Picture Segment Description

SCENE 1 Maria welcomes the viewer all excited because she has found Gabi's first finger painting while rummaging through the Fix-It Shop: it's a series of blue swirls with an orange construction paper frame. When Gabi arrives she doesn't recognize it, even when Maria tries to refresh her memory and says she was five years old when she did it.

SCENE 1 cont'd As Maria goes inside to take a call, Big Bird notices the painting and starts interpreting it as different things. Gabi decides to give it to him before heading to school, but when Maria returns she becomes a little upset as the picture had sentimental value to her. Maria decides to ask Big Bird to return it later and passes the time for now by repairing a toaster.

Animation In stop-motion, art supplies team up to make a picture of a face.

Film Kids display their art.

Cartoon "Museum Boogie": In an homage to the musical cartoons of the 1930s, Cab Callowmouse sneaks into a museum and leads the painted characters in a "Sing" medley.
(First: Episode 3892)

SCENE 2 Big Bird shows the Count Gabi's painting and explains the different things the blue swirls look like: he compares them to clouds, ocean waves, and marshmallows. The Count likes it because he can count the swirls, and finds there's ten in all. Big Bird lends the painting to the Count, but as soon as the Count leaves Maria rushes to Big Bird and learns the painting has been passed along to someone else.

Cartoon The story of Tommy LaPlaid, the painter so sad until he discovered the joys of kicking his paints on the canvas.
Artist: Mo Willems
(First: Episode 3208)

Muppets Elizabeth loves numbers, and introduces the next segment ...
(First: Episode 3893)

Animation Rap #17
(First: Episode 2488)

Muppets Worms in Space
The worms form the number 17.
(First: Episode 3781)

Animation Ornate 17s swing by.
(First: Episode 3319)

Muppets Ernie's Show and Tell: Nicole shows Ernie a picture she made with SpinArt.
(First: Episode 3821)

Cartoon African quilt pattern #3
(First: Episode 3160)

SCENE 3 The Count gets Patrick and Kailani's "wery learned opinions" about Gabi's work, as well as finger painting in general.

Film Wegman's dogs: Battina poses for a painting.

Muppets Elizabeth and Little Murray Sparkles love letters, and watch a segment about the letter of the day ...
(First: Episode 3893)

Animation M for monkey, mouse and macaw.
(First: Episode 3807)

Muppets / Celebrity Maya Angelou tries to play a clapping game and rap about "M" with Elmo, who interrupts with questions.
(First: Episode 3832)

Film The letter M dances at the beach.
(First: Episode 3636)

SCENE 4 The Count calls for Big Bird so he can return the painting when Lulu passes by, obsessed over the picture's frame. The two count the four sides of the frame and Lulu is allowed to take the picture home to show her mother (agreeing to return it later). As Lulu leaves imitating the Count's laughter, Maria arrives too late when the Count tells her of the painting's whereabouts.

Film Kid mural painting #17
(First: Episode 3639)

Animation Rubber Stamp #17.
(First: Episode 2975)

Muppets Baby Bear shows Big Bird his favorite painting at the Museum of Modern Art, "The Sleeping Gypsy". By imagining the sounds coming from the painting, they can almost hear them.
(First: Episode 3529)

Cartoon A boy finds a set of doors with animals that make the wrong sound, and swaps the doors to correct them.
(First: Episode 2711)

SCENE 5 Lulu returns to give back the painting and finds Herry lifting weights in the community garden. She shows him the picture, and Herry says he likes it because Lulu likes it and he likes her. "Oh, Herry," a smitten Lulu says, "I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." She softly pats his fur, while a flustered Herry resumes his exercises.

Animation A group of round crayons draws a house, and is hesitant to let a square yellow crayon join, until it draws the sun. They all cooperate to make a rainbow.
(First: Episode 3105)

Muppets The Sublime Miss M performs "The Sublime Ms. M."
(First: Episode 2837)

Cartoon Melba spells her name and her brother's name on their robot, Meltro.
(First: Episode 3363)

Muppets Elizabeth introduces the viewer to Suzie Kabloozie.
(First: Episode 3903)

Cartoon Suzie Kabloozie sings about the things she can imagine herself doing "In My Head."
(First: Episode 3526)

SCENE 6 Maria wonders who has Gabi's painting now when she spots Oscar at his trash can, dressed in a beret and smock and with a familiar-looking painting. She panics and accuses Oscar of doing the unthinkable, but Oscar tells her to stop and listen as he explains himself. He doesn't have Gabi's painting; he's working on an original piece titled Peanut Butter Mud Mush in Blue. "I wonder if Vincent van Goo was as misunderstood." the grouchy artist quips.

Muppets Elizabeth cheers as an alphabet segment comes on ...

Film Fireworks Alphabet
(First: Episode 1104)

Animation In a Van Gogh painting, a baby takes its first steps to Papa.
(First: Episode 3492)

Film A group of kids paint a mural with the help of a mural artist.
(First: Episode 3007)

SCENE 7 Everyone admires Gabi's painting some more when Maria arrives to take it home. She lets them look at it for a little longer when Gabi returns, showing everybody the painting she made at school today of a city skyline. Big Bird and the others interpret the new work in their own ways, while Maria says that she now has two special paintings: the one that reminds her of Gabi at five years old and the one that reminds her of Gabi today.

Muppets Elmo's World: Drawing
(First: Episode 3859)

SCENE 8 Maria is going to hang Gabi's finger painting on the refrigerator when Oscar wants to take a look at it. He prefers the back of the painting instead ("Hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or haven't you heard?") before announcing the sponsors.