Episode 2252

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Insert 	David struggles to roller-skate down Sesame Street. Big Bird helps him to Hooper's Store and reminds him that "practice makes perfect." David imagines being a great skater: in his fantasy, he roller-skates through Central Park with ease. Back in reality, David skates on his own and falls down, but he doesn't mind.Music: "What Makes Music?"
 	Cartoon 	Consonant Sound Limerick: D—DogArtist: Jeff Hale
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet asks another "Is this the D train?" A subway train then arrives, letting out several letter Ds.
 	Film 	Fireworks Alphabet
 	Muppets 	Sesame Street News FlashKermit stands by a grandfather clock waiting for a mouse to run up it, acting out "Hickory Dickory Dock". Gladys the Cow and a duck show up instead. Finally, a horse comes in and explains that the mouse can't make it. The horse runs through the clock, breaking it.
 	Cartoon 	A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Cast 	Big Bird watches the shape dancers form a rectangle.
 	Cartoon 	A lost number 5 looks for his brother.
 	Celebrity	George Benson sings "The Greatest Love of All" (with Michael Masser on piano) to some children.
 	Cartoon 	The Magnificent Splasho demonstrates before & after.
 	Muppets 	The Two-Headed Monster sounds out the word "hop" and starts hopping.
 	Song 	"All By Myself Song"
 	Muppets 	The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains.
 	Cartoon 	A girl builds a sand castle at the beach, but the ocean keeps washing it away, so she builds one away from the waves. Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Muppets 	In the woods, a nature-loving baritone (Jim Henson) sings "Ah, For the Joys of the Countryside" about how much he loves the country, without noticing that his surroundings are being converted into a city.
 	Animation	It's a crocodileArtist: Ishu Patel
 	SCENE 1 	Maria finds Oscar upset, because Slimey's got a new girlfriend - Scuzzina the caterpillar. Oscar doesn't think the relationship will work, because they're too different. Oscar also adds that Scuzzina will eventually turn into a butterfly or a moth; he can't tell which at this point. Sure enough, Scuzzina crawls into her cocoon, ready to transform...but into what?
 	Cartoon 	Many Dangers
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster asks David to read a DANGER sign.
 	Cartoon 	Simple Simon meets some strange-looking animals, all of whom have their parts switched around.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #5
 	Animation	5 goldfish, take away 2, leaves 3.
 	Muppets 	Ernie wants to have some cookies. Bert asks Ernie if he knows what "before" means, and Ernie demonstrates by saying that before he can have a cookie, he has to open the lid to a cookie jar, and after he closes the lid, he eats the cookie. He demonstrates a few times, until he loses his appetite for dinner.
 	Cartoon 	Several circles try to get past a large square.
 	SCENE 2 	Oscar checks out a crumpled napkin left beside Scuzzina's cocoon, which has a goodbye poem written on it. Slimey cries a little and blows his nose in the poem.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps."
 	Cartoon 	Sign language: Morning, noon, nightArtist: Steve Finkin
 	Cartoon 	"Four Seasons"
 	SCENE 3 	Slimey lightly taps on the cocoon, until Oscar stops him and reminds him this won't wake her up any faster.
 	Film 	A girl narrates a segment about nature through winter and spring.
 	Muppets 	Kermit sings about his youth, or as he calls it, "My Polliwog Ways".
 	Cartoon 	How do frogs make more frogs? The birth and growth of a frog is documented. At the very end, the fully-grown frog hops in the middle of a field and calls out, "Hey, Kermit!"Artist: Cathryn Aison
 	SCENE 4 	Now, Slimey tries to bring Scuzzina out with some sounds from his bugle.
 	Film 	A Latino boy gets up, gets dressed, and goes to school as Spanish music plays (A la luna no voy yo).
 	Muppets 	Three Honkers teach a newly-hatched baby Honker to honk.
 	Film 	A baby chick hatches from an egg. (Music: Joe Raposo)
 	SCENE 5 	Scuzzina finally emerges from the cocoon, transformed into a moth. Oscar celebrates by providing her with a rotten apple.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: B for Butterfly
 	Film 	A film of butterfliesMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D.
 	Muppets 	Simon Soundman has the viewers guess what sound he is making. He makes the sound of a train, car, and a horse. When Simon makes the sound of the horse, a cowboy uses his lasso to capture Simon, mistaking him for a real horse.
 	Cartoon 	Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats.
 	SCENE 6 	Maria sees how the little bug friends are doing. Scuzzina takes Slimey for a ride in the air, as Oscar announces the sponsors.
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