Bryan: Hey, Ernie. Bert and I are going out to the store. I have some oatmeal cookies I made for Cookie Monster. Would you mind wrapping them up to send over to him. His birthday was recent and I had forgotten. I feel so bad.
Ernie: Sure thing, Bryan!
Bert: Oatmeal cookies? Hunky dory! Hey, do you mind if I have a couple of those?
Bryan: I thought you'd want some, Bert. Ernie, there are lots there. Why don't you split them up for Cookie Monster and Bert and yourself.
Ernie: Oatmeal? Blech, no thanks. I think I've got some of those buttery, double chocolate fudge, caramel peanut, mega crunch cookies you made last week.
Bert: Well, I just love oatmeal cookies!
Bryan: Okay. Well, in that case, Ernie...just for Cookie and Bert. I'll get Big Bird some birdseed cookies from Hoopers.
Ernie: You got it.
Bryan: C'mon, Bert!
(Bert and Bryan head out the door...)
Ernie: Lets see here. I've got a box for Bert right there...and a box for Cookie Monster right there. Lets divide up these cookies!
Bert: (Re-enters) Hi, Ernie. I just forgot my mask.
Ernie: Oh, right. You can't go out to the store without your mask, Bert.
Bert: I left it in the hamper.
Ernie: Okay, now...time to separate the cookies here. We've got one for my ol' buddy Bert (puts 1 in Bert's box)... and one for Cookie Monster (puts one in CM's box). two for Bert (puts 1 in Bert's box), and two for Cookie Monster (puts 2 in CM's box)...
(Bert re-enters from other room with paper clip printed mask on) Got my mask!
Ernie: Very good, Bert! (continues counting) Three for Bert (puts 1 in Bert's box) and three for Cookie Monster (puts 3 cookies in CM's box)..
Bert: (Stops and investigates Ernie's counting method which seems all too familiar.) Ernie?
Ernie: Yeah, Bert?
Bert: Well, I think you're counting is off. You are supposed to divide up the cookies.
Ernie: Yeah.
Bert: Well, look at how many cookies are in Cookie Monster's box...
Ernie: Okay, I'll count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 6 cookies.
Bert: Right. Now, count how many cookies you put in my box.
Ernie: Oh okay... 1, 2, 3. 3 cookies!
Bert: There are 6 cookies for Cookie Monster and 3 for me. Now, does that look very even to you?
Ernie: There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for that, ol' buddy.
Bert: Yeah, your counting is bad.
Ernie: No.
Bert: Then what is it. He has more cookies than I do.
Ernie: Well, it is his birthday, Bert!
Bert: (suddenly realizing Ernie's logic and avoids being selfish) Oh...hmm..Yeah, you do have a point, Ernie. Okay.
Ernie: That's right! So I will wrap up these 6 cookies and give them to our dear friend the Cookie Monster for his birthday, and then in 7 months you can get your 3 little cookies, Bert! Khehehehee!
Bert: (Take to the camera, his mouth covered but his eyebrow furowed) *sigh*
(A box is left at apt 1 for CM, plus a little ornament for The Count of the American Flag with bats in place of the stars...this gift is for his belated birthday and to thank him for his counting skills at this year's election)