| Elmo's World | |
| Written by | Molly Boylan |
| Directed by | Ted May Steve Feldman Jim Martin |
| Book | Music! |
| Video | Singing, Drawing & More! What Makes You Happy? Sing It, Elmo! |
| First Appearance Episode 3851 | |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo opens his (singing) door to a chorus of kids singing the "Elmo's World Theme." The following montage includes children singing "Sing," "The Alphabet Song," and "Happy Birthday to You," a mother singing to a baby "Brahms' Lullaby," and a boy singing the final lyric of the "Elmo's World Theme." On home video releases, "Happy Birthday to You" is edited out. |
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Dorothy's Question | Dorothy has a Valkyrie opera singer figure in her bowl, and wants to know how you sing. |
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The Noodle Family | In his first appearance, Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle wears a tuxedo jacket with his regular outfit as he crows like a rooster, moos like a cow, gargles, and quacks like a duck before he impressively sings "La donna è mobile" of Giuseppi Verdi's Rigoletto. When he hits a high note, it's revealed that he's actually lip-synching from a recording on his cassette player. |
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Kids and Baby | Three kids (including Patrick and Devon) sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" as a round. Elmo doesn't get as much of a response when he asks a baby how to sing. |
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Elmo's Question | Elmo counts pigs in an animated barbershop quartet, who sing "Sweet Adeline" until they're pulled away by a stage hook. |
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Quiz | Elmo wonders what sings and what doesn't, but first has to sing to get Drawer to cooperate. Dogs can sing (by howling) and pineapples don't, but Elmo can sing with a pineapple. Clocks don't, unless it's a cuckoo clock. Bathtubs don't, but Ernie sings in the bathtub. He appears with his Rubber Duckie to sing a verse of "Rubber Duckie." (The original album recording with Jim Henson's vocals is used here.)
After the quiz, the pig barbershop quartet resume singing until they're pulled away once more. |
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Film | Elmo narrates the time his friend Samantha learned from her sister how to participate in a playground-style hand-clapping/singing game. Afterward, Elmo shows that he has also learned it. |
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TV Cartoon | The Singing Channel features the Lecture Lady singing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" as she demonstrates the proper hand movements to it. After the song, the titular spider asks if she knows "I'm a Little Teapot." Stay tuned for Singing in the Rain and Singing When It's Partly Cloudy. Home video releases omit the "I'm a Little Teapot" portion. This segment also appears in Kids' Favorite Songs 2. |
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Interview | Elmo talks with opera singer Diva D'Abruzzo who illustrates that she can sing high, low, fast, and slow. Elmo follows along and they both talk-sing in an operatic style. |
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Tickle Me Land | Dorothy imagines Elmo as The Three Elmos singing a "Figaro" riff, Elmo Presley singing about blue suede shoes, and a rapper doing the "Elmo's World Theme" ("Boy-eeeeeeeeeee!"). |
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Home Video | In Elmo's home video, Big Bird (Matt Vogel) sings a lullaby to his teddy bear Radar. Elmo drowsily turns to the camera and yawns. Back in Elmo's World, Elmo is fast asleep until TV nudges him awake. |
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The Sing Song | Elmo and Diva D'Abruzzo sing the "Sing Song," with the pig quartet crashing in for one more chorus of "Sweet Adeline." |
Notes[]
- This edition of "Elmo's World" was the first to air during season 31, and shows off several changes made from the previous season that is carried into future episodes. The transition has been changed from a fade-in to a camera wipe mimicking the turning of a book page. The new theme song also has Elmo interacting more with his various active furniture items. The actual set is also slightly changed, with the walls getting a construction paper-esque texture. Mr. Noodle's limbo setting is updated as well, decorated with various noodle-like crayon squiggles.
- The recording of Verdi's "La donna e mobile" that Mr. Noodle lip-syncs to is from a 1971 performance of Rigoletto. A co-production of the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, tenor Luciano Pavarotti sang as the Duke of Mantua (and it's his vocals Mr. Noodle lip-syncs to).
- A live-hand variant of Elmo is used following the hand-clapping segment.