Letter of the Day

This is a list of miscellaneous recurring segments on the children's daytime program, Sesame Street.

Elmo the Musical is a new segment that debuted in season 43. In this segment, Elmo goes on a different musical adventure with help from the curtain Velvet.

Cookie's Crumby Pictures (AKA Crumby Pictures Presents) is a new segment that first aired in the 44th season in 2013.

Each 5-minute segment is done in the style of a coming attractions trailer showing footage of Cookie Monster in various film parodies where he uses executive functioning skills (such as patience, focusing, and memorization) to solve problems.

Smart Cookies replaced Crumby Pictures in 2016.

What's the Word on the Street? first appeared in 2007. Murray Monster hosts the segment which precedes the corporate sponsor spots before each episode. He speaks with people about what the word of the day means, and instructs the audience to listen for its usage in the following episode. Starting in Season 46, the segment is replaced by the characters saying what is going on Sesame Street.

The "Letter of the Day" is a segment introduced in 2002. Cookie Monster hosted the segment with cameo appearances by guests for the first two years. Frank Oz performed Cookie Monster in 10 of these segments.

The original segments involved a letter written in icing on a cookie, which Cookie Monster tried not to eat, but invariably ate it anyways.

In 2004, Prairie Dawn joined Cookie Monster in the segments and the letter presented was a wooden letter which Cookie Monster often wanted to eat. Prairie Dawn kept trying to get Cookie not to eat the letter, but Cookie Monster eats it anyway.

Segments produced in 2005 involved "The Letter of the Day Games": a game show introduced by an energetic off-camera announcer (voiced by Matt Vogel).

In 2007, the Letter of the Day sketches became less common.

Starting in 2009, Murray Monster hosts both the Letter and Number of the day segments.

In Season 45, there is the Letter of the Day song that Elmo does where he is backed up by Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Murray Monster, Rosita, Abby Cadabby, Grover, and Cookie Monster.

In Season 47, there is a new the Letter of the Day song that Abby Cadabby does where she is backed up by Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Rosita, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, and Zoe.

The "Number of the Day" segment is hosted by Count von Count. The numbers range from zero to twenty. Initially, the segment was presented with the Count playing his pipe organ; and when he reached the number of the day, balloons, confetti and the number appeared (or the organ disappears in a puff of smoke for the number 0). In 2005 and 2006, the number of the day was revealed at a restaurant, with the Count and his girlfriend Countess Dahling von Dahling present. The Count sang a song, asking whether the number of the day was one, two, etc. When he reached the number of the day, the Countess shouted "Stop!" causing the building to shake and the man with the bowls to fall and break the bowls. For numbers from one through ten, the number of the day was found by using a jack-in-the-box, with a remake of the Falling Baker series.

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