Episode 4143

Sesame Street
Sleeping Grouchy
Air date	August 29, 2007
Season	Season 38
Sponsors U, 20

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	"What's the Word on the Street?" -- ticklish
	SCENE	Gordon and Maria step outside laughing at a joke Maria just told, and welcome the viewer. Oscar the Grouch and Grungetta tell them to beat it, because they're reading Grungetta's favorite grouch fairy tale, "The Tale of Sleeping Grouchy." Telly, Elmo and Slimey are eager to hear it too. Grungetta remarks, "It never hurts to spread a little grouchiness around," so Oscar complies and begins to read the story.
	SCENE cont'd	In the story, the very grouchy princess is portrayed by Grungetta, and her warm, loving, synonym-spouting parents are played by Maria and Gordon, who sing a song about how much they love their daughter.
	SCENE cont'd	One day the grouchy princess goes on a grouchy walk. She says "Phooey!" so many times that it disturbs a wizard who was walking nearby. He casts a spell on her, putting her to sleep for a hundred years!
	SCENE cont'd	Grouchy's parents encounter her sleeping, and become distressed that their daughter is under a spell. The queen gets an idea to offer a big reward for whoever can break the spell.
	SCENE cont'd	The first prince to arrive is Prince Elmo of Ticklania, who will try waking her up with a giant Ticklanian chicken feather. He demonstrates its effects on the king and queen, then tries it on the princess, not realizing that she's too grouchy to be ticklish - but the feather does make her sneeze. Prince Elmo knows exactly what to do to cheer himself up ...
	SCENE cont'd	The second prince to arrive is Prince Telly of the Tuba, and his back-up band, The Cat's Meow. Since they woke up Rip Van Winkle by playing the tuba and meowing loudly, they figure it'll be a cinch to wake the princess up in the same way. But such is not the case, not even with participation from the viewer.
	SCENE cont'd	The third prince doesn't show up at first, but is revealed to be Prince Slimey. But how can a small worm prince break a spell? Slimey knows how: by giving the princess a sweet, lovable kiss, which he knows she'll hate. It works!
	SCENE cont'd	In return for his heroic deed, Slimey wants not jewels, but mud. He and Princess Grouchy go off to play in the mud puddle and live happily ever after.
	SCENE cont'd	Telly and Elmo like the happy ending, but was it happy? Oscar and Grungetta don't think so. As they argue about it, Oscar remarks, "The best part about reading a book is the lively discussion afterwards!"
	Song	"Happy Happiness," against footage of kids playing at a beach. (EKA: Episode 3357)
	Celebrity	Howie Mandel demonstrates the word "ticklish."
	Insert	After being tickled, Grover explains to a child that tickling is exercise.
	Song	"Dancing With the Flowers" (EKA: Episode 4058)
	Film	William Wegman: The Ten O'Clock Scholar (EKA: Episode 3957)
	Muppets	Zoe, Telly, and Prairie Dawn sing "That's the Way I Read"
	Cartoon	Jill walks up a hill to pick a daffodil. Artist: Jim Jinkins (EKA: Episode 3120)
	Insert	Rosita helps teach Marco Spanish, and sings "I Love Every Part of You" with Gina.
	Cartoon	A girl fantasizes what she could do without leaving her room if her nose, ears, legs, and arms got bigger. (EKA: Episode 3696)
	Muppets	The Letter of the Day: U Cookie Monster puts the letter of the day, U, on a rocket and sends it away, but it comes back. (EKA: Episode 3994)
	Film	Song: "My Friend U" (EKA: Episode 3980)
	Cartoon	An umbrella, gorilla, ambulance, and orange are displayed on the screen. Which begins with the letter U and protects us from the rain?
	Muppets	Oscar the Grouch presents the grouchy theater hit "Scramalot" to a receptive audience. In this parody of Monty Python's Spamalot, the Knights of Scramalot sing and have difficulty rhyming. (First: Episode 4128)
	Cartoon	A Zerkel named Dan demonstrates -an words. Artist: Sally Cruikshank (EKA: Episode 3540)
	Muppets	The Number of the Day: 20 A huge monolith of the number 20 arrives because 20 is the Number of the Day. (EKA: Episode 4027)
	Cartoon	Counting 20 fish (EKA: Episode 4120)
	Song	"OK, We Got a Hip-Hop Beat": #20
	Celebrity	"Everything's Coming Up Noses!" Harvey Fierstein places noses on a selection of Anything Muppets while singing a song touting the virtues of the body part. (First: Episode 4063)
	Cartoon	Parts of a face are drawn in black on-screen before forming a picture. (EKA: Episode 3656)
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Noses
	Insert	Abby Cadabby recites the sponsors in a pair of rhymes.

Template:Ep-nav