| Sesame Street | |||||
| M is for Missing | |||||
| Air date | December 30, 2017 (HBO) August 13, 2018 (PBS) | ||||
| Season | Season 48 (2017-2018) | ||||
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COLD OPEN | Big Bird sets up today's theme of the alphabet. He opens his mailbox to find a letter - B, for Big Bird. |
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SCENE 1 | At the community center, Elmo, Nina, Rosita, Julia and the kids sing "The Alphabet Song." Julia and the kids leave to play, while Elmo plans to finish his drawing, which he's written his name on. Suddenly, the letter M in his name vanishes. They rush outside and see the same has happened to the street and Laundromat signs. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Have no fear, because Super Grover lands on the scene to solve the case! He goes off looking for the missing Ms, as a farmer arrives to show the effect it's had on his two cows (including Gladys) - they "oo" instead of "moo." Super Grover returns with the letter B and, when he's told he's wrong, suggests they put B in the place of the M in all words. Nina shows how that would affect everything and the cows start to "boo" the farmer. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | The trio find more trouble in Hooper's Store, where the milk Alan has for Telly's lunch has become "ilk." Grover returns, only now with the letter N. The cows start making a mess of the store, now going "noo," and the farmer tries taking them back to the farm ("...and I won't take noo for an answer!"). |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Following Nina's description of how an M is shaped, Grover believes he's found the letter M, but everyone is quick to point out it's really a W. Elmo notices something is off about the letter - his face is upside down. Turning him right side up, they see he's really the letter M! He admits he wanted to become a different letter, not feeling like he starts enough exciting words. They show and tell him the many great words he begins and he decides to remain an M, as all the words around the street are restored. |
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Muppets | Abby Cadabby leads the gang in a song to introduce the letter of the day - A. |
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Cartoon | Cookie Monster sings about the A sound in the word "apple". (edited) (First: Episode 4197) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Gina Rodriguez recites the alphabet in Spanish for Elmo. (First: Episode 4628) |
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Muppets | Cookie's Crumby Pictures: Jurassic Cookie — Cookie's grandkids give him strategies to relax when they are on the run from a giant prehistoric cookie. (trailer rating cut) (First: Episode 4526) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and friends sing as they wait for the number of the day, which is how many cookies are being baked for him (to eat). Today's number is 14. |
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Muppets | "The Sesame Street Alphabet" (reprise cut) (First: Episode 4413) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Alphabet |
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SCENE 2 | As Big Bird signs off, he finds something else in his mailbox - the entire alphabet. |
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Outro (PBS) | Cookie Monster instructs the viewer on "the art of cookie eating", with aid from Rosita and a girl. |
Supporting cast[]
- Tyler Bunch as the farmer
- Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as the brown cow
- Stephanie D'Abruzzo as the letter B
- Frankie Cordero as the letter N
- Peter Linz as the letter M
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