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| Elmo plays "The Amazing Alphabet Race" | |||||||||
| Air date | September 28, 2007 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 38 | ||||||||
| Written by | Christine Ferraro | ||||||||
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COLD OPEN | "What's the Word on the Street?" -- amazing |
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SCENE | Australian TV personality Amazing Al spots Elmo singing his ABCs and chooses him to be a contestant on "The Amazing Alphabet Race." The objective of the game is to find all the letters of the alphabet before a clucking chicken tap dances her way to a gong! |
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Elmo asks Luis if he's seen any letters. Luis points to the Sesame Street sign, where Elmo spots an A in the word "Sesame." He also spots a B in a BUS STOP sign, and a C on the "SCRAM" sign that Oscar made. Elmo's doing well so far, but he's got to hurry if he wants to "beat the cluck!" |
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On his way to Hooper's Store, Elmo bumps into a lost delivery man from the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Delivery Company, whom he can't help out ... |
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Elmo gets to Hooper's and notices it's CLOSED. Luckily, the word CLOSED has a D and an E in it. Telly hops by on his pogo stick, and joins Elmo in the game. Soon, they find three F's on a FREE COFFEE sign, a G on Telly's pogo stick, and an H on the Hooper's Store sign. |
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The chicken is still getting closer to the gong, so Elmo and Telly better hurry ... |
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They pass Abby Cadabby reading her book, Jack and Jill - which is where they find the letters I, J, K and L. Just then, Telly realizes that they can find the rest of the letters in Abby's book - however, she gets a call from her mommy and suddenly has to go. Telly doesn't think they'll have another chance at finding the rest of the letters in one place, even when the lost delivery man shows up again with the alphabet package ... |
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Gina comes out of her office with a sick cow who's lost her voice (and can only hold up a "MOO" sign). Telly and Elmo find an M in MOO, and then an N, O and P in the OPEN sign on Gina's door. Meanwhile, the chicken is taking a rest, which means they may have extra time to finish the race. |
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Telly asks to see Nashaya's water bottle, which has a Q in the word QUALITY. He then begs Luis to point him out to the rest of the letters they need, but then Elmo spots an R in the "HOURS" sign, an S in "SE HABLA ESPAÑOL," a T in "FIX IT SHOP" and a U in "SUBWAY." Now the chicken is almost at the gong, and they don't have much time to find the rest of the letters! |
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Just then, the delivery man arrives, and they finally find the letters they need (V, W, X, Y, and Z) on the alphabet package he's carrying - right before the chicken hits the gong! They've won the game! As it turns out, the package is for Amazing Al, who gives it to Elmo, since it's his prize for winning the game. The prize, of course, is all the letters of the alphabet, which Elmo and Telly can use to make words as part of The Amazing Alphabet Race Home Game. |
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Animation | Animals and acrobats form letters in the Alphabet Circus. (First: Episode 4074) |
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Celebrity | Rachael Ray thinks a tap-dancing tomato is amazing. |
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Song | Do the Veggie Dance: First and last verses of this dance are the veggie dance, while the broccoli, mushroom, cucumbers, and corn verses fill up the middle. The kids end the segment by exclaiming righteously "I LOVE VEGGIES!" (First: Episode 4087) |
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Muppets | Big Bird's Video Postcards: Big Bird visits the Green Market in Union Square. He thinks the food comes out of packaging, but his friends show him how food is grown on their farm. (First: Episode 3435) cut from the online version |
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Cartoon | Corn marching song (First: Episode 4090) |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: M Prairie Dawn and Cookie Monster present the letter M. "Mmm" is the sound Cookie Monster makes when eating a cookie, thereby encouraging him to eat the letter as well. (First: Episode 4069) |
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Song | "You Got an M Song" (First: Episode 4107) |
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Muppets | Law and Order: Special Letters Unit The detectives of the Special Letters Unit search for a missing letter M. (First: Episode 4109) |
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Film | A rhythm is made of breaking eggs, door slams, cans dropping, ice, and feet stepping. (First: Episode 3682) |
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Cast | "Can't Say the Alphabet Enough" - In a 1960s throwback number, Gabi sings about how she loves her alphabet, backed up by Maria and Gina. |
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Film | Kids talk about how fun it is to dance. (First: Episode 3946) |
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Film | The Number of the Day: A remake of the Number Song Series brings forth 4. (First: Episode 4083) |
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Animation | Martin P. Robinson counts 4 flowers in an Austin Powers-type voiceover. (First: Episode 4034) |
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Film | Wegman dogs: Four in a thea-tor (new graphics added) (First: Episode 4010) |
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Muppets | At the NasCount races, Count Billy Bob Von Count Jr. has his greasemonkey crew work on his car, while he counts each passing car - which he would rather do than race. "Kyle Busch, eat your heart out!" |
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Film | A girl helps her father train for a wheelchair race. (First: Episode 3275) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Fast and Slow (First: Episode 4130) |
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Insert | The Adventures of Trash Gordon Chapter 453 |
Alterations[]
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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) This segment replaced the "Big Bird's Video Postcards" segment in online releases of the episode. |
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