Episode 3690 (2004 Remake)

Premiere: 1998 (Original)
Defunct: Fall 1998
Update on PBS: November 16, 2004
Sponsors: Y, 5
Previous: The Chicken King
Next: Are You My Brother?
== Description ==
The bus loved giving rides to people each day. Once everyone gets out, the bus is ready to go back to the garage. The two princesses are by the garage one day after going shopping. The bus asks where they live. Zoe shows the map with Gabi. They talk about Lake Wannaswimma but explain to the bus that they have to cross the lake. They live on the other side. The bus says that this is awful because he’s a bus. Buses can’t swim. The bus is sad that he can’t help them get home, but tells them to not worry because he’s a smart bus. The bus has an idea and drives off.
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The princesses really want to go home, but they don’t have to wait so long because the bus comes back. He knows how to get them across the lake. He brought a friend with him, the little red boat. The little red boat would be happy to bring them across the lake. The princesses don’t need the little red boat. The bus wonders why. Zoe explains to the bus that they can drive over the bridge. There’s another part of the map and it shows the Lake Wannaswimma Bridge. The boat says that they won’t be needing him since there is a bridge as he goes away. Zoe doesn’t want to make things harder for the boat, but there’s more past the bridge. Their palace isn’t there. There’s a mountain called Mountain Neverclimb. Their palace is on the other side of it. The bus is not happy again. He’s a young bus. He can’t go up that big mountain. He’s not strong enough. Now he’ll never be able to take them home. He needs an idea, which he gets fast.
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Like last time, the bus returns fast. He brings another friend, the little red plane (Bob). He introduces himself to the two princesses. He’d be glad to fly over Mount Neverclimb to their palace. Zoe explains that they were going to ride with the bus over the mountain. The bus explains that he isn’t strong enough to go over that mountain. Gabi explains to the bus that he doesn’t have to drive them all the way up top. He can just drive around it! The plane says that they won’t be needing him since there is another part of the road that goes around it as he goes away. Their palace is past the mountains and he can drive them all the way home. But the princesses might want a healthy snack on the way home. He has another plan and will be right back. They wonder what he’s going to do now.
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Everything is all set. But the princesses want one thing: a healthy snack. Yet again, the bus comes back fast with a healthy snack. He brings his friend, the big orange carrot (Bob). Everyone gets on the bus, who drives them all home.
== Original broadcast ==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPENING 	An announcer (Martin P. Robinson) presents today on Sesame Street: "The Princesses and the Bus", starring Gina as the narrator, Zoe as one princess, Gabi as the other princess, Bob in various roles, and Telly as the bus.cut from DVD version
 	Song (after first street scene is played) 	Ray Charles sings the Alphabet Song, and various celebrities join in, including Michael Jeter, Patrick Stewart, Tony Bennett, Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, Harry Belafonte, Grover, David Robinson, and Ellen DeGeneres.
 	Phonics 	The Letter of the Day: YCookie Monster locks the Letter Y Cookie in a suitcase so he won't eat it, but the suitcase has no bottom. "Me wonder how that happened."A word begins with Y: "yummy"
 	Live action 	Y for yell, yellow and yodel
 	Song 	"Don't Know Y" by Norah Jones & Elmo
 	Spanish words (after second street scene is played)	The Spanish Word of the Day: ManzanaSlimey eats the apple while Rosita introduces the word.
 	Insert (after third street scene is played) 	Journey to Ernie: Chilly, Icy and SnowyvilleBig Bird looks for Ernie in the snowy land, and his only clue are the number 3.Clue: Ernie is hiding inside the snowman and Big Bird explains which answer is "three".Characters Big Bird talked to: Polar Bear, Walrus Artist, Penguin & Snowman (w/Ernie's voice)Incorrect thing: The penguin descending the staircase
 	Muppets 	Ernie has trouble sleeping, so he decides to play his bugle to make himself sleepy. His bugle playing wakes up Bert, however, and Bert tells him to think before he plays the bugle, so Ernie decides to play his drums, but then Bert tells him to think before he does anything.
 	International (after last street scene is played) 	Global Grover: Africa - SchoolGrover is carrying a heavy bucket of fish he carried back from Angola, a country in Africa. He tells us that villagers there carry buckets of fish on their heads. His film depicts people catching very large fish in nets from the ocean which are carried by the women in buckets on their heads back to their village. One child in the film is seen wearing an Incredible Hulk sweatshirt. Grover attempts to balance a single fish on his head, but gets his head stuck in a bucket instead.
 	Animation 	Global Thingy: Harmony SongEveryone sings out of tune until the globe teaches them to sing in harmony.
 	Counting Organ 	The Number of the Day: 5Five bats fly in after 5 is announced to be the number of the day. ("Anyone for cake?")
 	Animation 	5 of various things found in space including 5 spaceships on Mars.
 	Animation 	Suzie Kabloozie: Judge #5
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: TransportationEKA: Episode 3840Meaning: Elmo should let Gina tell the story Telly played last time "The King and Queen and the Big Red Bus".
 	Insert 	The Adventures of Trash GordonChapter 692Planet Wormhole-5: Trash Gordon combats a gang of worms by reading them to sleep from a book of his own adventures. (DEBUT)
== Trivia ==
*The premiere is set to 3 days from the SpongeBob SquarePants movie and the series premiere of Fox's House M.D., the dramatic medical sitcom.
Category:Sesame Storytelling Episodes