Elmo's World DVD cover

Elmo in Elmo's World.

Elmo's World is a segment of the children's television show Sesame Street featuring Elmo, a small red monster who speaks in third person and is perpetually 3½ years old. The show also features Mr. Noodle, a human mime character, and Elmo's pet goldfish, Dorothy. The segment was first introduced the beginning of its 30th season on November 16, 1998. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Sesame Street, Elmos World. ... Image File history File links Sesame Street, Elmos World. ... Childrens television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... For other uses of this name, see Elmo (disambiguation). ... Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others. ... The goofy-acting human characters Mr. ... Look up mime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Trinomial name Carassius auratus auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) For the baked snack crackers, please see Goldfish (snack). ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

The segment takes place in a computer animated crayon-drawn room imagined by Elmo. Each day, the segment begins with Elmo announcing the topic for the day. Then, there is a series of skits and interviews centered on that topic. The skits and interviews are essentially the same everyday only changing the subject matter. They also always appear in the same repetitive order. Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... For other uses, see Crayon (disambiguation). ...

In the Season 37 Sesame Street episode "Cookie World", the first 10 minutes of that episode include a spoof of the segment with Cookie Monster in place of Elmo. In one episode where Bert enters Elmo's World, Elmo states that he does not know how to get out of Elmo's World. Cookie Monster (right) and his mother in a season 33 Letter of the Day segment, 2002. ... Bert hosting a convention of the National Association of W Lovers meeting Bert is a fictional character, a Muppet on the Public Broadcasting Services long-running childrens television show, Sesame Street. ...

Currently the segment occupies the last 15 to 20 minutes of each Sesame Street show.

Segment format

Elmo's World, though not its own show, has almost the same segments, every day, appealing to young children's response to routine:

• Theme song - Throughout the seasons the background changes and Elmo sings the song.
• What is Elmo Thinking of - Elmo asks the audience to guess what he's thinking about. Elmo then reveals the answer by opening a door containing the day's subject.
• Intro Video Segment - Montage of the subject
• Ask Mr. Noodle - Mr. Noodle acts out a comedic explanation of the day's subject.
• Ask Someone Else - Montage of children demonstrating the subject. Ends with Elmo asking an infant to act out the day's subject.
• Ask a Baby - Elmo asks a Baby about the subject and the Baby plays with the item or just moves a bit. Elmo thanks it then kisses it.
• Elmo Has (video E-)Mail - One of Elmo's Sesame Street friends is featured in a small clip about the subject.
• Elmo Has a Question for the Viewers - a counting animation pertaining to the subject.
• The Drawer - Elmo asks his drawer to open, it pushes Elmo away.
• What Else? - Elmo asks a series of logic-based questions about the subject, which the audience is encouraged to answer.
• Elmo's Friend - Elmo shows a video of his friend doing something with the subject of the day.
• The (Subject) Channel - animations featuring characters voiced by Andrea Martin.
• Talk to the Subject - Elmo opens the door and talks to the subject.
• Tickle Me Land - Dorothy the goldfish imagines Elmo in the context of the day's subject, which usually involves Elmo in costume or Elmo transformed as an animal. In the Friends episode, Zoe's pet rock, Rocco imagines the scenario.
• Elmo's Home Video (Discontinued after 2000 by Elmo's computer) - a "home video" made by Elmo of about the day's subject.
• The (Subject) Song - The name of the day's subject is sang to the tune of Jingle Bells). On one episode of the subject "Farm", there's a tune playing to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm and in Wild Wild West there was more of a western tune.

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Characters

Elmo played by Kevin Clash

Dorothy the Goldfish

Mr. Noodle played by Bill Irwin

Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle formerly played by the deceased actor Michael Jeter

Mr. Noodle's sister, Ms. Noodle played by Kristin Chenoweth

The [subject] Lady/Bubbles Martin played by Andrea Martin

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Episodes

Elmo's World consists of over 50 episodes ranging from 15 to 20 minutes, including topics on Babies, Balls, Bananas, Bath, Beach, Bells, Bicycles, Birds, Birthdays, Books, Bugs, Building Things, Cameras, Cats, Computers, Dancing, Dinosaurs, Doctors, Dogs, Drawing, Ears, Exercise, Families, Fast and Slow, Feet, Firefighters, Fish, Flowers, Food, Friends, Games, Getting Dressed, Hair, Hands, Hats, Helping, Horses, Jacket, Jumping, Life on the Farm, Mail, Mouths, Music, Noses, Open and Closed, Penguins, Pets, School, Shoes, Singing, Skin, Sky, Sleep, Teeth, Telephones, Transportation, Up and Down, Violins, Water, Weather and Wild Animals. Additionally, three longer-length segments have been produced: Happy Holidays, The Street We Live On (the Sesame Street 35th anniversary special) and Wild Wild West. For a complete episode guide, see Muppet Wiki: Elmo's World Episodes.

Merchandising

Books released under the Elmo's World title have included Animals, Babies, Balls, Bugs, Computers, Dancing, Drawing, Firefighters, Food, Games, Getting Clean, Getting Dressed, Hair, Instermints, Love, Opposites, Pets, Police Officers, Puppies, Safari, Space, Sports, Teachers, Weather, and Wheels.

Nearly 20 DVDs have been released featuring episodes, most of which contain 3 episodes, the later releases of which contain some special features. Boxed sets have included a Fun Pack and Best of Elmo's World. See Elmo's World Video.

Toys

• Elmo's World Boom Box
• Elmo's Camera of Fun
• Elmo's World Talking Cell Phone
• Silly Parts Talking Elmo

Fisher-Price released a stuffed toy of Mr. Noodle in the early 2000s, based on the appearance of Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle. Other than Fisher-Price Little People of Gordon, Susan, and Mr. Hooper, this is the only toy of a human character from the series. Fisher-Price is a well-known brand of toys, with headquarters located in historic East Aurora, New York. ... The goofy-acting human characters Mr. ... The Robinson family on the childrens television series Sesame Street consists of husband and schoolteacher Gordon, his wife and nurse Susan, and eventually their adopted son Miles, as well as Gordons sister Olivia, and his father Mr. ... The Robinson family on the childrens television series Sesame Street consists of husband and schoolteacher Gordon, his wife and nurse Susan, and eventually their adopted son Miles, as well as Gordons sister Olivia, and his father Mr. ... Mr. ...

Two CD-ROMs for Windows-based systems have been released, Elmo's World: Pets, Food & Telephones! and Elmo's World: Shoes, Bugs & Farms!; both were released by Encore Software.

The Elmo's World: My First TV Fun & Games unit, released by TechnoSource under the "My First Electronic Game" label in 2006, plugs into modern television sets. It includes five games, "Elmo's Shape Match", "Elmo's Shape Jump", "Elmo's Sea Search", "Elmo's Super Soccer", and "Dinner for Dorothy". Dinner for Dorothy was released separately as a two-button LCD handheld game, with the goal of helping Elmo put food into Dorothy's bowl.

Internationally

Elmo's World is not packaged with any of the international co-productions of Sesame Street, but instead distributed separately, and in many cases dubbed. In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. ...

The series airs on the cable network Treehouse TV in Canada,^[1] on the United Kingdom lifestyle channel LivingTV, and dubbed in Irish on TG4. Treehouse TV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that launched on November 1, 1997. ... LIVINGtv is a British television channel owned by Flextech. ... TG4 (Irish: TG Ceathair or TG a Ceathair; IPA: /tiː dʒiː kʲahəɾʲ/) is a television channel in Ireland, aimed at Irish-language speakers and established as a wholly owned subsidiary by Radio Telefís Éireann on 31 October 1996. ...

The Latin American version is produced by Audiomaster 3000, Directed by Jorge Roig, and Eduardo Garza as Elmo. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Eduardo Garza Famous Mexican actor, voiceover talent, announcer, singer, translator and puppeteer. ... For other uses of this name, see Elmo (disambiguation). ...

Elmers Verden

Elmers Verden was first shown on TV 2/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 DR1 during the summer of 2006.

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.

References

External links

• Muppet Wiki: Elmo's World