Episode 2059

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Sesame Street
Plot
Air date	March 28, 1985
Season	Season 16 (1984-1985)
Sponsors	E, R, 7
Syndication	Sesame Street Unpaved
DVD

This episode guide is missing segments cut from Noggin's broadcast.

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird imagines life as a mailbox.
	Film	A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. (EKA: Episode 0666)
	Cartoon	Seven animals in a tree. Artist: Owe Gustafson
	Muppets	The Count's Bats are upset because The Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while The Count counts all the bats...but there is only one Count. (EKA: Episode 0800)
	Cartoon	They'd play with me if I had...
	Film	George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders.
	Cartoon	E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg.
	Muppets	Grover looks closely at a body in front of the camera.
	Cartoon	A man saws out a letter E. (EKA: Episode 0666)
	Celebrity	James Taylor performs "Jellyman Kelly" with a bunch of kids. (EKA: Episode 1800)
	Cartoon	R for Rhinoceros. Animation by Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 1800)
	Film	Shopping for soup ingredients.
	Cartoon	Boy and the UP balloons. (EKA: Episode 1736)
	Cast	Sleeper tries to wake up in the morning. (David as "Sleeper").
	Cartoon	Typewriter Guy: R -- Rope Animation by Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 1800)
	Muppets	Two Anything Muppets sing "As I Was Going to St. Ives." (First: Episode 0045)
	Cartoon	The Ringmaster introduces seven swimming seals. Artist: Jeff Hale
	SCENE 2	Petey does some break dancing. Oscar shows him Fluffy's "break"-dancing skills.
	Film	Joe Raposo: Elephant (instrumental). (First: Episode 0034)
	Cartoon	Madrigal Alphabet Animation by Jeff Hale. (EKA: Episode 1093)
	Muppets	News Flash: Mary and her Little Lamb. After an interview with Mary, the lamb follows Kermit the Frog.
	SCENE 3	Petey shows Bob a break-dancing move in order to impress Linda. Big Bird thinks he's trying to fly, and Linda has no idea of what he's doing.
	Film	Letter R hoist Music: Joe Raposo
	Muppets	Grover and the letter R, which ROLLS, ROCKS, RUNS, and ROCKETS.
	Film	Song: “Water, Wind, and Sun.”
	Muppets	Herry and John-John: up/down (EKA: Episode 0784)
	Cartoon	Square in space.
	Cartoon	A man chases a runaway "no."
	SCENE 4	Big Bird, David and the kids play an animal guessing game.
	Film	Song: “Share in Your Fun with Another Someone” (EKA: Episode 0926)
	Cartoon	The 3 Numero Brothers show addition and subtraction.
	Muppets	Ernie sings "D-U-C-K-I-E."
	Cartoon	I Love You (in American sign language). (EKA: Episode 1186)
	Film	Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be.
	Cast	Luis and Gordon clean up. (EKA: Episode 1845)
	Cartoon	Mi kat iz ... gone.
	SCENE 5	For storytime, Maria tells Big Bird about all the jobs she's had since high school. We see flashback scenes of her at the Lending Library, as a construction worker (with Jerry Nelson making a cameo), and asking Luis for a raise at the Fix-It Shop. She confides that when Sally Ride visited, she thought about becoming an astronaut and going into outer space. Her life story puts Big Bird to sleep.