Episode 2196

	Sesame Street
	Oscar and the Grouchketeers read
Air date	April 7, 1986
Season	Season 17 (1985-1986)
Written by	Jeff Moss
Production	January 6, 1986
Sponsors	F, X, 6

Picture	Segment	Description
	Insert	Gordon goes through a stretching routine in the yard during the early morning and explains to the camera that he like so get up this early because there's very little traffic and it's a pretty time of the day. He invites the viewer along for a jog, which is set to a spoof of the Chariots of Fire music, and consists of a montage of Gordon running through the city. (First: Episode 1727)
	Cartoon	A beaver does his exercises, while his friends make fun of him. He then uses his strength to save his friends when the dam breaks. Artist: Irra Verbitsky (First: Episode 2067)
	Film	Pizza is made. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0416)
	Animation	Sand X/x (First: Episode 0638)
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Pizza and Grape Juice — Ernie and Bert figure out how to share their pizza and grape juice. (First: Episode 0256)
	Cartoon	A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Oscar and Danny DeVito laugh it up.
	Animation	Seis flores (First: Episode 1591)
	Film	Elephants (African percussion soundtrack) (First: Episode 0389)
	Cartoon	The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787)
	Muppets	Waiter Grover: Grandmother's Birthday — Grover prepares a table for a family who is celebrating their grandmother's birthday. (First: Episode 1958)
	Cartoon	More and more moths appear, and devour a man's clothes. Artist: Bob Kurtz (First: Episode 0294)
	Cast	Olivia sings "Listen to the Wind." (First: Episode 2092)
	Cartoon	A man tries to push a huge balloon elephant through a narrow doorway, and a girl helps him by deflating it. (First: Episode 1824)
	Muppets	Name That Sound: Mr. Honker — Guy Smiley can't understand Mr. Honker's honks. (First: Episode 1957)
	Cartoon	A schoolyard of gloves invites other gloves to join them. (First: Episode 1481)
	Song	"Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure. (First: Episode 0933)
	Cartoon	Christopher Clumsy demonstrates the things feet can do. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0455)
	SCENE 1	Oscar quizzes the Grouchketeers on opposites, namely ones that pertain to Grouches (being dirty instead of clean, loud instead of quiet, etc.).
	Cartoon	The uses of water (First: Episode 0139)
	Song	"Llama at Dentist" (First: Episode 1241)
	Cartoon	Two monkeys argue over what to watch on TV, growing bigger the angrier they get. (First: Episode 0762)
	Muppets / Cast	Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with a dentist and a bus driver. (remake) (First: Episode 2146)
	Cartoon	Brand X (First: Episode 0299)
	SCENE 2	Oscar leads David and the Grouchketeers in a reading lesson using a Grouch newspaper. David reads from the “Grouch Gifts” section with such bargains as roller skates without wheels, then Oscar has them use their newspapers to gift-wrap some stinky fish.
	Song	David sings "I'm Pretty" over a film of fish and other sea creatures. (First: Episode 0389)
	Muppets	Two-Headed Monster: Newspaper — The monster finds a newspaper, and thinks up different uses for it. (First: Episode 2097)
	Cartoon	Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335)
	Muppets	In the woods, a nature-loving baritone (Jim Henson) sings "Ah, For the Joys of the Countryside" about how much he loves the country, without noticing that his surroundings are being converted into a city. (First: Episode 1008)
	Film	Counting six oryx Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410)
	SCENE 3	Oscar now leads David and the Grouchketeers in reading Grouch Music magazine. David reads about an out-of-tune concert, then Oscar has them roll up the magazines and use them as off-key flutes.
	Cartoon	The alphabet is presented in a chain reaction of events. (First: Episode 1113)
	Film	A variety of cat-shaped objects walk in front of the screen. (First: Episode 1802)
	Muppets	Bert says his favorite number is Six. (First: Episode 1289)
	Cartoon	A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. (First: Episode 0387)
	SCENE 4	Oscar displays an issue of Trashcan Magazine, which is so terrible that Grouches (and Grouchketeers) throw it away. David walks away from the nonsense and Elmo announces the sponsors (ad-libbing “Stop that, Oscar!” as Oscar struggles with his trash can lid).