Episode 1230




 * David wants to paint Hooper's Store.


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie won't let Bert into the apartment. At first, Bert is sad -- but then he thinks Ernie might be hiding something, which makes him mad. He demands to be let in -- and finds that Ernie has thrown him a surprise party. Guests at the party include Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, Prairie Dawn, Sherlock Hemlock, Grover, Guy Smiley, and a Mailman.


 * David sings "Street Fever."


 * Joe Raposo sings "I Believe in Little Things".


 * Waiter Grover: Mr. Johnson orders bacon and eggs, but he can't decide how many of each he wants.


 * Big Bird gets a telephone call from Mr. Snuffleupagus.


 * Jerry Nelson narrates the story of a hand with fingers and a thumb that refuse to do anything together. Eventually they learn to cooperate when they all want to play with a top.


 * Sam the Machine discovers he can help his little brother.


 * A man loses his dog.


 * Little Chrissy sings "The Opposite Song."


 * Film: In time-lapse footage, a construction crew builds a house and paints it green, and a family moves into it.


 * Bob and Luis put together two halves of a painting of a train tunnel. When they fit the parts together, a train goes through the tunnel and zooms to take up the entire screen, frightening Bob and Luis so much, they take down the tunnel again.


 * Cartoon: A boy acts out his feelings as animals. ("There's a zoo in me!")


 * Sesame Street Animal Films: Swinging gibbon.


 * Ernie purchases a straw hat for Bert, and asks Cookie Monster which box the hat will go in.


 * Film: Footage of a city neighborhood; includes shots of a sno-cone vendor.


 * Cartoon: Dot Bridge