Yep. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Test us. Alright. What is hectors favorite breakfast . Dont look. Okay. I think shell get this one. Done. Ready . Yeah. My favorite breakfast is. 12 pancakes. You got it right or as bob would say, you. Are correct lisa . Hector . Fancy bumping into you guys. Well, we just wanted to stop by and wish you luck, which reminds me that my watch is broken and maybe you can look at it very closely. Look at it. Look at the watch. You are getting very. Sleepy. snoring aunt sandy . Get away from them mama. Wake up, aunt sandy. Wake up we need a new plan heres a wacky thought; what if we played fair . Just thinking out loud. I dont think we have enough knowledge about each other; we would get all the answers wrong. And bob bobson will say, you are incorrect i cant deal with that. I think. We need to bring in some help. cackling who . Thanks for meeting us, francine. Of course. What do you need . You watch friends or aunts . Its my fifth favorite gameshow. We need your help to win. Whats in it for me . Beating the Electric Company. Thats a nice start, but i want a piece of the grand prize. What is it . A washer dryer, a subscription to modern aunts magazine, and a small bucket of money. How small . We dont know. If you win, i get the washer, the dryer, and the small bucket of money. That just leaves us with the magazine correct its a good magazine. Thats not going to cut it, carruthers fine i get the money and the dryer. What about the small bucket . Its yours. Both deal. beat boxing so, whats happened so far . We were selected to be on friends or aunts you were picked too . Correct. What . Correct. That means youre right. Hey, you guys were going to win; we have lots of knowledge about each other. Like, i know what your favorite breakfast is. My brain is just full of information about you knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. Were in trouble, we dont know much about each other. Our answers will be wrong, theyll be incorrect. Lets practice. Your favorite color is red. Incorrect, its blue. We need help correct oh, francine well, welcome to friends or aunts, guys. Im lisa, this is my friend, hector. Whats up . Im howie. You guys can head on back to the studio and bob will be right in. Awesome, thanks, howie. Sweet. Thats the soundproof booth. Well, this is bob bobsons microphone. You are correct. Both bob bobson. Thats right. So are you the friend or the aunt . Huh . laughter hey bob, isnt there supposed to be a studio audience . You are. Incorrect. Oh. Watch this. A little gameshow secret for ya. cheering theres your audience. Howie runs this thing. Wheres howie. Howie . Howie howie, you are getting very sleepy, and you will listen to my voice. When i snap my fingers, you will stand in the corner and sleep for the entire show, understand . Totally. snoring alright, francine lets do this. bell ringing you ready, howie . Ready, bob. Alright, lets make a gameshow. Its time for one of americas gameshows, friends or aunts and heres your host, bob bobson. applause thank you, hello, and welcome to the only gameshow that tests your knowledge of your friend, or your aunt. applause lets meet todays contestants. Is it on . It just started. Wow. This is like my 7th favorite gameshow. With us we have lisa heffenbacher, and her friend, hector ruiz. cheering and over here we have annie scrambler, and her beautiful aunt, sandy scrambler. Ok, lets get started, you know the rules, the youngest contestant goes to the booth first, so lisa, that means youre up, into the booth you go. Now lisa, can you hear me . Of course she cant, shes in a soundproof booth. laughter alright hector, you know the rules . Yeah. Then here. We go hector, what is lisas favorite animal . Write your answer down. Totally dogs, lisa loves dogs. Done. Done. That was quick. Lets get lisa out here. Lisa, come on out. Lisa, tell us what is your favorite animal . Oh, easy bob. Dogs. Dogs ok hector, show us what you wrote. Pack mule. What . Pack mule. Pack mule . Thats. Incorrect. No, dude, i wrote dogs. Careful, dude, you know the rules, we deduct points for complainers. laughter hector definitely has the knowledge, theres Something Weird about this. We better go over there and check it out. I have to hang back and help out my dad here, good luck. I dont trust you, letter c i dont trust you one bit. One minute youre making a hard c sound like car, crown, clip. But whenever you get in front of an i an e or a y, you totally change, you start making a soft c sound, like center, city, spicy. Well, im on to you letter c, onto you, from this moment on, i will never use hard or soft c again, or mine name isnt Francine Carruthers. Francine carruthers. Theres a hard and soft c in my name . You know what letter i love . The letter c, best letter in the alphabet. Oh, this is a good word and it goes around and around, lets see, it has two cs in it. Now that first one is a soft c because theres an i after it so it makes the sss sound, so. No, its cir. And now we get to the second c this one has an l after it so we know it makes the hard c sound, so its circ. Circle. Circle around, folks, yeehaw beat boxing woo oh shock, i love that beat everything you beat box sounds so sweet but can you see what i see . Youre using the sounds of hard and soft c as in cacophony and coal cupcake, calories i cant control can you call me before you go . Cawcaw was that a canary or a crow . Soft c is also nice at the end of words like rice or twice sounds like an s but take my advice sometimes you need a soft c to add that spice and when the sounds Work Together the circus is in town they run circles around this ground the other letters fall back they need a little hard c soft c practice im special agent jack bowser. Im in a scoop of trouble at the ice cream sprinkles factory. Its about to explode and i cant crack the code to get out. Help me read this. Sandy, come on out of there. laughter oh, there she goes alright, we asked annie to write down her aunts favorite snack. Whats your favorite snack . Well, i do quite like little miniature pizzas, theyre about yaybig. Whats the snack, sandy . Pretzel sticks. Annie, what did you write . Pretzel sticks, correct arbor day thats correct. Zootsuit. Incorrect. Turbans. Correct incorrect correct keep trying. Thats correct. Incorrect. Figure skating. Correct. So, that brings annie and sandys score to 538. And hector and lisas to zero, tough round for the friends, but thats ok because coming up, we got the speed round where we find out who wins the washer dryer combo, the subscription to modern aunt magazine, and the uh. The uh. Small bucket of money small bucket of money, bob. Small bucket of money, yes howie, thank you the small bucket of money. So, stick around, well be right back. Thats francine thats francine snoring oh. applause hello and were back with the speed round and the rules are exactly the same except everyone talks really fast. Hector and lisa, youve been selected to go first, are you ready to go . Both yes bob, were ready to go. Going somewhere, francine . Lisa, plug your ears and cover your eyes and hector, get ready to answer this question. Hector. What is lisas Favorite Movie . Write your answer. Why does it say, return of the ninja aardvark part iii on the wall . Howie . Howie . Howie . Oh, bob. Where are you, dude . Brunch at stephanies is correct the friends are on the board. Ok, cover your eyes, close your ears, what is annies favorite color . Francine lets see, arbor day. Incorrect arbor day. Whats arbor day . I thought you liked trees. Who are you . Long story. Hold this. Wait, come back. Francine howie . Francine howie . Bob. Whats up, bob . This way, francine. I mean, howie. Oops. One second, america. Howie, i want to show you something over here. Look at this in here. It locks. Bob, im trying to find myself. Back to work, real howie. Ok, bob. Ok, were back. applause you know what that sound means. That sound means we only have time for one more question, and that question goes to hector. Cover em up, lisa for 270 points and the win, what is lisas favorite lunch . Take your time over there. Any day now. Done he is done. Lisa, what is your favorite lunch . Turkey and swiss on seven grain bread, hold the mayo, with a pickle on the side. Hector, your answer is . Turkey and swiss on seven grain bread, hold the mayo with a pickle on the side. Is correct what a comeback by the friends, they have just won friends or aunts and i am bob bobson saying, im bob bobson goodnight everybody. I guess when they say a small bucket of money they really mean it. But there could be a lot of money stuffed in there, open it. Ok. Well, guess thats it. So, what are you going to buy with the money . Thats easy. Smoothies for my friends. Or aunts. Congratulation, Electric Company, you won that game, now try winning when Francine Carruthers makes the rules on prankster planet, no one can stop me. Will you even dare to try, Electric Company . cackling prankster planet prankster planet the reverseaballs reversing all the words on earth so its jessica and marcus to the rescue francine is a machine you must stop them all to save the world from the reverseaballs prankster planet prankster planet hello, loyal fans. Francine Francine Francine oh stop. Stop. Lets take a look at three examples of my reverseaballs on earth. Reverseaball one. Reverseaball two. Reverseaball three. Brilliant lets check on the progress of our little heroes, jessica and marcus, as they try to stop my reverseaballs. Im worried my shoes untied. Whoa marcus yep, its untied. Well, its not looking good for the Electric Company. So, why dont i make it worse . Hey, its survey time im going to hypnotize jessica and marcus and make them act like an animal. And the survey question is which animal should the Electric Company act like . Time to vote you can vote for a wooly yak, a monkey, or a baby lion. Im going to show the results of the survey using a bar graph i graph because i care. Its time to. Vote vote vote and now the part where we have the results of the survey time lets see the results. What did you vote for . This bar shows me that seven of you voted for wooly yaks. Twice as many, thats 14 of you, voted for monkeys. And 19 of you voted for baby lions. Baby lions has the tallest bar, so that one wins. The result of the survey shows that you want jessica and marcus to act like baby lions. Time you think youre baby lions. You think youre baby lions. Why would we think were baby lions . baby lion sounds oh boy, francine here little lion, you have to stop the reverseaballs. How am i gonna get you to move . Ahha very clever, marty. Hey, theres a lever. Time for my prankster planet prankster rules emergency button good luck stopping the reverseaballs now. Both hey you guys go to pbskidsgo. Org and stop the reverseaballs. The Electric Company and the people of earth need you we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a special Electric Company shoutout from prankster planet. Todays honorary Electric Company members are kylee, fastcheetah9, and supermileo congratulations both thank you. You can be an honorary member of the Electric Company, too. Online and stop francines verseaballs it starts with fl and i know that ick makes the ick sound, yelling so its fl. Ick. Flick. And theres that bossy r at the end, so you know that the r sound is going to boss that e there and make the er sound. So, fl. Ick. Er. Flicker check out flicker, its flickering. Lets go were in the wild with wild kratts. Going where no human has gone before not anymore hahhahhah hehhehheh hahahaha watch wild kratts weekdays on pbs kids go or anytime at pbs kids go dot org. The Electric Company is brought to you by. Find your voice and share it, american greetings, proud sponsor of the Electric Company. Agreement from the u. S. Department of educations ready to learn grant, and viewers like you, thank you. laughter lisa . Hector . Fancy meeting you guys here. laughter well be right back. coughing sorry, i choked on my own spit. Want to beatbox just like shock . Go online to pbskidsgo. Org and you can mix your own beatbox and share it with your friends. Theres tons of other cool games you can play like music man and jack bowser. You better get playing if you want to be as good as shock. Wild kratts is made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Wild kratts chris were here in Eastern Africa on the savannah grasslands. Hey, its the kratt brothers im chris im martin this place is teeming with hundreds of different kinds of creatures, like lions, warthogs, leopards and while it might seem like theres a lot of space out here, the animals around us are working hard to carve out their own territories, their own home turf. And if territorial creatures have to fight, the battles can get pretty intense. Like the wildebeest, who use their big horns to battle over territory. But without a doubt the rivers, lakes and waterways of africa are home to one of the most aggressive and territorial creatures of all. And there they are, the hippopotamus a group of about twenty. Chris its amazing. When youre look at a hippo in the water, youre only seeing a tiny part of the animal. Most of the 6,000 pound creature is under the water, and a lot of the hippos behavior and life happens underwater. A group of hippos is called a pod, and there is always one big bull amongst them. He is. Over there and his main job is protecting the pods home turf. Chris these pools and waterways are so important to hippo survival that every hippo, especially the bull, will protect their part of the pool at all costs from anybody and anyone who trespasses. Even that hyena over there and believe me, with that huge mouth full of tusks, you dont want to get in his way imagine if we had hippo power, and could find out what it was like to be one of the most territorial creatures in the world then wed understand what these giant creatures are all about both what if . On adventure with the coolest creatures from the oceans to the trees the brothers kratt are going places you never get to see hanging with their creature friends get ready, its the hour were gonna save some animals today with creature power gonna go wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild, wild cheetah speed and lizard glide falcon flight and lion pride gonna go wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild kratts gonna go wild, wild, wild kratts go wild, wild, wild Kratts Martin ok, how bout this . Ill make you an offer you cant refuse. Ill trade you this one for that one. Chris no way. The great white shark torpedo swimming power is like my favorite one youd have to give me about five creature power discs for this baby. It wasnt easy getting that bite force jaw power, either. Yeah. Two tons of pressure that guy can bite through a steel chain okay, look, you like to swim right . Well, check it out. Ill give you this hippo power for. Grass power . Not what i was thinking. Worth a try. Chris ill do it for. Your platypus electrosensory power. Ooh that hurts. I love being able to see in muddy water. Hmm. Jimmy z chiperoo . What . I always eat when im nervous. bell dinging hold it right there. Jimmy z how many of those chocolatechiperoo cookies are you going to eat . 102 and three quarters is my record. Well, they are his grandma zs famous recipe. Mmm. Okay, ready. Oh, i sure would like to walk underwater with hippo power. grunting koki whats that . Aviva that sound, i know cause its one of my favorites. Hippos grunting aviva i think thats their territorial call. Oh, theyre defending their home. From who . Why . Guys . Cmon, what do you say . This is the only hippo disc we have, so its a valuable one. And we havent used it much yet ill do it nice doin business with you, bro. Ill put my new platypus power disc right here with my bat power in the senses section. Hey, wait a second. Thats my bat power disc no, this ones mine. Yours is probably somewhere in your pile. No, i put it right there, and now its gone. Hand it over. Look, i dont know where your disc went, but this isnt it. It is too it is not is too chris is not. Martin is too oops. Ugh aviva hippo disc on the loose save it grunting all no incoming shrieking ill get that runaway disc with Peregrine Falcon power activate aviva hurry woohoo a 240 mile per hour falcon dive. Ive got it, pal. You just be my wingman. Got it saving creature powers with creature powers ugh ow. babbling oh, no. Gotta catch up to that disc geronimo okay, lets find a stinky varmint to exploit in my next invention and get out of this yucky nature fast. Hmm. A giraffe elevator . Nah oh, oh a zebra newspaper aha nah dont worry, zachbot. You never know when genius will strike this brilliant mind of mine ow oh aha see, i told you a good idea would hit me. laughing uhoh zach varmitech, inventor who makes robots out of animals. Hes got the creature power disc. Now i can analyze this silly little disc and then the secret to that creature Power Technology will be mine laughing uh oh. howling nice giant piggy thingy. howling screaming whoa chris oh, no the disc huh. screaming howling yikes got you whew close one. You okay, zach . Uh, yeah. Wow, now that right there is a territorial creature those hippopotamus are amazing. No, that hippoplattermouth or whatever is nuts hes protecting his part of the river. Thats what they do. They dont like anyone on their turf and i mean anyone. Hey, did you get the disc . Well, zach had it, but yeah, i mean i was going to give it to you guys, but then that hippocrazything attacked me. Its in the river. Oh no it could be anywhere weve gotta find it zach well, i wish i could help, but i, uh, have to, uh. Call my mother. You know how it is. Well, thanks for the rescue you guys are great. Bad news, gang. The power disc is lost in the river we know. We saw the whole thing. Weve got to get it back yeah, but thats not going to be easy. They dont even like sharing their river with a crossing zebra. And all the zebras trying to do is get to the other side. Why in the world are hippos so defensive of their river . Why are they so territorial . Hello im territorial, too. About my inventions and now theres one of my power discs out there. Lost if that disc gets into the wrong hands like zach who knows what bad things hell use the discs for . Dont worry about that. We just saved him from the jaws of an angry hippo. Yeah, seems like zachs had a change of heart this time. Aviva im not taking any chances. Im sending in the hippo sub. Get ready for a search and rescue mission did you see my acting . I deserve an award for that laughing they think im just going to let them have their disc back . No siree, bot. Im not. When i get my hands on that disc, the secret to the power Suit Technology will be mine. Yes, its a race for the power disc. And im going to win laughing evilly martin okay, now go easy. Easy oh, were just an ordinary hippo. Aviva dont worry, martin. I built this hippo sub pretty tough. Its basically indestructible. Even for a 10,000 pound creature with twofoot razorsharp tusks . Maybe. So lets just find that disc quickly then. Martin okay, weve got to ease right into the herd. Its mostly females and their calves. But then theres the bull. Hes the most aggressive of all. Making sure everyone knows that this is his stretch of river. Well, you just tell him that his stretch of river has my disc. You can tell him that. Im just going to make sure hes not around. Chris, come in. Any sign of tusker . Yeah, youre clear. Hes right here on the beach. Hes busy making sure that even the crocodiles know that he rules this part of the river. But hurry, he cant stay out of the water long. Hell overheat. They need that river to keep cool during the day. Okay, aviva, lets make our move. Before tusker gets back. Aviva hiphippo hooray, were going in martin they just hiphop along the bottom of the river, like astronauts walking on the moon. Aviva aww. Thats why i love hippos that little guy is so cute. Martin ill name him hipster opotamus. First name, hipster. Last name, opotamus. Look at him go hippity hop, hippity hop. Oh, hi, little hipster hipster, look out crocodile aviva i thought hippos ruled the river. Martin yeah, but crocs will grab a calf if they get a chance momma opotamus to the rescue aviva whew, that was close wheres hipster . There whats he doing . Aviva the disc hipster found the disc martin oh yeah lets go oh no hes heading back mayday mayday mayday mayday whoa yuck. Whats with this slimy rock . Hey, youre not a rock. howling youre a hippo. So that means this is not slime, its natural hippo sunscreen. Thanks, bud i wish our skin made a natural sunscreen like yours does. Whoa ugh got to go. Got to keep my eye on tusker. If he finds that hippo sub in his river, there could be trouble grunting and theres the trouble. Martin aviva come in thats it, try to get past that big beasty varmint. Oh, and we may just be too busy to help if they get in a jam laughing whoa ugh martin follow that hippo alright, hes going up for air. Nows our chance. Okay. Hold on tight, were going in both whoa martin its tusker. Hes back and hes taking on a challenger who wants to take over his part of the river. Both ugh weve got to get out of here i think we can slip around and get the disc. Martin what . we cant get between these two. Aviva we have to try growling wow those tusks are like massive swords jabbing at each other. Its like two sumo wrestlers in a swordfight. Are you guys getting out of there . Martin im working on it, dude. Aviva, weve got to retreat whoa not until we get the disc. Thats the point gah no, thats the point. Ow both whoa now are you ready to get out of here . Yeah, nows good. Initiating emergency exit. Whoa, and tusker wins defending his territory. Okay, okay, i get it. Hippos fiercely protect their part of the river. ringing so now can somebody tell me why hippos defend that river so much . Well, partly because theyd overheat and die if they didnt have a cool place to be during the hot days. And zach laughing aw, whats wrong . Your invention couldnt stand up to the hippopotoplatypus whatever. Too bad. Well, thanks for showing me where the power disc is. Ive got it now laughing zach, youre going to steal our disc right after we saved you . Finders keepers and with this creature Power Technology, my varmint robots will be even more powerful look out varmints of the world, varmint robots 2. 0 is about to begin laughing told you hell never change. Weve got to get that disc back. Not just for us, but for all the creatures of the world we need all hands on deck. Koki, jimmy, bring in the tortuga. Weve got a problem. He flew off in that direction. Im not picking up any sign of him. Maybe he doubled back. Ill do another radar sweep. Any luck, guys . No sign of zach, but i found hipster and momma o. The hippos are coming ashore. Ahh hit the deck hippos first. Pardon me. Chris guys over here. A clue zach tracks. Somehow little hipster always leads us in the right direction. Zach went this way. Lets follow the hippo path. Yeah, ill just, uh, wait at the tortuga. Gah cookies, here i come. Whoa theres no time to lose. The sooner i unlock the secret to the disc technology, the better. Hmm. I see shes using a gyrotonic chip that stores transformation data. Very interesting. Now if i can just get deeper. Aviva computer voice pass code required. Pass code . ugh heres my pass code grunting open up aviva computer voice entry denied. Is that you, zach . What . Aviva she thinks her security measures will stop me, well ill sniffing i recognize that breath. grunting and that sound. howling screaming ow hey, get me down from here uh, could you pass me that disc . growling okay, fine. Fine uhoh. Im losing zachs tracks. Too many hippos have passed through here. Yeah, to get right over there. Look they came here for breakfast. Aviva what . I thought hippos ate fish. Chris nope. They eat grass. Huge mouthfuls of it theyll eat 88 pounds of grass in one sitting. Martin but they can only come to eat it at night when its cool out. Chris and they like to be back at their precious river before the hot sun rises. zach groaning, straining hey, you see that disc right there . Okay, thats a good little hippopottymus. Now give it to me. No, no, nonononono come, piggy heel. Heel jimmy, can you give me a hand with this spotlight . Ill help with the search. One secundo, koki. Another batch of cookies. Really . Now . What . I told you. I always eat when im nervous. Uhoh. Jimmy, hand me a cookie. Theres trouble in hippoville. Oh, no lions whoa lions dont mess with a hippo very often. But when they do, the hippos know what to do. Head to the river you mean their safety zone . Chris yeah, lions hate water. So its another reason the river is so important to the hippos. And shell get there, no problem. Not again whoa whoa screaming yes she made it to home base hipster you found the disc laughing way to go screaming both ugh yes ive still got the hippo disc. Yes. But ive got your whole collection. Perfect timing. Back to the ship laughing aviva no thats my lifes work if he gets back to his ship, were in trouble, guys. Dont worry, aviva. Were on it. With hippo power. Activate now im tough and territorial the two ts of the hippo. Those discs belong to the wild kratts, and well defend them hippo style now are you glad you made that trade . Martin oh yeah zach to zachbot security. Bring in my jet. And send in reinforcements chris zach, you want to play keepaway . Game on martin hippo hip bump whoa chris thanks both gasping my bots are tougher than a team of lions your hippo power wont be tough enough. Hurry come on gotta eat theyre catching up pour on the hippo power, Martin Martin go, chris, go ill use my hippo tusk defense to block for you. Never mess with a hippo defending his turf. grunting cheering, shouting uhoh. growling grunting crashing the discs are back back at home base hiphippo all hooray zach yoohoo, brothers uh, you forgot something. growling ill give your stinky hippotobabything back if the wild rats give up those discs. First of all, its wild kratts. And second, theres no way were giving you my discs. Chris okay, fine, zach. You can have my collection. Just let little hipster go. What . But you we cant give zach the secret to my creature Power Technology. Hell jump into his ship, fly off, and well never catch him. Thats true. But if we dont, hell take poor little hipster away. Thats true, too. Aviva, we dont have a choice. Nice trade laughing see ya how could you do that, chris . Oof we had to save hipster. Yeah, but you just gave him the discs no, i didnt. Yes, you did you gave him the whole disc holder but not the discs. laughing im a genius now lets see which ones i got. What . Cookies . No nice of you to send him off with a care package, bro. Yeah, i just hope he likes chocochiperoos. Doesnt everybody . laughing well, i know one thing, my power discs are safe and back where they belong. And i finally know why hippos are so territorial. The rivers a key to their survival. Its their refuge from the hot sun and from tough predators. So they defend it. Right, so never mess with a hippo. One of the most territorial creatures on the planet. Ok, so chris, how about you give me your tasmanian devil power disc for my squid disc . Hmm. Well, i would like to try out those tentacles. What else do you have in there . Aviva goodnight, guys. Martin hey, we cant see our creature power discs so, hippos are tough and territorial. They depend on the water and they make sure to protect it. honking listen. You hear that . honking thats the pod making their honking sounds telling any other hippos in the area that this spot is theirs. The bull hes coming out its a pretty cool day, so the bull doesnt mind coming out of the river for a while. Whoa, look at him move, slow and steady. That is a big creature, and its really special getting to see him out of the water for a change. Hes like a 6,000 pound watermelon on legs. And you can see why a single lion would not want to mess with an animal this massive. Whats he doing . Ugh, gross that might look kind of gross, but its actually a really important hippo behavior. That bull hippo is spraying the dung around with his tail to tell any other hippos that come around that this spot is his. Lots of animals use scent marking. Leopards have scent glands on their cheeks that they rub on vegetation. And they spray scent, too. All to send the message this is my space. Back off chris african wild dogs also scent mark, and if another pack smells that scent, they know to keep out. Ah, now hes eating were so lucky to see this during the day. They usually do it at night. Grass thats what a hippo eats. Check him out taking big mouthfuls, swinging his head side to side hippos eat about 80 pounds of grass every night. And sometimes hippos will warm up and rest on the banks for a while. But before too long, its back to the refuge of the river. This is the hippos safety zone from the hot sun, dehydration and predators. And thats worth protecting, for the good of the pod and the next generation of hippos. And if you know how to keep your distance and give the hippo its space, you can always check out this really cool creature. Well see you on the creature trail. Keep on creature adventuring. An african crested porcupine. Who knew that porcupines were such great swimmers . One of the reasons are their quills. They have a bonus creature power theyre hollow. They help make the porcupine a great swimmer. Theyre like natural flotation devices, making it easy for the porcupine to swim. Did you know elephants like to give themselves dust baths . It protects them from sunburn. Its cool how she uses her legs to dig it up and then her trunk to wrap around and take a scoop full of dirt. And elephants also eat dirt. She eats it for the salt content. Salt and minerals are in this dirt so shes picking the exact spot that has the minerals she needs. A Monarch Butterfly when you look closely at animals, you notice all sorts of things you never saw before. Amazing patterns. White dots. These black veins. I love the white dots on the body. And if you look real close, you can see they have big, black eyes. An awesome butterfly announcer theyre nutty and funny and their hair is blue. Its thing one and thing two. 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Every day, when youre walking down the street everybody that you meet has an original point of view laughing and i say, hey hey what a wonderful kind of day if we could learn to work and play and get along with each other you got to listen to your heart, listen to the beat listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street open up your eyes, open up your ears get together and make things better by working together its a simple message, and it comes from the heart believe in yourself believe in yourself for thats the place to start place to start and i say, hey hey hey what a wonderful kind of day if we can learn to work and play and get along with each other hey what a wonderful kind of day hey what a wonderful kind of day hey arthur on tv hey, d. W. hey whoa loud thud letters shattering applause, pal barks thank you, thank you. Isnt it great to be appreciated . But a lot of big achievements didnt get a round of applause when people first found out about them. Like galileo. His revolutionary ideas got him into a lot of trouble. The sun does not revolve around the earth. Rather, the earth revolves around the sun. Ha thats ridiculous everyone knows that everything revolves around me. Take him away gasps even the composer Ludwig Van Beethoven wasnt a huge success right away. One teacher thought he was a hopeless case. playing opening notes of fifth symphony d. W. stop, stop, stop its terrible. You should quit now. Take up another instrument something easy, like the harmonica. Better yet, dont be a musician. Maybe you could become a worm picker. Oh, and there are no refunds for this lesson. Pay at the front desk. And there are other famous people who had tough starts, like. Here. Im giving you half a star for the opening of this show. One star is usually the lowest you can get, but i made an exception. Youre wrong. This opening was great. But the show will be even better. I promise. Oh, just start it already. Neil gaiman what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart and trust your story. He writes novels and comics and movies and poetry. Is there anything that neil gaiman doesnt write . Ive never written a cookbook. Hmm. Might be fun to try. Oh giggles sorry. Not to worry. Whats your name . Sue ellen. Are you a writer, sue ellen . Um, well, kind of. I keep a journal, and there are some stories in there. But i really like drawing and doodling, too. So. I dont know what that makes me. It makes you very creative. Ever try your hand at a graphic novel . No. Whats a graphic novel . Its a novel told with pictures. Or a comic book with a longer story, if you like. Heres one that was adapted from my book coraline. It might inspire you. Thanks. Neil no, no. Its on the house. When your graphic novel gets published, you can give me a free copy. Deal . Deal freaky, but cool. Sue ellens graphic novel. yawns it is the roundness of the falafel, of the pita, of the planet. Roundness is wholeness. Wholeness is oneness. You understand, yes . Uh, yeah, sure. Binky could i have hot sauce with that . No white sauce is better for you. You have too much fire in blood. Mmm perfect huh. Maybe i do have too much fire in blood. Sue ellen hi, mr. Contabulous. One with everything, please. Is true. We are all one with everything. No, i meant. But everyone is different also. There is pita people. There is pizza people. Pita people round, like pita. Pizza people very pointy. Always must make point. Round people and pointy people. This i call falafelosophy. You understand . Not really, but i like it. Sue ellen what if there was a world filled with only circles and triangles . Circles ow laughing and then. Oh, this is silly neil i was quite enjoying it, actually. Neil gaiman . what are you doing in my falafel . Oh, im not neil gaiman. I mean, well. I am. But im your neil gaiman. Im your inner neil, as it were. I still dont get it. Well, this is a fantasy. Here, thisll help. Cue special effects there much clearer. Neil dont judge your story. Youve just started it. I know, but. Circles and triangles . Whos going to like that . You never know. You cant assume your audience are all squares. chuckles okay, scrap that joke. Bit before your time. Anyway, trust your heart. Trust your story. Okay, ill give it a shot. Mmm. Delicious sue ellen once upon a place, there was a happy time when happy circles spun endlessly and beginninglessly. And there was no circle more circular than. The great contabulous falafelosophy small circles ooh nearby, the triangles gathered to argue their points. Pointapointapointa point point . pointa, pointa pointa, pointa all arguing they were so consumed with their arguing that they had never noticed their circular neighbors, until triangulops dropped in. Pointa the triangles finally found something they could all agree on circles didnt have any points. They just circulated. And that really annoyed the triangles. Point point point. The circles and the triangles didnt know it yet, but soon they would be engaged in great battle, the battle of the shapes. Francine i dont get it. Sue ellen well, its just the first chapter. See, i wanted my graphic novel to be really simple, but. Graphic novel . Whats that . A novel with graphs . Muffy it doesnt sound very marketable. A graphic novel is a narrative work where the story is largely conveyed to the reader with pictures. It still doesnt sound very marketable. But who are the circles . Am i a circle . Actually, youre more of a triangle. Now, buster hes a circle. That is so untrue im very circular. How could you think im a triangle . For the record, i refuse to be categorized by a geometric shape. Muffy im sorry, but we cant publish this. I didnt ask you to publish it. I just asked you to read it. Do you think im a triangle . Oh, please. Youre the pointiest person i know. neil clears his throat i hate to disturb you, but your smoothie is getting warm. You dont want to be stuck with a warm smoothie. Its like drinking fruity bath water. Im not thirsty. Look, writing cant just be about pleasing other people. Youve got a story to tell, and youre the only one who can tell it. I know. But i want them to like it. Of course you do. But sometimes it takes a while for people to appreciate something new. Dont give up. Thanks, inner neil. slurping sue ellen on a night with no moon, the triangles kidnapped the great contabulous. Point, point, point, point, point point, point, point chapter six. Despite all the pointing done by the triangulops, the great contabulous would still not deny his circularity. The moon reminded him that much in the universe was round, and if triangles ever came together, they too could form a pie. The battle was in full swing. The triangles charged at the circles. The circles bounced on the triangles. Mr. Contabulous hey, shakespeare be in moment, not in book. Oh, sorry. I was just finishing a chapter. Glad to see youre still writing. Youre very big today. Shouldnt you be in my falafel, or cereal, or something . gasps youre the real neil it depends on what you mean by real, but yes, according to my passport, i am almost definitely neil gaiman. Hows the book coming . Great actually, terrible. Do you have five minutes . Here with extra hot sauce. Your blood is cold. Now im up to chapter eight, where it looks like the triangles have won the battle, and i really like it, but no one else will understand it. I think it sounds great. Can i take a look at it . Really . Would you . Id love. Wait, where is it . gasps i left it at the falafel truck you cant just abandon your falafel like that. Sue ellen i give book to your friends rich one, bossy one and big head. Pizza people. They go that way. Go after her. She is great writer of falafelosophy. Wait. You need more fire. Go go im too late. They read it, and they obviously think its terrible. Francine youre completely wrong. The triangles are the ones who get things done in the world. But they have a narrow point of view. See, thats the whole metaphor. Im seeing a 3d movie. We need a good british actor for evil triangulops. Hes not evil. Hes misunderstood. Your friends dont think its terrible. They may or may not understand it, but they certainly think its interesting. They do . Francine you know what i want to know . What happens next. Ah the three magic words that every writer always wants to hear, what happens next . I think youll be giving me that free book someday. Sue ellen and the triangles learned that they needed circles to remind them of wholeness. And the circles learned that they needed triangles to remind them of pointiness. And they all lived happily ever before, which is the same as after, just in reverse. And now. Student this is my fourthgrade class and we have all made graphic novels. A graphic novel is pictures and words that are combined to make a story. First we made our own graphic novels in pencil. The title of my graphic novel is snakeshark. Im swimming all of a sudden, he sees a snakeshark. Oh, snack a snakeshark is a shark and a snake combined. And then at the end, they make good friends. Whoohooo my storys about a girl when she went to the pet store. And she wanted to get a dog because it was the only one left. Mom, cant i get him . No please . Finally her mom said yes, she could get him. Thank you ruff, ruff the picture tells the actions, and the words just say what the character is thinking or what the character is saying. I think that you didnt really need to have words in a story. The title of my graphic novel is dynamite fishing. The picture tells most of the story. Pht. Pow. Poom this is justins graphic novel. Its called the burrito. Wow too spicy when he ate it, it was too spicy. The fire power burned the king. And then we worked in groups to make our own in color. Lets go get the golden fish. Yeah, right. As if theyre going to get me. Ahhh never play with the golden fish did he just talk . The title of this graphic novel is going camping. Is camp going to be fun . Or are people going to make fun of me . The graphic novels can also send messages, more than just being a story. Do you want to be friends . Sure. Youre my best friend. Thanks. Whats good about it is that you could take a new, fresh idea right off your mind and turn it into a really good story. And now. Huh . All right, mister, very funny. Give them back. Give what back . You know what. You stole my socks. Probably to make a sweater for your moronic bunny doll. I did not in fact, i was just going to ask you. Have either of you seen my socks . gasps yours are gone, too . Quick call the feet police theres a bootee burglar on the loose everyone hide your shoes hell be after those next relax. Im sure theres a perfectly logical explanation. Like what . I dont know. grunting and groaning pal panting i brought everything i could find. Is the market still open . It just closed. Im afraid were too late. We couldnt stop him. That greedy amphibian bought up every single sock. The sock market has crashed, and now anybody who wants a sock has to go to mr. Toad. laughing evilly they said i was just a tadpole. Well, i showed them i beat em at their own game. From now on, were playing mr. Toads game. laughing evilly howling come on, hans move those stubby little legs. Ive got a tree to redecorate. Mush mush what will this mean for pets and their families . Amigo im not sure, but its probably not good. Lets ask the chairpet of the footwear reserve, ben st. Bernardky. Hmm, could be a repeat of the great chilly toes scare. icanastos when i was a puppy, my greatgrandpa told me about the great chilly toes scare of 1929. It affected the entire world. Socks became very expensive. Many people could not afford to buy them. So they got blisters and were cranky. And their feet smelled terribly. Normally, smelly feet are not a problem for dogs. We enjoy them, like a ripe camembert. sniffing but even a dog has his limits. howling also, because times were tough, there was no bacon. Stop stop its too terrible we must find a way to get some of those socks back from mr. Toad. But how . Theres someone who might be able to help us. Toady were rich, but i never get to see him. With toad, its always work, work, work. Bring the sock into the shade, alphonse. All this sun dries me out. toady sighs sometimes i miss the days when i was just d. W. s pet. But can you help us . If we cant convince mr. Toad to give back some of those socks, it could be bad for everyone. Toad doesnt listen to me when it comes to business. But i promise ill get him to meet with you. Maybe you can convince him. Well, its been nice chatting, but ive got to go. Were having the turtlemans over for dinner and i have to pick up the slugs. Toady said it was a big tree by the edge of the pond. Now i wonder which one it could. Oh. Found it. Yeah . I have an appointment to see mr. Toad. Name . Pal. Pal read. Wait here. Sorry. Youre not on the list. But i have an appointment his wife, toady, assured me that he would see me today. groans wait here. Sorry. Youre still not on the list. Fine. Then i will wait right here until mr. Toad sees me. I also just might mark this territory. Okay, okay youre on the list. Follow me. elevator bell dings rat squeaking elevator bell dings uh, mr. Toad, sorry to disturb you, but. Hey who let you in . Security wait im pal read. Toady said i could see you. I remember you. Friend of the baby. Liked hotdogs. What do you want . You got two minutes. Well, uh, in the interest of preventing a chilly toes scare, my colleagues and i feel you should give back some of the socks you bought, and. Not a chance. But its the right thing to do. Right, shmight. Listen, puppy, its a jungle out there well, maybe its not a jungle, but it is a marsh and the law of the marsh is take as much as you can, whenever you can. Now, if you ask me to loan you a sock, thats different. Okay. When would i have to give it back . In a week. Along with ten other socks. Thats ridiculous what makes you think i would ever agree to such a terrible deal . What if i throw in a few wieners . Oh. Youre a coldblooded creature, mr. Toad. So . How did it go . spits it wasnt a complete loss. One sock . Thats all you got back . Er, not exactly. This one is on loan. I have to pay mr. Toad back ten socks by the end of the week. Ten socks . We dont have ten socks. What happens if we dont pay him . Well, i think i may have promised him this house. He said something about a toad colony that he wanted to rent it to. Pal it all happened so fast. Oh, kate im a terrible businessdog. Ive ruined us again. Dont worry, pal. sobbing well think of something. croaks screams dad arthur put a frog in my slippers arthur i did not d. W. then how did it get there . Arthur i dont know. sighs never a dull moment. croaks screams mug shatters on floor but it hasnt been a week yet. Those toads have no right to be in there. Relax. Theyre just looking around. And besides, you and i both know you wont be able to pay me back. The lily pond will go here, hans. Make a note of it. You dont know that. Pal and i have a plan. chuckling sure you do. But a deals a deal, and unless you give me ten woolly ones by friday, the bullfrogs are comin in. So, whats the plan . I was bluffing. Oh, dear. If only we had something mr. Toad wanted. That would give us an edge. But he already has everything. Wed have to create something he doesnt have and then. Wait a minute. Thats not such a bad idea. Pal see, then when everyone else has this new thing, mr. Toad wont be able to resist. Hell be just like i was with those wieners the other day. What wieners . gulps its not important. The point is, if we can make it seem like we have something valuable, then i bet we can get some of those socks back. I like it. But whats. The thing . Ham bones . No, it has to be something we can get a lot of. And frankly, id rather have a ham bone than a sock. What about sticks . There are plenty of those. True. But mr. Toad lives near the woods. He can get all the sticks he wants. I cant think on an empty stomach. Why arent there any crumbs here . Its just. spits lint killer why do you want me to have this lint . I dont like lint. It makes my tongue itch. You dont have to like it. You just have to pretend to like it. Its all so we can open up the sock market again and prevent a chilly toes scare. I keep my socks under a pillow. And whose toes are chilly . Mine arent chilly. Hers arent chilly. Its boiling in the house look, if you help us, i promise. To play with you. barking excitedly but you have to spread the word everyone loves lint. You betcha its a deal. Cat i use lint as a hat and my pillow me too its so much softer than a sock. Now, this is pashmina lint the best. Dont tell anyone, but i can get you some for halfprice. Why dont we have any lint . The salamanderos have lint, the fiddleheads have lint. Why dont we have any . Lint is worthless. Its not something real, like socks. Well, i sat on some at the salon and it was very soft. Thats all im saying. squirrel chittering what is that . A lint beret . Let me see that. Puh shoddy material. Falls apart with the slightest pressure. Mmm. But it does smell nice. And it is soft. Hmm. Pal todays the day, and i dont have ten socks how will arthur get any homework done with a house full of toads . Just stick to the plan, pal. Here he comes now. Well, wheres the wool, puppy . You were right. I cant pay you back. The house is yours. Come on, kate, lets go pack up the lint. Hold on a second. Youve got lint . Tons of it. In fact, we were thinking of trading in some of it for a bigger house. You know how it is. Pal everyone just seems to love lint these days. I want it i want all of it. Every last piece youve got. Ill give you anything. Anything just give me that lint bell dings animals all squawking and barking busily pal when do you think mr. Toad will discover that his lint is worthless . Whos to say its worthless . I mean, lint is soft, and it does smell nice. Maybe mr. Toad will be very happy with his lint. Very true, amigo. One creatures lint is anothers sock. Unless, of course, your lint gets wet. Oh, si then it is completely worthless. Niente. Nada. Garbage. thunder buster bunny here. Want an easy way to take care of yourself, be healthier and have fun, too . Just move every day. Moving 60 minutes every day makes you feel stronger, happier, peppier. And its good for your mind, too. Exercise can make everything feel brighter. Check it out for yourself. Get moving announcer have a blast and stay active with arthur and all your pbs kids go friends. Two brothers. Allright who know a lot about creatures. Tdevils have the strongest jaws of any mammal. And personal hygiene. Yuck watch wild kratts on pbs kids go or anytime at pbs kids go dot org. [ female announcer ] fun for everyone makes a family strong. Chuck e. Cheeses proudly supports pbs kids. And by contributions to your pbs station from [ female announcer ] fun for everyone makes a family strong. To watch more arthur and play games with all of the elwood city friends, visit pbskidsgo. Org. You can find arthur books and lots of other books, too, at your local library. What a wonderful kind of day hey what a wonderful kind of day hey every week. Thats me martha speaks is proof positive. Do we love llamas, people . Theres nothing like a talking dog. Hello voices fluttering you guys are really irritating. Does irritating mean fun . On your mark. Go martha speaks, on pbs kids. Wow barking horns toot stocks fell on worries that china might. Announcer the new pbs for ipad app. Youll never know what youll find. [dog barks] announcer available now in the app store. Martha speaks is funded in part by. Kiddie Academy Child Care learning centers. Proud supporter of pbs kids. Providing educationally focused child care, preparing children for school and for life. Kiddie academy. For public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from man martha was an average dog she went. And. And. barking, growls when she ate some alphabet soup then what happened was bizarre. On the way to marthas stomach, the letters lost their way. They traveled to her brain, and now. Shes got a lot to say now she speaks. How now, brown cow . Martha speaks yeah, she speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks. Whats a caboose . When are we eating again . Martha speaks. Hey, joe, what do you know . My names not joe. Shes not always right, but still that martha speaks. Hi, there. Shes got the voice, shes ready to shout martha will tell you what its all about sometimes wrong, but seldom in doubt martha will tell you what its all about that dogs unique. Testing, one, two. Hear her speak martha speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and. Communicates, enumerates, elucidates, exaggerates indicates and explicates bloviates and overstates and. panting hyperventilates martha to reiterate martha speaks. Narrator what words make things go . Find out in todays thrillpacked, nonstop adventurama. Now heres your host. Hello in todays program, we will explore two kinds of words verbs, which are action words, like jump and run and speak, and adverbs, which are words that say how you do things words like instantly or sloppily or quietly. Watch out for all the verbs and adverbs, and well see you at the end of the show. Face it, cats are just way, way smarter than dogs. Number one cats dont bark. B they wash themselves. Plus cats never drool or eat garbage, like some animals i could name. Im talking about dogs, larry. Number three theyre dignified. Youd never see a cat begging for food or doing stupid tricks. ripping ow, ow, ow hey get out of here martha hi, guys. You dont believe dogs are dumb . Watch this. Hey, martha. Hi, ronald, whats up . Just thought you should know, we all saw you ambulating in public the other day. I. Di. Uhuh. Yeahhuh. Ambulating all over the place. Out in front of everyone. Right, guys . stifled laughter whats so funny . You are. What a. A. Dog boys laughing thats nothing. Watch this. phone rings three, four, five. Hello . Stuck in the swamp. sighs somethings wrong with martha yeah, thats the definition. groans alice martha td we found you whats the matter . We were worried about you. giggling about me . Why . We heard you were. Were. Ambulating. Oh, haha. Very funny. I guess you all think youre hilarious. Well, guess what. Youre nothing but a bunch of. Clowns. Shes right. You are clowns. To ambulate just means to walk. Walk . Uhoh. You mean. . Ronald i cant believe those guys. Ganging up with ronald. Making fun of a dog just because she doesnt know what ambulate means. They use words like some. Evil superpower. Dont they know that words can really, really. Ow hurt. Um, maybe next time just hand me the book. Evil superpower evil superpower. Words can hurt. Superpower hey, does anyone else smell hot dogs . Shh. Superpower. Superpower. Narrator martha was an average talking dog. She went hi and. Bye and. growling then one day, struck by a falling book of 501 english verbs, she developed a power that was bizarre. Fly the power of verbs verbs are the words that say what someone or something does. Verbs are action words, like fly, land, roll, beg. Not on your life. laser zaps aided by the mysterious doctor r, martha sniffs out trouble. And when she does, mildmannered martha instantly becomes. Verb dog using verbs to help wherever trouble strikes. Car elevate verb dog explain it again, doc. My powers dont work with all words . That is correct. Only verbs. Verbs are the words that tell you what something is doing words like jump and run and even think and wonder. So if i say, fire hydrant yellow. Did it change . No. Verbs are things you do. You talk, you dance, but you cant yellow. So if i say, hamburger nothing happens. Hamburger is a noun. Its a thing, not an action. Figures. So how about gently . You cannot gently. Gently isnt a verb, its an adverb. Gently says how you do something. An adverb . whimpers all these rules are starting to make my head spin. Um, i take it spin is a verb. Uh, yeah. Where are we going . Martha, this town is being menaced by some really mean people. Your superpowers are just what this city needs to defeat them. In that case, wed better hurry. Hop on my back. Lets fly this is their hideout . A tree house . Trust me, the people who hang out here are very mean. Tree house descend. Walls vanish. Hey its that pesky doctor r. Ill take care of him. Watch it doctor r thats alice. Shes as much fun as an icecream headache. Too late for you, alice. I have a secret weap. Hey not nice. Alice giggle. giggling doctor r thaw. sighs watch out. Its the td 603. Hahhahhah. Td 603 giggle. Its no use. The td 603 is a robot. He has no feelings at all. Martha oh, no, hes armed. Seriously . Sorry. Robot arms tangled. Whoa tangled. Tangled hmm. Tangled must not be a verb. Hey, doc, whats a verb for when something gets, like, tangled . yelling tangle oh. Like tangled, only without the duh at the end . Yes wow. Verbs are easier than i thought. Verb dog oh, right. Robot arms tangle. Thanks, verb dog. stomping whimpering who is that . Their leader. Shes twofaced and has a heart of stone. She pretends to be your friend and then stabs you in the back. What do you call her . Helen. Ah. Well, helen fly to hackensack, instantly. That was easy. Victory dance. singing gibberish come on, doc. Whats the problem . To hackensack thats not really a verb, you know. And instantly is an adverb. Aw, quit worrying, doc. Shes gone, isnt she . I suppose. Oh, come on, cheer up, dr. Poutyface. Dr. Frownipuss. Hey, i know what will cheer you up. Some verbs. Hop on leap leap. doctor r screaming leap lets add some rolls this time. Roll screaming now spin up. doctor r screaming martha hover. Hey, im starting to like verbs. whooshing oh, no shes not gone. And she has a jetpack looks like well just have to outfly her. Hang on, doc. Fly away doctor r screaming turn turn. Turn duck hang on doctor r screaming good work, verb dog. Hop on. Fly. Uhoh. Spoke to soon. Down there. Good thinking, doc. Descend. The sewers . Hurry, this way. I dont know what the big deal is. Whats her power . Walking loud . Shes the worst of all. She. Where are you hiding . Come out, come out wherever you are. hypnotized coming, helen. Martha, no come to helen. Fight it, martha. Fight it. Cant. Resist. Atta girl martha remember ambulate. Ambulate . Hey, thats right. I remember. She made fun of me. Helen petrify. You did it you turned her to stone. Yeah. Just one thing left. This. A muzzle . Sorry, you cant speak through this muzzle, which means youre powerless. Just like your friends. Friends . Ronald . in doctor r voice my plan worked. clears throat my plan worked just the way i hoped. I turned you against your friends, so now theres no one to stop me in my brazen quest for unbridled power laughing evilly oh, no oh, no helen martha . Martha. Martha gasping are you okay . They said a book hit you. Im fine. I. I had the strangest dream, though. You were there, and you were there, and you were there, and you were all mean to me. We didnt intend to insult you. It was completely ronalds fault. He tricked us. Yeah, i sort of figured that out. Alice why pick on martha, ronald . I was just trying to prove a point. What point . That cats are geniuses compared to dogs. Martha dont look now, but your pet genius just got his head stuck in a bag. meows grunts aw, nelson well, if you pick on anyone again, ronald, ill tell mom. Uh. Dont do that. Please. Okay, but on one condition you have to apologize to martha. All right, all right. Sorry you didnt know what ambulate means. Ronald. Okay, im sorry. I apologize. Td three, four, five. Aw, swamped again. groans alice hey, look at marthas feet. Truman hmm, i wonder what shes dreaming. Rats we did it great work, team. Our work here isnt finished. We cant rest as long as danger lurks. Youre right. What are we waiting for . All lets go martha. Flying . Oh right, sorry. Team elevate narrator verb dog verbs are the words that say what someone or something is doing. If youre thinking of becoming a superhero with the power of words, it helps to know some special verbs. Elevate is a handy verb. Elevate elevate means to go up. Very handy for escaping bad guys. And then you descend. Descend descend means to go down. Heres a good verb to use if a monster is coming after you. Petrify petrify can also mean to be so scared that you cant move, but i just use it for what it actually means, which is to turn to stone. groaning sorry, unpetrify. Dont worry, i wont do it again. He was petrified that id petrify him again. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. martha humming along what an absolutely perfect day, otis. Could there be any way to make it absolutely, positively perfect . I could fetch you a ball, master. Hey good fetching, talking doggie. Elevate your legs. I know how you like to soak your sore feet in newly minted coins. sighs happily and heres a treat for you. snaps his fingers sniffs ahh. Otis, today i am the happiest talking dog on earth. sighs happily i have everything i ever wanted. coughing and spitting why must the end of a daydream taste so bitter . Yuck at least dr. Pablums snow mover invention will make clearing this snow simple and pleasant. Ooh ow ow ow do you have the instructions for the snow mover . That can wait. Look at this the adverbalizer. It activates adverbs. Ill demonstrate. Do something. I am doing something. Im melting. Ah, perfect. You are melting quickly. That is absolutely, positively amazing it changed how i melted. Verbs are action words. They tell you what you do. Adverbs can tell you how to do it. You melted. Melt is a verb. You melted quickly. Quickly is an adverb because it tells you how you melted. Is that device amazing . Absolutely there must be a. screams there must be a way to make money with that. And. Ouch. If you see anything you like, stop me. Stop isnt that those crooks who always bother us, weaselgraft and pablum . I guess there are no rules about who can get on tv anymore. Hmm. Verbs are great action words, but i wish i could get more out of them. Have you tried adverbs . Adverbs . Yes, adverbs, those words that tell you how, when, or where your action happens. How are you going to eat your spaghetti . Sloppily. That means when you do something, you make a mess. I will eat neatly, which means, uh. Neatly. With my new adverbalizer, i can make you eat sloppily. Dont forget, adverbs can modify other adverbs too, so you can eat completely, totally, awfully sloppily. I need to clean up. Why not clean up with an adverb like instantly . It means right away, quickly. Clean up instantly both get the most out of your verbs with the adverbalizer order one immediately. That cant be for real. I want to order one immediately. What would you use it for . Id make time in school pass. Quickly. bell rings id make Summer Vacation pass. Slowly. And id get good grades. Easily. Hey, dad, can i buy Something Weird i saw on tv . Merely weird or really weird . Really weird. Okay, as long as its really weird. Are you thinking what im thinking . Yes. Its lunchtime. No. Anything involving weaselgraft and pablum means trouble. Oh, yeah. And its lunchtime. When were rich, ill never have to shovel snow again. Step one, push lever firmly. Where is the adverbalizer . I need to melt quickly. Otis, great news our tv commercial worked. We got an order for the adverbalizer. I just shipped it. Were on the road to riches. Now wheres ours so i can melt quickly . Ours . Dont tell me there was only one. Oh, go ahead and tell me. There was only one. grunting we must get it back immediately. And immediately means right now. Packing stuff, more stuff, instructions. gasps whats it supposed to do . Watch. How do i want to clean up this mess . Instantly. I want to try it. Everyone can have a turn. Ready. Truman wants to know dinosaur history completely. Nothing happened. Tell us something about dinosaurs. Scientists believe that sinosauropteryx had orange feathers on its back and a striped tail. I never knew that. Neither did i. I love adverbs barking skits, youll give dad a headache. barking can this make skits bark quietly . barking quietly ew. I would like baby jake to eat neatly. Whoa im too clumsy to do ballet. Now you can dance gracefully. It really worked im graceful. Whoa. I didnt say anything about ambulating gracefully. Theres the adverbalizer and that talking dog. Otis, are you sure about that disguise . A gardener in winter . Good point. Lets go get what we deserve. How is it, td . Really weird . Its absolutely amazing. Excuse me. J. Edgar weaselbush of your government food and verbal modifiers administration. Can i help you, officer weaselbush . These little beasts. Children are in possession of a restricted verb modification device. But it was advertised on tv. Mistakenly. Now hand it over to the proper authorities me. I think weaselbush is really weaselgraft with a fake name and a faker mustache. If thats true, his friend pablum has to be nearby. sniffing pablum scat go find a nice tree. That shrub just pushed me. More reason to hand it over. The device is clearly having an unseemly effect on local shrubbery. Sorry, td, i guess we should hand it over immediately, and that means right now. Your attempt to take it away will end unsuccessfully. But first, we should call the government and make sure this guy isnt a big faker. Oh, i saw what you did there. And i can make your attempt end totally, miserably, absolutely unsuccessfully. So give up. grunts its always the talking dog we cant win as long as they can use adverbs against us. If only we had our own adverbalizer. Unfortunately, i only built that one. And the prototype a small test version. Does the small one work . Not completely. If something works completely, it does everything its supposed to do. The prototype doesnt completely work because it cant do all of the things its supposed to do exactly like its supposed to do them, otis. Then well bring extra help. laughing evilly cant you just use the adverbalizer and build a snowman instantly . Wheres the fun in that . clears throat you crooks cant beat us. We have the adverbalizer. But we have one, too. laughing evilly laughing hand it over. Immediately immediately oh, no, it works. I must go back rapidly. Surrender completely. Completely its too weak. Get closer or this will end unsuccessfully again. Hear that . Keep them away. Lets make a hundred snowballs instantly. This is the second weirdest thing thats ever happened around here. Give it to me immediately. Td you heard him. Give it to him now, doctor, now the other way incoming we have to surrender. Not yet. Snowballs, fly very, very slowly. Its always the talking dog. Martha, take the adverbalizer in the house and get my dad. Hold it gently. Okay. Gently. Soft mouth. Whoa. gasping it broke so easily. I demand a refund. We happily refund all dissatisfied victims. Um, customers. You gave him all our money. So what . Look its still on. I can fix it. Really . It looks like theyve broken it completely. Otis, not so loud now weve broken it completely. This was truly weird. Those guys may be totally, horribly bad, but without them, wed never have gotten to see this. My story starts with rinty standing in the yard. Suddenly it starts to snow. Rinty says, woof, woof, woof what happens next . The next day, rinty goes outside and it starts to snow. Rinty says woof, woof, woof how does it end . More snow . Woof, woof, woof . Dont give it away. Surely you can tell a better story than my brother. Just go to the marthas stories page at pbskids. Org and play pup talk. Make up your own story. Tell it to me and watch it come to life. You can even include scary stuff like fireworks. Try it out. Join us online at pbskids. Org. Hey, snow told you laughing rds in todays program . If not, here are a few again. Verbs are action words. That tell you what you do. Adverbs can tell you how to do it. Verbs are the words that say what someone or something does. We must get it back immediately. And immediately means right now. Thats our program. See you next time. Whos that dog . Whos that dog . Dog, dddog, ddog. That dog is bert. Were at Childrens Hospital boston. Bert is a volunteer with the pawprints program. He enjoys coming to see the kids because he gets to be petted by a lot of children. Hes a friend. Man i think that it makes them feel, for a little bit, like theyre not in the hospital and they can take their mind off things. Bye, bert man he gets to have little doggie treats when we get back to the office. Hes that dog. Dog, dddog, ddog. Announcer theyre nutty and funny and their hair is blue. Its thing one and thing two. They join the cat in the hat in the cat in the hat knows a lot about that weekdays on pbs kids or any time you want at pbskids. Org. Martha speaks is funded in part by. Kiddie Academy Child Care learning centers. Proud supporter of pbs kids. Providing educationally focused child care, preparing children for school and for life. Kiddie academy. For public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from to dig up some more fun words and games, visit pbskids. Org or check out your local library for the martha speaks books. Captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org hi. Its me hooper. Can you guess where i am today . Where is he going, what will he do . Where in the world is hooper . Heres a clue to where i am im at a place where people bring their pets, but its not the park. And heres another hint. When animals are sick or hurt, people bring them to this place. And now for my final clue from martha speaks. The examination is really simple. Ready, martha . Ready great clue this place has a special type of doctor. Ok. Now lets go over the clues. Im at a place where there are lots of animals, and sometimes these animals are sick, and theres a special kind of doctor here who helps them. So can you guess where i am . Yes a Veterinarians Office george chattering excitedly this program was made possible by can fuel a lifetime of learning. Abcmouse. Com Early Learning academy, proud sponsor of pbs kids and Curious George. Abcmouse. Com Early Learning academy, are designed for kids to be as active as their imaginations. All she knows is that, today, purple is her favorite color, and thats good enough for us. Stride rite is a proud sponsor of Curious George. Funding for Curious George is provided by contributions to your pbs station. Ooh. And from lively drum intro you never do know whats around the bend big adventure or a brandnew friend when youre curious like Curious George swing well, every day every day is so glorious glorious george and Everything Everything is so wondrous wondrous theres more to explore when you open the door and meet friends like this, you just cant miss i know youre curious curious and thats marvelous marvelous and thats your reward youll never be bored if you ask yourself, what is this . Like curious. Like curious. Curious george. Oh. Captioning sponsored by universal animation narrator it was a perfect day to just walk down the street smelling. sniffs so thats what george did. sniffing sniffs ah. sniffing georges nose took him to all the best smells. Ah. sniffs then. He reached monkey nose heaven. Hello, george it smells better back here, you know. Ooh happy grunt george couldnt believe all those different, plainsmelling things could become an amazing donut. sniffs swooning sigh george was wondering what kind of magic cat yowls donut makers knew. When his ears got in the way of his nose. Georges friend gnocchi was locked in combat with her archenemy, the extra large, cutesie bow. meowing george didnt understand tabby, but he listened politely. Ooh. angry meowing chattering gnocchi was thrilled ah to be free from looking cute. George was officially a cat hero. purring george almost forgot he was smelling today. Then. Chef pisghettis kitchen grabbed his nose. Chef pisghettis kitchen was like a. A nose circus. Ooh. Gnocchi il mio gatto dolce youve lost your pretty ribbon. mumbling, humming there now. Shes acute yowls purring welcome, giorgio. How is your friend, cappello giallo grande . chatters chattering oh, i cant play. Im making a very special meal for famous restaurant critic, sally tessio. Ah. Heh. chuckles when she likes a place, business booms so its very important that everything be perfect. She has the delicate taste. Sally you said thered be fresh bread chuckles deep voice i dont see any bread here. Well, her taste is delicate. chuckles but her voice, uh, not so much. yowls relieved meow purring huh . This hard stuff was spaghetti . Hmm, didnt smell like anything. Meow, meow. Meow grunts chatters george wanted to replace his broken piece. Hed seen the chef put the rest of it in the pot. sniffs hm it didnt smell like much, and the steam coming out was hot. George had to be careful. chatters quietly it had changed. chatters quietly maybe. Maybe it wasnt just donut makers. Maybe all kitchens were magic. Here was a pot that turned crisp things into floppy things. Ooh, ooh. chuckles what else could it turn floppy . Ooh. A soft, floppy egg. Ah thatd be funny. chattering quietly ah. Good candidate for floppification. chuckles oh. Oh. loud chomping oh, this bread is pretty good you didnt really make this yourself. Oh, everything here is homemade. I have the freshest, finest food in the city and im making the special pasta just for you very mild, for your, uh, delicate taste. Heehee goody. The great big onion looked pretty hard. crunches crying uh, well, it didnt have to taste good, just turn floppy. soft groan if sugar were soft and floppy instead of grainy. You could chew it all day like gum. chuckles he put some sugar in the floppification pot. Huh. It disappeared. Well, this made no sense at all. happy grunt george was pretty sure the brown thing was a potato. splash sniffs hm. Weird. Green vegetable bats. loud clang huh . Oh. chattering continues chattering george explained the whole thing to gnocchi, including. How funny the floppy egg was gonna look. giggles meow . Meow . happy grunt sniffs that puffymaking oven was even more amazing than the floppification pot groans oh, my goodness if sally tessio likes my food, shes atell everybody to eat here ohho wish me luck chatters george wanted to show gnocchi how pots make things floppy. chattering uh . Oh. yowling excited meowing yowls purring meows chatters quietly chef pisghetti what was all of that noise. gasps oy gevalt what have you done . but i cant serve delicate pasta with the Little Monkey sitting in it groans eh at least i still have this batch of plain spaghetti. George knew the chef would be happy with all the fun, extra things hed turned floppy. Who turned my plain pasta into crowded spoon soup . Somehow floppification didnt work on spoons. There isnt one cherry tomato in this salad you promised cherry tomatoes well, i. Oh, dont. Wait. No, please. I. Oh oh i dont like this at all. But it smells good. sniffs she was right. The longer that stuff stayed in the floppifying pot, the better it smelled. slurping do you know theres a cat and a monkey in your kitchen . groaning the monkey made the stew. Ooh quite good. But you said you no like it. If you made it, its no good. But for a monkey, whoa whats his recipe . Well, uh. Never mind. Ive got it. Chef pisghetti didnt scold george much, but he insisted george clean up the mess he made. meow oh, you are lucky you got the four hands. You can do things twice as quickly. I wish i knew how you chose these ingredients. Asparagus the green spears turned out nice and floppy. One hardboiled egg. But the egg didnt look floppy at all. Eggs dont floppify. They get harder. A lot of cheese cheese becomes goop. Cooking seemed to have no rules at all. Im done you said there would be cookies. Please. This dish was excellent. What do you call it . Sudden emergency ravioli. And a meatball. Four stars and another star for the meatball. Ill give your monkey a star, too. Oh im so generous. Hot cookies coming up as promised how did he make that into that . Maybe kitchens arent magic. Maybe its cooks who are magic. Gnocchi, how you can lose so many bows, eh . meow any day that starts out just smelling. sniffs . And ends with a cookie. Is a pretty great day. Boy george is a monkey, so he can ths that we cant do. He put lots of crazy things in the water. Look out, george, thats hot. Teacher which materials dissolve in liquid. What does dissolve mean . It disappears inside water. And so it kind of just looks like it disappears into the liquid. Which of the things at your table are able to dissolve in the water . Girl this is sugar, and i think its going to dissolve. I think its not going to dissolve. Yep, it dissolved. So that one person that said it didnt dissolve was wrong. I think the cornmeal is not going to dissolve. I think it is going to dissolve. It doesnt dissolve cause its too hard and a little too big. Some things do dissolve; some things dont dissolve. Hundley was proud to be a dog who couldnt be distracted. His mind was always on his job. Whether his friend the doorman knew it or not. woof ah what is it, boy . Hungry again . whines elevator dings elevators here. Good morning. chatters hello its a beautiful day. Enjoy it. Good morning to you, too, hundley. chatters happily whimpers i know exactly what youre thinking. Hundley was thinking that, with george out there, the city might not survive. Or, worse, become completely disorganized. Who knows what his hungry boy wants . Can i read your mind, huh . The smartest wiener dogs are always the most misunderstood. George wanted to take the man with the yellow hat to see where hed done his job. In chef pisghettis kitchen. Oh, giorgio was a big help to me. He was especially good at cleaning up a mess. Well, hes had a whole lot of practice. chattering happily oh, im afraid i have no work for you today. disappointed chattering hah you know what . My friend, mr. Glass, needs help across town, and you would be perfect for the job excited chattering inquisitive chatter oh, george, i dont have time to take you across town. Maybe another day. whimpers well, i can take him there if its okay with you. excited chattering oh, great all right. Do you promise to be a good Little Monkey . Uhhuh uhhuh uhhuh laughing the job is at the building my friend owns the glass palace now, like i told you, chef, i need a window washer who can work way, way, way, way, way, way up high without getting dizzy. Thats six ways. Oh, thats a lot of ways. But, mr. Glass, giorgios a great climber. Hes a monkey congratulations. chatters enthusiastically i need every window clean by 2 15. Can you do it . chatters affirmatively well, heres everything you need, and a cool cap. Now, window washing is serious work. You take your work seriously. I like that in a monkey. Never mind what people inside are doing. Dont be curious or youll get into trouble. chatters who me . george promised to be good, but a Little Monkey sometimes forgets. It was hard not to look inside, but george concentrated on his work. Tammy . oh hes gone where did i go wrong . I shouldve bought the padded hamster wheel. Tammy i never would have found you in there. Thank you, window monkey are you here to fix the lights . Its always too dark in here to read. Wow, what an improvement but its still too dark to read. gasps the whole world is so bright and clear and colorful thank you, window Monkey George was feeling tired, and there was still a lot of glass to clean. Then he found a way to work faster. George thought he saw a giraffe. It looked just like a giraffe. Could a giraffe live here . Well, it was possible. And that looked like a zebra. And a leopard. This had to be the best party george had ever seen. We have to ask mr. Glass if he really wants the whole room this rotten color. George wondered if the giraffe lived here with a friend like the man with the yellow hat. The giraffe and the zebra werent saying hi. Maybe they couldnt see george in the dark. There werent any animals here at all this was an amazing thing. Shadows made animals out of furniture. If only there was a way to show others this amazing thing. elevator dings we want you to see how the new color looks before we paint the whole place, mr. Glass. I chose that color myself. Everyone thinks its a dull room. I want it full of life but i dont know if this is exactly what you mean by full of life. gasps george was thrilled someone was here to see what hed done. People didnt seem happy. Hmm. Maybe they needed to see it again. Now with the lights off or the lights on, everyone could see the same animals that george saw. Did you do this . No that monkey mustve done it george had seen people this unhappy before. They usually needed some quiet time alone. Stop that monkey screeches whistling monkey paints room. Human painter upset . Thats got to be george thats just a bird. George liked his bird okay, but he knew he could make a much better bunny. What . Its a bunny. I want to talk with you, george. car horn honking george did you paint a room, you naughty monkey . I dont know how to thank you, george. Yes, i. Thank him . thank him . Thank him . You know, i wouldve thought that was a horsey, but, whoa, its a zebra only a genius or a monkey couldve thought of this. I can rent it out as the glass palace jungle room. George, the glass palace is always half empty, but with more special rooms like this, i bet the glass is gonna be half full. Have a good day . Yes. George had a job today, and it turned out just great. chattering barking chuckles hundley seems happy were home. Hundley was very happy to know george was home, and the city was still working just fine. I think hes just hungry. Girl geor do things that you can. Boy like when he cleaned those windows way up high when he saw the shadows. My mom set up the sheet. If you stand between the sun and the sheet you make a shadow. Girl theyre trying to make four arms. What you see on the sheet is different than whats happening behind the sheet. laughing the scene was all about her trying to water a plant. She was watering me. Girl she looked like she growed out of the ground. The head falls down. I put it on her neck. She waves. We can do tricks with shadows. Announcer pbs kids presents the allnew. You amazing cat. Yes . Announcer peg cat. All pirates love peaches. But they cant decide how to divide them up. Announcer wherever theres a problem. Peg theres enough peaches for all of you. Announcer its no problem when friends are around. Hey, ramone, what are you doing here . Problem solved num num, solved we solved the problem Problem Solved announcer peg cat, an allnew show starting monday, october 7, on pbs kids. Announcer pbs kids has feet that grab, noses that blow, and even hairy toes. So when you want fins, wings, and a couple of things, you want the cat in the hat knows a lot about that, weekdays on pbs kids or anytime at pbskids. Org. george chattering excitedly this program was made possible by have over 90 years of first steps behind them. What he does know is that, today, hes started walking, and life got a whole lot more exciting. Stride rite is a proud sponsor of Curious George. We believe that learning and curiosity go hand in hand. Abcmouse. Com Early Learning academy, proud sponsor of pbs kids and Curious George. Funding for Curious George is provided by contributions to your pbs station. Ooh. And from hola Curious George loves to figure things out, and i need help figuring out how to finish this picture. Im making a house out of shapes, and all i have left is the roof. What shape can i use to make the roof . The triangle lets try it. Youre right. The triangle makes the perfect roof. You can play more games like this with Curious George at pbskids. Org. Up next its the cat in the hat knows a lot about that. Stocks fell on worries that china might. Announcer the new pbs for ipad app. Youll never know what youll find. [dog barks] announcer available now in the app store. Announcer coming soon from pbs kids. Peg wed better take off fast the way home is totally clearo oh, oh 100 is one zero zero now i know just which way i should steero 100 is one zero zero just soar past that 4, toward that smiling face if we cruise past the 2s, well be lost in space there it is, 100 cat shining so brilliantly were going home as we rock this galaxy almost home, weve nothing to fearo oh, oh once again, math saved our rearo sure as peg is my pal and cat is my hero 100 is one zero zero 100 is one zero zero 100 is one zero zero 100 is one zero zero whoo hoo announcer peg cat, an allnew show coming monday, october 7th on pbs kids. Viewers like you, and you, and you, and you. Ha, ha thanks so much youre very kind. Hey what . Come over here, the cat in the hat is about to appear. Hes whizzing over to whisk you away on a fabulous journey today. Hes coming and now hes arrived in the thingamajigger the thing that he drives hes a cat and hes oodles of fun with his hairy helpers thing two and thing one instrumental instrumental its the cat in the hat all of our adventures start like that. Wherever youre going where ever youre at the cat in the hat knows a lot about. He knows a lot about, he knows a lot about, he knows a lot about. That laughter ooh ooh, ooh. Do dat da do do do. giggling singing together deedeeadomdomdom were gonna do a dance to show our moms deedeeadomdomdom were gonna do a dance to show our moms ugh giggling my mom loves it when we do a show. Mine too. Our shows are sooo great. Yeah. When we dont fall over giggling did i hear dancing . Oh i love to dance i really do. Its the cat the cat in the hat every time we dance, we seem to fall over we want to do a special dance. For our moms. You know there are a zillion ways of dancing. The scintillating salsa. The limbbending limbo. Limbo, limbo, limbo like me. Wooh. Wooh. The beeautiful ballet. laughing the preposterous pogogogogo. Ahah ouch cat, are you okay . I may never rhumba again. It would be great if we could do one of those dances for our moms. Can you teach us, cat . Me . Oh, no. Im only a beginner. Not like my friend, tango. Whos he . Tangos a bird of paradise. Hes the best dancer in the whole wide world. A bird of paradise . That sounds cool he liiiives to dance; and he dances in the boogie woogie woods. Wanna meet him . Yeah yes your mother will not mind at all if you do. Mommy can we go dancing with a bird of paradise in the boogie woogie woods . laugh sure just dont step on anybodys toes we can go we can go we can go we can go i know i know to the thingmajigger were going dancing i love to dance buckle up honk flick the jiggermawhizzer boing honk pop giggles isnt this fun . Yahooooo here we go, go, go go on an adventure. The thingamajigger is up and away go, go, go, go on an adventure. Were flying with the cat in the hat today well learn from a bird how to dance and to move, well boogie and woogie and get in the groove here we go, go, go go on an adventure. Go, go, go, go go honk honk oh tanggooooooo oh tangogooo; where arrrre youuuu . Maybe hes too busy dancing to hear you. Youre so clever thats all tango does all day. Dance, dance, dance. His whole life is one long fandango. Then how do we find him . We use the cat in the hat dance detector, of course will that box find tango . It already has time to dance laughing mmmhmmmm love that crazzzzy beat hums along tango yes, it is i, tango the magnificent. Wow your feathers are so beautiful. Of course, i am the most handsomest bird in the world. Pleased to meet you. Im. The greatest of the greater birds of paradise and. King of the dance. Ha ha we need help. Yes tango, can you listen. Thanks so much. Sally and nick need to. Ha ha we need help oh, why didnt you say . We want to do a dance for our moms. But we keep falling over. Can you show us what to do . You want me to teach you to dance . Um. If you dont mind . Mind . Why would i mind . I love to dance. Ha ha uh, could you, please, show us how to do it . Could you tell us how we start . Start . Its easy you find a special place to dance in. A place with lots of room to move around and nothing to make you trip its no good. Too small. Its no good. Too messy okay. Its good. Right nothing to trip over. For sure, to show off your best moves, you need a smooth floor. And make it all look nice a dance floor, new decor ah. Theres so much to do that sounds like a job for thing one and thing two whistles yahoo coughing hmm. Hmmm. Magnificent but. Somethings not right. Why so dark . Light the maestro needs light ta da hup, doo, doo, doo. Ah whoa ta da magnificcent everyone can see me thats what i like can you show us some cool dance moves now . When you dance you should look fantastic like me yeah i want to look like tango. Lucky for you i packed a change of clothes in the trunk. Oh i love dressingup. I hope we brought sequins whoa weeeee were all gonna look fabulous giggles tada arrr tada no good. Try. Try again dont you just love this look . No. Okay. We get the message. More like a bird of paradise try. Try again again tada feathers perfecto almost as handsome as me. laughing wait for me. laughing ready here we come now, we dance look at me ive got feathers too now i teach you to dance like a bird of paradise. To be a great dancer you must move your body to the beat. Enjoy how it makes you feel. First a hop. Like this . Good. Now puff out your chest and do a biiggg strut. laughing youre good but hey, you have a great teacher. Now, simply add music you got it we do were dancing fantastic oh yeah wahoo. Bravo but this is how i dance. You must dance like sally and nick. How do we do that . Well, add some special moves of your own. Show me what you can do, eh . I can kick high in the air ugh yeah i can move like a Little Monkey monkey sounds shout together go cat go chacha, chachacha. Chacha, chachacha. monkey sounds tadaaa laughing and giggles that was sooooo great and we didnt fall over magnificcent yeah tango wow, i just love your dancing. Thank you, madame. Looks like youve found a friend, tango. Of course. Thats why i dance to put on a show for my friends and fans. The greater bird of paradise, loves dancing so take his advice first, find yourself feathers, fantastical. Then learn many movements gymnastical. Do jumps, hops and bends, youll amaze all your friends. As long as your bodys. Elastical. Ouch oh my. Catch you later. We got to go thank you, tango. So do we its time for our dance show back home do dat da ooh ooh, do do do. Ooh laughing deedeedomdomdom were gonna do a dance to show our moms deedeedomdomdom were gonna do a dance to show our moms laughs now, where did you learn to dance like that . From a bird of paradise, of course we can show you how. Its easy laughing tango would be so proud. Why, they didnt fall over at all cha cha. Whoa. Oh laughs hi kids ive got a great question for you which direction can a hummingbird fly . Can it fly forwards or backwards . Up, down, sideways . Can it hover in mid air . What do you think . Youre right it can fly in all those directions you got it this time but next time ill stump you for sure. Hey, do you hear something humming . Welcome to hat chat. Today were talking to a hippopotamus. Hello hi hippo i see youre in the water. Are you a fish . No. Im a hippopotamus. A very big mammal. You are big so. Why do you spend so much time in the water . It gets really hot where i live, and the water keeps me cool. So you swim all day . Actually, grownup hippos cant swim. Our feet are always touching bottom. If we want to get across a deep part, we hold our breath and walk across the bottom. Coooooolll coooooolll thanks for talking to us. Hiphiphooray 12345 freeze, sally im coming to get you gotcha oh, youre not sally its the cat the cat in the hat gasp did nick hurt his head . No laughing were playing blindfold tag. Finding your way around is really hard when you cant see where youre going. I wish we could get better at it. Why, i know someone who does it really well. A bat named, zapata. Hes really tiptop. He lives in a cave in dos echoes del bop. Im sure he could show you how its done. Really . Can we go visit him . A visit . Why not . Your mother will not mind at all if you do mom . Can we go visit dos echoes del bop to learn how to see in the dark . Okay. But see your way back in time for lunch. Its taco tuesday okay, mom, we will. We can go we can go we can go we can go i know i know to the thingamajigger why would anyone live in a cave . All those cold, drippy, drippy rocks. shudders are you ready . Yes we are are you steady . Yes we are are you sure youre ready to explore. . Yes we are then buckle up honk flick the jiggermawhizzer boing honk pop giggles isnt this fun . yahooooo here we go, go, go go on an adventure. The thingamajigger is up and away go, go, go, go on an adventure. Were flying with the cat in the hat today well learn from a bat, who is sure to surprise, how to see in the dark without using our eyes. Here we go, go, go, go on an adventure. Go, go, go, go go welcome to dos echoes del bop stop whats the matter, fish . Theres no way im going in there. Drip drip im staying put, right here wow, ive only been in pretend caves under my bed before. Zapatas cave is much bigger. Its so drippy it sounds like raindrops. And theres not very much light. This way if you will. Well find zapata down heeeeere. Look drippy, drippy rocks, just like fish said only these are cool look ice cream cones two scoops this ones just like the cat. Like me . I dont think so. Im much taller. And can he do this . La, la la, la, la, da da. La, dada, dada aagh catch them got it. Here you are, cat. Thank you. Thank you ever so. Now where has that bat got to i wonder . This way how long does it take to find a bat . I do hope that cat isnt lost. worried sigh hey, weve been here before. Two scoops oh no, were going around in circles no no no no, that cannot be. I know this cave like the back of my hand cat its like were playing blindfold tag again we dont know where we are. Oh, well never find zapata like this. But maybe he can find us. Great idea lets try calling him. Hello hellooo he answered is that you . is that you . yes, yes, its us its us yes, its us wait i recognize those voices. It is us it is us how clever you are thats an echo. Your voices are bouncing back off the walls. giggle arent caves fun . Yodeleheheehhh yodeleheheehhh yodeleheheehhh yodeleheheehhh yodeleh. Yodel eh. Yodeleh. Yodel eh. together yodeleh. Yodel eh. together yodeleh yodeleh. Yodeleh, yodeleh. Yodelehhehe. Yodelehhehe. Yodelehhehe. Yodelehhehe. Yodelehhehe, yodelehhehe, yoodelodelodeloheeh shabadabadabadabadee, yahoo. Yabba dabba, yabba dabba hahehe. Yodalee, yodalee, yodalee, yodelee. Yodelodelodelodelohyohhee. Yohhee. Yohee yohhee. Yohee listen to those screams i knew cat would get into trouble. whistles hello noises thing one and thing two, form a search party save them huh . Yodelehhehe. Yodelehhehe. Ugh agh ugh agh some search party nick sally cat . Somebody somebody boy, dos echoes del bop sure does echo a lot hey, guys. Keep the noise down, will ya . Who said that . Id know that voice anywhere. Zapata amigo hi guys. Im right here, trying to take my nap. Oh, ah. Hello, um, were sorry for spoiling your sleep, zapata, but we need your help. Can you really find your way around in the dark . Oh sure. Hey, its easy not for us. Can you show us how to do it . Turn off the light and watch me bat squeaks gasps howd he do that . You must have really great eyes to get around in the dark like that, zapata. Eyes . No. Ears. Yes ears . You use your ears . Sure, like when you were listening to your echoes. But the echo was just our voices bouncing off the walls. Right. And i am listening for my squeaking. If theres something in front of me i hear my squeak bounce back to me. squeaking laughs so i go another way hey, batterbatterbatter. gasp zapatas squeak bounces off the walls like a baseball laugh or an echo echo thats how you know when to turn. squeak squeak its called echolocation. uhh. Echolo. . Echolocation. Echo. Low. K. < k. Shun echolocation. Thats right. Now you try. Hello its kinda hard to tell. I guess it takes practice. Or big bat ears like, zapata. Try these my seehear batears are sure to please. Hello wow thats loud and clear it must have bounced off that big rock blocking our path. Oh, i cant wait to try these ears out playing blindfold tag. So, if the path is blocked this way. Then the way out must be this way this way to the thingamajigger oh oh. Looks like this flashlight has lost its flash hmm. How are we going to find our way back in the dark . By using our batears of course just like zapata hellooooooo echo helllooo wow these batears tell just where the echoes are coming from yeah, your voice bounced off the wall over there. So we go this way clicking youve got it, pal. Well done. Yodelehheeehooo echo yodelehheeehooo its not that way cat. Your voice is bouncing off the walls. And thats using your ears hello . Hello hello . Hello . Hellloooo . Thats not an echo its fish hello fish. Hello we found the way out. What took you so long . Um. And whats with those ears . We went into a cave to find a small bat, who can see in the dark, its as simple as that i know it sounds batty, but he taught us the knack of throwing a sound, and catching it back. Its called echolocation. Finding your way in the dark, can take years but not if you use both your eyes. And your ears laughs thanks, zapata. Maybe well bump into you again sometime soon. Not if i hear you first. See ya im it only this time im going to use my ears like a bat. Sally, i can hear you over there giggles yay nick my turn to be it hunh . laughs hey, sally . Do you need these . Were right here i know but my nose smells your moms mexican food. Its time for lunch shes right. Its taco tuesday. laughing yikes mmmm. Yummy come journey with me, to the arctic well go. 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