Episode 2615

Sesame Street
Birth of Gabriela
Air date	May 19, 1989 (season finale)
Season	Season 20 (1988-1989)
Sponsors B, M, 8 Syndication Sesame Street Unpaved

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Picture	Segment	Description
File:2615-A1.jpg	SCENE 1	Big Bird wants to know if Maria's baby has arrived yet. If so, is it a boy or a girl? Does anyone on Sesame Street know yet?
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Meanwhile, at the hospital, Luis tells Oscar to call Hooper's Store and update everyone on the status. He does so...
File:2615-A3.jpg	SCENE 1 cont'd	... but when the phone rings, there's no one to pick up. And when everyone realizes they should keep an eye on the phone at Hooper's, it stops ringing by the time they get there.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Meanwhile, Oscar has a conflict: the night before, he drove Maria and Luis to the hospital, which was a nice thing. And just now, he tried to call everyone at Hooper's, which would have also been a nice thing. He's confused, because Grouches aren't supposed to be nice.
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "I Believe in Little Things." (EKA: Episode 2485)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie and Bert play "the feelings game." (EKA: Episode 2356)
	Cartoon	The Bellhop has to bring 8 steamer trunks down 8 flights of stairs. (EKA: Episode 2600)
	SCENE 2	Telly walks by Susan and Gordon reading a book to Miles. He wonders how they can nonchalantly do this while everyone else on Sesame Street is excited about the arrival of a new baby. Susan explains that having a new baby around will change a few things, but many things will still be the same.
	Muppets	The Two-Headed Monster takes turns reading itself a story.
	Cartoon	Letter B/b (bouncing circles) (EKA: Episode 2503) This segment was cut from the Noggin version.
	Film	Close-ups of animals. Kids try to guess what they are. (EKA: Episode 2367)
	Cartoon	A conductor conducts a choir to hum his music ("My Music"). Artist: Paul Fierlinger (EKA: Episode 2440)
	Muppets	Monsterpiece Theater: "The Sound of Music" (EKA: Episode 2481)
	Video	Fay demonstrates addition by placing 3 balls on a table. Artist: William Wegman
	SCENE 3	The phone rings at Hooper's -- could it be Luis? No...it turns out to be someone who wants lunch.
	SCENE 3 cont'd	While David talks to the customer, he ties up the line at the exact moment when Luis tries calling Hooper's himself.
	SCENE 3 cont'd	Oscar tells Luis that he's embarrassed about doing nice things for Luis and Maria. He even admits that he's happy the baby is coming! Luis explains that babies make everybody happy, and tells Oscar to keep reminding himself that he's still a Grouch.
	Cartoon	AMOR, amor, amor ... amoramor ... amoramor (EKA: Episode 0801)
	Film	A baby messes around (literally) with a chocolate cookie, as Cookie Monster (in voice-over) wishes it were for him. (First: Episode 0407)
	Cartoon	B for banana and ballerina
	Muppets	Kermit sings about his youth, or as he calls it, "My Polliwog Ways".
	Cartoon	The birth and growth of a frog is documented. At the very end, the fully-grown frog hops in the middle of a field and calls out, "Hey, Kermit!" (EKA: Episode 1839)
	SCENE 4	Someone calls Hooper's again ... but it's a wrong number. Then, Telly says it's quite exciting when a new baby is about to show up, and that pretty soon, Linda and Bob will get married and have a baby of their own! Gina gets excited, but Linda and Bob both vehemently deny that they have any plans.
	Cartoon	Dr. Annie Eyeball, PhD., looks at breathing. Artist: Bruce Cayard
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment: Grover and Zelda look above and below.
	Cartoon	A lizard sings about how she likes to be "Above it All", as well as below. Artist: Sally Cruikshank (EKA: Episode 2572) This segment was cut from the Noggin version.
	SCENE 5	Oscar, now back from the hospital and in his trash can, refuses to tell Gordon, David, and Bob whether or not the baby has been born yet. This makes them furious, and they reassure Oscar that he's still as grouchy as ever!
	Video	Ann Marie and Skeeter Rabbit do their dance routine. The frame freezes whenever the word STOP comes on.
	Cartoon	Melvin the Moving Man (EKA: Episode 0276) This segment was cut from the Noggin version.
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie tries to get baby Ernestine to say his name. It turns out she's much better at saying "Bert!"
	Cartoon	The Four Squares sing "It's Hip To Be a Square." Artists: Vincent Cafarelli & Candy Kugel
	SCENE 6	At the hospital, Luis tries calling Hooper's once again. No one answers. But suddenly everyone shows up behind him! Luis tells everyone... "It's a girl."
	Muppets	Three Honkers teach a newly-hatched baby Honker to honk. (EKA: Episode 1706)
	Cartoon	The 8 Brothers Circus displays 8 elephants. Artist: Paul Fierlinger This segment was cut from the Noggin version.
File:There's a Bird on Me!.JPG	Song	Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me." (EKA: Episode 0536)
	Cartoon	B for boats, bouquet, baby, bonnet, etc. (EKA: Episode 2494)
	SCENE 7	Everyone visits Maria in the delivery room. Maria recalls that the experience of giving birth was quite an adventure.
	SCENE 7 cont'd	Everyone meets baby Gabriela for the first time.
	Cartoon	Madrigal Alphabet Animation by Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 0677)
	Muppets / Celebrity	On a rainy night, the Count brings Susan Sarandon to a locked castle. He knocks on the door just for the sake of counting the knocks, until it's revealed that the castle is his own. He then proceeds to unlock the numerous locks, counting them in the process.
	Cartoon	A man counts 40 stars at night. (EKA: Episode 2243)
	SCENE 8	At night, Luis knocks on Oscar's trash can and tells him that the baby came, and that it's a girl.
	SCENE 8 cont'd	After Luis leaves, Oscar gives Maria a call at the hospital to see how she and the baby are doing. Gordon announces the sponsors. A nighttime credit crawl follows with the standard harmonica theme. So ends the 20th season of Sesame Street.

Notes

• Jon Stone directed this episode.
• This was Northern Calloway's final episode as David. After the episode aired, Calloway left the show due to medical reasons with the explanation that David moved away to live with his grandmother and that ownership of Hooper's Store was turned over to Mr. Handford. Calloway died in 1990.
• Scene 6 and a portion of scene 7 appear on Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days.
• Baby Gabriela is played in this episode by an infant boy- the son of Dick Maitland, to be exact.

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