Episode 3972

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Elmo welcomes the viewer and displays his sparkly letter S. The Amazing Mumford comes by and wants to show off his new magic wand, the Disappearatron X-38, which can make anything disappear. He makes Elmo's S vanish, but struggles to make it re-appear. He consults the instruction booklet.
 	Film 	"S, You're the Best" (sung by Ron Marshall)
 	Cartoon 	A girl searches for the letter S in a mound of letters.Artist: Fred Garbers
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"Big Kid Photo Album"
 	SCENE 2 	Alan shows Elmo something unusual: the letter S on his "soup" sign keeps disappearing. Gina points out the Ss on the street sign are gone, as well is the S in "Snuffy" as Big Bird tries writing it. Mumford has made all the Ss on Sesame Street disappear!
 	Animation	A cowboy sings about the S words.
 	Film 	A girl writes a letter to her grandmother about going to summer camp.
 	Muppets 	Telly, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn sing "That's the Way I Read," about the different ways each of them can read a book.
 	Cartoon 	African quilt pattern #2
 	SCENE 3 	Mumford returns with the instructions. The wand begins to shake and emits a noise, and with an "A la spill the beans," it grows a face! It sings a short musical clue as to where the Ss are: inside something. Elmo begins to look for the letters.
 	Cartoon 	A detective discovers an odd pattern on a road.
 	Film 	Kid Mural Painting #16
 	Animation	An animated truck displays 16 television sets.
 	Animation	Growing Numbers #16
 	Cartoon 	Leanna Williams explains why she loves her brother's shoes.Artist: ArtistMike
 	SCENE 4 	Elmo looks in Oscar's trash can, but there aren't any Ss inside. Slimey helps out by forming himself into an S, then disappears. Oscar begins to worry, when the wand sings another clue: the letters are in a rectangle-shaped box.
 	Song 	Jerry Nelson sings "The Inside Story" over film footage which shows the insides of ordinary household items. (new sound effects added)
 	Cartoon 	Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #16
 	Muppets 	The Martians discover a number 16.
 	Cartoon 	A magician writes in his diary about the many mishaps during his performance. (new sound effects added)
 	SCENE 5 	As a customer orders some "oup" at Hooper'_ _tore, Elmo and Oscar relay the clues to Alan. He looks in a couple of boxes they have, but finds nothing and adds it could take a while to look through all the boxes they have. Mumford's wand sings another clue: the box is under a plant, so they all head to the garden.
 	Film 	Four kids fly around and form a rectangle.
 	Celebrity	Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song.
 	Cartoon 	Noodles & Nedd: Making music with tools and a trumpet.
 	Muppets 	Big Bird recites a poem by Radar, introducing Cecille the Ball.
 	Animation	Cecille sings "I'm Gonna Get to You"
 	SCENE 6 	They all reach the garden, where Stinky the Stinkweed notices the missing S on his flower pot. They realize he's a plant with a rectangle box underneath. They open the box and all the Ss (and Slimey) are released. The wand sings about how now's the time for Elmo's World, but Elmo expects some more singing from her. "What am I? Britney Spears?," the wand quips, "A la Elmo's World!"
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: Birthdays
 	SCENE 7 	As Oscar reunites with Slimey, the wand announces the sponsors.
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 3972
 3972
Category:Alphabet
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 32