Episode 1217




 * Oscar becomes a photographer and shows his pictures to Olivia.


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie plays a game of tag with Bert, who is reading his book.


 * Film: Rattlesnake


 * Cartoon: A fisherboy catches all the letters of the alphabet and makes alphabet soup.


 * Biff hangs Salvador Dada's paintings in an art gallery.


 * Cartoon: A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture.


 * Gordon and Olivia have an argument.


 * Film: a girl shops for a pair of earrings.


 * Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music tries to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb", but he can't come up with a word that rhymes with "snow". Kermit suggests that Don try another angle, which leads to Don writing the hit song "Mary Had a Bicycle". Don sings the song, with back-up vocals from the Monotones.


 * Song: "Country"


 * Cartoon: A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled.


 * Film: to a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree.


 * Linda gets angry.


 * Hubley animation: A girl tries to lure her cat out from under the chair so she can pick him up.


 * Ernie and Bert: Ernie is planning to go to the library, when he hears on the radio that it might rain. So he gets out his umbrella, and puts on his raincoat, rain hat, and galoshes. Then, in case it floods, he takes a bag of groceries and a life preserver. Finally, he makes Bert go to the library with him, so he won't be stranded in the flood without him.


 * An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down. (Spanish soundtrack)


 * Sesame Street Animal Films: African gazelles.


 * Big Bird plans to take a nap.


 * Hands play the piano.