Sesame Street: The Happy Scientists.
Telly, Rosita and Elmo become scientists to find out if everyone on Sesame Street takes a bath.
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00:00Oh, oh, oh, oh, hi! Welcome to Sesame Street.
00:04Oh, Elmo and his friends are just playing tag.
00:07Tag!
00:08No, no, no, no, no! Elmo's gonna get hurt!
00:11We're back here! We're back!
00:13Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:16These are my class's science experiments!
00:19Wow! The kids in Gordon's class do science experiments?
00:23Oh, yeah, yeah. My students are great scientists.
00:26Wait a minute.
00:27Yeah?
00:28You mean to tell me that kids can be scientists?
00:31Of course. Anybody can be a scientist.
00:34Even Elmo can be a scientist?
00:36Absolutely.
00:38You just need to be able to ask questions.
00:40Yeah?
00:41And investigate.
00:42Investigate?
00:44Yeah, well, that means that you do things that will help you find the answers to your questions.
00:49Wow! Well, Elmo likes asking questions.
00:52Oh, and Elmo loves to investigate, too!
00:55Yeah, yeah, yeah! Me, too!
00:56Yeah!
00:57Well, that means you can all be scientists.
01:00Then let's do it!
01:01Si! Let's be scientists!
01:03Yeah!
01:04We're happy to explore!
01:06We'll observe that and this!
01:07We'll investigate new things!
01:09We're happy scientists!
01:10We'll ask some happy questions!
01:11Our answers will exist!
01:13We'll learn lots of happy things!
01:14We're happy scientists!
01:15We're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists!
01:18Okay, Gordon. What can the happy scientists investigate?
01:24Well, just look around and see if there's anything on Sesame Street that you might have questions about.
01:30Okay!
01:32Does anybody have any questions about street signs?
01:36No.
01:38Hmm. Anyone have any questions about a mailbox?
01:43No.
01:46Oh! Oh, look! Look at that! Leela is giving Berkeley a bath!
01:51Hey! Maybe we can ask a question about dogs!
01:55Or baths!
01:57Oh, Elmo just thought of a question!
01:59Oh, what is it, Elmo?
02:00Well, the question is, does everyone on Sesame Street take a bath?
02:04Great question!
02:06Thank you!
02:07What should the happy scientists do next, Gordon?
02:10Well, next you come up with a hypothesis.
02:13Hypopotamus?
02:14No, no, no, no, hypothesis.
02:16It means a guess based on what you already know.
02:20Oh!
02:22We'll make a happy guess called a hypothesis.
02:25That is what you do when you're a happy scientist.
02:28We're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists!
02:31Okay, so what does Elmo know?
02:34Elmo and all his friends take baths, right?
02:37Right!
02:38And Gordon takes a bath, right?
02:40I do!
02:41Hmm, so Elmo guesses that everyone on Sesame Street does take a bath!
02:46Okay, then that is your hypothesis, Elmo.
02:49That is my hypothesis.
02:53Hypothesis two, everyone takes a bath.
02:56Okay, now what about you, Telly?
02:58I'm not so sure that everybody takes a bath, so I'll say no.
03:03I don't think everyone on Sesame Street takes a bath.
03:06Okay, so now you have to test your hypothesis and find the answer.
03:11But Gordon, how do the happy scientists do that?
03:15You investigate and put everything you find out in a journal.
03:20Oh!
03:21Like this!
03:23Oh!
03:25We'll draw some happy pictures.
03:27We'll make a happy list.
03:28We'll keep a happy journal.
03:30We're happy scientists.
03:31They're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists!
03:34Come on, happy scientists!
03:36Let's investigate and find out if everyone on Sesame Street takes a bath!
03:41Investigate!
03:44Investigate!
03:45What?
03:48Well, those are some happy scientists.
03:59Hi, Chris!
04:01What are you guys doing in my bathroom?
04:04We're watching you, Chris!
04:06Watching me?
04:07Why?
04:08Well, all in the name of science, Chris.
04:11Elmo's telling Rosita I'm a scientist.
04:14Okay, well, can you scientists hurry this up?
04:17I'm kind of in the middle of something.
04:18Hey, look!
04:19He is in the middle of something!
04:21Chris is in the middle of a bathtub!
04:24Yes! Yes!
04:25And he's got sudsy bubbles all over him!
04:29Scientist Elmo thinks that Chris takes a bath!
04:33Yes!
04:34Yes!
04:35That's right, guys.
04:36Yes, I take a bath.
04:37Now, can I please get some privacy?
04:39In a second, Chris.
04:40In a second.
04:41First, we have to draw a picture of you in the tub.
04:43A picture of me?
04:44Like this?
04:45Oh, yes.
04:46See?
04:47In the name of science, Chris!
04:48Yes, science.
04:49Oh, fine.
04:50But hurry it up before all my bubbles pop.
04:52Chris takes a bath and now he's on a happy list.
04:55We're investigating it.
04:56We're the happy scientists.
04:57The happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists.
05:01Okay, okay, happy scientists.
05:03Let's go investigate some more!
05:05Investigate!
05:10Bye, Chris!
05:14I really got to put a lock on that bathroom door.
05:25Uh, what you staring at?
05:28Don't mind us, kitty.
05:30We're scientists.
05:31Oh, well, if you're scientists, I guess it's okay.
05:39Phew!
05:40It's licking its foot!
05:42Oh, good investigating, Kelly.
05:44Thank you, but why is it licking its foot?
05:47That's just gross!
05:48Well, it looks like it's cleaning itself.
05:51With its tongue?
05:52No way!
05:53Well, yeah, maybe this is the way that the cat takes a bath.
05:57No, no, no, it can't be!
05:59Actually, the cute little red scientist is right.
06:03I am, in fact, taking a bath.
06:06With your tongue?
06:08Yep, it's how we cats keep clean.
06:11Now, can you stop watching me while I bathe?
06:13It's kind of freaking my kibbles out.
06:15Oh, si, señor Gato.
06:16As soon as we do this.
06:18We draw your picture, right, Kelly?
06:20Yep, yep, I got it, I got it.
06:22And as soon as we do this.
06:23Hit it!
06:24Cats take a tongue bath.
06:26We're added to our list.
06:27We're finding out so many things.
06:28We're happy scientists.
06:30We're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists.
06:33Now, come on, happy scientists.
06:35Let's keep investigating!
06:37Investigating!
06:40Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm trying to take my bath.
06:45You're sure that's a bath?
06:46Yes, I'm sure.
06:47All right, I'm watching you.
06:48Right.
06:58Look, happy scientists, a sparrow!
07:01Oh, look, that sparrow is flopping around in the dust.
07:06I wonder why he's doing that.
07:08All I know is that a bird who rolls in dust like that
07:12couldn't possibly be a bird who takes a bath.
07:15So my hypothesis is correct.
07:17Not everyone on Sesame Street takes a bath.
07:20Actually, I am taking a bath.
07:22No, you are not!
07:23There's no water.
07:25How can you be taking a bath without water?
07:27It's called a dust bath.
07:29A dust bath?
07:31You can't take a bath in dust.
07:34Well, if you're a sparrow, you can.
07:36The dust really helps keep my feathers and skin clean.
07:40Oh, you know what that means?
07:42Draw!
07:44And sing!
07:46Hit it!
07:47Sparrows take dust baths.
07:49We'll send it to the list.
07:50It pays to observe when you're a happy scientist.
07:53We're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists.
07:56All right, all right.
07:57There's got to be something around here that doesn't take a bath.
08:00Aha!
08:01Come on over here, guys.
08:02I think I see just the thing.
08:06An owl!
08:07I thought owls only came out at night.
08:10What's he doing out in the day?
08:12Whatever it's doing, it's not taking a bath.
08:15Yes, I am.
08:17Oh, you've got to be kidding!
08:19Nope.
08:20I'm taking a sun bath.
08:22A sun bath?
08:23The sun can't give you a bath.
08:26If you're an owl, it can.
08:28The sun helps get rid of some germs that may be stuck in my feathers.
08:32That means draw!
08:35Right.
08:36Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:37Sing!
08:38Hit it!
08:39Owls take sun baths.
08:40We'll add it to our list.
08:41We're happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists.
08:44It looks like Elmo and Zeta's hypothesis is right.
08:47Everybody on Sesame Street takes a bath.
08:50I am not giving up yet.
08:53I just thought of someone who couldn't possibly take a bath.
08:57Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
08:59Oscar!
09:01Oscar!
09:02Why is no one just calling for Oscar?
09:06Because Oscar's a grouch, and he loves everything dirty and dingy and grungy,
09:11and there's no way that Oscar takes a bath.
09:14Oscar!
09:16Will you keep it quiet?
09:19I'm trying to take a bath.
09:22Grouches take baths?
09:24Yes.
09:25We take mud baths.
09:28Oh, no!
09:30Oh, yes.
09:32So leave me alone so I can wallow in peace.
09:36Grouches take baths!
09:39Oh, let's draw and sing!
09:40Hit it!
09:41Grouches take a mud bath.
09:42We'll add it to our list.
09:43Stop!
09:44Stop!
09:45Stop the music!
09:46Oh, stop it!
09:47Does it tell me when to sing the happy scientist song?
09:50No!
09:51Why not?
09:53Because I'm not happy!
09:55I'm not a happy scientist!
09:57I'm a mad scientist!
09:58Mad, I tell you!
10:00I'm a mad, mad, mad, unhappy scientist!
10:04Not happy!
10:05Telly!
10:06Telly!
10:07Telly, what are you so mad about?
10:09I couldn't find anyone on Sesame Street that didn't take a bath!
10:13I can't be a scientist, Gordon!
10:15Well, of course you can, Telly!
10:17But my hypothesis was all wrong!
10:20But Telly, it's okay to be wrong in science.
10:23It is?
10:24Yeah, you see, the important thing in science is the process.
10:29Yeah, the process.
10:30It's all the steps that you take to find an answer.
10:32Like asking questions?
10:34And investigating?
10:35And writing down what we find in the journal?
10:38Right.
10:39All of those things are part of the scientific process.
10:41Well, we did all that stuff!
10:43Oh, okay.
10:44And what did you find out?
10:45Well, here.
10:46I wrote it down in my journal.
10:48I drew pictures.
10:49We found out that Chris takes a bath.
10:52Okay.
10:53And we found out that cats take a tongue bath.
10:58Wow.
10:59And we found out that little sparrows take a dust bath.
11:03All right.
11:05And owls take sun baths.
11:09And we even found out that grouches take mud baths.
11:14Wow!
11:16Those are some really interesting things you guys learned.
11:18Really?
11:19Absolutely.
11:20Through investigating, you guys found out things I didn't even know.
11:24We did?
11:25Yes.
11:26And now that you've learned all this great stuff,
11:29what do you think the answer to the question is?
11:31Does everybody on Sesame Street take a bath?
11:33I think the answer is yes!
11:36Everyone on Sesame Street does take a bath,
11:38just not all in the same way!
11:41Great job!
11:42You guys did it!
11:43We did it!
11:44We did it!
11:45We did it!
11:46Yay!
11:47Congratulations, scientists!
11:48But not just any scientist, we're happy scientists!
11:53Yay!
11:54We did it!
11:55We're the happy, happy, happy, happy, happy scientists!
12:02I love science.