| Elmo's World | |
| Written by | Christine Ferraro |
| Directed by | Ken Diego Victor DiNapoli Jim Martin Ted May Lisa Simon |
| Book | Being Clean! |
| Video | Wake Up with Elmo! All Day With Elmo |
| First Appearance Episode 3919 | |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo hears chattering noises coming from inside his closet. He opens the door to reveal shelves full of fake sets of teeth, which all fall on top of him (one pair ends up in his mouth). A montage of children's and animals' teeth plays. |
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Dorothy's Question | Dorothy has a model of a toothy grin in her bowl and wants to know how someone takes care of their teeth. |
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The Noodle Family | Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle demonstrates by first shoving a closed tube of toothpaste into his mouth, then opens it and gets himself covered in toothpaste. Once he gets some on his electric toothbrush he turns it on and gets out of control, and ends up brushing his eyelid, ear, and hair before finally reaching his mouth. |
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Kids and Baby | Kids (including Tyler) brush their teeth and eat carrots to show how they can take care of their teeth. A baby gums on a piece of zwieback toast when Elmo notices that babies don't have any teeth. |
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Quiz | Elmo observes that Dorothy doesn't have teeth and wants to know who else has them. Birthday cakes don't, but you use your teeth to eat a birthday cake. Birds don't; they have beaks. A bunny has teeth... but as one is quick to point out, "That's Benny, not bunny!" |
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Video E-Mail | The Count shows Elmo how he brushes his two teeth with a special toothbrush. He begins counting his brushes, briefly stopping to ask, "You gonna sit there all day and listen to me count? Haven't you have anything better to do?" |
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Elmo's Question | Elmo counts how many apples are eaten by a set of teeth in his new Pac-Man-esque computer game; he wins after chomping four in total. |
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Film | Elmo's friend Nicholas tells Elmo about his first trip to the dentist. The dentist tells him he has twenty teeth and uses a camera to show him what they look like on a small TV. She then cleans his teeth and gives him a new toothbrush. |
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TV Cartoon | The Teeth Channel airs All About Teeth with the Tooth Fairy. She describes the process of growing and losing your first teeth, and how she leaves a quarter for each tooth lost. It is revealed later that she works as a dentist during the day: "Where did you think all those quarters come from?" Coming up next: To Tell the Tooth, followed by Tooth or Consequences. |
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Interview | Elmo talks to a very smart wisdom tooth, who tells him about what teeth do, even if it is a bit of a grind. |
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Tickle Me Land | Dorothy imagines Elmo as a beaver who gnaws on a log that had been previously chewed on ("Leave it to beavers!"), a shark with rows of sharp teeth ("With all these teeth, Elmo Shark is gonna get a lot of quarters from the Tooth Fairy!"), and an elephant who uses his tusks to dig for water, which sends a mouse airborne when a geyser spurts out. |
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The Teeth Song | Elmo and the Wisdom Tooth sing "The Teeth Song." |
Notes[]
- Footage from "Take Care of That Smile" and "Toothpaste Factory Rap" is included in the opening montage.
- In addition to performing Elmo, Kevin Clash performs the mouse seen in Dorothy's imagination.
Gallery[]
Early sketches by Kevin Clash for Elmo in this episode, written on script pages:
Elmo with chattery teeth in his mouth
Elmo as an elephant