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| Big Bird and Snuffy's Letter Y School | |||||||||||
| Air date | February 13, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Season | Season 33 (2002) | ||||||||||
| Written by | Cathi Rosenberg-Turow | ||||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird opens telling a train joke with a train of monsters - "What does a train say when it sneezes? Ah-choo-choo!" |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | The monster train continues through the yard, where Maria and Cookie Monster sing a Russian cookie subtraction song with a little girl. The song ends with zero cookies, so Cookie Monster subtracts the plate by eating it, followed by the table. A gaggle of monsters pop up into frame, chanting, "Monster Time! Monster Time!" |
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Muppets | Monster Clubhouse Today's Furry Feeling of the Day is Surprised, a duck arrives to play a flapping dance, and they get chased by an elephant. Original, full version: (First: Episode 3969) |
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Muppets | The Number of the Day: 14 The number 14 emerges from a cannon after The Count learns that it is the number of the day. |
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Animation | Computer #14 (First: Episode 3881) |
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SCENE 2 | In his nest area, Big Bird pretends to be a teacher at a school, with Elmo and Snuffy as the students. He believes he can teach his pupils something specifically they don't know, namely the letter Y. When Snuffy presses him for more information, Big Bird tries to think of a word that starts with Y, but comes up with nothing at all. Since the students have no answers either, Snuffy believes the school must close. Elmo volunteers to save the school by finding someone who can be their teacher and teach them more about the letter Y. With a break from classes, Big Bird allows for some recess and Snuffy imitates the recess bell by swinging his snuffle left and right and going "Bong! Bong! Bong!" |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | At Hooper's Store, Alan wraps up a phone order from the Count (who wants over 300 peas delivered). Elmo comes in and asks Alan to be their teacher, but he has many customers to tend to. He is able to teach Elmo the sound of the letter Y, and how it starts the word "yogurt" (like the containers he has). Richie also lets Elmo borrow his yo-yo. Elmo reports back to Big Bird and Snuffy with his findings. They think there's even more they can learn about Y, so Elmo goes off again while Big Bird and Snuffy have another recess break. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Elmo runs into Gabi as she comes out from 123 Sesame Street and asks her to be their school teacher. Gabi, however, is on the way to her own school. She does have time to teach Elmo how to make the shape of the letter Y by drawing it in her binder. Elmo returns to the nest and shows the same to Big Bird and Snuffy, who write their own letter Ys in the air and ask where Elmo's teacher is. He dashes off again, meaning more recess for the others. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Elmo now goes to Gina's vet clinic to get her to be their teacher, but she's busy with a waiting room full of animals. Instead, she teaches Elmo about another Y word, "yodel," by singing a "Yodel Song." The song attracts many of the animals from the waiting room. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Snuffy wearily keeps ringing when Elmo finally returns, still unsuccessful in finding a teacher. As he rattles off all the things he found out about Y, Big Bird and Snuffy realize that he has been the teacher they needed all along! Teacher Elmo then makes one important declaration - school is out! Snuffy makes the sound of the dismissal bell. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — T.J. teaches Grover how to sing the song "Sticky Bubble Gum." |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Big Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie, deciding to check behind the statue... (First: Episode 3984) ... and is transported to Outer Space, where he looks for Ernie's box with a Martian's help by describing how it looks. (First: Episode 3981) |
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Celebrity | Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song, and various celebrities join in, including Michael Jeter, Patrick Stewart, Tony Bennett, Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, Harry Belafonte, Grover, David Robinson, and Ellen DeGeneres. (First: Episode 3526) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie "Where can that Ernie be?" Big Bird tries going through the gate... (First: Episode 3981) ... where he finds himself in a swirling vortex. A box appears, and Big Bird gets it to open by repeating the clapping pattern it makes. (First: Episode 3984) |
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Film | "SCHOOL!" (high speed footage) (First: Episode 3278) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Ernie wasn't behind the statue, so Big Bird checks under the tunnel bridge... (First: Episode 3984) ... and goes into a land occupied by dinosaurs. Big Bird describes the box to a brontosaurus and finds he was sitting on it the whole time. (First: Episode 3984) We found him! |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Teaching Ernestine Names — Ernie can't seem to get Ernestine to say his name, but Ernestine has no trouble saying Bert's name. (First: Episode 2586) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Big Bird and Ernie say goodbye and an announcer teases, "Come back tomorrow for another game of Journey to Ernie!" (First: Episode 3981) |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: Y Cookie Monster locks the Letter Y Cookie in a suitcase so he won't eat it, but the suitcase has no bottom. "Me wonder how that happened." |
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Film | Y, Y, The Letter Y: kids form Y with their bodies. |
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Cartoon | Consonant Sound Limerick: Y - Yak (new sound effects added) Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1184) |
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Muppets | The Spanish Word of the Day: leche Rosita drinks the word leche, the Spanish word for "milk." cut from the Sprout version |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Sky (First: Episode 3982) |
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SCENE 3 | Teacher Elmo returns to the Letter Y School to announce the sponsors, then calls the school day over and Snuffy gets to be the bell again. |
Alterations[]
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Feel the Beat" Part 2 (First: Episode 2943) This segment replaced the "Spanish Word of the Day" sketch in the Sprout version. |
Notes[]
- Additional performers include Stephanie D'Abruzzo (red monster and cow), John Tartaglia (blue monster and duck), Joey Mazzarino (orange monster and rooster), and David Rudman (sheep).
- The VideoNow Jr. version of this episode has the Friday closing credits sequence, despite this episode originally airing on a Wednesday.
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