Elmo's World
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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, replacing one letter.
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.
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.
Currently the segment occupies the last 15 to 20 minutes of each Sesame Street show.
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[edit] 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.
- Ask a Baby - Elmo asks a Baby about the subject and the Baby plays with the item, looks at or just moves a bit. Elmo thanks then kisses the baby.
- Elmo Has (video E-)Mail - One of Elmo's Sesame Street friends is featured in a small clip about the subject. Introduced in 2000, replacing "Elmo's Home Video".
- 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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. also his big friend.... big bird.
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.
[edit] 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.
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.
[edit] 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.
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.
The Latin American version is produced by Audiomaster 3000, Directed by Jorge Roig, and Eduardo Garza as Elmo.
[edit] 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.
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