Sesame Street: Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game (1991-1996 VHS)



Here's the opening and closing to the 1991 and 1996 VHS of Sesame Street: Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game.

Release Date
August 27, 1991 (original)

April 30, 1996 (re-release)

Characters

 * Elmo
 * The Director
 * Mary
 * Mary's Lamb
 * Mr. Johnson
 * Oscar the Grouch
 * Grover

Sketches

 * Kermit the Frog
 * Ernie
 * Cow
 * Martians
 * Twiddlebugs
 * Big Bird
 * Mr. Snuffleupagus
 * The Alligator King
 * The Alligator King's Sons
 * Little Chrissy
 * Eight Balls of Fur
 * Uncle Wally
 * Mrs. Trump
 * Gordon
 * Susan
 * Count Von Count

Songs

 * I Love My Elbows
 * One Fine Face
 * Get Along
 * Elmo's Song
 * The Alligator King
 * Eight Balls of Fur
 * My Best Friend
 * I Love Trash
 * The Lambaba

Synopsis
As the video starts, the director counts down before the show starts. Elmo welcomes the audience to his own game show - Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game - the show where Elmo asks questions and give musical clues. Elmo introduces the contestants:


 * Mary and her Little Lamb, from Nursery Rhyme, South Dakota.


 * Mr. Johnson, who mistakes the studio as a bus stop to Cincinnati, although Elmo doesn't know who he is.

Elmo explains the rules of the game: he will ask a question, and a musical clue will be played on a TV screen. When a contestant knows the answer, they jump on a trampoline and ring a bell and shout out the answer.

Elmo then asks the first question: "What part of the body am I? If you didn't have me, you couldn't bend your arm to tickle your nose." Elmo tells the contestants to watch the musical clue on the TV:


 * Song: Kermit sings "I Love My Elbows".

Without letting the contestants get a chance to know the answer, Elmo suddenly knows the answer to the first question. He bounces on the trampoline and rings the bell and shouts out "Elbows, elbows, elbows!" The contestants are frustrated and the director tells Elmo that he is the host and is not supposed to give the answers. Elmo apologizes before he goes on with the next question: "What do you call the front part of the head?"


 * Song: Ernie and Elmo sing about the parts of "One Fine Face".

Elmo begs the contestants to think of an answer before he bounces on the trampoline and rings the bell again. Elmo suddenly loses it before he bounces on the trampoline and rings the bell, anyway, before he answers "The face!" The contestants are frustrated again, while the director interrupts to tell the audience that she will be playing a "much needed public service song":


 * Song: Kermit sings "Get Along" backed up by Martians, Twiddlebugs, greasers, and a cow.

Elmo then decides to be the contestant while Mr. Johnson will be the host. Mr. Johnson nervously asks the next question, which is a musical question: "What do you call something you sing that has words or just a lot of (next card) la-la's?"


 * Song: Elmo, Big Bird, and Mr. Snuffleupagus sings "Elmo's Song".

The contestants are too busy dancing and singing along to find the answer, so just like Elmo, Mr. Johnson knows the answer; he bounces on the trampoline and rings the bell and answers "A song!" The director then says that she has had enough and decides to be the host, while Mr. Johnson decides to stay by the bell until his bus comes. The director asks the next question: "What are the two numbers that come after the number six?" Two musical clues are displayed:


 * Song: "The Alligator King"


 * Song: Little Chrissy sings "Eight Balls of Fur".

Elmo, Mary, and Lamb simultaneously know the answer; one by one they bounce on the trampoline and crash land, then they ring the bell and answer "Seven and eight!" The director calls it a tie, and then asks the next question, "What do you call the one person in the whole world that you most like to play with?", before she faints.


 * Song: "My Best Friend"

Mary and Lamb then bounce on the trampoline so high... nobody knows when they'll come down. While they're waiting, Elmo decides to be the host again and introduces his special guest to bring in for the next question - Oscar the Grouch! Elmo reads the next question from Oscar: "What is it that grouches really, really love to collect?"


 * Song: Oscar sings "I Love Trash."

After the song, Mary and Lamb finally crash land and ring the bell. Mary answers "My best friend," which was the answer to the previous question, but Oscar answers the current question, which is "trash". Elmo exclaims that Oscar can win what he wants. Oscar says he just wants to get out of the show.

The time has come for the final question: "What is the name of this famous dance?"


 * Song: The Count sings "The Lambaba".

Lamb then bounces on the trampoline and rings the bell and answers "Ba-ba-baa!", which sounds like "Lambaba", and Elmo claims Lamb the winner of the show, and to celebrate the Lamb's win, everyone dances to Lambaba, while the first half of the credits roll.

Elmo tells the audience the show is over and he had fun before seeing Mr. Johnson, who is still upset over his long wait for the bus. Just then, Grover's bus drives right in the studio. When he asks Mr. Johnson how to get to Cincinnati, he faints away. Everyone continues dancing to Lambaba while the rest of the credits roll.