Frank Oz credited as playing...
Bert • Grover • Cookie Monster
- Bert: You mean good things can still happen?
- Ernie: Of course they can, Bert. If fact, I'm sure good things will happen because who'd wanna see a movie with a sad ending, Bert?
- Bert: Titanic.
- Ernie: What?
- Bert: Titanic had a sad ending.
- Ernie: No, Bert. Roll the film! Come on, Bert. Come on.
- Bert: Gone with the Wind.
- Ernie: No, Bert. No.
- Bert: Doctor Zhivago.
- Ernie: Shh! Quiet, Bert.
- Oscar: Who says you can't go home again?
- Susan: Oscar, maybe you can get your friends to tell us where Elmo is.
- Cookie Monster, Telly, Zoe: Oh, yeah! Yeah!
- Oscar: In a minute. First I have to look at the old neighborhood here. Hey, I wonder where that old septic tank is.
- Susan: Hey, wait a minute!
- Gordon: No, Oscar, we've got to find Elmo first!
- Cookie Monster, Telly: Elmo! Elmo!
- Susan: Let's go this way.
- Grouch Cop: It's against the law to ask for help in Grouchland! You have the right to scream your head off. Should you give up the right to scream your head off, someone who will scream their head off... will be provided for you.
- Oscar: Come on!
- Cookie Monster: Me innocent. Hello? Me need cookies!
- [last lines]
- Elmo: Elmo wants to say, thanks for helping. Elmo loves you. Bye-bye.
- [goes back to dance with his friends. Ernie and Bert come in to the scene]
- Ernie: See, Bert? Just like I told you, Elmo got his Blanket back.
- Bert: Yeah, and it's a happy ending.
- Ernie: Yeah, and thank you all for helping.
- Bert: Oh yeah, you deserve a big round of applause.
- Ernie: Yeah, yeah, everybody clap for yourselves, come on!
- [Ernie and Bert applaud]
- Kids in audience: YAAAAY!
- Bert: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were great!
- Ernie: Okay, Bert, time to go home.
- Bert: Yeah, and I knew everything would be okay. I knew Elmo would get his Blanket back. And I knew there'd be a happy ending.
- Ernie: Yeah, yeah, right.
- Bert: Yep.
- [to the audience]
- Bert: See ya!
- [turns to leave, but then notices that the end credits are starting]
- Bert: Oh, look, look, look! Ernie, credits! OH! I wanna see who did the catering. Yeah, that was really good toast, y'know, they cut off the crusts and everything.
- Ernie: Uhh, Bert, time to feed your pigeons.
- Bert: Oh, yeah, thank you. Bernice!
- [leaves]
- Ernie: [to the audience] Bye-bye.
- [snickers, then leaves, ending the film]
- [first lines]
- Ernie: [walks by humming, then turns and notices the audience] Hi there, everybody! Welcome to the movie. Hey, we're so glad you came. Now...
- Bert: [Bert appears, wearing a bath towel and showering cap] Ernie, Ernie.
- Ernie: Hm?
- Bert: Listen, I'm going to take a shower. Have you seen my antibacterial soap?
- Ernie: No, Bert, I haven't.
- Bert: Oh, now where did I...?
- Ernie: Now, this movie you're about to see is all about Elmo.
- Bert: Who are you talking to?
- Ernie: The audience, Bert. They're right there.
- Bert: Huh?
- [Bert walks up to the screen]
- Ernie: See?
- Bert: Wow, look at all those people!
- Ernie: Mm-hmm.
- Bert: Hey, nice cardigan!
- [Bert laughs, sounding like a sheep baaing]
- Ernie: Now, in this movie, Elmo is going to ask for your help. He wants you to talk and play along.
- Bert: Uh, how do we start?
- Ernie: It's easy: just count backwards from 10.
- Bert: Okay.
- Ernie: [Ernie whispers to Bert] You see, Bert, that's how you start a movie, Bert.
- Bert: Ahh.
- Ernie: Can you all help us count backwards from 10?
- Kids in audience: Yeah!
- Ernie: Ready? Yell real loud!
- Ernie, Bert, Kids in audience: [the countdown sequence begins] 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
- Bert: Ah!
- Ernie: Heya, Bert, don't ya think y'oughta put so clothes on now?
- Bert: Wait, what?
- [notices he is naked]
- Bert: AAAH!
- [runs away screaming]
- Bert: Ernie!
- Ernie: [laughs] Enjoy the movie, everybody.
- [leaves. The movie's title sequence plays. The screen pans through Elmo's open bedroom window and shows Elmo sound asleep in his bed, with his Blanket. A cute little yellow bird pops out of a cuckoo clock on the nightstand]
- Cuckoo clock bird: WAKE UP!
- Elmo: Aaah!
- [falls out of bed]
- Elmo: Elmo's up! Elmo's up! Elmo's...
- [notices the audience]
- Elmo: Wow! Hello, everybody.