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| Elmo illustrates a book about a spaceship | |||||||||||||
| Air date | February 15, 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Season | Season 33 (2002) | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Judy Freudberg | ||||||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird introduces his cow friend (John Tartaglia) who opens with a milk joke: "How do you make a milkshake? Like this!" She starts shaking her whole body around when her unamused farmer (Matt Vogel) instructs her to git back to the barn. |
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SCENE 1, cont'd |
Big Bird joins Maria and the kids at the stoop as they sing "The Spanish Counting Song." After the song, a group of superimposed monsters arrive and chant "Monster Time! Monster Time!" |
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Muppets | Monster Clubhouse Today's furry shape of the day is the Triangle. A penguin subs for The Elephant. Original, full version: (First: Episode 3974) |
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Muppets | The Number of the Day: 7 Seven dancing chickens show up for the number of the day. |
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Cartoon | Rap #7 (First: Episode 2506) |
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Film | Milo Counting: 7 (First: Episode 3595) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria waits in the yard as Elmo finishes writing and illustrating a book. Once it's done, he has Maria turn the pages as he reads the story, titled "Elmo Rides a Spaceship to Somewhere in Space." |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | In the story, Elmo rides a spaceship and arrives on a planet with two suns and purple trees with multicolored leaves. He meets a noisy elephant who coincidentally looks and sounds a lot like him and asks about the name of the planet he's on. The elephant doesn't know and suggests he go see the Wise Beaver. Elmo looks and looks until he finally finds the Wise Beaver gnawing on a log; Maria observes that the beaver also happens to look very much like Elmo. The Wise Beaver doesn't know the name of the planet either and suggests Elmo look for the Wise Pufferfish. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | While searching for the Wise Pufferfish, Elmo encounters a flamenco-dancing flamingo that yet again bears a striking resemblance to himself. The two dance together briefly before Elmo continues his quest. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Elmo finally finds the Wise Pufferfish (he looks and sounds like Elmo too), who gets puffy to demonstrate how he got his name. He then tells Elmo the name of the planet: "Zucchini!" The Wise Pufferfish deflates himself, blowing Elmo off the planet Zucchini and all the way back to Sesame Street. |
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SCENE 2 cont'd | Maria thanks Elmo for the story but has to get back to work, even though Elmo wants to read her his story again. Luckily Alan happens by and Elmo gets to read his story to him as Alan turns the pages. |
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Song | "In the Library" (First: Episode 3423) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Big Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie, deciding to look first under the bridge tunnel... (First: Episode 3981) ... 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) |
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Animation | A clay sculptor has a hard time making a sculpture that looks like the face in his imagination. |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie "Where can that Ernie be?" Big Bird tries going through the gate... (First: Episode 3981) ... and tries to catch Ernie's box in the Arctic by observing a pattern of penguins sliding down the ice. (First: Episode 3981) |
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Cartoon | In an homage to the musical cartoons of the 1930s, Cab Callowmouse attends a revue at the Lunar Lounge. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 3713) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie "You're not looking hard enough!" Ernie teases, so Big Bird checks behind a bush... (First: Episode 3982) ... 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) We found him! |
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Celebrity | Ernie and Aaron Neville sing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." (First: Episode 3242) |
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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: D, part 1 Cookie Monster makes a "DON'T" sign to help stop him from eating the Letter D Cookie. |
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Cartoon | D - draw, dent, drop, dance, done (First: Episode 3060) |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: D, part 2 Cookie Monster eats the sign so it says DO, and eats the cookie. |
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Film | Two girls sing "Dipsy Doodle D" while clapping each others' hands. (First: Episode 3305) |
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Muppets | The Spanish Word of the Day: libro Grover can't remember what a libro is, despite the fact that he's holding one. cut from the YouTube version |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Bicycles (First: Episode 3969) |
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SCENE 3 | The cow tells her milk joke again, this time biting onto a chocolate bar to make a chocolate milkshake. The farmer returns and the two begin to quibble over whether the joke is funny as Big Bird announces the sponsors; the credits follow. |
Alterations[]
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Film | Kid jungle explorers sight a wild letter D. (First: Episode 3499) This segment replaces the "Dipsy Doodle D" film segment in the version on Sesame Street's YouTube channel. |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Get the Funky Rhythm" Part 3 (First: Episode 3000) This segment replaces the "Spanish Word of the Day" segment in the version on Sesame Street's YouTube channel. |
Notes[]
- The episode was titled "Elmo Writes a Story" when released on YouTube.
- All of the animals Elmo encounters during his story were originally made as variants of himself for episodes of "Elmo's World."
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