Elmo

Elmo is a furry red Muppet monster who lives on Sesame Street. He is self-described as three-and-a-half years old, and almost always refers to himself in the third person. The character's popularity led to his own segments on Sesame Street beginning with "Elmo's World."
Elmo lives in an apartment on Sesame Street with his mother, Mae, his father, Louie, and, in some storybooks, a sister named Daisy. He has a pet goldfish named Dorothy and a pet dog named Tango who was introduced in 2021.
Other relatives in Elmo's family include his grandma and grandpa, his great-grandmother (featured in a 1989 episode), and his great-grandfather (named Selmo); his Uncle Jack, Aunt Jill, and cousin Jesse (featured in When Families Grieve); plus additional cousins Elmer (featured in Kids' Favorite Country Songs), Chester (featured in Here For You), and Mimsy. Additionally, the television special Sesame Street Stays Up Late shows Elmo's "international" cousins — Pepé from Mexico and Elmonosuke from Japan. As seen in The Furchester Hotel, he also has an aunt Funella Furchester, an uncle Furgus Fuzz, and a cousin Phoebe Furchester-Fuzz.
Elmo's early childhood has been shown with Elmo as a 13-month-old infant in the Sesame Beginnings video series and in flashbacks shown in Elmo's Potty Time and "Bye Bye Binky."
According to a Q&A video, his favorite food is wasabi; that's why he normally has no eyelids. This has been reaffirmed on Rove Live and in other interviews, along with the Muppet bios published in several Sesame Workshop press kits. In 2000, Elmo told Donnie and Marie Osmond that his mother and father tell him to never "hate" any food, but he makes an exception for Brussels sprouts (Marie decided to taunt him with a bowl of them). Brussels sprouts have often been listed among Elmo's pet peeves in press kit bios.
Although they're not always visible, Elmo does have eyelids that become visible when he's sleepy. His eyelids are lavender in color, accentuated by brown eyelashes (with variants in animation). While the color of his fur is evident as one of his most identifying features, the skin beneath his fur is also red as noted in a 2014 sketch with Lupita Nyong'o (First: Episode 4503). However at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con promoting Mecha Builders, Elmo says that his skin is orange, which is why his nose is orange. His nose is bald, as Abby puts it.
As with many children of his age, Elmo is seen somewhat infrequently with a favorite toy of his: an orange monster-like doll named Baby David. In the film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Elmo is devoted to his blue blanket, Blanket.
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