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Sesame Street

Sesame Street - Season 49 (2018)

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Season 49 Plot

Season 49 brings exciting new changes to the Street and features a host of A-list celebrity appearances.

Sesame Street Season 49 aired on November 17th, 2018.

Season 49 Episodes

1. When You're a Vet

November 17th, 2018

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.

2. Picture This

November 24th, 2018

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.

3. Hey! Sesame Street News

December 1st, 2018

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

4. So You Think You Can Choreograph

December 8th, 2018

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.

5. Elmo's Factory

December 15th, 2018

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.

6. Math Magic (repeat)

December 22nd, 2018

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

7. New Year's Eve on Sesame Street

December 29th, 2018

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.

8. Play Time

January 5th, 2019

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.

9. Bath Time for Blanky

January 12th, 2019

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.

10. Astronaut Elmo

January 19th, 201930 min

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.

11. Honk If You Love Libraries

January 26th, 2019

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.

12. Elmo's Happy Little Train

February 2nd, 2019

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.

13. The Big Pretend Band

February 9th, 2019

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.

14. Sesame Friendship

February 16th, 2019

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.

15. Rudy Rides the Bus

February 23rd, 2019

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

16. Mechanics in Space

March 2nd, 2019

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

17. Fixing X

March 9th, 2019

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.

18. Elmo Goes to Chicken School

March 16th, 2019

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

19. Walking the Dog

March 23rd, 2019

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.

20. Elmo the Engineer

March 30th, 2019

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

21. Julia's Haircut

April 6th, 2019

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

22. Dinosaur in the Laundromat

April 13th, 2019

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.

23. Earth Day

April 20th, 2019

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.

24. Four Furry Superheroes

April 27th, 2019

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

25. Welcome to Sesame Hospital

May 4th, 2019

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.

26. Wild Adventure on Sesame Street

May 11th, 2019

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

27. Little Bo Peep Lost Her Cow

May 18th, 2019

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

28. How to Build a Dinosaur

May 25th, 2019

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

29. Oscar Uncanned

June 1st, 2019

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.

30. Counting Critters

June 8th, 2019

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.

31. Grocery Games

June 15th, 2019

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?

32. Baby Bear's Just Right Cafe

June 22nd, 2019

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.”

33. Camp Grover

June 29th, 2019

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.

34. Slimey at the Car Race

July 6th, 2019

Slimey participates in the Squirmadega car race.

35. Cookie Monster's Museum Mystery

July 13th, 2019

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.

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