Picture Segment Description

COLD OPEN Biff and Sully introduce the episode's letter sponsors, but Biff's gesturing as he holds each sponsor ends up knocking Sully down. He blames Sully for getting in his way (rather than taking any personal responsibility).

SCENE 1 At today's Birdketeer meeting, Big Bird presents his friends Lea Salonga and a duck, who will sing a song. The duck confesses that he doesn't know how to sing. Lea and the gang help him by teaching him a few simple notes before Lea launches into singing "A Little Bit." Big Bird and the kids are so impressed by the results, they want to learn to sing like the duck.

Cartoon A dog-shaped television.
Artist: Keith Haring
(First: Episode 3045)

Song "We're Talking 'Bout the Number One"

Muppets Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — A winged number 1 flies over a cuckoo's nest.
(First: Episode 2674)

Cartoon Kids count one duck in the pond.
Artist: Lisa Crafts
(First: Episode 3095)

Film A girl who lives in El Salvador plays a counting game with her class, which involves running around and getting into groups of a number when it is called.
(First: Episode 3012)
cut from the Noggin version

Film A boy draws a picture of his friend, Katie.
(First: Episode 2760)
cut from the Noggin version

SCENE 2 Biff tries to get Sully to talk about "closed" and "open," suggesting a visual approach by using his arms. Sully once again gets knocked over by Biff's motions. "Just watch the alphabet," sighs Biff, cueing the following...

Film Kids sing the alphabet on an island.

Cartoon Letter B becomes a banana and broccoli
(First: Episode 2513)

Film Alphaquest: B
(First: Episode 2706)

Cartoon B for bathtub, ball, boat, boot, boomerang, brush and bison
cut from the Noggin version

Muppets "Gonna Rock You to Sleep" by Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats
(First: Episode 2980)

Cartoon Zork lands in Australia, where a kangaroo greets him. (ending trimmed)
Artist: ArtistMike
(First: Episode 2731)
cut from the Noggin version

Muppets / Celebrity Telly hosts “The Wide Wide World of the World” with special guests from Australia, Mel Gibson and a duck claiming to be a duck-billed platypus.
(First: Episode 3021)

Cartoon A gorilla outgrows his toy fire truck, and is about to throw it away, when he decides to pass it on to his little brother.
(First: Episode 2840)
cut from the Noggin version

SCENE 3 Prairie Dawn drops by Finders Keepers, in the mood to try out a new instrument today. Ruthie shows her a new item that just came in today - Little Boy Blue's famous horn. Ruthie even points to a photograph they took earlier from their encounter (as well as one of her and Rapunzel, who bought some shampoo).

SCENE 3 cont'd Prairie is willing to give the horn a try and blows a note. Suddenly, in the distance they hear chaotic sounds of "baaing" and "mooing." Ruthie theorizes it must be "the sheep in the meadow" and "the cow in the corn" from the nursery rhyme who are still attracted to the sound. After a "Reveille," the sheep and cow burst into the shop and run amuck. Ruthie tries to pawn them off on Prairie, who splits the scene.

Film Shapes vibrate as girls beat on their drums.
(First: Episode 2845)

Muppets Ernie and Bert: Special Day — Bert is curious as to whom Ernie is decorating the room for.
(First: Episode 0352)

Cartoon Two men talk about the letter q, as one man uses a lower case q as a hatrack
(First: Episode 0131)

Cast Maria and Linda sew quilts with a Q on them.
(First: Episode 1508)

Cartoon A little boy tries to use a tall water fountain
(First: Episode 0954)

Song Jerry Nelson sings "Don't Waste Water."
(First: Episode 2804)

Cartoon Several rabbits try to pull a carrot from the ground
Artist: Irra Verbitsky
(First: Episode 1473)

SCENE 4 While Ruthie angrily calls up Little Boy Blue on the phone, Herry Monster arrives to peruse the shop. Ruthie eventually gets through to Boy Blue, who agrees to come by and pick up the horn. At this moment, Herry comes across the horn and blows it, unaware of its power. The sheep and cow once again return and mess things up, while Herry makes a quick escape; he's allergic to dander.

Song "It's All Right to Cry"

Cartoon Geometry of Circles #4 "Six Circles Connected"
(First: Episode 1437)

Film College students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, possums and chinchillas.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 2227)

Muppets Mac TV host Old MacDonald introduces the newest music video, "A New Way to Walk" performed by The Oinker Sisters.
(First: Episode 2268)

Cartoon Slot machine legs: Cowboy & horse
(First: Episode 1702)

SCENE 5 Little Boy Blue (David Rudman) returns to the store to exchange the clarinet he traded earlier for the horn. He's now looking for another instrument to conquer and takes home a guitar. Ruthie notices a tag on the clarinet with a new poem written on it: "Little Boy Blue, come blow your clarinet. / The cat's in the closet, the dog's at the vet." Out of curiosity, Ruthie gives the instrument a try and the store becomes overrun with a pack of wild cats and dogs.

Animation Three stripes form a jazz trio.
(First: Episode 2410)

Muppets Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover asks Chelsea, What is love?
(First: Episode 2397)

Cartoon A man learns that it's better not to pick the flowers
(First: Episode 0416)

Muppets Cerrado with Maria and an Anything Muppet (part 1). He sings a song about how everything is Cerrado, and at the end Maria gives him an Abierto sign, which opens everything in the house.
(First: Episode 3015)

Cartoon A monster sees a box that keeps opening and closing, saying "Abierto" and "Cerrado."
(First: Episode 0771)

Muppets Abierto with Maria and an Anything Muppet (part 2). Now he sings a similar song about Abierto, and Maria's Cerrado sign closes everything.
(First: Episode 3015)

Film A flower opens and closes
(First: Episode 0441)

SCENE 6 Biff announces the sponsors while Sully stays out of the way, hiding behind a nearby tree. In addition to letters and numbers, Biff adds that today's show was also "brought to you by Little Boy Blue's horn," which he now possesses. He gives it a blow and Sully gets trampled by the flock of animals attracted to its call.