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COOKIE MONSTER: Dum
de dum de dum.
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Dum de dum.
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GUY SMILEY: You there!
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COOKIE MONSTER: You
Guy Smiley.
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GUY SMILEY: Yes, I am.
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And you're the next contestant
on the Waiting Game.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Oh boy,
the Waiting Game.
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GUY SMILEY: Yes, yes.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Imagine
me luck.
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Me get to play Waiting Game.
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Oh boy, oh boy.
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What Waiting Game?
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GUY SMILEY: The game where
we give you a cookie.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Me
love this game.
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Cookie!
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GUY SMILEY: Wait.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Whoa,
why, why, why wait?
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GUY SMILEY: Because this
is the Waiting Game.
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And if you wait to eat the
cookie until I get back, you
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get two cookies.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Oh.
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That sound like good deal.
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OK.
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Me wait.
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GUY SMILEY: Good luck.
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[SNIFFING]
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COOKIE MONSTER: Oh,
who me kidding?
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Me no can wait.
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Me have to have cookie now.
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Good things
come to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Uh, who you?
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: We're
the Guy Smiley Singers.
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Hi!
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COOKIE MONSTER: Why Waiting
Game have singers?
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Because
singing is a really great
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strategy to use when you have
to wait for something that's
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really hard to wait for.
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COOKIE MONSTER: In that case,
me try musical strategy.
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[SINGING]
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If me can wait to eat this
cookie, that guy says he will
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give me two.
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But will me singing
help me wait?
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Oh, me haven't got a clue.
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Me want to eat this
cookie now.
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Me have to wait somehow.
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Do me eat it?
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Do me wait?
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What do me do?
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Om nom nom nom.
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Remember,
good things come
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to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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You need another strategy.
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Get it straight.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
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[SINGING]
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Me need new strategy.
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Me got it.
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Now me can win this
Waiting Game.
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Me will pretend this cookie
picture inside the pretty
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picture frame.
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[SPEAKING]
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Ah, dum de dum de dum.
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Dum de dum de dum.
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Oh, who me kidding?
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This no picture of cookie.
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This real cookie.
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Remember,
good things come
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to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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Before you eat that cookie
that's on your plate, good
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things come to those who wait.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Oh,
key change.
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OK, me need another strategy.
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Oh, me will delay me joy.
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Me take me mind off cookie
by playing with this toy.
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Dum de dum de dum.
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Oh, stuffed doggy work
for a little white.
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But now, me need cookie.
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Cowabunga!
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Good things
come to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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Try to stay calm.
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It's not too late.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Thank you,
background singers.
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Me can do this.
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Me got new strategy.
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[SINGING]
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Me will imagine something
different.
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Instead of cookie on this
dish, me will pretend
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delicious cookie is now
a very smelly fish.
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Oh, oh, smelly, smelly,
smelly, smelly fish.
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GUY SMILEY: You did it,
Cookie Monster!
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You won the Waiting Game!
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GUY SMILEY SINGERS: And now you
see that good things come
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to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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There are two cookies sitting
on your plate because good
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things come to those who wait.
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Good things come to
those who wait.
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[APPLAUSE]
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COOKIE MONSTER: Guy, if
me wait longer, do
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me get three cookies?
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GUY SMILEY: Um, no.
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COOKIE MONSTER: Then what
me waiting for?
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Now that worth the wait.
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MUPPETS: [SINGING]
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It's a best friends kind
of day, when best
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friends get to play.
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