| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Cookie Monster writes a story | |||||||||
| Air date | April 29, 2004 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 35 (2004) | ||||||||
| Written by | Judy Freudberg | ||||||||
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Intro | My Favorite Sesame Street Moments: Cher Cher talks about how she's thankful that Sesame Street is in the world to cheer her up when she's blue. A clip from "Dancin' Shoes" is shown. |
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SCENE | Cookie Monster enters Hooper's Store and orders a cookie from Alan. After eating it, he of course wants another ("87 more, maybe 95 more."), but Alan says that was the last cookie he's got. He decides to bake some more, but Cookie Monster has a hard time waiting for them to be ready. He notices the book Gabi has with her: "Tolstoy? Tolstoy not cookie; Toll House cookie!" She suggests that he make up a story about cookies as he waits, and agrees to write it down while he dictates. Cookie begins to come up with a story taking place in the kingdom of Cookie... |
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SCENE cont'd | ... and the scene cuts to King Cookie sitting in his throne room, feeling unhappy because he senses there's something missing in his life. He calls out for his Royal Helper (played by Alan) to send a message to the people of his kingdom that he is looking for something special that would make him happy. After a trumpet fanfare from the Royal Helper (King Cookie: "Lemme guess, you no go to Julliard.") the story comes to a halt as in reality Cookie Monster asks Alan if the cookies are ready. They aren't, so Cookie continues with his story. |
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SCENE cont'd | Several royal subjects come to the kingdom to offer King Cookie something to make him happy. The first to show up is Big Bird, who offers some birdseed. While this makes himself happy, it doesn't for King Cookie. The next to arrive is Lady Gabi of the Schoolyard who does a special hand clap, but it also doesn't cheer up the king (though the Royal Helper gets a kick out of it). The story comes to a halt again as Cookie Monster briefly checks on the progress of Alan's cookies before resuming. |
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SCENE cont'd | Next to visit the king is a young prince (Miles), who sings "Sing." King Cookie feels happy for a moment, but he still feels something missing in his life. The prince bids him good luck, and the king gives him a piece of advice: "You want be singer? Get rid of tights." |
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SCENE cont'd | As King Cookie starts to lose hope, a little girl (played by Jasmina Lee) approaches the throne and gives him a cookie to eat. King Cookie decides to try it to make the girl happy, but after one bite he realizes that this is what's been missing all along! He gobbles the rest as well as the girl's box of cookies, proclaiming the girl as prime minister and lives happily ever after. |
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SCENE cont'd | Gabi compliments Cookie on his story and its happy ending when Alan returns with a fresh plate of cookies. Alan refers to the cookies as "another happy ending" and Cookie corrects him: “This not happy ending, this happy beginning!” he says, devouring the cookies in a frenzy. |
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Animation | In a Van Gogh painting, a baby takes its first steps to Papa. (First: Episode 3492) |
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Celebrity | Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song, and various celebrities join in, including Michael Jeter, Patrick Stewart, Tony Bennett, Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, Harry Belafonte, Grover, David Robinson, and Ellen DeGeneres. (First: Episode 3526) |
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Muppets | The Letter of the Day: S Super Grover has a super plan to keep Cookie Monster from eating the letter of the day. He puts the cookie into a basket, and pulls it up with a rope. However, Cookie Monster pulls down on and eats the basket, sending Super Grover flying. (First: Episode 4006) |
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Song | "S, You're the Best" (First: Episode 3551) |
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Cartoon | The word "Subway" rides the MBTA subway. (First: Episode 3375) |
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Muppets | Spanish Word of the Day: salta Rosita tries to see if we can guess what salta means. The Elephant, Narf, and a chicken show us the meaning by jumping and we learned that salta is the Spanish word for "jump." |
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Song | "Jump" (First: Episode 3136) |
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Muppets | Journey to Ernie: Playground — In order to find Ernie, Big Bird follows words written on the ground that rhyme with playground attractions. (First: Episode 4064) |
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Muppets | Ernie invites Bert to play ball, but Bert prefers to read instead. He sings "In My Book", and soon finds himself clustered around by Ernie and all the characters referenced in his song. |
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Muppets | Global Grover: Grover has just taken a trip all over the globe and learned about the different ways people bathe. The film clip features Kevin Clash singing "This is How We Take a Bath." Dirty from his trip, Grover intends to clean up himself, but there is no water coming out of the faucet. An elephant named Stevie helps him out by using his trunk as a shower head. (First: Episode 4033) |
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Cartoon | Global Thingy A little bug trips during a race and can’t get up. The other animals stop racing to help the bug up and they all race to the finish line together. (First: Episode 4054) |
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Muppets | The Number of the Day: 19 A Muppet 19 shows up after learning that the number of the day is 19. (First: Episode 3983) |
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Cartoon | Hand Prints count to 19. |
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Film | Growing Numbers #19 (First: Episode 2937) |
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Muppets | Elmo's World: Computers (First: Episode 3916) |
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Insert | The Adventures of Trash Gordon: Chapter 538 Planet Scram: Trash is confronted by a gang of Grouches shouting "SCRAM!" until he pulls the old snake-in-the-can trick on them. |
Notes[]
- Frank Oz makes a return performance as Cookie Monster, one of the few Sesame Street episodes since the 1970s in which he performs throughout the entire street plot, and marks his final performance of Cookie Monster on the show to date. Alan Muraoka recalled the experience at an Eternal Con panel[1]:
- Matt Vogel performs Big Bird in this episode.
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