Episode 0699


 * Oscar buys a newspaper to make trash out of it. He plans to burn it up to roast some shoes.


 * Oscar wants to buy the rocks that hold down the newspapers for his rock collection.


 * Reluctantly, Oscar cleans up the mess created by the newspapers blown away by the wind. He feels guilty about the mess by taking away the stones used to hold the newspapers down.


 * Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Sad".


 * Big Bird gets into trouble trying to demonstrate the concept of front and back.


 * Grover the Elevator Operator: Front and back.


 * Story: "The Three Merchants".


 * Prince Charming kisses Big Bird, believing that he's Sleeping Beauty under a curse.


 * Ernie tries to count his balloons. The balloons are arranged in a circle, so he continues counting around the circle, and counts some of them twice. Grover has a solution -- he pops each of the balloons as he counts them.