Elmo's World: Bananas

Elmo's World
Written by	John Weidman
Directed by	Steve Feldman Jim Martin
Book	Food!
Video	Flowers, Bananas & More!
Earliest Known Appearance Episode 3862

Picture	Segment	Description
	Guess what Elmo's thinking about today?	Elmo is buried in one of his favorite fruits: bananas.
	Dorothy's Question	Dorothy wants to know what you do with a banana.
	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.
	Kids and Baby	Kids show how to peel and eat bananas.
	Elmo's Question	Elmo counts the number of bananas in a hat.
	Quiz	Chairs, skateboards and bananas don't eat bananas, but monkeys do.
	Film	Elmo's friend Michael made an entire meal of bananas: banana bread, fried bananas, banana pancakes, banana smoothies and banana pudding. All of Michael's friends came over for a banana feast.
	TV Cartoon	The Banana Channel (containing programming with a-peel) tells the story of bananas. Coming up next on The Banana Channel: "A Bunch & Other Stuff".
	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.
	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.
	Home Video	Attempting to answer one of the age-old mysteries, Elmo shows his film "Can a Banana Peel Itself?"

Notes

• In the quiz, no Sesame Street Muppets appear; instead, there is a 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).