Episode 1987

Sesame Street
Bob gives music lessons  (repeat of 1736)
Air date	December 18, 1984
Season	Season 16 (1984-1985)
Written by	Tony Geiss
Sponsors R, Z, 9

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Today, Bob is giving out music lessons to his friends on Sesame Street. First, he checks up on Gordon's flute playing. Whenever he makes a mistake, Oscar, Grundgetta and a couple of other Grouches cheer for more.
	Cartoon	A man (Jim Thurman) is told that his dog looks thirsty, and says that his dog is a hot dog. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1180)
	Muppets	Ernie sings "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree." (First: Episode 1920)
	Cartoon	"That's About the Size of It" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0279)
	Film	Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!" (First: Episode 0536)
	Cartoon	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 2	Gordon's slowly improving on his flute playing, much to the disgruntlement of Oscar and the other Grouches. However, they're relieved when Gordon decides to continue the rest of the piece and makes more mistakes.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	In his room, Bob gives the Two-Headed Monster a singing lesson: singing "Sing."
	Animation	A stop-motion-animated train runs out of track. (First: Episode 1447)
	Song	"It's Easy" / "I Can Do It By Myself" (First: Episode 1727)
	Film	Russian nesting dolls 1-10 (First: Episode 0540)
	Muppets	Harvey Kneeslapper tells the mailman that he has a letter for his mother: the letter R. (First: Episode 0583)
	Cartoon	R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011)
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: Crocodile Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410)
	Muppets	Super Grover When a boy has trouble finding the gate in a fence, Super Grover attempts to bend the pickets. But eventually, the boy finds an EXIT sign. (First: Episode 0746)
	SCENE 3	Telly watches Gordon practice playing his flute and compliments how good he's getting.
	SCENE 3, cont'd	Back in Bob's apartment, he is giving Biff and Sully a piano lesson. Biff wants Bob to listen to him play first. He pounds out the notes to London Bridge. He starts off adequately but then goes off key halfway through. All the same, he tells Bob that the piano lesson is for his partner rather than for him, saying that Sully sometimes fools around while playing. Sully proves him wrong, however, by playing a beautiful, full Chopinesque piece. Biff seems oblivious to his obvious gift, though, and asks Bob if he could teach Sully to play like him. Bob says it would be impossible. "There it is, Sul," says Biff. "Some people got talent, some people don't." "You can say that again," Bob says softly to the camera.
	Cartoon	Nine sheep Artist: Owe Gustafson (First: Episode 1501)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: The miller's daughter is in danger of losing her baby if she cannot guess the first name of Rumpelstiltskin. Kermit offers a hotline, Sesame Street-555, for people to call in and help her. The name ends up being Bruce Rumpelstiltskin, but unfortunately for Kermit, he picked the wrong place to hide: the baby's carriage! (First: Episode 0724)
	Cartoon	A girl sings about the things she can draw, paint, and sculpt.
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit." (First: Episode 0160)
	Cartoon	A red armless character is stalked by the letter Z until he eats it. (First: Episode 1340)
	SCENE 4	Bob gives Fluffy a trumpet lesson. After which, Fluffy is able to join Herb Elephant and the Yucatán Brass.
	Cartoon	A concert pianist shows up in a construction worker's lunchbox, singing the alphabet. (First: Episode 0449)
	Muppets	A shark sings about his "Perfecty Pearl-White Teeth." (First: Episode 1446)
	Cartoon	The Typewriter: R for Rope (First: Episode 0764)
	SCENE 5	Bob and the kids play "Practice, Practice."
	Cartoon	A boy learns to play his violin by practicing. (First: Episode 1513)
	Muppets	Clementine reminds Forgetful Jones to call his cousin on her birthday (even though he's got a ribbon tied to his finger and to the phone). When he calls, his equally forgetful cousin doesn't remember having a cousin, and asks him to describe what he looks like. (First: Episode 1657)
	Cartoon	Batman and Robin catch the Penguin's gang who has dirty windows, teaching the opposite pairings of clean and dirty. (First: Episode 0099)
	Film	Kids at school help make cornbread. (First: Episode 1218)
	Cartoon	zip, zoom, zoom, zig, zag, zany, zoo. (First: Episode 0359)
	SCENE 6	Gordon finally plays the flute for Bob without making any mistakes. The Grouches disapprove.
	Cartoon	The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert tells Ernie to make a grocery list, but Ernie can't find anything to write with ... except for chocolate pudding. (Bert: "He's improving. Last time he used spaghetti sauce.") (First: Episode 1967)
	Cartoon	Geometry of Circles #4 "Six Circles Connected" (First: Episode 1437)
	Muppets	The letter R joins U and N to make the word RUN. Anything Muppets run into the scene and take the letters. (First: Episode 0406)
	Film	Old bottles are made into new bottles at a recycling plant. music: "Black Eyed Peas" by Graham Preskett (First: Episode 0917)
	SCENE 7	Bob is finished with music lessons for today but Oscar wants him to give Slimey his music lesson for playing his sousaphone. Slimey plays the Sesame Street theme as Grundgetta lists the sponsors.

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