Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Tom stands before an alphabet sign and names all the letters. He can't recall, however, which specific letter is being highlighted today. The letter Q flies off the sign and lands on Tom's shoulder (then nose), indicating to him the letter's significance.

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Letter Q — Ernie demonstrates the word "quart" by using a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk, then eats the container it came in.
(First: Episode 0047)

Celebrity Bill Cosby demonstrates happy.
(First: Episode 0142)

Cartoon A bully says the alphabet to a mild-mannered gardener, who hits him in the face with a pie at the end.
(First: Episode 0279)

SCENE 2 Mr. Hooper has some boxes set in front of the store's front door, with a fresh box of rubber balls on top. He is forced to use the back door to set out the newspapers, then rushes back around to tend to the phone that has no answer by the time he picks up. He then has to use the back door again to bring out Susan's newspaper, rushing back the same way when the phone rings again (still with no answer). Mr. Hooper rests easy knowing he didn't accidentally knock over the boxes. Suddenly, Big Bird barges through the door and spills everything, having been trying to call the store twice already.

Cartoon Q -- that funny looking thing.
(First: Episode 0131)

Muppets Caveman Days: Exit — Everyone wants to go outside the cave, but they're not sure which way to go out until the Royal Smart Person invents an EXIT sign.

Animation Scanimate Films #4
(First: Episode 0132)

SCENE 3 Tom and Paul wrap up a game of catch before going to Hooper's for a soda. Tom notices they have identical baseball gloves and if they leave them outside, they might mix them up on the way out. To prevent the problem, Tom whips out his "trusty felt-tip pen" and writes their names on the gloves so they'll know whose is whose.

Cartoon Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross.
(First: Episode 0276)

Film Apples grow on a tree.
(First: Episode 0093)

Cartoon The great Alphonso and his trained X's
(First: Episode 0299)

SCENE 4 Luis sings "One of These Things" in Spanish, with houses of different sizes.

Muppets Anything Muppets: Clubhouse — Some kids plan to decorate their clubhouse.
(First: Episode 0280)

SCENE 5 Susan takes a turn singing "One of These Things" in English, with a new set of house pictures.

Cartoon Donnie Budd counts four lions.
Artist: Bud Luckey

Celebrity Bill Cosby counts three kids, but a fourth keeps hiding behind him.
(First: Episode 0154)

Film Sesame Street Animal Films: A kid recites a poem about adding penguins.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0255)

Muppets Grover: Search for a Triangle — Herry Monster and Grover bicker over shapes. (ending edited)
(First: Episode 0195)

SCENE 6 While playing in the dirt, the kids (including Paul, Brynne, and Shola Lynch) spot an airplane overhead. It's Alphabet Bates, the Sesame Street skywriter. The plane writes the letter Q (First: Episode 0047).

Cartoon "Poverty Q”: A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
(First: Episode 0048)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Happy/Sad Cookie — Cookie Monster and Ernie exchange feelings of happiness and sadness over having a cookie.
(First: Episode 0172)

Cartoon Things that are the same or different are displayed like a slot machine. (version #1)

SCENE 7 Luis asks Chris, Desiree, and Antonio what they want to be when they grow up. Luis notes that all those professions are important, but even now as children, they are important people too. He explains what he means by describing his very first day on Sesame Street...

SCENE 7 cont'd In a flashback, we see Luis sometime ago wandering around his new neighborhood. However, he doesn't receive a very strong reception from anybody at first; Susan is rushing to get home, Oscar the Grouch is naturally unwelcoming, and Mr. Hooper has to deal with customers. Only Antonio gives him a proper welcome to the street and brings him around to meet everybody.

SCENE 7 cont'd As the scene returns to the present, Luis observes, "And that's why children are very important people in the neighborhood."

Cartoon "Birds Count 1-20"
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0134)

Muppets Kermit Lecture: Eggs — Kermit counts four eggs, each of which contain baby chicks.
(First: Episode 0282)

Cartoon A girl wonders what would happen if she popped her balloon. She imagines it would scare her sister, who would end up breaking a vase and getting in trouble.
(First: Episode 0280)

SCENE 8 Tom (in voiceover) tries to identify a squeaking sound. It's not Oscar blowing on his bugle. It's not Susan banging with her hammer. It is Mr. Hooper washing the glass on his front door with a squeegee.

Cartoon Q -- that funny looking thing. (repeat)

Muppets Anything Muppets: Twins — Two twins find they're identical, except for their voices.
(First: Episode 0277)

Film Two box-beings make each other look same and different by piling different objects on each other.
(First: Episode 0226)

SCENE 9 Big Bird disposes of some trash, when Luis tells him why it's important not to leave the lid off the can; it attracts a swarm of flies. Big Bird does the right thing and Luis compliments his smarts (which is immediately negated when Big Bird walks into his doorframe again).

Cartoon The great Alphonso and his trained X's (repeat)

Celebrity Bill Cosby demonstrates sad.
(First: Episode 0135)

SCENE 10 Susan has some jacks, but no rubber ball. She encounters Brynne with a rubber ball, but no jacks. They cooperate to play jacks together.

Animation Scanimate Films #4 (repeat)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Counting Sheep — Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep.
(First: Episode 0276)

Film The kids form a triangle and a square.

SCENE 11 Susan, still playing jacks with the kids, signs off. Tom announces the sponsors and the credits roll.

CLOSING SIGNS Sherlock Hemlock poses with the Sesame Street sign, and Mr. Hooper and Susan hold the CTW sign.