D'Snowth's Sesame Review:
Sesame Street Episode 4109
First Things First: YES! The opening of the show is now back to it's original length!
Street Scene: Newcomer Abby Cadabby poofs up next to Oscar's trashcan wanting to meet a new friend to play with. Oscar, obviously, is in no mood to play, and tells Abby to get lost. Abby then feels sad for moving to Sesame Street, until she bumps into Big Bird and Snuffy who invite her to play hide-n-seek with them, Elmo, Zoe, and a boy named Steven. Abby is shy at first, but Big Bird and Snuffy sing her a song about meeting new friends. Abby then decides to come along, if they'll teach her how to play hide-n-seek, which they do. Zoe's it first, and then after she finds everyone, they let Abby be it. Not knowing how to count, Count Von Count teaches her how to count to 10, which she gets so excited about learning, she breaks her magic wand. Big Bird then takes her to Maria and Luis at YES THE FIX-IT-SHOP, where Luis fixes her wand. She tests it by turning a toaster into a pumpkin. After a brief call to her mommy, Abby turns it back to a toaster. Abby is really happy her family moved to Sesame Street, and is even more happy she made so many new friends her first day on the street.
Major Set Changes: Well, things are going back to their original look sort of. Big Bird's doors are similar to what they used to be: just plain old doors. The double doors to the carriage house which is now Gina's office has been replaced with a brick wall with a door in the middle to her office. The staircase to the attic has gone back it's plain old green look. And yes, we now have proof: the Fix-It-Shop has returned. The exterior is still the old Mail-It-Shop exterior, but is now green with "FIX IT SHOP" in plain painted letters where the neon "MAIL IT SHOP" sign was. The enterior still looks like the old Fix-It-Shop though. Two things I'll miss: the Mail-It-Shop, and the fun-looking red staircase to the attic.
Celebrity Guest Star: I feel embarrassed, because Hoots the Owl (yeah, he made another come-back) sang a duet with someone, but I don't know who he is

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Letter of the Day: Another new Letter Of The Day bit with Prairie Dawn and Cookie Monster, as Prairie demonstrates the letter M, and the sound it makes, which is the same sound Cookie makes when he eats cookies, prompting him to eat the letter M.
Muppet Parody:Speaking of which, the Law & Order: Special Letters Unit was HILARIOUS! The muppet look-a-likes were very true to the actual characters on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and nice running gag with the "chung-chung" bit.
Other New Bits: Right now, it looks like Sesame Street is still doing a bit of health education, as one new bit featured "Healthy Storybook Moments", which featured Sleeping (excuse me) Leaping Beauty who loves to dance and leap, but when she gets tired, she sleeps to save up her energy so she can leap some more.
Global Grover: The new Global Grover features Grover's trip to Iceland, where a family help baby Pufflings fly. Grover, who was supposed to bring one back dresses up as a Puffling, where three AM's from Iceland run up to him and begin to take care of "the confused looking Puffling", and decide to throw him into the ocean where "he'll be safe". Side-splitting! Just side-splitting!
Number of the Day: It was 4. Nothing new. They went back to the Jack-in-the Box.
Elmo's World: YAY! A NEW one as Elmo talks about friends. Most of the Muppets seen on the street made appearances on Elmo's World as he talked about friends. Zoe even brought along her friend: Rocco, her pet rock.
Long Time, No See's: There was a Suzy Kabloozy I've never seen before as she sings "Everybody Sleeps"...only about cats.
Other Changes: No Journey to Ernie.
Other Observations: They obviously built a new Zoe puppet. Either her eyes shrunk, or her head grew. And they apparently built yet another new Hoots puppet, he's now exceptionally fuzzy with yellow eyes. Also, the street seems to be taking on a little "dirtier look": there's leaves everywhere, as Ilikemuppets mentioned, and the sidewalk right around Oscar's can and Big Bird's doors is really stained black.
Overall Rating: Great new episode to kick off the season, it really had me laughing and loving it. Even my mom loved it. So, I give the season 37 premiere 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 stars, ah-ah-ah!