Elmo's World | |
Written by | Emily Kingsley |
Directed by | Ted May |
Book | Elmo's World Books |
Video | Dancing, Music, Books! Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers |
First Appearance Episode 3817 |
Picture | Segment | Description |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo opens his door which is full of shelves of books. Unprovoked, the shelves break in unison, dumping the books on the floor. | |
Dorothy's Question | Dorothy wants to know how you read a book. | |
The Noodle Family | Mr. Noodle sits on a book, examines the binder, and holds the book upside-down without ever successfully reading it properly. The Kids and Elmo tell him to turn it upside-down, so he sits in a chair on his head to read. | |
Kids and Baby | Kids read some books, one of which starts with the line "Put Down the Duckie." | |
Elmo's Question | Elmo counts how many books will fill up the bookshelf. | |
Quiz | Elmo tells the audience who reads books and who doesn't. Pineapples don't. Cats don't, but you can read a book about cats to your cat. Birthday cakes don't, but you can get a book for your birthday. Beds don't, but the Count can read books in bed. | |
Film | Elmo's friend Michael goes to the library with his dad to get a book on dinosaurs. | |
TV Cartoon | The Book Channel airs a program about a girl who loves books. Coming up next: "Our Miss Books" starring Book Shields. | |
Interview | Elmo talks to two books. One is a picture book, while the other (speaking in a ringmaster voice) is about the circus. | |
Tickle Me Land | Taking a note from the circus book, Dorothy imagines Elmo as a tightrope walker. And from other books, she sees him as a cowboy, and as a brave knight challenging Mr. Dragon. | |
Home Video | Elmo presents his home video he made about Dorothy's favorite book, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. | |
Song | Elmo sings "The Book Song" and a chicken comes by and starts clucking along with him. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Martin P. Robinson (Picture Book and dragon), Jim Martin (Circus Book), and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (chicken), with Jerry Nelson (Cactus).
- The bookshelf includes various previously-read Sesame Street stories, including The Toothless Princess, Mary Had a Little Lamb, The Big Surprise, Cutesy Wootsey Bunnies, Everything You Wanted to Know About Bugs, The Three Jolly Monsters, The Sad King Pierre, The Horse and the Hen, and The Cloud Who Wanted to Leave the Sky.