| Category | Details |
| Title | Every Plant That Ever Was |
| Season & Episode | Season 44, Episode 4426 |
| Main Muppets | Stinky the Stinkweed, Zoe, Elmo, Abby Cadabby |
| Human Guest(s) | Luis, Chris |
| Special Guest(s) | Anna Kendrick, Jason Mraz |
| Letter of the Day | L |
| Number of the Day | 9 |
| Theme | Botany, identity, and the scientific method. |
| Air Date | March 20, 2014 |
Parent's Guide
Stinky the Stinkweed looks through a well-known plant encyclopedia. He doesn't see his name or picture on any page. He's hurt by the book's silence. He decides he's not a plant. He tries to live like a bird. He tries to work as an accountant. He puts on an act because a book didn't pay him any attention. Kids do this too. They look at screens and stories to find their own faces. If they don't see anything, they feel invisible. You've got to let your kid know that no book defines their soul. Your voice gives them the mirror they need.
I felt the same way during a third grade science fair. I built a little wooden bridge to demonstrate physics. The judges walked past my table without saying a word. They gave ribbons to the baking soda volcanoes and the colorful posters. I went home and threw my bridge into the trash bin. I decided I wasn't a builder or a scientist. My dad found the bridge and put it on his desk. He told me that a ribbon doesn't measure the strength of the wood. He kept that bridge there for ten years. His belief replaced the missing ribbon.
Murray and Ovejita stop by a gardening school. They put their hands in the dirt. They touch the seeds and the water. This sensory work teaches you about life cycles better than any lecture ever could. You can do this on a small windowsill. Give your child a pot and a seed. Can you explain why we need light and water? This nurturing instinct they develop in their hands is pretty amazing. They see the result of their own care.
Dr. Lily Rosenbloom uses experiments to help Stinky. She tests his reaction to sunlight. She keeps track of how much water he drinks. She proves his point with her actions. You can develop a scientific mindset right in your own home. Don't give simple answers to hard questions. When your kid asks how things work, do a test. Put a sponge in a bowl of water. Just watch it soak up the liquid. This makes a curious thought into a solid fact.
Gonnigan wants his plant to grow with magic. He's frustrated because nature moves slowly. He wants to skip the waiting. Nature teaches kids patience. A lot of skills take a lot of practice over a long period of time. Just so you know, strawberries and talents don't appear overnight. Time and care are the only tools that work.
Stinky is a weed with a strong smell. He's not a pushover. The episode ends with a new book just for him. He becomes a literary character. Teach your child to appreciate the unconventional. People are fascinating because of the different traits they have. The best stories are usually about unusual people.
Today's word is "absorb." Use a paper towel to clean up a spill on the floor. Let your child watch the fibers take in the mess. Physical actions help you remember vocabulary. Use chores to show how the world works. You learn better from experience than from a dictionary.
What's the Word on the Street? : In Sesame Street Episode 4426, we meet the word Absorb, it means take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.
SCENE: Scene begins with Alan and Zoe while planting in the garden. Stinky the Stinkweed warns them to be careful while planting, and watch them.
Chris comes, he has some mail which including a book. Stinky orders that book, it comes and he gets happy. The name of the book is "Every Plant There Ever Was" by Dr. Lily Rosenbloom. Although Stinky is not on the cover, they assure him he might be in the table of contents or index. But both does not show a stinkweed cataloged in the book.
Stinky thinks that he's not a plant! Chris tries assuring him he is a plant by pointing out all the parts he has, but he is not convinced; if he were a plant, he would be in the book. He asks what he is. Stinky thinks he can be a bird. He can sing and peck like a bird, but he is not able to fly.
And then he sees an accountant and thinks that he can be an accountant, but of course he is not. Chris says him to calm down and he tries to persuade him he's a plant. Stinky does not believe him. Chris finds an idea, he writes Lily about Stinky. Lily is the writer of the book ("Every Plant There Ever Was").
Lily comes and sees Stinky and expresses that he is a plant, but she does not want to add the book him, because he has good idea about him. Instead of adding Stinky to published book, she decides write a new book about this new plant, and the name of the new book will be he Great Big Book of Stinky!
MUPPETS / CELEBRITY: Anna Kendrick, who is an actress, is in the Sesame Street Episode 4426. Elmo and Abby are with her and they show things that can absorb water.
CARTOON: In cartoon part, there is a mouse, it grows strawberry plant in the garden.
Murray Has a Little Lamb: Today Murray and Ovejita are at gardening school.
FILM: Sesame Street Episode 4426 goes on Film part. The letter of the day is L. The film is also about this. A Rube Goldberg-machine demonstrates L words.
CARTOON: In the cartoon part, we see Elmo. He sings a song. It is about the L sound in the word "lemon".
Abby's Flying Fairy School: The students grow their plants today. Abby, Blögg and Peck grow their flowers, but Gonnigan's flower cannot grow, even when trying to shove Peck in his pot. His friends persuade him to use magic, it can provide to make it grow.
Muppets / Celebrity: Jason Mraz is another guest in Sesame Street Episode 4426.Elmo, Abby, Rosita, Baby Bear, Big Bird and the kids are with him, and they all together sings a song. The song is about Outdoors.
FILM: In this part, we meet the number of the day. Number 9 is today's number. Children see the number nine in a pile of pebbles.
MUPPETS: Abby, Zoe and Rosita sing a song, the name of the song is "Guess the Seasons"
Elmo the Musical: Murray and children announces "Elmo the Musical." Sesame Street Episode 4426 goes on with Elmo's musical. Elmo has a great Dream World, and he dreams himself as various characters each episode. In this episode Elmo dreams himself as a mountain climber and Elmo plans on climbing Mount Biggest Everest, which is the biggest mountain in the world.
At the end of the Sesame Street Episode 4426, Murray presents the sponsors.
