| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Elmo becomes a bird | |||||||
| Air date | May 6, 2004 | ||||||
| Season | Season 35 (2004) | ||||||
| Written by | Judy Freudberg | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | My Favorite Sesame Street Moments: Harry Connick, Jr. discusses scenes on the stoop and how they represent equality. |
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SCENE | Big Bird welcomes the viewer as he fluffs his feathers. Elmo catches up with him and wants to fluff along, so the two sing a brief fluffing tune. Elmo wonders what it would be like to be all feathery and wishes he could be a bird. This summons his Fairy Godperson, who plays back Elmo's wish on his cellular wand. With a musical spell, the Godperson turns Elmo into a little, red bird! He vanishes off to help his next client, a moose who wants to fly like a squirrel. Big Bird is impressed with the new bird Elmo. |
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SCENE cont'd | Big Bird enters Hooper's Store and orders two birdseed milkshakes, one for himself and the other for Elmo. Alan assumes Elmo is just pretending to be a bird and is shocked to see his new form gulp down the birdseed milkshake. Big Bird then invites Elmo-Bird to the Birdketeer meeting. |
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SCENE cont'd | At the Birdketeer meeting, Big Bird introduces everyone to the new Elmo-Bird. They all count the number of times Elmo-Bird flies past them. He flies too high and collides with Super Grover. Grover notes how familiar the bird seems and goes back to the skies. |
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SCENE cont'd | The meeting ends and Big Bird thinks of all the fun, bird things he and Elmo-Bird can do together. However, he soon realizes he'll miss having the actual Elmo around and the two agree he should change back. Elmo-Bird makes a wish to summon the Fairy Godperson, who musically turns Elmo back to his monster self. The Godperson poofs off to pick up things for his mommy ("I'm not just a fairy godperson. I have a life too!"). Elmo is happy to be back to normal, though is craving another birdseed milkshake and heads off to Hooper's for one. |
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Film | Using sign language, a boy reads his poem, "The Hawk." (First: Episode 3806) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Patti LaBelle sings "Gospel Alphabet" with a chorus of Muppets. ("What's the Name of That Song?" edit) (First: Episode 3825) |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: X Cookie Monster eats the cookie with the letter of the day before he can introduce any words beginning with X ("Oh, me feel tremendous guilt."), so an Anything Muppet doctor puts an X-ray in front of Cookie Monster. (First: Episode 4018) |
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Animation | The letter X in various typefaces. (First: Episode 2862) |
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Muppets | Natasha hosts "Baby Talk" with her guest, the letter X. |
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Muppets | Spanish Word of the Day: perro A bunch of dogs pounce Grover to illustrate the word perro. (First: Episode 3986) |
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Cartoon | A boy talks about his big dog, that will be his best friend no matter what size it will have. (First: Episode 3791) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie: Barnyard Big Bird looks for Ernie at a barnyard by asking questions to the animals there. (First: Episode 4032) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Pretends to be Bernice — Bert's pigeon Bernice can't play with him, so Ernie pretends that he is Bernice. |
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Animation | "There's a Bird on Me" (remake) (First: Episode 4021) |
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Muppets | Global Grover Dressed in sheep's clothing, Grover has just returned from the deserts of Arizona where he learned about a family of sheep herders. Just as he's about to sign off, a group of Muppet sheep arrive to take him back to Arizona with the rest of the herd. (First: Episode 4055) |
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Cartoon | Madlenka imagines herself playing soccer as she runs around the block. |
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Muppets | The Number of the Day: 2 The Count counts sheep, and says the number of the day will be revealed when the elephant shows up. |
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Cartoon | Astronauts form a 2 in space. (First: Episode 3713) |
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Animation | Two dogs (new graphics) Artist: William Wegman (First: Episode 4025) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Up and Down |
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Insert | The Adventures of Trash Gordon Chapter 538 Trash is cornered by a gang of noisy Honkers. He solves the problem by hosting a Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree. |
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