Sesame Street | |||||
Ernieโs Dance Video | |||||
Air date | October 10, 2014 | ||||
Season | Season 45 (2014-2015) | ||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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COLD OPEN | What's the Word on the Street?: Ridiculous | |
SCENE | Bert plays Angry Pigeons on his phone, when Ernie welcomes the viewer. He has a plan and needs to borrow Bert's phone to make it happen. He plans on making a dance video and his next steps involve handing the phone over to his camera penguin (Busby) and a bringing in a lobster DJ. His next step is getting Bert to dance with him, but Bert wants no part in this and suggests he change the plan. Ernie thinks it's a good idea and includes the viewer in on his dance. Busby records it, but Ernie's plan still isn't over. | |
SCENE cont'd | Ernie still wants Bert to dance, who just wants his phone back still and again says he should change the plan. Ernie includes Mando in his dance, who adds a cha-cha to it. They are filmed and Ernie thinks Bert will join them now, but he thinks otherwise. Ernie changes his plan once more. | |
SCENE cont'd | Ernie adds more steps to his plan, roping in more people to appear in his dance video (including Chris, Alan, Big Bird, Elmo, Snuffy, Abby, Leela, Maria, Luis, Oscar, the kids and others), while Bert continuously declines appearing in it. Ernie's finally ready to put his video up on the Internet, a step Bert wasn't aware of. Now, he wants to be in it, demonstrating the pigeon dance he's been working on. Ernie changes his plan to include his ol' buddy. | |
SCENE cont'd | Bert nervously waits as Ernie posts the video online. In the video, Ernie sings "Change the Plan" over a montage of everyone dancing. Bert is pleased and Ernie tells him of his new plan - playing Angry Pigeons. Bert thinks that's a good plan, then chases after Ernie when he realizes he's walked off with his phone. | |
Animation | Kids explain their thoughts on dancing, which are illustrated through cut-out paper animations. | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Grover puts Aziz Ansari in ridiculous situations and outfits to help explain the word. | |
Muppets | Cookie's Crumby Pictures will be on soon, but first, Murray and Ovejita are visiting another one of the people in your neighborhood. They meet Pooja Narang, who's a Bollywood choreographer and explains what a Bollywood dance is. (re-dubbed intro) (First: Episode 4321) | |
Muppets | Cookie's Crumby Pictures presents The Cookie of Oz (Rated WM for Working Memory) Cookie Monster plays Dough-rothy, a Kansas girl who travels to the land of Oz after hearing about the "Cookie of Oz." Glindagestion, the Good Witch of the Lower Intestine, gives him directions on how to find it - follow the chocolate chip road, do the opposite of what the Cookie Tin Man says and go through the Emerald Green Door. To help remember, Dough-rothy creates a memory chant. She goes against her chant a few times, getting pelted by flying monkeys with each mistake. She eventually finds the giant Cookie of Oz, but finds it's just a projection. Glindagestion remembers the Cookie of Oz was with her the whole time - Dough-rothy's cookie shoes. She gleefully devours them, remembering to take them off before biting into them. | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Janelle Monรกe and friends sing about "The Power of Yet." (opening sequence corrected) (First: Episode 4502) | |
Muppets | Elmo and the gang introduce the letter of the day, D, with a song and dance. | |
Film | D is for Dance, featuring a montage of ballet dancers. (First: Episode 4323) | |
Muppets | In a parody of iPod commercials, Big Bird, Elmo and Snuffy listen and dance to the sound of the letter D. (First: Episode 4190) | |
Animation | D is for dolphin, dive and deep. (First: Episode 4236) | |
Muppets | Before Abby's Flying Fairy School arrives, Pooja explains to Murray the types of moves they do in a Bollywood dance and agrees to put him and Ovejita in a dance, right after this...(re-dubbed intro) (First: Episode 4321) | |
Muppets / Animation | Abby's Flying Fairy School Today, the class is putting on their Dance Recital. Abby, Blogg, Peck and Niblet are all ready to dance, but Gonnigan claims he canโt dance and wonโt do it in front of a crowd. Mrs. Sparklenose poofs him up special โSugar Plum Fairy Dance Shoesโ, which will help him dance. As Gonnigan takes off his shoes the magic shoes begin dancing away. Blogg spots them under Nibletโs table. Gonnigan looks under and knocks the cage over, sending Niblet flying into Gonniganโs sweater and making him shake around. Abby tries to magically make Gonnigan dance, but she misses each time and makes something in the room dance. Gonnigan then follows the shoes around a block tower, but slips on a piece of lunch. Abby calls on Spot, who shoes them videos of feet. Abby interprets the film, calimg Gonnigan only needs his feet to dance. He ignores her and find the shoes on top of the bookshelf. He knocks it over and gets clay on his head, so he shakes it off. Mrs. Sparklenose reminds him of all the physical things heโs done (wiggling, sliding and shaking) and he makes a dance out of it, which all the other students perform in the recital. (re-orchestrated theme song) (First: Episode 4190) | |
Muppets | In a UTube video, Elmo demonstrates "The Elmo Slide", with cameos by celebrities and New York citizens. (First: Episode 4220) | |
Muppets | Count von Count and friends sing and stomp to find the number of the day - 20. | |
Cartoon | "Number 20 Song" (First: Episode 4269) | |
Animation | Twenty masks are counted and they begin to dance. | |
Muppets / Celebrity | Zoe watches as Lorena and Lorna Feijรณo perform their version of the Lamberena dance. Zoe notes how similar their version is to her own, only hers involves a dancing lamb. (First: Episode 4186) | |
Muppets | "Elmo the Musical" will be on soon, but first, Murray, Ovejita and others perform a Bollywood musical of their own. (First: Episode 4321) | |
Muppets | Elmo the Musical: Circus the Musical In today's musical, Elmo plays a "monster with a dream" of joining the circus. At the bigtop, the ringmaster tells him he needs an act before he can join, which Elmo doesn't have yet. The first act, The Great In-Betweeni can't go on (he's stuck between a rock and a hard thing), so Elmo goes on his place. He takes a leap from the trampoline to land between two cacti, but lands on top of instead. A performing chicken does the act perfectly. The next act, High-Walking Heidi, also cancels, having stubbed her toe. Elmo tries his best to walk on the high wire, but sneezes and falls down to the low wire. The chicken again performs the act with ease. The big finale is Zowie-Zown the Upside-Down Clown, who immediately quits when he hears he's been accepted to law school. Elmo tries to do his act and fails to stay upside-down; he decides to give up on his dream. The chicken convinces him to "Keep on Cluckin'" and not give up. Elmo tries again and does a perfect hand-stand, and the crowd goes wild! (First: Episode 4308) | |
Muppets | Murray announces the sponsors with the help of the Bollywood dancers. |
Notes
Sources
- โ "From Broadway to Big Bird: Behind the Scenes With Sesame Street's Alan Muraoka", NBC News, July 15, 2015.
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