Episode 4198

Sesame Workshop description
Mary Mary Quite Contrary walks along Sesame Street and dumps a pile of dirt outside Oscar's trash can. Gordon explains that she cannot leave the dirt, she is making a mess! Mary Mary insists that she is going to grow a garden with silver bells and cockle shells, but Gordon tries to tell her that silver bells and cockle shells aren’t alive. Gardens need to have things growing in them, like vegetables, fruits or flowers. Mary Mary decides she will grow flowers in her garden by using dirt, sun and water. But Oscar doesn’t like the beautiful garden and he wants Mary Mary to move it! As Mary Mary plants more flowers, Oscar decides to have his elephant, Fluffy squirt water at her. Maybe that will get her to move? But as Mary Mary explains, the water helps her flowers to grow. Oscar doesn’t know what to do! He sends over Hairy Hairy, from the grouch nursery rhyme, with stinky weeds and moldy seeds and three pigs, but even that doesn’t get rid of Mary Mary and her garden. Suddenly, Oscar changes his mind. He likes the horrible smell from the stinky weeds and loud noises from the pigs. It’s a grouch paradise! Mary Mary finds this out and decides to move the garden because she likes to be contrary and do the opposite of whatever anyone wants her to do.