Bert learns how to use his imagination and pretend-play a saxophone so that he can join his friends in their pretend band and play in a concert.

The Big Pretend Band

Kevin Clash

Caroll Spinney

Frank Oz

Sonia Manzano

Roscoe Orman

Martin P. Robinson

Suki Lopez

Violet Tinnirello

Jennifer Barnhart

Ryan Dillon

Alan Muraoka

Sesame Friendship

Elmo's Happy Little Train

Abby and Elmo play veterinarians. By using their eyes, ears and hands, Abby and Elmo figure out what's wrong with their pretend patients and help them feel better.

When You're a Vet

Alan gives Elmo, Rosita and Abby his old cameras to play with and suggests they can be photographers for the day; Abby, Rosita and Elmo go around Sesame Street learning how to use their cameras and taking pictures of things like sports and fashion.

Picture This

Chris's belt buckle is missing! Newspaper journalist Cookie Monster solves the mystery by asking the five W questions: who, what, where, when, why.

Hey! Sesame Street News

Elmo and his friends are making a music video; when they ask Zoe to be the choreographer, she comes up with the perfect dance and teaches everyone the moves.

So You Think You Can Choreograph

Elmo invents something new – “Anything Holders” – but he needs help with the assembly. Chris helps Elmo and his friends put together their own factory, and they work as a team and each take on a different job to make the “Anything Holders” more quickly.

Elmo's Factory

Max the Magician appears on Sesame Street, doing magic tricks that make scarves appear and cards disappear.

Math Magic (repeat)

It’s New Year’s Eve on Sesame Street! Rosita and Telly try to help Elmo stay awake until midnight so he can celebrate with his friends.

New Year's Eve on Sesame Street

The gang is putting on a play about Little Miss Muffet, the classic nursery rhyme. Nina helps Big Bird take on the role of playwright when he has an idea for a new ending.

Play Time

Abby brings Rudy to the laundromat to wash his stinky blanket, but new attendant Grover doesn't know how to use the machines; luckily, Chris brings in his dirty clothes too, and shows everyone how to use a washing machine and dryer.

Bath Time for Blanky

Rosita, Elmo and Abby pretend to be astronauts and use their imaginations to go into space; with help from Chris, they figure out which "space tool" to use to fix their ripped spaceship.

Astronaut Elmo

With the help of librarian Grover and comic book superhero Galactic Gail (Zoe Kravitz), Nina and Elmo tour the different sections of the local library to find the books they need.

Honk If You Love Libraries

Elmo, Rosita, and Zoe play train and pretend to be the driver, conductor and passenger. They make up an adventure so that Oscar can play, too.

Big Bird is building a tall block castle, but it accidentally gets knocked down. Big Bird thinks Snuffy did it and doesn't let him explain. Alan and Nina help them learn to stand up for themselves, listen to each other and apologize.

Elmo and Rudy play bus driver and bus monitor, driving a homemade bus and helping their friends get around Sesame Street.

Rudy Rides the Bus

Rudy pretends to be a space alien; when his spaceship won't start, Abby and Elmo play mechanics and fix it.

Mechanics in Space

Big Bird and Snuffy are the hosts of "The Letter of the Day Show" on Sesame Street, and learn all about how the letter X can come at the end of a word.

Fixing X

Elmo helps Professor Buck Awe teach a class of chickens using strategies he learned in preschool.

Elmo Goes to Chicken School

Elmo wants to be a dog walker just like dog walker Grover; his friends help him practice by pretending to be different kinds of dogs.

Walking the Dog

Elmo and his dad become engineers as they design a device to help Elmo put away his toys.

Elmo the Engineer

Elmo, Abby and Alan play hair salon and pretend to be hair stylists to help Julia feel less scared about getting a haircut.

Julia's Haircut

There’s a strange noise on Sesame Street, and Rudy, Zoe, and Rosita suspect it’s a dinosaur! With the help of Bill Nye, they become scientists to observe, ask questions, and investigate the mystery.

Dinosaur in the Laundromat

Rudy learns to be kind to the Earth after he sees what it would be like if everyone acted like him and threw their trash on the street.

Earth Day

Telly, Abby and Elmo pretend to be their favorite superheroes, The Furry Four.

Four Furry Superheroes

Rosita, Abby, and Telly play hospital and pretend to be a doctor, nurse and x-ray technician. Chris pretends to be their patient and they help heal his funny bone.

Welcome to Sesame Hospital

“Wild Nature Survivor Guy” tries to survive out in the wilds of Sesame Street.

Wild Adventure on Sesame Street

Little Bo Peep has lost her...cow. Telly and Elmo, the Cowmonster Pair, are on the case!

Little Bo Peep Lost Her Cow

Grover, Elmo, and Rosita are imagining that they are paleontologists, a scientist who digs through dirt and stones to find fossils.

How to Build a Dinosaur

Someone has taken Oscar's trash can! With Abby and Rudy's help, Oscar finds out that it was a sanitation worker who took his trash can.

Oscar Uncanned

Bert and Ernie are animal-sitting six animals, but the animals sneak outside onto Sesame Street. Bert and Ernie ask Alan and Elmo for their help to make sure they find all six animals.

Counting Critters

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

Grocery Games

Baby Bear, Elmo, and Abby play restaurant. Alan teaches them how to pretend to be the chef, the host, and the server. Goldilocks is their first diner, and she’ll decide if everything is “just right.”

Baby Bear's Just Right Cafe

Elmo tells his friends that he's going to summer camp, but he's never been before. They pretend to go to Camp Grover for the day and learn all about the fun things that can happen.

Camp Grover

Slimey participates in the Squirmadega car race.

Slimey at the Car Race

A brand-new museum has opened on Sesame Street - the Museum of Modern Cookie! Cookie Monster, Elmo and Chris are very excited to check it out. While walking around the museum, the paintings suddenly begin to disappear and the museum guards think Cookie Monster stole them. With Abby's help, Cookie Monster, Elmo and Chris catch who really was taking the cookie art. Season finale.

Cookie Monster's Museum Mystery

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

The Big Pretend Band

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