Episode 3119

Sesame Street
Oscar meets Prunella
Air date	April 15, 1993
Season	Season 24 (1992-1993)
Sponsors M, U, 10

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	While Merry Monster plays the ukulele, Oscar introduces today's sponsors, and expects it to be a happy day, which he hates. Just then, a big loud truck rolls by, driven by a Grouch girl, who looks appealing to Oscar ...
	SCENE 1	Gordon comes by and asks Oscar who this new Grouch is and where she's from. Oscar makes it clear that he doesn't want to know, but the Grouch introduces herself anyway, as Prunella, from England. The truck she's driving is shaped like a large trash can, and happens to be her mobile home, which she's used to travel the world. Oscar asks her when she's leaving, and she answers that she's staying, to purposely annoy Oscar (and anyone else who gets in her way).
	Cartoon	"Next To Song" Artist: Jane Aaron (EKA: Episode 2909)
	Cast / Celebrity	Wanda the Word Fairy introduces the viewer to her parents. (EKA: Episode 2678)
	Film	A girl dances her way into her family portrait.
	Muppets	The Sublime Miss M performs "You Gotta Have M." (EKA: Episode 2837)
	Animation	M / m (Gordon voiceover) (EKA: Episode 2440)
	Cast	Gina plays and sings "Follow the Leader" with the kids. (EKA: Episode 2787)
	Film	Orangutans playing (piano music) (EKA: Episode 2486)
	Muppets	Elmo sings "In Your Imagination."
	Film	Two boys walk though a city neighborhood to some funky break dancing music. (EKA: Episode 2679)
	Animation	Counting 10 shells (EKA: Episode 3037)
	Muppets	"Let's All Exercise" (EKA: Episode 2797)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: Two men demonstrate "up" on a teeter totter; one man ends up crashing through the ceiling. (EKA: Episode 1899)
	SCENE 2	Snuffy invites Big Bird to meet Prunella with him, but Big Bird wants to find a broken toy to give her, knowing that grouches like broken things.
	SCENE 2 cont'd	Meanwhile, Telly is the only one who could show up for today's Grouchketeer meeting. Telly asks about the new Grouch, and Oscar acts like he doesn't care about her. Regardless, Prunella talks about the last country she visited, Italy, showing a map of the country (which looks like an old boot), and a picture of her favorite piece of garbage: the ruins of the Roman coliseum. Gordon disagrees that it's garbage, pointing out that people from all over the world come to visit the historic landmark.
	SCENE 2 cont'd	Oscar and Prunella continue exchanging banter, while Big Bird and Snuffy continue looking for a broken toy.
	Song	"Hot in the City" (EKA: Episode 2751)
	Cartoon	A cat desperately tries to open a can of cat food by himself while his mistress is on the phone. Artist: Dan Haskett (EKA: Episode 2424)
	Muppets	Template:Ebe 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. (EKA: Episode 2230)
	Film	Three taxi chairs
	SCENE 3	Telly just wrote a nice letter to Prunella, asking her to tell him more about the places she's visited. He reads the letter to Oscar, and Oscar likes it, knowing that Prunella will react negatively to such a nicely written letter. Prunella reads it, and writes Telly a letter in return, denying his request.
	Film	A girl pretends she's an astronaut. (EKA: Episode 2956)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster introduces the word "AMOR". (EKA: Episode 0892)
	Cartoon	AMOR, amor, amor ... amoramor ... amoramor ... (EKA: Episode 0801)
	Muppets	"I'm in Love with U" (EKA: Episode 1854)
	Cartoon	A boy needs a letter U to complete the word UP. (EKA: Episode 0869)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Prairie Dawn is sad because of how small she is; Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers cheer her up by singing "Small People". They are joined by Big Bird, Snuffy, the Birdketeers, Natasha, Merry Monster, and Billy. (EKA: Episode 2945)
	Animation	Rubber Stamp #10 (EKA: Episode 3037)
	Muppets	Elmo explains the importance of sleep, but the audience won't stop applauding and let him sleep afterwards. (EKA: Episode 3053)
	Song	Jerry Nelson sings "Moonshine" (EKA: Episode 2980)
	Film	Shapes vibrate as girls beat on their drums. (EKA: Episode 2876)
	SCENE 4	Big Bird and Snuffy are still having trouble finding a broken toy for Prunella. Big Bird finds a broken crayon, and realizes it's his only crimson crayon, so they keep looking.
	SCENE 4 cont'd	Oscar tells Prunella to leave, but she insists that she's staying. There is one place she'd like to be, the grouchiest place in the world, which doesn't exist. She fantasizes about it by singing "Wouldn't it Be Yucky?"
	SCENE 4 cont'd	Big Bird's toys are now all over the floor, none of them broken.
	Cartoon	A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (EKA: Episode 0926)
	Muppets	"African Alphabet Song" (EKA: Episode 2404)
	Cast	(Same and Different) Maria and Linda dress the same, then Linda dresses differently. (EKA: Episode 2754)
	Song	Jerry Nelson sings "Salt, My Salt". (EKA: Episode 2909)
	SCENE 5	Big Bird is disappointed that he hasn't found anything broken to give to Prunella -- then he remembers that grouches like big messes, so he takes a picture of the mess to show to her.
	SCENE 5 cont'd	Meanwhile, Prunella is preparing to leave, simply because she loves saying goodbye and scramming. She leaves, and Gordon notices Oscar looking heartbroken because of it. Big Bird and Snuffy come outside looking for Prunella, and Gordon tells them that she just left. He thinks maybe Oscar would like the picture of the mess, and gives it to him. They go to clean it up, which makes Oscar even more sad. Prunella announces the sponsors.

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