''Elmo Says Boo!'' is a 1997 ''

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special celebrating

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. The special aired on

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the following October as Halloween programming.

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visits The Count's castle to tell him funny, scary jokes. Classic ''Sesame Street'' segments are separated with new joke segments set in the castle's exterior, featuring one Sesame Street character and a child, and interior, featuring

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, Elmo, and some combination of the bats, the

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, the

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, a painting of the " Groana Lisa," a suit of armor and the Count's

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Releases

In the US, ''Elmo Says Boo!'' was released on VHS by

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on July 8, 1997, and again on VHS and on DVD by the same company on July 16, 2002 as a Sesame Workshop (the current name of the distribution for the show) reissue, and later reissued by

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. The special was released in the UK by

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through the Disney Videos imprint.

Songs

* "Bones" (''beginning and ending cut out'') * "Transylvania 1-2-3-4-5" (''beginning cut out'') * "We Are All Monsters" * "Frazzle" (''new graphics added'') * "The Batty Bat"

External links

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{{Sesame Street 1997 films Sesame Street features Halloween television specials Direct-to-video specials 1990s English-language films 1990s American films