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- It's Oscar's favorite day, trash collection day, and he imagines what it would be like if everybody (especially Gordon and Tom) loved trash the way he does.
- Cartoon: A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (EKA: Episode 0266)
- Mr. Snuffleupagus mails a letter and his trunk gets caught in the mailbox. After some thought and effort, Big Bird solves the problem of getting his friend's nose out. Later, Susan is skeptical of Big Bird's story about Mr. Snuffleupagus and the mailbox.
- Gordon holds a weathervane and explains that when the wind blows from the west, the arrow points to the letter W.
- Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas. (EKA: Episode 0264)
- Tom demonstrates that a dummy barbell is heavy; Susan observes that a feather is light; Oscar finally shows that a marble is light while a bowling ball is heavy.
- Big Bird recites a poem that he made about about the octopus.
- Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus count 6 balloons.
