Episode 1246




 * Song: "Wonderful to Be You"


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie imagines what life would be like if he and Bert had their characteristics switched around.


 * Animation: Stop-motion NUTS


 * Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?"


 * Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about clues. He shows that a boy has grown some carrots because he has garden tools, a watering can, and a packet of seeds. Next, he confirms that a man has built a birdhouse because of his blueprints and carpenter's tools. When he notices Beautiful Day Monster with a suitcase and an umbrella, Kermit assumes that the monster is going on a trip and using the umbrella as protection from the rain. The monster corrects him; he's planning to eat his umbrella, and uses the suitcase to carry the ketchup he'll use to eat it with.


 * Cartoon: Miss Fortune makes guesses about a dog.


 * Ernie and Bert: Everything is getting wet, because it's raining and a window is stuck open. But Ernie explains that he can't fix it now because he'd get wet in all that rain. When the rain stops, he explains to Bert that since it's not raining anymore, nothing's getting wet, and there's no reason to fix it.


 * Film: A man makes a shadow puppet of a rabbit.


 * Film: A man makes a shadow puppet of an elephant.


 * Luis' table is missing one of its legs.


 * Cartoon: A caveman finds a rock on the ground, and visualizes the invention of the wheel and the car, ultimately deciding to toss the rock away: "Who needs it?" he says.


 * Animation: A girl explains in poem how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow.


 * Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag.


 * Film: A girl goes to the shoemaker and watches him as he repairs her shoes.