Elmo Says Boo! is a 1997 Sesame Street direct-to-video special celebrating Halloween. The special aired on PBS the following October as Halloween programming. Elmo 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 the Count, Elmo, and some combination of the bats, the skeleton, the ghost, a painting of the "Groana Lisa," a suit of armor and the Count's pipe organ.

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Elmo Says Boo!
DVD cover
Directed by	Emily Squires Lisa Simon Jon Stone
Written by	Michael J. Wilson Emily Kingsley Rob Letterman
Based on	Sesame Street by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett
Produced by	Karin Young Shiel
Starring	Kevin Clash Jerry Nelson
Edited by	Peter Lonsdale John Venzon
Music by	David Axlerod Tony Geiss Carl Stalling Jeff Moss Stephen Lawrence Joe Raposo Sam Pottle Walter Lantz Mark Saltzman
Production company	Children's Television Workshop
Distributed by	Sony Wonder
Release date	July 8, 1997
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Releases

In the US, Elmo Says Boo! was released on VHS by Sony Wonder on July 8, 1997, and on DVD by the same company on July 16, 2002, and later reissued by Genius Products.

The special was released in the UK by Buena Vista Home Video 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

• Internet Movie Database
• AllMusic