Episode 2961

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Oscar cuts the opening theme short after the first line. He reports to Gordon and the kids that today happens to be a very cloudy day, so the song doesn't accurately reflect the day. He rewrites the theme with his own personal, grouchy touch but isn't able to come up with a rhyme for "sleet." One of his elephants helps by sticking their foot out of Oscar's trash can and provides him with the last line: "Yeah, the sky is just as grey, just as grey as elephant feet!"
 	Cartoon 	Kids observe cloud formations, until it starts to rain.
 	Muppets 	Prairie Dawn directs Grover in "Singin' in the Rain."
 	Film 	Armadillos on film
 	Animation	"We Are Kids From Far and Wide": Jittar, who lives in Thailand, describes the holiday of Songkran.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	V for volcano
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird has found three colorful ribbons and wants to tie one around Barkley's neck (with Linda's help). He's disappointed that none of them fit until Linda ties them all together, making one long ribbon.
 	Song 	Lillian sings "Face Facts."
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster are the teachers of a two-headed-oriented classroom, with Elmo and Telly as their pupil/pupils (they are sharing the same shirt). The first lesson is to say "Good Morning" in monster language, then how to argue over what to read.
 	Cartoon 	R for rose
 	Muppets 	The Count sings about what he does when there's "Nothing to Count" - he imagines counting birdies and elephants.
 	Animation	Marco had a flower. When it wilted, he called his grandpa and told him exactly what the flower looked like. Grandpa told him to water the flower, and it grew again.
 	Animation	A kerosene lamp assembles itself in stop-motion.
 	Insert 	Tim Robbins plays every role in Prairie Dawn's pageant about the four seasons.
 	Animation	Three little people climb up the three flower stems.Artist: Etienne Delessert
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Pretty Baby."
 	Muppets 	Clementine and Buster get on a train, and try to tell Forgetful Jones that he's supposed to get on the train with them, but Forgetful Jones would much rather remember on his own why he's at the train station. The train leaves just as Forgetful remembers why he's there.
 	Animation	Ornate Vs spin around as a song about them plays.
 	SCENE 3 	An announcer (Martin P. Robinson) introduces The Opposite Show, starring Maria and Fluffy. The two will demonstrate "dry" and "wet." Maria is dry and produces an umbrella when Fluffy is about to squirt some water, thus getting the umbrella wet. She closes it just when the announcer calls for an encore and she gets a face full of water.
 	Cartoon 	I am dry, he is wet. (dog washing)Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Muppets 	A shark sings about his "Perfectly Pearl-White Teeth."
 	Cartoon 	Train #2
 	Film 	A boy talks about living in Alaska and about racing sled dogs.
 	Muppets 	Bert and Sherlock Hemlock ask John-John if he wants to count, and John-John enthusiastically rises to the occasion.
 	Animation	A voiceover counts forty dots, each one rising on a musical scale as their colors shift from red to orange.
 	SCENE 4 	Next on The Opposite Show, Maria (still wet from the previous demonstration) shows "quiet" by speaking softly. She puts on some earmuffs for Fluffy's turn to show "loud." Fluffy lets out a long, loud noise, effectively destroying Maria's earmuffs and standing her hair on end.
 	Animation	Cecille sings "I'm Gonna Get to You."
 	Muppets 	Instead of cookies, Cookie Monster recites a poem about galoshes -- or at least he tries.
 	Cartoon 	Violet climbs a vine with V words.
 	Film 	How paper is recycled
 	SCENE 5 	Special guest star Big Bird joins The Opposite Show for a demonstration of "in" and "out." Fluffy puts her trunk in and out of a bag of peanuts, then Maria puts her spoon in and out of her ice cream sundae and mouth. Big Bird goes in his nest area, and after Maria closes his door for him he comes out, smashing Maria with the door and getting ice cream all over her.
 	Cartoon 	A hippo has difficulty getting the succulent fruit down from a tree, and enlists the help of another hippo.Artist: John Korty
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Little Plant."
 	Film 	Cat block structure.
 	Film 	Alphaquest: RRunning down a road past a rabbit, a radio, some rocks, and a rainbow.
 	Muppets 	"The Rhymies at Sea" - Larry, Mary and Barry sail on a ship, which sinks.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	SCENE 6 	The announcer introduces the I'm Sorry Maria Show, where Big Bird and Fluffy apologize to Maria (with a bandage across her nose). After getting an overenthusiastic smooch from Fluffy's trunk, Maria announces the sponsors.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 23