Episode 2154

	Sesame Street
	Upagusses of the World
Air date	February 6, 1986
Season	Season 17 (1985-1986)
Written by	Mark Saltzman
Production	November 22, 1985
Sponsors	P, T, 8

Picture	Segment	Description
	Insert	Susan sings "How Do You Walk" with the kids, Mr. Macintosh and Bob, demonstrating how people's feelings affect how they walk. (First: Episode 1033)
	Cartoon	A girl uses her imagination while sitting on a sofa. (First: Episode 0765)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (hand) (First: Episode 0147)
	Cartoon	The Typewriter: P for Pencil (First: Episode 0782)
	Muppets	Two-Headed Monster: Pencil — The monster finds a pencil with a broken point, and demonstrates the fun you can have with it. (First: Episode 2096)
	Cartoon	The 8 Brothers Circus displays 8 elephants. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1645)
	Insert	Maria teaches Telly to count to 10 in Spanish with a song. (First: Episode 1473)
	Cartoon	An elephant (voiced by Marshall Efron) asks Nesbitt (voiced by Don Arioli) for directions to the zoo, but won't listen to him long enough. Artist: Janet Perlman (First: Episode 1631)
	Film	George the Farmer demonstrates above and below. (First: Episode 0262)
	Cartoon	P Words (including parachute and plug) (First: Episode 0296)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Bert's Nap — As Bert takes a nap, Ernie tells the viewer how he knows that Bert is asleep. (First: Episode 0027)
	Cartoon	Look both ways before you cross the street Artist: Ray Favata (First: Episode 1397)
	SCENE 1	Big Bird brings Luis a floppy disk to load on the computer in the Fix-It Shop while Snuffy looks on from outside (he couldn't fit through the door). The disk contains an encyclopedia of "upagusses" which Big Bird finds fascinating. Snuffy feels as though his own variation of an upagus — the snuffleupagus — is insufficient, so he leaves to do something about it.
	Song	Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?" (First: Episode 0276)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Humpty Dumpty — Kermit doesn't help Humpty Dumpty's situation. (First: Episode 0657)
	Animation	Sand P/p (First: Episode 0634)
	Cast	Maria as Chaplin obeys the word HOP, then switches it to STOP. (First: Episode 1982)
	Cartoon	A poem about changing seasons. (First: Episode 0962)
	SCENE 2	Snuffy returns dressed as a bunny betting on Big Bird confusing him for one of the other upagusses. Big Bird greets his friend, but Snuffy insists that he's a "hopalupagus." Failing to convince him, Snuffy hops away to try again.
	Film	Jack Rabbit (no voiceover) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0390)
	Cartoon	Picnic with P foods (carried away by ants) Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0764)
	Muppets	"The King's Picnic" (First: Episode 0419)
	Cartoon	Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001)
	Muppets	Grover: Butterfly — Grover sits in a park and recites a poem about a butterfly that he sees. (First: Episode 1967)
	Cartoon	A caterpillar escapes a hungry bird by turning into a butterfly. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0639)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird returns to his nest to find Snuffy dressed as a "broad-billed web-footed quackleupagus." After Big Bird points out all the similarities and differences in Snuffy's new identity to his old one, Snuffly leaves in disappointment.
	Cartoon	T for Turtle Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1146)
	Muppets	Kermit the Frog sings "It's Alive". (First: Episode 2029)
	Cartoon	What would happen if I popped this balloon? (First: Episode 1312)
	Film	Kids learn how to use a computer at a public school. (First: Episode 1853)
	SCENE 4	Big Bird returns to the Fix-It Shop and asks Luis to search the disk for evidence of a quackleupagus. He doesn't find one, and thus concludes that they must not really exist. Big Bird wonders why Snuffy would want to be a quackleupagus, so Luis suggests they visit Snuffy to find out.
	Cartoon	A woman identifies farm animals by their sounds. (First: Episode 1476)
	Cast	Via split-screen, two Lindas sign letters of the alphabet: one is no-nonsense, and the other is very playful. A male voiceover narrates the letters with the same demeanor Linda signs them in. (First: Episode 1354)
	Cartoon	Pat the Pilot skywrites a letter P with her plane. Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0478)
	Film	Finding round things in a supermarket (David voiceover) (First: Episode 0434)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover asks Maya to help him follow an arrow. The arrow changes direction until Grover falls down, exhausted. (First: Episode 1641)
	Cartoon	Todo el mundo necesita agua (First: Episode 0780)
	SCENE 5	Back at the nest, Luis asks "the quackleupagus" that when he sees Snuffy, tell him that although they got excited about the other upagusses, they still love him the best. Snuffy finally admits who and what he really is, but admits that he had fun being a quackleupagus. Snuffy and Big Bird both pretend to be quackleupaguses as Luis announces the sponsors.