| Elmo's World | |
| Written by | Emily Kingsley |
| Directed by | Ted May |
| Book | Elmo's World Books |
| Video | Dancing, Music, Books! Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers |
| First Appearance Episode 3817 | |
| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Guess what Elmo's thinking about today? | Elmo opens his door which is full of shelves of books. Unprovoked, the shelves break in unison, dumping the books on the floor. A montage of kids and people using various books follows. |
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Dorothy's Question | Dorothy, with a mini book figurine in her tank, wants to know how you read a book. |
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The Noodle Family | Mr. Noodle sits on his book, examines the binder, and holds the book upside-down without ever successfully reading it properly. The kids and Elmo tell him to turn it upside-down, so he sits in a chair on his head to read. |
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Kids and Baby | Kids read some simple books, one of which starts with the line "Put down the duckie!" A baby surprises Elmo when she looks at the cover before opening her baby book. |
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Elmo's Question | Elmo counts how many books will fill up an animated bookshelf; the answer is five. |
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Quiz | Elmo tells the viewer who reads books and who doesn't. Pineapples don't and cats don't, but you can read a book about cats to your cat. Birthday cakes don't, but you can get a book for your birthday. Beds don't, but the Count can read books in bed. |
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Film | Elmo narrates the time his friend Michael went to the library with his dad to get some books on dinosaurs. |
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TV Cartoon | The Book Channel airs a program called The Girl Who Loves Books. Not only does the girl in the story read them, but she also wears them and sleeps on one! Coming up next: Our Miss Books starring Book Shields. |
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Interview | Elmo talks to two Muppet books. One is a picture book, while the other (speaking in a booming ringmaster's voice) is about the circus. |
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Tickle Me Land | Taking a note from the circus book, Dorothy imagines Elmo as a tightrope walker. From other books, she sees him as a cowboy roping a talking cactus, and as a brave knight meeting a terrified dragon. |
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Home Video | Elmo presents his home video he made about Dorothy reading a book - Moby Dick by Herman Melville. |
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Song | Elmo sings "The Book Song" and a chicken comes by and starts clucking along with him, thinking he's singing "Bawk bawk bawk, bawk bawk bawk!" |
Notes
- Additional performers include Martin P. Robinson (Picture Book and dragon), Jim Martin (Circus Book), John Tartaglia (horse), and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (chicken), with Jerry Nelson (cactus).
- The bookshelf includes various previously-read Sesame Street stories, including The Toothless Princess, Mary Had a Little Lamb, The Big Surprise, Cutesy Wootsey Bunnies, Everything You Wanted to Know About Bugs, The Three Jolly Monsters, The Sad King Pierre, The Horse and the Hen, and The Cloud Who Wanted to Leave the Sky.
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