Episode 3836

First aired: 1999

Sponsored by: K, 19

Plot summary: Big Bird, Rosita, and Baby Bear help Luis make Maria a surprise dinner of huevos rancheros.


 * 3836A: While Maria is working at the Fix-It Shop, Luis plans to cook her favorite meal, huevos rancheros, as a surprise. Big Bird, Baby Bear, and Rosita want to help, but Luis discovers he needs three tomatoes and one hot pepper, so Big Bird offers to get them at Hooper's Store
 * Cartoon: Luxo, Jr. jumps out of a box and surprises Luxo
 * Cartoon: A boy and a girl sing the alphabet
 * 3836B: Big Bird arrives at Hooper's Store and asks Alan for the tomatoes and pepper, being very careful not to let Maria see him with the ingredients
 * Cartoon: Dancing peppers
 * Zoe, in her Zoemobile, introduces the letter of the day
 * Worms in Space: Slimey and his fellow worm astronauts make a letter K
 * Ernie's Show and Tell: A boy named Ben shows Ernie his map of the United States
 * 3836C: Big Bird tries to take the tomatoes and pepper back to Luis, but Maria intercepts him and asks for his help fixing a toaster. Meanwhile, Luis sends Rosita to find Big Bird
 * Zoe introduces a Grover sketch
 * Waiter Grover: Fat Blue wants a hamburger, but Grover convinces him to order the tomato surprise instead
 * Cartoon: A classic painting blows a bubble, which pops
 * 3836D: Rosita arrives at the Fix-It Shop and takes the ingredients from Big Bird, but before she can get them back to Luis, Maria asks her to stay and help with the toaster repair
 * Zoe shows us her Zoemobile's horn and bell
 * Cartoon: Name That Sound game show
 * Robin Williams asks, "What's alive?"
 * Cartoon: Multicolored shapes
 * 3836E: Baby Bear goes to bring Big Bird and Rosita back with the ingredients
 * Zoe, in her Zoemobile, introduces the number of the day
 * Cartoon: Nineteens in space
 * Kids paint nineteens
 * 3836F: Baby Bear gets Rosita and Big Bird to leave the Fix-It Shop with him
 * Song: "Dancin' Shoes" (with film of people and Muppets dancing)
 * Cartoon: "k" for king, kiss and key
 * Song: Gina and Savion sing "Between You and Me"
 * Zoe loves her Zoemobile
 * Cartoon: Love
 * 3836G: Maria comes home from work, and is surprised by the huevos rancheros
 * Elmo's World: Food
 * 3836H: Maria enjoys the huevos rancheros. Big Bird, Baby Bear, and Rosita are asleep, exhausted from cooking.  Maria and Luis say goodbye to the audience

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