MURRAY: Hi!
I'm Murray from "Sesame Street," and I'm looking for the Word
on the Street.
What's the word on the street?
GIRL: Cheer!
MURRAY: Do you know what the word "cheer" means?
POLICEMAN: Yelling for somebody.
Supporting somebody.
GIRL AND MURRAY: Let's go team!
Let's go team!
WOMAN: Cheer is like when you say "hooray!"
BOY AND MURRAY: Go, go, go, go, go.
KIDS: Yay!
MURRAY: Give me a cheer!
FAMILY: Yay!
MURRAY: Cheer!
That's the word on the street.
BOY: Woo!
BILLY: Hi, I'm Billy.
ELMO AND ABBY: Billy!
BILLY: OK.
As I was saying, I'm here to tell you
all about the word "cheer."
ELMO AND ABBY: Cheer!
BILLY: Sorry.
Where was I?
Oh, yeah.
Now, "cheer" means words of encouragement
or congratulations.
ELMO AND ABBY: Yeah!
BILLY: Guys!
ELMO: Good job, Billy.
ABBY: Let's hear it for Billy!
ELMO AND ABBY: Billy!
Billy!
Yay, Billy!
BILLY: Elmo, Abby, what are you guys doing?
ELMO: Oh, well, Elmo and Abby are giving Mr. Billy
words of encouragement and congratulations.
BILLY: Wait, that means you're giving me a cheer!
ABBY: Yep!
Well, we are dressed as cheerleaders, Billy.
ELMO: Yeah.
Now, let's do a cheer for the word "cheer."
BILLY: Well, wait a minute.
I want to do a cheer for the word "cheer" too.
ABBY: Well, then you'll need this.
BILLY: Wow!
Well, what are we waiting for?
Let's give a cheer for the word "cheer"!
ELMO: OK.
BILLY, ELMO, AND ABBY: Yay, cheer, yay, cheer, yay, cheer!
BILLY: Cheer!
ABBY: Cheer!
ELMO: Cheer!
MAN: Break it down like--
[STOMPING AND CLAPPING]
MEN: Now take it up, up, up, up.
Now take it down, down, down, down.
Let's take it slow, slow, slow.
Let's take it fast, fast, fast.
Fast, fast, fast.
Switch it all around now, switch it all around now,
switch it all around now, switch it all around now.
Switch, switch, switch, switch, switch, switch, switch, switch,
and jump.
To the front.
Take it back.
BLUE PUPPET: All right, everybody,
let's really hear it.
Let's have four big cheers for the number four.
Here we go.
PUPPETS: Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray.
BLUE PUPPET: Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
How many was that?
ORANGE PUPPET: Uh, seven, maybe.
PURPLE PUPPET: Two.
GREEN PUPPET: Um, I lost track.
ORANGE PUPPET: Or eight.
BLUE PUPPET: Well, I tell you what.
Let's-- let's just start all over again.
Here we go, men.
Four big cheers for the number four.
PUPPETS: Hip hip hooray.
Hip hip hooray.
BLUE PUPPET: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I think that was more than four.
ORANGE PUPPET: No, I believe that was less than four.
PURPLE PUPPET: I thought it was just right.
GREEN PUPPET: I don't care.
BLUE PUPPET: All right, I tell you what we'll do.
We want to get four big cheers for the number four, right?
GREEN PUPPET: Right.
ORANGE PUPPET: Yes, yes.
BLUE PUPPET: OK.
OK.
Now, there are four of us here.
One, two, three, four.
Right?
GREEN PUPPET: That's right.
ORANGE PUPPET: True, yes.
BLUE PUPPET: Right, OK.
So what we'll do, we'll-- we'll each give one big cheer,
and that will make four big cheers all together.
PURPLE PUPPET: Hey.
PUPPETS: Yeah.
GREEN PUPPET: Hey, that's a good idea.
PURPLE PUPPET: It's so crazy it just might work.
BLUE PUPPET: OK, then.
Here we go.
Let's have four big cheers for the number four.
Here we go.
Hip hip hooray.
ORANGE PUPPET: Hip hip hooray.
PURPLE PUPPET: Hip hip hooray.
GREEN PUPPET: Hip hip hooray.
PUPPETS: Yay!
We did it!
MADLENKA: Today is the Super Intergalactic World Cup
Greatest Soccer Game Ever, with the best soccer
player ever-- me!
I can see it now.
ANNOUNCER: She's out the door.
Around the corner.
Blocked by a crappy defender.
MAILBOX: [INAUDIBLE] Madlenka.
ANNOUNCER: Got past him.
Still in possession.
She has an opening.
[CAT MEOWING]
She shoots-- goal!
And the crowd goes wild!
Three cheers for Madlenka!
MADLENKA: This is so much--
CHILDREN: Woohoo!
NARRATOR: It's time for action with Traction Jackson.
KIDS: 14!
[DOG BARKING]
TRACTION JACKSON: Hey, Barney.
Think I can make 14 baskets?
BARNEY: Hmm, I don't know.
TRACTION JACKSON: Here we go.
KIDS: One!
Two!
Three!
TRACTION JACKSON: Yes.
KIDS: Four!
Five!
Six!
Seven!
Eight!
[GULP]
TRACTION JACKSON: Sweet.
KIDS: Nine!
10!
11!
12!
13!
14!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
14 baskets!
FAMILY: Yay!
MURRAY: Cheer!
That's the word on the street.
What's the Word on the Street?
BOY: Strategy.
MURRAY: What is a strategy?
GIRL: It's a plan to solve a problem.
MURRAY: When do you use a strategy?
GIRL: When I'm doing math in school.
BOY: I was using strategy to play a chess game.