Elmo Goatherd Family



The Elmo Goatherd Family are a group of Elmo Variants who appeared in the Families episode of "Elmo's World". Following an encounter with The Oinker Sisters, Dorothy the Goldfish imagines Elmo as a family of singing goatherds, The group consists of a moustachioed Father Elmo and two pigtailed Daughter Elmos. In an attempt to indicate Swiss or other European ethnicity, the Elmo family all have blonde hair.

The sequence references The Sound of Music, in costuming, concept, and especially Father Elmo, whose first line is "The hills are alive with the sounds of music!" The trio, accompanied by their goat, perform a yodeling song.