Episode 3379 (2005 Remake)

Premiere: April 27, 1995 (Original)
Defunct: 1997
Update on PBS: April 29, 2005 (10th Year Anniversary)
Sponsors: R, 18
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Next: Telly writes a letter
== Original broadcast ==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPENING 	Elmo and Lang Lang show that exercising to music keeps you in shape and is fun too.cut from DVD version
 	SCENE 1 	Kingston Livingston III is hosting "The Wide World of Writing," an on-the-street interview program. He points out everyone is writing on the street and he's going to find out what and why. Maria leads him to some writing at the Fix It Shop. A little Muppet girl named Katherine asks Kingston for an autograph.
 	SCENE 1, cont'd. 	Maria is writing a sign that reads "TUFFET SALE", as everyone is selling some of Little Miss Muffet's old tuffets. The sale is a success, so she makes another sign - "SOLD OUT."
 	SCENE 1, cont'd. 	Next, The Wide World of Writing showcases Gordon, who is in the yard writing a shopping list. He is then showered with balloons, confetti and applause.
 	Sketch 	Apple: a riddle
 	Phonics 	The Letter of the Day: RCookie Monster sings a rap song about the letter R, naming R words and singing about how he shouldn't eat the letter of the day while singing the song, but then he finishes the song (and after that, he finishes the cookie).Words that begin with R: "rap", "repeat", "rumble" & "rule"
 	Film 	"Big R, Little R" (Christopher Cerf)
 	Animation 	R for Run
 	SCENE 2 	Kingston now visits Oscar's trash can. Oscar writes him a note - "GET LOST." Instead of following it, Kingston compliments Oscar on it.
 	Spanish words 	The Spanish Word of the Day: Niño/NiñaGrover mistakes the Spanish words for both "boy" and "girl" for "spaghetti."removed in DVD version
 	Muppets/Celebrity	Bob is amazed that Oscar and the Grouches are making Lang audition, but Lang concedes by playing Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" and Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2." The performances are so beautiful that he doesn't make it into the grouch orchestra until he leans his elbows on the piano keys in defeat. Intrigued by this new development, Oscar invites him to join the orchestra in a rendition of Blechtoven's 9th Symphony for Two Elbows in E Very Flat Minor.
 	Insert 	Journey to Ernie: Musical Instrument LandBig Bird looks for Ernie in a land that is filled with musical instruments, many of which play "Rubber Duckie."Clue: Ernie is hiding behind the radio.Wrong hints: Macaras with Ernie's laugh & Clown horn with squeaky Rubber Duckie
 	Muppets/Celebrity	Ernie and Aaron Neville sing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon."
 	Interntional 	Global Grover: RussiaGrover learns how to dance from a boy in Russia who attends dance school.
 	Counting Organ 	The Number of the Day: 18A jumping number eighteen arrives after learning that the number of the day is 18.
 	Animation 	The sports announcer narrates today's number of the event: eighteen acrobatic pigs.
 	Animation 	An alien runs 18 laps around Saturn's rings.
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: FirefightersMeaning: People around the fire need to write various stories about what's going on in the surface...in flames!
 	Insert 	The Adventures of Trash GordonChapter 648Trash is chased by a smelly pepperoni and anchovy pizza (with extra garlic) on Planet Pizza, until he boxes it and sends it off to New Jersey.
== Trivia ==
*Ruthie is replaced by Maria for the rest of the episode.
Category:Sesame Storytelling Episodes