Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Maria and Luis greet the viewer, and Maria invites them to do some imagining with her. She imagines that she's almost as small as a group of jacks, and is worried that the enormous kitten that Luis is petting might want to eat her.

Cartoon Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat
Voice: Daws Butler
(First: Episode 0770)

Film Field of hay (kid voice-overs)
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0504)

Cartoon Light and heavy (ball and seal)

Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — John-John wants to count backwards. Grover tells him to count backwards from 10, but he has a little trouble.
(First: Episode 0547)

Film The letter T is a very useful letter.
(First: Episode 0402)

Cartoon The Typewriter has an electric train.

Cartoon A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.
(First: Episode 0510)

SCENE 2 Big Bird recites a poem he wrote after pretending to be a woodpecker: he banged his beak on a tree all day, and now it's bandaged.

Film Knock knock. Who's there? The woodpecker!
(First: Episode 0437)

Cartoon Willie Wimple: Land Pollution (litter).
(First: Episode 0527)

Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: Rumplestiltskin — Kermit helps the miller's daughter guess Rumpelstiltskin's name.
(First: Episode 0724)

Cartoon Light and heavy (bird falls on man)

Insert Gordon sings "A Kid Like You."
(First: Episode 0731)

Cartoon Two men hammer a stake into a hole.

Insert The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
(First: Episode 0454)

Cartoon "Poverty T"
(First: Episode 0020)

Film A letter T drives through a tunnel.
(First: Episode 0454)

Muppets / Celebrity Lena Horne and the Anything Muppets sing an upbeat version of "The Alphabet Song."
(First: Episode 0575)

Cartoon A cartoon man (Bob Arbogast) is irritated to find that he has a succession of animal noses.
(First: Episode 0769)

SCENE 3 A voiceover instructs Maria to try to pick up Mr. Hooper, who is heavy, then to pick up Luis, who is light (because he's chroma-keyed into the shot).

Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola discuss the difference between "heavy" and "light".
(First: Episode 0549)

Cartoon A man can't lift heavy barbells.

Insert Scanimate Films #10
(First: Episode 0134)

SCENE 4 After trying to play hopscotch with the kids, Mr. Snuffleupagus leads them into a game they can all play: "Doin' the Snuffleupagus."

Cartoon A boy talks about his various moods.
Artist: Bob Kurtz
(First: Episode 0772)

Muppets Anything Muppets: BUS — A bus driver brings his broken BUS (the word) to a garage for a mechanic to fix up.
(First: Episode 0455)

Cartoon B ... US! We're on the bus!

Muppets Kermit the Frog, Smart Person: Happy and Scared — Kermit helps Max Ferbilfeemer (Luis).
(First: Episode 0704)

Cartoon A girl and elephant show heavy and light.

Film "Indian Baby Bath"
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0444)

Cartoon T es para telefono
(First: Episode 0362)

Muppets Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie's Scale — Cookie Monster solves Ernie's cookie weight problem.
(First: Episode 0264)

Film Counting to 20.
(First: Episode 0421)

SCENE 5 Mr. Hooper and Luis find Oscar in Hooper's Store, preparing to interview a number of Grouches lined up outside since he will be leaving for a few days and he wants a replacement Grouch. A Southern Grouch with a cowboy hat is the first applicant, and Oscar hands him a flowerpot with a flower in it, asking what he'd do with them. The applicant says he'd throw the flower in the wastebasket, but Oscar says a real Grouch would throw away the flower and the pot, and throw the dirt everywhere – which he does, to Mr. Hooper's dismay.

SCENE 5
cont'd The next applicant, a Grouch from Denver with bushy hair, comes in. Oscar asks him what he'd do with a dirty old torn shirt like the one he produces, and the Grouch says he'd wear it to the opera. Oscar counters that a real Grouch would tear the shirt up even further and hang it up on the living room wall. Next!

SCENE 5
cont'd Oscar asks the third applicant what they'd do with a bunch of old newspapers. The mustached applicant proceeds to tear them to shreds, dirtying up the store even further. Oscar lauds this display of grouchiness, and gives the applicant the job – but the applicant makes the mistake of showing gratitude (a big Grouch no-no). Oscar concludes that it's up to him to keep Sesame Street grouchy.

Cartoon Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
(First: Episode 0369)

Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R.
(First: Episode 0583)

Film George the Farmer saws the legs off a table.
(First: Episode 0297)

Muppets "How Do You Do" (Grover and Lena Horne) (alternate take)
(First: Episode 0536)

Film An osprey flies around.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0293)

SCENE 6 Luis plays a "Here Are Some Things" game at the Fix-it Shop. What goes with the three big circles: the big square or the small circle?

Film "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (revised version)
(First: Episode 0021)

Animation Sand T/t
(First: Episode 0636)

SCENE 7 Mr. Snuffleupagus gives hopscotch with the kids another try as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.

CLOSING SIGNS Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria and Luis hold the CTW sign.