MURRAY: Hi!
I'm Murray from Sesame Street, and I'm looking for the Word
on The street.
What's the Word on the Street?
GIRL: Courteous.
MURRAY: What does it mean to be courteous?
GIRL: To be polite and nice.
BOY: And respectful
WOMAN: And you use manners.
MURRAY: How can you act courteous?
BOY: Saying please and thank you.
GIRL: Open the door for someone.
BOY: Or giving up your chair.
MURRAY: Keep listening for the word courteous today
on Sesame Street.
GIRL: Courteous.
MURRAY: Pardon me over here.
[INAUDIBLE] Murray.
MURRAY: Courteous.
That's the word on the street.
COBIE: Hi, I'm Cobie.
GROVER: And I am cute and lovable little Grover.
COBIE: Now, we're here to tell you
all about today's word, which is courteous.
GROVER: Yes.
Courteous.
And I know all about the word courteous.
COBIE: Oh, that's fantastic.
Grover, why don't you tell everybody what courteous means?
GROVER: I will not only tell them.
I will show them what courteous is.
This is courteous.
It is a little bow like so.
A dainty bow.
COBIE: Actually, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Grover,
but that's a curtsy.
GROVER: Yeah, that's what I said-- oh, right, yes.
The word courteous means something completely different.
COBIE: It does.
GROVER: Yeah.
COBIE: So tell them what courteous really means, Grover.
GROVER: Um, yes.
COBIE: OK.
GROVER: I will do that.
COBIE: OK.
GROVER: Posthaste.
Yes.
Um.
Ah!
It is a cute little flower bracelet
you wear when you dress up all fancy like.
Hm.
Yeah.
COBIE: That's a corsage.
GROVER: Is it a period of time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth?
COBIE: That's Cretaceous.
GROVER: [GROANING] Oh, who am I kidding?
I have no idea what courteous means.
Oh, Cobie.
If you could be so kind, would you
show everyone what courteous is, please?
COBIE: Grover, you're showing courteous right now.
GROVER: I am?
Where is this courteousness coming from?
It is not leaking out of my nose, is it?
COBIE: [LAUGHING] No.
Courteous means being polite and having good manners.
GROVER: It does?
COBIE: Mhm.
So when you were saying please and thank you,
you were being courteous.
GROVER: Huh.
And I did not even know it.
Thank you for letting me know, Cobie.
COBIE: Of course.
And thank you for being so courteous, Grover.
You have such good manners.
GROVER: Aw, thank you.
COBIE: That was courteous, too.
GROVER: What can I say?
I am a naturally courteous monster.
BOTH: Courteous.
[GROANING]
NARRATOR: Oh, these gentlemen need a comfortable place
to sit and relax.
But that rock is not very comfortable, is it, sir?
Oh, but the chair looks comfy.
Let's see if he'll be courteous and share the chair.
Nope!
Not being courteous.
He found a seat.
[LAUGHING]
NARRATOR: It was a turtle!
I didn't see that coming.
[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]
NARRATOR: He's sharing the chair.
That's courteous.
Oh, that is not courteous.
Shouldn't do that.
[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]
NARRATOR: Wait a minute.
[GASPING]
NARRATOR: They're taking turns.
They're being courteous and taking turns.
Good job, guys.
Courteous.
ERNIE: I'm home!
Hello?
Anybody home?
Oh, Bert?
Bert, are you home?
Oh.
Look at that.
Oh, my old buddy Burt is fast asleep.
Oh dear.
Let's see.
What shall I do?
I don't want to wake-- I don't want to wake old buddy Bert up,
so I should do something that won't wake my old buddy
Bert up.
What shall I do?
I know.
I'll watch television.
[HUMMING]
Oh no.
No.
That's no good.
Because if I turn on the television set,
the noise from the television set
would wake up my old buddy Bert who's over there fast asleep.
So I can't watch television.
See, what else could I do?
Oh.
Here.
Let's see.
Here's my old nice bouncing ball.
What I can do is play with my old rubber bouncing ball,
and I'll toss it up, and it'll bounce around,
and it'll-- oh no.
If it bounces around, it would probably
bounce right over there and bounce
on top of old buddy Bert's head.
And that would wake him up, too.
Hm.
So I can't play with my ball.
Well, I guess the only thing left for me to do
is just for me to-- I'll just settle down in the old chair
here and go to sleep myself, I guess.
[SNORING]
BERT: Huh?
Who's that?
Who?
Who's that?
Where?
ERNIE: Bert.
Bert, you woke me up.
Is that any way to treat me after all the nice things
I did for you, Bert.
Why are you waking me up like that?
MURRAY: What does it mean to be courteous?
GIRL: It means that you're polite.
BOY: It means kind.
WOMAN: Courteous means to be nice to people.
GIRL: It means, like, you have manners.
MURRAY: What do you do to be courteous?
GIRL: You could help people or share with them.
GIRL: If someone's in my way, I would say excuse me,
and I wouldn't push them.
BOY: Chew with your mouth closed.
GIRL: Table manners.
GIRL: To say please and thank you.
GIRL: If someone gives you a compliment-- like if they say,
oh, I like your hat.
You could say, thank you.
GIRL: Courteous.
MURRAY: That's the Word on the Street.
And you know when it's also courteous--
after I do this-- [BURPING] and I say, excuse me.
That's me being courteous.
That's the Word on the Street.
[LAUGHING]
HENRY: Hi, I'm Henry.
ELMO: Oh, and Elmo is Elmo.
HENRY: And we're here to tell you all about the word respect.
ELMO: Yeah.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, baby.
HENRY: That spells respect.
ELMO: Yeah.
HENRY: And the word respect means treating someone
in a way that makes them feel cared for.