Episode 3147

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPEN 	At Finders Keepers, Ruthie helps Telly announce the sponsors for today, blowing them from her tuba. She adds that Telly and the viewer will be hearing a new nursery rhyme which also involves the tuba.
 	SCENE 1 	Ruthie starts telling the story, explaining she used to work for Mother Chicken, a nursery rhyme writer and Mother Goose's main competition.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	In a flashback, Ruthie and Mother Chicken fret over Chicken's latest rhyme - "Baa Baa Black Squid." Soon the two are dealing with a pig (Brian Muehl), a penguin (Fran Brill), an elephant (Peter Linz), and a hot dog (Jim Martin) and bun (Pam Arciero), who are either tired of their old rhymes or are in need of employment. Ruthie settles the problem by recommending they cooperate and be part of the same nursery rhyme.
 	SCENE 1 cont'd 	Back in the present, Ruthie cues up a segment about lions as she polishes her tuba...
 	Cartoon 	L for lion
 	Muppets 	Elmo demonstrates top and bottom.
 	Film 	Kids dance around at gymnastics to "Rockin' Robin."
 	Animation 	A group of round crayons draws a house, and is hesitant to let a square yellow crayon join, until it draws the sun. They all cooperate to make a rainbow.
 	Muppets 	"Street Garden Cooperation"
 	Film 	The floating kids form an L.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Jodie Foster tells Oscar what the word important means, and lists the reasons why he is important to her, making him more and more annoyed.
 	Cartoon 	Apple: a riddle
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	¿Que es esto? (una vaca)
 	Film 	Footage of kids playing professions, alternating with footage of analogous real-life jobs.
center 	Cartoon 	V in space
 	Video 	Fay Ray dresses up as different animals. ("It's Kermit the Dog!")
 	SCENE 2 	Ruthie continues polishing as she resumes the story, where Mother Chicken decides to write a rhyme similar to "Hey Diddle Diddle." First up is the pig, who can't play any of the suggested instruments Ruthie happens to have. He can play the tuba and blasts Ruthie through the wall with one note. Mother Chicken has her first line: "Say dooba dooba, the pig played the tuba."
 	Cartoon 	Pinball Number Count #7Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	The Count's Storybook TheatreThe Count reads the story of "The Magnificent 7" who would save a village from becoming lonely. A mediocre 7 and a magnificent 5 show up first, to the behest of the villagers. Next time on The Count's Storybook Theatre: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
 	Cartoon 	Seven pigletsArtist: Owe Gustafson
 	Film 	"Box City Recycling Rap"Kids sing a rap song about recycling. They build a city out of boxes and cartons.
 	SCENE 3 	Next up is the penguin. Mother Chicken already has a line in mind: "The penguin jumped really high." The penguin struggles to jump very high, however, and Ruthie gives him some words of encouragement. He takes a running start and leaps so high he crashes through the ceiling and doesn't come down.
 	Animation 	"Let's Count Penguins"Artist: Jane Aaron
 	Song 	"Fixin' My Hair"
 	Cartoon 	Consonant Sound: V, violin
 	Muppets / Cast 	"Sing Your Synonyms"
 	Animation 	A piece of paper floats down onto a table, then folds itself into a paper crane, which flies away.
 	Muppets 	Grover sings "Over, Under, Around and Through".
 	Animation 	A child draws a picture of a dog, who goes over and under.
 	SCENE 4 	Mother Chicken's next line is written: "The elephant was happy and laughed really hard." Their elephant is sobbing instead, and Ruthie tries cheering him up by going into hysterics herself. Tired, she goes to lean on the wall, falling through the hole she previously put in it. The elephant finds it very funny and can't stop laughing.
 	Muppets 	Big Bird comments, "That was funny!"
 	Cartoon 	With the help of his assistant, Dr. Geo shows the viewer what a globe is.
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Little Plant."
 	Animation 	Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.
 	Song 	14 Karat Soul sings “Hand Talk."
 	Cartoon 	A hand draws a guitarist serenading a maiden, as well as the background.
 	Muppets 	Little Bird's CASA is drawn.
 	Animation 	Stop-motion: what goes in the hot dog bun?
 	SCENE 5 	Ruthie has somehow polished her tuba down to a trumpet. She continues her story, blowing the trumpet and producing a tuba sound.
 	SCENE 5 cont'd 	Mother Chicken has finished her rhyme, but Ruthie points out "high" and "bun" don't rhyme. Suddenly, the penguin returns, having jumped all the way to the sun (returning wearing a pair of sunglasses). Ruthie notes how "sun" and "bun" sound the same, Mother Chicken does some re-writing, and the nursery rhyme is finished!
 	SCENE 5 cont'd 	Back in the present, Telly loves the nursery rhyme and makes up one of his own about the sponsors. Mother Chicken, in voice-over, also chimes in to mention the Children's Television Workshop.
==Gallery==
MupWorkshop-MotherChicken.jpg|Detail of the Mother Chicken puppet in the Muppet Workshop, with costume by Stephen Rotondaro.
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Category:Nursery Rhymes
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25