Episode 3972

	Sesame Street
	Mumford makes the letter "S" disappear
Air date	March 20, 2001
Season	Season 32 (2001)
Written by	Joey Mazzarino
Production	December 13, 2000
Sponsors	S, 16

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Elmo welcomes the viewer and displays his sparkly letter S. The Amazing Mumford comes by and wants to show off his new magic wand, the Disappearatron X-38, which can make anything disappear. He makes Elmo's S vanish, but struggles to make it re-appear. He consults the instruction booklet.
	Film	"S, You're the Best" (sung by Ron Marshall) (First: Episode 3551)
	Cartoon	A girl searches for the letter S in a mound of letters. Artist: Fred Garbers (First: Episode 3649)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Bert shows Ernie his trick of picking up paper clips without using his fingers. The answer is a magnet, but Ernie says Bert's trick is mistaken, since he used his fingers to pick up the magnet.
	Cartoon	"Big Kid Photo Album" (First: Episode 3441)
	SCENE 2	Alan shows Elmo something unusual: the letter S on his "soup" sign keeps disappearing. Gina points out the Ss on the street sign are gone, as well is the S in "Snuffy" as Big Bird tries writing it. Mumford has made all the Ss on Sesame Street disappear!
	Animation	A cowboy sings about the S words. (First: Episode 3649)
	Film	A girl writes a letter to her grandmother about going to summer camp. (First: Episode 3270)
	Muppets	Telly, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn sing "That's the Way I Read," about the different ways each of them can read a book. (First: Episode 3651)
	Cartoon	African quilt pattern #2 (First: Episode 3134)
	SCENE 3	Mumford returns with the instructions. The wand begins to shake and emits a noise, and with an "A la spill the beans," it grows a face! It sings a short musical clue as to where the Ss are: inside something. Elmo begins to look for the letters.
	Cartoon	A detective discovers an odd pattern on a road. (First: Episode 2248)
	Film	Kid Mural Painting #16 (First: Episode 3625)
	Animation	An animated truck displays 16 television sets. (First: Episode 2850)
	Animation	Growing Numbers #16 (First: Episode 2996)
	Cartoon	Leanna Williams explains why she loves her brother's shoes. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2985)
	SCENE 4	Elmo looks in Oscar's trash can, but there aren't any Ss inside. Slimey helps out by forming himself into an S, then disappears. Oscar begins to worry, when the wand sings another clue: the letters are in a rectangle-shaped box.
	Song	Jerry Nelson sings "The Inside Story" over film footage which shows the insides of ordinary household items. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 2724)
	Cartoon	Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #16 (First: Episode 3925)
	Muppets	The Martians discover a number 16. (First: Episode 3387)
	Cartoon	A magician writes in his diary about the many mishaps during his performance. (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 2053)
	SCENE 5	As a customer orders some "oup" at Hooper'_ _tore, Elmo and Oscar relay the clues to Alan. He looks in a couple of boxes they have, but finds nothing and adds it could take a while to look through all the boxes they have. Mumford's wand sings another clue: the box is under a plant, so they all head to the garden.
	Film	Four kids fly around and form a rectangle. (First: Episode 3131)
	Celebrity	Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song. (First: Episode 3538)
	Cartoon	Noodles & Nedd: Making music with tools and a trumpet.
	Muppets	Big Bird recites a poem by Radar, introducing Cecille the Ball. (First: Episode 3827)
	Animation	Cecille sings "I'm Gonna Get to You" (First: Episode 2873)
	SCENE 6	They all reach the garden, where Stinky the Stinkweed notices the missing S on his flower pot. They realize he's a plant with a rectangle box underneath. They open the box and all the Ss (and Slimey) are released. The wand sings about how now's the time for Elmo's World, but Elmo expects some more singing from her. "What am I? Britney Spears?," the wand quips, "A la Elmo's World!"
	Muppets	Elmo's World: Birthdays (First: Episode 3940)
	SCENE 7	As Oscar reunites with Slimey, the wand announces the sponsors.