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♪ Elmo's World ♪

♪ La la la la ♪

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♪ Elmo's World ♪

♪ Elmo loves his goldfish ♪

♪ His crayon too ♪

(crayon squeaking)

♪ That's Elmo's World ♪

- Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy.

Oh, oh, oh, hi, welcome to Elmo's World!

Elmo's so happy to see you and so is Dorothy!

Say hello, Dorothy.

(Elmo chuckles)

So, guess what Elmo's thinking about today?

(Elmo cheering)

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

Did you guess yet?

(Elmo humming)

Uh oh.

(presents clattering) (Elmo yelling)

You know, birth--

(presents clattering)

Oh boy.

(Elmo chuckles)

That's right, birthdays!

(Elmo laughs)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music continues)

And guess what, today is Dorothy's birthday!

Yay, Dorothy, yay, Dorothy!

Happy birthday, Dorothy

and Dorothy's been thinking about birthdays

and has a birthday question.

Go ahead, Dorothy, oh, okay, okay.

How do you wrap a birthday present?

Good question, birthday fish!

(Elmo chuckles)

Let's ask Mr. Noodle!

Mr. Noodle!

(Shade whistling)

Oh look, Shade is being a birthday noisemaker.

(Elmo chuckles)

That tickles, okay, Shade, go up, go up now.

Awe, thank you, Shade.

Oh look, it's Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.

Hi Mr--

Uh oh, Mr. Noodle. has a sneeze in his nose.

(trumpet playing)

Gesun, gesun, geun.

(Mr. Noodle sneezing)

Gesundheit!

(glass shattering)

Come back, Mr. Noodle!

Boy, that was some sneeze.

(trumpet blowing)

Ready for Dorothy's question, Mr. Noodle?

(trumpet blowing) (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] Not that much paper, Mr. Noodle.

No, no, stop Mr. Noodle.

- [Child] That's enough, that's enough paper.

- [Child] Too much!

- [Child] That's enough, that's enough Mr. Noodle.

- [Child] Mr. Noodle, no, it's too much.

- [Children] Try again Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] Not too much this time Mr. Noodle,

be careful.

- [Child] You need scissors to cut the paper Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] Oh yeah, you need scissors Mr. Noodle.

- [Child] Yeah, use the scissors.

- [Elmo] Very good Mr. Noodle, okay now cut the paper.

- [Child] You cut the paper good Mr. Noodle.

- [Child] Nice looking.

- [Elmo] Now, wrap the present.

- [Child] Wrap the present.

- [Child] Wrap the present Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] Yeah, wrap the present.

Oh no, no, no.

- [Children] You need to tape.

- [Elmo] Yes, yeah, that's the tape.

Yeah, very good.

Now, pull out some tape Mr. Noodle.

There you go.

- [Child] Not that much tape.

- [Child] Just a little bit missing Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] It's going to get stuck together.

(children laughing)

- [Child] Too much tape Mr. Noodle.

It's sticking to you.

- [Child] 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.

- [Child] Wow.

- [Elmo] 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 the present.

- [Child] Both ends.

- [Child] Just a small piece of tape. Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] Just a little.

That's enough Mr. Noodle.

(wrapping paper crinkling)

- [Children] Yay!

You did it Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] You wrapped the present, yay!

(Elmo laughing)

- [Child] Uh oh, you wrapped your finger Mr. Noodle.

- [Child] Take it off.

- [Child] I wonder what the present was.

- Dorothy wants to ask someone else.

How do you wrap a birthday present?

(upbeat music)

- Hi Dorothy, this is how you wrap a birthday gift.

Put it in a special bag, happy birthday Dorothy.

(upbeat music)

- 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.

(upbeat music)

- This is how I wrap a present Dorothy.

I fold the paper onto the box like this.

(foil crinkling)

Then I fold the corners

(foil crinkling)

and I do the same thing on the other side.

(foil crinkling)

Now, I put a bow on.

There, happy birthday Dorothy.

(upbeat music)

- Thanks kids, thanks Dorothy

and now Elmo will ask a baby.

- Hello baby, hi, hi.

Baby, how do you wrap a gift.

(Elmo chuckles)

Thank you baby.

(Elmo kissing)

And now Elmo had a question for you.

How many candles are on this birthday cake?

Let's count them and see.

Here we go--

- [Children] One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven.

- Seven, yeah, seven birthday candles.

How many elephants does it take to blow candles out?

(Elephant trumpeting)

(cake squirting) (Elmo laughing)

Silly elephant.

One, thank you elephant.

Great counting and great candle blowing.

Boy, it must be the elephants birthday too.

(Elmo laughing)

Oh, that make Elmo wonder, what can have birthdays

and what can't?

Elmo wants to know, don't you?

(drawers talking gibberish)

Oh, it sounds like the drawer knows.

Open up drawer.

(Elmo yelling)

(upbeat music)

Do birthday cakes have birthdays?

- [Children] No.

- [Elmo] But, 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 have trash cans have birthdays?

- [Children] No.

- [Elmo] But, Oscar has a birthday in his trash can.

- Don't remind me.

- And fish have birthdays too.

Oh, is Dorothy having a good birthday?

Oh good!

And ponies have birthdays and grouches--

- You've got mail, you've got mail, you've got mail,

you've got mail.

- Be careful computer!

(computer crashing)

Oh no, the computer crashed.

- You've got, you've got--

- Computer, come on, over here, over here computer, come on,

come on, come on, come on.

- You've got mail, you've got mail, you've got mail.

- Now, now Elmo can get his email.

Wow, Dorothy's friends sent Elmo email.

- Hi, Elmo, this was a little special email for Dorothy.

Bring it in fellas!

(fish talking)

Ready everybody?

- [In Unison] Ready!

Happy birthday Dorothy!

(fish talking)

Bye Elmo, bye Dorothy.

- Email me Dorothy!

- Thanks computer.

Oh, be careful.

(computer beeping)

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.

(upbeat music)

- 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

then we followed the directions.

I helped my dad break the eggs,

you have to be careful so that eggshells

don't get in the batter.

Add milk and vanilla

then mix those together.

Mix flour

and sugar

and salt

and baking powder in a bowl.

Then we mix the wet and dry ingredients together.

My dad is using the electric mixer.

I got to taste the batter.

We poured the mixture 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.

("Happy Birthday" playing)

And gave it to mom.

I helped her blow out the candles.

Then we ate the cake,

yummy.

- Oh, Hampton gave Elmo a piece

of his mommy's birthday cake.

Great cake Hampton,

but now Elmo wants to learn more about birthdays,

don't you?

How can we learn more?

Oh, yeah, Elmo can watch the Birthday Channel.

Okay, turn yourself on TV.

(upbeat music)

- [Announcer] The Birthday Channel where everyday

is a birthday and now the girl who loved birthdays.

- [Narrator] Once upon a time there was girl

who loved birthdays.

- I love birthdays!

(kazoo whistling)

- [Narrator] She loved birthdays so much

she traveled all over the world to celebrate

her friend's birthdays.

She went to Iceland where they had special pancakes

with syrup for her friend Bjorn's birthday.

- Yum, I love birthdays.

- [Narrator] She went to Mexico where they had a pinata

for her friend Carmen's birthday.

A pinata is filled with goodies.

- Oh boy, a bow, a candy and a peso.

I love birthdays.

- [Narrator] She went to Israel where they played a game

called (indistinct) for her friend Avi's birthday.

- Try to get your hat on your head without using your hands.

- Okay, I love birthdays.

- [Narrator] And when she got home to (indistinct)

it was her birthday.