Sesame Street
Plot	The Mark of Elefante
Air date	March 1, 2002
Season	Season 33 (2002)
Sponsors	E, 1
Syndication
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Big Bird tells Dorothy and Elmo a fish joke. Together with the kids, they sing and dance the "Glub Glub Blub Blub" fish dance.
	Celebrity	Destiny's Child performs "A New Way To Walk" with Grover, Elmo and Zoe. (First: Episode 3984)
	Muppets	The Number of The Day: 1 After practicing a few times, The Count hits an organ key, and the number is one. One elephant appears.
	Cartoon	Number Guy sings "How Many Birds Can Sing on This Wire?" One bird provides the answer. (EKA: Episode 3872)
	Film	Wegman dogs: Batty and Crooky stack wood blocks to make the number 1.
	SCENE 2	At the Mail-It Shop, Big Bird gets a book in the mail, titled "The Mark of Elefante." Elmo and Big Bird beg Maria to read it to them.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	The story is about a town that loves to dance. A witch, played by Oscar, casts a spell that makes everyone fall on the ground when they try to dance.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	In the story, the witch says the spell can only be broken by a dancing something that begins with E. They try an egg. A singing guitar player announces the arrival of the masked Elefante.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	Elefante breaks the spell by dancing and leaves the Mark of Elefante: the Letter E.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	The story is done. Elmo puts on a costume to become Elmofante, and leaves the Mark of Elmofante on the screen.
	SCENE 2, cont'd	Elmofante can't get his E off of the screen. The guitar player and Elefante arrive to remove it. The guitar player denies he's Luis. Elefante leaves his mark on a notepad.
	Film	An insert about washing elephants at the Bronx Zoo. The song "Splish Splash" is used in part of the segment. (EKA: Episode 2096)
	Muppets	Journey To Ernie Big Bird sets off on a Journey To Ernie. First, Big Bird looks for Ernie's box in the chicken coop.
	Film	A group of kids paint a mural with the help of a mural artist. (First: Episode 3007)
	Muppets	Journey To Ernie Big Bird asks the dinosaur to help him find Ernie's box. We found him!
	Muppets	Ernie and Bert: Ernie practices saying "Hola" as he repeatedly opens and shuts the door. To make him stop, Bert convinces him he's mastered it. Ernie starts to practice saying adiós instead. (EKA: Episode 3818) Come back tomorrow for another Journey To Ernie.
	Muppets	Hero Guy Baby Bear and Hero Guy show how to dance the Bear Family Dance, the Bunny Hop, the Twist and the Swim. (EKA: Episode 3982)
	Muppets	The Letter of the Day: E Cookie Monster tries giving the Letter E Cookie to a lion, tiger and bear to protect it from him. However, they want to Eat it, so Cookie protects it from them by eating it himself.
	Cartoon	E / e Gregorian chant (EKA: Episode 3300)
	Film	Letter Garden: E (EKA: Episode 3009)
	Muppets	The Spanish Word of the Day: gato Maxine the Cow tries to help Rosita by illustrating gato, but she isn't a cat. (First: Episode 3985)
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Sky (First: Episode 3982)
	SCENE 3	Big Bird reads the sponsors. The Letter E doesn't show up until Elefante puts it up. The Season 33 credit crawl follows.

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