Big Storm Episode: A blizzard that strikes New York strands everyone on Sesame Street, including Maria's cousin Mercedes (visiting from Puerto Rico).
Braving the Blizzard: Oscar is determined to get Mercedes to the airport, even as a radio announcer reports that all the airports in the New York area are closed and flights cancelled. (Of course, it doesn't help that Oscar's car won't start.)
Ripped from the Headlines: An incidental one, as a record cold snap and once-in-a-lifetime snowstorms struck much of the United States just days before the start of this Story Arc.
Snowed-In: The gang at Sesame Street and their visitors, Zero the Penguin (Big Bird's new friend) and Mercedes, who is anxious to catch her flight home to Puerto Rico (but is forced to stay a couple more days when all the airports are closed).
Story Arc: On the brutal winter of 1982 on Sesame Street.
