Just Another Morning on Sesame Street

A One-Act Play

Cast

                                                               Prairie Dawn . . . . . Sooby

                                                               Bert . . . . . . . . . . . .  Pooh

                                                               Oscar the Grouch . . Googie

Scene

Googie's guest bedroom at Sooby and Pooh's house very early on a typical morning

(Scene opens with Oscar in the bed between Bert, on the stage right side, and Prairie Dawn, on stage left.  The covers are over Oscar's head, representing the lid of his trash can.  Lights come up and Oscar peeks out at Prairie Dawn and Bert, both chewing furiously.)

Prairie Dawn:  Ask me what I'm eating.

Oscar:    OK.  What are you eating, Prairie Dawn?

Prairie Dawn:  A banana salad with burnt walnuts.

Oscar:  Oh, yum, yum, yummy.  That sounds so good.

Bert:  What am I eating, Bert?

Oscar: (correcting Bert's incorrect usage of the first-person pronoun)  What are you eating, Bert?

Bert:  French fries.  Mmmm-Mmmmm-Mmmmmm.

Oscar:  Oh, french fries!  I love french fries!  Won't you put some into my trash can, Bert?

Bert:  No.

Prairie Dawn:  Ask me what I'm eating.

Oscar:  What are you eating now, Prairie Dawn?

Prairie Dawn:  Jello with scrambled eggs and ice cream.

Oscar:  Oh, yum, yum, yummy.  Just my kind of breakfast.

Bert:  What am I eating, Bert?

Oscar:  What are YOU eating, Bert?

Bert:  French fries.  Mmmm-Mmmmm-Mmmmmm.

Oscar:  You sound like Cookie Monster, Bert.  Are you sure you're Bert and not Cookie Monster?

Prairie Dawn:  Ask me what I'm eating.

Oscar:  What are you eating NOW, Prairie Dawn?

Prairie Dawn:  Mashed potatoes with chocolate chips.  And some fish.

Oscar:  Oh, Prairie Dawn.  You are making me so hungry.

Prairie Dawn:  Let's close your trash can.  (She covers Oscar's head with the blankets.)

Bert:  Hey!  Come back here.  What am I eating, Bert?

Oscar: (emerging from under the blankets)  What.  Are.  YOU.  Eating.  Bert?
Bert:  French fries.  Mmmm-Mmmmm-Mmmmmm.

Oscar:  You must really like french fries, Bert.  And now . . . for breakfast . . . I think Oscar is going to have . . . one delicious Prairie Dawn and one yummy Bert.  (Oscar goes on a muppet-eating frenzy amid much raucous thrashing and giggling.  The bed is completely trashed.  The day has begun.)