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  • ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hurray ♪

  • ♪ Hurray ♪

  • ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hurray ♪

  • ♪ Hurray ♪

  • ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪

  • ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪

  • ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hurray ♪

  • ♪ Hurray ♪

  • - Yay.

  • - Happy, happy?

  • Phooey.

  • Why would anyone wanna be happy when you could be grouchy?

  • - Grouchy?

  • Oh, Abby and Elmo don't know how to be grouchy.

  • - It's easy.

  • Here, I'll show you.

  • - Sing along with us and be a grouch just like Oscar.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Hey, can we get it a little more rotten in here?

  • (spooky music)

  • There. That's better. - Wow.

  • (Elmo giggles)

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it hold up some trash ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it old up some trash ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it ♪

  • ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it hold up some trash ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - How was that?

  • I bet you're feeling pretty grouchy now, huh?

  • - It was so much fun.

  • - Yeah, it was fun.

  • - What, fun?

  • Fun, grouches aren't supposed to have fun!

  • Ah, I guess I have to think of something even grouchier.

  • - Yeah.

  • Oh, come on, everybody, let's be even grouchier.

  • - I know.

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it make some noise ♪

  • (horn honks)

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it make some noise ♪

  • (horn honks) - Yeah.

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it ♪

  • ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪

  • ♪ If you are grouchy and you know it make some noise ♪

  • (horns honk)

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - Oh, my ears are ringing.

  • You guys must be feeling really grouchy now

  • from all that noise, heh.

  • - I love making music!

  • - Yeah!

  • - What?

  • - Even grouchy music.

  • - What? Oh no!

  • I must be losing my touch.

  • It's time for things to get really rotten.

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it shout hey scram ♪

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it shout hey scram ♪

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it ♪

  • ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it shout hey scram ♪

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • (Elmo and Abby laugh)

  • - Yeah, yeah.

  • - It is so much fun pretending to be grouchy.

  • - Wait, you like that? - Yeah!

  • Yeah, Elmo likes making his voice loud and grumpy.

  • - Oh this is terrible! (Elmo giggles)

  • I can't believe you two are having fun being grouchy.

  • - We sure are. And I know of a way to be even grouchier.

  • - Even grouchier?

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it do all three ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • (rattle shakes)

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it do all three ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • (noise maker rattles)

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it ♪

  • ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪

  • ♪ If you're grouchy and you know it do all three ♪

  • ♪ Pee ew ♪

  • (horn honks)

  • ♪ Hey scram ♪

  • - Yay!

  • (Oscar sighs) Boy, that was so much fun.

  • - I just love being a grouch!

  • - Yeah, Elmo too.

  • - That's it, you two are too cute and happy to be grouches.

  • Now scram.

  • Get out of here. - Oh, okay.

  • - The song's over.

  • - Thank you, Oscar.

  • - Just get off of me. (Elmo laughs)

  • Ugh.

  • ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪

  • - Oh, what a day.

  • Whoa!

  • (Oscar moans)

  • (drums bang)

  • - Whoa.

  • - Oh, he's definitely loud.

  • - So, can Elmo be in Oscar's band now?

  • - Hey, not so fast.

  • Takes a lot more than loud playing to be a grouch drummer.

  • - Yeah, we have to be sure that you've got rhythm.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Rhythm?

  • - Mm-hmm.

  • - What's rhythm?

  • - Oh boy, I was afraid he'd say that.

  • - Oh, rhythm is a cinch, man.

  • Listen, you can do this on your drum.

  • Okay, pretend my guitar is a drum, okay?

  • Here we go. - Okay, okay.

  • (drums on guitar)

  • - Oh, well, Elmo will try.

  • (drum beats to rhythm)

  • - Okay, wow, that was good. Now try this one.

  • (drums on guitar)

  • - Okay.

  • (beats drum to rhythm)

  • - Whoa, how about this one, man?

  • (beats on guitar)

  • - Okay, well, Elmo can do most of that.

  • Here Elmo goes.

  • (drums to rhythm)

  • Huh?

  • - Whoa!

  • - Wow, he's really got chops. (Elmo giggles)

  • (Elmo giggles)

  • - Ooh, now, now it's Elmo's turn.

  • Ooh, can Mr. Phooey Louie do this?

  • (drums quickly)

  • - Hey, I think we've got ourselves a new drummer. Heh, heh.

  • (birds chirp)

  • Ouch.

  • Ouch.

  • Oh. Ouch.

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - Wow. What a great day.

  • - Yeah, it sure is. Everything's so beautiful and green.

  • Look, the plants and the trees.

  • - Huh? Even Oscar.

  • - Yeah.

  • (girl laughs)

  • - Hey, did you just call me beautiful?

  • Oh, never talk like that about a grouch.

  • Oh, yuck.

  • (Oscar sighs)

  • What, you think it's easy for me being a grouch

  • who is green?

  • Well, think again, 'cause it's not.

  • (Oscar sighs)

  • Well, someone once said

  • (gentle music)

  • ♪ It's not that easy being green ♪

  • ♪ Having to spend each day the color of the leaves ♪

  • ♪ When I think it could be nicer ♪

  • ♪ Being gray, or brown, or puce ♪

  • ♪ Or something much less colorful like that ♪

  • ♪ It's not easy being green ♪

  • ♪ Ah ♪

  • ♪ It seems you blend in with so many other beautiful things ♪

  • ♪ Ah ♪

  • ♪ And grouches tend to pass you over ♪

  • ♪ 'Cause you're not all dingy looking ♪

  • ♪ Like mud in the water ♪

  • ♪ Or smog in the sky ♪

  • ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah ♪

  • ♪ But green's the color of slime ♪

  • ♪ Ooh-ah ♪

  • ♪ And green can be gross and moldy-like ♪

  • ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪

  • ♪ And green can be ♪

  • ♪ Smelly like a stinkweed ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪

  • ♪ Or angry like an alligator ♪

  • ♪ Or sour like a pickle ♪

  • ♪ Ah ♪

  • ♪ When green is all there is to be ♪

  • ♪ Ah ♪

  • ♪ It could make you wonder why ♪

  • ♪ But why wonder, why wonder ♪

  • ♪ I am green, and it'll do fine ♪

  • ♪ It's yucky, and I think it's what I want to be ♪

  • ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah ♪

  • Yeah.

  • - [Monsters] Yeah.

  • - All right, the song's over. Now get lost!

  • - Oh, sorry, Oscar. (monsters chatting)

  • You're the one who started burning.

  • - You too, pickle.

  • Heh, heh.

  • I gotta be me. Heh, heh, heh.

  • (Bruno grunts)

  • Okay, twice around the park, my good man, and step on it.

  • I don't wanna be late.

  • (thunder rumbles)

  • Oh no, look. It's gonna rain.

  • Oh, rats.

  • - Hey, Oscar, hey, Bruno. Looks like rain, huh?

  • - Well, who asked ya?

  • Yeah, it does look like it's gonna rain, phooey.

  • - I thought you liked rain, Oscar?

  • - Nah, nah, I like it if I'm gonna have a picnic, yeah,

  • but most of the time, it's a pain in the neck.

  • Why, why, all it ever does is rain water.

  • Ugh. - Well, I mean,

  • we need water, Oscar.

  • We need water to water the trees, and the grass,

  • and the earth, and it cleans things off.

  • - Well, who asked ya?

  • Well, I don't care, I wish it would just rain something

  • that a grouch would like, like if it would only rain trash.

  • - Ha, ha. Wishful thinking.

  • (Gordon laughs)

  • Oh boy, I think I felt a drop.

  • (thunder rumbles) I better get inside

  • before it comes down, see ya.

  • - Wow, that was a pretty good idea of mine there, Bruno.

  • Why, just imagine,

  • what if, instead of raining rain, it rained trash?

  • (dreamy harp music) Yeah.

  • (playful jazzy music)

  • ♪ When it rains grouch rain it rains ♪

  • ♪ Trash outta heaven ♪

  • ♪ Every yucky cloud contains trash outta heaven ♪

  • ♪ Can't beat that paper falling ♪

  • ♪ Upon the ground ♪

  • (cans clattering) ♪ And all those ♪

  • ♪ Tin cans pouring ♪

  • ♪ I love the sound ♪

  • ♪ Top it off with bunches of wilted old flowers ♪

  • ♪ If I want the things I love ♪

  • ♪ I need grouch showers ♪

  • ♪ I love to hear it thunder ♪

  • ♪ Oh so wonderfully ♪

  • ♪ 'Cause there's trash outta heaven for you and me ♪

  • (dreamy harp music)

  • ♪ Da da da da ♪

  • ♪ Ya da da di da ♪

  • ♪ Dee da da da ♪

  • ♪ La da di dum ♪

  • ♪ Da da da da ♪

  • ♪ Da da da da da da ♪

  • ♪ La da da da ♪

  • ♪ Da da da da dum ♪

  • ♪ Da ♪

  • ♪ Dee dee dee, dee dee dee ♪

  • (laughs)

  • - Hi there, it's me, Oscar the Grouch.

  • I'm here to help with the letter of the day.

  • And now why would a grouch be helping

  • with the letter of the day, you might ask?

  • Heh, heh, watch and find out, heh, heh.

  • ♪ Dum de dum, dum de dum de dum, dum de ♪

  • - Whoa!

  • (gasps)

  • Cookie!

  • - That's right, Cookie Monster.

  • It's a letter of the day cookie.

  • And it's all for you, heh, heh.

  • - Whoa, that letter H.

  • Yeah, and that perfect, because me so h-h-hungry.

  • Come to papa.

  • Hi-yum!

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • Hey, where cookie go?

  • - Look up, genius.

  • - Oh.

  • Hey, why cookie all the way up there?

  • - [Oscar] It's the letter H, so it's high.

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - Oh, me get it. Visual aid.

  • That terrific, Oscar. - Yeah.

  • - Okay. Now can me have cookie, please?

  • - Oh, sure you can.

  • - Yeah.

  • - All you have to do to get it down,

  • you just use words that start with H.

  • - Oh, okay, well, that no problem.

  • Me, um, me think of word that start with H.

  • Ha, ha, ha, ha.

  • Oh, me know, me can hop.

  • Yah, that good one.

  • - Yeah. - Hop.

  • Hop.

  • Hop.

  • Hop. (Oscar laughs)

  • - Hey, Cookie. - Hop.

  • - Hop does start with the letter H,

  • but it looks like it's not gonna get you a cookie.

  • - Yah, that no problem. Me just think of another word.

  • Ha, ha, ha, ha.

  • Me got one.

  • (playful music)

  • Hook.

  • Hook will get cookie down.

  • Ha-ha.

  • Yah.

  • Yah.

  • (Cookie Monster grunting)

  • - Heh, heh, you know, hook does start with the letter H,

  • but it didn't get the cookie, heh, heh, heh.

  • - Yah, yah. This harder than me thought.

  • Okay, what else start with H that me can use

  • to help get cookie down?

  • Ha, ha, ha, ha.

  • Me know.

  • (playful music)

  • - This is fun.

  • I've gotta help with the letter

  • of the day more often, heh, heh.

  • - Here you go.

  • (horses whinnying)

  • - Hey, horses?

  • - Yah, yah. The word horse start with letter H.

  • - Yeah, but how can horses help you get the cookie?

  • - Well, these are happy horses.

  • ♪ Ha ♪

  • - Ugh. Eww, gross.

  • I still don't see how happy horses can help.

  • - Like this. Hit it, horsies.

  • (horses humming)

  • - Hey, what are they doing?

  • - They humming. Yeah, humming another H word.

  • - Oh, yuck.

  • - Yah. Oh, now they humming in harmony.

  • Harmony

  • also start with H. - Oh.

  • Oh, happy horses humming in harmony?

  • This is too much. I can't take it.

  • Make it stop. Make it stop.

  • Oh!

  • - Oh! Me got letter H cookie.

  • Happy day.

  • (Cookie Monster munching loudly)

  • - Oh.

  • Oh, this is horrible.

  • Ow.

  • - Thank you, Oscar. Oh, Oscar.

  • (knocking on lid)

  • Oscar.

  • - Oh, what?

  • - Me forgot one more H word.

  • - What?

  • - Hug.

  • - Oh. Help.

  • (playful music)

  • Now, Grouchketeers,

  • I want you to look (upbeat music)

  • at this word.

  • Says no, okay?

  • ♪ I've got a new dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ You can do it fast or do it slow ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and away you go ♪

  • ♪ You're doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ Oh, no no no, no no no no ♪

  • ♪ No no no no no no no ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and go go go ♪

  • ♪ You're doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • (Elmo giggles)

  • - Yeah, doing the dance!

  • ♪ Shake your head to the left and right ♪

  • ♪ Shake no no with all your might ♪

  • ♪ Shake it high or shake it low ♪

  • ♪ Doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ Oh, no no no, no no no no ♪

  • ♪ No no no no no no no ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and go go go ♪

  • ♪ You're doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ Now if someone says, Please dance with me ♪

  • ♪ The answer is easy as it can be ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and oh oh oh ♪

  • ♪ You'll be doin' a dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ Oh, no no no, no no no no ♪

  • ♪ No no no no no no no ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and go go go ♪

  • ♪ You're doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ No no no no no no no ♪

  • ♪ No no no no no no no ♪

  • ♪ Just shake your head and go go go ♪

  • ♪ You're doin' the dance called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ I said, doin' the dance ♪

  • ♪ Called The No-No-No ♪

  • ♪ No ♪

  • - Beautiful.

  • - Lance, come on over here.

  • Let's see what Oscar's up to this time.

  • Oh.

  • - Yes. - Oscar, what are you doing?

  • Trash all over here. What are you doing?

  • - Gordon, I feel great today.

  • - Oh, you do? Huh?

  • - Yeah. I'm going through all my trash.

  • Just throwing it around and looking at it.

  • It makes a grouch feel terrific.

  • - Oh yeah?

  • - Just look at all this trash

  • once in a while. - Uh-huh.

  • Yeah. - You know, Gordon?

  • - Hm?

  • - Just looking at this trash makes me feel so good.

  • I feel like singing.

  • - You feel like singing?

  • - Yeah.

  • - How about that, Lance? Well, why don't you?

  • Huh? (upbeat music)

  • - All right, then I will.

  • - Okay. Go ahead.

  • ♪ Oh, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • - Now, just look at this

  • if you wanna see something beautiful.

  • ♪ I have here a sneaker that's tattered and worn ♪

  • ♪ It's all full of holes and the laces are torn ♪

  • ♪ A gift from my mother the day I was born ♪

  • ♪ I love it because it's trash ♪

  • ♪ Oh, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • - Now, I'm gonna show you something really terrific.

  • ♪ I have here some newspaper 13 months old ♪

  • ♪ I've wrapped fish inside it, it's smelly and cold ♪

  • ♪ But I wouldn't trade it for a big pot of gold ♪

  • ♪ I love it because it's trash ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • - And now, some more beautiful things.

  • ♪ And a clock that won't work, and an old telephone ♪

  • ♪ A broken umbrella, a rusty trombone ♪

  • ♪ And I am delighted to call them my own ♪

  • ♪ I love 'em because they're trash ♪

  • ♪ Oh, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty. ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love, I love ♪

  • ♪ I ♪

  • ♪ Love trash ♪

  • - Oh, Oscar.

  • Oscar. That was a great trash song.

  • - Ah, thanks.

  • - A regular sanitation serenade.

  • - Yeah. - I like that one.

  • That was pretty good.

  • Listen, for your hard work and effort,

  • I've got a treat for you.

  • - Yeah?

  • - Oh, yeah. - Wh, what?

  • - Well, listen. You're gonna love this.

  • It's a trip to the garbage dump.

  • - Oh, boy.

  • Terrific! (Gordon laughs)

  • (cheerful music)

  • - Here comes the Count,

  • looking for something to count, I bet, heh, heh.

  • But boy, have I got a big counting surprise for him?

  • Heh, heh.

  • Hey, Count.

  • - Ah, greetings, Oscar.

  • - Yeah.

  • How would you like to count the number of the day, huh?

  • - Ooh, I always love to count the number of the day.

  • What is the number of the day?

  • - Well, it's 0.

  • Ha-ha. That means it's nothing.

  • 0 is nothing, zip, nada, ha-ha.

  • So try counting that, Count.

  • (laughs)

  • - All right, Oscar, I will.

  • Hm, ah.

  • How many horns do you have on your head?

  • - What?

  • Horns? None!

  • - That's 0 horns on Oscar's head.

  • (Oscar groans) Ah!

  • And, uh, ah, how many bananas do you see on that tree?

  • - That tree?

  • - Mm-hm.

  • - That's not a banana tree.

  • There's no bananas. There's none!

  • - That's 0 bananas on that tree. Yes!

  • - Well, wait, that's not what I--

  • - And how many dancing ducks do you see going by, hm?

  • - None. Now, stop counting.

  • - That's 0 dancing ducks. I love it!

  • - Oh, listen, I said stop!

  • - Okay, Oscar, how many more times

  • do you want me to count 0?

  • - None!

  • - That's 0 more times Oscar wants to hear me count 0!

  • - Ah!

  • (trash clattering)

  • (elephant trumpets)

  • - Oscar?

  • (knocking on trash can)

  • How many more times are you going to come back up,

  • so that I can see your smiling face, hm?

  • - [Oscar] None. And I'm not smiling.

  • - That's 0 times that Oscar's coming back up. And 0 smiles.

  • (laughs)

  • (Oscar groans)

  • Counting 0 can to be so much fun.

  • (lid clatters)

  • That's zero 0s!

  • Ha, ha, ha!

  • (thunder rumbles)

  • (spooky organ music)

  • (playful music)

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ For a more pleasant spot, a grouch could never wish ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy is where grouches love to fish ♪

  • ♪ When I throw my pole in ♪

  • ♪ Do do do do do ♪

  • ♪ Or when I go trolling ♪

  • ♪ Do do do do do ♪

  • ♪ I always catch ♪

  • ♪ A rubber tire or a pan ♪ ♪ Do do do do do ♪

  • ♪ It's ugly and ♪

  • ♪ Smelly and awful ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪

  • ♪ And fishing is unlawful ♪

  • ♪ And the air is like my garbage can ♪

  • ♪ Do do do do do ♪

  • ♪ Oh, it's littered and crummy there ♪

  • ♪ Littered and crummy there ♪

  • ♪ Filth ♪

  • ♪ And ooze and debris ♪

  • ♪ Littered with filth and ooze and debris ♪

  • ♪ So ♪

  • ♪ I lay on my tummy there ♪

  • ♪ Cute little tummy, ah ♪

  • ♪ In the slime is where I'm gonna be ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Where I can fish ♪

  • ♪ For trash that floats ♪ ♪ On ♪

  • ♪ Upon the foam ♪ ♪ The foam ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ You're icky ♪

  • ♪ You're tacky, black, and icky, mushy, muddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy ♪

  • ♪ Disgusting and cruddy ♪

  • ♪ Disgusting and cruddy ♪

  • ♪ Swamp Mushy Muddy, you're my second home ♪

  • ♪ You can ♪

  • ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ See the dead flies falling ♪

  • ♪ From a poison ivy bud ♪

  • ♪ It's ♪

  • ♪ Revolting and appalling ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪

  • ♪ How I love ♪

  • ♪ My mushy ♪

  • ♪ Mud ♪

  • ♪ Ooh ♪

  • ♪ Ooh ♪

  • ♪ Mm ♪

  • (playful music)

  • ♪ G is for garbage, full of grime ♪

  • ♪ And greasy, goopy, grungy slime ♪

  • ♪ I'm so glad that all of it's mine ♪

  • ♪ Oh, G couldn't be better as a grouchy letter ♪

  • ♪ G is for glasses covered in goo ♪

  • ♪ And gobby, gunky, globby glue ♪

  • ♪ They give the world a grouchy view ♪

  • ♪ Oh, G couldn't be better as a grouchy letter ♪

  • ♪ G is for groceries, one month old ♪

  • ♪ They're grubby, greasy, and growing mold ♪

  • ♪ For me, it's like a great pot of gold ♪

  • ♪ Oh, G couldn't be better as a grouchy letter ♪

  • ♪ Yes, G couldn't be better ♪

  • ♪ As a gunky, gross, and grouchy letter ♪

  • ♪ Hey ♪

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - Telly Monster here to show you the letter of the day.

  • The letter B.

  • Bah, bah, B.

  • (Telly laughs)

  • - Beat it. Will you?

  • - Whoa. Whoa.

  • Oh, that's right, Oscar.

  • Beat starts with the letter B.

  • (Telly laughs)

  • Yeah.

  • - Say bye bye, Fuchsia Face,

  • 'cause you're crowding my trashcan.

  • - Wow. Bye bye starts with the letter B too.

  • You really do know your B words, Oscar.

  • (Telly laughs)

  • - Blah, blah, blah. Enough already.

  • - And blah, blah, blah starts with B.

  • - Would you stop bothering me?

  • - Bother. Bother starts with B.

  • Got any more B words? We're like a B team, Oscar.

  • Coming up with B words for all of our friends out there.

  • - If you won't beat it, I will. Blech.

  • - Blech also starts with the letter B.

  • (Telly laughs)

  • Oscar.

  • Oscar?

  • - [Oscar] Go away.

  • - Oscar, more B words please.

  • (Oscar groans)

  • Oscar?

  • Hm.

  • (crowd grumbling) (gavel banging)

  • - The meeting of the grouches will now come to disorder.

  • (all chatting) - Yep, yep.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • That's more like it. - Yeah.

  • (Oscar laughs)

  • - Hey, who are you?

  • - It's me, Jack the Grouch.

  • - Jack the Grouch?

  • - Yeah, I'm a grouch, I'm like you guys,

  • I got the grouchy vest, I got the grouchy attitude.

  • - [Oscar] Hm.

  • - Watch this, scram.

  • Yeah, I even know the song.

  • - Yeah?

  • - Yeah, listen up.

  • ♪ I have here a tie ♪

  • ♪ That has a big spot ♪

  • - Huh, where is it?

  • - [Jack] Here, see?

  • - You mean that small dot?

  • - Right.

  • ♪ It's totally grouchy because of that blot ♪

  • ♪ I love it because it's trash ♪

  • ♪ Oh-oh-oh, I ♪

  • (grouches chatting) - No, no, stop, stop, stop.

  • That was horrible.

  • - Ugh.

  • - Pathetic.

  • - Well, I mean, coming from you grouches,

  • that's a really big compliment.

  • - No, no, what I'm saying is you got it all wrong, kid.

  • Grouches don't like nice stuff

  • with little smudges and tiny spots.

  • They love really messy grungy stuff.

  • Isn't that right? - Yeah, you tell him, Oscar.

  • - Yeah, yeah, here, listen.

  • (upbeat waltz music)

  • ♪ Oh, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ I have here a sneaker that's tattered and worn ♪

  • ♪ It's all full of holes and the laces are torn ♪

  • ♪ A gift from his mother the day he was born ♪

  • ♪ I love it because it's trash ♪

  • - I get it now!

  • ♪ Oh, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • - Watch this!

  • ♪ I have here some newspaper 13 months old ♪

  • ♪ I've wrapped fish inside it, it's smelly and cold ♪

  • ♪ But he wouldn't trade it for a big pot of gold ♪

  • ♪ Nope, I love it because it's trash ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Trash, you say ♪

  • ♪ Well, then okay ♪

  • ♪ Trash, trash, trash, trash ♪

  • ♪ Trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash ♪

  • ♪ Trash, trash, trash, trash ♪

  • ♪ I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

  • ♪ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♪

  • ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

  • ♪ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♪

  • ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I love trash ♪

  • ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

  • ♪ Yes, I ♪

  • ♪ Love ♪

  • ♪ Trash ♪

  • ♪ I love trash ♪

  • (trash clatters)

  • - Am I part of the club now?

  • - Sure, just do me one favor, will ya?

  • - What's that?

  • - Scram!

  • (grouches cheering)

  • - Yeah, yeah.

  • - Ah, I love it!

  • - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • - I'm in the club,

  • I'm in the club! - Yeah, you know I

  • was serious, right?

  • - Yeah!

  • - I was serious. Get out of here, take a hike.

  • - Hi, I'm Nicole.

  • And today, Oscar and I are gonna tell you

  • all about the word of the day.

  • - Huh.

  • Hey, Miss Informative.

  • (Nicole scoffs)

  • What did you just say

  • to all those horribly nice people out there?

  • - I just told them that you and I

  • are gonna tell everyone the word of the day.

  • - Oh.

  • Well, then, forget it, Vocabulary Face!

  • (Nicole scoffs) I'm not helping anyone

  • tell anybody anything!

  • - Come on, Oscar. Can't I change your mind?

  • Hmm?

  • - No. No!

  • I won't ever change my mind!

  • I won't help tell about any word ever.

  • - Oh, come on, Oscar. Don't be so stubborn.

  • - Stubborn? What's stubborn?

  • (Nicole laughs)

  • - That's when you only wanna do what you wanna do,

  • and you won't change your mind.

  • - Well, I decided that I won't help you tell anyone

  • about today's word, and I am not changing my mind!

  • - Uh-huh, so you're being stubborn.

  • - Yeah, yeah, all right. Stubborn.

  • I wanna do what I wanna do, and I'm not changing my mind!

  • So I am stubborn, ha, ha!

  • Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn! (elephant trumpets)

  • (glass shatters) (Oscar laughs)

  • - Thank you, Oscar. You have been a very big help.

  • - What?

  • (Nicole laughs)

  • - You just helped me with the word of the day.

  • - No, I didn't do it. I did no such thing!

  • - Actually, you did, because today's word is stubborn.

  • - Oh no!

  • - Oh yes! Stubborn.

  • Thanks, Oscar! - Oh!

  • Oh, brother.

  • - Aren't you gonna say you're welcome?

  • - No!

  • (Nicole laughs)

  • - Sure you won't change your mind?

  • - Never!

  • - Good! Because you just helped show stubborn again.

  • - Oh!

  • Ow.

  • - Stubborn.

  • (playful music)

♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hurray ♪

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