Episode 3144

Sesame Street
Big Bird and Luis convince Hans that he's not an ugly duckling
Air date	December 2, 1993
Season	Season 25 (1993-1994)
Sponsors F, L, 3 Syndication 123 Sesame Street

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Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	The kids read the sponsors from cards and Big Bird introduces a duckling who says goodbye instead of hello.
	SCENE 1	At the nest area, Big Bird and the kids have a hard time convincing Hans, the ugly duckling from the story, to not leave. He's not ugly at all.
File:3144d.jpg	Cartoon	Donald has a hard time of thinking of a reason to be proud at the school assembly.
	Film	Letter Garden: F
File:3958zf.jpg	Film	In reversed film, F and f candles are unmelted.
	Film	Alphaquest: F A faucet finishes a fire, and flood of freaky fish.
	Muppets	Kermit and some Anything Muppets sing "I Wonder 'Bout the World Above."
	SCENE 2	Hans wears a YOU sign, so instead of seeing his 'ugliness,' they'll see YOU. However, now he can't see.
	Cartoon	Ten little animals in a department store elevator accumulatively get on at each floor.
	Film	"We have a nice school"... with ducks.
	Muppets	Grover instructs Caroline to read the word you, and acts crazy when she keeps telling him to read it.
	Film	Kids rehearse a large group African dance in the park, get their faces painted, and perform.
File:3144m.jpg	Cartoon	Consonant Sound Limerick: L - Lion
	Muppets	Ernie sings Dance Myself To Sleep. (EKA: Episode 1707)
	SCENE 3	Hans has a set of wigs from Sy Duckling, the Feather Club president who's also a client. Gordon and Susan come by, but Susan makes it clear that bald is beautiful. Hans leaves to consult an expert.
File:3136n.jpg	Cartoon	Three circles illustrate tres (Luis VO) (EKA: Episode 3136)
	Cartoon	Three computer animated fish.
	Film	Number Three Ball Film: powder version (EKA: Episode 1707)
	Celebrity	Take 6 sings "Take 6," a song about themselves that counts to the number 6.
	Film	A group of people form a human pyramid to illustrate top and bottom.
	Muppets	How Now Brown and the Moo Wave perform the song "Danger's No Stranger." They play this song in a street in the middle of the night. It also features a case of explosions, falling bricks and construction vehicles on the loose.
File:3144r.jpg	Cartoon	A man wears a DANGER sign on his nose. Another man walks by and tries to convince the first there's no DANGER, but gets blown away by a humongous sneeze.
	SCENE 4	Hans goes to The Fix-It Shop. Luis reads him the story of Gregory the mouse, who, after tired of being called "Little Squeaky" by the other animals, tries to be a lion and fails. However, the story isn't over.
	SCENE 4, cont'd	The mouse wakes all the animals up when there's a fire, and the animals agree to stop calling him names. Transformed by the lesson, Hans decides to stop being called "the ugly duckling" and also learns that he loves stories.
	Muppets	All types of wild animals that lay eggs sing "Let's Lay an Egg."
	Cartoon	A song about a very curious cat, who explores until it rains pots and pans. (EKA: Episode 2986)
	Film	A man (voice of Jim Thurman) finds a magic remote control that makes things go up and down. He tests it on various objects. When he presses "down" for a bridge, it crumbles and falls into the water below, prompting the man to abandon the remote and slink away. A girl then finds the remote and makes the bridge go back up.
	Cartoon	Song: "If You've Lost Your L, Look Around" (EKA: Episode 1845)
	Muppets	Caveman Days King Ernie needs to clean his yucky teeth. The Royal Smart Person brings a big brush (used for sweeping), then a middle-sized brush (used for brushing hair), then a smaller brush (used for painting), and finally a really small brush (a toothbrush). Just as Ernie proclaims that he'll "brush every tooth in the entire kingdom," a saber-toothed tiger comes in, seizes the toothbrush, and begins to use it himself!
	Cartoon	A story/song about a duckling who wants to join the others playing at the water's edge.
	SCENE 5	Hans is happy, but there's still one thing he'd like to change - he wants to do something else than playing on the seesaw with Big Bird, which is not working.

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