Episode 3945 (2004 Remake)

Premiere: January 31, 2001 (Original)
Defunct: December 25, 2001
Update on PBS: May 21, 2004
Sponsors: P, 13 (NOTE: The letter V and the number 4 in the original are both replaced by the letter P and the number 13 for the rest of the show.)
Previous: Elmo plays the drum
Next: Telly's tuba is broken
== Original broadcast ==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	COLD OPENING 	She shares her favorite memory - the theme song, accompanied by footage from the Season 30 theme.cut from DVD version
 	SCENE 1 	Baby Bear finds Telly and Elmo and introduces them to "the coolest thing in the whole, wide world" - an empty porridge container. The monsters are unimpressed and confused, believing he should simply throw it away like regular, empty containers. However, Baby Bear shows them what he can do with it - use it as a bongo. The monsters' interest is piqued and want container-bongos of their own. Baby Bear takes them to his cottage, where they have plenty more empty containers.
 	Film 	William Wegman's dogs portray an orchestra conductor and pianist.
 	SCENE 2 	Telly and Elmo now have their own containers and Baby Bear trains them by having them repeat rhythms he drums out. Elmo inspires them to form their own bongo band, which Telly names "The Bongo Boys" ("Oh yeah!").
 	Film 	A rhythm is made of breaking eggs, door slams, cans dropping, ice, and feet stepping.
 	SCENE 3 	Big Bird has invited the Bongo Boys to today's Birdketeer meeting. They provide the Birdketeers with porridge containers of their own and lead everyone in a performance of "The Alpha-Bongo-Bet."
 	Phonics 	The Letter of the Day: PSince P begins the word "Prairie", Prairie Dawn does not want Cookie Monster to eat the letter of the day, so she puts a blindfold on him. She should have plugged his nose, too, since he still finds it.Words that begin with P: "Prairie", "plug", "piquant" & "pathetic"
 	Film 	P for party, picture and puzzle
 	Animation 	Letter P Menu
 	Spanish words 	The Spanish Word of the Day: Por FavorTelly asks what por favor means and Rosita answers "please." Telly says "please," mistaking her translation for a request to mind his manners. This happens several more times, until Rosita explains that por favor means "please" in Spanish.cut from DVD version
 	Animation 	A dog, a girl and a lizard dance to a bongo beat.Artist: Karen Aqua
 	Insert 	Journey to Ernie: JungleBig Bird looks for Ernie in the jungle.Clue: Ernie is hiding behind some humongous rocks and an iguana.False hints: A trunk warmer for elephants and a toy duck for tigersCharacters Big Bird talked to: An elephant with a trunk warmer (mistaken for a shirt) and a tiger named Bernie in a bathtub with his rubber duckie (mistaken for Ernie)
 	Muppets 	Bert and Ernie sing a "Song About Tr."
 	Interntional 	Global Grover: Egypt - FarmGrover returns from Egypt with his camel Sydney. In his film, Ahmed and his father visit their relatives in the country. The relatives send them home with a basket filled with food from the farm. Afterwards, Grover prepares to eat the basket of lunch that he brought back ...but Sydney ate it all.
 	Animation 	Madlenka Plants a GardenMadlenka, admiring her tulip, notices how bare her neighborhood is. With the help of her fellow apartment dwellers, she plants a variety of trees and flowers, beautifying the area.
 	Counting Organ	The Number of the Day: 13Thirteen dancing vegetables show up after learning that the number of the day is 13.
 	Live action 	Milo Counting: 13
 	Animation 	The sports announcer narrates today's number of the event: thirteen water-skiing hippos.
 	Muppets 	Elmo's World: BirdsMeaning: Birds don't play bongos. But Baby Bear and his friends can!
 	Insert 	The Adventures of Trash GordonChapter 692Planet Oink: Trash is bothered by a gang of oinking pigs, until he puts on his earmuffs.
== Trivia ==
*Street scenes 3, 5 and 6 were cut in the episode.
*The episode takes place during the premiere of Shrek 2, Shrek's 2001 sequel.
*The sponsors were similar to episode 4003: National Bird Day.
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