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| Elmo Helps the Amazing Zero! | |||||
| Air date | February 15, 2024 | ||||
| Season | Season 54 (2023-2024) | ||||
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COLD OPEN | Elmo introduces today's theme of counting numbers such as 1 (Stephanie D'Abruzzo), 2 (Martin P. Robinson), 3 (Peter Linz), and 4 (Pam Arciero). Those same numbers appear behind to assist him. (First: Episode 5232) |
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SCENE 1 | Elmo is ready to help Chris clean some dirty dishes, but Chris' favorite superhero number, the Amazing Zero arrives to make the number of dirty dishes zero. Elmo is excited, but confused, needing to be explained to what zero is. After Amazing Zero does her signature trumpet chime, she explains that she's on Sesame Street to find a sidekick, and Elmo is glad to be her fellow "zero hero"... |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | ...Only, he can't count to zero, so the Amazing Zero shows him how by turning four cups into zero cups. Elmo gets into costume and accepts the alias "Super Zer-mo" per Chris' suggestion. Elmo leaves with Zero, but not before he does the trumpet chime. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | The heroes find Grover struggling to carry two tall stacks of library books on either hand. Elmo returns one stack and thinks their work is done, but Zero reminds Elmo that zero means none, and Grover's toppling over confirms that there aren't no books left. Elmo is disappointed he was unable to save the day and needed Zero's help, but Zero assures him he just needs more practice. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | The two find Grandma Nell busy with a glut of laundry. Elmo trips over with one basket of laundry and thinks he's solved the problem but once again is reminded that their job isn't finished until zero baskets remain. Zero finishes the job, leaving Elmo frustrated with himself. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | They find one more opportunity: Abby Cadabby, who anxiously watches three balls (including a beach ball and a basketball) bounce scarily close to her block tower. Zero invites Elmo to save the day, but Elmo doesn't believe in himself, instead suggesting Zero find a new sidekick. Zero reassures Elmo and doesn't let him give up, telling him he's the only sidekick she wants. With rebounded confidence, Elmo successfully redirects the beach ball and basketball and prematurely celebrates, but some boinging reveals to him there's one more to escort. As the third ball (Pam Arciero) is about to knock over the tower, Elmo catches it with a baseball glove in an overly-dramatic, slow-motion sequence. |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Everyone helped by the power of zero arrives to give Super Zer-mo a round of applause, and they all do the trumpet chime together. |
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Insert | I Wonder, What If, Let's Try Elmo rides his trike down the block and hears a song coming on... (First: Episode 5104) |
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Muppets | Elmo and friends sing and clap as they find out the letter of the day - C. (First: Episode 5019) |
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Celebrity | Billie Eilish and the Count express their love of counting in a parody of "Happier Than Ever." (First: Episode 5232) |
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Muppets | Elmo and Big Bird hear the sounds of the next segment coming up... (First: Episode 5102) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck With two friends, Nima orders something green that's fit for three people. Gonger has the idea to make pesto pasta. Cookie Monster gets all the ingredients ready, including "pine nut," so Gonger asks to count the number of pine nuts and finds there's only one. Needing way more than that, the two go to the pine tree forest for some pine nuts... (First: Episode 5320) |
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Muppets | Elmo and Abby pose as astronauts and sing about finding the number of the day by counting Martians. Today, there are 0. (First: Episode 5019) |
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Cartoon | A man sings about children playing outside on a sunny day, on which there are zero clouds. Four birds fly from a bench to a tree, making there zero birds on the bench and room for children to sit. The children gather together to eat snacks, causing there to be zero snacks. |
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Cartoon | Sesame Street Nature Explorers On a nature walk, Tango finds a spider's web. Elmo and Gabrielle follow her and don't see any spiders nearby, so they search around. On their hunt, they find two bugs with six legs, or insects. First, they find a stinkbug. Then, they find a cricket. They find another web, and this one has a spider--an arachnid with eight legs. |
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SCENE 2 | The zero heroes offer to assist Cookie Monster by turning his cookies into zero, but he does it himself. |
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