A Celebration of Me, Gusto Gummi

A movie-spoof of A Celebration of Me, Grover (2004).

Cast:

 * Big Bird - Pino (Sesamstraat)
 * Elmo - Berlioz (The AristoCats)
 * Grover - Gusto Gummi (Adventures of the Gummi Bears)
 * Ernie - Grover (Sesame Street)
 * Bert - Alistair Cookie (Sesame Street)
 * Cookie Monster - Cookie Monster (Sesame Street)
 * Zoe - Danielle (Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure)
 * Grover's Mommy - Grammi Gummi (Adventures of the Gummi Bears)
 * Oscar the Grouch - Big Bird (Sesame Street)
 * Kermit the Frog - Lucky (101 Dalmatians)
 * Mr. Johnson - Rabbit (Winnie the Pooh)
 * Horatio the Elephant - Lumpy (Winnie the Pooh)

Plot (only wrote for the past) :
An announcer introduced today’s festivities at The Flyer’s Club Roost (“The party that was for the birds!”). Pino, the emcee, opened with a joke. He then announced that Super Gusto Gummi would be awarded the Golden Flyer Award for being the Flyer’s Club “Frequent Flying of the Year”. Pino then explained that the party was a roost, which means they say nice things, unlike a roast. The mention of the word “roast” makes a nearby chicken freak out, which Big Bird used to his advantage.

Pino brought up how hard working Gusto was. Everyone paid tribute to his multitude of careers by singing “Gusto Work Song” over a montage of his assorted jobs.

Rabbit wondered why he showed up to the banquet, when Waiter Gusto appeared to take his order. When asked why he was working at his own banquet, Gusto remarked, “I must make a living.” He brought Rabbit the fish, who told him to eat the steak instead.

Pino mentioned how great a flyer Super Gusto was, being able to fly over, under, around and through things. But of course, he practices...

Gusto sang "Over, Under, Around and Through." New sound effects added

Berlioz, dressed in telegram deliver outfit, delivered a singing telegram from Dorothy about Gusto, who taught Berlioz how to perform such a task.

Gusto trained Berlioz to deliver singing telegrams. He went to Rabbit's apartment to show Berlioz how it was done, but gave Rabbit the wrong telegram. Rabbit was angry, because the telegram was noted as being from his mommy in Cincinnati, while Rabbit claimed his mommy was in Chicago. Berlioz decided to deliver the same telegram but state that it was from his mom in Chicago, and Rabbit told Berlioz to come back anytime (without Gusto).

Alistair Cookie gave his reason for liking Gusto: he's friendly. He recalled when they first met, he said to him "How do you do?" Grover wondered where he learned that...

Lena Horne sang "How Do You Do?" to Gusto.

Pino asked Big Bird to say something nice about Gusto. He remarked how bad Super Pooh's flying was, but loved the way he landed!

A montage of various crash landings of Super Gusto, leading to a sketch...

Super Gusto crash-landed inside an apartment, and when he saw that the lamp light was on, he decided that he needed to save energy by turning off the lamp. His method to turning off the lamp was blowing the light out, but a girl just turned off the switch.Intro cut

Pino announced it was almost time to present the award. Gusto would make a hasty exit to a telephone booth. Rabbit still wanted dinner, however, and ordered what another lady bird was having. Gusto literally complied and asks a duck for directions.

Cookie Monster stepped up to the podium now to deliver his speech about Gusto's neglected profession: actor. He almost ate the trophy while demonstrating, but ate his speech instead.

Masterpiece Theatre: The Emperor and I Modified version of second intro used, Cookie Monster scenes cut, but some dialogue from his intro remained in voice-over, New sound effects added

Roger Ebert gave his own personal review of the film.

Pino brought in three kids, who name why they like Gusto.

A montage of various scenes featuring Gusto and kids set to an instrumental version of "Me." Additional sound effects added in some clips

Gusto waited for Lumpy to finish using the telephone booth. However, he was unable to free himself. Gusto helped pull and ended up sending them both flying and crashed on top of Gusto.

It was Danielle's turn to speak. Before she gave her speech, she and a duck did a brief version of the kids' ballet, Duck Pond. She then claimed she liked Gusto because he liked to dance too.

"ABC Disco" Intro and closing cut; new sound effects added

Rabbit agreed to say something nice about Gusto. However, he had a hard time, since Gusto always gave him trouble no matter where he was.

Gusto attempted to sell Rabbit a wig, but when he finally found one that suits him, it turns out to be a guinea pig. New sound effects added

It was time to present the award, but Gusto was around. Meanwhile, he tried to open the phone booth, until Maya showed him how to use the door's handle. He made a quick change into Super Gusto and flew off to the banquet (with a helping push from Maya).

A lady bird alerted everyone that Super Gusto was coming. He smashed through the roof and landed on Rabbit. He was given the trophy and a feather in his cap, making him proud. Everyone sang "Proud of Me" for him while he flew around the ballroom. He made another crash landing on the podium, but was alright.