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Sesame Street
A tribute to the word "agua"
Air date April 27, 1992
Season Season 23 (1991-1992)
Written by Joey Mazzarino
Production January 22, 1992
Sponsors A, N, 16

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
2996scene1
SCENE 1 Telly and Rosita are fascinated by the word agua, but Maria is not as impressed. Telly suggests they sing a song about agua, but he doesn't know what it means. Maria tells him it means water, and they go off to find things that agua does so they can write a song about it.
Word.AGUA.70s
Cartoon The word AGUA fills up with water.
(First: Episode 0523)
Ssnews.history
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: First Day of School in HistoryKermit observes a school from prehistoric times.
(First: Episode 1953)
3141l
Cartoon Gordon voiceover N/n
(First: Episode 2283)
Applecider
Film A group of kids pick apples in an orchard, and take them into the cider mill to make apple cider.
(First: Episode 1585)
A-ape.bite
Cartoon An ape takes a bite out of a yellow A.
(First: Episode 2813)
2996scene2

2996-01
SCENE 2 Maria asks Telly and Rosita how their agua song is coming, and they are frustrated that they can't learn anything about agua. The Amazing Mumford appears, and is eager to help by showing them his new trick to make it rain. It only rains on Maria.
3142n
Cartoon A mother sings the story of how water travels down the drain and becomes rain.
(First: Episode 2865)
2head.Shapes
Muppets The Two-Headed Monster looks at different shapes.
(First: Episode 1629)
3150k
Cartoon A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0780)
2485za
Song Joe Raposo sings "Little Things".
re-filmed version
(First: Episode 2485)
16.shellquilt
Animation Counting to 16 on quilt patterns
2996scene3

2996-02
SCENE 3 Mumford tries another agua trick, this time an attempt to make ice without a freezer. After he says his magic words, there are still no ice cubes in the glass of water. However, there is a slick sheet of ice on the ground and Maria slips on it. A group of penguins comes and starts a hockey game.
AngryActor
Cartoon Actor demonstrates anger towards casting director - literally!
(First: Episode 2061)
3164x
Song "At the Coastline" (Beach Boys style)
(First: Episode 2792)
Playball
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie is sad because it's raining and he can't play baseball. Bert encourages him to imagine that he's playing instead. In Ernie's imagination, he hits a high fly ball that lands in the ocean. Bert tells Ernie that the sun is out, and he can go out and play now. Ernie says that he can't play -- his ball fell in the ocean.
(First: Episode 0410)
OxRocks
Cartoon Big, Bigger, Biggest (oxen pulling rocks)
(First: Episode 0764)
WHN1

WHN2
Cast Gordon hosts "What Happens Next," in which the viewer has to guess what kind of humiliation Maria as Chaplin is going to face before Gordon rings the Dinger's ding-dong bell. First, the tramp slips on a banana peel, then collapses when sitting on a three-legged bench. Finally, when a rain cloud is about to rain on him, he shifts the cloud over to the left of the screen so it rains on Gordon instead.
(First: Episode 2328)
Facecartoon
Cartoon A cartoon man (voiced by Bob Arbogast) is irritated to find that he has a succession of animal noses.
(First: Episode 0769)
FaceFacts
Song Lillian sings "Face Facts."
(First: Episode 2760)
2996scene4
SCENE 4 Telly doesn't think they'll be able to finish their song because he can't think of a word that rhymes with rain. After brainstorming a few words that rhyme but don't fit the song, a penguin asks them where he can catch a bus to the arctic, since the ice patch he was playing on melted and went down the drain. The penguins then offer their services as musicians.
Rubberglove!!
Cartoon The Great Inventors Series: Willy Pinkham, intern at the rubber glove factory, invents the balloon.
Artist: Bruce Cayard
(First: Episode 2579)
Folge2269-9
Muppets "Sixteen Samba"
(First: Episode 2822)
Toon.Homes
Cartoon A report on homes around the world.
(First: Episode 1711)
1845d
Film Lobster fisherman
(First: Episode 0966)
Gator pointing
Cartoon A for apricot, alligator, acrobat, accordion, artist, airplane.
(First: Episode 1586)
2996scene5
SCENE 5 Telly and Rosita sing Maria their musical tribute to the word agua, accompanied by the penguin musicians and Mumford on glockenspiel.
GrowingNumbers16
Animation Growing Numbers #16
Kermithairpiece
Muppets Grover the Salesman: When Grover comes to Kermit's home dressed in salesman attire, Kermit quickly tells Grover that he doesn't want whatever it is that Grover is selling, since Grover always tries to sell him things that he has no use for. However, Grover tells Kermit that he has come to give him something: a hairpiece. Once it is on Kermit's head, Kermit decides that it doesn't look very good. Grover agrees, and offers to sell him a comb, a hair brush, some shampoo, and hair tonic.
(First: Episode 1972)
3136w
Song "Fixin' My Hair"
(First: Episode 2734)
Alienlooksforhome
Cartoon An alien asks a boy for directions to the baseball diamond.
Artist: Bill Davis
(First: Episode 1877)
Blairunderwood
Celebrity Blair Underwood swings Elmo sixteen times.
(First: Episode 2794)
InuitSong
Cartoon "Song of the Inuit Child"
(First: Episode 2112)
2996scene6
SCENE 6 Chicago wants to show Telly and Savion his trick. Telly gets excited for a circus trick like the lion jumping through a ring of fire, but Chicago's trick is a card trick. Savion picks a card, and Chicago tells him which card he picked...by guessing each number in sequence. Telly is impressed, and Chicago gives away his secret--he just counted. Savion tells Chicago that even though that's not really a magic trick, he counted very well. Savion announces the sponsors.

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