Episode 3242

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon and Susan are in a hurry to catch the train when Gordon stops at the newsstand to pick up a newspaper, only to find that all the newspapers have smelly fish in them. Oscar is the culprit, and reveals that he bought the newsstand so he can yell at subway riders coming from the station and make others late for their trains. Susan believes that since a Grouch now owns the newsstand, all the papers will have fish. Oscar points Gordon to the stack of newspapers that don't have fish... but have plenty of mud.
 	Song 	David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures.Re-filmed version
 	Animation 	Arnold uses his imagination.Artist: Craig Bartlett
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Ernie and Aaron Neville sing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon."
 	Animation 	W for water, wind, wave and wet
 	Film 	Kids fly and form the letter W.
 	Cartoon 	A salesman hawks the letter W in a commercial.Artist: Mo Willems
 	Film 	Kids talk about how many things they can do now that they're five years old.
 	SCENE 2 	Ruthie witnesses Oscar yelling at a customer (Jon Stone in an onscreen cameo), telling him to buy it or beat it. Ruthie tells Oscar that the newsstand isn't like his trash can and shows him how to treat customers properly when one lady (Julianne Buescher) arrives to buy a newspaper. Oscar doesn't care for manners or doing it for the money - he's in it for the grouchy clientele and being true to his grumpy self.
 	Cartoon 	"Magic Pig"Artist: Vince Collins
 	Film 	A boy who lives in the Congo (in Africa) narrates a film of the kinds of games he and his friends play.
 	Animation 	Draw a circle around the bus. Cross out the telephone.
 	Muppets 	The Squirrelles sing "Cracking Nuts."
 	Cartoon 	"Find the Opposites"
 	Film 	A man uses hedge clippers to create a peacock.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	An old man recites a poem about the time he had the flu.Artist: Bruce Cayard
 	Muppets / Celebrity	All the kids are too busy to enjoy looking at Telly's triangle with him. He runs into John Goodman, who happens to be a hardcore triangle lover himself.
 	Cartoon 	Edgar Turtle's three nephews demonstrate a round by singing "Redwood Tree."
 	Muppets 	The Count's Storybook TheatreThe Count reads the story of "Snoring Beauty" played by The Countess, who is put under a spell to sleep. The Count comes by and counts her snores despite that Countess never woke up from the Count's counting or from the thunder and lighting when the Count reaches 10 snores. Next time on The Count's Storybook Theatre: The Count will read 5 stories for us.
 	Animation 	Number creatures #19
 	Film 	Growing Numbers #19
 	Animation 	Rap #19
 	Film 	How paper is recycled
 	SCENE 3 	Maria stops by the newsstand and asks for a copy of Fixit Woman Gazette. He gives Maria the special treatment by having his goat Lassie chew the magazine and his muddy pig Spot roll in it. She says she wants a clean magazine, so Oscar has Fluffy spray it with water, getting Maria wet as well.
 	Cartoon 	"Mad Goat Song"Artist: Derek Lamb
 	Muppets 	Grover demonstrates up and down by getting the curtain at the theater to raise and lower.
 	Film 	Kids play in the snow.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	The 'J' TrainVoice: Daws Butler
 	Muppets 	"J Friends"
 	Cartoon 	J family jamboree
 	SCENE 4 	Oscar tells some nearby customers that there's no service on the A, B, C, D, E, or F trains when his mom comes flying out of the subway ("Now that's what I call an express!"). Oscar asks her what she's doing there, and she says she had to see personally that Oscar opened the newsstand. After confirming he's doing it to make people angry (for which she says she is very proud of him), Oscar shows her the "closed" sign he made which he then uses to fool a customer (Fran Brill in an onscreen cameo). His scheme backfires when the customer not only buys a newspaper anyway, but takes the sign as well. Oscar feels like a failure, but his mom cheers him up by reading a Grouch story from one of his magazines.
 	Film 	The sign CLOSED spins around.
 	Cartoon 	An army of ants gets to the bakery, only to find that it's closed.
 	Muppets 	"They Can't Take That Away from Me": Cookie Monster's six cookies are subtracted down to zero.
 	Film 	Farmer McFay subtracts green apples from 5 to 3 to 1 and is bothered by a fly.
 	Cartoon 	Two dogs wait at a bus stop for a long time while the red dog talks endlessly about short and long.Artist: ArtistMike
 	Film 	A boy draws a picture of his friend, Katie.
 	SCENE 5 	Maria warns Luis against shopping at Oscar's newsstand. Luis is surprised to pick up a clean newspaper, but annoyed when he sees it's from yesterday. Oscar's mother then congratulates him on making a customer really angry before leaving. Luis then remembers that he didn't read the paper yesterday and thanks Oscar, who's glad that his mom didn't see that. Gordon announces the sponsors.
==Notes==
*The episode was later re-aired in Season 27 as Episode 3411.
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Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 25