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Elmo's Earth was a segment featured at the tail end of each Sesame Street episode from 1998 to 2012. The segments were produced from 1998 to 2009, and were aired on new Sesame Street episodes up until the 2012-xiii season, when information technology was replaced past "Elmo: The Musical". However, a retooled version of the show was introduced in 2017, with a shorter format, new songs replacing the old ones, and the improver of a talking smartphone named Smartie. Recuts of the original episodes are shown in improver to new ones.

The Elmo's World segment focuses on ane subject throughout its 15-minute form, and numerous skits, anecdotes, puns and other gags all centre on that subject. The routine is most entirely rigid, so it's only proper that the tropes beginning off with...

• Once an Episode:
  • The theme song kicks everything off, of form. "Lala, lala... lala, lala... Elmo's World..."
  • Elmo reveals the bailiwick of the day (hereinafter referred to as "Subject X").
  • A xxx-2d clip montage relating to Subject 10 is shown.
  • "Dorothy's been thinking nigh (Subject area Ten) too!" Elmo says equally a pocket-sized model pertaining to Subject area X is shown inside Dorothy's fishbowl.
  • "Dorothy has a question: How practise yous (do something involving Discipline X)"? First, Elmo asks Mr. Noodle, who tries, in a very slapstick manner, to practice information technology. It often ends in faliure, prompting Elmo to walk away maxim, "Oh, Mr Noodle". Sometimes the failure continues as a Funny Background Effect.
  • Next, a few kids demonstrate how information technology's done.
  • Finally, Elmo wants to ask a baby. Elmo goes over to the baby and asks him/her how to (do something involving Field of study X), who more oftentimes than non does cypher in response.
  • "And now, Elmo has a question foooo-o-o-o-o-o-or YOU!" ...and information technology's a counting quiz involving Subject X.
  • An animated calculator may prance in at this signal and declare that "Elmo has mail!" Elmo then reads an email from one of his Muppet friends.
  • An animated end table (named "Drawer") and so tosses out a "practise random things have/do Subject area X" quiz. Almost e'er a birthday block and a random Sesame Street grapheme are involved.
  • Next is a slice-of-life segment where a child did something related to Subject X, and that child "told Elmo all well-nigh information technology!"
  • Elmo then wants to discover out more than near Subject X; at that signal, an animated television saunters in so Elmo tin can watch "The (Subject X) Channel" and a short animated segment. Most of the time, information technology's either "The Boy/Girl Who Loved (Subject Ten)" or a lecture on the subject by the Lecture Lady (voiced by Andrea Martin).
  • How can Elmo find out even More than about Subject X? In comes a Muppet related to Subject X for a discussion.
  • The give-and-take is interrupted by Dorothy imagining Elmo in a situation involving Field of study X. In this segment, Elmo may have on the class of any animate being, nationality or profession.
  • In the beginning of the show's run, Elmo would take time at this point to show a video nigh (Bailiwick X), which he filmed with a miniature photographic camera. This nearly oft involved the help of a Muppet friend.
  • Finally, everyone sings "The (Bailiwick Ten) Vocal", which is the name of Discipline Ten sung over and over to the tune of "Jingle Bells".

What are another tropes appearing in Elmo'southward World? Oh, good question, Dorothy!

• Appreciating Parody: Cookie Monster did a sendup called "Cookie Globe" in one Sesame Street episode.
• Animate Inanimate Objects:
  • The door, the window shade, the Television receiver, the computer and the one-drawer end table (a.k.a. "Drawer").
  • The segment also features Muppet guest speakers who are oftentimes objects that correlate to the topic of the episode, similar a birthday block for the "Birthdays" episode or a camera for the "Cameras" episode. You get the idea.
• Art Evolution: The animation has vastly improved in later on episodes and is livelier and more colorful.
• Creative License – Animal Care:
  • Fishbowls aren't held to be very good for fish.
  • In "Happy Holidays," Elmo brings her out into snowy weather, which probably would have frozen her in real life.
• Author Appeal: When Kevin Disharmonism was in accuse of Elmo and the show, Elmo would periodically go involved in things similar basketball game, rap, and African dance to remind us that yes, at that place was a blackness man under there.
• Babies Make Everything Better: "Elmo wants to ask a baby!" A few times, he ends up questioning a pair of babies. One episode even had babies as its subject field.
• Allurement-and-Switch: The picture show segment for "Friends" features a daughter named Rebecca. It initially creates the impression that she invited some other girl, who uses a wheelchair, over to play. All the same, when they're seen going to the library with Rebecca'south mother, she says that she carried their books while her friend held the door open, revealing that she is the girl who uses the wheelchair, and she is narrating the film.
• Busby Berkeley Number: During the "Penguins" episode.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Mr. Noodle.
• Coincidental Broadcast:
  • Elmo's TV just happens to be tuned to the channel near whatever Elmo's thinking about. (Examples: "The Teeth Channel", "The Building Things Channel", "The Frog Channel" and yes, "The Atmospheric condition Channel".)
  • On the episode about skin, the Goggle box shows the "All Almost Skin Channel". Evidently "The Skin Aqueduct" sounded as well porno-ish for a children's Boob tube show.
• Didn't Think This Through: When asked past Elmo how to practice something, Mr. Noodle sometimes jumps right into trying to provide an answer without comprehending it outset. "No, try again, Mr. Noodle!"
• Does This Remind Yous of Anything?: From the tv lecture on babies, and information technology keeps carrying on similar this until the discipline turns to the babe'southward development.

  Lecture Lady: The (babe'southward) mouth has iii positions: up, down, and total. When it's upwards, the baby is happy and cute and gets lots of coochie-coos...

• Door Roulette: What'southward Elmo thinking most today? Most frequently afterwards pontificating this, he'll go to the door behind him, open up it... and either go run over by Muppet animals or people, have a wall of objects fall on him, or exist confronted past a random snippet of video.
• Epic Neglect: Each fourth dimension Mr Noodle tries to experiment the topic that is being discussed, it ends in a comical failure.
• Everything's Meliorate with Dinosaurs: Yep, there'due south a "dinosaur" episode...
• Everything'southward Better with Penguins: ...besides as 1 entirely devoted to penguins.

• The Flapping Dickey: In the episode virtually getting dressed, Elmo asks Mr. Noodle how he gets dressed, and Mr. Noodle dresses himself in a collared shirt, a dickie, and a bow necktie. As this happens, the lesser push of the dickie comes undone and it sticks up. Mr. Noodle can't get it to stay down unless he holds it down.
• Firehouse Dalmatian:
  • In the episode, "Dogs", during the photo quiz, a question about a burn truck owning a canis familiaris is accounted faux, but a dog can ride on the truck, and a Dalmatian appears on the truck as it is stated.
  • The "Mike the Firefighting Canis familiaris" segment in the episode, "Firefighters", features Mike the Dalmatian, who fulfills the part of a typical firefighter when he goes off to rescue a puppy from his called-for doghouse. Information technology's later revealed to be a dream he was having.
• The Fool: Mr. Noodle, who has no thought of how to perform a simple task and has to be guided past Elmo and the kids in guild to practice it correctly. Although, it mostly ends in a failure.
• Funny Background Result: Sometimes Mr Noodle's fail volition continue in the background as Elmo continues discussing about the topic.
• Jerkass:
  • The Shade e'er messes when Elmo whenever he wants to talk to Mr. Noodle. Either refusing to move when pulled, or merely flat-out not letting Elmo grab information technology.
  • The Drawer likes to knock Elmo down in the process of getting out the photo quiz. It's well-nigh as Jerkass as it tin can be in a preschooler-oriented programme, anyway.
  • In "...Happy Holidays", Door harassed Elmo with its mistletoe, demanding multiple kisses when it was outset introduced, and insisting upon beingness kissed each time Elmo answered the door thereafter.
• Big Ham: It's no wonder Elmo is so excited about learning whatever bailiwick he is learning.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In "Happy Holidays", Elmo sings "Happy Holidays" to the melody of Jingle Bells. Then he and Dorothy join the cast of Sesame Street in the arbor to sing Jingle Bells itself.
  • In "Hair", Elmo asks viewers to count the brushes brushing his fur, and he'southward nonetheless ticklish. When the third castor makes contact with Elmo'south fur, he starts laughing in a style he hadn't since Tickle Me Elmo.
• No Fourth Wall:
  • Elmo talks to the viewers for pretty much the unabridged duration of the episodes.
  • Most of Sesame Street's 35th ceremony special, The Street We Alive On is an extra-long Elmo'due south Earth segment about Sesame Street.
• Open the Door and Run across All the People: Especially "Friends" and "Singing."
• Planet of Steves: The flat side by side door to Elmo, where you lot'll find Mr. Noodle, "Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle" (played by the late Michael Jeter), and occasionally "Mr. Noodle's sister Ms. Noodle" (played past Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth), and their first names are never mentioned.
• Quacking Upward: "Doctors" makes a visual pun on the phrase "quack doctor"; it features a few appearances by a duck dressed as a dr..
• Rearrange the Vocal: At the end of the episode, Elmo plays "Jingle Bells" on his piano... however, the lyrics are but "water, water, water... water, water, water..." or "hands, hands, easily... easily, easily, easily..." or whatsoever the subject of the episode might be repeated ad nauseum to that effect.
• Running Gag:
  • Elmo opening the door to accept any the subject of the episode is either fall on or trample over him.
  • Elmo trying to open Drawer, only for it to open by itself, and push Elmo off-screen.
• Sequel Episode: Some episodes address topics of before episodes more specifically or rarely, more broadly. For instance, there's "Nutrient" and "Bananas", "Pets", "Dogs", and "Cats", ^note These last 2 episodes really do both, every bit they respectively address canine and feline pets specifically, but also encompass their wild counterparts."Shoes", "Hats", and "Getting Dressed".
• Shout-Out: In "Music", Elmo interviews an accordion which has more than a trivial chip of white and cherry-red on information technology.
• Strictly Formula: Indeed. The order of some of the routines is switched upward in a scattering of episodes, however.
• Stylistic Suck: The videos Elmo shoots from the early on run of the bear witness. The camera constantly moves, and his hands can exist seen over the lens.
• Suspender Snag: In one episode nigh getting dressed, Elmo asks Mr. Noodle how he gets dressed. When Mr. Noodle puts on his pants, he has a hard time keeping them from falling down, so Elmo and the children tell him to utilize his suspenders to concur them up. Mr. Noodle does so, merely in the process, his suspenders get stuck to the hook on the door, which holds him back.
• Team Pet: Dorothy, Elmo's pet goldfish.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: During the Mr. Noodle and photo quiz segments, a couple of kids are heard (simply never seen) coaching Mr. Noodle and responding to the quiz, respectively.
• Volumetric Mouth: Sometimes when Elmo talks loudly, y'all tin just run across his oral cavity and his olfactory organ.
• The Voiceless:
  • None of the household objects that Elmo interacts with actually talk (with the exception of the computer, who only says "Elmo has mail"). Instead, they communicate with torso movements and sounds.
  • Same with Mr. Noodle and his family, who communicate with facial expressions and actions.
• Wrap-Upward Vocal: Elmo'south Globe ends with Elmo playing the piano and singing a song To the Tune of... "Jingle Bells" about that mean solar day's bailiwick, ending by proverb goodbye to Dorothy, the viewers, and whoever he interviewed on the topic of the day.

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Statler: That'south information technology? That's what'due south special nearly Elmo and his world?
Waldorf: What do you await? Maybe information technology'due south because he's the only Muppet with lots of exaggeration!
Both Do-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ElmosWorld

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