| Sesame Street | |||||||||||
| The Mark of Elefante | |||||||||||
| Air date | March 1, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Season | Season 33 (2002) | ||||||||||
| Written by | Joey Mazzarino | ||||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird tells Dorothy and Elmo a fish joke. Together with the kids, they sing and dance the "Glub Glub Blub Blub" fish dance. |
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Celebrity | Destiny's Child performs "A New Way to Walk" with Grover, Elmo and Zoe. (First: Episode 3984) cut from the HBO version See below for more changes. |
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Muppets | The Number of the Day: 1 After practicing a few times, The Count hits an organ key, and the number is one. One elephant appears. |
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Cartoon | Number Guy sings "How Many Birds Can Sit on This Wire?" One giant bird provides the answer. (First: Episode 3338) cut from the HBO version |
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Film | Wegman dogs: Batty and Crooky stack wood blocks to make the number 1. cut from the HBO version (see below) |
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SCENE 2 | At the Mail-It Shop, Big Bird gets a book in the mail, titled "The Mark of Elefante." Elmo and Big Bird beg Maria to read it to them. |
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SCENE 2, cont'd | The story is about a town that loves to dance. A witch, played by Oscar, casts a spell that makes everyone fall on the ground when they try to dance. |
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SCENE 2, cont'd | In the story, the witch says the spell can only be broken by a dancing something that begins with E. They try an egg. A singing guitar player announces the arrival of the masked Elefante. |
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SCENE 2, cont'd | Elefante breaks the spell by dancing and leaves the Mark of Elefante: the Letter E. |
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SCENE 2, cont'd | The story is done. Elmo puts on a costume to become Elmofante, and leaves the Mark of Elmofante on the screen. |
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SCENE 2, cont'd | Elmofante can't get his E off of the screen. The guitar player and Elefante arrive to remove it. The guitar player denies he's Luis. Elefante leaves his mark on a notepad. |
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Film | An insert about washing elephants at the Bronx Zoo. The song "Splish Splash" is used in part of the segment. (First: Episode 1934) cut from the HBO version (see below) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Big Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie. First, Big Bird looks for Ernie's box in the chicken coop. (First: Episode 3984) |
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Film | A group of kids paint a mural with the help of a mural artist. (First: Episode 3007) cut from the HBO version (see below) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie Big Bird asks the dinosaur to help him find Ernie's box. We found him! (First: Episode 3984) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Practices Spanish — To Bert's annoyance, Ernie practices speaking Spanish words. (First: Episode 3198) Come back tomorrow for another Journey to Ernie. cut from the HBO version (see below) |
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Muppets | Hero Guy Baby Bear and Hero Guy show how to dance the Bear Family Dance, the Bunny Hop, the Twist and the Swim. (First: Episode 3982) cut from the HBO version |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: E Cookie Monster tries giving the Letter E Cookie to a lion, tiger and bear to protect it from him. However, they want to Eat it, so Cookie protects it from them by eating it himself. |
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Cartoon | E / e Gregorian chant (First: Episode 3300) |
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Film | Letter Garden: E (First: Episode 3009) |
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Muppets | The Spanish Word of the Day: gato A cow tries to help Rosita by illustrating gato, but she isn't a cat. Suddenly Little Murray Sparkles comes by and Rosita replies that this is what gato is. (First: Episode 3985) cut from the HBO version (see below) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Sky (First: Episode 3982) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird reads the sponsors. The Letter E doesn't show up until Elefante puts it up. The credit crawl follows. |
Alterations[]
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Cartoon | Kids count one duck in the pond (First: Episode 3095) This segment replaces the "Number Guy" cartoon in the HBO Kids version. |
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Song | "We're Talking 'Bout the Number One" (First: Episode 3154) This segment replaces the Wegman dogs film in the HBO Kids version. |
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Muppets | Kingston Livingston III sings "Just Happy to Be Me." (First: Episode 3178) This segment replaces the "Splish Splash" film in the HBO Kids version. |
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Film | Xiao-Mei from northern China describes a festival at the end of every year that her family participates in. Each day of the festival, there is a new show to watch, a series of parades and lots of food like noodles and dumplings. Women prepare floats for the parade while men dress up as river animals. Xiao-Mei's favorite part or the festival is the lion dance. Xiao-Mei also demonstrates how she can walk on stilts which are strapped to her legs, and hopes someday to dance in the big parade. (First: Episode 3266) This segment replaces the Spanish mural film in the HBO Kids version. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert sings "The Paperclip." (First: Episode 2578) This segment replaces the Ernie and Bert sketch in the HBO Kids version. |
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Muppets | Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: "Get the Funky Rhythm" Part 1 (First: Episode 3000) This segment replaces the Spanish Word of the Day sketch in the HBO Kids version. |
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