(upbeat kids music begins)
♪ La la la la ♪
♪ La la la la la la la la ♪
♪ Elmo's full of wonder ♪
♪ Wonder what we will discover ♪
♪ In Elmo's Wonderful World ♪
- (laughing) Oh, hi!
Welcome to Elmo's World.
Guess what Elmo is wondering about today.
Wait for it,
(laughing) wait for it.
Sports!
Abby is playing golf.
And Grover is playing, whoa!
Basketball!
Nice form.
Boy, Elmo wants to learn all about sports.
Oh, let's ask Elmo's friend Smartie!
Let's call her together.
- [Together] Oh, Smartie!
(Smartie beeping)
- Hiya Elmo.
I was just cheering for my favorite soccer team,
the Chargers.
Woo hoo!
(Elmo and Smartie laugh)
- Elmo didn't realize Smartie was such a sports fan.
Oh, well that's perfect
'cause Elmo wants to learn all about sports.
- Well, what do we do to learn something new?
- [Together] We look it up!
- Getting the ball rolling on sports.
Sports are games or activities that you play
against someone or a team.
And all sports have rules that you have to follow.
There are so many different kinds
of sports to play, like softball,
bowling,
track,
gymnastics,
soccer,
or TaeKwonDo.
People who play sports are called athletes.
They wear special clothes and uniforms
and use special gear and equipment.
This hockey player has a helmet,
uniform jersey,
pads,
ice skates,
and a hockey stick.
Sports are great exercise
and a lot of fun for everyone to play too.
(whistle blowing)
(crowd cheering)
Oh, hey, it sounds like the Chargers just scored a goal.
I better get back to the game.
See ya Elmo.
Woohoo! Way to go.
- (laughing) Bye bye Smartie!
Go Chargers!
Boy, Elmo didn't know there were
so many different kinds of sports.
Hey,
that gives Elmo an idea!
Let's play a game together.
Yeah! Come on, come on!
(playful flute music)
Elmo wonders if we can give the athletes
the right sports equipment.
Are you ready?
Let's play!
(playful music)
Look, this athlete needs the right sports equipment
to play softball.
Is this the right equipment?
- [Child] No, that's a golf club.
She's playing softball.
- [Elmo] Oops, that's not right.
Ah-ha! Let's try this one.
- [Child] Yeah, that's right.
That's a softball bat.
- [Elmo] Nice hit!
What equipment does the athlete need to play hockey?
- [Child] The hockey stick.
Try the hockey stick.
- [Elmo] That's right, a hockey stick.
Goal!
(laughing) Yay, we did it!
Sports sure are exciting.
Oh, and that makes Elmo wonder even more.
Does Mr. Noodle play any sports?
Oh, let's ask him.
Hey, Mr. Noodle!
Oh, (laughs) it's Mr. Noodle's sister,
Ms. Noodle.
- [Child] Ms. Noodle!
- Hi Ms. Noodle!
Do you play any sports?
You do?
Oh show us how you play a sport Ms. Noodle.
- [Child] Show us how!
She's reading a newspaper.
- [Elmo] Ms. Noodle, reading is fun,
but it's not a sport.
- [Child] She's reading the sports section.
- [Elmo] (laughing) Ms. Noodle,
you're reading about sports, not playing sports.
- [Child] Yeah, you need to play.
You need to wear a uniform.
- [Elmo] Yeah, okay.
Ms. Noodle's a softball player!
- [Child] That's right.
Softball is a sport.
- [Elmo] Oh, nice mitt Ms. Noodle.
Little big, but, (baseball being hit)
Oh look, she's ready to catch the ball!
She's got it!
(ball whooshes)
She doesn't got it.
(drum roll)
Wait a minute, Ms. Noodle caught the ball!
(crowd cheering) Yay!
Thank you for showing us how to play a sport.
Thank you Ms. Noodle.
Learning new things makes Elmo so happy,
it makes him want to dance!
Come on!
♪Happy happy, dance dance, happy happy, dance dance ♪
♪ When we learn something new, we do the happy dance dance ♪
Let's see your happy dance.
Yeah, cool!
See you next time.
Keep learning.
Elmo loves you.
♪ Happy happy, dance dance, happy happy dance dance ♪
♪ When we learn something new, we do the happy dance dance ♪
Yeah!
(upbeat kazoo music begins)
♪ La la la la ♪
♪ Elmo's World ♪
♪ ♪ La la la la ♪
♪ La la la la ♪
♪ Elmo's World ♪
♪ Elmo loves his goldfish ♪
♪ His crayon too ♪
♪ That's Elmo's World! ♪
(Elmo laughs)
- Hi!
This is, Elmo's World.
Yeah, Elmo is very happy to see you.
And
So is Dorothy.
Say hello Dorothy.
Guess what Elmo is thinking about today?
Doo-doo-doo-doo!
(door squeaking)
(Elmo laughs)
(balls clattering to the ground)
That's right!
(balls clattering to the ground)
Balls, you know, balls! (laughing)
(upbeat kazoo music)
(balls bouncing)
(kazoo music ending)
Dorothy's been thinking about balls too.
And Dorothy has a question.
Want Elmo to tell it?
Okay.
How you catch a ball?
Good question, Dorothy.
Let's watch Mr. Noodle catch a ball.
Good question.
Come on shade.
- [Shade] Okay!
(ball bounces)
- [Elmo] Turn around Mr. Noodle!
- [Children] Turn around!
- [Elmo] No, you've gotta turn around to catch the ball.
Yeah, that's good Mr. Noodle.
- [Child] Clap your hands!
- [Children] Catch the ball.
- [Elmo] Yeah. Come on Mr. Noodle, you can do it!
Almost Mr. Noodle, try again.
- [Children] Try again! Catch the ball.
You can do it!
- [Elmo] No, where are you going?
Wow, (laughs) that's a big catcher's mitt.
- [Child] Yeah. Really big.
- [Elmo] Boy, you're gonna really catch it now.
- [Child] Oh yeah.
- [Elmo] Catch the ball Mr. Noodle!
- [Child] Almost! Almost!
- [Elmo] Boy, it's really heavy.
Where are you going now?
Mr. Noodle!
- [Child] A butterfly net?
(Elmo laughs)
There's no butterflies.
- [Elmo] No! Oh, Mr. Noodle.
You can't catch a ball with a butterfly net.
- [Child] No!
- [Elmo] Mr. Noodle! Mr. Noodle!
He hit it! He hit the ball!
Now he's playing baseball!
(children laughing)
Safe!
Use your hands Mr. Noodle!
That's right.
- [Children] Yeah.
(drum roll)
(whistle sliding up)
- [Elmo] You can do it!
- [Children] Yeah!
- [Elmo] Uh oh! (laughs)
Mr. Noodle.
(honking)
- [Elmo and Children] Mr. Noodle!
- Dorothy wants to ask someone else.
How do you catch a ball?
- You have to spread your arms out
and catch a ball.
(whistle sliding down)
- You put your arms out
and when the balls come right at you
you freeze your hands.
(whistle sliding down)
See?
- Dorothy, this is how you catch a ball.
- Thank you Dorothy.
Now, let's ask a baby.
Baby?
Baby.
Hello. How do you catch a ball?
(ball bouncing away)
Thank you baby!
(kiss)
(Elmo laughs)
And now, Elmo has a question for you.
How many bounces will this ball bounce?
Let's count them and see.
- [Elmo and Children] One, two, three, four, five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26,
27,
28.
- 28 bounces!
Yay!
That was great counting everybody!
And that was some great bouncing ball (laughs)
Elmo knows some other things besides balls that bounce.
And things that don't bounce too.
Wanna see?
Good!
Oh, drawer!
(Elmo laughs)
Eggs don't bounce.
(egg cracking)
But they're delicious to eat for breakfast.
(lighthearted music)
Babies,
in bouncy seats bounce.
Phone books don't bounce.
Birthday cakes don't bounce.
(cake splattering)
Telly doesn't bounce.
Unless he's on a pogo stick!
(pogo stick bouncing)
See, some things bounce besides balls.
But what if balls weren't so bouncy?
Elmo wants to know.
How can Elmo find out? Hm.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Elmo can watch the ball channel.
TV.
(energetic music)
- [Announcer] The ball channel.
Bouncy, bouncy balls, all the time.
- And now, if balls didn't bounce,
roll 'em.
- [Woman] If balls didn't bounce,
if balls didn't bounce,
basketball would be boring and impossible.
Tennis would be terrible.
People would get tense and testy.
Little children wouldn't be able to bounce a ball at all.
(boy crying)
Handball would be horrible.
And that is what would happen if balls didn't bounce.
(balls bouncing)
Bouncing is good.
Sometimes it's too good.
The end.
(energetic music continues)
- [Announcer] That's ball folks!
- Wait no!
But, Elmo wants to learn more about balls!
Oh, how can Elmo learn more?
(knocking)
Huh? Who could that be?
- Hi!
- Wanna talk to a ball?
- Yeah! Elmo can talk to a ball!
- Well, let me tell you a little bit about myself.
I'm a beach ball.
- Well is it fun being a beach ball?
- Ah, it's a ball.
(both laughing)
- That's funny.
- Hey, see how light and airy I am?
Go ahead, pick me up.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Huh, huh?
Yeah, I'm filled with lots of air all inside me.
And you see, that helps me to bounce up and down.
- Oh, well Elmo knows all about bouncing.
- Really?
- Elmo likes to bounce up and down too.
- Let's see.
- Yeah, okay.
(both bouncing)
- Good bouncing Elmo!
And it's fun too!
- Yeah!
What else do balls do besides bouncing?
- Ah, well balls roll.
- Oh
- Yeah watch this.
- Okay.
- Wow.
- Ah!
- Wow!
Wow!
- Wow!
- Whoa.
- Well how does a ball do that?
- Oh, well you see I'm round.
Yeah, that's how.
- Oh yeah, like a circle.
- Exactly, yeah.
- [Football] Hey, not all balls are round, you know?
- Who said that?
- Oh, that's football.
- Oh.
- See, I'm not completely round like that beach ball.
- Yeah, Elmo sees that.
Is it fun to be a football?
- I get my kicks.
(all laughing)
- Hey, you know there are lots of different kinds of balls
for playing lots of different kinds of games.
- Four, 18, 22, hike!
- Yeah. Footballs are for playing football.
- Oh, wow!
Look! Dorothy is imagining Elmo playing football!
(playful kazoo music)
(Elmo cheering)
- [Beach Ball] There are ping pong balls
for playing ping pong.
- Hey!
(Elmo laughs)
- [Beach Ball] There are golf balls for playing golf.
(Irish music)
- Fore!
- [Beach Ball] And miniature golf.
(Elmo blowing air)
(Elmo laughing)
You see, you couldn't play any of those games without balls.
Yeah, nobody could.
- Yeah, oh hey, Elmo wanted to find out
what a beach ball would look like without air inside.
- Don't look at me.
- So,
Elmo made a video with this camera.
It's called,
"Squishing the Air out of a Beach Ball"
by Elmo. (laughs)
TV! TV where are you?
Oh there you are!
Oh, good.
- Here we go.
(beach ball deflating)
Ta da!
- (laugh) And that's,
"Squishing the Air out of a Beach Ball."
- Hi mom.
- Good squishing Harry.
- Thanks.
- Thank you TV!
Oh boy look at that.
Elmo likes the beach ball better
with lots of air in it.
It's more fun to play with
and it bounces better, look.
(Elmo laughs)
And Elmo really likes to play ball.
Some of Elmo's friends like to play ball too.
Yeah, Elmo's friend Michelle
played catch with her daddy the other day.
Michelle told Elmo all about it.
(whistle sliding down)
Oh! (laughs)
(playful jazz music)
Michelle went to the beach
to play catch with her daddy.
Catch is a good game to play outside.
Michelle's daddy threw Michelle the ball.
She almost caught it.
Michelle is still learning.
Uh oh,
almost!
The hard thing about playing catch
is you have to catch it and throw it.
Nice catch Michelle!
It takes a lot of practice.
Michelle caught the ball!
Yay, Michelle!
Michelle is getting better and better.
They played catch for a while.
Then, Michelle's daddy
caught Michelle!
(laughs) Good catch daddy!
(kiss)
And that's how Elmo's friend play ball.
Elmo really likes balls too.
So does Dorothy.
That's why Dorothy wants to sing the ball song!
Yay!
(upbeat music to the tune of "Jingle Bells" begins)
Here we go.
♪ Do-Do-Do ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
There's the word ball!
Follow the bouncing ball and sing if you want to!
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
♪ Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball ♪
Goodbye ball!
(upbeat music continues)
Goodbye again ball!
Say goodbye Dorothy!
(Elmo laughs)
Bye bye!