Episode 1969

Sesame Street
Air date	November 22, 1984
Season	Season 16 (1984-1985)
Written by	David Korr
Production October 22, 1984 Sponsors C, D, 5

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Oscar holds a Grouchketeers meeting, teaching them some Grouchy words, such as "rotten," "yucky," and "terrible." Buster the Horse appears and teaches him another word - "abominable," which he passes onto the kids. Maria is pleased he's learned a new word and gives him a kiss of congratulations, making him furious.
	Cartoon	Consonant Sound Limerick: D—Dog Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1149)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet asks another "Is this the D train?" A subway train then arrives, letting out several letter Ds. (First: Episode 1493)
	Film	A behind-the-scenes look of Paul Simon recording "Bingo" with his son, and the manufacturing of the record it will be on. (First: Episode 1133)
	Cartoon	Crayon Animation Letter D (First: Episode 1705)
	Muppets	Professor Grover tries to teach his students what "school" is, but he instead gets the lesson.
	Cartoon	A boy imagines staying in the jungle at night when he goes to sleep. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0798)
	SCENE 2	Seth has a riddle for Big Bird: "What do you call a glass full of stuff you get from a cow that's good and healthy to drink and a bunch of ducks?... Milk and quackers!" Big Bird enjoys the riddle so much that he tries to spring it on Maria, Bob and Luis, but he learns that Seth already told it to them. Big Bird asks Elmo (Richard Hunt) if Seth told him the riddle, which he denies. When Big Bird tells it, Elmo correctly answers and clarifies that he had told the riddle to Seth.
	Song	Olivia sings "The Riddle." (First: Episode 1721)
	Cartoon	Dogs cheer D-O-G and fight with cats. (First: Episode 1148)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — At the movies, a lady with a tall hat sits in front of Ernie and Bert. She block's Ernie's view, so he asks her if she'd mind taking it off. When she places the hat on the seat next to her, Bert's view is now obstructed. (First: Episode 0538)
	Cartoon	Es un perro
	Song	"Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539)
	Cartoon	Lots of bunnies are needed to pull the huge carrot from the ground. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 1473)
	SCENE 3	Bob brings his blender to the Fix-It Shop, describing to Luis how it broke by verbalizing the sounds it made (first going "brrrrrrr," and then "rrriketta rrriketta click click"). The two have a laugh about it and Luis assures Bob that he'll do his best to fix it. Oscar enters the shop with his blender and describes his problem in the same fashion (though reversing the sounds to infer he wants it broken). Luis comments "I love being in the fixit business."
	Film	Sounds around the house: chimes, snoring, a boy pretending to be an airplane, a man playing a trumpet, and a motorcycle outside. (First: Episode 1713)
	Cartoon	A delivery person delivers five tall things. (First: Episode 1664)
	Film	"Indian Baby Bath" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0444)
	Muppets	Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "You're Alive." (First: Episode 1482)
	Film	Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Big Bird and Crystal Gayle perform "Songs." (First: Episode 1798)
	Film	What do birds eat? (First: Episode 0495)
	Cartoon	An orange creature shows things that measure.
	Muppets	The Two-Headed Monster builds a Two-Headed Snowman. It's missing noses; they fight over a carrot which breaks in half, solving the problem. (First: Episode 1622)
	Cartoon	Two groups of mountain goats try to pass each other on a mountain road. (First: Episode 0780)
	Song	Luis sings "Three of These Kids" -- three kids are playing basketball, and one is playing baseball. (First: Episode 0418)
	Cartoon	A caterpillar escapes a hungry bird by turning into a butterfly. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0639)
	SCENE 4	Dr. Nobel Price is trying to catch a butterfly to study. He refreshes his memory on what they look like, not noticing that an actual butterfly is fluttering behind him. Dr. Price uses a net to catch what he thinks is a butterfly, but turns out to be a candy wrapper. He also mistakes some leaves and a ribbon in Maria's hair as butterflies. Dr. Price then takes notice of a kid carrying two bananas, declaring to Maria that all this hunting has made him hungry.
	Cartoon	Rumba pencils (first, last, Crazy Melvin) (First: Episode 0638)
	Muppets	Grover tries to demonstrate first and last by being first in line, but the other monsters keep switching on him. (First: Episode 1307)
	Cartoon	C is for Candle (the candle blows back) (First: Episode 0703)
	Film	Olivia (in voice-over) identifies different vegetables. (First: Episode 1612)
	Animation	Sand C / c (First: Episode 0625)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #1 (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 5	As Dr. Price goes back to butterfly hunting, Big Bird introduces the Snufflepuppet Show, starring Mr. Snuffleupagus's snufflepuppet Gus who appears from behind the doors to Big Bird's nest. Big Bird and Gus begin reciting the alphabet, but Snuffy warns that he's about to sneeze from having the puppet on his snuffle. They quickly finish the alphabet and get to Z when Snuffy finally sneezes, causing Gus to fly off his snuffle and up into the sky. Big Bird goes to see where Gus lands.
	SCENE 5 cont'd	Big Bird notices Dr. Price inspecting the falling object with his binoculars, believing it to be a strange specimen of butterfly. As Gus hurdles towards them, Big Bird has Dr. Price hold out his net to catch it. When Big Bird explains that what they caught isn't a butterfly, Dr. Price laments that he'll never catch one, but Big Bird reassures him that he will someday. As they talk, neither of them see the butterfly fluttering around their heads. Maria announces the sponsors.

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