Episode 4080

	Sesame Street
	Elmo becomes a bird
Air date	May 6, 2004
Season	Season 35 (2004)
Written by	Judy Freudberg
Production	December 10, 2003
Sponsors	X, 2

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	My Favorite Sesame Street Moments: Harry Connick, Jr. discusses scenes on the stoop and how they represent equality.
	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 Minnesotan moose who wants to fly like a squirrel. Big Bird is impressed with the new bird Elmo, who is now only able to communicate through chirps and tweets and can fly around.
	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, wondering what his mommy will think about this. Big Bird then invites Elmo-Bird to the Birdketeer meeting.
	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. After Elmo-Bird flutters around five times, he flies too high and collides with Super Grover, who notes how familiar the bird seems before leaving.
	SCENE cont'd	The meeting ends and Big Bird thinks of all the fun birdy 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 gets another call, but it's to pick up things for his mommy: "I'm not just a fairy godperson - I have a life, too!" He poofs away and Elmo is happy to be back to normal, though he's craving another birdseed milkshake and heads off to Hooper's for one.
	Film	Using sign language, a boy reads his poem, "The Hawk." (First: Episode 3806)
	Muppets / Celebrity	Patti LaBelle sings "Gospel Alphabet" with a chorus of Muppets. ("What's the Name of That Song?" edit) (First: Episode 3825)
	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)
	Animation	The letter X in various typefaces. (First: Episode 2862)
	Muppets	Natasha hosts "Baby Talk" with her guest, the letter X.
	Muppets	Spanish Word of the Day: perro A bunch of dogs pounce Grover to illustrate the word perro. (First: Episode 3986)
	Cartoon	A boy talks about his big dog, that will be his best friend no matter what size it will have. (First: Episode 3791)
	Muppets	Journey to Ernie: Old MacDonald's Farm — Big Bird searches for Ernie on the farm of Old MacDonald by asking questions to the animals there. (First: Episode 4032)
	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.
	Animation	"There's a Bird on Me" (remake) (First: Episode 4021)
	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)
	Cartoon	Madlenka imagines herself playing soccer as she runs around the block.
	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.
	Cartoon	Astronauts form a 2 in space. (First: Episode 3713)
	Animation	Two dogs (new graphics) Artist: William Wegman (First: Episode 4025)
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Up and Down
	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.