Episode 2189

Sesame Street
Air date	March 27, 1986
Season	Season 17 (1985-1986)
Production December 5, 1985 Sponsors E, F, 10

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird notices Gordon bouncing baby Miles on his lap in the yard when he asks Gordon to play. Gordon explains to Big Bird that he can't play at the moment because he's busy playing with Miles. Big Bird then comes up with a solution: Big Bird bounces Gordon on his lap while Gordon bounces Miles on his lap. Gordon is hesitant, but they give it a try and have fun doing so. David comes out to observe what's going on and is confused, with Big Bird telling him there's no more room for bouncing before he has a chance to speak.
	Cartoon	Junior has to jump across the pond to make the frog chorus. (First: Episode 0926)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash — Don Music tries to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb." (First: Episode 0698)
	Film	Lobster fisherman (First: Episode 0966)
	Cartoon	"E Imagination": A surreal story of a boy eating a peach atop an eagle witnessing a queen on her knee, dreaming of eating ice cream in a land of steam. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001)
	SCENE 2	David is reading a newspaper outside of Hooper's while Elmo watches him on the newsstand. Elmo asks if he can borrow the newspaper, and David assumes he wants it for cutouts or origami. Elmo really wants it so he can learn what's going on in the world, but David wonders how he's going to read it if he's too young to read; Elmo simply asks David to read it to him.
	Insert	Scanimate Films #10 (First: Episode 0134)
	Film	With their teacher, kids play clapping and dancing games about the rhythm in their names. (First: Episode 1735)
	Cartoon	Two men push two large bird eggs on top of two hills. (First: Episode 0773)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert asks Ernie to help him carry his heavy groceries, but Ernie is too busy thinking about all the things he can do as he sits in a chair: breathing, listening, and smelling. (First: Episode 1449)
	Film	Seashells form various patterns in the sand. (First: Episode 2031)
	Cartoon	A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F. (First: Episode 0309)
	Film	Kids go roller-skating in a playground as ragtime music plays. (First: Episode 1234)
	Insert	Big Bird sings about "Wheels on My Feet" while roller skating down the street. (First: Episode 1483)
	Cartoon	F for fire, fountain, face, farmer, etc. (First: Episode 1614)
	Insert	The Alphabet Dancers make the form of the letter F. (First: Episode 0446)
	Cartoon	"¡Ella juega ténis!" "Did you say she's playing tennis?" "¡Sí, ella juega ténis!" (First: Episode 2111)
	Muppets	Game Show: To Tell A Face The object of the game is to identify the face of a relative. The contestant in this skit is Baby Bobby, who must identify his grandmother. (First: Episode 2125)
	Cartoon	"Mad Goat Song" Artist: Derek Lamb (First: Episode 0771)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Tony Danza reads a note that makes him furious. He rips it up in anger. Oscar reads a piece of it and sees why he would've been so angry. (First: Episode 2144)
	Cartoon	A football player talks about his favorite sport. Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0135)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert build a snowman, but Ernie fears that the snowman will be cold if they don't dress him. Even though Bert tries to tell him that snowmen aren't alive and can't feel the cold, that doesn't stop Ernie from dressing the snowman in Bert's clothing. (First: Episode 1824)
	Cartoon	A girl explains (in poetry) how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. (First: Episode 0480)
	Film	Exploring on the ocean rocks (First: Episode 1414)
	Muppets	A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks. (First: Episode 0298)
	Film	Gibbons make screeching noises. (First: Episode 0276)
	Cartoon	What does the word COLD match with? (First: Episode 2087)
	SCENE 3	Linda is folding clothes next to Telly in the yard when he tells her it's time to go to Bob's apartment. She leaves, and Telly notifies the viewer that they're going to be doing something "a little bit different" when it's time to say goodbye. Suddenly, the closing music starts and Telly tries to shout to Linda up at Bob's window to give her a cue for whatever it is they're doing. When he realizes she can't hear him he orders the closing music to be stopped, only for Dr. Nobel Price to then arrive at the scene. Telly begs for him to invent something that could get Linda's attention, so he runs off to his lab to invent something.
	Animation	Apples fall from a tree, which bothers the hill beneath it, as Irish music underscores the segment. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0628)
	Muppets	Waiter Grover: Grover opens a menu and shows Mr. Johnson a large picture of the special sandwich, which comes with potato chips on the side, a pickle on the top, and olive stuck in with a toothpick. When the sandwich arrives, Mr. Johnson complains that it doesn't match the picture on the menu -- it doesn't have potato chips, a pickle or an olive. (First: Episode 0332)
	Film	A figure skater illustrates forward and backward. (First: Episode 0439)
	Cartoon	The Ringmaster treats us to the balancing feats of ten brown bears Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1336)
	SCENE 4	Dr. Price comes back with the "Get Linda's Attention When She's In Bob's Apartment" invention, fueled by pineapples. On top, there is a viewhole that Telly peeks through, and will be able to see the chain of actions that will light a lightbulb perched on Bob's windowsill. Inside the machine a pineapple is dropped, which wakes up a tiny chicken causing it to cross a road in order to get to the other side. Because the chicken is still sleepy, it doesn't notice all the cars on the road honking; a nearby tiny Izzy Honker mistakes the noise for a gaggle of Honkers, which leads him to decide to start a Honker baseball game. During the game the Honker slides over to second base, tearing his pants. A crowd member yells, "Izzy tore his pants!" which, nearby, Slimey's dancing sister Isadora Dunkworm mistakes for "Isadora, dance!" Isadora and her fellow dancers begin to dance, and after they finish the audience goes off to the pizza parlor, closing the door to the theater behind them, which is tied to a string that turns on Linda's light when closed.
	SCENE 4 cont'd	After all that happens, Linda gets her cue and begins rolling out the sponsors on clothes over the clothesline. Telly announces them, and Gordon walks in questioning the peculiar machine. Telly and Dr. Price are stumped when Gordon points out they could've simply gone up to Bob's apartment and tell Linda themselves, and the two ponder this option as Gordon finishes with the CTW slogan.

Notes

• The dance music for Isadora and her friends would later be recycled for the Letter of the Day Pageant, played during the letter T's tap dancing demonstration.

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