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How to Write a New Yorker Cartoon Caption: “Sesame Street” Edition


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Abby are you ready?

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Yeah, I’m ready Big Bird.

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Oh hello everybody, this is Elmo

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Yeah, and me, Cookie Monster.

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And I’m Abby Cadabby.

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And we’re gonna write captions for New Yorker Cartoons.

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[Big Bird] All right let’s see.

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[Abbey] She look annoyed.

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[Big Bird] So what we’ve got,

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this looks like a living room.

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And there’s a woman there.

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And a man sucked into the couch.

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It looks like he became part of the sofa.

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[Abbey] Yeah like and he’s got the remote

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He’s in a remote location.

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She looks like she wants him to come to bed.

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Wait, I’ve got it, I know, I’ve got it

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[Abby] Oh! Okay that’s good, I don’t know

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Okay, it says, I know I said, Get comfortable,

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I think that’s an owl

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I see. Yes, it looks like an, maybe an office.

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[Elmo] At a workplace

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[Cookie Monster] And um, maybe that guy is the,

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bbb, behind the desk. He looks like

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[Elmo] Maybe she, but she might be the boss

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Maybe they’re doing a night shift

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♪♪Aahm, aahmm, aahm♪♪♪

01:17

[ Cookie Monster] Lets see, what else is…

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Oh, oh, oh, Elmo’s got it

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Oh, Oh, what you got?

01:23

Elmo, Elmo can’t write yet, can you write it for Elmo?

01:25

Yeah, me can do it, yes tell me what you to me to write

01:28

[Elmo] Very nice handwriting

01:30

[Elmo] Ready.. This meeting is going to be a hoot!

01:34

You got it cus the owls? [Laughter]

01:40

Okay, we’ve got, there’s two people.

01:43

[Abby] Oh, I like it, and there’s a, a drog

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Yep there’s a doggy

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Which is like, dogs give you unconditional love

01:49

[Big Bird] That’s right and, and they both have a leash

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They both have a leashes

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They’re both walking the dog

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and its sitting and what’s the dogs name?

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Aaah![unintelligible] I think I got it, I think

01:59

[Big Bird] Okay, okay, write it down, write it down

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He’s a drog and they have a leash, okay

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Um, Big Bird, could you write this for me?

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[Abby] Well Bev, it looks like we both

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have a new leash on Life.

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Because the, the dogs name is Life

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Yeah, that’s right, they got it hahahah

02:22

Lets see, he’s making a pizza

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On , on an airplaine

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[Elmo] On an airplane

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[Cookie Monster] And uh, it looks like um

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But working on computer

02:30

Oh, he’s got a middle seat

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Got the middle seat, he’s

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[Cookie Monster] The pizza guy is working

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[ Elmo] He’s working too

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[Cookie Monster] He no can escape work

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[Elmo] Yeah, that’s true

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[Cookie Monster] Uuhhh

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[Elmo] Got a laptop

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Poor pizza is up in the air

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Pizza, making pizza

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[Cookie Monster] What, you got one

02:47

[Cookie Monster] Yeah, that’s a good one

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[ Elmo] Oh, you made a little mistake there.

02:50

Oh, okay, it looks good.

02:51

[ Elmo] I couldn’t get the sauce through security.

02:59

Okay, well there’s a bird

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[Abby] Well, you can relate to this Big Bird

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[Big Bird] I, well, yeah, the, he’s got a worm there.

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It looks like that could be a relative of mine.

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That bird, maybe, maybe that’s… maybe that’s part of it.

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And is he gonna feed that man, that bird.

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I mean doesn’t he have to chew it up first

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and then spit it in his mouth?

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[Big Bird] I’m not sure

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You have to catch, don’t you have to catch worms

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early in the morning or something?

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Well, you do. Oh! I’ve, I think I’ve got it

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Okay, so grown ups will really get this one

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Okay, okay, this is good Bird

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[Big Bird] Here it is. Not until I’ve had my coffee!

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Because adults drink coffee before

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everything and he just..

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[ Big Bird] They do

03:40

Let see. Oh, it looks like they, a doctors office

03:42

[Elmo] Doctors office, aha

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[Cookie Monster] And uh.. he, what’s he doing

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[Elmo] That’s not, he’s got a little, a coin operated

03:51

[Cookie Monster] Yeah it looks like he’s having…

03:51

You know what Cookie Monster?

03:53

[Elmo] Rocket ships are not normally in doctors offices

03:56

[Cookie Monster] Yeah me no think me ever seen

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rocket ship in doctors office.

03:59

No, looks fun though

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[Cookie Monster] Yeah, he’s having uh, he’s having fun

04:04

Uh, doctor looks like he’s taking notes

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[Elmo] Yeah, aha, aha, lets see here.

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Me, me got this one

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[Cookie Monster] Five more minutes doc? Please?!

04:18

[Elmo] Hahaha, that’s good Cookie

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Hahaha, that’s funny

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He wants more time, yeah

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Okay so, uh, there’s two people, they’re running

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from, from a cactus

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[Abby] And they’re, and its in the desert

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And its sharp, he looks like he’s gonna…

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Its a lot of points on the end

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You know what’s funny is that that cactus can run.

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[Abby] And he’s not sweating

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Yeah well, it might be sweating but all the water

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would be on the inside.

04:43

[Abby] But they’re in sweat pants in the desert,

04:45

that makes no sense.

04:47

You know what’s missing from this picture,

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is, is, the, the sun.

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I’ve got something, look

04:55

[Big Bird] Aaaaaaggghh!

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Cus they’re running from the cactus.

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Its funny cus its trueee

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It’s a, it a, its a guy in a snowman

05:08

[Elmo] And the snowman, and he’s going like this

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He’s kinda, yeah, he’s waving his arms,

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and two ladies kinda

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[Elmo] There’s two ladies at the window

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[Cookie Monster] He’s kinda

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He’s kinda showing off

05:18

[Cookie Monster] Maybe he’s trying to get their attention

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And then someone decided it’d be..

05:21

Or, or plastic snowman

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Yes, but it’s been established that there

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is someone inside that snowman

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[Cookie Monster] Yeah. Probably pretty cold in there

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Uh, got the carrot nose..

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Everything a snowman might have

05:33

Yes, plastic snowman costume and there

05:36

are people there kind of looking at him.

05:40

[Elmo] You got it? – Yeah

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[Cookie Monster] Ladies…?

05:50

He’s got, ladies…

05:56

Looks like they’re, they’re, they’re at a pool party

05:58

[Abby] Yeah, and somebody brought a GIANT ball

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Yup, oh but look at this guy over here

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[Abby] Oh, he’s brought a little ball,

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maybe that’s an appetizer of a ball. You think there’s

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anybody in that pool?

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[Big Bird] I don’t think so, I think the ball is taking up

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all, all the space for the swimming.

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[Abby] You, who do you think brought that ball?

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Like Snuffy, that looks like a ball big enough that

06:17

Snuffy would bring.

06:18

Yeah, its uh, very big

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Aahhh, I, I think I’ve got something

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Okay, lets take a look.

06:24

[Abby] Well Glen, they did say the party would be a ball!

06:35

Lets see, we have a, we have a, it looks like a young man

06:37

, and he’s in, he’s in his pjs.

06:40

[Cookie Monster] But he’s way too big to be in,

06:43

[Elmo] In his old baby crib, with a, with a baby monitor

06:46

It looks like he’s talking into the monitor to somebody

06:53

Okay, it looks like is, he’s got his little

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pajamas on but they, they too small for him

06:57

Yeah, they’re his pajamas from when

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he was a baby, probably.

07:00

[Cookie Monster] Yeah, the little night light

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and some baby pictures on wall.

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[Cookie Monster] Me got it, me got it, okay

07:10

[Cookie Monster] Mommy, is time out over yet?

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That is really hard

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Yeah, you have to really, you know,

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think about the picture.

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And then also write something funny

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Well that was fun Cookie Monster

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Yeah me had good time Elmo

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Yeah, you had so many ideas

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You did too, me like your ideas

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I still wonder how they got the ball in the pool though



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