Episode 3826

First aired: 1999

Sponsored by: L, 0

Plot summary: The grown-ups put on a show.


 * As Sesame Street's residents greet the morning, Rosemary Clooney asks Hoots the musical question, "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?"
 * Cartoon: What's a city?
 * Zoe, driving her Zoemobile, announces the letter of the day
 * Kids fly around the screen to make an L with their bodies
 * 3826A: Big Bird, Telly, Prairie Dawn and Baby Bear perform a play about a princess and an L for the grown-ups, then suggest that the grown-ups put on a show of their own
 * Song: "Dress Up", with film montage of kids wearing fancy clothes
 * Ernie's Show and Tell: A girl named Rebecca shows Ernie her crown
 * Cartoon: A girl shows us her winter clothes
 * 3826B: The grown-ups (Gordon, Susan, Maria, Luis, Bob, Linda, Gina and Alan) decide they're going to do a show, to the delight of Big Bird
 * Cartoon: A little boy is proud because he tied his own shoes
 * Zoe shows us her Zoemobile's horn and bell
 * Cartoon: A girl plays a carnival game matching animal noises to the appropriate animals
 * Wegman's Weimaraners: Little Bo Peep
 * Cartoon: Sheep keep coming through a door as a man tries to keep it closed
 * 3826C: Hooper's Store is closed as the grown-ups rehearse their show
 * Zoe shows us the number zero
 * Cartoon: A number zero feels sad, until his coach cheers him up
 * 3826D: The grown-ups present "Princess Gina's Last Laugh", about a king (Alan) whose daughter, the princess (Gina), never laughs. The king brings in laugh doctors Quackenbush and Bushenquack (Maria and Luis) to tickle Princess Gina, but she still doesn't laugh
 * Cartoon: L for "laugh"
 * Worms in Space: Slimey and his fellow worm astronauts make a capital "L" and a lowercase "l"
 * Film: A zydeco band plays while people dance
 * 3826E: The story of princess Gina continues, as the king brings in the Professors of Very Funny Faces (Bob and Linda), whose crazy faces fail to make the princess crack a smile
 * Song: "Face It" (Combination live-action & animation)
 * Song: Anything Muppets on a tropical island sing "Banana Can't Grow Alone"
 * 3826F: As the grown-ups' play continues, a man wearing a bathtub (Gordon) performs a silly rendition of "Rubber Duckie" with his wife (Susan), who is wearing a shower, but Princess Gina remains stoic. From the audience, Big Bird volunteers to teach her how to laugh, and his attempt is successful, as Gina and the rest of the grown-ups -- as well as the rest of the audience -- erupt into peals of laughter
 * Elmo's World: Music
 * 3826G: Big Bird, Baby Bear, Gina and Alan say goodbye

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