| Elmo's World | |
| Written by | John Weidman |
| Directed by | Steve Feldman Jim Martin |
| Book | Food! |
| Video | Flowers, Bananas & More! |
| First Appearance Episode 3858 | |
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo is buried in one of his favorite fruits: bananas. |
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Dorothy's Question | Dorothy wants to know what you do with a banana. |
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The Noodle Family | Mr. Noodle tries to make a phone call on a banana, play a banana like a trumpet, and write on paper with an ink-dipped banana. When he finally goes to take a bite, it pops up out of the peel and lands in Elmo's hands. |
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Kids and Baby | Kids show how to peel and eat bananas. |
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Elmo's Question | Elmo counts the number of bananas in a hat. |
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Quiz | Elmo wants to find out who eats bananas and who doesn't. Chairs, skateboards and bananas don't eat bananas, but monkeys do. |
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Film | Elmo's friend Michael made an entire meal of bananas: banana bread, fried plantains, banana pancakes, banana smoothies and banana pudding. All of Michael's friends came over for a banana feast. |
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TV Cartoon | The Banana Channel (containing programming with a-peel) tells the story of bananas. Coming up next on The Banana Channel: A bunch of other stuff. |
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Interview | Elmo talks to a comedian banana with his own drum riff to accent his jokes. Elmo learns that he knows enough about bananas to be a banana. In the home video version, The Banana's brief version of "Top Banana" is redubbed to a generic banana tune. |
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Tickle Me Land | Dorothy imagines Elmo as a banana in a banana tree who is shaken free and chased by a monkey through a supermarket. In the home video version, Elmo's brief version of "Day-O" is redubbed to another generic banana tune. |
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Home Video | Attempting to answer one of the age-old mysteries, Elmo shows his film "Can a Banana Peel Itself?" |
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The Banana Song | Elmo sings the "Banana Song" as the Top Banana and the monkey are still playing tag. |
Notes[]
- This is the only Elmo's World episode where no Sesame Street Muppets appear during the quiz; instead, there is an animated monkey.
- The monkey who appears here (performed by Matt Vogel) was one of the several who appeared on Muppets Tonight, and was based after Quongo (a gorilla created for The Muppet Show).
Gallery[]
concept art by Kevin Clash of Elmo as a banana, written on a script page for this episode