Nicknames: "Sesame Workshop All-Stars", "The Elmo Logo", "Uh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!", "Elmo's LOL" Logo: On a yellow background, the green "sesame" text is seen, Next to it, various stills of CTW/Sesame Workshop characters appear one-by-one next to the logo, including characters from CTW/Sesame Workshop co-productions outside of the USA. Characters include, from left to right: Cookie Monster, Chamki (from Galli Galli Sim Sim, the Indian co-production of SS), a clay-mation Bert (from "Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures"), Big Bird, a clay-mation Ernie (also from "Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures"), Abelardo Montoya (from Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican co-production of SS), Kami reading a book (from "Takalani Sesame", the South-African co-production of SS) and Pinky (from Pinky Dinky Doo). Then the "workshop" text pops in letter-by-letter from right to left, replacing the characters, and is now arranged like "sesameworkshop". A still of Elmo fades in reclining on the O, and we hear Elmo's distinctive laughter. Variants: Sesame Tree, Northern Ireland's co-production of Sesame Street, uses a special still variant that shows the Sixteen South logo and SW logos at the top with "Produced in association with BBC Northern Ireland" below it, along with a copyright date. Shara'a Simsim, Palenstine's co-production of Sesame Street, uses a variant with Grover in place of Elmo. A byline underneath the logo says "The nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street" and also has a SesameWorkshop URL under that. FX/SFX: The characters appearing and changing into the text, Elmo fading in. Music/Sounds: The standard audio is a tuba tune with accordions followed by Elmo's distinctive laugh when he fades in. On post-2008 Sesame Street episodes, the ending of the then-current Sesame Street closing theme is heard, with Elmo's laugh heard at the end. The Sesame Tree variant uses the end theme of the show. Availability: Current; seen on episodes of Sesame Street starting with Season 39 (2008). It also can be seen on Plaza Sésamo. Scare Factor: None, unless you hate Elmo so much he scares you.

• published: 16 Dec 2013
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