Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 David finishes painting a chair for Mr. Hooper, and is about to make a "wet paint" sign, when Sam the Robot offers to do it for him. The first sign he generates is way too small, fitting in the palm of David's hand. The next one is too big, measuring several feet long. David shows Sam the kind of size he wants for his sign by writing it on a piece of card. Sam is able to reproduce the correct-sized sign, and David comments how good it turned out, casually saying that he could use a hundred more like that. Sam takes that order to heart, and starts spewing signs all over the place.

Cartoon In Spanish, a man makes everything in the room cerrada, and considers making the basket abierto if only for the guitar band inside.

Cartoon What if I had big feet?
(First: Episode 0514)

Insert Ernie and Bert get into a big fight and decide to go their separate ways, Ernie moving out west to become a cowboy and Bert going to the North Pole to study fish. Maria convinces them not to do so, because then they'd never see each other again.
(First: Episode 0672)

Cartoon The Magnificent Splasho demonstrates before & after.
(First: Episode 0694)

Cast A voiceover instructs Maria as Chaplin where to put the shirts and the towels. (piano underscore)
(First: Episode 0541)

Cartoon A fat man and a small man demonstrate top and bottom.
(First: Episode 0525)

SCENE 2 Oscar is sick of hearing David, Bob, Susan and the kids playing ball nearby, so he plans on making them think it's going to rain. He gets his umbrella and puts on a rain hat and calls everybody over and warns them, but they don't believe him since there isn't any clouds in the sky. Oscar conjures up another plan ...

Cartoon A real Indian boy tells two boys who are playing Cowboy and Indian that Indians don't say "ugh". The other kids tell him that they heard the expression on TV.

Cartoon / Film A Scanimate/live-action hybrid segment in which an off-camera child and Luis name words that begin with H.

SCENE 3 Oscar sets up a drum near his trash can, disguised with a cover. He uses it to make thunder-like sounds, but the gang quickly gets wise to his trick and laugh in his face. He thinks up another plan ...

Cartoon Jazz #7
(First: Episode 0136)

Cartoon "Mad Goat Song"
Artist: Derek Lamb

Muppets The Count counts seven flowers, and then explains that he loves to count flowers because then he gets to count sneezes.
(First: Episode 0433)

SCENE 4 Oscar attaches a watering can to the Sesame Street sign with a string, so when he pulls it, he'll water anyone who gets under the post. This time, David and the gang decide to go along with the trick, pretending they believe Oscar.

Cartoon A drowsy wagoner gets across a clearing by building a bridge out of his ox-cart, and converting it back again.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(First: Episode 0616)

Muppets Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music tries to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
(First: Episode 0698)

Film Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others.
Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0019)

SCENE 5 The gang has all dressed up for rainy weather, when it suddenly starts to rain! They all thank Oscar for warning them, which disgusts him. "Some days, a Grouch just can't do anything rotten, no matter how hard he tries," he moans.

Cartoon Jazz #7 (Spanish version)
(First: Episode 0281)

Cartoon "Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes.
(First: Episode 0345)

Film A woman repairs wires for the telephone company.

Muppets Ernie and Bert: H on TV — Ernie attempts to fix the TV after Bert complains there's a big H on it.
(First: Episode 0578)

Cartoon H - Horse
(First: Episode 0474)

Cast Maria, Susan, Luis and David put together a fractured letter H.
(First: Episode 0422)

Animation Sand H/h
(First: Episode 0630)

Animation A grape blows reveille and inspects the "troops" -- 12 raisins on a slice of white bread.
(First: Episode 0618)

Muppets Old West: Echoing Canyon — A cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo and receives Spanish responses.
(First: Episode 0698)

Cartoon Find the camouflaged parrot.
Voice: Paul Dooley
(First: Episode 0516)

SCENE 6 Susan plays "Three of These Things" with the kids using a banana and some baseball gear. The banana doesn't belong, and everyone begins a game of baseball.

Cartoon The Typewriter: H for Hand

Film A boy goes to the dentist and gets his teeth cleaned.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0476)

Cartoon H for hair
(First: Episode 0475)

Film Kids play in the snow.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0292)

SCENE 7 Kids demonstrate the word cerrado by closing the door of 123 Sesame Street, the toybox in the yard, and Big Bird's beak.

Cartoon A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado."

Cast Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing.
(First: Episode 0596)

Cartoon A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F.
(First: Episode 0309)

Film A lobster and a crab.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0317)

Muppets Five balls get together to play basketball. It takes them awhile to count themselves, but then they realize they don't have a ball.
(First: Episode 0267)

Cartoon Two heads think of F words, ending with "finished."
(First: Episode 0128)

SCENE 8 Bob, David, and Vanessa play a game of football around the tire swing as Big Bird announces the sponsors.

CLOSING SIGNS Oscar holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan and Mr. Hooper hold the CTW sign.