Episode 1905

Sesame Street
Air date	February 24, 1984
Season	Season 15 (1983-1984)
Directed by Jon Stone Sponsors O, T, 5

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Dr. Nobel Price's latest "breakthrough" is a healthy meal one can start their mornings with. It just so happens to be "called" breakfast and the doctor asks the viewer to have it every day so they can grow up to be as smart as he is.
	Cartoon	Would you mind closing our OPEN? (First: Episode 0438)
	Muppets	Captain Breakfast unsuccessfully encourages a little girl to eat breakfast, the most important meal of the day. (First: Episode 1492)
	Cartoon	A song about a rolling O Artists: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011)
	Film	Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234)
	Cartoon	More and more moths appear, and devour a man's clothes. Artist: Bob Kurtz (First: Episode 0294)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert have pizza and grape juice. Bert complains that Ernie has more of each, so Ernie tries to make it even by eating some of his pizza and drinking some of his grape juice, but then Bert has more. And so on. (First: Episode 0256)
	Cartoon	An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173)
	Cast	Big Bird talks about noses and beaks, and what his beak can do. He tells Olivia, "I'm awful sorry about your nose." (music button changed) (First: Episode 1246)
	Film	Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment: Three boys (including Brian Henson) pretend to be steam shovels, playing in the dirt. This segues into footage of real construction vehicles. A parallel is drawn between the machinery and how the boys' arms and mouths work. (First: Episode 0003)
	Cartoon	"Magic Pig" Artist: Vince Collins (First: Episode 0772)
	Muppets	Grover watches Mumford practice a trick, making a rabbit come out of his hat. Mumford has trouble getting a rabbit to come out of the hat, and both are oblivious to the fact that Grover is turning into a rabbit. (First: Episode 0407)
	Cartoon	The Dog & The Bone (First: Episode 0772)
	Film	Five dancers disappear one by one, until there are none left. (First: Episode 0589)
	Cartoon	Five tail feathers are subtracted from a peacock. (First: Episode 1449)
	Muppets	The Two-Headed Monster gets MAD when it sees the word. (First: Episode 1513)
	Cartoon	A pink circle splits into a cat, and a gray circle splits into a mouse. (First: Episode 0452)
	SCENE 2	At the Library, Linda shows a boy the word "box," then teaches him and Micki the sign for it.
	Cartoon	Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320)
	Film	Letter O hoist Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0338)
	Muppets	Alphabet Chat: O Mr. Chatterly tries to deliver a lecture about the letter O, but is distracted by several things that don't begin with O, like a rabbit walking with a cow. The Anything Muppet producers decide to cancel the show and take down the set. (First: Episode 0837)
	Animation	Stop-motion: what goes in the hot dog bun? (First: Episode 1494)
	Cartoon	A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings. (First: Episode 0454)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster sings a rock song about his cookie obsession. (First: Episode 0506)
	Cartoon	Jive Five (First: Episode 1664)
	SCENE 3	Linda teaches everyone the signs for the different seasons of the year. Luis then sings a song about the four seasons.
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Oscar, having brought his can to the library, sings his own brief rendition of the song with some visual and audio aids - his Grouch bird (Martin P. Robinson) squawks for spring, Fluffy dives in the pool for summer, Oscar tosses leaves for autumn, and finally drops winter snow on everybody.
	Cartoon	A poem about changing seasons. (First: Episode 0962)
	Film	Kids identify a squash in close-up. (First: Episode 0368)
	Cartoon	Five Worms In An Apple Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1502)
	Muppets	The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains. (First: Episode 0539)
	Animation	In stop-motion, blocks stack and arrange themselves to form zoo cages, arches, and a whole city. Artist: Al Jarnow (First: Episode 1459)
	Muppets / Cast	"Dandy David" sings a song about "Tying Your Shoelace" as Herry watches. He then asks him to tie the laces on all the shoes in his collection. (First: Episode 1574)
	SCENE 4	Micki sees Forgetful Jones attempting to read a potted plant. She reminds him of things one can actually read, then goes off to school. Forgetful doesn't want to bother Linda at the moment, claiming she appears to be busy "reading her dust rag."
	Film	The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402)
	Muppets	"At the Bus Stop Sign" (First: Episode 1392)
	Cartoon	A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come. (First: Episode 1176)
	Film	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (re-recorded music) (First: Episode 0004)
	SCENE 5	Forgetful brings a stack of books to the counter. He claims to have read them all, but really only read the titles; he forgot there were stories inside! He checks out the books as Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits follow.

Notes

• The original script draft for the episode began with a scene not used in the final episode, where Oscar plays "Three of These Things" using himself and the Honkers.

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