Episode 1228




 * Big Bird visits the day care center to help Maria, but he ends up playing with Cody and the other kids instead.


 * Ernie imagines what it would be like if everyone looked the same. Four pink balls with eyes bounce by and illustrate his point: none of them know who's who. With some hats and wigs, Ernie helps identify each ball as a father, a mother, a boy, and a postman.


 * Film: Scanimate kids intro


 * Maria and the kids play a circle game.


 * Ernie and Bert: Bert tells Ernie that if he can clean the messy apartment in fifteen seconds or less, he will give Ernie his dessert: ice cream and cookies.


 * Film: A baby messes around (literally) with a chocolate cookie, as Cookie Monster (in voice-over) wishes it were for him.


 * Film: There Once Was a Hand series: the right hand plays with a ping-pong ball and tricks the left hand into thinking an egg is one.


 * Maria and the kids play another circle game.


 * "The People in Your Neighborhood": Park attendant and garage mechanic.


 * Gymnast Clive Thompson moves his body parts as kids identify them in voiceover.


 * Film: flowers found around the city.


 * Barkley refuses to move out a doorway.


 * Animation: Stop-motion NUTS