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  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • ELMO: [SINGING] La la la.

  • La la la.

  • Elmo's World.

  • La la la.

  • La la la.

  • Elmo's World.

  • Elmo loves his goldfish.

  • His crayon, too.

  • [INAUDIBLE]

  • [LAUGHING]

  • ELMO: [SINGING] That's Elmo's World.

  • ELMO: Dorothy.

  • Dorothy.

  • Dorothy.

  • Oh, oh.

  • Oh, hi!

  • Welcome to Elmo's World.

  • Elmo's so happy to see you.

  • Oh, and so is Dorothy.

  • Say hello, Dorothy.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • So, guess what Elmo's thinking about today.

  • [SINGING] Ya-ta-ta-da.

  • Happy Birthday to you.

  • Happy Birthday to you.

  • ELMO: Did you guess yet?

  • [HUMMING]

  • [GASPING]

  • Uh oh.

  • You know-- [INAUDIBLE] That's right.

  • Birthdays.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • And guess what!

  • Today is Dorothy's birthday.

  • Yay, Dorothy!

  • Yay, Dorothy!

  • Happy Birthday, Dorothy.

  • Oh, and Dorothy's been thinking about birthdays

  • and has a birthday question.

  • Oh, good ahead, Dorothy.

  • Oh, OK.

  • OK.

  • How do you wrap a birthday present?

  • Good question, birthday fish.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Ooh, let's ask Mr. Noodle.

  • Mr. Noodle!

  • [TOOTING]

  • [LAUGHING]

  • ELMO: Oh, look!

  • Shade is being a birthday noisemaker.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • That tickles.

  • OK, Shade.

  • Oh, go up.

  • Go up now.

  • Aw, thank you, Shade.

  • Oh look.

  • It's Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.

  • Hi, Mr. Noo-- uh oh.

  • Mr. Noodle has a sneeze in his nose.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Gesund-- gesun--

  • [SNEEZING]

  • Gesundheit!

  • Ooh.

  • [CRASHING]

  • Come back, Mr. Noodle.

  • Boy, that was some sneeze.

  • [HORN]

  • [CHILDREN LAUGHING]

  • ELMO: Ready for Dorothy's question, Mr. Noodle?

  • [CHILDREN LAUGHING]

  • We'll wait.

  • Ready?

  • Good.

  • CHILD: How do you wrap a present, Mr. Noodle?

  • ELMO: Oh, yeah!

  • You need paper.

  • CHILD: Use the paper to wrap the present.

  • ELMO: Oh.

  • Uh.

  • Not that much paper, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Not that much.

  • ELMO: No, stop, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: That's too much.

  • CHILD: That's enough.

  • That's enough paper.

  • CHILD: Too much!

  • ELMO: Mr. Noodle!

  • CHILD: That's enough, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Mr. Noodle.

  • No, it's too much.

  • CHILDREN: Try again, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: All right.

  • Not too much this time, Mr. Noodle.

  • Be careful.

  • CHILD: You need scissors to cut the paper, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: Oh, yeah.

  • Yeah, you need scissors, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Yeah, use the scissors.

  • ELMO: Very good, Mr. Noodle.

  • OK, now cut the paper.

  • CHILD: You cut the paper good, Mr. Noodle.

  • Nice looking.

  • ELMO: Now, wrap the present.

  • CHILD: Wrap the present.

  • CHILD: Wrap the present, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: Yeah, that's the present.

  • Oh no.

  • No.

  • CHILD: You need tape.

  • ELMO: Yeah.

  • Yeah, that's the tape.

  • Yeah, very good.

  • Now, pull off some tape, Mr. Noodle.

  • There you go.

  • Oh no.

  • CHILD: Not that much tape.

  • CHILD: Just a little bit, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: It's going to get stuck together.

  • CHILD: Too much tape, Mr. Noodle.

  • It's sticking to you.

  • Try again, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILDREN: Keep going, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Wrap the present, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: Wrap the present first.

  • And now the other side.

  • Very good.

  • Wow.

  • Mr. Noodle, remember-- just a little bit of tape.

  • CHILD: Yay, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: He's doing it.

  • CHILD: You got it.

  • CHILDREN: Yay, Mr. Noodle!

  • ELMO: All right.

  • Now, finish wrapping the present.

  • CHILDREN: Finish it, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Keep going, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: Yeah, there's more.

  • CHILD: You have to wrap the ends of present

  • CHILD: Both ends.

  • CHILD: Just a small piece of tape, Mr. Noodle.

  • ELMO: Just a little.

  • That's enough, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILDREN: Yay!

  • You did it, Mr. Noodle!

  • ELMO: You wrapped a present.

  • Yay!

  • [LAUGHING]

  • CHILD: Uh oh.

  • You wrapped your finger, Mr. Noodle.

  • CHILD: Take it off.

  • CHILD: I wonder what the present was.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • ELMO: Dorothy wants to ask someone else.

  • How do you wrap a birthday present?

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • BOY: Hi Dorothy.

  • This is how I wrap a birthday gift.

  • You put it in a special bag.

  • Happy Birthday, Dorothy.

  • GIRL: Dorothy, this is how I wrap a present.

  • I put a big bow on it.

  • You have to take the paper off the sticky part.

  • Then you stick it on.

  • Happy Birthday, Dorothy.

  • GIRL: This is how I wrap a present, Dorothy.

  • I fold the paper onto the box like this.

  • Then I fold the corners.

  • And I do the same thing on the other side.

  • Now I put a bow on.

  • There.

  • Happy Birthday, Dorothy.

  • ELMO: Thanks, kids.

  • Oh.

  • Thanks, Dorothy.

  • And now Elmo will ask a baby.

  • Hello, baby.

  • Hi.

  • Hi.

  • Ooh.

  • Baby, how do you wrap a gift?

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Thank you, baby.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • [KISSING]

  • And now Elmo has a question for you!

  • [LAUGHING]

  • How many candles are on this birthday cake?

  • Let's count them and see.

  • Here they go.

  • CHILDREN: One.

  • Two.

  • Three.

  • Four.

  • Five.

  • Six.

  • Seven.

  • ELMO: Seven.

  • Yeah, seven birthday candles.

  • Oh!

  • How many elephants does it take to blow the candles out?

  • Oh, there he is.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Oh, silly elephant.

  • One!

  • Thank you, elephant.

  • Great counting.

  • And great candle blowing.

  • Boy, it must be the elephant's birthday, too.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Oh, that makes Elmo wonder.

  • What can have birthdays, and what can't?

  • Elmo wants to know.

  • Don't you?

  • OK.

  • [DRAWER TALKING GIBBERISH]

  • ELMO: Oh!

  • Boy, it sounds like the drawer knows.

  • Open up, drawer.

  • [SCREAMING]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • ELMO: Do birthday cakes have birthdays?

  • CHILDREN: No.

  • ELMO: Well, you can eat birthday cake at a birthday party.

  • Do telephones have birthdays?

  • CHILDREN: No.

  • ELMO: But you can call to wish someone a happy birthday.

  • Do ponies have birthdays?

  • CHILDREN: Yes!

  • ELMO: But ponies don't eat birthday cake.

  • They can have a birthday apple.

  • Happy Birthday, pony.

  • Do trash cans have birthdays?

  • CHILDREN: No.

  • ELMO: But Oscar has a birthday in his trash can.

  • OSCAR: Don't remind me. [GROANING]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • ELMO: And fish have birthdays, too.

  • Oh!

  • Is Dorothy having a good birthday?

  • Oh, good!

  • And ponies have birthdays and grouches and--

  • COMPUTER: Elmo has mail.

  • Elmo has mail.

  • Elmo has mail.

  • Elmo has mail.

  • Elmo has mail.

  • ELMO: Be careful, Computer.

  • [CRASHING]

  • Oh no.

  • COMPUTER: Elmo has mail.

  • ELMO: The computer crashed.

  • COMPUTER: [SLOWLY] Elmo has-- Elmo has-- Elmo has--

  • ELMO: Computer.

  • Computer, come on.

  • Over here, Computer Come on.

  • COMPUTER: [SLOWLY] Elmo has mail.

  • ELMO: Over here.

  • Over here.

  • COMPUTER: [UPBEAT] Elmo has mail.

  • Elmo has mail.

  • ELMO: Now.

  • Now Elmo can get his email.

  • Wow.

  • Dorothy's friends sent Elmo email.

  • FISH: Hi, Elmo.

  • This is a special email for Dorothy.

  • Bring it in, fellas.

  • FISH: It's a cake.

  • Bring it in here.

  • Come on.

  • Blub blub blub.

  • FISH: Ready everybody?

  • FISH: Ready!

  • FISH: Happy Birthday, Dorothy!

  • Blub blub blub blub blub.

  • FISH: Bye bye, Elmo!

  • Bye Dorothy!

  • FISH: Email me, Dorothy.

  • Blub blub blub.

  • ELMO: Thanks, Computer.

  • Oh, oh, be careful.

  • Bye.

  • Dorothy loved her email.

  • Now, where was Elmo?

  • Oh, that's right.

  • Everybody has birthdays, even mommies.

  • Elmo's friend Hampton made a special cake

  • for his Mommy's birthday.

  • His daddy helped, too.

  • And Hampton told Elmo all about it.

  • HAMPTON: My dad and I made a cake for my mom

  • for her birthday.

  • We found my mom's favorite kind of cake in her cookbook,

  • and then we followed the directions.

  • I helped my dad break the eggs.

  • We have to be careful so that egg shells don't

  • get in the batter.

  • Add milk and vanilla.

  • Then mix those together.

  • You mix flour and sugar and salt and baking powder in a bowl.

  • Then we mix the wet and dry ingredients together.

  • My dad used the electric mixer.

  • I got to taste the batter.

  • We poured the mix into a cake pan.

  • Then my dad put the cake pan in the oven.

  • When the cake was done, then we put on the icing.

  • I decorated the cake myself.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • And gave it to Mom.

  • I helped her blow out the candles.

  • Then we ate the cake.

  • Yummy.

  • ELMO: Mm.

  • Oh, Hampton gave Elmo a piece of his mommy's birthday cake.

  • Mm.

  • Great cake, Hampton.

  • But now Elmo wants to learn more about birthdays, don't you?

  • How can we learn more?

  • Hm.

  • Oh yeah!

  • Elmo can watch the birthday channel!

  • Good.

  • OK, turn yourself on, TV.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • MALE NARRATOR: The Birthday Channel,

  • where every day is a birthday.

  • And now "The Girl Who Loved Birthdays."

  • FEMALE NARRATOR: Once upon a time,

  • there was a girl who loved birthdays.

  • GIRL: I love birthdays.

  • FEMALE NARRATOR: She loved birthdays so much,

  • she traveled all over the world to celebrate

  • her friends' birthdays.

  • She went to Iceland where they had special pancakes with syrup

  • for her friend Bjorn's birthday.

  • GIRL: Yum!

  • I love birthdays!

  • FEMALE NARRATOR: She went to Mexico

  • where they had a pinata for her friend Carmen's birthday.

  • A pinata is filled with goodies.

  • GIRL: Oh, boy!

  • A ball, candy, and a peso.

  • [GASPING] I love birthdays!

  • FEMALE NARRATOR: She went to Israel

  • where they played a game called [INAUDIBLE] for her friend

  • Avi's birthday.

  • BOY: Try to get your hat on your head without using your hands.

  • GIRL: OK.

  • I love birthdays!

  • FEMALE NARRATOR: And when she got home to Ypsilanti,

  • it was her birthday!

  • ALL: Happy Birthday!

  • GIRL: Oh, yeah, I forgot.

  • It's my birthday.

  • I love birthdays!

  • MALE NARRATOR: Coming up on the Birthday

  • Channel-- "Born Free," "Born on the Fourth of July"

  • and "Born Yesterday."

  • ELMO: Oh, thank you, TV.

  • Wow.

  • There's so many special things to do on birthdays.

  • But Elmo wants to know more about birthdays, don't you?

  • How can we find out more?

  • [HORN]

  • Oh.

  • [HUMMING]

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: Want to talk to a birthday cake?

  • ELMO: Whoa!

  • Yeah!

  • We could talk to a birthday cake.

  • Yay!

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Ooh, is it fun being a birthday cake?

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: Yeah, it's a piece of cake.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • ELMO: Tell Elmo more about birthdays, Cake.

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: Well, for starters,

  • birthdays are to celebrate the day you were born.

  • ELMO: Ah.

  • [POPPING]

  • Oh, look!

  • Dorothy is imaging Elmo being born.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • GEORGE: Oh, boy.

  • George is almost a daddy.

  • GLADYS: Oh, boy.

  • Gladys is almost a mommy.

  • DOCTOR: It's a boy.

  • [BABBLING]

  • NURSE: He is so cute.

  • DOCTOR: What are you going to name him?

  • [BABBLING]

  • GEORGE AND GLADYS: Elmo.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: And after that, you celebrate your birthday

  • once a year.

  • Some people like to have parties.

  • GEORGE AND GLADYS: Happy Birthday, Elmo.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: When you get older,

  • you can play games at your birthday parties.

  • My favorite is pin the tail on the donkey.

  • DONKEY: Uh, hey.

  • I've already got a tail.

  • See there?

  • ELMO: Oh yeah.

  • Oh, sorry, Donkey.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • You already have a tail.

  • DONKEY: Yeah.

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: And you always sing "Happy Birthday"

  • to celebrate the day you were born.

  • ELMO: Yeah, that's right.

  • So let's sing "Happy Birthday" to Dorothy.

  • Be right back.

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: OK.

  • Good idea.

  • I love singing "Happy Birthday."

  • Mhm.

  • ELMO: Ta da!

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: Oh, nice hat.

  • ELMO: Ah, thank you.

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: You're welcome.

  • ELMO: Here we go.

  • Oh, you can sing along, too.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • ELMO: Get ready, Birthday Cake.

  • This is for you, Dorothy.

  • ALL: [SINGING] Happy Birthday to you.

  • Happy Birthday to you.

  • Happy Birthday, dear Dorothy.

  • Happy Birthday to you.

  • ELMO: Oh, now Elmo wants to sing "The Birthday Song."

  • Come on, everybody!

  • ALL: [SINGING] Birthday, birthday birthday, birthday,

  • birthday, birthday, birthday.

  • Birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday,

  • birthday!

  • ELMO: Oh, blow out the candles, Dorothy.

  • Yeah!

  • Come on.

  • Dance, Cake.

  • [SINGING]

  • ELMO: Happy Birthday, Dorothy!

  • ALL: [SINGING] Du du du du du.

  • [INAUDIBLE] That's Elmo's World!

  • ELMO: Bye bye.

  • Oh, thanks, Birthday Cake.

  • BIRTHDAY CAKE: You're welcome.

  • Bye.

  • ELMO: Elmo loves you.

  • Bye bye.

  • ELMO: See?

  • Some things bounce besides balls.

  • But what if balls weren't so bouncy?

  • Elmo wants to know.

  • How can Elmo find out?

  • Hm.

  • [BOUNCING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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