[KIDS SHOUTING]
GIRL: The Sesame Street Little Theatre takes pride in
presenting "A
Flower Grows." [CHEERING]
GIRL: Oh, welcome dear viewer, to our little play.
We're ever so glad that you joined us today.
And now it is time for our drama to start.
Whoops.
For here comes a young man who calls himself Bart.
ERNIE: No, actually, I'm Ernie.
You know, I'm not Bart at all.
But in this play, I'm pretending to be Bart--
GIRL: Ernie, what are you doing?
ERNIE: Because that was the way it was written when--
GIRL: Shhh!
ERNIE: Hm?
GIRL: Just do your lines.
ERNIE: Oh, oh!
Oh, look, look, dear viewers, at what I have got.
It's right over here, a great big flower pot.
See?
[GIGGLES]
With hard work and labor and good honest toil, I have
filled this pot up with some lovely rich soil.
To grow a nice flower, here's what just you need--
uh, what you just need.
GIRL: Go ahead, Ernie.
ERNIE: OK.
A pot and some soil and a small flower seed.
[GIGGLES]
How's that?
GIRL: Ernie, you forgot to plant the flower seed.
ERNIE: Oh, oh yes.
OK, here.
Here we go.
Thank you.
GIRL: The seed's in the ground, but
our story's not done.
For to grow a nice flower, you also need sun.
HERRY: I am the sun, and I shine in the sky.
I'm warm like a fire and round like a pie.
I shine on the little seed planted right here.
The warmth will soon cause a nice plant to show up.
Uh, I--
I mean, appear.
GIRL: Very nice, Herry.
HERRY: Oh, thanks.
Oooh!
[THUD]
[CRASH]
HERRY: Sorry.
GIRL: [SIGH]
The seed has some soil and some warmth from the sun, but
still its dear life has just barely begun.
For a flower needs water, like you and like I,
and look what I see.
It's a cloud in the sky.
Hm.
And look what I see!
It's a cloud in the sky!
ERNIE: Go on, Cookie.
That's your cue.
COOKIE MONSTER: No, no, Ernie.
No.
ERNIE: Go on.
Get out there.
GIRL: Where is he?
COOKIE MONSTER: Me scared.
GIRL: Cookie, say your lines.
COOKIE MONSTER: Ahem-hem.
I am the rain cloud.
I bring the nice rain to water the plants on the
mountains and plain.
Oh, gently, so gently, the spring showers flow, and
tenderly nourish the flowers below.
[SPLASH]
COOKIE MONSTER: Ernie, me do it!
ERNIE: Wonderful, Cookie!
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, me do it.
GIRL: Maestro.
Soil, sun, and water is all that we need, so now see the
flower that grows from the seed.
ERNIE: Wow, look at that.
Wow.
COOKIE MONSTER: Gee.
BERT: Ahem-hem.
I am the flower, and I want you to know how thankful I am
that you helped me to grow.
I once was a seed planted deep in a pot, but with sunshine
and rain, I grew up a lot.
I sprouted these petals, so fragrant and gay, to gladden
your hearts.
And thus ends our play.
ERNIE: Oh, neat, Bert.
You really did a good job.
What a lovely costume that is.
BERT: Yeah, I feel like a fool.
ERNIE: Hey, did you make-- what did you make
those leaves out of?
BERT: Out of lettuce leaves or something.
COOKIE MONSTER: Lettuce!
Oh, boy!
Hey, Herry, lettuce leaves!
Oh, delicious, try 'em!
BERT: Hey, leave me alone, you guys.
GIRL: Guys!
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, petals are nice, too.
Delicious.
GIRL: Oh, brother.
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, delicious.
HERRY: Yum, yum.
GIRL: And so my dear viewer, our playlet is through.
I hope you had fun and you learned something, too.
BERT: Hey, come on, you guys.
Hey, come on!
[CHEERING]