Blog:Harry Reviews: Sesame Street Episode 4032

Normally, I do reviews on IMDB, but this particular Sesame Street episode I'm reviewing isn't on there, so I'll review it on here instead. Yes, you know already, this is a bad episode - at least the main story goes - it's a really creepy one. This is an episode that was broadcast as part of Season 34 in 2003, and it involves Elmo falling in love with Gina and wanting to marry her... Yeah, you get the picture of how this will go. (Before I start, this review is written in a detailed way, so unless you know the Sesame Street characters well, you may get confused. Just to note, Gina is a human woman.)

So, the episode begins in Gina's vet surgery, and as usual, it's busy and full of animals waiting for checkups. Elmo is there, who has just finished letting Gina check up on Dorothy, his pet goldfish. Elmo is pretty happy that she did well checking up on Dorothy, yells out to everyone that he loves her, and follows her in a lovey-dovey-way.

Wait, hold on a sec, the episode hasn't even gone by a minute, and a Red, three-year-old monster has a serious crush on a human woman who's many years older than her? That is just creepy and disturbing to the fullest extinct. Even worse, this episode already is a rehash of a 1994 episode where Elmo did the same thing to her!

So, back on the plotline, Gina has finished taking Dorothy back home to Elmo's house. Elmo tries to tell her that she loves her, but he keeps stuttering, and as she needs to go back to do her work, Gina vanishes. Rosita then arrives after hearing about what Gina said about Dorothy and sees Elmo. She discovers him and Elmo freaks out that he wants to marry Gina, and tells Rosita about what to do. She suggests singing about his love, and they do just that. We see Elmo singing wearing this fake collar/tie thingy, and it's just Elmo singing a whole pile of nonsense about love over and over again. Yeah, you know how it goes.

The two monsters head inside to the Vet surgery, and when Elmo asks for Gina to come out, Rosita plays her Guitar, and Elmo starts singing until Gina leaves to go back inside her office, much to his disappointment as the song was mainly in Spanish. Afterward, they then see Big Bird, and Rosita tells him about Elmo. Big Bird suggests giving food, and the two monsters vanish in no time, much to the former's confusion. Elmo and Rosita then hold a Pizza that says "Love" on it to give to Gina, but the animals soon eat it up, once again disappointing Elmo.

Rosita wonders if Gina only has time to treat animals, so Elmo disguises himself as a "Chicken-Kitten-Cow-Bunny" who isn't well. He tries to be first in the line but fails big time, and soon Gina has checked out all the animals she needs to check up - all except for a disguised Elmo, which Gina is completely fooled by the disguise until Elmo admits it to be him. He tries to tell her that he loves her, but Rosita comes in and tells her that Elmo wanted to say that he loves Gina and goes crazy. Elmo then admits to Gina that she wants to marry her, but she tells him that the only love she has a friendship love and that marrying is impossible because he's way too young to do such a thing.

So then, I have barely anything good to say about this street scene. First of all, Elmo is nothing more than a big attention seeker, and he acts really creepy and obsessive about Gina, and not in a good way. Not only that, as Gina pointed out, Elmo is way too young to marry someone older than her, and if I can make out something, he wouldn't be able to marry her anyway because they are completely different species, which wouldn't match anyway. As I noted above, this retcons another similar episode as Elmo learns that he can't marry Gina in this one, and yet in the earlier episode although she tries to tell him that he can't marry herself, Elmo rejected Gina anyway as "Elmo wants to be a baker", that episode was a lot funnier though, although it was still fairly off. The only good thing to say about this street scene is the ending where Elmo and Gina share a hug is really sweet, it gives a good instance of why the adult humans on Sesame Street are really likable on their own behalf.

Overall, that street scene gets a 2/10, but the episode itself gets a 4/10 because the other street scene that involves the Weird Animal Song isn't bad, and is quite fun, to be honest with you.

I would have written this as a Terrible TV Shows Wiki page itself, but I don't know for sure what other people think about it personally, so i'll keep it as a review blog.