Episode 1576

First aired: 1981

Sponsored by: N, L, 12


 * Was included in Noggin's Sesame Street Unpaved package.
 * Noggin's edits to this episode are currently unknown, and therefore not all of the segments in this episode are listed.
 * This episode is notable contains a guest-starring turn by Madeline Kahn, and an on-screen appearance by Richard Hunt.


 * 1576A: Birdwatchers Madeline and Cedric (Madeline Kahn and Richard Hunt) arrive on Sesame Street looking for Big Bird.
 * Song: "Dress Up" (sung by Joe Raposo, with film of birds and their plumage)
 * Pinball Number Count: 12
 * Grover teaches the campers at Camp Wana-Go-Home about trees
 * Cartoon: The letter N
 * Finger Theater: Linda's fingers act out a story
 * Song: "I'm Your Friend, You're My Friend", with film of kids playing
 * Two-Headed Monster: One head wants to play the trumpet, but the other head wants to sleep
 * 1576B: Madeline watches Big Bird counting to 20 during a game of hide-and-seek
 * Cartoon: Peacock with 20 feathers
 * Cartoon: Animated quilt patterns
 * Song: Cab Calloway and The Count sing "I Want to Count"
 * Cartoon: A stop-motion-animated train runs out of track
 * Ernie & Bert play a rhyming game
 * 1576C: Big Bird and Madeline roller skate, then sing "The Brown Bird in the Cherry Tree" with the help of four canaries named Zeppo, Gummo, Curly and Moe
 * The Twiddlebugs attempt to exit a roller skating rink
 * Cartoon: "The Little Letter L: A Poem by Louise"
 * The Count counts five children as they rearrange their positions
 * Cartoon: A kaleidoscope of shapes and colors
 * 1576D: Madeline calls the Bird Department in Washington, D.C. to confirm that Big Bird is an endangered species, based on his abilities to roller skate, count to 20, make his own breakfast, and say the alphabet. Maria, Gordon, and Mr. Hooper are chagrined when Madeline announces that Big Bird must be removed from Sesame Street so he can live in a more protective environment
 * Honkers attempt to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on their noses
 * Cartoon/Song: Ladybugs' Picnic
 * Honkers attempt once again to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
 * Cartoon: "L" for "Large" and "l" for "little"
 * Honkers successfully play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on their noses
 * Film: How a saxaphone is made
 * Herry and John-John on up and down
 * 1576E: Madeline takes Big Bird to the Windy Hill bird sanctuary, but he gets homesick
 * Cartoon: A bird lays ten eggs
 * Ernie and a boy named Jason look in a mirror
 * Cartoon/Song: "Lowercase N"
 * Monsterpiece Theater: "Me, Claudius"
 * 1576F: Madeline brings Big Bird back to Sesame Street. Maria and Gordon promise to take care of him.  Madeline and Cedric are stunned to learn that Big Bird has a family of birds who are just like him, and even more stunned to glimpse his Uncle Slim from Wyoming (identical in appearance to Big Bird, but with a cowboy hat, vest, and moustache) across the street