♪ La la la la la la la la ♪

♪ La la la la la la la la ♪

♪ Elmo's full of wonder wonder what he will discover ♪

♪ In Elmo's wonderful world ♪

(Elmo laughs)

- Hi!

Welcome to "Elmo's World".

(Elmo laughs)

Guess what Elmo is wondering about today?

(light music) Wait for it.

Wait (Elmo laughs) for it.

Balls!

(Elmo laughs)

Oh.

Hurry up beach ball!

(Elmo laughs)

Boy Elmo wants to learn all about balls.

Oh, let's ask Elmo's friend Smartie.

Let's call her together.

Oh Smartie! - Oh Smartie!

(Elmo laughs)

- Hi ya Elmo.

I was playing tennis when you called, excuse me a sec.

- Oh sure.

(Smartie grunts)

- Wow!

Boy Smartie really hit that ball.

Oh and that's perfect

because Elmo wants to learn all about balls.

- Well what do we do to learn something new?

- We look it up! - We look it up!

(Smartie trilling)

- Catching some bounty facts about balls.

(light music)

There are lots of different kinds of balls.

Bowling balls.

Golf balls.

Basketballs.

And footballs.

Balls come in different sizes and different shapes too.

There are balls you bounce, and balls you hit.

Even balls on a string.

Everybody can have a ball with a ball.

(Elmo laughs) - Oh.

Looks like doggies love to play ball as much as Elmo.

- Me too!

Gotta roll.

Bye Elmo! (Elmo laughs)

- Thank you Smartie, bye bye!

Boy there's so many different kinds of balls

and different kinds of games you can play with them.

Hey!

That gives Elmo an idea.

Oh let's play a game together.

Yeah.

(light music)

(Elmo laughs)

Hmm.

Elmo wonders which ball goes with which game.

Are you ready?

Let's play! (upbeat music)

This game has a hole in the grass.

Which ball goes in the little hole?

This one?

- [Children] That's a football!

- [Elmo] Let's try it.

Oops that's not right.

- [Children] The football's too big!

Try the little one.

- [Elmo] That's it, the golf ball goes in the hole.

The next game has bowling pins.

What kind of ball should we use?

- [Children] The black one!

Bowling ball.

- [Elmo] That's right, you use a bowling ball

to knock down the pins.

What kind of a ball goes through a goal post?

Looks like it's up to you football.

Goal!

(Children cheering)

Yay we found the right ball for each game.

Wow that was a great game about different balls.

Oh and that makes Elmo wonder even more.

What is mister Noodle's favorite kind of ball?

Oh let's ask him.

Hey mister Noodle!

(Children laughing)

Hi mister noodle! - Mister noodle!

- Does mister Noodle have a favorite kind of ball

to play with?

You do?

Oh show us mister noodle!

- [Children] Yeah show us!

That's not a ball, that's a box.

(triumphant music)

- [Girl] And what's that?

A ball?

- [Elmo] Mister Noodle, that ball doesn't look right.

- [Girl] It's not round.

- [Elmo] Mister Noodle, a ball needs air in it

to make it round and bouncy.

Mister Noodle.

(Elmo laughs) No air doesn't come in a box.

- [Children] You have to use a pump!

(metal clinking)

Yeah!

That's a basketball pump.

- Yeah that's it mister Noodle, you're doing it!

Yeah!

- [Children] Stop, that's too much air!

(Elmo laughs)

- Oh the air makes the ball bounce.

Whoa!

The ball's playing with mister Noodle.

Bye bye mister Noodle, have a ball!

(Elmo laughs)

Boy learning new things makes Elmo so happy

it makes him want to dance.

(upbeat music) Come on!

♪ Happy happy dance dance happy happy dance dance ♪

♪ When we learn something new we do the happy dance dance ♪

Let's see your happy dance!

Yeah.

Cool!

See you next time.

Keep learning!

Elmo loves you.

♪ Happy happy dance dance happy happy dance dance ♪

♪ When we learn something new we do the happy dance dance ♪

Yay!

("Elmo's World" theme song)

♪ La la la la la la la la ♪

♪ La la la la la la la la ♪

♪ Elmo's full of wonder wonder what he will discover ♪

♪ In Elmo's wonderful world ♪

(Elmo laughs)

Hi!

Welcome to "Elmo's World".

Oh guess what Elmo is wondering about today?

(light music) Wait for it.

Wait (Elmo laughs) for it.

Oh.

Books.

Oh what are you reading Bert?

- Oh it's the exciting adventures

of Eunice the mail carrying pigeon.

- Wow!

Boy Elmo loves books and wants to find out more about them.

Hey let's ask Elmo's friend Smartie.

Let's call her together.

Oh Smartie! - Oh Smartie!

(dinging melody)

Hi!

- Hi ya Elmo. - Hi.

- I just came from the circus walking a tightrope.

- Elmo didn't know that Smartie could walk a tight rope!

- I can't, but when I read a book

I use my imagination and it's like I'm right in the middle

of the action.

- Okay Elmo gets it.

Smartie was reading a book about the circus.

- Yep! - Oh!

Well that's perfect

because Elmo wants to find out all about books.

- What do we do to learn something new?

- We look it up! - We look it up!

(light music) Getting a read on books.

Here we go.

Oh wow!

There are all kinds of books.

Chapter books.

Picture books.

Comic books.

And even coloring books.

- [Elmo] Wow, cool!

- [Smartie] There are even books

you can read on a screen like mine.

(Elmo laughs)

Some books tell you how to do things.