Elmo's World

Elmo's World is a segment shown at the end of the American children's television program Sesame Street. It premiered on November 16, 1998, as part of the show's structural change and originally ran fifteen minutes at the end of each episode until 2009, but was then rebooted in 2017. It was designed to appeal to younger viewers and to increase ratings, which had fallen in the past decade. The segment is presented from the perspective of a three-year-old child as represented by its host, the Muppet Elmo, performed by Kevin Clash in the original series and Ryan Dillon in the 2017 reboot.
The segment was developed out of a series of workshops that studied the changes in the viewing habits of their audience, and the reasons for the show's lower ratings. Elmo's World used traditional elements of production, but had a more sustained narrative. In 2002, Sesame Street's producers changed the rest of the show to reflect its younger demographic and the increase in their viewers' sophistication.
Long-time writer Judy Freudberg came up with the concept of Elmo's World, and writer Tony Geiss and executive producer Arlene Sherman helped develop it. Instead of the realism of the rest of the show, the segment presented Elmo moving between and combining two worlds of live action and computer-generated animation, which looked like "a child's squiggly crayon drawing come to life" created by the host, and with "a stream-of-consciousness feel to it". Elmo's pet goldfish Dorothy and the members of the Noodle family were silent in order to allow Elmo to do all the talking, and to give children the opportunity to respond to what they saw on the screen. A brief clip from Elmo's World appears in Sesame Street's 2002-2006 intro.
In 2009, Elmo's World temporarily ceased production and was replaced by Elmo: The Musical in 2012, until returning in 2017. The show once again stopped production on new episodes after Sesame Street's 51st season in 2021, and was replaced the following season by another Elmo-centered segment, Elmo & Tango’s Mysterious Mysteries, which is produced entirely with animation. However, it continues to air on the show periodically in reruns.
== Episodes/Songs featured on Pennsburg Kids home media releases ==
* Teeth
* Happy Holidays
* Someone's Love
* School
* Doctors
* Elmo's World Theme Song
* Stick Out Your Hand and Say Hello
* Halloween
* Water
* Sleep
* We're a Family
* Mail
* Games
*The Beach
*The Sky
* Dancing
* Birthdays
*Do the Doctor
* Getting Dressed
* Books
* Friends
* Noses
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