Episode 0589

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Bob greets the viewer and mentions today's sponsors as a Muppet boy (Caroll Spinney) looks on, but the boy sneezes every time Bob is about to say the letter W (he's allergic).
 	Cartoon 	W for Willamina
 	Muppets 	Kermit asks Debo if he knows what a W is.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Film 	A marching band counts from 1 to 20.
 	Cartoon 	Two ducks look the same height when they're in the bathtub, but one duck (Joe Flynn) is short and the other is tall.
 	Film 	A trio of clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus illustrate tall and small.
 	Film 	This is the desert.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"Wanda the Witch"Animation by Tee Collins
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #11
 	Cartoon 	A man slips on his daughter's skate, and she points out that it makes him feel angry.
 	SCENE 2 	What makes people angry?
*Luis accidentally bangs his thumb with a hammer.
*Maria slips on a banana peel.
*David washes graffiti off the side of Hooper's Store.
*Bob and the kids talk about what makes them angry.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	W for Wash
 	Film 	Pizza is made.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Luis looks for the exit in a brick room.
 	Film 	Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!"
 	Cartoon 	A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet family arranges themselves in different ways.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird observes that it's been getting cold lately. He sees a leaf fall off the tree in front of the Fix-it Shop, and then another. He feels that he's the one who made them fall after touching the tree, and feels obligated to put them back on the tree somehow before Luis gets upset with him.
 	Film 	A boy compares the growth of the sunflowers to his own height.Music: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 4 	Big Bird has now taped a lot of the leaves back on the tree, but more and more keep falling off. He figures the sticky tape isn't much help, and runs off to get something more effective.
 	Cartoon 	A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him.
 	SCENE 5 	Big Bird has now glued more leaves onto the tree, but they still keep falling. He has one last idea…
 	Cartoon 	A man tests a carpenter's knowledge of using a hammer.
 	SCENE 6 	Luis and David see the tree with the leaves taped and glued to it, and wonder what's going on. Big Bird returns with a hammer and nail, but Luis stops him from doing any more to the tree. Big Bird informs the grown-ups what he did, and they explain how many trees shed their leaves in autumn, much like how Big Bird sheds his feathers. Big Bird understands and says goodbye to the tree, now believing that it'll fly south for the winter just like some birds do.
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates noisy and quiet.
 	Muppets 	Grover the Assistant: The Amazing Mumford's pineapple subtraction act
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Body part shout-out
 	Cartoon 	Henson: Eleven Cheer
 	Celebrity 	Bill Cosby counts to 20 with his "twin."
 	Cartoon 	A short bird stands under a tall bird, which lays an egg on its head.
 	Film 	Five dancers disappear one by one, until there are none left.
 	SCENE 7 	Maria chats with Oscar, then Luis, then David, all of whom are feeling rotten and having bad days, but Bob is having a good day. She plays a "Three of These Things" game with all four of them framed in a superimposed grid. Luis and David notice how funny they look when wallowing in their anger and crack up; now Oscar is the one who is different from the others.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: W for water
 	Film 	A man and children observe the life along the river.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cast 	Wally and Ralph: Wally tries to put on his new shirt, but can't fit his head through the buttoned opening because he's wearing his hat. Ralph instructs him to make his head smaller by squeezing it, but that doesn't work. Instead, Ralph tears off the entire collar section from the shirt, which makes it fit Wally.
center 	Cartoon 	The letter X
 	Film 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Animals with tails.
 	Cartoon 	Brand X
 	Muppets 	Old West sketches: A couple of cowboy Muppets meet the Alphabet Kid, who claims that he can write the alphabet faster than any man alive. To prove it, he quickly draws his crayon and speedily writes out the whole alphabet.
 	Cartoon 	A man tests a carpenter's knowledge of using a hammer. (repeat)
 	SCENE 8 	Luis removes the leaves that Big Bird had stuck to the tree while Bob announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	David and Maria hold the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5