Bert & Ernie's Word Play

Bert and Ernie's Word Play is a 2002 Sesame Street direct-to-video special in which Ernie and Bert put on a variety show to teach about words.
==Segments==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	FRAME 1 	Prairie Dawn calls all the performers to get ready for the show. Bert worries that he’ll forget the words to the show, but Ernie has all the words in his bag and tells Bert that all he needs to worry about now is forgetting his dance steps.
 	FRAME 1 cont'd	After an announcer introduces the show, Ernie and Bert come on stage and present the first word – Fun. Ernie then mentions their pie-flying finale and introduces the pie-flying word – Go. He then explains that whenever the word is said, their guest Ho-Ho the Great Pie Guy will be hit with a pie from the pie-flying machine (which is powered by an egg-laying chicken). Bert accidentally says the word and gets a pie to the face. Ernie then introduces some more words that start with G.
 	Film 	G for go, girls, guitar, goldfish etc.
 	Cartoon 	The word "GO" races down the street. (new sound effects added)
center 	Muppets 	Kermit the Frog goes to a T-shirt shop, The Wonderful World of T-Shirts, to pick up another personalized "Kermit the Frog T-Shirt." However, all the shirts have the wrong name (Kermit the Gorf, Kermit the Forg, and Kermit the Grof).New sound effects added
 	FRAME 2 	Prairie asks her assistant Benny Rabbit if the props for the finale are ready. Benny asks the stagehands, Mo and Flo, who show him the balls, feathers and jam on the shelf. Just then, telegram delivery monster Grover arrives with a message from Ho-Ho, which he initially reads as “I CAN COME,” but then sees the message was stuck in the middle, covering the word “NOT.” Grover then leaves for his next gig (a singing act at a Bar Mitzvah), while Prairie accidentally slips on Flo’s banana peel and crashes into the props.
 	FRAME 2 cont'd	Elmo and Zoe arrive on stage, wearing boards that make the word COOKIE and introduce Cookie Monster.
 	FRAME 2 cont'd	Cookie is about to sing a song about cookies, when he is told he’s singing about letters. He improvises and performs “One Little Letter.”
 	FRAME 2 cont'd	Bert and Ernie come back on stage and Bert has prepared a card of “material,” which gets huge laughs from the audience. Another word is brought on stage – GOAT. Ernie removes letters to make new words from it, including GO, which Bert once again says by accident and gets pied. The next act starts.
 	Muppets 	"I Am Chicken" (on-screen words added)
 	Cartoon 	A Zerkel named Jake demonstrates -ake words. (new sound effects added)Artist: Sally Cruikshank
 	Animation 	Shake / lake / bake / take / make (new music and sound effects added)
 	Cartoon 	Soul A!
 	FRAME 3 	Mo and Flo hang a “Slippery” sign where they’re mopping. Benny brings Prairie the next audition for the final act – The Frosty Four, a penguin barbershop quartet. But, when they start to tap dance, they fail to notice the “Slippery” sign, slip all over the place, and knock Prairie into the props again. They leave due to the slippery conditions.
 	FRAME 3 cont'd	Elmo and Zoe come back on stage to blend another word – STICKY, leading into the next act...
 	FRAME 3 cont'd	Zoe and Rosita sing "Sticky Tape."
 	FRAME 3 cont'd	Ernie and Bert present the next word - Amigo. Bert clearly sees “Go” in the word, but Ernie doesn’t realize it until Bert arranges it for him, signaling the chicken to toss two pies. The duo ducks, and the pies hit Prairie Dawn instead. They nervously present the next act.
 	Muppets 	"I'm a Bookworm, Baby!"Introduction and closing cut
 	Muppets 	"Fat Cat"On-screen words and sound effects added
 	Insert 	"Professor Television" (Bill Irwin) tries to demonstrate open and closed, but his efforts backfire.Introduction cut and announcer's dialogue muted
 	FRAME 4 	A slew of animals are backstage, hoping to be the final act. However, they are all scared off by an off-key, opera-singing pig. Ernie, Bert, and Elmo ask Prairie what the status is on the final act, as it’s time for it! Ernie shoves Bert on stage to keep the audience busy, but Bert struggles to tell one joke. The group overhears singing, which is coming from Mo and Flo, who used to have a singing act, until their third member (a high singer) moved. They all stare at Elmo...
 	FRAME 4 cont'd	Bert continues trying to tell his joke, and Ernie tells him about the final act – Mo, Flo, and Elmo singing “Need to Read.” After the song, everyone comes out for a bow.
 	FRAME 4 cont'd	An announcer presents the show’s sponsors (all the words mentioned in the show). Benny comes on stage and finds Ernie left his bag of words there and picks it up, remarking that now he can go, causing the chicken to send a pie toward the screen.
 	Muppets 	Bert, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch sing about what they love: "Pigeons and Cookies and Trash."(new sound effects added)Played during credits, edited
==Releases==
BertandernieswordplaySonyVHS.jpg|2002Sony WonderLV 54180
Image:Video.wordplay.jpg|2002Sony WonderLVD 54180
Thebestofsesamestreetdvd3pack.jpg|2002Sony Wonder3 disc set with The Great Numbers Game and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play
File:Newbertandernieswordplay.jpg|Genius Entertainment
Image:Noimage-big.png|2010Warner Home Video
Ernie USB.jpg|2010ATP
===International releases===
Bertanderniesworldplayasianvcd.jpg|2007Berjaya HVNcat. no 616636
BandE Wordplay DVD HVN.jpg|2009Berjaya HVN
Image:Wordplaythai.jpg|2010TIGA
BandE Wordplay Aus DVD.jpeg|2013ABC Video for KidsDouble feature with Count on Sports
==Cast==
* Starring The Muppets from Sesame Street:
**Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn and Zoe(uncredited: Frosty Four backup singer)
**Kevin Clash as Elmo and Benny(uncredited: Frosty Four backup singer)
**Eric Jacobson as Bert and Grover
**Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
**David Rudman as Cookie Monster
**Steve Whitmire as Ernie(uncredited: Mo, Snake, Troll, Opera-Singing Pig, Frosty Four lead singer)
* With Muppet Performers:
**Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Flo, Frosty Four backup singer)
**John Tartaglia
**Matt Vogel
**Alice Dinnean Vernon, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Peter Linz, Noel MacNeal, Jim Martin, Joseph Mazzarino, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney
==Credits==
* Executive Producer: Karin Shiel
* Supervising Producer: Jill R. Gluckson
* Writers: Billy Aronson, Annie Evans
* Additional Writers: Christopher Cerf, Tony Geiss, Norman Stiles, Judy Freudberg, Jeff Moss, Belinda Ward
* Script Consultants: Molly Boylan, Sarah Durkee
* Directors: Emily Squires; Ted May, Jon Stone (archive material)
* Co-Producer: Kevin Clash
* Line Producer: Deborah Mayer
* Associate Producer: Dionne Nosek
* Associate Director: Ken Diego
* Lighting Director: Bill Berner
* Music, Lyrics, Post Scoring: Joe Carroll, Peter Thom
* Additional Songs by Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, Daniel Ivanick, Paul Jacobs, Robert Merkin, Jeff Moss, Joe Raposo, Ernest Troost
* Senior Muppet Consultant: Kevin Clash
* Henson Workshop: Ed Christie, Carol Binion, Fred Buchholz, Michael Schupbach, Carlo Yannuzzi
* Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
* Vice President, Sesame Street Research: Rosemarie Truglio, PH.D.
* Graphic Artist: Pete Ortiz
* Audio: Blake Norton, Carla Bandini-Lory
* Video Engineer: Tom Guadarrama
* Utilities: Gordon Price, Keith Olsen, Victor Smith
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Category:Sesame Street Video
Category:Sesame Street Direct-to-Video
Category:Words