Episode 5531

Picture	Segment	Description
	COLD OPEN	Elmo and Abby introduce today's theme of gardens in a game of eye spy. (First: Episode 5215)
	SCENE 1	In the community garden, Elmo and Gabrielle are watching Kayla set up a sidewalk sale. When Abby asks what a sidewalk sale is, Gabrielle has her aunt explain that a sidewalk sale is where they sell plants and crafts to help the community garden. Abby notices how big the garden is, and wonders if this is enough. Elmo comes up with the idea of making more stuff to help the garden. Gabrielle suggests painting rocks.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	As Elmo, Abby, and Gabrielle are setting up the crafts for the rocks (and googly eyes provided by Elmo), Grover is searching for something. When Elmo asks what it is, Grover doesn't know. Rather, he does know what it is, but doesn't know how to tell them, much to Elmo and Gabrielle's confusion. Grover doesn't remember its name, but it's his mommy's favorite thingamabob in the world, and she needs it to help Kayla's sidewalk sale. Since Elmo and Gabrielle want to paint rocks, Abby volunteers to help Grover find his thingamabob. Elmo and Gabrielle begin painting as they find the paint is getting mushed with the dirt. So they decide to wash the rocks.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Abby and Grover begin searching. Abby asks if his mommy lost a book, garden gloves, or pipe wrench, but it's neither. Grover becomes discouraged and believes he'll never find the lost thingamabob in time. Cookie Monster shows up to ask if he checked the lost and found. When something's lost, they take it to the lost and found. Cookie Monster points the direction.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Cookie Monster shows Abby and Grover the community garden's lost and found. A lot of stuff is lost, and mixed up to where it's really hard to find anything. Abby gives Cookie Monster the book, pipe wrench, and garden gloves to add. Cookie Monster spots a red chair and wonders who could lose this. Abby believes if they sort through all this stuff, they can find what Grover is looking for. Grover enlists both Abby and Cookie Monster to search through the stuff, while Grover looks elsewhere. Abby asks Grover to describe the thingamabob, and tells her it belongs to his mommy. Abby is looking for specifics like how big it is. Grover tells her it's medium size, so Abby decides to sort by size. As Grover leaves, Abby tells Cookie Monster her idea of sorting by three sizes: small, medium, and large.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Cookie Monster searches through the items, and finds a shoe and a toy tractor, both of which are medium. Cookie then finds a baseball mitt (Tyler Bunch), which comes alive. The mitt wasn't lost, it was catching some Z's, as it leaves. Cookie Monster finds a rocking chair, categorized as large.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Elmo and Gabrielle are effectively painting rocks now that they're clean. Elmo has a ladybug painted on his, while Gabrielle has a pumpkin on hers.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	The shelves are now organized by size, with a whole lot of mediums. Mrs. Crustworthy searches for her missing item, and found her rocking chair that she lost. Abby observes if Grover's thingamabob is here, it should be on the medium shelf. Grover returns to ask if they're having luck finding his thingamabob, but no such luck. Grover then observes that he may have found something red. Abby and Cookie Monster are caught by surprise as they didn't know the item is red. Grover confirms as he runs off. So Abby decides to sort all the medium items by color. Cookie Monster finds a blue shoe for the blue shelf, and Abby finds an orange ball.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Step 2 of painting rocks is now complete. Now for step 3: googly eyes. Elmo tries to put his googly eyes on his ladybug rock, but they fall off. Gabrielle decides to blow on them so they can dry faster, as Elmo, Gabrielle, and Tango all start blowing on the rocks. When Elmo finds it's not working, Gabrielle searches for something else.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	All of the items are now sorted by color. A little boy (Peter Linz) shows up and asks Abby and Cookie Monster about a yellow lion he lost. Cookie Monster points him to the yellow shelf, where the boy is reunited with Sunny. With more items being found, the only one left should be Grover's, prompting him to show up. They haven't found his item, as there's so many red things. Grover observes that there's too many with wheels... which describes Grover's item. So Abby decides to sort all the medium-sized red items in two piles: with and without wheels. Abby tries to ask Grover for any other detail, but he just remembered he needs to tell Kayla his mommy's going to show up soon to help them.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	A fan is being used to dry off the rocks. Elmo tries the googly eyes again, and this time, it works. With the rocks ready, Gabrielle takes the stack she has to bring them to her Auntie Kayla. But there's too many, so they need a way to move them one at a time. So Elmo searches for something to carry all these rocks.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	A girl (Jennifer Barnhart) finds her red toy truck from the lost and found. Just about everything is being narrowed down of medium size red items with wheels. Grover asks if they found it, but Cookie Monster and Abby still don't know what the item is. Grover looks at the sorted items, and it's none of them, as this thingamabob is not in the lost and found after all. Elmo shows up to search for something to bring the rocks to the sidewalk sale, and finds a wagon. Turns out a wagon is the name of the thingamabob Grover lost. Grover is off in a panic as everybody tries to tell him where it is, before Grover sees for himself. Abby observes the wagon is everything Grover described: red, medium-sized, and with wheels. Elmo asks for Grover's permission to use the wagon to carry the rocks. Grover approves, and then they'll return the wagon to his mommy.
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Everyone brings the rocks over to the sidewalk sale to Kayla. Just in time, as the sale is about to begin. Kayla loves the rocks that are painted and asks for them to be displayed. Grover's mommy shows up as Grover shows her the wagon she lost. Grover's mommy expresses her thankfulness as she needed that wagon to help people carry plants and other things people are going to buy at the sale, as she gives Grover a kiss on the head.
	Muppets	I Wonder, What If, Let's Try Elmo pops up to segue to the letter of the day; the Two-Headed Monster stays behind to watch... (First: Episode 5510)
	Muppets	The Sesame Street friends dance and sing waiting to discover which letter will be the letter of the day. Today, it's G. (First: Episode 5501)
	Film	G Is for Garden: Kendall explains the process of growing fruits and vegetables in the garden. (First: Episode 5330)
	Muppets	Tango hears something nearby: it's time to have even more fun with our friends... (First: Episode 5506)
	Muppets	Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck Lakshmi and her brother Michael were helping their mom in the community garden when lunchtime arose. The two really like cauliflower and ask Cookie Monster and Gonger to help. Gonger comes up with the idea of cauliflower rice with vegetables, and Cookie gets everything except the cauliflower. When Gonger questions how Cookie eats exactly what they need right before they need it, Cookie simply responds, "It a gift." The two then leave for the cauliflower farm... (First: Episode 5215)
	Muppets	Elmo sings and dances with Tango as she retrieves toys for the number of the day. Today, she brings twelve. (First: Episode 5505)
	Cartoon	Elmo & Tango's Mysterious Mysteries Elmo, Abby, and Tango plant seeds in the community garden. When Elmo and Tango look away, the hose suddenly stops working. (First: Episode 5215)
	SCENE 2	Elmo, Grover, and Gabrielle sign off.