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