Episode 1060




 * Oscar the Grouch tells a story about pieces of trash.


 * Sesame Street News Flash: Kermit the Frog interviews the father of young George Washington, who is annoyed that George keeps chopping down his cherry trees and then telling the truth about it.


 * Ray Charles sings "The Alphabet Song".


 * 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, which makes him happy.


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie tries to put a pot on Bert's head. Bert asks Ernie why he's doing that, and Ernie says that he broke a cookie jar. Ernie has to put the cookies somewhere, so he put them in the sugar bowl – and put the sugar in the flowerpot, which meant that he had to put the flower in a milk bottle. He put the milk in the soda bottle, and the soda into the fishbowl, and the fish in Bert's cowboy hat. Bert asks, "Now what am I going to wear when I want to play cowboy?" Ernie puts the pot on Bert's head and says, "Ride 'em, cowboy, Bert!"


 * Knights sit at a Round Table.


 * Bert tries to find a place to keep his fish.