Episode 1157




 * Lida talks to her dog Snoopy in sign language.


 * Cartoon: Little girl and cat (she imagines role reversal)


 * Cookie Monster tells Ernie that he is going on a diet and won't take his cookies, until Grover tells Cookie that he looks sick.


 * Song: "Frazzle," with Frazzle & The Frazzletones


 * Cookie Monster: Herbert Birdsfoot invents a complicated machine, to test Cookie Monster's problem-solving abilities. Cookie Monster needs to pull the string to raise the glass cover off the plateful of cookies at the other end -- but when he lets go to retrieve the cookies, the cover will fall again. Herbert hears Cookie Monster approaching, and hides to observe him. Cookie investigates the machine for a moment, then gets the cookies by karate-chopping the glass cover.


 * Oscar learns a few "grouch" words in sign language.


 * Film: birds and their meals.


 * Song: "Standing in Somebody's Shoes"


 * Linda, Bob, and children "mirror" one another's movements.


 * Cartoon: A king washes and changes clothes after being told his face is dirty. (Artist: Bruce Cayard)


 * Big Bird plays the "mirror game", but later gets tired of it.