♪ La, la, la, la ♪

♪ La, la, la, la ♪

♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪

♪ Elmo's full of wonder ♪

♪ Wonder what he will discover ♪

♪ Elmo's Wonderful World ♪

(giggles)

- Hi!

Welcome to Elmo's World.

Guess what Elmo is wondering about today.

(tinkling) Wait for it.

Wait for it.

(laughs) Birthdays!

Happy birthday!

Yay!

Boy, Elmo loves birthdays

and wants to find out more about them.

Let's ask Elmo's friend Smartie.

Let's call her together.

- [All] Oh Smartie!

- Wee!

Hi, Elmo.

Happy birthday.

Can we pretend its your birthday?

- Yeah, sure, okay.

- Happy pretend birthday, Elmo.

- Yay!

Thank you, Smartie.

Boy, that's perfect because today Elmo

wants to learn all about birthdays.

- Well, what do we do to learn something new?

- [All] We look it up.

- Searching for birthdays.

Here we go.

On your birthday you celebrate

the day you were born.

Kids have birthdays

and grownups have birthdays too.

Each time you have a birthday,

you're one year older.

There are lots of things to do on your birthday,

like have a party, play games,

and you can help people you love

celebrate their birthdays too.

(Elmo giggles)

There are just so many exciting ways

to celebrate a birthday.

- But Smartie, how can Elmo celebrate

his pretend birthday?

- Easy.

Just blow out the pretend candles

on your pretend birthday cake.

- (laughs) Okay.

- And don't forget to make a wish.

- Oh, right.

(exhales)

(laughs)

- So?

What was your wish?

- To blow out all the candles (laughs).

- (laughs) Great job blowing out the pretend candles.

See ya later.

- Bye bye, Smartie.

Thank you.

Hey, that gives Elmo an idea.

Let's play a game together.

Yeah, come on, come on (laughs).

(playful music)

This girl is turning three years old.

Which cake has the right number of candles for her?

Let's count the candles.

- [All] One, two, three, four, five.

Too many.

- [Elmo] Let's try again.

How many candles now?

- [All] One.

- [Child] Now there're not enough candles.

- [Elmo] Okay.

Elmo will try again.

Let's count.

- [All] One, two, three.

- Yeah!

Great job.

Yay!

Boy, Elmo thinks it's fun

to help people celebrate their birthdays

and give birthday presents.

Boy, that makes Elmo wonder even more.

Does Mr. Noodle know how to wrap a birthday present?

Let's ask him.

Hey, Mr. Noodle!

(laughs) It's Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle.

- [All] Hi, Mr. Noodle.

- [Elmo] Mr. Noodle, do you know how to wrap

a birthday present?

You do?

Show us, Mr. Noodle.

(laughs) Did Mr. Noodle make that birthday present

for his friend?

- [Girl] That's nice of you, Mr. Noodle.

- [Boy] Now you can start wrapping.

(beat boxing)

- Um?

- [Child] No, Mr. Noodle.

Not rap like music.

Wrapping paper.

- [Elmo] Mr. Noodle is wrapping the present.

- [Child] Don't wrap yourself.

Wrap the present.

- [Girl] That's enough tape, Mr. Noodle.

- [All] Stop taping.

- [Child] You're silly.

- Elmo's sure that your friend will like the present.

Thank you, Mr. Noodle.

Bye bye.

Learning new things makes Elmo so happy.

It makes him want to dance.

Come on.

♪ Happy, happy, dance, dance ♪

♪ Happy, happy, dance, dance ♪

♪ When we learn something new ♪

♪ We do the happy dance dance ♪

Let's see your happy dance.

Yeah, cool.

See ya next time!

Keep learning.

Elmo loves you.

♪ Happy, happy, dance, dance ♪

♪ Happy, happy, dance, dance ♪

♪ When we learn something new ♪

♪ We do the happy dance dance ♪

♪ Yay ♪