Episode 3384

Sesame Street
Irvine's blanket
Air date	May 4, 1995
Season	Season 26 (1994-1995)
Written by	Belinda Ward
Directed by Emily Squires Sponsors M, P, 17

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Oscar attempts to separate Irvine from her blanket; he wishes to put it through a mud wash to make it even dirtier, but Irvine refuses to give it up. When he gives up, Maria (having been through the situation before with Gabi) offers to help. Her solution is to get Irvine to exchange her blanket for her squeeze-toy alligator. She keeps both instead.
	Cartoon	A dinosaur tries to move around a rock. (First: Episode 2744)
	Muppets	Monsterpiece Theater: "Conservations With My Father" (First: Episode 3241)
	Animation	Pencil box M / m (First: Episode 3077)
	Animation	Playing cards form an M, then dance the mambo. (First: Episode 3160)
	Cartoon	Melba spells her name and her brother's name on their robot, Meltro. (First: Episode 3363)
	SCENE 2	Oscar attempts to trick Irvine into dropping the blanket, but that also fails. Maria presses onward and talks Irvine into getting it washed. Irvine now wants to wash her blanket, and even gets to put it in herself! Maria is proud of her idea, until she gets a face full of mud from inside the can.
	Song	"Front Back Ballet" Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 3016)
	Film	A group of girls do a playground cheer ("One step forward, one step back"). (First: Episode 3031)
	Muppets	An Anything Muppet family sings "Let's Go Driving". (First: Episode 2095)
	Animation	Masked March #17 (First: Episode 3368)
	Animation	Seventeen derby hats drop onto a balloon head. (First: Episode 2820)
	Animation	Growing Numbers #17 (First: Episode 2975)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Big Bird and Snuffy dance a minuet as played by the Tokyo String Quartet. (First: Episode 3341)
	Animation	Cecille sings "Brushin' Down the Doggies". (First: Episode 2862)
	Muppets	Elmo, Telly and Zoe want to show "between" by having Elmo appear between the other two. However, they never get in the right order and are forced to run around and switch places.
	Song	"I'm a Little Airplane" (First: Episode 3266)
	Animation	Can you find the animals hiding in the T-shirt? Artist: Deanna Morse (First: Episode 2873)
	Song	"Conga Counting Song" (First: Episode 2778)
	Animation	Counting 1-10 and 10-0 in Spanish (Maria voice-over) (First: Episode 3008)
	SCENE 3	Irvine now cries since she misses her blanket, and Maria notices how upset she sounds. Oscar puts on a trashy videotape to keep her mind off it...
	Film	"Box City Recycling Rap" Kids sing a rap song about recycling. They build a city out of boxes and cartons. (First: Episode 2851)
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Irvine is in a much better mood after the video, scatting the tune, but Maria accidentally mentions her blanket, so she starts bawling again. Oscar tells Maria to put in another trashy video...
	Song	"Every Bit of Litter Hurts" (First: Episode 2721)
	Muppets	Sonny Friendly hosts "The New Here is Your Life," honoring Prairie Dawn's glass of milk.
	Animation	The letter P appears in words on buildings. (First: Episode 3329)
	Film	Wegman's dogs form a letter P. (First: Episode 3300)
	Cartoon	P is for Pillow (First: Episode 0374)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Water Baby" over footage of seals and kids swimming. (First: Episode 2016)
	Cartoon	"Why Bears Smile" - a story of a bear who learned which body part to cover when sneezing. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1109)
	Animation	Beads arrange themselves into different groups and finally become a girl’s necklace. (First: Episode 3108)
	SCENE 4	Irvine is still bawling, and doesn't want to watch any more trashy tapes. Maria returns from the library with a book - Grouchy Baby's Favorite Things, a picture book of Grouchy items to take Irvine's mind off her blanket. Maria hesitates to read the last page, as it is about Grouchy Baby's blanket. When they accidentally blurt it out, Irvine starts crying again, so Oscar goes to check on her blanket.
	Cartoon	Me and My M Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1545)
	Cartoon	Mandrake the magician does magic, while Mo the mechanic mends a martian's flying machine. (First: Episode 3160)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278)
	Animation	Isadora's sneakers describe all the fun they've had this past year, as the seasons change. (First: Episode 2758)
	Muppets	Mac TV host Old MacDonald introduces the newest music video, "A New Way to Walk" performed by The Oinker Sisters. (EKA: Episode 2268)
	Film	The crosswalk signal flashes WALK and DON'T WALK as pedestrians cross the street in fast-motion and kids read the signal indications out loud. (First: Episode 3272)
	SCENE 5	Oscar returns with Irvine's blanket, which she immediately grabs and cuddles. He then tells Maria to scram before she upsets Irvine any further. She announces the sponsors before she leaves.

Notes

• This episode was later re-aired in Season 28 as Episode 3635.

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