Episode 0554

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Bob, Maria, and David join Susan as she eagerly watches for a big surprise coming down the street. It turns out to be Gordon, pulling up in his brand new Volkswagen.
 	Cartoon 	The story of an old woman who lived in a nine.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Film 	George the Farmer shows embedded shapes using drawing of geometric forms and household objects with the same shape.
 	Muppets 	
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon polishes his new car and admonishes his neighbors as Bob and Jay carelessly let a basketball bounce off it, Maria uses it to lean on for writing, and David gets a drop of ketchup on it. Oscar overhears all this and gives Gordon an invitation to join the Disagreeable Order of Grouches. Gordon realizes how unkind he's been acting and apologizes to everyone, to Oscar's dismay.
 	Cartoon 	"I Can Remember": A little girl remembers what to buy at the store (A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter) by visualizing her mother giving the instructions.Artist: Jim Simon
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Somebody Come and Play."
 	Cast 	No matter how you arrange these nine people, they're still nine people.
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9
 	Film 	The Mad Painter #9
 	Muppets 	Grover volunteers to assist the Amazing Mumford in his suspension act. Grover will get on top of a platform, and Mumford will pull the pillar off from underneath, and the platform will not fall. The trick works, so Grover decides to try it himself, with Herry Monster as his assistant. Grover can't pull it off, and Herry falls.
 	Cartoon 	Kids hear an L poem.
 	Cast 	At the circus, Ringmaster David introduces the tightrope walker, the Fabulous Flying Fleegle. Instead, his replacement, Floogle (Luis), shows up and struggles to walk on the tightrope.
 	Cartoon 	Counting 10 to 1.
 	Film 	Jack RabbitMusic: Joe Raposo
 	SCENE 3 	Susan shows Chris pictures of different parts of the Volkswagen and he identifies them, then finds them on the car itself. The final image is of herself in the driver's seat, but since there's no driver in the car right now, Susan hops in and invites Chris for a spin.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit's Lectures: Kermit comes across the word "Telephone", spells it, and then teaches the word to the viewer. When an Anything Muppet boy who stands too far away says that he can't hear Kermit, Kermit dials the T, and the boy answers with the last E.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 10 hits in a row, but miss on the 11th.
 	Cartoon 	A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: TELEPHONE.
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 12 hits in a row, but miss on the 13th.
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet boy gives a brief lecture on the telephone, which Cookie Monster then eats. Soon after, it begins ringing inside his stomach.
 	Cartoon 	A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it.
 	SCENE 4 	David and Maria are surprised to hear that Oscar is preparing to dust his can. He hands them a number of items he's moving out of the way so he can dust, such as his cracked vase, his spider collection, a flattened fish, and a giant tire. When the area finally is cleared, he grabs a cardboard box to begin dusting, as in throwing dust all over the can.
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "La, La, La."
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: L for Light
 	Cartoon 	L es para luz
 	Film 	Kids use shapes to make a train.
 	Muppets 	Grover and Oscar the Grouch recite the alphabet.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Families."
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #9 (repeat)
 	Insert 	The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L.
 	Film 	Kids narrate what a bald eagle sees when it flies over islands.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Film 	Marching Band forms a square
 	Muppets 	Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
 	Film 	Js appear in a junkyard.
center 	Muppets 	
 	Celebrity 	The New York Mets make 13 hits in a row, but miss on the 14th.
 	Muppets 	A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!"
 	Cartoon 	A disobedient jacket illustrating words that begin with the letter J annoys an off-screen narrator, which reveals two kids named Jenny and Jeff inside of it. (repeat)
 	SCENE 5 	Jay narrates as the cast piles into Gordon's new car, demonstrating some, none, and all. Big Bird wants to go for a ride too, but there's little room for him in the car. Gordon tells him to "make a wish," and Big Bird suddenly appears in the car (with his head through the sunroof). They drive away saying goodbye as Jay announces the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	David holds the Sesame Street sign, while Bob holds the CTW sign.
==Notes==
* A One of These Things-style game written in chalk can be seen on the front of Oscar's trash can, though nobody makes reference to it during the episode.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 5