Sesame Street episodes with recycled plots



On Sesame Street, in order to produce 130 shows a season, sometimes the street scenes from an episode that aired two seasons before would be recycled and combined with a different set of inserts to create a new episode. This list consists of known episodes that contain recycled street scenes.

The practice started as early as the sixth season and lasted until season 32, as the total number of episodes diminished in the later seasons. However the practice of recycling street scenes was re-started in season 41. Due to the addition of Elmo's World and a change in episode format, no episodes from seasons 30 and beyond would recycle plots from season 29 or earlier.