Episode 4044

	Sesame Street
	Making a kite
Air date	April 24, 2003
Season	Season 34 (2003)
Written by	Molly Boylan
Production	November 20 & 22, 2002
Sponsors	W, 14
Syndication	PBS Kids Sprout

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	On a breezy day, Zoe and Elmo welcome the viewer and invite them to watch their favorite movie. They begin to squabble over who has seen it more times than the other when Zoe notices it's about to start...
	Film	Coverage of a spring kite-flying festival, where both kids and grownups can participate. (First: Episode 3276)
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Inspired by the film, Elmo proposes they make their own kites. They head over to Hooper's Store assuming that it has everything (including kites), but Alan tells them they unfortunately don't sell kites there.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	The two monsters become very sad and inform Gabi on their situation. She happens to have a book on making kites, having used it to make a kite with her father. She meets with them later in the yard with the book, along with lots of supplies. The three have fun making kites during a montage, but Elmo and Zoe bicker again over whose kite will fly the highest when they're finished.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	The monsters are ready to fly them, but discover there's no longer any wind to make the kites move and they just drag on the ground when they run. Gabi teaches them how wind works before heading to the Mail It Shop to help her mother. Elmo and Zoe try making their own wind to fly the kites, but they can't move enough air with their little breaths. Fortunately enough, the Big Bad Wolf arrives and is perfect for the job: "With great power comes great responsibility!" he proudly states. He supplies a big, constant gush of air for the two to fly their kites, but Big Bad's watch goes off signaling it's time for lunch, and the loss of air causes the kites to crash to the ground and break.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	The monsters are distraught when Gabi returns. She realizes they can take the unbroken pieces of each kite and make one kite that they can share. They combine their kites and try waiting for the Big Bad Wolf to return when the wind picks up and takes their kite into the sky. A passing bird flies by, observing, "Nice kite!"
	Film	Kids display their art. (First: Episode 3924)
	Muppets	Bip Bippadotta sings about "Air." (First: Episode 2568)
	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. (First: Episode 3988)
	Cartoon	"Fourteen Desert" Artist: Joey Ahlbum (First: Episode 3267)
	Film	Kid mural painting #14 (First: Episode 3613)
	Cartoon	A lizard sings about how she likes to be "Above it All" as well as below. Artist: Sally Cruikshank (First: Episode 2559)
	SCENE 2	The Big Bad Wolf joins Big Bird and the kids for "The Huffing and Puffing Alphabet," where they say the alphabet a few letters at a time and the Wolf blows them away. Big Bad then summons the letters to return so they can cooperate and blow away the entire alphabet together. (Wolf: "Thank goodness they didn't make those letters out of bricks!")
	Cartoon	Dr. Annie Eyeball looks at air. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2592)
	Muppets	Journey to Ernie: Beach — Big Bird searches for Ernie at the beach. (First: Episode 4034)
	Muppets	Ernie's Show and Tell: A child shows Ernie their sea shell and they listen to the ocean with it.
	Muppets	Global Grover Grover comes back from Malaysia, where they make kites with bamboo sticks, strings, glue and paper.
	Cartoon	Global Thingy Popcorn Thingy learns to share.
	Muppets	The Letter of the Day: W Cookie Monster attempts to convince himself not to eat the letter cookie, naming words that begin with the letter instead. Prairie Dawn walks by, but Cookie Monster is too deep in thought to notice her presence. When Prairie finally receives Cookie's attention, he eats the cookie! (First: Episode 3992)
	Film	Kids fly and form the letter W. (First: Episode 3181)
	Celebrity	Whoopi Goldberg introduces the sound "WH" and then yells, "Whoopi!" (First: Episode 2861)
	Muppets	The Spanish Word of the Day: teléfono Big Bird and Snuffy don't know the Spanish word for "telephone," but someone calls them to announce it: teléfono. (First: Episode 3992) cut from the Sprout version
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Sky (First: Episode 3982)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird announces the sponsors and cues the Big Bad Wolf when to blow them away. With nothing left to huff and puff, he blows Big Bird and then himself away offscreen.