♪ Do be do do ♪
♪ Imagine a story ♪
♪ Bee dee dee acha ♪
♪ Imagine a song ♪
♪ Woodly woo ♪
♪ What happens next ♪
♪ You'll never know ♪
♪ La la la la ♪
♪ It's Elmo the musical ♪
♪ Elmo the musical ♪
♪ Aah ♪
♪ Let's get on with the show ♪
- Today's story is called,
♪ Detective the Musical ♪
- Aah!
Who done it!
I love detective stories!
- Oh, Elmo too Velvet!
That's why Elmo's the detective.
Oh and you can help Elmo and be Elmo's detective assistant.
Now come on detective assistant!
Let's imagine a detective office.
(dramatic music)
(Elmo shouting)
(Elmo laughing)
Great imagination!
(Elmo laughs)
Okay, Detective Elmo has a detective pad.
A detective magnifying glass.
And detective blocks!
- Why would a detective need blocks?
- Well, well, so Detective Elmo has something to play with
while he waits for his first case.
(telephone rings)
And there it is!
(telephone rings)
Hello!
- [Caller] Ah choo!
Detective Elmo?
- Yeah!
- [Caller] Ya gotta help me!
Aah choo!
Number 66 Street.
Come right away!
- Perhaps I can help with that.
(mysterious music)
- Aah choo!
Ah, finally!
Where ya been?
Aah choo!
- Well tell Detective Elmo
and his detective assistant what's wrong.
- Well...
♪ I was feeling kinda hungry ♪
♪ I ordered pizza with cheese ♪
♪ But when the pizza got here ♪
♪ I started to sneeze, ♪
♪ Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze ♪
♪ You said sneeze, ♪
♪ Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze ♪
♪ The sneezing hasn't stopped ♪
♪ I couldn't figure what to do ♪
♪ So I dropped my pepperoni slice ♪
♪ Grabbed the phone and called aah choo ♪
♪ Aah choo ♪
- I gotta tell you though, I'm still pretty hungry.
- Wait!
It's not just pepperoni on that pizza,
it's pepper too!
- Pepper?
Get outta here!
(Elmo blows on pizza)
- Aah, aah, choo!
Aah choo!
- Does the man in the sleeveless undershirt
remember who delivered the pizza?
- He was shaped sort of like a box.
A solid object with six identical square sides.
What you might call a cube.
- A cube, like this?
(dramatic music)
- Yeah!
- Hmm, this is a real mystery.
Detective Elmo could use a lead.
(phone rings)
Oh, maybe this is it?
Hello!
- [Caller] Detective Elmo...
Aah choo!
Come to the Sixth Street Theater,
ask for group number six, at once!
- Velvet do your stuff!
- [Velvet] I'm on it!
(mysterious music)
- Aah choo!
Blast man!
What kept you?
Aah choo!
- The pig is sneezing too!
Detective Elmo must be getting closer.
- Oh how can I perform in this condition?
(pig sneezes)
How?
Aah choosy!
- Well calm down mister ham actor!
Tell Detective Elmo and his assistant what happened.
(piano music plays)
♪ Well, my old salt and pepper mustache ♪
♪ Became infested with fleas ♪
♪ So I order a replacement than I started to sneeze ♪
♪ Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, ♪
- Then it fills with Detective Elmo.
Here we go!
♪ Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze. ♪
♪ The sneezing wasn't stopped ♪
♪ I've no notion what to do ♪
♪ A critic's in the house tonight ♪
♪ Can you just imagine her ♪
♪ Aah choo ♪
- Mister ham actor, take off that mustache.
- What?
And disappoint my public?
Never!
The show must go...
Ow...
(pig sneezing)
- Wow real pepper in the salt and pepper mustache.
- Diabolical!
Aah choo!
Who would do such a dastardly thing?
- Well, who delivered mister ham actor's mustache?
- Oh, why my dresser of course.
He manages my makeup and my under...
Wait...
Come to think of it, it wasn't my dresser.
It was some other chap.
- Some other chap who look like this?
(dramatic music)
- Like a cube!
(Elmo laughs)
(laughing)
Confounded!
Yes!
- Yes.
- A boxy fellow with six identical square sides.
- Well, where did the boxy fellow go mister ham actor?
- Actually, he was on his way out as you were coming in.
He must still be here!
- Ah!
Well, come on detective assistant.
Let's investigate!
(Jazzy music)
Ah ha, a cube!
- I'm not a cube.
- Yes you are.
- No!
Okay, I am.
But I'm not behind the drapes!
- Going up!
(Elmo giggles)
- Nuts!
- It's the cube!
- Oh and look, look, look!
Mr. Cube has a pepper shaker.
Now why did Mr. Cube use pepper
to make all those people sneeze?
- Because I wanted to be needed.
Nobody needs a cube.
- Balderdash!
Why cubes are needed everywhere!
(cube crying)
♪ Poor unhappy lad ♪
♪ Whose bitter tears fall like acid rain ♪
♪ Upon the finger lakes which are mine heart ♪
(cube and pig crying)
- [Elmo] Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!
Oh, Elmo sees something!
Detective Elmo sees something!
Mr. Cube is a cube shaped box of tissue.
- Tissues?
The very thing I need the most!
(pig crying)
(pig blows nose loudly)
- Hee hee, you see, Mr. Cube is needed!
- It's true!
You like me!
You really like me!
(upbeat piano music)
♪ Yes the cube, the cube, the cube, the cube ♪
♪ It's safe to sing about ♪
♪ Ya da da da da ♪
♪ The cube, the cube, the cube, the cube ♪
♪ Need every voice sing out ♪
(show music)
- Well Elmo, we love the shape of that ending.
- Thank you Velvet.
Oh, and thank you detective assistant.
Elmo couldn't have imagined that musical without you.
- Curtain call!
♪ It's Elmo the musical ♪
♪ Elmo the musical ♪
♪ That's the end of our show ♪
(jazzy music)
- [Elmo] Whoa!
Bye, bye!
(Elmo laughing)
(Audience claps and cheers)
(jazzy music)