- [All] Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!

- All the way down the track.

The end.

(all laugh)

- Hi!

- Welcome to Sesame Street!

- Chris is reading us our new favorite book.

- That's right!

It's called "The Adventures of the Happy Little Train."

- It's the best book ever!

- You mean the worst book ever!

All that happy choo choo chooing!

Bleh!

I'm just glad it's over.

- Oscar doesn't like the train book?

- I thought everybody liked trains.

- Yeah, my mommy says trains

are an excellent form of transportation.

- And they take you to lots of new places!

- Oh yeah?

Well, why don't you hop on one and go far away!

- Elmo would love to have his own train to drive.

Maybe not a real train,

but Elmo could pretend he had a train!

Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!

It's Elmo's own happy little train!

- Elmo made a train out of a cardboard box!

- Hey, nice wheels, buddy.

Hey Elmo!

You are the engineer.

That means you are the driver.

- Engineer Elmo!

Chugga chugga, chugga chugga woo woo!

- Not so fast, furry face.

That's just the engine.

A real train has cars too.

- Oh, Oscar's right.

Oh yeah.

The happy little train has one, two cars.

- Oh.

- Oh no!

Elmo's train doesn't have any car.

- Then I guess it's not a train, the end.

- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

- Yes.

With a little imagination.

- [Both] And.

- Two cardboard boxes, you have,

- Two cars for your train!

(all laugh)

- Thanks Zoe and Rosita!

- That's what friends are for!

- Check it out, Oscar!

Now the train has an engine, and one, two cars!

- Oh.

Goody goody.

- I will play the train conductor

and my job is to make sure the passengers

are safe on board the train.

- That's right.

The train conductor also collects tickets

from in the passengers.

- Oh, oh, oh, oh!

- I'll play the passenger.

Here's my ticket, conductor Rosita.

- Thank you very much, passenger, Zoe.

- Thank you!

- Well, now that you guys have planned how to play,

let's roll!

- Come on everybody, let's sing the happy little train song!

- There's a happy little train song?

(Oscar moans)

♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪

♪ The happy little train is coming through, through ♪

♪ Hear the happy little whistle going woo woo ♪

♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪

(all but Oscar laugh)

- Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo!

- I just gotta stop this happy train business.

I got it!

I don't wanna ruin this fun I know we're all having here,

but a train can't just go anywhere like that!

- No?

- No, no.

It has to follow train tracks.

- There's no train tracks on Sesame street.

- Unless, we make train tracks.

- What?

- With the little imagination and oh!

A big piece of chalk.

(train whistle blares)

(playful music)

- Okay. There you are.

I drew pretend train tracks for you.

(all but Oscar laugh)

- Now the happy little train can follow the train tracks!

- Yeah.

Just like a real train!

- Thank you so much, Chris.

- Oh, you're so welcome.

Hey, listen, I have to get back to work,

but you all have fun, okay?

- Bye Chris!

- Okay!

Now let's play happy little train all day long!

- Oh no!

- Hey Oscar, do you wanna play happy little train with us?

- No!

Grouches don't play nicey games like that.

- Hey wait, I have an idea.

Hey Oscar.

- What?

- You don't have to be nice.

- I don't?

- No!

You could be the, the mean grouchy ogre!

- Mean grouchy ogre?

- Yeah yeah!

The mean grouchy ogre who.

- Who wants to stop the happy little train?

- Yeah!

- Yes! - Yeah.

- How can I resist?

I'll do it.

- Yay!

Oscar's gonna play with us!

- [All But Oscar] Oscar's gonna play with us.

Oscars gonna--

- Hey hey hey!

Keep it down.

We don't want the whole world to know.

- Sorry, Oscar.

Attention!

The happy little train is now leaving the station!

- All aboard!

Next stop, Hooper's Store!

- Come on, everybody!

Sing with us!

♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪

♪ The happy little train is coming through, through ♪

♪ Hear the happy whistle going woo woo ♪

♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪

- Stop the train!

(girls grunt)

Look!

There's something on the train track blocking our way!

(pickles giggling)

- All six sour pickles!

Who put those on the track?

- I did! (laughs)

- Who are you?

- I'm the meanest grouchiest ogre in town, that's who!

- Boy. Oscar's really good at playing the ogre!

- Yeah.

But we've got get to Hooper's Store!

- Well, forget about it, little engine that couldn't!

Your happy little train is going nowhere.

- [Zoe And Rosita] Oh no!

- Oh yes! (laughs)

I think I like playing train.

- Wait a minute, wait a minute!

We can't just give up!

We have to think of a way to solve the problem!

- Well maybe we could go around the pickles?

- Oh yeah!

- Oh, wait a minute.

But the train can't go off the track.

- That's right.

Face it.

your chugga chugga, choo chooin' days are over.

- Unless.

What if we asked the pickles to move?

(Elmo laughing)

- Rosita!

Talk to the pickles?

(all laugh)

That's so crazy, that just might work!

- Let's try it.

- Pickles!

- Wait for me!

- They'll never get those grouchy pickles to move!

(pickles laughing)

- Excuse Elmo.

But could you pickles please get off the train track?

- No!

- We're not moving. - Yeah.

- Why not?

- 'Cause we're sour pickles, that's why!

- And being sour makes us mean and grouchy!

- Yeah.

- Way to go, pickles.

- Oh dear.

This plan's not working.

Oh, what now?

- Wait a minute.

Elmo has an idea.

Excuse Elmo, pickles.

Do the pickles wanna come for a ride on a train?

- What?

- You're asking us to ride on a train?

- Even though we're mean and grouchy?

- Yeah.

- Oh, sure.

Everybody's welcome in the happy little train.

- Oh, well I've never on a train before.

- Me neither.

- Come on, let's go.

- Yeah, let's go.

- Where are you going?

But what are you doing?

Pickles, come back here!

Oh phooey.

♪ Hear the happy whistle going woo woo ♪

♪ Chugga chugga, chugga chugga choo choo ♪

- Station stop is Hooper's Store!

- Bye bye!

- Adios, pickles! - Bye, pickles!

- See you later!

- Hey, is everybody ready for lunch?

- Yeah! - Yes please!

- Well hurry up, will ya?

I wanna keep playing.

This time, I'm gonna be even, grouchier.

- A grouch playing pretend?

Now I've seen everything.

(playful music)

- Come on, where's the food?

- Right here, right here!

- Fork it over!