Episode 3158

	Sesame Street
	Elmo's mini-golf game
Air date	December 22, 1993
Season	Season 25 (1993-1994)
Written by	Lou Berger
Production	October 25, 1993
Sponsors	T, Y, 10
Syndication	123 Sesame Street

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	Elmo asks Big Bird if he can guess what game he's about to play: it involves a toy golf club, a beach ball, and a butterfly net. Elmo reveals that they're going to play miniature golf all over Sesame Street today! He gives the ball a whack, and needs Big Bird's help with the net for a later task.
	SCENE 1	Elmo's beach ball lands on the crate where Betty Lou, Tarah, and Eva are making up a story about a princess' tea party. Elmo declares it a successful "tea-off" and prepares to hit the ball towards Luis in front of the Fix-It Shop, who will throw it into the butterfly net Big Bird is holding. However, Betty Lou insists on pretending that the ball is "Prince Ted," who, in their story, had a spell cast on him by a wicked witch to prevent him from marrying the princess (her dolly), and thus proposes that Elmo can break the spell by hitting the ball through the net. Elmo likes the idea and hits the ball, which Luis proceeds to pitch into Big Bird's net. Everyone cheers - except for Betty Lou, who says that Prince Ted is still a ball. They decide that the "spell" will be broken by the time the last hole is played, and so they go on with the game. Big Bird explains all this to a confused Luis.
	Film	The floating kids form a capital T. (First: Episode 3121)
	Animation	Two caterpillars form a T. (First: Episode 2223)
	Film	A group of kids paint a mural with the help of a mural artist. (First: Episode 3007) cut from the Noggin version
	Cartoon	Something's missing ... is it a frog or a dog? (First: Episode 2389) cut from the Noggin version
	Muppets	Bip Bippadotta sings about "Air." (First: Episode 2568)
	Cartoon	Dr. Annie Eyeball looks at air. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2592) cut from the Noggin version
	Celebrity	The Neville Brothers sing "Believe in Yourself," with a montage of clips from films including "I'm the Big One Now," "Reach Your Hand Up High" and "Hot in the City."
	Cartoon	A baby climbs up the stairs all by himself. (First: Episode 1717)
	Muppets	Mysterious Theater: Sign of the Circle — Sherlock Hemlock tries to find a shape matching a circle before the clock strikes five... and it turns out to be the round clock face. (new music added) (First: Episode 2706)
	Animation	Planet Y / y (First: Episode 2859)
	Animation	Pencil box Y / y (First: Episode 3043)
	Song	Joe Raposo sings "What Do You Do With a Fruit?" (First: Episode 2050)
	Cartoon	A bird watches as two monkeys climb above and below each other in a tree. (First: Episode 2965)
	SCENE 2	Elmo arrives at the next hole in front of 123 Sesame Street, where he will hit the ball so that it rolls between Mr. Handford's legs into Hooper's Store through the front door, come out the back door, and into the net. Elmo makes another successful shot, and they tell a confused Mr. Handford what's going on. He understands the importance of Prince Ted changing back to his former self: "It makes sense to me - you know, it's hard to dance at a wedding with a golf ball!"
	Cartoon	Pinball #10 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0990)
	Muppets	Marshal Grover: Counts Backwards — Fred bets that Marshal Grover can't count backwards from 10. (First: Episode 1066)
	Animation	Rubber Stamp #10 (First: Episode 2880)
	Film	A boy takes dance lessons at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. (First: Episode 1716)
	Animation	A picture puzzle of the letter T is put together. A man walks up to it, and calls a taxi. (First: Episode 2933)
	Cartoon	Spinning T (to the tango beat). (First: Episode 2933)
	SCENE 3	The next hole is the "Grouch-in-a-Can" hole. Elmo will hit the ball into Oscar's trash can, with the intention that it will be passed around by one of Oscar's elephants and Spot before hitting his piano, then tossed out by an irate Oscar. Miraculously, everything goes exactly as Elmo predicted (judging by the sounds they hear) and they head off to the next hole; Oscar demands that he not be invited to Prince Ted's wedding.
	Cartoon	The Great Inventors Series: John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, invents a new type of food that can be eaten while playing cards. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2574)
	Animation	In stop-motion, sandwich ingredients square-dance in a ring and arrange themselves into a sandwich, which gets a bite taken out of it in a refrigerator. (First: Episode 3080)
	Muppets	Bert sings "Keep the Park Clean for the Pigeons" to address the importance of proper trash disposal for the sake of pigeons. (First: Episode 2727)
	Film	Kids narrate a film about how Yufka, a Turkish flat-bread, is made. (First: Episode 2937)
	Cartoon	A boy gets lost in a mall, and a security guard shows him how to use a map. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2874)
	Cast	Linda shows a boy how to sign the word "telephone." (First: Episode 2581) cut from the Noggin version
	Animation	The word TELEPHONE is displayed, followed by a ringing telephone. (First: Episode 3048)
	Film	A group of girls do a playground cheer ("One step forward, one step back"). (First: Episode 3031)
	Cartoon	Dr. Frankenstein makes sure his monster knows about front and back. (Voices: Rick Cimino) (First: Episode 0782)
	Muppets	Pageant: The Sky Cooperates — Gladys the Cow stars in a show about how nature helps flowers grow. (First: Episode 2420)
	Song	A piece of land with water all around it is an "Island." Artist: Jane Aaron (First: Episode 2760) cut from the Noggin version
	Cartoon	A poem about Hannah and Anna who lead similar lives in the city and the country. (First: Episode 2984) cut from the Noggin version
	SCENE 4	The last hole in the game is the "Playground Hole" in the park. Elmo hits the ball to the top of the slide, where it rolls down and lands in the net. The girls pretend that the ball will now turn back into Prince Ted who will marry the princess, but then Betty Lou decides that maybe the princess should finish nursery school before getting married. The others wonder about Prince Ted's fate, to which Betty Lou replies, "Well, he'll be sad at first, but he'll get over it and write a book about it."
	SCENE 4 cont'd	Everyone heads off to Betty Lou's for a tea party, leaving the ball and the net behind. Once they're gone, the ball transforms into a bewildered, aching Prince Ted! He feels like he's been whacked with a golf club and lies down for a rest as Luis announces the sponsors.