| Elmo's World | |
| Written by | Molly Boylan |
| Directed by | Ken Diego Jim Martin |
| Book | Getting Dressed! |
| Video | Wake Up with Elmo! Elmo's Thinking About... All Day With Elmo |
| First Appearance Episode 4010 | |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo opens Door to find, unusually, a pile of clothing that falls into the room (with a sock getting stuck on his nose). A montage of children dressing themselves, their pets, and their toys plays. |
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Dorothy's Question | Dorothy has a figurine of someone putting on an orange turtleneck in her fishbowl; she asks, "How do you get dressed?" |
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The Noodle Family | Mr. Noodle, who has just woken up, appears in his long underwear. He attempts to button his shirt and tie his bowtie while contending with his tricky dickie, then puts on his pants and suspenders (eventually). When he's finished, he finds his suspenders have looped over the hook on the door they were hanging on, pulling Mr. Noodle back. |
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Kids and Baby | Kids show Dorothy how they put on socks, a sweatshirt, and snow pants. Elmo then gives a beanie with a propeller on it to a baby, who only stares at Elmo. |
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Elmo's Question | Elmo asks the viewer to help him count the 13 pairs of animated pants marching across the screen, which are followed by three ants that get into the last pair. |
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Video E-Mail | Ernie shares that Rubber Duckie likes getting dressed, and shows the duckie dressed as a police officer. |
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Quiz | Elmo asks questions about what people wear to work. Firefighters don't wear a swimsuit or a tutu; they wear a firefighter's uniform. Astronauts don't wear a scuba-diving suit or a baseball uniform; they wear a space suit. Worms don't get dressed... unless it's Slimey, who can wear whatever he wants. He is seen with a top hat and tails and dances to a pastiche of "Puttin' on the Ritz." |
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Film | Elmo's friend Alexis dresses herself, then helps her dad dress her baby sister Arianna. |
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TV Cartoon | The Getting Dressed Channel shows the Lecture Lady, who sings "I Put My Leg in My Pants" as she puts on layers of clothes, getting a little too dressed up. Coming up next: Socks in the City and Shall We Pants? starring Shirt Reynolds. Elmo shows that he even got dressed in a T-shirt and shorts during the song. |
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Interview | Elmo talks to Book, who announces his title as The History of Getting Dressed. He shows a pop-up page of how cavepeople dressed in the early days. |
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Tickle Me Land | Dorothy imagines Elmo in ancient Roman times wearing a toga (getting pulled by his horse-drawn chariot), in medieval times wearing a suit of armor (causing him to fall over), and two Elmos in Scotland wearing kilts, one playing "Scotland the Brave" on the bagpipes and the other dancing. |
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The Getting Dressed Song | Elmo (back to his undressed self) and Book sing "The Getting Dressed Song." |
Gallery[]
artwork for the talking book by Mike Pantuso