Elmo's World

Elmo's World
Genre	Educational Puppet show Animation Segment
Opening theme	Elmo's World Theme Song (sung to Elmo's Song)
Ending theme	The ____ Song (sung to Jingle Bells)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	67
Production
Running time	20 minutes
Production companies	Children's Television Workshop (1998-2000) Sesame Workshop (2000-present)
Original release
Network	PBS Kids Noggin PBS Kids Sprout
Release	November 16, 1998 (1998-11-16) – November 10, 2009 (2009-11-10)

"Elmo's World" is a segment of the children's television show Sesame Street featuring Elmo, a small, three and a half year old, bright red monster with two eyes on the top of his head and a large orange nose. It debuted on November 16, 1998. It showed regularly on all episodes of seasons 30 to 42 except 2 episodes of season 38. On season 43, a new segment called Elmo the Musical will replace it. Production of new segments have since ceased with the last segment appearing on episode 4187 on November 10, 2009.

The segment takes place in a computer animated crayon-drawn room imagined by Elmo. Each episode follows a familiar pattern whereby the theme is introduced with Elmo's pet goldfish, Dorothy (whose tank changes decor for the occasion). When the opening is over he wants everyone to know what subject he is thinking about today. Then, he opens door to see the subject he's thinking about. Mr. Noodle tries to mime the subject (usually unsuccessfully at first). Elmo and Dorothy interact with live children on the subject topic. Elmo will ask a baby about the subject (the running joke is that the baby of course never answers). Elmo then asks the audience a question relating to the subject ("How many _____ can/are ________). Next, Elmo wonders something about the subject and asks questions to the audience ("What can _____ and what can't?", "What _____ and what doesn't?" or "What else ______?") - Knew the answers in the first 10 episodes (except "Transportation" and "Water"). Dorothy will imagine Elmo in fantasy sequences (Tickle-Me Land - A fantasy land full of imaginary clones of Elmo) based on the subject (which are amazingly detailed given the short duration of the sequence), and then a guest muppet related to the subject topic will visit. Various elements in the room – "drawer," "door," "TV," and "computer" – will also contribute videos on the topic, featuring a combination of other muppets, taped live field reports from kids, or animated lecture on the _______ Channel (which all feature the same female voice actor). In Dorothy's imaginations, Elmo is seen as animals such as a rabbit, a cat, a mouse, an elephant and a squirrel and is dressed up in clothes from around the world. The segment always ends with "Dorothy wants us to sing the ______ song," which is a medley of Jingle Bells (all the lyrics changed to the subject name, repeated over and over) and the refrain from "Elmo's Song."

Characters

Main article: List of characters in Sesame Street

• Elmo
• Dorothy
• Mr. Noodle, Elmo's friend, portrayed by Bill Irwin
• Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle, portrayed by Michael Jeter
• Mr. Noodle's sister, Ms. Noodle, portrayed by Kristin Chenoweth
• Mr. Noodle's other sister, portrayed by Sarah Jones
• The Lecture Lady/Bubbles Martin, portrayed by Andrea Martin
• TV
• Drawer
• Shade
• Door
• Computer
• Piano

Episodes

Season 1 (1998-1999)

1. Balls - November 16, 1998
2. Shoes - November 23, 1998
3. Hats - November 30, 1998
4. Dancing - December 7, 1998
5. Jackets - December 14, 1998
6. Food - December 28, 1998
7. Transportation - December 29, 1998
8. Books - January 5, 1999
9. Music - January 11, 1999
10. Water - January 18, 1999

Season 2 (2000-2003)

1. Singing - January 3, 2000
2. Dogs - January 4, 2000
3. Exercise - January 5, 2000
4. Babies - January 6, 2000
5. Bananas - January 18, 2000
6. Drawing - January 19, 2000
7. Flowers, Plants and Trees - January 25, 2000
8. Telephones - January 28, 2000
9. Farms - February 10, 2000
10. Hair - February 25, 2000
11. Computers - January 1, 2001
12. Bugs - January 2, 2001
13. Pets - January 3, 2001
14. Teeth - January 4, 2001
15. Hands - January 12, 2001
16. Birthdays - February 2, 2001
17. Birds - February 9, 2001
18. Games - March 13, 2001
19. Bicycles - March 15, 2001
20. Families - March 23, 2001
21. The Wild Wild West (TV Special) - September 11, 2001
22. Fish - February 4, 2002
23. Sky - February 5, 2002
24. Sleep - February 6, 2002
25. Weather - February 7, 2002
26. Getting Dressed - April 9, 2002
27. Happy Holidays! (Holiday Special) - September 22, 2002
28. Firefighters - October 15, 2002
29. Mail ("Postage" in UK) - April 7, 2003
30. Ears - April 8, 2003
31. Wild Animals - April 16, 2003
32. Open and Close - April 21, 2003

Notes

• In the quiz to "Bananas", no Sesame Street Muppets appear; Instead, there was a realistic computer-animated monkey performed by Matt Vogel.
• Mr. Noodle's Brother, Mr. Noodle also appeared in the episodes "Ears" and "Wild Animals" even though they aired after his death.

Season 3 (2004-2006)

1. The Street We Live on (35th Anniversary Special) - March 4, 2004
2. Bath Time - April 6, 2004
3. Feet - April 12, 2004
4. Bells - April 19, 2004
5. Up and Down - April 26, 2004
6. Dinosaurs - May 10, 2004
7. Jumping - June 2, 2005
8. School - September 5, 2005
9. Cats - September 7, 2005
10. Skin - September 8, 2005
11. Doctors - November 28, 2005
12. Cameras - December 30, 2005
13. Friends - August 14, 2006
14. Penguins - August 22, 2006
15. Building Things - September 6, 2006
16. Horses - September 14, 2006
17. Fast and Slow - November 6, 2006

Season 4 (2007-2009)

1. The Beach - August 13, 2007
2. Mouths - August 14, 2007
3. Violins - August 21, 2007
4. Noses - August 29, 2007
5. Helping - October 16, 2007
6. Drums - August 11, 2008
7. Eyes - October 22, 2008
8. Frogs - November 10, 2009

Internationally

The series airs on the cable network Treehouse TV in Canada, on Channel 5 and satellite lifestyle channel Sky Living in the United Kingdom, and dubbed in Irish on TG4 as Elmo Anseo (Elmo here).

Elmers Verden

Elmers Verden is the Danish version of Elmo's World. It was first shown on TV2 Denmark in the late 1990s and again during the summer of 2002. Around 2004, DR1 bought 45 episodes of the show. The most recent run of it has been on TV2 Denmark during the children's TV show Sesamgade (which also features Elmo).

The voice dubbing for this version is directed by Jens Davidsen, based on translations by the company Tekstkontoret, at the studios of Adaptor D&D. Elmer is voiced by Troels Walther, while Karin Jagd, Amin Jensen, Tom Jensen, Jan Tellefsen, and Gry Trampedach provide additional characters. Walther, Jensen, and Jensen are reprising their roles from Sesam, luk dig op. Any segments with children were dubbed by Viktor Ryle Schack and Olivia Steffe.

Elmo's Welt

Elmo's Welt is the German version of Elmo's World. It premiered on KI.KA in 2006, and was shown at the very end of the regular Sesamstrasse episodes. It also aired on Super RTL.

Elmo is voiced by Sabine Falkenberg and Dorothy is called "Gloria" in the German dub.

Świat Elmo

Świat Elmo is the Polish version of Elmo's World, which debuted in 1999, and presently airs on the channel MiniMini as part of the Sezamkowy Zakątek programming block.

Elmo's мира

Elmo's мира is the Russian version of Elmo's World, which debuted in 1998, and presently airs on the channel Toon Disney (Russia) as part of the Ulitsa Sezam programming block.

Elmo is voiced by Tomasz Bednarek while Cezary Nowak, Ilona Kuśmierska, Janusz Wituch, Wojciech Paszkowski, Janusz Zadura, Bartosz Zaborowski, Aleksander Mikołajczak and Alexander Browns dubbing voices.

Others

In Japan it is titled "エルモズワールド" (meaning "Elmo's World") and airs on TV Tokyo.