Episode 3833

	Sesame Street
	Telly and the Mysterious X
Air date	January 20, 1999
Season	Season 30 (1998-1999)
Sponsors	X, 4
Syndication	123 Sesame Street, PBS Sprout

Telly Monster keeps seeing a letter X with weird-looking eyes appear and then disappear, but nobody believes Telly when he tells them about the strange-looking X. Eventually, the others see the X, which turns out to just be a normal X wearing strange sunglasses.

Segments

Mysterious Theater: The Circle Search (EKA: Episode 2874)
Song: Yakety Yak- Take It Back (EKA: Episode 3091)
Film: Circles of all kinds are displayed as funky rap music plays. (EKA: Episode 3126)
Elmo's World: Music (EKA: Episode 3826)

Notes

The Street story spoofs The X-Files. The xylophone music that accompanies Telly's X sightings is a musical reference to the X-Files theme.
Telly makes an X from a pile of mashed potatoes in a nod to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
During the last sighting, the X makes an in-joke using the Sesame Street theme song: when asked why it wears sunglasses, the letter mentions the bright light on the Street and sings the first few bars of the theme.

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