Episode 3989

	Sesame Street
	Prairie Dawn and the oat bran cookies
Air date	February 14, 2002
Season	Season 33 (2002)
Sponsors	K, 8

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird is pretending to be a tree and opens with a tree joke. Alan and some kids join him, and Alan sings "I'm A Tree."
	Muppets	Robert De Niro explains to Elmo what an actor is, and proceeds in imagining himself variously as a dog, cabbage, and a clone of Elmo. (First: Episode 3978)
	Muppets	The Number of The Day: 8 Eight bats show up when the Count reveals that 8 is the number of the day.
File:3976zf.jpg	Film	Eight children dance in a colorblock grid. (EKA: Episode 3132)
	SCENE 2	Alan shows us the poster for Prairie Dawn's play, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Oat Bran Cookies." Ingrid and Baby Natasha are going to the play. Elmo shows him his heavy costume, the Noble Woodsman.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	The cast gathers with the director and rehearses the parts. Telly needs help in pretending to be The Big Bad Wolf.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	Lulu has a cold and can't be in the play. The duck volunteers for the part of Grandma.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	The play begins. The Big Bad Wolf attempts to swipe the oatmeal cookies by pretending to be Grandma. Grandma eventually shows up bearing even more cookies, but Cookie Monster surprises everyone and eats them up.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	Everyone watching loves the play.
	Film	Dressed Up (remake) (EKA: Episode 3427)
	Muppets	Journey To Ernie Big Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie. First, Big Bird looks for Ernie's box across the tightrope.
	Film	A boy named Anthony and his parents are trapeze artists in a circus. (EKA: Episode 3663)
	Muppets	Journey To Ernie Big Bird looks for Ernie's box by dancing at the discotheque. We found him!
	Muppets	Ernie's Show and Tell Rebecca shows Ernie the white wire-like crown she made. Ernie asks to try it on, and suggests that Bert will be envious. (EKA: Episode 3826) Come back tomorrow for another Journey To Ernie.
	Muppets	Hero Guy Baby Bear wants to have a Flying Adventure in the Sky with Hero Guy, but he can't fly by himself.
	Muppets	The Letter of the Day: K To prevent himself from eating it, Cookie Monster sends the Letter K Cookie away on the Letter K train. However, the train arrives back a few moments later.
	Muppets	Worms In Space The worms, fearlessly, form the letter K. (EKA: Episode 3836)
	Cartoon	Pencil box K/k (First: Episode 2876)
	Muppets	The Spanish Word of the Day: zapato Professor Grover tries to teach the kids where to wear a zapato (a shoe).
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Dogs (First: Episode 3852)
	SCENE 3	The duck reads the sponsors, with Big Bird translating, and announces that he's won a part in the touring company of Cats.