Buffy walks down the length of Sesame Street wearing a backpack. She takes her time, stopping to push a kid on the tire swing in the arbor and taking in her surroundings. She stops to rest at Oscar's trash can, leaning on some crates, when Oscar the Grouch pops up demanding to know what's going on. Buffy explains that she doesn't have any friends around here, she likes being alone sometimes, and that she was a rotten kid. Oscar tells her they could be pals and introduces himself, extending a hand with an unwelcome to Sesame Street. Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag.
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