COOKIE MONSTER: Hi.
Me, Cookie Monster, and this
big fellow here is rock.
Hi, rock.
We're here to ask intriguing
scientific question.
Which one of us is alive?
Me or rock?
Yeah.
Let's find out with help from
this sign, prepared by the
good folks at the What's
Alive Institute.
OK, sign says, it is alive if
number one, it grows, number
two, it breathes, number
three, it eats.
Yeah, OK.
Let's start with number
one, yeah.
It is alive if--
what's it again?
Oh yeah, it grows.
Well, me happen to have photo
of when me was little baby
cookie monster.
Oh, me so cute, yeah.
But now, me bigger.
Ergo me grew.
Yeah.
OK, how about you, rock?
You got photo?
Me take anything, driver's
license, passport, whatever.
No?
OK, number two.
It is alive if it breathes.
Yeah.
Ready?
Listen to this.
[BREATHING]
Cookie Monster definitely
breathing.
Yeah.
How about rock?
Let's listen.
Hello, rock?
No.
Rock no breathing.
Yeah.
Not looking too good
for rock here.
OK, let's look at this.
OK, it's alive if it eats.
Yeah.
What do we have around
here to eat?
Oh, cookies!
Yeah!
Watch this.
[CHOMPING]
Cookies!
Ah.
Cookie Monster definitely
eats, yeah.
What about rock?
Let's check.
OK, rock, here is a cookie.
Eat up.
No.
No, rock not eat cookie.
Now we know for sure that rock
not alive, but Cookie Monster
grow, breathe, and eat, yeah.
So Cookie Monster alive.
[CHOMPING]
Cookie Monster still hungry.
Why not?
[CHOMPING]
It's good to be alive.
[BURPS]
