Episode 3549

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	The Furry Arms Hotel is in its usual state of chaos: Honkers honking, Benny going on his break, germs attacking talking produce, and so on. Elsewhere in the hotel is a small yet much more calm room, where telephone operator Ernestine Tomlin works at her booth and answers a guest's question about today's sponsors. Humphrey and Ingrid bring Natasha to her in need of help: the chef has called in sick, forcing them to fill in and they need someone to watch Natasha. Ernestine volunteers to take care of her ("Unlike some people I know, I am able to do more than one thing at a time.") and the parents leave Natasha's carriage in her care.
 	Song 	"Happy Happiness"
 	Animation 	E / e Gregorian chant
 	Film 	Jaws spoof presenting the letter E.
 	Cartoon 	A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors.
 	Song 	"Beautiful Baby" (remake)
 	Cartoon 	Joe's Lap (limerick) (new music added)
 	Muppets 	Big Bird talks about between by showing that he is in the middle between Zoe and Radar.
 	Animation 	The word TELEPHONE is displayed, followed by a ringing telephone.
 	SCENE 2 	Ernestine decides to show Natasha how to be an operator. She pretends to take a call and turns the headset toward Natasha, who just blows a raspberry into it. Ernestine tells her this is the wrong thing to do: "A telephone operator must remain polite and courteous at all times. (aside) Gag me with a phone." When a real caller phones in Natasha lets another loud raspberry rip, which the caller hears and they become very upset. Ernestine argues with them before hanging up, realizing what a bad example she's setting.
 	Song 	"When You Grow Up"
 	Muppets 	Astronaut Prairie Dawn floats on a space shuttle, when Elmo pops up out of nowhere, offering to help her. He soon learns that there is no need for a policeman, a construction worker, or a farmer in space (unless there's a cow).
 	Film 	Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet. (new music added)
 	Muppets 	Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - Dixie dancePart 1
 	Insert 	Monty thinks he has found his calling, and sings about “Being a Birdketeer.”
 	Film 	Fast and slow on the Shpritzer.
 	Muppets 	Telly Monster demonstrates "Fast" and "Slow" to Cookie Monster by using a plate of cookies. To demonstrate slow, Telly eats one of the cookies in slow bites. After finishing eating, he asks Cookie Monster to eat a cookie slowly. Cookie Monster gives it a try, but ends up gobbling all the cookies on the plate. Telly considers it to be fast rather than slow, but Cookie Monster says it was slow in his opinion.
 	Cartoon 	A door opens behind a mouse, who shrieks when she sees the E.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Film 	Wegman's dogs form a letter E.
 	Animation 	Planet E / e
 	Song 	Jerry Nelson sings "I'm the Big One Now."
 	Animation 	Counting to 10 (Latin rhythm) (shown in English, then Spanish)English version: Spanish version:
 	SCENE 3 	On the stoop of 123 Sesame Street, Linda shows some kids the sign for "butterfly," and they sign it as Carlo sings a song about the insect.
 	Film 	How to say "butterfly" in sign language
 	Muppets 	Grover sits in a park and recites a poem about a butterfly that he sees.
 	Cartoon 	"I Have a Purple Bucket"
 	Film 	Lamont, who lives in the city, visits his friend Adrian, who lives in the country. Together they ride bikes, swim, and have dinner with Adrian's family.
 	Animation 	Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase T.
 	Film 	Kids dance with the letter T, which is for triangle.
 	Cartoon 	T is for Trash and Ticket
 	Film 	A girl narrates a film of helping her dad, a pilot, fly a small plane. They fly through New York City, past the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.
 	Muppets 	Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - Dixie dancePart 2
 	SCENE 4 	The girls receive a call from a guest requesting a ham sandwich. Ernestine points out they have the wrong number; they need to call extension #13 for room service, which she offers to transfer them to. Instead, she and Natasha get a good laugh when Ernestine plugs the caller's line into her own extension and claims to be room service!
 	Cartoon 	Number creatures #13
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #13
 	Animation 	Thirteen hamburgers dance around.
 	Muppets 	A baby Honker hatches from an egg and learns to honk like all the Honkers.
 	Cartoon 	Babies and doggies pattern: What comes next?Artist: Keith Haring
 	Song 	"There's a Lot of Different Ways to Get to School" (sung by Jerry Nelson)
 	Muppets 	A series of trailers for school-related dramas are shown on WCTW's "School in the Afternoon" block.
 	Film / Animation	Circles of all kinds are displayed as funky rap music plays.
 	SCENE 5 	Humphrey and Ingrid return to collect Natasha, telling Ernestine that she should be proud of her attempt to teach their daughter the basics of being an operator. The proud parents discover that Natasha has picked up Ernestine's trademark snort before finding that they can do it as well. All the proud monsters leave as Ernestine answers one final call about the sponsors. She adds, "Sesame Street is a production of the Children's Television Workshop... but if you don't mind my saying so, I think you should know that by now, Ms. Cooney!"
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 28