Sesame Street Season 43, Episode 9: Practice Makes Proud

Get Lost, Mr. Chips

Alan is getting ready for the Cookie Connoisseurs Club, the most exclusive cookie appreciation club in the country, to come to Sesame Street to taste his super cookies. Alan asks Chris to distract Cookie Monster while the club meets. Chris tries, but it's too late. Commander Chiphead, the club's Cookie Master, says that Cookie Monster can only taste Alan's cookies if he's a member of the club. To join, he must recite the Cookie Connoisseurs Club Pledge of Allegiance and follow the three rules: to first look at the cookie, then smell the cookie, and finally, only nibble the cookie to savor its flavor. Cookie Monster thinks he can follow these rules, but devours the first cookie right away! Commander Chiphead is not happy, but gives Cookie Monster another chance. Chris suggests that Cookie Monster try to pretend that the cookie is something else to help him control himself. He pretends that it's a yo-yo, which seems to be working, but once Cookie Monster smells the cookie, he eats it right up.. Next, Cookie Monster tries to pretend that the cookie smells like something stinky, which helps him get past rule #2, but as he goes to nibble it, he loses control again. Cookie Monster has one last chance, so this time he keeps reminding himself out loud that he needs to control himself so that he can stay in the club and get to try all sorts of cookies. The strategy works! Now it's time for the last cookie, and Commander Chiphead is so excited because it is one of his favorites. He loses control and devours the entire thing. Cookie Monster offers to help teach him self-control since he's so good at it now.

The Good Sport

After losing to Abby in several games of hot potato, Elmo turns to Telly for help in becoming better. He becomes so good that, the next time he plays Abby, he repeatedly wins; and then his newfound skill goes to his head, causing him to show off.

58 min

Hansel & Gretel's Playdate with Big Bird

Baby Bear Comes Clean

Me Am What Me Am

Cookie Monster becomes known as the Veggie Monster after he eats several carrots.

58 min

A Song For The Letter

Brandies Is Looking For A Job

Don't Wake the Baby

Afraid of the Bark

Telly the Tiebreaker (repeat)

Elmo and Zoe's Hat Contest (repeat)

The Very End Of X

Finish the Splat

Abby Thinks Oscar is a Prince (repeat)

Sesame Street-O-Saurus

Figure It Out Baby

Build a Better Basket

Alan, Rosita, and Elmo put together a basket filled with goodies for Little Red Riding Hood to take to her grandmother's house, but she's concerned that it may not be strong enough to stand up to the Big Bad Wolf.

58 min

Best House of the Year

The Three Little Pigs build a house for the "Best House of the Year" contest, but it can't stand up to the Big Bad Wolf's huffing and puffing. With Leela's and Elmo's help, however, they design a new home that can withstand the wolf's powerful lungs.

58 min

Fairy Tale Science Fair (repeat)

Baby Bear and Telly report from the Sesame Street Fairy Tale Science Fair, which features fairy tale characters solving problems with science. Little Red Riding Hood, for instance, observes and compares her grandmother and the Big Bad Wolf, who's dressed like her grandma, in order to tell one from the other; and Cinderella, with help from Baby Bear and Telly, conducts an experiment to see if pumpkins can float.

58 min

Lifting Snuffy

Snuffy is looking forward to being lifted into the air during a dance that was choreographed by Zoe, but he's too heavy for his partner to lift.

58 min

Rocco's Playdate

Max the Magician (repeat)

Trashgiving Day

Porridge Art

Baby Bear enters a porridge art contest that's being held by his favorite porridge brand.

58 min

Great Vibrations