Sesame Street
Plot	When they were little
Air date	March 18, 1987
Season	Season 18 (1986-1987)
Sponsors	C, L, 6
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Susan and Forgetful Jones watch Gordon play ball with Miles and some kids. Oscar the Grouch points out that Miles is growing, and watching him play ball reminds Oscar of a special time when he was a little Grouch.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	In a flashback sequence, Oscar narrates the first time he and his Grandpa Grouch went for a car ride, and Grandpa showed him how to count to 10 by honking the horn. A grouch cop stopped by, and asked them to keep making noise.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Fade back to the present: remembering the special grouchy car ride makes Oscar want to repeat the car noise over and over, which drives everyone away from him.
	Cartoon	An alligator and an elephant chat about how to remember their names.
	Song	"Me and My Chair" (EKA: Episode 1706)
	Cartoon	L for locomotive, letter, lamp, light, lion, lettuce, lips (EKA: Episode 2107)
	Muppets	Three Honkers teach a newly-hatched baby Honker to honk. (EKA: Episode 1706)
	Cartoon	Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 2	Now sitting in the courtyard, Forgetful tells Gordon and Susan a time he (actually) remembers from when he was a baby ...
	SCENE 2 cont'd	In the flashback sequence, Baby Forgetful Jones recites the alphabet as Baby Clementine cheers him on ... but he forgets the letter Z.
	SCENE 2 cont'd	Back in the present, Forgetful still feels proud of having remembered the alphabet A to Y- until Gordon points out the last letter.
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "Trying and Trying Again." (EKA: Episode 1781)
	Cartoon	I Thought a Thought ... about big things. Artist: Cliff Roberts
	Muppets	Bert wants to know why there is a cookie lying on the table. Ernie explains that he put it there to remind himself. (First: Episode 0095)
	Cartoon	A playground is destroyed by bad weather, and a teacher has her class rebuild it from memory.
	Muppets	Snuffy wears a green derby hat as he sings about L, "The Leading Letter of My Life."
	Cartoon	L - shooting stars
	Film	Elephants in a zoo Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0034)
	Muppets	Monsterpiece Theater: "Me, Claudius" (First: Episode 1576) Even though it appears in a 1987 episode, Elmo's original voice is unchanged in this sketch.
	Cartoon	C for Canary (role reversal) (EKA: Episode 1095)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash Kermit interviews Alice, from the Lewis Carroll tales. For this adventure, she eats something that makes her grow.
	Cartoon	Big / bigger / biggest (bikes)
	Cast	Hey Nonny Nonny rain song (Bob, David, Olivia) (EKA: Episode 2073)
	Cartoon	Brush your teeth, up and down, side to side, round and round.
	Cast	Maria introduces Snuffy to Baby Natasha. Snuffy tries to teach Natasha how to say things like "table," "chair" and "street." She does succeed in learning how to say "Oh, dear" like Snuffy.
	Cartoon	Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat (EKA: Episode 0814)
	Film	Two kids help an old Chinese man get his dragon kite in the air. (EKA: Episode 1364)
	Cartoon	A boy does an addition problem in his head: 5 + 1 = 6. (EKA: Episode 1646)
	Muppets	Game Show: "The Addition Game". Herry Monster is a contestant on Guy Smiley's game show "The Addition Game," in which Herry has to add items. Herry is unsure of the last addition problem, so he brings a few cars into the studio to add them up. (EKA: Episode 0890)
	Cartoon	A father explains to his son why it is important to wear a seat belt when riding in a car. Artist: Cliff Roberts (EKA: Episode 2258)
	SCENE 3	Gordon observes that there has been a lot of remembering happening on Sesame Street today, and points out that another way to use one's mind is to imagine what things will be like in the future.
	SCENE 3 cont'd	We fade to Gordon's imaginary sequence, which takes place when Miles is now a grownup (Kevin Clash), is married to a woman named Gina, and has a baby of his own.
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Back in the present, they all agree that that would be a nice thing to imagine.
	Cartoon	Typewriter Guy: C for Cat
	Muppets / Celebrity	Grover and Madeline Kahn sing "Sing After Me." (EKA: Episode 1112)
	Cartoon	Don't be a Snerd when you sneeze. Artist: Bruce Cayard (EKA: Episode 2258)
	Animation	A white shell is uncovered in the sand.
	SCENE 4	Gordon sits on the steps with the kids from the first scene, who talk about things they remember from when they were toddlers. Susan announces the sponsors.

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