Episode 2600

	Sesame Street
	Maria's baby shower
Air date	April 21, 1989
Season	Season 20 (1988-1989)
Written by	Emily Perl Kingsley
Sponsors	B, H, 8
	This episode guide is missing segments cut from a PBS pledge broadcast. ⓘ

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Gina explains to Big Bird that the party set up out in the yard is for Maria's baby shower. Big Bird insists of getting her a gift.
	Cartoon	The Bellhop has to bring 8 steamer trunks down 8 flights of stairs. (First: Episode 2511)
	Muppets	Construction worker Sally Smith is the surprise contestant of the on-location game "This Is Your Lunch." Sally must guess the contents of her lunchbox correctly after each food item gives her clues. (First: Episode 1631)
	Cartoon	H/h (with voiceover by Roscoe Orman) (EKA: Episode 2282)
	Song	"Garbageman's Blues Song" (EKA: Episode 1952)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: Kermit is sent to the park for a report on co-operation, except that there's nobody around to interview. At that moment, monster reporter Telly turns up to conduct the same interview. They end up cooperating by interviewing each other. (EKA: Episode 2326)
	Cartoon	A snake has a knot in his middle, and he can't find his end. The detective helps the snake find his end ... playing drums in a band.
	SCENE 2	Snuffy wanders into Big Bird's nest area and learns about the party. He too wants to bring a gift, but because they don't know anything about they baby, they have a hard time thinking of the right present. Snuffy proposes a year's supply of cabbages and spaghetti (which is what his mommy received before Alice was born), while Big Bird suggests a year's supply of birdseed. They conclude more thinking is in order.
	Film	Raposo: A girl puts on her coat all by herself. (EKA: Episode 1128)
	Muppets	Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (EKA: Episode 0233)
	Film	Colored sand forms the letter B and a boat. (EKA: Episode 2503)
	Film	Kids have a lost-dog poster made using an old-style printing press. (EKA: Episode 1222)
	Muppets	Grover sits in a park and recites a poem about a butterfly that he sees. (EKA: Episode 2448)
	Film	A film of butterflies Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406)
	Cartoon	Edgar Turtle's three nephews show him how a round is sung. (First: Episode 2506)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird and Snuffy come up with several potential gifts which would be useful for a baby, but they learn everyone else has already gotten them. They put their heads together once more...
	Cartoon	H - Horse (EKA: Episode 0809)
	SCENE 3 cont'd	The pair now have the letter H on the brain and think of gifts beginning with H (such as a haystack, helicopter and hippo). Big Bird suddenly gets a great idea and starts digging through his trunk.
	Video	Ann Marie and Skeeter Rabbit do their dance routine. The frame freezes whenever the word STOP comes on.
	Cartoon	Letter B becomes a banana and broccoli (First: Episode 2513)
	Muppets	Bert sings "The Paperclip." (First: Episode 2578)
	Film	A man makes a shadow puppet of a camel. (EKA: Episode 1068)
	Cartoon	A runner leaps over letter H hurdles. (First: Episode 2519)
	Muppets	The Count has built a rocket with the help of Dr. Rainbrain and plans to launch it from inside his castle. The two count down from the computer console, but the rocket doesn't take off. Indeed, Count never intended for lift-off; he plans on counting down again and again. (EKA: Episode 2396)
	Animation	Red and yellow dots play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." (EKA: Episode 2253)
	SCENE 4	Maria opens her presents at the show. Big Bird and Snuffy's is a large posterboard with a poem written on it; the poem says that they're gift is plenty of love for the baby (as well as the poem itself).
	Cartoon	Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016)
	Muppets	Kermit sings "Get Along" with some Anything Muppet greasers, the Martians, the Twiddlebugs, and a cow.
	Cartoon	Two men push two large bird eggs to the top of two hills. (EKA: Episode 1137)
	Film	Fish swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (EKA: Episode 0301)
	Muppets	Gladys the Cow assists the Amazing Mumford on stage. Mumford says he will make her disappear, but his attempts fail, so he says he'll turn her into a duck instead. She runs offstage in fright, which means his trick did work this time. (First: Episode 2579)
	SCENE 5	Everyone cleans up from the party as the sponsors are announced.
Known missing segments
Picture	Segment	Description
	Cartoon	The Alphabet Song (country, gospel, Mexican) Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 1576)