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COLD OPENHealthy Moment: Grover asks Ken Jennings to name something that is sweet and full of vitamins. In the form of a question, Jennings answers, "What is fruit?" and wins a date with a hyper pineapple. cut from the online version SCENE cont'd
Elmo and Zoe are jumping rope when they realize how hungry they are. They hear a mysterious voice which turns out to be that of Mr. Healthy Food, the host of "The Healthy Food Game!" To play the game, Zoe and Elmo have to find four healthy foods in four different colors before a mouse climbs to the top of a refrigerator and plays the grand piano.
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Zoe and Elmo are ready to play, and an onscreen color wheel spins and lands on the color red. As the mouse starts his trek up the refrigerator, Elmo and Zoe walk over to the fruit stand at Hooper's Store to find something red.
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Zoe and Elmo decide to look for a red apple, but are only able to find green ones. Luis comes by looking for red peppers to cook his special fajitas, so Elmo and Zoe follow Luis to the vegetables section and find the red peppers.
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Mr. Healthy Food appears to declare that they've found their first healthy colorful food and need three more. Meanwhile, the mouse is partway through his climb. The contestants' next color on the color wheel is white.
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Elmo and Zoe rush over to Gina, who is just about to have lunch in the yard. They check to see if she has any healthy white food, but her lunch is a sandwich with (brown) pumpernickel bread, (pink) bologna, and (yellow) mustard. Old MacDonald overhears the monsters' distress and milks Gladys the Cow to give them a glass of nutritious - and white - milk.
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Mr. Healthy Food pops up again to announce that they've now found two healthy colorful foods, but reminds them that the mouse is inching closer to the top of the refrigerator. As Gladys decides to join Zoe and Elmo in their game, the color wheel spins to green and she suggests that they check the garden for something green.
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In the garden, Susan and Bianca offer the group some zucchini seeds, but as time is running out they need food that's already green. Susan points to some freshly grown lettuce, and Mr. Healthy Food appears again to point out the three healthy foods that they've found so far. However, the mouse has reached the top of the refrigerator and is about to play the piano! The color wheel lands on its final color: purple, so Elmo, Zoe, and Gladys quickly search for a healthy purple food.
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The group ponders what foods are purple when Big Bird asks them to move back so Snuffy can bring a giant eggplant to his cave (his mom is cooking "Eggplant Parmalupagus", an Italian-Hawaiian dish). Just as the mouse prepares to play the piano, Elmo, Zoe, and Gladys realize that Snuffy's giant eggplant is purple, which helps them win the game!
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Mr. Healthy Food pops up once more to announce their win and present their fabulous prize: all of the healthy foods they found! He signs off with "Live long and eat colorful," and Snuffy suggests that they bring all of the food home so they can make a picnic lunch. A very hungry Elmo agrees, and they all try to push the giant eggplant down the street.
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"I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow"
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A girl named Maria and her family are having a Cuban Bar-B-Q. She invited her friend, Stewart, to enjoy the fun and learn about Cuban culture. (First: Episode 2760)
Animation
Dancing pepper pattern - which one comes next? (First: Episode 3079)
Muppets
The Letter of the Day: "G" Part 1: Cookie Monster discovers there is no cookie for him ("That funny--propman here usually hand it to me") until a giant one lands into his paws. Trying to sustain himself, he eats the giant cookie. (First: Episode 4011)
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Kids exploring a jungle find a giant "G" swinging on vines. (First: Episode 3498)
Muppets
The Letter of the Day: "G" Part 2: After eating the giant cookie, Cookie Monster grows larger and starts naming G words like "gassy". (First: Episode 4011)
Animation
Pencil box G / g (First: Episode 3042)
Film
Jane Tuesday eats a tasty green beans in the Case of the Letter G.
Muppets
Spanish Word of the Day: gato A cow tries to help Rosita by illustrating gato, but she isn't a cat. Suddenly Little Murray Sparkles comes by and Rosita replies that this is what gato is. (First: Episode 3985) cut from the online version, cut from the HBO version
Cartoon
A cat desperately tries to open a can of cat food by himself while his mistress is on the phone. Artist: Dan Haskett (First: Episode 2151)
Cartoon
Healthy food song: Milk
Celebrity / Muppets
Wyclef Jean and Cookie Monster rap "Healthy Food".
Song
"Color Me Carrot"
Muppets
Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover talks to a girl, Maya, about what we should eat to keep healthy and she says vegetables. Grover ask what's her favorite food and Maya says carrots because they are yummy to eat.
Muppets
Down on the farm, Ernie sings "Grow High Grow Low." (First: Episode 2448) cut from the HBO version
Animation
A farmer plants corn and waits for rain.
Muppets
Global Grover: Grover comes back from Paris with a shopping basket. None of the foods he finds wants to get in it, though! In his film, Lia and her father visit a farmer's market and bakery in Paris for food at a French market. Afterwards, the food are in shock and Grover thinks they don't get it and demonstrates by putting himself in the basket. The food then takes Grover in the basket to his grandma's house.
Animation
The contents of a fruit bowl form a face. (First: Episode 4029)
Film
The Number of the Day: A remake of the Number Song Series brings forth 6. cut from the HBO version
Film
The Count sings a song of "Six at Sea" off-screen, while children play on the beach. (First: Episode 4062)
Film
Three (flowers) and three are six. (First: Episode 3140)
Muppets
Count's Castle: Six Feet Under — The Count watches a TV show about six feet under a table. (First: Episode 4062)
Song
"Around and Around (Over, Under, Through)" (First: Episode 2753)
Muppets
Elmo's World: Food (First: Episode 3816) In the HBO Max and YouTube airings the "quiz" is edited, omitting the birthday cake portion and some music, and the film of two kids making a sandwich is cut entirely.
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The Adventures of Trash Gordon Chapter 842 Trash drives his spaceship around a giant space chicken, for no other reason than to get to the other side.