A girl learns how to jump rope.
 	Cartoon 	Ants carry a huge letter 'Q' uphill.
 	Film 	Q, for quack. Quiet!
 	Animation 	In reversed film, Q and q candles are unmelted.
 	Cartoon 	A girl imagines she's a rock, which becomes a statue.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Laurence Fishburne, along with Rosita and Telly Monster, demonstrates how one brushes their teeth. Since Telly and Rosita do not have teeth, they plug their mouths with ears of corn, and brush those instead.
 	Song 	"Take Care of That Smile"
 	Cartoon 	A girl recites a poem about her first loose tooth.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 5 	The final guest at day care is Celina, who teaches everyone the great dance "The Laundry." Zoe asks to do "another load" and they continue dancing as Kingston announces the sponsors.
 	COMING SOON 	Coming Soon on Sesame Street: Stinky the Stinkweed bids a tearful farewell to Fern.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 27