Elmo's World
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Elmo's World is a segment of the children's television show Sesame Street featuring Elmo, a small red monster who speaks of himself in the third person and is 3 and a half years old. The show also features Mr. Noodle, a human mime character, and Elmo's pet goldfish, Dorothy.
The segment takes place in a computer animated marker-drawn room imagined by Elmo. Each day, there are a series of skits and interviews Elmo then reveals the answer by opening his door in his room
- Dorothy has a question - Montage of the subject
- Ask Mr. Noodle - Mr. Noodle relating to the day's subject.
- Ask Someone Else - Montage of children demonstrating the subject.
- Ask a Baby - Elmo asks a Baby about the subject and the Baby plays with the item, looks at or just moves a bit. Elmo thanks the baby. Some episodes feature more than just one baby, and/or a close family member of the baby.
- Elmo Has (video E-)Mail - One of Elmo's Sesame Street friends is featured in a small clip about the subject. Introduced in 2000, replacing "Elmo's Home Video".
- Elmo Has a Question for the Viewers - a counting animation pertaining to the subject.
- The Drawer - Elmo asks his drawer to open, it pushes Elmo away.
- What Else? - Elmo asks a series of logic-based questions about the subject, which the audience is encouraged to answer.
- Elmo's Friend - Elmo shows a video of his friend doing something with the subject of the day.
- The (Subject) Channel - animations featuring characters voiced by Andrea Martin.
- Talk to the (Subject) - Elmo opens the door and talks to the subject.
- Tickle Me Land - Dorothy the goldfish imagines Elmo in the context of the day's subject, which usually involves Elmo in costume or Elmo transformed as an animal. In the Friends episode, Zoe's pet rock, Rocco imagines the scenario.
- Elmo's Home Video (Discontinued after 2000 by Elmo's computer) - a "home video" made by Elmo about the day's subject.
- The (Subject) Song - The name of the day's subject is sung to the tune of Jingle Bells. On one episode of the subject "Farm", there's a tune playing to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm and in Wild Wild West there was more of a western tune.
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[edit] Characters
- Elmo played by Kevin Clash
- Dorothy the Goldfish played by Nemo
- Mr. Noodle, Elmo's neighbor, played by Bill Irwin
- Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle formerly played by the deceased actor Michael Jeter
- Mr. Noodle's sister, Ms. Noodle played by Kristin Chenoweth
- Mr. Noodle's other sister Miss Noodle played by Sarah Jones
- The [subject] Lady/Bubbles Martin played by Andrea Martin
- Book played by Marty Robinson
[edit] Episodes
Elmo's World consists of over 50 episodes ranging from 15 to 20 minutes, including topics on Babies, Balls and Bananas, Bath, Beach, Bells, Bicycles, Birds, Birthdays, Books, Bugs, Bears, Building Things, Cameras, Cats, Computers, Dancing, Dinosaurs, Doctors, Dogs, Drawing, Ears, Eyes, Exercise, Families, Fast and Slow, Feet, Firefighters, Fish, Flowers, Food, Frogs, Friends, Games, Getting Dressed, Hair, Hands, Hats, Helping, Horses, Jacket, Jumping, Life on the Farm, Lions, Mail, Mouths, Music, Noses, Open and Closed, Penguins, Pets, School, Shoes, Singing, Skin, Sky, Sleep, Teeth, Telephones, Transportation, Tigers, Up and Down, Violins, Water, Weather and Wild Animals. Additionally, three longer-length segments have been produced: Happy Holidays, The Street We Live On (the Sesame Street 350th anniversary special) and Wild Wild West. For a complete episode guide, see Muppet Wiki: Elmo's World Episodes.
[edit] Merchandising
Elmo's World title have included Animals, Babies, Balls, Bugs, Computers, Dancing, Drawing, Firefighters, Games, Getting Clean, Getting Dressed, Hair, Instruments, Love, Opposites, Pets, Pigs, Puppies, Safari, Space, Sports, Teachers, Weather, and Wheels.
[edit] Internationally
Elmo's World is not packaged with any of the international co-productions of Sesame Street, but instead distributed separately, and in many cases dubbed.
The series airs on the cable network Treehouse TV in Canada,[1] on the United Kingdom channel Five and satellite lifestyle channel LivingTV, and dubbed in Irish on TG4.
The Latin American version is produced by Audiomaster 3000, Directed by Jorge Roig, and Eduardo Garza as Elmo.
[edit] Elmers Verden
Elmers Verden was first shown on TV 2/Denmark in the late 1990s and again during the summer of 2002. Around 2004, DR1 bought 45 episodes of the show. The most recent run of it has been on DR1 during the summer of 2006.
The voice dubbing for this version is directed by Jens Davidsen, based on translations by the company Tekstkontoret, at the studios of Adaptor D&D. Elmer is voiced by Troels Walther, while Karin Jagd, Amin Jensen, Tom Jensen, Jan Tellefsen, and Gry Trampedach provide additional characters. Walther, Jensen, and Jensen are reprising their roles from Sesam, luk dig op. Any segments with children were dubbed by Viktor Ryle Schack and Olivia Steffe.
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