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Sesame Street
Air date January 23, 1987
Season Season 18 (1986-1987)
Written by Emily Perl Kingsley
Directed by Lisa Simon
Production November 3, 1986
Sponsors A, R, 6


Picture Segment Description
SCENE 1 Bob plays and sings "Follow the Leader" with the kids.
Cartoon Six camels
Artist: Owe Gustafson
(First: Episode 1503)
Muppets Ernie and Bert: Planning Ahead at the BeachBert and Ernie have planned ahead for their day at the beach.
(First: Episode 0284)
Cartoon Men in boxes sound out the word RUN.
(First: Episode 0369)
Song Joe Raposo sings "What Do You Do With a Fruit?"
(First: Episode 2050)
Muppets Kermit talks about "same" by showing two identical rectangles. Cookie Monster eats one of them, making them different. (alternate take)
(First: Episode 0018)
Cartoon A man displays his invention, the A-box, which only takes the letter A.
(First: Episode 0781)

SCENE 2 Big Bird, Telly Monster, and Jason are at Hooper's Store and they plan to order a meal with foods that begin with the letter of their names. Big Bird orders a big bowl of birdseed, a piece of bread with butter, and a banana. Telly orders a tuna fish sandwich, tomato juice, and a tangerine. David gets the idea behind what they just ordered, and points out that not too many foods start with the letter J for Jason. But Jason orders a macaroni salad, a melon, meatballs, and milk, which start with the letter "M" - for "me!"
Cartoon I've Got a Mind: Bird
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0269)
Film A kid marching band forms a triangle.
(First: Episode 0531)
Muppets "ABC Disco"
(First: Episode 1324)
Cartoon R for Rhinoceros (poem)
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 1151)
Cast Maria as Chaplin obeys the word HOP, then switches it to STOP.
(First: Episode 1982)
Cartoon These Are Your Parts: The host interviews a hand.
(First: Episode 1359)
SCENE 3 Bob plays a game with the viewer to find the hidden 6s in a painting of Count von Count riding his motorcycle. He counts the six bats flying in the picture as well.
Cartoon A magician tries to make six circles disappear.
(First: Episode 0783)
Song Alone Song
(First: Episode 0921)
Muppets Alphabet Chat: Mr. Chatterly tries to discuss the letter R, but everything goes awry.
(First: Episode 0876)
Cartoon Different uses of a triangle (Spanish)
(First: Episode 1753)
Muppets Forgetful Jones needs something to ride around the ranch. Clementine gives him clues: it has four legs, a bushy tail, eats hay, and neighs. It's his horse Buster, who arrives with the jeep.
(First: Episode 2081)
Cartoon A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him.
(First: Episode 0399)
Insert Big Bird and Snuffy remember when they met ... but their memories are different from one another.
(First: Episode 2208)
Cartoon The Typewriter: R for Rope
(First: Episode 0764)
Film David asks the viewer to find some triangles in a fence.
(First: Episode 0434)
Muppets Lena Horne sings "How Do You Do?" to Grover.
(First: Episode 0536)
Cartoon A man shows the difference between a regular slice of bread and a toasted one.
(First: Episode 1497)
Insert Ask Oscar: Timi translates Oscar's words in sign language as he answers a letter from someone who wants to know what the longest Grouch word he knows is. Oscar states that the word is "supercalifragilistic-yucka-alidocious" (a reference to "Mary Poppins"), which is hard to sign, especially when Oscar repeats it many times.
(First: Episode 1829)
Cartoon A for apricot, alligator, acrobat, accordion, artist, airplane.
(First: Episode 1586)
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Swimming and flying pelicans.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0322)
Cartoon A boy does an addition problem in his head: 5 + 1 = 6.
(First: Episode 0548)
Muppets The Count sings about "The First Day of School".
(First: Episode 1736)
Animation Blue, red and yellow ovals play "Old MacDonald."
(First: Episode 2002)
Film "Six Song (Song of Six)"
(First: Episode 0011)
Cartoon Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0455)
SCENE 4 David plays basketball with Jason and the other kids while Bob announces the sponsors, and the credits roll.



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