Episode 4403

Sesame Street
The Flower Show
Air date	September 18, 2013
Season	Season 44 (2013-2014)
Written by	Luis Santeiro
Production October 19, 2012 Sponsors D, 0

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	What's the Word on the Street?: Fragrance
	SCENE	Elmo welcomes the viewer to the Sesame Street Flower Show, as everyone on the street sings about it.
	SCENE cont'd	Elmo and Rosita hear screaming and find it coming from Stinky the Stinkweed, who's struggling to grow a flower in time for the show (it happens to coincide with his once-a-year blooming). Leela deduces from his various symptoms he's feeling nervous and tells him to relax and breathe to calm down before the judges arrive. While he tries to relax, a fellow plant (Leslie Carrara-Rudolph) starts up a conversation, talking about her flowers, suddenly growing one. She then grows another, and uses addition to total them.
	SCENE cont'd	Stinky yells again, bringing his friends back. They show him another tip for calming down: belly breathing. Since he doesn't have hands or a belly, Leela has him place his leaves on his middle and just breathe. While they're gone, the other plant starts talking to him again and suddenly grows a ninth flower.
	SCENE cont'd	Stinky can't take the frustration of not being able to grow a flower like the other plant. Leela takes him aside to tell him he's not like other plants; he's "Unique."
	SCENE cont'd	Stinky takes Leela's song to heart, repeating to himself that he's unique. The judges roll by (an Anything Muppet and Mrs. Crustworthy, who is referred to here as Maybelle) and are about to reward the other plant with the blue ribbon, when Stinky finally blooms a beautiful flower. The judges are impressed and give him the ribbon, but are soon repulsed by his flower's terrible smell. The other plant is unhappy; she's never lost a ribbon before. Stinky reassures her that she's unique.
	Muppets / Celebrity	Elmo and Troy Polamalu look for something with a pleasant fragrance. They smell a stinky skunk, onion and sweatsock before Elmo catches the pleasant aroma of Troy's conditioner.
	Animation	The Wordbots find various things with nice fragrances.
	Muppets	Murray Has a Little Lamb Ovejita provides Murray with a flower as a clue to today's school, which is gardening school! The original segment is edited, shown as the tune-ins throughout the episode, with new intros and outros by Murray. (First: Episode 4173)
	Film	D is for Dance, featuring a montage of ballet dancers. (First: Episode 4323)
	Animation	D is for dolphin, dive and deep. (edited) (First: Episode 4236)
	Muppets	Murray and Jordan introduce Abby's Flying Fairy School. (First: Episode 4305)
	Muppets / Animation	Abby's Flying Fairy School Captain Hook visits the class, having lost his golden pirate treasure. Abby, Gonnigan and Blögg volunteer to be his crew and the school sets sail for the Island of the Gushing Geyser. There, they collect two cups of water and pour it into the chest. Next, the map leads them to the Spice Islands, where they collect three spoons of cinnamon. Elsewhere on the island, they need a one troll's weight in apples. Using a scale, they measure the apples against Blögg. With all the ingredients in the chest, the treasure appears - applesauce, which they all share. (First: Episode 4305)
	Muppets	"Cookie's Crumby Pictures" is on next, but first, Murray learns about flowers and how to plant one.
	Muppets	Oscar presents The Count with the number of the day - 0, hoping he won't be able to count it. The Count instead drives Oscar into his can by pointing out things there are zero of around.
	Muppets	Murray and Francisco introduce "Cookie's Crumby Pictures."
	Muppets	Cookie's Crumby Pictures presents Cookies of the Caribbean (Rated TP: For Task Persistence) Cookie Monster stars as Captain Snack Sparrow and, along with his female companion, tries to find Davy Jones' cookie jar. They follow the map to a cave, where they find they need to load up a sculpture's hands with triangles to get in. Cookie puts the wrong shape in and is told to focus with his imaginary spyglass. When he gets it right, the cave opens slightly and Davy Jones changes the rules of entry; they now need to fill the hands with orange shapes. Cookie puts in another triangle, which is thrown back at him. He decides to give up, until he's convinced to focus again. They find some orange shapes and find the cave with the cookie jar. That is, until they're blocked by Davy Jones' animals. His ghost sings them a short shanty ("One of These Things") for them to answer. Cookie is about to give up when he realizes the correct answer (The parrot doesn't belong) and Davy Jones is defeated. The trailer ends just as the parrot makes off with the cookie jar.
	Film	Gymnasts form a triangle. (First: Episode 4167)
	Muppets	"Elmo the Musical" is coming soon, but now, Murray learns more about gardens and even gets to plant some flowers himself.
	Muppets	Mr. Johnson visits "The Coffee Plant" for a cup of coffee, saddened to find Grover on duty. Grover explains they have the freshest cup of coffee in the world, dragging out a coffee bush to hand-pick the beans. Once they become coffee, Grover goes to turn some sugar cane into sugar for him, but he asks for milk instead (hoping it'll be quicker). There's no fresher milk than straight from a cow, so Grover begins milking one. The cow gulps down Johnson's coffee and the caffeine sends her into an excitable rampage. (First: Episode 4302)
	Muppets	Murray and his group introduce "Elmo the Musical." (First: Episode 4402)
	Muppets	Elmo the Musical: Detective the Musical — Detective Elmo is searching for a cube who has been causing people to sneeze. (First: Episode 4318)
	Muppets	Murray announces the sponsors.

Alterations

Picture	Segment	Description
	Muppets / Animation	Cookie's Crumby Pictures presents The Spy Who Loved Cookies (rated LTD, for "listen to directions.") (First: Episode 4401) This segment replaced "Cookies of the Caribbean" in the HBO Kids version.

Notes

• Tyler Bunch performs the Hot Pink judge.

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