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The special opens with Cookie Monster looking for directions to Sesame Street (and picking up cookies along the way). After a montage of various versions of the theme song, he arrives on Sesame Street with Joseph Gordon-Levitt who really wants to take a picture under the famous street sign but the trouble is it has gone missing.
Elmo's Christmas Countdown marks the ninth time the Sesame Street characters have crossed over into commercial television. All other Sesame Street material had aired on PBS, a public television network. 25th and 30th anniversary specials, as well as Elmopalooza, have also aired on ABC, while NBC aired an introductory show to Sesame Street called This Way To Sesame Street, [citation needed] Big ...
Prairie Dawn informs the viewers that the countdown continues on Sesame Street, while Elmo shows off how Japan celebrates the New Year, represented by his cousin Elmo-nosque, who shows how everyone makes cards for each other, helps to make rice cakes, and, during New Year's Day, plays home-made badminton.
Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American puppeteer, director and producer best known for puppeteering Elmo on Sesame Street from 1985 to 2012. He also performed puppets for Labyrinth, Dinosaurs, Oobi, and various Muppet productions.
A brief clip from Elmo's World appears in Sesame Street's 2002–2006 intro. In 2009, Elmo's World went on hiatus. It was replaced by Elmo: The Musical in 2012, and returned in 2017. The show is alternated by two more Elmo-centered segments, Elmo & Tango’s Mysterious Mysteries and Nature Explorers, which are both produced entirely with animation.
It was released on VHS and DVD in North America on February 29, 2000. The special was sponsored by Kmart department stores, during the holiday season, "where, no doubt, much Elmo merchandise is on display." [1] This was the last major primetime special for Sesame Street until Elmo's Christmas Countdown in 2007. [2]
In season 35 (2004), Prairie Dawn joined "Letter of the Day"; the segments in this incarnation were almost similar, with a foam letter used instead of an icing one. Segments produced in seasons 36 (2005) and 37 (2006) involved "The Letter of the Day Games": a game show introduced by an energetic off-camera announcer (voiced by Matt Vogel).
At the beginning of the show, Elmo accidentally traps Jon Stewart, the producer Prairie Dawn, and the crew for the show in a dressing room when he closes the broken door, locking them inside. David Alan Grier doesn't take this well and constantly yet harshly rebukes Elmo for this mistake, and does the same to Telly for his neurotic behavior.