Episode 2711

Sesame Street
Luis cleans the apartment
Air date	March 26, 1990
Season	Season 21 (1989-1990)
Written by	Belinda Ward
Sponsors P, Z, 13 This episode guide has been compiled from script materials provided by a trusted source. ⓘ

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Elmo and Saydia play with string and Elmo calls out Luis to play with them. Luis can't right now, as he is cleaning the apartment with the Amazing Mumford.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Mumford reads a copy of Magic Houskeeping magazine and tries out some tricks to clean up the room instantly. However, he only manages to make the room messier and messier. Luis suggests he quiet while he's ahead and Mumford agrees, leaving the apartment and Luis with the mess.
	Cartoon	Jim Thurman sings "Calcutta Joe." Animation by Buzzco Associates, Inc. (First: Episode 2492)
	Film	Some kids learn how to use Logo, a computer programming language, to draw shapes on computers. (EKA: Episode 2003)
	Muppets	Monsterpiece Theater: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (First: Episode 2674)
	Cartoon	Light and heavy (bird falls on man) (First: Episode 0785)
	Film	Alphaquest: P A pack of painted purple penguins practicing a pop song in a pine tree park, and a pink pig with a parachute.
	Cartoon	I am crying / estoy llorando (David and Maria voiceover) (First: Episode 1041)
	SCENE 2	Oscar and Grouch photographer Scuzullo get notes and photos of Luis' messy living room for an article in Grouch Housekeeping. The room earns their seal of approval - an actual seal, who starts to mess up the kitchen.
	Cartoon	Rap #13 (First: Episode 2547)
	Muppets	Guy Smiley hosts Here is Your Life, surprising Oak Tree with the story of his life. The guests include Granny Fanny Nesselrode, who planted the tree as an acorn, Cloud and Sun, who gave the tree rain and sunshine, and Marty Table and Sarah Chair, who were made from the tree's friends. (First: Episode 0406)
	Cartoon	A boy finds a set of doors with animals that make the wrong sound, and swaps the doors to correct them.
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola demonstrate happy, sad, scared and mad. (First: Episode 0550)
	Film	Looking for circles in the city (Maria voice-over)
	Cartoon	Zig...zag...zoom...zoo. (First: Episode 0359)
File:Elmo dusting.png	SCENE 3	The room is looking much cleaner and Elmo helps Luis by dusting. He becomes frightened of the vacuum cleaner, believing it's a scary monster. Luis shows him it's not alive and demonstrates how one can turn it on and off. Elmo asks him to do it over and over until it wears out.
	Film	Slide puzzle - truck (First: Episode 0403)
	Cartoon	A woodpecker drills through a tree to demonstrate entrada and salida. (First: Episode 0808)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Harry Belafonte sings of about the "Coconut Counting Man," who is actually The Count. (First: Episode 1692)
	Cartoon	A story of a man who hates frogs, until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387)
	Muppets	The Two-Headed Monster brings in a suitcase filled with heavy and light objects, and places them on a wall. The right head lays out a feather, a ribbon, and a tissue. The left head puts down a book, a brick, a rock, and a 1000 pound weight, but the more weight that is placed on the wall causes the ground they're standing on to tilt! (First: Episode 2577)
	Cartoon	Geometry of Circles #2 "Seven Circles with Designs" (First: Episode 1394)
	Film	A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen. (EKA: Episode 1845)
	SCENE 4	Luis goes to clean the bathroom and discovers Placido Flamingo in his bathtub. The singer is practicing for an opera, "The Bathtub of Seville," and recruits Luis to join in. As Placido sings, Luis scrubs the tub in time to the music, which picks up and up as it goes along. When the song ends, Placido has Luis clean him next.
	Cartoon	A top-hatted man tries to show a girl how many uses a box has, but she prefers kicking it. (First: Episode 0763)
	Cast	Maria as Charlie Chaplin: Long, Longer, Longest (First: Episode 0786)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash Old MacDonald says a spaceship has landed on his farm. A dog emerges with a frisbee in its mouth, and MacDonald mistakes the frisbee for the spaceship. But before long, a real spaceship lands on the farm, and out of it come the Martians. The scene ends in chaos. (First: Episode 2021)
	Film	Kids paint P-word animals on glass. (edited) (First: Episode 0119)
	Cartoon	Jerry Nelson sings and counts thirteen turkeys.
	SCENE 5	Luis wants to take a bath of his own now and finds three men in his tub. He orders them to get out, but they can't figure out the difference between in and out. Mumford returns and performs his famous tub trick. The trick gets the three men out, but puts Luis (still fully dressed) in.
	Animation	P for Pyramid (EKA: Episode 2061)
	Muppets	While Ernie is away visiting the Count, Bert has the place all to himself, or so he thinks! A group of sheep burst into the room and proceed to sing him a song ("Bert's Blanket") about how his blanket was made (with a flashback scene where Ernie is portrayed as a farmer). He then corrects them on the actual production phase. (EKA: Episode 2447)
	Cartoon	A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled. (First: Episode 0413)
	Film	The snouts, tails and bodies of pigs, with a soundtrack of pigs squealing. (First: Episode 0179)
	Cast	Gordon acts out Maria's 13 Step Method of Lifting a Heavy Barbel. (First: Episode 2595)
	Cartoon	The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters ask it to stop. (First: Episode 0149)
[[ File:Episode 2711.png	SCENE 6	Luis joins Elmo and the kids out in the arbor, finished cleaning and ready to play. Elmo wants to play pretend and have them all imagine cleaning Luis' apartment! Luis sits it out as Mumford announces the sponsors.

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