Episode 2975

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar introduces Lillian to Singbad the Sailor, who sails the seas and (off-key) serenades Grouches all over the world. He's arrived on Sesame Street to open the "Singbad the Sailor School of Singing." Lillian rejects Singbad's offer to be his first student, but Telly accepts and impresses Singbad with his unnatural talent as he belts out a bit of "Eddystone Light." Lillian makes her escape when Oscar joins them in singing.
 	Cartoon 	"Up and Down with Captain Brown"
 	Muppets 	Grover compares himself and the viewer, noting how much they are alike (except for the viewer's lack of blue fur).
 	Cartoon 	The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray.
 	Cast 	Gordon hosts "The Crossing Zone," in which a boy named Jonathan has to find a way to cross the street. Susan helps him across.
 	Cartoon 	Dinah from South Carolina exchanges letters with her friend Ling Lu in China.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 2 	Singbad is surprised to learn from Lillian that around Sesame Street, people prefer pleasant on-key singing. She helps him get in tune with a song about the scales, drastically improving his singing quality.
 	Film 	A conductor yells "STOP" to his off-key violinist trying to play Vittorio Monti's "Czardas".
 	Cartoon 	A race announcer doubles as the man who holds up the START and STOP sign.
 	Animation 	Growing Numbers #17
center 	Muppets 	Ernie is tossing and turning in bed. He sings to the viewers how he feels "When Bert's Not Here."
 	Film 	Kids draw a map of their neighborhood, and then learn how maps are really made.
 	Animation 	Where do the a's fit?
 	Film 	A piece of construction equipment and a giraffe are shown side-by-side.
 	SCENE 3 	Oscar has brought Grundgetta over to hear Singbad's awful singing, but he instead starts to sing "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" in perfect voice. He isn't able to replicate how he used to sound until he gets some help from his prized pupil Telly. Oscar suggests Singbad leave Sesame Street for good, lest someone else try to improve his singing again. Singbad sings one last ditty for the lot, a nautical version of "500 Miles," in his old crummy voice.
 	Cartoon 	A man pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but the rabbit turns out to be a cow. "Surprise!"Artist: John Schnall
 	Muppets 	
 	Song 	"Beautiful Baby" song, over footage of various babies and their parents.
 	SCENE 4 	Snuffy practices being a spider for an upcoming Snufflegarden production of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," but has trouble differentiating up and down. Gordon and the kids all pretend to be spiders and sing the rhyme to help Snuffy understand the difference. Afterward, Savion happens by and asks, "What's up?" Snuffy then tells him the difference between up and down.
 	Cartoon 	Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP
center 	Muppets 	Baby Rocky performs "Cry" from his crib.
 	Cartoon 	Stamped and painted X animation.
 	Song 	Children of all kinds sing "We All Sing with the Same Voice".
 	SCENE 5 	Elmo and Rosita tell Lillian that they're going to do something exciting that they've never done before - jump 40 times. Once they finish, they realize the thrill of doing it will never be the same, so they start jumping 41 times. (Lillian: "You know, some people really know how to live it up." )
 	Animation 	Rubber Stamp #17
 	Film 	A kindergarten class takes a field trip to the fire station.
 	Cartoon 	Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / patVoice: Daws Butler
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Cab Calloway sings "Jumpin' Jive" when the Two-Headed Monster can't decide whether to jump or jive.
 	Cartoon 	A for apricot, alligator, acrobat, accordion, artist, airplane.
 	Muppets 	Forgetful Jones asks Daniela to read his sign, which she does.
 	Cartoon 	Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much.
 	Song 	"(Sittin' On) A Boat on a Lake"
 	Muppets 	Biff and Sully are about to start work, when Biff realizes he forgot his portable radio. He tells Sully not to start work until he comes back with it, but every time he's about to leave, he hears Sully doing a different kind of construction work. Sully's noisy building results in a piano, which Sully plays as Biff works.
 	Film 	Ornate Xs spin around in accompaniment to a song.
 	SCENE 6 	Telly and Oscar observe Slimey and his friend Wilbur Worm about to write a letter. Telly wonders how if they don't have a pencil or paper... until they make the letter X with their bodies. Savion announces the sponsors, and the credits follow.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 23