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?
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.
MAN: I can make a strategy to make lunch.
MURRAY: Strategize how you could get the bologna.
Keep listening for the word strategy today on Sesame Street
GIRL: Strategy.
MURRAY: That's the word on the street.
DWIGHT: Hi, I'm Dwight.
ELMO: And Elmo's Elmo.
DWIGHT: And we're going to tell you
all about the word strategy.
ELMO: Yeah, strategy.
Tell them what a strategy is, Mr. Dwight.
DWIGHT: A strategy is a plan to help solve a problem.
ELMO: A plan To help solve a problem.
DWIGHT: That's a strategy.
ELMO: Yeah.
When do you use a strategy, Mr. Dwight?
DWIGHT: Well, I use a strategy when I play basketball.
ELMO: Mr. Dwight does?
DWIGHT: Yes.
In basketball, you need a plan on how to win.
That's a strategy.
ELMO: Wow.
When else can you use a strategy?
DWIGHT: Well, let's say we were playing with his basketball.
ELMO: Yeah.
DWIGHT: And it went over the fence.
ELMO: Oh no, Mr. Dwight.
Basketball went over the fence.
DWIGHT: We would need a plan to get it back.
And that's a strategy.
Right, strategy.
There you go.
TIGER: Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yum!
A basketball for me to chew on.
ELMO: But--
TIGER: Thank you.
ELMO: But wait a minute, wait a minute.
Mr. Tiger is trying to chew on Mr. Dwight's basketball.
TIGER: Don't worry, Elmo.
We'll get it back.
We just need a strategy.
ELMO: Oh yeah.
We need a plan to solve the problem.
DWIGHT: That's right.
ELMO: What can Elmo do?
Hm.
Elmo has a strategy!
DWIGHT: Oh, what is it?
What is it?
Tell me, Elmo!
ELMO: Watch this.
Di do do do do do do.
Diddly do.
Mr. Tiger?
DWIGHT: Tiger?
TIGER: Hm?
ELMO: Hi.
DWIGHT: Hey.
ELMO: Would you, would you like to trade that basketball
for this delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
DWIGHT: Please?
Please?
ELMO: Please?
TIGER: Peanut butter and jelly?
DWIGHT: Yes.
TIGER: That's my favorite thing to chew on.
Let's trade.
Here you go.
ELMO: OK.
TIGER: Thank you.
ELMO: Here you go.
TIGER: Mm.
ELMO: Oh boy, it's worked!
Elmo's plan got Mr. Dwight's basketball back.
DWIGHT: That was a great--
ALL TOGETHER: --strategy!
CHILDREN: Higher.
Go higher.
That's it.
Higher.
Yay!
GUY SMILEY: Wait!
COOKIE MONSTER: Whoa!
Why, 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.
Ah!
GUY SMILEY SINGERS: [SINGING] Good things
come to those who wait.
Good things come to those who wait.
COOKIE MONSTER: Uh, who are you?
SINGER: We're the Guy Smiley Singers.
GUY SMILEY SINGERS: Hey!
COOKIE MONSTER: Why waiting game have singers?
SINGER: Because singing's a really great strategy
to use when you have to wait for something
that's really hard to wait for.
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, 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?
Want do me do?
Mm.
Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom!
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.
Dum de dum.
Oh.
Oh, whoa.
Oh.
Smelly, smelly, smelly, smelly fish!
GUY SMILEY: You did it, Cookie Monster.
You won the waiting game
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
GUY SMILEY SINGERS: [SINGING] I have
to say 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.
COOKIE MONSTER: Uh, guy?
GUY SMILEY: Mm-hmm?
COOKIE MONSTER: If me wait longer,
do me get three cookies?
GUY SMILEY: Um, no.
MURRAY: What does the word strategy mean?
FIREFIGHTER: To me, a plan to solve a problem.
WOMAN: To come up with a game plan.
BOY: A plan to accomplish something.
GIRL: You have to figure something out?
MURRAY: When do you use a strategy, do you think?
WOMAN: Whenever you're met with a challenge.
WOMAN: Football uses a lot of strategies.
MURRAY: Yes they do.
They have whole book full of them.
FIREFIGHTER: Well, when we go into a fire,
we have to have a plan as to rescue people,
put the fire out.
GIRL: In school, we do lots of math problems.
And you have to make up a strategy to solve the problems.
GIRL: Strategy!
MURRAY: That's the word on the street.
And it seems like your strategy worked out.
WOMAN: Yeah.
MURRAY: Because you've got a diploma and a beautiful gown
and cap.
ERNIE: Do you know how I feel, Bert?
I feel so happy.
I really do.
BERT: You do?
ERNIE: I was just thinking about all the lovely plants
and flowers who'll get a nice drink of cool water
when it rains.
And then the grass and the trees grow tall.
And the flowers bloom.
And it just makes me feel very, very happy.
BERT: Yes.