- And the happy little train went
- [All] Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!
- All the way down the track.
The end.
(all laugh)
- Hi!
- Welcome to Sesame Street!
- Chris is reading us our new favorite book.
- That's right!
It's called "The Adventures of the Happy Little Train."
- It's the best book ever!
- You mean the worst book ever!
All that happy choo choo chooing!
Bleh!
I'm just glad it's over.
- Oscar doesn't like the train book?
- I thought everybody liked trains.
- Yeah, my mommy says trains
are an excellent form of transportation.
- And they take you to lots of new places!
- Oh yeah?
Well, why don't you hop on one and go far away!
- Elmo would love to have his own train to drive.
Maybe not a real train,
but Elmo could pretend he had a train!
Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!
It's Elmo's own happy little train!
- Elmo made a train out of a cardboard box!
- Hey, nice wheels, buddy.
Hey Elmo!
You are the engineer.
That means you are the driver.
- Engineer Elmo!
Chugga chugga, chugga chugga woo woo!
- Not so fast, furry face.
That's just the engine.
A real train has cars too.
- Oh, Oscar's right.
Oh yeah.
The happy little train has one, two cars.
- Oh.
- Oh no!
Elmo's train doesn't have any car.
- Then I guess it's not a train, the end.
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Yes.
With a little imagination.
- [Both] And.
- Two cardboard boxes, you have,
- Two cars for your train!
(all laugh)
- Thanks Zoe and Rosita!
- That's what friends are for!
- Check it out, Oscar!
Now the train has an engine, and one, two cars!
- Oh.
Goody goody.
- I will play the train conductor
and my job is to make sure the passengers
are safe on board the train.
- That's right.
The train conductor also collects tickets
from in the passengers.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh!
- I'll play the passenger.
Here's my ticket, conductor Rosita.
- Thank you very much, passenger, Zoe.
- Thank you!
- Well, now that you guys have planned how to play,
let's roll!
- Come on everybody, let's sing the happy little train song!
- There's a happy little train song?
(Oscar moans)
♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪
♪ The happy little train is coming through, through ♪
♪ Hear the happy little whistle going woo woo ♪
♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪
(all but Oscar laugh)
- Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!
- I just gotta stop this happy train business.
I got it!
I don't wanna ruin this fun I know we're all having here,
but a train can't just go anywhere like that!
- No?
- No, no.
It has to follow train tracks.
- There's no train tracks on Sesame street.
- Unless, we make train tracks.
- What?
- With the little imagination and oh!
A big piece of chalk.
(train whistle blares)
(playful music)
- Okay. There you are.
I drew pretend train tracks for you.
(all but Oscar laugh)
- Now the happy little train can follow the train tracks!
- Yeah.
Just like a real train!
- Thank you so much, Chris.
- Oh, you're so welcome.
Hey, listen, I have to get back to work,
but you all have fun, okay?
- Bye Chris!
- Okay!
Now let's play happy little train all day long!
- Oh no!
- Hey Oscar, do you wanna play happy little train with us?
- No!
Grouches don't play nicey games like that.
- Hey wait, I have an idea.
Hey Oscar.
- What?
- You don't have to be nice.
- I don't?
- No!
You could be the, the mean grouchy ogre!
- Mean grouchy ogre?
- Yeah yeah!
The mean grouchy ogre who.
- Who wants to stop the happy little train?
- Yeah!
- Yes! - Yeah.
- How can I resist?
I'll do it.
- Yay!
Oscar's gonna play with us!
- [All But Oscar] Oscar's gonna play with us.
Oscars gonna--
- Hey hey hey!
Keep it down.
We don't want the whole world to know.
- Sorry, Oscar.
Attention!
The happy little train is now leaving the station!
- All aboard!
Next stop, Hooper's Store!
- Come on, everybody!
Sing with us!
♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪
♪ The happy little train is coming through, through ♪
♪ Hear the happy whistle going woo woo ♪
♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪
- Stop the train!
(girls grunt)
Look!
There's something on the train track blocking our way!
(pickles giggling)
- All six sour pickles!
Who put those on the track?
- I did! (laughs)
- Who are you?
- I'm the meanest grouchiest ogre in town, that's who!
- Boy. Oscar's really good at playing the ogre!
- Yeah.
But we've got get to Hooper's Store!
- Well, forget about it, little engine that couldn't!
Your happy little train is going nowhere.
- [Zoe And Rosita] Oh no!
- Oh yes! (laughs)
I think I like playing train.
- Wait a minute, wait a minute!
We can't just give up!
We have to think of a way to solve the problem!
- Well maybe we could go around the pickles?
- Oh yeah!
- Oh, wait a minute.
But the train can't go off the track.
- That's right.
Face it.
your chugga chugga, choo chooin' days are over.
- Unless.
What if we asked the pickles to move?
(Elmo laughing)
- Rosita!
Talk to the pickles?
(all laugh)
That's so crazy, that just might work!
- Let's try it.
- Pickles!
- Wait for me!
- They'll never get those grouchy pickles to move!
(pickles laughing)
- Excuse Elmo.
But could you pickles please get off the train track?
- No!
- We're not moving. - Yeah.
- Why not?
- 'Cause we're sour pickles, that's why!
- And being sour makes us mean and grouchy!
- Yeah.
- Way to go, pickles.
- Oh dear.
This plan's not working.
Oh, what now?
- Wait a minute.
Elmo has an idea.
Excuse Elmo, pickles.
Do the pickles wanna come for a ride on a train?
- What?
- You're asking us to ride on a train?
- Even though we're mean and grouchy?
- Yeah.
- Oh, sure.
Everybody's welcome in the happy little train.
- Oh, well I've never on a train before.
- Me neither.
- Come on, let's go.
- Yeah, let's go.
- Where are you going?
But what are you doing?
Pickles, come back here!
Oh phooey.
♪ Hear the happy whistle going woo woo ♪
♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪
- Station stop is Hooper's Store!
- Bye bye!
- Adios, pickles! - Bye, pickles!
- See you later!
- Hey, is everybody ready for lunch?
- Yeah! - Yes please!
- Well hurry up, will ya?
I wanna keep playing.
This time, I'm gonna be even, grouchier.
- A grouch playing pretend?
Now I've seen everything.
(playful music)
- Come on, where's the food?
- Right here, right here!
- Fork it over!