Episode 3689

Sesame Street
Telly tries to eat
Air date	January 1, 1998
Season	Season 29 (1997-1998)
Sponsors V, 9

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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Telly is in the arbor waiting for his breakfast, which is a nice, warm bowl of oatmeal. Carlo gives him it. Next, Rosita comes and tells Telly that every word in English is a word in Spanish. Rosita tells Telly that the Spanish words for oatmeal, great, interesting, eat, spoon, milk and fruit. Finally, Telly takes his spoon and eats some oatmeal. But it is cold now. Carlo comes out and Telly says that he doesn’t like oatmeal. Carlo goes inside Hooper's to heat Telly’s cold oatmeal. Rosita leaves and says the Spanish word for goodbye.
	Cartoon	A cartoon shows a few Spanish words - which are also English words. (EKA: Episode 3140)
	Film	A girl's grandmother teaches Spanish to her parrot Kuka. (EKA: Episode 3101)
	Cartoon	Name That Sound: identify animal sounds.
	Muppets / Celebrity	Celia Cruz tells Big Bird about a hummingbird, and sings "Zunzun." (EKA: Episode 3108)
	Cartoon	Is no one afraid of The Big Bad Wolf? (new music added) (EKA: Episode 2405)
	SCENE 2	Telly gets his warm oatmeal and is ready to eat when Baby Bear runs over and starts to describe his nightmare. When he thinks about it, he screams. It was about Goldilocks was as big as a building. She was stomping into his house. She walked to Papa Bear’s porridge and tasted it, then Momma Bear’s porridge. Then, to his porridge and then she ate it all up. Baby Bear starts eating Telly’s oatmeal and none is left. Telly calls for Carlo for more oatmeal.
	Film	A gymnasium switches from empty to full. (EKA: Episode 3040)
	Muppets	The Amazing Mumford waves his magic wand over a transparent glass cookie jar and makes the jar become full of cookies and then empty (over and over) as an anxious Cookie Monster watches. (EKA: Episode 0322)
	Cartoon	Underwater, there's a 9 (EKA: Episode 3283)
	Film	Milo Counting: 9
	Cartoon	Nine Striped Cats Artist: Owe Gustafson (EKA: Episode 1736)
	Film	Great Moments at the Sink Timothy brushes his teeth, accompanied by sports narration. A 10.0 sink bowl!
	Cartoon	Toothpaste March Artist: Ray Favata (EKA: Episode 1446)
	SCENE 3	Inside Hooper's Store, Telly’s stomach is growling. Maria and Carlo are also there. Telly tells Carlo what happened to his oatmeal and Carlo gives Telly vegetable salad. The letter V appears on the counter. It explains that it is visiting Sesame Street today and is proud to start words like vegetable, very and vanish. V vanishes, along with Telly’s vegetable salad.
	Cartoon	V in Space (EKA: Episode 0560)
	Film	Kids find a wild letter V in the jungle.
	Cartoon	African quilt pattern (EKA: Episode 3160)
	Muppets	Kermit sings "On My Pond". (EKA: Episode 2356)
	Cartoon	Ranger Armbuckle talks about how plants travel -- by sowing their seeds. Artist: ArtistMike (EKA: Episode 2727)
	Film	Some kids talk about a garden they have in the middle of the city. (EKA: Episode 2951)
	Cartoon	Ball-dribbling characters count the feet on a wall ruler. Artist: Bill Davis (EKA: Episode 3325)
	SCENE 4	Telly now has a sandwich, soup, pie and milk now. Telly gets interrupted for a fourth time when he hears triangle lovers music. Then, Norm and the Grand High Triangle Lover appear outside Hooper’s Store. The Grand High Triangle Lover has something important to say. They need someone to speak in their Triangle Lovers Club Lunch and they chose Telly, since he knows a lot of things about triangles. It’s getting set up now, right outside. Maria tells Telly that he should eat then and not later. Telly can’t eat, because he needs to practice his speech. Maria reaches over for the pie once Telly leaves and asks Carlo for a fork.
	Song	"I'm in Great Shape": Kids dance with triangles, circles and squares. (EKA: Episode 3300)
	Cartoon	Three scribbles exercise. (EKA: Episode 2482)
	Muppets	Captain Elmo Cousteau searches for the treasure of the missing soap, with the help of a policeman fishy. (EKA: Episode 2637)
	Cartoon	While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (new music added) (First: Episode 0004)
	Film	A boy loves learning about fish. He reads books about them, and even catches them.
	Cartoon	A young bespectacled man with an accordion asks how much it costs to cross the bridge. The Bridgekeeper says admission is free, but requires that the young man show him three triangles. Two of them are found in the bridgework, and the man uses the bridgekeeper's staff to draw a third triangle in the dirt. Although the bridgekeeper has his order filled, he asks the man to play a tune on his accordion. This additional request takes the young man by surprise, but he is told to do so for the opportunity to cross the bridge. (EKA: Episode 2254)
	SCENE 5	A few kids and Muppets watch Telly making his speech. Maria, watching inside Hooper's says that she hopes Telly is okay because he didn’t eat breakfast or lunch yet. While saying his speech, his stomach growls and he stops. He continues his speech by talking about a triangle shaped chip and his stomach growls once again. He eats the chip and takes the rest of the chips in the bowl. Then, he takes a slice of pizza and talks about it. Then, one by one like the chips, he eats the pizza. Now, there is no more food and Telly is finishing up his speech. The Grand High Triangle Lover says that he ate all of the food. Telly explains that he didn’t know what went over him and everyone boo’s Telly. The Grand High Triangle Lover tells everyone to stop. He knows why Telly ate all of the triangle food, because he loved triangles so much. He has never seen that much love toward triangles before. Maria has never seen anybody eat a whole bowl of chips and two pizza pies. Apparently, there is nothing left for anybody else, but Carlo and Maria come out of Hooper's Store with triangular shaped sandwiches and triangular shaped cookies. Everyone is happy and Telly thanks Maria and Carlo. Telly is stuffed and faints.
	Animation	A pizza is made, and the slices form the word PIZZA. (EKA: Episode 3408)
	Muppets	Mr. Johnson has lunch at Charlie's Outdoor Al Fresco Fresh Air Cafe, where he's disappointed to find Grover waiting on him. The wind picks up, and blows his food away -- but when Grover gives him the bill, the wind dies down, and he has to pay. (EKA: Episode 3105)
	Film	Wegman's dogs form the letter V, for violin and valentine.
	Animation	Ornate Vs spin around as a song about them plays. (EKA: Episode 2987)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052)
	Film	Kids narrate footage of toddlers learning to walk. (EKA: Episode 3090)
	Animation	A girl plays in, on and under a sculpture. (EKA: Episode 3162)
	SCENE 6
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