Show 4161
Curriculum Goal: Mathematics
Legend has it that the Golden Triangle of Destiny (a parody of the Indiana Jones series) is on Sesame Street and Minnesota Mel is there on an adventure to find it. It is the rarest, most beautiful triangle in the whole world. Unfortunately, Minnesota Mel is unable to finish his search. But since Telly is a triangle lover, he will try to find the triangle and his adventure will be called Texas Telly and the Golden Triangle of Destiny. A giant boulder gives Texas Telly and Chris the first clue which is to look “under” something. They find a shape with five sides. Wyoming Walt appears and tells them that they found his Golden Pentagon of Destiny! Disappointed, Texas Telly and Chris receive another clue from a friendly snake. The clue is “laundromat”. At the laundromat, Murray and Leela help Texas Telly look under more things. After a trap goes off, they find a shape with eight sides. Virginia Virginia comes in and tells them that they found her Golden Octagon of Destiny! Texas Telly is ready to give up, but while sitting in a chair he feels a pointy object under the cushion. There he finds a shape with three sides and three angles. It’s the Golden Triangle of Destiny! Minnesota Mel returns and they finally decide that they should put the Triangle in the Museum of Triangular History so everyone can see it. And so ends the adventure of Minnesota Mel and Texas Telly and the Golden Triangle of Destiny!
Show 4163
Curriculum Goal: Mathematics
Chris is doing his laundry at the new Sesame Street Laundromat. When he is folding his clothes, he discovers that a sock is missing. All socks come in pairs so he needs to find the matching sock. Abby appears and has a new “two trick” that turns one thing into two things. Abby waves her wand and makes a pink polka dot sock appear but it doesn’t match Chris’ striped sock. Abby tries another trick called the “more trick” that her mommy uses when she needs “more” of something. Four different socks appear - an argyle sock with diamond shapes, a white gym sock that does jumping jacks, a baseball playing red sock and a baby sock. They don’t match Chris’ striped sock either, but they do sing and dance “the five-sock conga”. Just then, another customer at the laundromat finds a sock which got into her laundry by mistake. It’s Chris’ matching sock! Chris rushes out of the Sesame Street Laundromat with the five socks congaing after him looking for a new home and a warm drawer to curl up in.
Show 4164
Curriculum Goal: Social Development
Leela is making a videotape of Sesame Street to send to her parents in India! First she videotapes the Laundromat where she works and then Hooper’s Store. There Prairie Dawn suggests that Leela tape a talking letter “O”, along with some oatmeal cookies. Just as Leela is about to tape, Cookie Monster comes in and eats all of the oatmeal cookies! Leela sets off to find something else to show her parents and spots Jack B. Nimble getting ready to jump over the candlestick! Someone needs to read the nursery rhyme, though, and Leela is the only one there who can read. As soon as Jack is about to jump, Leela quickly grabs the camera, but Jack crashes into her. Leela then heads over to Big Bird and the Birdketeers who are singing the alphabet! Leela starts to tape again, but the cuckoo clock goes off and the meeting is over. Just as Leela is thinking that videotaping wasn’t such a great idea after all, her friends show up. Leela is able to tape them and show her parents the most amazing part of Sesame Street…her friends.
Show 4166
Curriculum Goal: Mathematics
Max the Magician (played by Will Arnett) magically appears on Sesame Street as Rosita, Big Bird and Elmo are eating snacks with Chris. Everyone is excited to see some real magic. First, Max takes one scarf out of his pocket and puts it with two other scarves to make three scarves- what was two has become three. Everyone is amazed and wants to know the secret to the trick. Max refuses to tell, but Chris explains that it was actually just addition. Max’s next trick involves making cards disappear one by one. They all agree that this is the best trick they’ve ever seen and ask Max to tell them how he did it. Max cannot tell because of the Magician’s Code of Honor but lets Chris guess again. Chris explains that when Max threw away each card, it was subtraction. For the last trick, Max will get Big Bird to help him turn one piece of rope into two pieces of rope. Big Bird figures this one out. Max divided it by cutting it into two pieces. All of Max’s tricks were actually math!
Show 4168
Curriculum Goal: Mathematics
Today on Sesame Street it’s Who Can Wear the Most Hats on Their Head Day! Elmo and Zoe are going to play against each other, while Chris and Alan help add more and more hats. The Hat Check Girl is also there to help count the total number of hats they each have. Elmo and Zoe are tied every time! They also have to complete challenges while wearing the hats on their heads such as saying the alphabet while standing on one leg and estimating the amount of hats they have. With no hats left to add, Elmo and Zoe ask Abby to come up with a spell to make more. Abby finally finds the right words and Elmo and Zoe end up with a big huge tower of hats on their heads. After counting the hats by 5, they find out that they are tied again. Elmo and Zoe were each able to wear 30 hats on their head!
Show 4181
Curriculum Goal: Social Development
A Sesame Street Nightly News Update comes in from Brian Williams saying that, “No one is sharing on Sesame Street!” Elmo and Leela just can’t believe that it’s true and decide to go see for themselves. First, Elmo asks Big Bird if he can give Radar a hug and Big Bird yells “Mine!” Then he asks Snuffy if he can see his balloon, and Snuffy yells “Mine!”, too. It seems to be true! But just then they hear Maria, Luis and Gabi and they are about to share a family picnic. Oscar announces that they won’t be sharing for long because Mine-itis is going around. It’s a Grouch disease that makes you think that everything is yours and you don’t want to share. The symptoms make you become wildly itchy, hop like a kangaroo, and twirl around. Even Brian Williams has caught it and takes Oscar’s binoculars and anchovy fudge sundae. Only in order to get his stuff back, Oscar finally tells them that the way to cure Mine-itis is to get a Grouch to share with you. He reluctantly agrees to do this and one by one people are cured. Everyone on Sesame Street is sharing again and it’s all thanks to Oscar!
Show 4185
Curriculum Goal: Cognitive Reasoning
Chris reads Elmo, Telly and Rosita the story of “Rico, The Very Helpful Robot!” After hearing the story, Elmo, Telly and Rosita decide to become robots to help Chris at Hooper’s store. They call themselves the Help-O-Bots. At first they are a really big help but then they start going faster and faster and end up making more of a mess for Chris to clean up. They tell Chris that they can also change into brooms and vacuums and feather dusters to become the greatest cleaning force in the universe. They begin arguing, though, about how to clean and they make the mess even worse. The Help O Bots are upset that they have failed their mission. Chris tells them that they should figure out what they are really good at and they could help people with that. They decide that they are really good at the alphabet. They become the Alphabetabots and help someone remember what letter comes after “G” and say the whole alphabet. The Alphabetobots succeed! Elmo, Telly and Rosita go off to see who else needs help with the alphabet.
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