It is I, your cute,

yet majestic butterfly friend, Grover.

(Grover giggling)

Today, we are going to learn all about butterflies.

Yes, butterflies are so graceful,

the way they flutter about

and oh, smell pretty flowers.

(Grover inhaling)

Ah, yes, butterflies, you see,

oh, oh, dear, oh, my, oh, oh, no.

What?

(Grover yelling and sighing)

Let us learn more about butterflies on, "Sesame Street."

(upbeat music)

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Yeah. ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Sunny days ♪

♪ Sweeping the clouds away ♪

♪ On my way ♪

♪ To where the air is sweet ♪

♪ Where the air is sweet ♪

♪ Can you tell me how to get ♪

♪ How to get to Sesame Street ♪

♪ How to get to Sesame Street ♪

♪ Sesame Street ♪

(Elmo giggling)

- Oh, hi.

Hi, everybody.

- Hey, Lucas! - Hi, hi.

- Hey, Eli.

- Hey, Mr. Andre.

- Hey, Elmo.

- Huh what, what, what?

- Oh, oh, look, look, look who's here.

Look, look!

- Oh, hey, welcome to, "Sesame Street."

- We're looking at bugs.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, Elmo has his magnifying glass.

- Yeah, isn't that cool?

- Isn't that cool?

- And I've got this great book,

"Fascinating Facts About Insects."

- Let's go see if we can find some insects.

- Insects, yes.

- Insects.

- Oh, oh Telly look!

- What?

- Ants.

- [Telly] Ants are insects.

- [Elmo] Yeah. Oh, there's one,

two little ants play together.

- It says here.

Oh, wow.

- What?

- "Ants never sleep."

- [Both] Wow.

- [Telly] And they don't even look tired.

- [Both] Fascinating.

- Oh, look, more bugs Telly,

more bugs! - Oh, look at that!

What are they?

- What are they?

- Those are ladybugs.

- [Elmo] One, two, ladybugs playing together.

- [Telly] Wow.

- Yeah.

- Here's a fascinating fact about ladybugs.

- Okay, Telly.

- They smell with their feet.

- [Both] Fascinating.

- Oh, oh, oh Elmo sees another bug.

- Woo!

- Oh, hey Telly, look, look.

There's a butterfly.

- [Telly] He's beautiful.

- [Elmo] Yeah. Wait, where's Butterfly's friend?

Elmo and Telly saw, um, two little aunts

and two little, uh, ladybugs.

But there's only one butterfly.

And it's alone.

- You're right.

Let's look for another butterfly.

- Okay. (giggling)

Yoohoo. Yoohoo.

Other butterfly!

Where are you?! - [Telly] Hello?

Hello, butterflies? - Come out, come out

wherever you are!

- Calling all butterflies!

- Butterflies, where are you?

- Hmm. - Oh boy.

Telly, Elmo doesn't think any other butterflies are around.

- Yeah, I don't think so either.

That little guy has no butterfly friend to play with.

- Elmo can be a butterfly!

- What's that now?

- Elmo, Elmo will pretend to be a butterfly, Telly.

Then the little butterfly will have a friend to play with.

- Great idea.

- Okay. Okay.

Um, let's see. Oh, oh.

Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter.

Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter.

Elmos's a butterfly.

Flutter, flutter, flutter

Come play with Elmo.

Oh, oh. It's not working.

The butterfly's not coming over to play.

- Hm, I don't think he gets that

you're a butterfly Elmo.

- Well why not Telly?

- I'm checking the book here.

Ah, here's something fascinating,

"Before a butterfly can become a butterfly,

it has to go through a metamorphosis."

- A what?

- Metamorphosis is, is, is a big change.

It says here, "There are four very different stages

in the life of a butterfly."

- What Does that have to do with Elmo?

- Well, maybe if you, if you pretend to go

through those four stages,

the butterfly will think that you are a butterfly

and wanna be your friend.

- Hey, that's a great idea Telly!

Oh, what's the first stage? Huh, huh?

- "First, a butterfly starts as a butterfly egg."

Like this.

- Got it.

Elmo will be right back.

Ta da!

- Nice egg costume Elmo.

- Well, thank you Telly.

But Elmo's not Elmo anymore.

Elmo's Butterfly Egg Elmo.

- Oh, right, right, right.

And look, Butterfly Egg Elmo.

It's working.

The butterfly is looking right at you.

- [Elmo] Oh, not anymore.

Oh, quick Telly!

What's the second stage?

- [Telly] You need to pretend to be a caterpillar.

"The butterfly starts as an egg

and when an egg hatches,

a caterpillar comes out."

- Elmo will be right back.

(Elmo giggling)

Elmo's a caterpillar.

- And look, look, it's working.

The butterfly is flying right to you.

Is he ready to be your friend?

- Oh, no.

Not yet.

Oh. What's the third stage Telly?

- Oh, let's see.

"After the egg hatches into a caterpillar,

it grows and sheds its skin.

And when it does it for the last time,

it forms a chrysalis."

- [Elmo] Oh, it looks like a tiny sleeping bag.

Okay, Telly, be right back.

(Elmo giggling)

(cheerful music)

- Oh, Elmo's a chrysalis. (giggling)

- Hey, look.

It's working. It's working.

The butterfly, its flying all around you!

- Oh, yeah, yeah!

Uh oh but the butterfly

isn't ready to be Elmo's friend yet.

- That's because you need to go

through the fourth stage.

"Inside the chrysalis,

the caterpillar turns into a butterfly."

- Elmo thought that would come next.

(whooshing)

(Elmo laughing)

- Whoa.

Ta da!

Is Elmo butterfly.

- You really do look like a butterfly.

- Awe, thank you Telly.

- Hey look, look, it's working.

The butterfly wants to be your friend.

- Hello butterfly.

- Elmo. You did it.

The butterfly's not lonely anymore.

He's got a new friend.

- And Elmo's got a new friend too.

Come on, little butterfly.

Let's be butterflies together.

Oh, you too!

Flap, flutter and fly with us! (laughing)

(gentle uplifting music)

♪ Let's our wings and fly together ♪

♪ Little butterfly friend ♪

♪ Flutter through the sky together ♪

♪ Little butterfly friend ♪

♪ We can fly from here to there ♪

♪ We can stop and smells a rose ♪

♪ We can flutter up and down ♪

♪ You can land on Elmo's nose ♪

Oh, hello.

Let's flap our wings and fly.

Yeah

♪ Little ♪

Oh.

♪ Butterfly ♪

♪ Friend ♪

♪Little butterfly friend. ♪

(Elmo giggling)

- You're Elmo's friend.

Oh, great fluttering little butterfly.

Oh, and you too. (giggling)

- I think your little butterfly friend

is all fluttered out, Elmo.

- Yeah, Elmo too. (giggling)

Come on.

Chris, Chris!

- Hey, hey guys.

- Hey Chris.

- Hey Chris. - Hi Chris.

- Oh, hey Telly.

Elmo?

- No butterfly Elmo.

- You noticed?

- This is Elmo's butterfly friend.

Say hello to Chris, Butterfly.

- Hello.

Hey. Hey.

Did he just land on my head?

(Elmo laughing) - [Telly] Yep.

- Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

What can I do for you guys?

- Butterfly Elmo wants to draw a picture

of his butterfly friend?

- I have just the thing.

I have some paper and some crayons.

Ah?

- Oh good, good!

Thanks Chris.

Oh. Come on Telly, lets go!

Oh, you too butterfly friend.

- Hey Elmo. - [Elmo] Huh?

The book says, That's a monarch butterfly.

- Wow. A monarch?

- That's what you call a butterfly with orange wings,

with black lines and white spots.

- Cool.

- Well Elmo's best friends with a monarch butterfly.

Ah, look, look, look.

- I think he liked your picture.

- Oh yeah.

Yay. Little butterfly friend.

There is no other butterfly quite like you.

- Except maybe that one.

- [Chris] Hey, it's another monarch!

- Oh. And that one.

And that one.

And that one.

- I wonder what's going on here?

- Why are those little butterflies here?

- "Monarch butterflies get together to migrate."

- Migrate means they move

because of the change in seasons.

Yeah, it's just too cold here in the winter.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

There they go.

- Elmo's butterfly friend wouldn't leave Elmo.

We're best friends, right butterfly friend?

Oh no, but, but he didn't even say goodbye.

He forgot all about Elmo.

- [Telly] Maybe not!

- Look.

- He came back to say goodbye to you.

- [Chris] Wow.

- Oh, goodbye little butterfly friend.

And don't worry, Elmo understands.

Elmo, will always have this picture to remember you by.

Awe.

- What?

- [Elmo] Goodbye little butterfly friend.

Come on!

Let's find out more fascinating facts about bugs.

- All right.

Okay. Listen to this.

- Yeah.

- "Dragon flies are the fastest flying bugs of all"

and they can eat while flying."

- [Elmo] Really cool.