Episode 1216




 * Big Bird babysits for a friend.


 * Film: George the Farmer: On Top Of


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie answers the telephone. Bert overhears the conversation, which involves a baseball game, a rainy day, and a gorilla stealing a baloney sandwich. When Bert asks who just called, Ernie says it was a wrong number.


 * Film: Scuba diver - on, into, under, through, around


 * Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but then Cookie Monster takes off his hat, and cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape.


 * Cartoon: They'd play with me if I had ...


 * Cartoon: A cowboy rides through the desert singing about "Feelings That Are Real".


 * "The People in Your Neighborhood": Crossing Guard and Waiter (Grover).


 * Cartoon: J minuscula


 * Sesame Street Animal Films: Goslings


 * Three witches attempt their own individual spells, which don't work out to their liking. They decide to cooperate by bringing all of their ingredients together, thus making chicken soup.


 * Cody plays the piano and Oscar tapes it on his tape recorder.