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Sesame Street

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SESAME STREET has garnered more than 100 awards, including 101 Emmys, two Peabodys, four Parents' Choice Awards and an Action for Children's Television Special Achievement Award. The series delivers academic and social education that prepares kids for grade school. Since its premiere, the show's base curriculum has been set by academic research on preschoolers. Encore episodes focus on music and art and how these tools can be used to develop the whole child - the cognitive, social, emotional and physical attributes. In addition, "Elmo's World," which looks at the world through the eyes of a three-year-old, continues as a featured segment. Themes include birthdays, pets, teeth, families, games and more.

Episodes:

• Shabbat Shalom!

  It's Friday evening and Charlie's family is preparing for a Shabbat dinner. When they find out there's a water leak in the apartment, they decide to have their dinner in the arbor and share their special meal with their friends. Meredith and Big Bird help set up the table while Charlie and Victor show Alan, Elmo, and Tamir how to make challah bread, a traditional Jewish bread they eat as part of their Shabbat dinner. It's now sundown and the table is set with beef and potato stew, green beans, candles, a kiddish cup, and challah bread. Once everyone gathers at the table, Meredith lights the candles and says a blessing in Hebrew to welcome Shabbat. Victor then says a blessing to the children and together they say a blessing over the grape juice and challah bread. After everyone enjoys the meal, Charlie's friends thank her for including them. Charlie is happy to share her family's special meal with her friends.

  Next Airing:	Wed, Dec 25th, 2024 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Grandparents' Day

  It's Grandparents' Day on Sesame Street! Everyone is coming together to celebrate with a cookout. Gabrielle and her Grandma Nell are making their family's world-famous Grandpa ZZ's Triple Cheesy Macareenie. While Elmo, Tamir and Gabrielle help Grandma Nell prepare the dish, Grandma Nell tells them the story of how her Grandpa ZZ's dish all started. Grandpa ZZ wanted to make macaroni and cheese to share with the family, but he didn't have enough cheese! He found three small pieces of cheese and mixed them with butter, and milk and created the Triple Cheesy Macareenie. The best part about making it is being able to cook it together as a family. Just like how Grandma Nell made it with her grandpa, Gabrielle and Tamir get to make it with Grandma Nell every year for Grandparents' Day.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Dec 26th, 2024 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• Gabrielle's Amazing Maze

  Gabrielle, Elmo, Abby, and Cookie Monster are building a maze for Gabrielle's class pet hamster, Peanut Butter. They use an empty box but don't have anything to use for the walls. This is a problem! They wonder if there's something strong and have a lot of. What if they use carboard and tape them into the box? Let's try! It works. They didn't give up and Peanut Butter has the best time ever.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 27th, 2024 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 12/31/2024

• The Feelings Fair

  Sesame Street is having a Feelings Fair! All the games, crafts, and food are about feelings. Elmo, Alan, and Julia first play Chris' Face Game where they need to describe the expressions on a mask to guess the feeling. Next, they play Nina's Duck, Duck, Guess game where they act out a feeling found on the bottom of a rubber duck. Then they watch Sam, Nina, and Charlie's Feelings Freeze performance. The performers act out a scene for everyone to guess what they’re feeling. Elmo, Alan, and Julia end the day with Cookie Monster's face pancakes.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Dec 30th, 2024 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Wash Day

  It's Wash Day today! It's a special time Gabrielle spends time with her Auntie Kayla, as she washes Gabrielle's hair. First, Auntie Kayla combs out Gabrielle's hair and puts shampoo. Next, Auntie Kayla uses warm water to rinse out the shampoo and puts conditioner to make Gabrielle's hair feel super soft and slippery. Then, a big comb is used to detangle and get out all the knots in Gabrielle's curls. For bath time, Auntie twists her hair up in a shower cap. After rinsing out the hair, it gets detangled one more time. Then she puts avocado oil and the leave-in conditioner to make Gabrielle's hair softer and smoother. Finally, Gabrielle picks out a style for her hair that can do so many different things afro, ponytail, box braids, or afro puffs! Wash Day is really special to Gabrielle and her family.

  Next Airing:	Tue, Dec 31st, 2024 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 12/31/2024

• Elmo's Morning Routine

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  Next Airing:	Wed, Jan 1st, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Our Family Musical

  Mia writes a musical about what it's like to have a family with two different cultures for a school project and performs it for Elmo. The first song is about how her dad's family is Jewish and her Papi's family is Cuban. Mia celebrates holidays like Rosh Hashanah and New Year's Eve and has lullabies sung to her in two different languages. For the finale, she shares how her two cultures come together, like having Shabbat dinners with Cuban food and eating twelve grapes on New Year's Eve. Families can be made of different cultures and there's so much to share!

  Next Airing:	Sun, Jan 5th, 2025 at 8:00 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Bert and Ernie's Opposite Day

  It's Opposite Day on Sesame Street! Everyone's celebrating by doing things that are as different as they can be. Alan whispers quietly and shouts very loudly while Elmo runs very fast and very slow. Slimey opens and closes the lid of Oscar's can and Grover stands near and far. Bert and Ernie notice they like opposite things like the stripes on their shirts, talking loudly or whispering, and having a messy or clean apartment. They may be different and do the opposite, and they're still friends.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Jan 6th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Brave Bessie, By Brave Gabrielle

  Elmo and Gabrielle share about what they want to be when they grow up. Gabrielle wants to be the first African American woman formula one race car driver. But Elmo isn't sure if he can be the first monster-cook-teacher-cooking teacher. Gabrielle performs a show and tells Elmo and Grover about Bessie Coleman. She shares that Bessie Coleman wanted to learn how to fly an airplane but wasn't allowed to because of the way she looked. However, Bessie Coleman didn't give up and went far away to a school that taught her how to fly an airplane no matter what she looked like. With Bessie's courage, she became the very first African American and Native American woman to fly an airplane! Thanks to Gabrielle's show, Elmo and Grover learn that just because they may be the first person to do something doesn't mean that can't do it. Elmo doesn't give up and decides to become the first monster-cook-teacher-cooking teacher.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jan 9th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• The Oct-Dough-Pus

  Grover and his friend, the octopus, are helping at Hooper's Store. They have a customer, Mr. Johnson, but the octopus can only cook bread! When Mr. Johnson asks for something round, Tamir suggests making biscuits. Biscuits are Tamir's favorite because his family makes them together for Sunday dinners! Mr. Johnson enjoys them but is still hungry and asks for something flat. Yasmine suggests making khubz, a bread with pockets you can fill up or cut into pieces. Khubz is Yasmine's favorite because her family eats them in different ways! Mr. Johnson enjoys the khubz and asks for something sweet. Ji-Young suggests milk bread, a bread that can be turned into a special treat with whipped cream and fruit. Milk bread is Ji-Young's favorite because her mom makes it for her as a special treat! With help from his friends, Grover and the octopus fulfill Mr. Johnson's orders and learn that families all over the world make bread in different kinds of ways.

  Next Airing:	Sun, Jan 12th, 2025 at 8:00 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Elmo Helps The Amazing Zero!

  The Amazing Zero is on Sesame Street to help people by taking everything away when they need it to get to zero. Elmo wants to help the Amazing Zero and becomes Super ZerMo! They find Grover who needs to return all his library books. Super ZerMo wants to help and tries taking all of the books to the library but forgets a couple of books. Then he tries helping Grandma Nell wash her laundry but accidentally leaves a couple laundry baskets behind. Super ZerMo gives up; he can't make zero of anything. The Amazing Zero encourages Super ZerMo to not give up. They hear Abby needs help and Elmo realizes he can't give up; his friends need his help. Super ZerMo moves the bouncy balls to the playground and saves Abby's block tower. The Amazing Zero congratulates Super ZerMo. Sesame Street is in good hands with a hero like him!

  Next Airing:	Mon, Jan 13th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Can They Be Friends?

  Elmo, Abby, Tamir, and Rudy are playing Simon Says. Reporter Grover pops in and asks if they can be friends since they're in different grades. They tell him that even though they're different ages, they can still be friends because they still like doing lots of things together. Reporter Grover then sees Gordon and Nina cheering for different baseball teams. He asks if they can still be friends and they tell him yes. Reporter Grover then sees Ji-Young and Rosita riding different things. He wonders if they can still be friends. Yes, they are! Reporter Grover learns that you can be different ages, cheer for different sports teams, like to do different things and still be friends, enjoying making art, gardening, singing, and playing together.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jan 16th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Abby's Magical Sleepover

  Gabrielle and Charlie are having a sleepover at Abby's! They play games with Rudy until it's time to get ready for bed. Rudy goes off to sleep and Gabrielle, Charlie, and Abby start their bedtime routines. First, they all brush their teeth. Next, they do their hair, and everyone has a different way of taking care of their hair. Abby brushes her hair to get out the knots and tangles, Charlie sprays her curly hair with conditioner to keep it from getting knots and tangles, and Gabrielle's hair is in braids this week so she's taking care of her hair by putting on her bonnet to keep her hair soft and shiny. They have bedtime routines both different and alike! Finally, they snuggle into bed and talk about what they're grateful for before going to sleep.

  Next Airing:	Sun, Jan 19th, 2025 at 8:00 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Sesame Street Self-Portraits

  Elmo, Tamir, Charlie, Julia, and Cookie Monster are making self-portraits in the community garden with Kayla. Kayla guides them to look into the mirror and notice the beautiful things that make you, you! Everyone looks at themselves in the mirror and starts drawing what they see. They also learn their identity is about what you love to do. So, they add onto their self-portraits and then share their drawings with each other. Cookie Monster draws his blue fur, his googly eyes, and cookies. Charlie draws her blue eyes, curly blonde hair, tap shoes, and challah bread because it's one of her favorite Jewish foods. Julia draws her straight hair, musical notes, paw prints, and her dog Rose. Elmo draws his red fur, orange nose, a piano, and watering a flower with Abby because being a kind neighbor is part of Elmo's identity. Tamir draws his brown skin, coily hair, comic books, and some veggies as he loves gardening in the community garden. There are so many special things that make you, you!

  Next Airing:	Mon, Jan 20th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Are You Ready for School?

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  Next Airing:	Thu, Jan 23rd, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Use That Rice!

  Elmo and Abby are hosting a cook-off called Use! That! Rice! Mia and Ji-Young make special family rice recipes: Mia and her dads make Arroz Imperial and Ji-Young and Alan make Kimbap. Everyone learns that when we share foods that are special to us, we share something special about ourselves.

  Next Airing:	Sun, Jan 26th, 2025 at 8:00 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Sesame Street's Lunar New Year Celebration

  There's been a snowstorm on Sesame Street and Lily and Qui can't get home to celebrate Lunar New Year. Ji-Young's family in Korea, Qui's family in Vietnam, and Lily's family in China all celebrate the same holiday. It's a special day and they're sad they're missing being at home. Just then, Ji-Young gets an idea to celebrate on Sesame Street. Alan, Elmo, and Charlie offer to help and ask what their families do to celebrate Lunar New Year. After Ji-Young, Qui, and Lily share how their families decorate, receive envelopes as gifts, and special foods they eat, they all get ready for a celebration. Alan and Ji-Young cook tteokguk, a soup with rice cakes, Charlie and Lily make red envelopes, and Qui and Elmo decorate the table with peach blossoms branches. Their families celebrate Lunar New Year by doing some things the same, and different in a lot of ways too, but they all celebrate with family and friends.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Jan 27th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Proud of My Name

  Elmo, Gabrielle, and Rosita join a basketball team! They meet Coach Jones and their new teammates and begin to practice. Coach Jones calls out each member of the team, but Rosita realizes she didn't get a turn because the coach said "Rosie" instead of "Rosita." As practice continues, the other teammates also start calling Rosita, "Rosie," making Rosita feel frustrated. Her name is "Rosita," not "Rosie" and she's proud of her name. Rosita is hesitant to correct the coach. Elmo and Gabrielle understand that it's hard to tell grown-ups when they've got something wrong. They help Rosita gain courage to tell Coach Jones that she likes to be called "Rosita." Coach Jones apologizes and is happy she told her. Coach Jones tells the rest of the team to call Rosita by the correct name. Names are a big part of who we are and it's important to get them right.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Jan 30th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Elmo Visits The Library

  Librarian Grover helps Nina and Elmo find the books they need while looking through the different sections of the library.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Feb 3rd, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Worms Want to Play

  Frankie the worm wants to go play with her cousins, but they moved far away into another planter. This is a problem! Rosita, Gabrielle, and Zoe think like engineers to help Frankie. They wonder if there's a way to make the trip shorter and easier for Frankie. What if they build a worm-sized bridge that connects the planters? Let's try! They use popsicle sticks and glue and create a bridge long enough to reach the planters Frankie's cousins are. It worked and they didn't give up. Now the worms can get together to play anytime they want!

  Next Airing:	Mon, Feb 10th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• The Kitty Sitters

  There's a lost kitten on Sesame Street. While Chris and Elmo put up signs to try to find the kitten's owner, Grover and Cookie Monster help look after it and learn all about how to take care of a kitten.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Feb 17th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• The Flamingo Scoop

  Fred the Flamingo is visiting Sesame Street for a family reunion and meets Nina, Elmo, and Rudy. Rudy notices that Fred is frowning. Fred explains that it may appear his smile is upside down but it's just because of the way his bill is shaped to help him eat. He also shares that flamingo nests are made of mud. Elmo and Rudy think it would be fun to be a baby flamingo and play in the mud all day. Then Bert comes by to share that flamingos' feathers change color as they get older from white, to gray, then to brown, and to pink. Elmo, Nina, and Rudy wonder how Bert knows so much about flamingos and it's because flamingos and pigeons are distant cousins! They're happy to have met Fred and learn so much about flamingos.

  Next Airing:	Mon, Feb 24th, 2025 at 10:30 AM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Count On

  Grover has a new job as a kitty sitter. He counts the kitties to see how many there are altogether. One, two, there, four four kitties altogether. Another kitty comes by and then another. Grover needs to count from the beginning all over again. The Count shares a counting shortcut counting on! Instead of starting all over, he can count on from where he left off. Grover uses the shortcut and counts seven kitties altogether. The kitties are now hungry so they walk over to Hooper's. At first, he only finds four blue kitty bowls. But Chris mentions he also has three yellow bowls. By using Count's counting shortcut, Grover's able to count seven bowls, one for each kitty. Grover loves this counting shortcut!

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• Elmo's Little Star

  Elmo doesn't give up and keeps practicing until he learns how to play the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on his piano.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Grouch-Ercise

  Oscar's been feeling terrible all day. Elmo, Abby, Grundgetta, and Nina find ways to help Oscar feel better by looking for different exercises he could do. Running that makes you feel awake and energized, yoga that helps your body flexible and calm, and dancing that gets your body moving. As they go off to tell Oscar all the exercises he could do to feel better, they find him coming back from a long, grouchy walk picking up trash. Oscar feels much better and is back to feeling good and rotten.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• Just Right!

  Elmo, Mia, Charlie, James, and Baby Bear are playing out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. When Mia says she wants to play Goldilocks, James says she can't because Mia doesn't look like Goldilocks. Mia is not wearing a dress, doesn't have blonde hair, and doesn't have the same skin color as Goldilocks. Mia explains that she should get to play Goldilocks; the color of her hair and skin shouldn't matter. James thinks Charlie should play Goldilocks since she looks more like her. Nina helps James realize that the best part of acting out a story is that you can be anyone you want to be, no matter the color of their skin or how they look. James apologizes to Mia and Mia thanks her friends for being upstanders with her.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• Monster Truckin'

  Elmo and Chris are making their own monster truck jump, but they don't have a ramp. This is a problem! They need something slanted up like a triangle and wonder if there's something that could be used as a ramp. What if they use a pizza box lid? Let's try! Elmo and Chris didn't give up and made a ramp for the jump. The Count, Big Bird, and Oscar joined with their monster trucks, and everyone raced around.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 12/31/2024

• Nani Bird Visits

  Big Bird's aunt, Nani Bird, is visiting Sesame Street from Hawaii. Nani Bird shares special things with Big Bird, Elmo, Abby and Nina that are part of Hawaiian culture. They learn how to say "aloha" which means hello and goodbye in Hawaii, make lei with paper flowers that are given as gifts to family and friends, and learn about hula which is a kind of dance to tell a story by moving your hands and body. They thank Big Bird and Nani Bird for sharing special things their family does in Hawaii.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• Prairie Dawn's Cookie Party

  Prairie Dawn is hosting a cookie party where all the cookies are baked in all kinds of shapes! While waiting for all the guests to arrive, Prairie Dawn tells Cookie Monster that he can eat all the octagon-shaped cookies. Cookie Monster needs to figure out which cookies are octagons. He knows that the cookies that have four equal sides and angles are squares and the cookies that have three equal sides and angles are triangles, but he doesn't know what octagons look like. With help from The Count, Cookie Monster learns that octagons have eight equal sides and angles. He finds the octagon-shaped cookie and shares the cookies with his friends!

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Scootin' On Sesame Street

  Elmo shares his scooter with Zoe and learns how to be patient and wait for his turn, while she practices and learns how to ride.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Supermarket Games

  To make food shopping more fun, Alan turns it into a game. Elmo, Abby, and Cookie Monster need to find three foods that start with the letter C from different sections of the supermarket. Can they get the food in Alan's cart before he finishes checking out?

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• Tamir's Water Works

  Tamir is leaving for robotics camp and needs to find a way to keep the garden watered while he's away. First, Slimey tries pouring a bucket of water from a helicopter, but he can only pour a little at a time. Then, Tamir comes up with the idea of putting watering cans on a clothesline but can't think of a way to fill them back up with water. A porcupine walks by and accidentally sits on a water bottle. That gives Tamir the idea to make a sprinkler with a bottle, hose, and some tape. But the sprinkler can't be moved around! Just then, Tamir gets another idea and asks the porcupine to sit on an old hose to poke holes and places the hose through the planters to make a drip irrigation system. It works! Tamir didn't give up and now the flowers, fruits, and veggies in the community garden can have plenty of sunlight, soil, and water.

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• The Grover Game

  TBD

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

• The Letter C Vacation

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2023 to 12/31/2024

• The Sign Language ABCs

  It's Alphabet Day on Sesame Street. There's alphabet shaped cookies and decorations all around! While Elmo sings the ABC song, his friend Mathis signs the alphabets using American Sign Language. What a great way to celebrate Alphabet Day!

  Length:	00:28:46
  Usage rights:	9/1/2024 to 8/31/2025

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