Episode 3461

Sesame Street
Gordon Takes Telly and Friends Hiking
Air date	February 19, 1996
Season	Season 27 (1995-1996)
Sponsors O, 5

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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Gordon is taking Miles, Telly, Rosita, and Elmo hiking in the park. Telly can’t keep up because his pack is too heavy. The contents of his backpack include soap in case he falls in the mud, a tent in case it rains, a flashlight in case he wants to look in dark places, binoculars, a whistle, and a dictionary in case he wants to look up a word. Everyone takes one thing from Telly’s pack to lighten the load. Elmo thinks it’s silly to pack a tent, but Telly disagrees.
	Film	A boy hikes up a mountain with his mother and brother.
	Animation	Characters on a quilt form the letter O. Artist: Karen Aqua
	Animation	Letter Garden: O (EKA: Episode 3010)
	Cartoon	A lady receives a letter O in the mail, which promptly rolls around her living room. Artist: ArtistMike
	Muppets	Two flowers, a baby sparrow, and two bunnies sing “That's How I Got Here.” (EKA: Episode 3040)
	Cartoon	Sign Man: GROW (EKA: Episode 1229)
	SCENE 2	Something hits Telly on the head, and he asks Elmo if he threw something at him. Everyone starts getting hit on the head, and Gordon explains that they are being hit by acorns. If the acorns fall in a good spot, a new oak tree will grow.
	Film	A flower opens and closes. (EKA: Episode 0573)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon O: After the man steps into the bubble through a door on the side, the bubble slams shut and cannot be opened. (First: Episode 0014)
	Muppets	Director Kermit the Frog is filming Oklahoma with Forgetful Jones as the Star. Forgetful is supposed to sing “Oklahoma!” but sings “Ache-lahoma,” “Eeklahoma,” and “Ike-lahoma” instead. When he finally gets it right, the production assistant says it’s time for lunch. (EKA: Episode 2594)
	Cartoon	O for open, off, owl, ocean. (EKA: Episode 3091)
	Cartoon	“The Wasteroon Song” – three water drops complain about people wasting water, calling them “Wasteroons.” Artist: ArtistMike (EKA: Episode 2876)
	SCENE 3	Elmo stops the hikers to point out a turtle (to introduce the next two segments).
	Film	Turtles
	Cartoon	A bird displays the front and back of a turtle. (new sound effects added) (EKA: Episode 3086)
	Muppets	When Ernie is away visiting Count von Count, Bert has the place all to himself...or so he thinks! A group of sheep burst into the room and proceed to shim him a song (“Bert's Blanket”) about how his blanket was made (with a flashback scene where Ernie is portrayed as a farmer). Bert then corrects them on the actual production phase. (EKA: Episode 2574)
	Cartoon	A poem about the parts of a face.
	Song	“Do the Body Dance” (MC Lyte) (EKA: Episode 2886)
	Cartoon	In and out
	SCENE 4	Elmo stops the hikers to point out flies (to introduce the next segment).
	Cartoon	5 flies land on a kid’s face. Artist: Owe Gustafson
	Film	Two girls count as they clap. (EKA: Episode 3007)
	Cartoon	A girl’s mom can dribble 5 balls.
	Muppets	Big Bird describes (and acts out) a time when he lost Radar. “Having a good memory will sure come in handy sometimes!”
	Cartoon	“Island of Emotion” Artist: Sally Cruikshank (EKA: Episode 3021)
	SCENE 5	The hikers stop for lunch, but Telly has forgotten his lunch. Everyone else shares part of their lunch with Telly so he won’t go hungry. Elmo thinks it’s silly that Telly brought things that nobody would ever need, and yet he forgot his lunch. Just then it starts to rain, and they pitch the tent Telly brought.
	Cartoon	Paper airplane
	Muppets	Big Bird displays what he did when trying to open a door he thought was stuck.
	Film	Learning to write “rain” in Chinese
	Cartoon	A story of a cat who hated rain, wished for it to stop, and witnessed the disastrous effects of no rain. Artist: ArtistMike (EKA: Episode 2755)
	SCENE 6	Everyone is glad Telly brought the tent. Elmo asks if Telly knew it would rain. He didn’t—he just tried to think of everything someone might need if they were in the park for a whole day.
	Muppets	Telly sings “Everything Goes” as he packs his backpack for a day in the park.
	SCENE 6 cont'd	Everyone is glad Telly brought his tent, because they would all be wet if he hadn’t.
	Cartoon	A family goes over their camping checklist before they leave for the woods.
	Film	Flamingos walk around to classical music. (new child voicovers added) (EKA: Episode 2616)
	Cartoon	Household appliances count 1-10 and 10-0. (EKA: Episode 3058)
	Cast	“Between You and Me” (Gina and Savion) (EKA: Episode 3133)
	Animation	[[A boy has a dream in which he floats in Outer Space between things. (EKA: Episode 3093)
	Celebrity	Samuel Ramey sings a low-octave version of the alphabet song.
	SCENE 7	The rain has stopped, and they begin to take the tent down, while Elmo and Rosita announce the sponsors.

Notes

• This episode was written by David Korr.

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