MisteRogers' Neighborhood

Mr. Rogers:
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you. There's only one person in this whole world like you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] It's such a good feeling / To know you're alive / It's such a happy feeling / You're growing inside/ And when you wake up, ready to say / "I think I'll make a snappy new day"

[Snaps fingers twice]

Mr. Rogers:
It's such a good feeling / A very good feeling / The feeling you know that we're friends.

[speaking]

Mr. Rogers:
You always make each day a special day. By just your being you. There's only one person exactly like you in the whole world. And that's you yourself, and I like you.

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
It's such a good feeling / A very good feeling / The feeling you know that we're friends.

Mr. Rogers:
There's only one person in the whole world like you, and I like you so much. Meow meow meow so much. Bye bye.

Lady Aberlin:
[the trolley approaches] Oh hi, Trolley. Is it time to go back to reality now?

Mr. Rogers:
You know, my main way is with music. I started to make up songs when I was very young. I'd just go to the piano. I'd make up a song about whatever I was thinking about doing. Like, uh, [plays piano and sings] I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a glass of milk/I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a glass of milk/ What do you think of that?

Mr. Rogers:
You always make it a special day for me. You know how, don't you? By just your being you. Whether you're in kindergarten, or third grade, or no grade at all, or ANY grade at all, I like you just the way you are. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Did you know / Did you know / Did you know that it's alright to wonder / Did you know that it's alright to wonder / There are all kinds of wonderful things / Did you know / Did you know / Did you know that it's alright to marvel / Did you know that it's alright to marvel / There are all kinds of marvelous things / You can ask a lot of questions / About the world, and your place in it / You can ask about people's feelings / You can learn the sky's the limit / Did you know / Did you know / Did you know that when you wonder, you're learning / Did you know that when you marvel, you're learning/ About all kinds of wonderful / All kinds of marvelous / Marvelously wonderful things.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] You can never go down / Can never go down / Can never go down the drain / You can never go down / Can never go down / Can never go down the drain / You're bigger than the water / You're bigger than the soap / You're bigger than all the bubbles / And bigger than your telescope; so you see... / You can never go down / Can never go down / Can never go down the drain / You can never go down / Can never go down / Can never go down the drain / The rain may go down / But you can't go down / You're bigger than any bathroom drain / You can never go down / Can never go down / You can never go down the drain.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] I think I'm going to like today / I think I'll call it mine / I'll wrap it in ribbons, and make it mine / I think I'm going to like today / It's very plain to see / I like every minute, and it likes me / Don't you agree? / This is the nicest day in the neighborhood / The nicest day in the calendar / The nicest day in the hemisphere for me / I think I'm going to like today / It's been the best by far / I got it by wishing, on last night's star / I think I'm going to like today / And when today is through / I'll catch it and keep it / As good as new / There it will be / I'll have the nicest day in the neighborhood / The nicest day in the calendar / The nicest day will just stay at home with me. I think I'm going to like... today.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] If you will look carefully / Listen carefully / You will find a lot of things carefully / Look... And listen / It's good to look carefully / Listen carefully / That's a way you learn a lot of things, carefully / Look, look... And listen / Some things you see are confusing / Some things you hear are strange / But if you ask someone to explain one or two / You'll begin to notice a change in you / If you will look carefully / Listen carefully / That's a way to keep on growing carefully / Look, look, look, and listen.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Did I hear what you said?

Audrey Paulifficate:
I really should be getting back to my duty.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Don't you want to be in on my announcement?

Audrey Paulifficate:
Oh, sure, but... King Friday?

King Friday XIII:
I am a generous king. You may have three more minutes of castle garden time.

Mr. Rogers:
[after drawing a picture to the music of Mozart] Here's my song. Everybody would draw a different song to that music. I wonder what kind of song you might draw.

Mr. Rogers:
[has traced his hand onto a piece of paper and wrote "Thank You"] And that will be a thank you note for Mr. McFeely. I can just say, "Mr. McFeely, I've got to *hand* it to you. Here's a thank you note for you".

Mr. McFeely:
Speedy delivery!

Mr. Rogers:
Just the right amount of time, Mr. McFeely.

Mr. McFeely:
What do you mean?

Mr. Rogers:
It took you one song to get here.

Mr. McFeely:
Well, I didn't know I was that musical.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Robert Troll, how good it is to see you.

Robert Troll:
Oh, it's good to see you. [troll talk]

Queen Sara Saturday:
Where have you been keeping yourself?

Robert Troll:
[troll talk] Under the bridge over troubled waters.

Mr. Rogers:
The next time you hear from me, I will be wearing Mr. McFeely's t-shirt.

Mr. Rogers:
Did you ever hear loud, scary sounds on television? Well some television programs are loud and scary, with people shooting and hitting other people. You know, you can do something about that. When you see scary television, you can TURN IT OFF. And when you do turn it off, that will show that YOU'RE the strongest of them all. It takes a very strong person to be able to turn off scary TV. Mmm-hmm. That's one of the ways you'll be able to tell that you're really growing. You're learning so many important things, and I'm so proud of you.

Mr. Rogers:
So let's just go to the kitchen right now. Do you like kitchens? I certainly do.

Mr. Rogers:
It's almost time to go. So...

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
Let's go right away / Go somewhere today / Let's be together and stay and stay / Let's go together today / Right away / Let's be together today / Together's the way I like the best / I like to be with you / I like the the things you explain to me / The things you show me to do / Let's go right away / Go somewhere today / Let's be together / And stay and stay / Let's go together today / Right away / Let's be together today / Oh someday it's good to play alone / But sometimes I get bored / There's just so much you can do yourself / With a ball. Or a doll. Or a sword. / But whenever I hear you want some time and want me to be with you / I wonder how you knew / 'Cause that's what I wanted too / Let's go right away / Go somewhere today / Let's be together / And stay and stay / Let's go together today / Right away / Let's be together... Today.

Mr. Rogers:
A lot of people have asked me how they can get a trolley like mine to play with. And I usually say, "Why don't you just make one?"

Mr. Rogers:
What do you think King Friday will say about Lady Elaine's instrument? She just put a make believe bass violin in front of her accordion, didn't she? That was fooling, wasn't it?

Mr. Rogers:
Would you like to come inside?

Ella Jenkins:
No, why don't we stay outside. These rhythms work much better out this way. And it's such a beautiful day too.

Mr. Rogers:
It is. It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood.

Mr. Rogers:
You know, growing means when you're a baby and you're angry, all you can do is scream and kick. That's all. But when you get a little older, you can say that you're angry. You can stomp around and make up a dance, or pound some clay and make things out of clay, and sing a song or write a poem. That's what it means to grow. I'm proud of the way you're growing and changing.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow, Daniel Striped Tiger, Ana Platypus, Prince Tuesday:
[Sung at the beginning of nearly every school scene] Ana, Prince, and Daniel / Ana, Prince, and Daniel/ Daniel, Prince, and Ana / are here.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes, we're here.

[Miss Cow laughs]

Harriet Elizabeth Cow, Daniel Striped Tiger, Ana Platypus, Prince Tuesday:
Ana, Prince. and Daniel / Ana, Prince, and Daniel / Daniel, Prince, and Ana / are here.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Let's think of something to do while we're waiting / While we're waiting / For something new to do / Let's think up a song while we're waiting / That's liberating / And will be true to you / Let's think of something to do while we're waiting / While we're waiting / Till something's through / You know it's really alright / In fact it's downright quite right / To think of something to do that's specific for you / Let's think of something to do while we're waiting.

Mr. Rogers:
[about Bramble, a horse] Can you see his great big eye? He looks one side at somebody and the other side at somebody. That's a big eye you have, Bramble.

Mr. Rogers:
Hi. I'm so glad to see you. I thought about you all weekend. Wondering what you were doing. How you were feeling? How was your weekend? I like it when you tell me things.

Mr. Rogers:
Picture Picture says "Hello". I suppose you saw that earlier, didn't you? When Picture Picture has that word, do you know that it says "Hello"? Hello.

[repeated line]

Ino A. Horse:
I know.

Mr. Rogers:
Did you see what I brought in with me? It's a case with a long zipper across here. Can you imagine what might be in here? Can you image what might NOT be in here?

King Friday XIII:
And what are you ladies planning to invest your energy in this lovely moment in time?

Mr. Rogers:
Maybe you and your family and friends could have your own arts festival. And include whatever you like to do. Such as drawing, or painting, or dancing, or dressing up, or singing, or cooking. There are many ways of saying who you are and how you feel. Ways that can be so helpful. Ways that don't hurt yourself or anybody else. You know, that's how you can tell when you're grown up inside: you're sure that what you're planning and doing are things that can be a real help to you and your neighbor. I'm proud of you, know that. I hope you do.

Mr. Rogers:
You know, I was just thinking. Every person, whether little or big, is a human being. And because we are human there are many things that are alike about all of us. For instance, we all need to be loved. Everybody does. Every person that you see in this world needs to be loved. And the marvelous thing about being human is that while we're very much alike, each one of us is very different too. Isn't it great that we can care about one another the way we do?

King Friday XIII:
I am about to make an announcement.

Mayor Maggie:
Can we help you, King Friday?

King Friday XIII:
Of course.

Mayor Maggie:
What can we do?

King Friday XIII:
You can listen.

King Friday XIII:
Lady Aberlin and Lady Fairchilde, I presume?

Lady Aberlin:
[Bowing with a curtsy] Correct as usual, King Friday.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Right you are sometimes, Friday.

Mr. Rogers:
Do you find that eating is fun for you? Especially when you're hungry?

Lady Aberlin:
You know, those Speedy Seeds really worked well.

Old Goat:
Baah. Maaah. Baah. Baah.

Lady Aberlin:
That's a good idea. If you plant some right away, you should have a very good crop by next week.

Mr. Rogers:
Even if it's something disappointing, it's still better to know the truth. Because people can deal with disappointment. And once they've done that, they can feel that they have really grown. And that can be such a good feeling.

Mr. Rogers:
So friends are friends. We thought alot about friends, haven't we? And we've thought alot about food. Especially food for the body. And that's a very important kind of food, because when a person is very, very hungry, he or she can't think of any other kinds of food. But there are other kinds. Music, for instance, is food for the hearing. And paintings and beauitful scenes are food for the seeing. And books are food for the soul. And loving other people is food for the spirit. Many kinds of foods. You could think of some yourself.

Mr. Rogers:
One wonderful way of showing that you love people is being able to accept the food they give you. If you really like it and you can tell them so, that can give them a very, very good feeling. I think of these television visits as my way of giving to you. I'm glad that you like to be with us. Bye-bye.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] What if I were very, very sad / And all I did was smile? I wonder after a while / What might become of my sadness? What if I were very, very angry / And all I did was sit / And never think of it? What might become of my anger? Where would they go / And what would they do / If I couldn't let them out? / Maybe I'd fall / Maybe get sick / Or doubt / But what if I could know the truth / And say just how I feel? I think I'd learn a lot that's real / About freedom / I'm learning to sing a sad song when I'm sad / I'm learning to say I'm angry when I'm very mad / I'm learning to shout / I'm getting it out / I'm happy learning exactly how I feel inside of me / I'm learning to know the truth / I'm learning to tell the truth / Discovering truth will make... me... free.

Mr. Rogers:
I was just thinking, I wonder if King Friday and Lady Elaine sometimes just get jealous of each other or something. If they'd just talk about how they feel instead of acting silly, everyone would be alot happier. Well you and I know that WE don't have to act like they do. No, we don't! And that can give us a very good feeling.

Mr. Rogers:
Doesn't it feel good when you're just about to do something you know is wrong and you decide to do something else? Something that won't hurt you or anybody else? Doesn't that feel great? You know you're really growing then.

King Friday XIII:
Everyone MUST wear a three-cornered one.

King Friday XIII:
I wonder what Mr. Rogers would say about this.

Mr. Rogers:
One time I met one of those people and he said that they had practiced for ten years to do dances like that. Ten years. Isn't that wonderful? That they care enough to do that? You know, there are times when you feel like dancing, but you're supposed to sit still or at least sit down. I wonder if we couldn't make up a... sitting kind of a dance. Because sometimes you have such a good feeling that you have to move a little bit.

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
It's such a good feeling / To know you're alive / It's such a happy feeling / You're growing inside / And when you wake up ready to say / I think I'll grow 12 inches today / It's such a good feeling / A very good feeling / The feeling you know that you're alive... It's such a good feeling / To know you're in tune / It's such a happy feeling / To find you're in bloom / And when you wake up ready to say / I think I'll grow 12 inches today / It's such a good feeling / A very good feeling / The feeling you know that you're alive.

Mr. Rogers:
It's a good feeling to be with you. It surely is. You know, at night when I go to bed, I think, "Tomorrow, I'll visit with him again". Mm-hmm. I do. I like you. And we will. Well, I'll go with my shiny shoes and be thinking of you. You always make it special for me by just you're being you. I like you just the way you are. You know that, don't you? See you tomorrow. [Exits]

King Friday XIII:
I have every confidence in your installation of confidence.

Handyman Negri:
Thank you... I think.

King Friday XIII:
Carry on. [Exits]

Handyman Negri:
[to self] Every confidence in my installation of confidence?

Queen Sara Saturday:
How can we feel so much love when we don't know what love is?

Mr. Rogers:
Here are some things that some children gave me and gave me a good suggestion to go with them. This is an empty milk container and they said it could be an apartment house. Good idea? This is an empty oats box. They said it could be a tunnel. What about that? And this is a cottage cheese container. It could be a lake. Let's just take these things to the sand table on the other side of the kitchen.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] You are my friend / You are special / You are my friend / You're special to me / You are the only one like you / Like you, my friend / I like you / In the day time / In the night time / Any time that you feel's the right time / For a friendship with me, you see / F-R-I-E-N-D special / You are my friend / You're special to me / There's only ONE in this wonderful world / You... are... special.

[Speaking]

Mr. Rogers:
Yes, you are.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Tree Tree Tree, Tree Tree Tree / Tree Tree Tree, Tree Tree Tree / We love you, yes we do / Yes we do, we love you / Tree Tree Tree, Tree Tree Tree / Tree Tree Tree, Tree Tree Tree.

X the Owl:
[singing] Owl Correspondence School/ Dear O.C.S/ We do our lessons/ And we get a U or an S/ We hope for an S/ Oh, Owl Correspondence School/ Dear O.C.S/ Owl Correspondence School... We love you best/ We love you best.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] I like to take my time / I mean that when I want to do a thing / I like to take my time to get it right/ I mean I just might make mistakes / If I should have to hurry up / And so I like to take my time... To tie my shoes/ To eat / To get dressed / To go to sleep at night / To sing a song for you / And everything I do/ I like to take my time/ I mean that when I want to do a thing / I like to take my time to get it right / I mean I just might make mistakes / If I should have to hurry up / And so... I like to take... my... time.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] There are many ways to say I love you / There are many ways to say I care about you / Many ways / Many ways / Many ways to say... I love you / Cleaning up a room can say I love you / Hanging up a coat before you're asked to do it / Drawing special pictures for the holidays / And making plays / You'll find many ways to say I love you / You'll find many ways to understand what love is / Many ways / Many ways / Many ways to say... I love you.

[repeated line]

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Boomerang, Toomerang, Zoomerang.

[repeated line]

King Friday XIII:
No buts about it.

Marilyn Barnett:
[Repeated line] Hi, Fred, do you have time for some exercises today?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I want to win this contest. What did you say the prize would be, Friday?

King Friday XIII:
I didn't say. And anyway, if you do your best, you will have won the best prize of all.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What's that?

King Friday XIII:
The good feeling about having done well.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
But I want the prize.

King Friday XIII:
Well, hope for the best. It may be all or nothing.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh Friday, you and your surprises. I don't know why I always fall for them.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] I'm taking care of you/ Taking good care of you/ For once I was very little too/ Now, I take care of you.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] You can make believe it happens, or pretend that something's true / You can wish or hope or contemplate a thing you'd like to do / But until you start to do it, you will never see it through / 'Cause the make believe pretending just won't do it for you. You've... Got... To... Do it. Every little bit/ You've got to do it / Do it. Do it. Do it. / And when you're through / You can know who did it / For you did it. You did it. You did it. / If you want to ride a bicycle and ride it straight and tall / You can't simply sit and look at it / 'Cause it won't move at all / But it's you who have to try it, and it's you who have to fall, sometimes / If you want to ride a bicycle and ride it straight and tall, you've... Got... To do it / Every little bit / You've got to do it / Do it. Do it. Do it. And when you're through / You can know who did it / For you did it. You did it. You did it. YOU did it.

Mr. Rogers:
You know, the toughest thing is to love somebody who has done something mean to you. Especially when that somebody has been yourself. Have you ever done anything mean to yourself? Well it's very important to look inside yourself and find that loving part of you. That's the part that you must take good care of and NEVER be mean to. Because that's the part of you that allows you to love your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone you happen to be with at any time in your life. Respecting and loving your neighbor can give everybody a good feeling.

King Friday XIII:
Betty Okanak Templeton, I presume?

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
You're right about that, King Friday. I always say if you wanna be right about something, you look at somebody you know and say their name and ask if you're right. Well of course you're right, of course you're correct as usual. After all, it's that person's name, it's not some multiple equation for extra carricular movements.

Mr. Rogers:
You know, when I was a little boy and I went to bed before everybody else in the family, I used to be so curious about what the other people in the family were doing. Particularly I wanted to know what my mother and father were doing when I wasn't with them. I used to think alot about that. And I even asked them about it and they said that was their own time together. And while it was fine to be curious about it, there were some things that were for just grown-ups to do. And I would learn about them when I was a grown-up myself. And so I waited and I grew up and I became a grown-up myself. You know, I think we should have some make-believe.

Mr. Rogers:
[Sung at the beginning of every show as he enters the television house] It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood / A beautiful day for a neighbor / Would you be mine? Could you be mine? / It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood / A neighborly day for a beauty / Would you be mine? Could you be mine? / I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you / I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you, so / Let's make the most of this beautiful day / Since we're together, we might as well say / Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? / Won't you please? Won't you please... Please won't you be my neighbor?

[Speaking]

Mr. Rogers:
Hi, television neighbor. Welcome to this neighborhood.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Some are fancy on the inside / Some are fancy on the outside / Everybody's fancy/Everybody's fine/Your body's fancy, and so is mine/Boys are boys right from the beginning...

[Speaking]

Mr. Rogers:
When you're born a boy baby, you grow up to be a bigger boy, and then a man.

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
Girls are girls right from the start.

[Speaking]

Mr. Rogers:
When you're born a girl baby, you grow up to be a bigger girl, and then a woman.

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
Everybody's fancy / Everybody's fine / Your body's fancy, and so is mine / I think you're a special person / And I like your ins and outsides / Everybody's fancy / Everybody's fine / Your body's fancy and so... is... mine.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] It's you I like / Not the things you wear / Not the way you do your hair / But it's you I like/ The way you are right now/ The way down deep inside you / Not the things that hide you / Not your toys... They're just beside you / But it's you I like/ Every part of you/ Your skin, your eyes, your feelings / Whether old or new/ I hope that you'll remember even when you're feeling blue/ That it's you I like / It's you yourself / It's you... It's you I like.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[the neighbors have painted a portrait of Lady Elaine] I'm just kinda speechless, myself. As I said I didn't know anybody cared about me.

Lady Aberlin:
If you had any doubt about that, Lady Elaine, you might have asked. After all, you have words and that's what words are for, aren't they, Robert Troll?

Robert Troll:
Absolutely... [Gibberish]... Words.

[repeated line]

X the Owl:
Lady Aberlina, how in the world are ya?

Mr. Rogers:
Hi, television neighbor. I'm glad we're together again.

Mr. Rogers:
Anything worth while certainly takes a while.

X the Owl:
You learn something old everyday.

Mr. McFeely:
[singing] If there's anything you want, if there's anything you need / McFeely's delivery brings it to you here with speed/Yes, our Speedy Delivery is a speedy delivery... Speedy Delivery to you.

Mr. McFeely:
Speedy delivery!

[there's a knock at the door]

Mr. Rogers:
Oh, there's somebody knocking at the door.

Chef Brockett:
Speedy delivery!

Mr. Rogers:
Speedy delivery? Somebody is saying, "Speedy delivery", but it doesn't sound like Mr. McFeely to me. Did it to you? [Calls out] What did you say?

Chef Brockett:
Speedy delivery!

Mr. Rogers:
Who do you think that sounds like? Chef Brockett? [Looks out window] It IS Chef Brockett.

Mr. McFeely:
[singing] That's what you'll get/That's what you'll get: a speedy, speedy delivery/A speedy, speedy, speedy, speedy, speedy delivery.

King Friday XIII:
Anything is possible in make-believe.

[repeated line]

Donkey Hodie:
I'll say.

Robert Troll:
H.J. Elephant III... [Troll talk]... Give me your ONE favorite color, okay?

H.J. Elephant III:
I'd say it's pinkish-yellowish-brownish-orange.

Robert Troll:
[laughs] Boy, no one has come up with that one, I'll tell you. I'm not even sure I can spell it.

Mr. Rogers:
Hi, neighbor. How're you doing?

Mr. Rogers:
Now I have one other tape of sounds that I'd like to play for you.

[repeated line and usually song]

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I'm a man who manufactures / Who manufactures chairs / I'm a man who manufactures chairs and every wares / I'm a man who manufactures.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh boy. Oh girl.

X the Owl:
That's just nifty galifty.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Everything grows together / Because you're all once piece / Your legs grow as your fingers grow as your hands grow as your arms grow as your ears grow as your nose grows as the rest of your grows / Because you're all once piece.

Mr. Rogers:
As I was walking down the sidewalk to come to visit you here, I saw Betty Aberlin and look what she gave me. You know what this is, don't you? An apple. A beautiful apple. It looks so nice and feels nice. [sniffs] And smells so good, and I know it's going to taste good. But I won't eat it right away.

Chuck Aber:
How's the bird?

Audrey Paulifficate:
Still in the hand, if you know what I mean.

King Friday XIII:
[singing, to his wooden bird on a stick] Troglodytes Aedon / My wren is my pet / Is my very royal pet. Greet it. Troglodytes Aedon / Meet my pet / Troglodytes Aedon.

King Friday XIII:
[Reciting "big' words to "Row Row Row Your Boat'] Propel, propel, propel your craft... Gently down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically... Existance is but an illusion.

King Friday XIII:
[singing to his wooden bird on a stick] Mimus Polyglottos is my pet / Mimus Polyglottos is my pet / Mimus Polyglottos is my pet. Have you met my pet yet?

Mr. Rogers:
I was just thinking. You know, if you had all the toys in the world and you didn't have any imagination about how you would play with them, those toys would just sit there doing nothing. And that would be no fun. Thinking up good things to do with what you have gives everybody a good feeling.

Lady Aberlin:
Ugga mugga, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Ugga mugga, Lady Aberlin.

King Friday XIII:
Niece Aberlin and Lady Elaine Fairchilde, I presume?

Lady Aberlin:
Correct as usual, Uncle Friday.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Correct, but not always, Friday.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Phone call for you, Sire, it's the new president of Old.

Robert Troll:
[singing] Oh, Shidely dum di mooley / Moodily dum di shid ze boom boom / Shidely dum di mooley tooley / Moodily troll di boom / Shidely, moodeley, moodeley, noodeley / Roodeley troll de boom.

Robert Troll:
What's wrong with the prince? He-He isn't sick, is he? W-what's this about?

King Friday XIII:
He told me he doesn't like himself.

Robert Troll:
Aw, "doesn't like himself". It's not like him to not like himself- [troll talk] King Friday.

Mr. Rogers:
I was just thinking, you know work changes things. And children can change things by doing a good job. Like changing the way a room looks by picking up your toys when your play is over. Or changing the way your plate of food looks by eating your food. Good work can make good changes and can give a good feeling.

Mr. Rogers:
[shows us a miniature construction machine] This is called a high-lift. See how high it lifts?

King Friday XIII:
My father was a large man. 3 1/2 I believe he was.

Mr. Rogers:
[presents a cloth bag] Do you have any idea what I might have in this bag to show you? Not a live elephant, no. Not a big building. Some things that are pretty light.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] I'll be back / When the week is new / And I'll have more ideas for you / And you'll have things you'll want to talk about / I will too / I'll think of you when I'm not here / Cause thinking of people makes them seem near / The friends who know you love you cheerfully / I do too.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] Tomorrow, tomorrow / We'll start the day tomorrow / With a song or two...

[Holds up two fingers]

Mr. Rogers:
One two / Tomorrow, tomorrow / We'll start the day tomorrow / With a smile for you / Till then, I hope you're feeling happy / Till then, I hope your day is...

[snaps fingers twice]

Mr. Rogers:
Snappy / Tomorrow, tomorrow / It soon will be tomorrow / And be our day / We will say / "A very happy tomorrow to you".

Lady Aberlin:
Lady Elaine Fairchilde, what have you been up to?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, just a little mischief, dear.

Lady Aberlin:
I'll see you later.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Not if I see you first.

Mr. Rogers:
Did you ever do something that your parents told you not to do? And when you did it, they got very angry and spanked you? Well, if children bite, or kick another person, or hurt their brothers or sisters, their parents can get very frightened and very angry. It's important to remember that if you do hurt a little brother or sister and your mother or dad punishes you, that's not because your mom or dad loves the baby better. No, it's because the baby is helpless. And your parents want you to grow to be a good brother or sister.

Mr. Rogers:
You can never go down the drain and you can never go up the sweeper.

King Friday XIII:
Farewell Aber and Elephant, may you suceed in life as friends and may your pleasures come to you in mutuality.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Friday, you are so poetic.

King Friday XIII:
I like to think so.

King Friday XIII:
There's only one of you, Fairchilde.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
That's right, toots, aren't you glad?

Robert Troll:
[Taking a census] How about you, H.J.? [Troll talk]... What's your favorite color?

H.J. Elephant III:
Hmm... Pink.

Robert Troll:
Okay...

H.J. Elephant III:
And yellow. And brown. And orange.

Robert Troll:
Wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just one color. Just one.

H.J. Elephant III:
Let me see... Oh, that's hard. I'll have to ponder, Robert Troll.

H.J. Elephant III:
[Repeated line] Oh, me. Oh, my. Boomerang. Toomerang. Soomerang.

Mr. Rogers:
So you can make up all sorts of things and sing them. And you can call that operas.

Mr. Rogers:
[Hides his face behind an object] Where's Mr. Rogers? [Shows his face] Peekaboo!

King Friday XIII:
[trolley dings] Don't you worry about that. Don't you mind. There will *always* be mechanical scoffers.

[first lines]

Mr. Rogers:
Hi, glad to see you today. I shall button my buttons on my sweater, and change my shoes, and get ready to have some time with you in this very special studio of ours.

King Friday XIII:
Mr. Negri, I presume?

Handyman Negri:
Yes, sir.

King Friday XIII:
Did you desire an audience with me?

Handyman Negri:
Yes, I did, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Then I suggest you make an appointment.

Handyman Negri:
Well, you see, sire, I forgot.

King Friday XIII:
Forgot? No such thing. Carry on.

Handyman Negri:
Well, sir, I thought I would just come over and...

King Friday XIII:
I mean carry on back to make your appointment to see me.

Handyman Negri:
Do you think Mr. Rogers could help us?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, I'll bet he could.

Handyman Negri:
I'll send him a note on the trolley.

Mr. Rogers:
[as Mr. McFeely rushes off] You're sure you can't st... he's gone.

Mr. Rogers:
[on the telecan with Edgar Cooke] Tell me about the neighborhood. How have you been doing? Not so good? Well, I'm sorry. What's going on? [to us] You might know it. Lady Elaine Fairchilde has been making a few changes magically. [Edgar tells him more] WHAT? You mean the Eiffel Tower on the OTHER side of the castle? Well what's King Friday think about that? I guess he does... I guess he doesn't like that. What about the trolley? Has it changed at all? Not very much. Well, we'd better come in and check, Edgar. Thanks for telling me the news.

Mr. Rogers:
[looking through his telescope at the Neighborhood of Make Believe] There's Daniel's clock, and the fountain, and the Museum Go Round. They all look fine. But there's the tree! And Henrietta's house. Well, that's close to the factory, why she did make a lot of changes. Hi, Trolley! We're waiting for you. Oh, there's the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the castle.

Handyman Negri:
[rushes over to the telecan] Hello, Miss Paulifficate? Yes, this is Joe Negri. I wonder if I might see King Friday. Yes, Miss Paulifficate, I know he's in the garden. You think I might get to see him? Okay, fine, in two and two-tenths seconds? Right-o, I'm on my way. Goodbye. [rushes back to castle garden, where King Friday is waiting]

King Friday XIII:
You are late!

Handyman Negri:
But... But before, I was early.

King Friday XIII:
But now, you are late.

Handyman Negri:
Sir, I was just coming over to see if I could help in anyway.

King Friday XIII:
You can find that Fairchilde woman and bring her for arraignment, that's what you can do.

Handyman Negri:
Well, sir, I'm sure she's hiding somewhere.

King Friday XIII:
Hiding or not, she shall be caught.

Handyman Negri:
Well, I'll do my very best, sire.

King Friday XIII:
At least by tomorrow.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You're a good sport, Saturday. I like you, yessir! We're not gonna have a stuffy queen around here. She's really swingin'. Hurrah for Queeny Saturday! You're welcome at my place any day. Toot toot!

Mr. Anybody:
Sara Saturday. Will you accept the duties of queen of this Neighborhood of Make-Believe and promise to reign in justice and equity all the days of your life?

Queen Sara Saturday:
I will so accept with all your help.

Mr. Anybody:
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe crowns thee Queen Sara Friday Saturday. Long live the queen!

All:
Long live the queen!

Mr. Anybody:
Will the king and queen please join hands. Do you, King Friday XIII, love Queen Sara Friday Saturday and want to live with her always?

King Friday XIII:
I do.

Mr. Anybody:
Do you, Queen Sara Friday Saturday, love King Friday XIII and want to live with him always?

Queen Sara Saturday:
I do.

Mr. Anybody:
King Friday, will you repeat after me: 'I, King Friday XIII, take thee Queen Sara Friday Saturday, to be my lawful wedded wife. To have and to hold. In sickness and in health. In joy and in sorrow. For richer or for poorer. As long as we both shall live.' [Friday repeats it] Queen Sara, will you repeat after me: 'I, Queen Sara Friday Saturday, take thee King Friday XIII, to be my lawful wedded husband. To have and to hold. In sickness and in health. In joy and in sorrow. For richer or for poorer. As long as we both shall live. [Queen Sara repeats it] What do you give as a token of your marriage?

King Friday XIII:
Robert Troll has the token. [Taking the ring] This is an outward sign of an inward affection, Sara.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Thank you, Friday. [Taking her ring] This is an outward sign of my affection, too, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Thank you, Sara.

Mr. Anybody:
By the authority vested in me, by the arch-clergy of Make-Believe, I pronounce that King Friday XIII and Queen Sara Friday Saturday are now husband and wife. Who make-believe has joined together, let no man put asunder. Long live the King and Queen!

All:
Long live the King and Queen!

Cornflake S. Pecially:
It seems everybody wants rockits.

Lady Aberlin:
Not the kind you bomb with.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Oh, no. The kind I make.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
When you want to be number one all the time, you've got a second thought coming.

Mr. Rogers:
[Trow is working on a model of the castle] That looks like a hard one to do.

Bob Trow:
Well you know King Friday and how particular he is. I knew I had to make this about as perfect as I could get it.

Mr. Rogers:
Mr. Trow is a real friend of mine, and he's got a workshop, it's not far from here, where he makes these beautiful things. Sometimes I pretend, though, that he's in the Neighborhood of Make Believe. You know Robert Troll?

[Speaks troll talk]

Mr. Rogers:
You know, he talks like that. Well, I just wondered if you'd like to meet the real Mr. Trow. Yeah, he is a real man. And he talks just the way you and I do. His other talks is pretend. Why don't you and I go to visit him today? Alright?

Mr. Rogers:
And the clock says it's about time for me to go. Sometimes clocks can make you angry when they seem to go so fast and the time just goes tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock and it's time to go. It seems that happens when you're having a good time. But you and I will have another good time...

[singing]

Mr. Rogers:
Tomorrow. Tomorrow / We'll start the day tomorrow with a song or two / One, two / Tomorrow. Tomorrow / We'll start the day tomorrow with a smile for you / Till then I hope you're feeling happy / Till then I hope your day is / Snappy / Tomorrow. Tomorrow / It soon will be tomorrow and will be our day / We will say, a very happy tomorrow to you.

Mr. Rogers:
[watching slides of trees] There, that's a pear tree. Pears grow on that kind of tree.

Mr. Rogers:
[watching slides of trees] That's an oak tree. I like oak trees. See the apples in that picture? That's an apple tree. Apples grow on trees.

Mr. Rogers:
Mr. McFeely, before I open it, I'd like to ask you a question.

Mr. McFeely:
Yes?

Mr. Rogers:
Do you like to eat anything from a tree?

Mr. McFeely:
A tree? Well let me see, I don't eat bark, and I don't eat leaves and I don't eat pine needles...

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow, meow meow meow wishing meow MEOW meow meow.

X the Owl:
Well I never thought of that.

Lady Aberlin:
So he thought you made his wish come true.

Mr. McFeely:
That's right. That's great, isn't it?

Lady Aberlin:
Well, sometimes it's fun to have your wishes come true.

Mr. McFeely:
Yeah, Mr. Rogers and I were thinking about it even before X wished for the orange.

Lady Aberlin:
Yes, wishes don't just happen, do they?

Mr. McFeely:
No, ma'am. No, ma'am. Well I'm very busy today, Lady Aberlin. Good day to you. Good day.

X the Owl:
Henrietta, guess what?

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow?

X the Owl:
This orange didn't come by my wishing for it.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow didn't?

X the Owl:
No. Mr. McFeely and Mr. Rogers were going to send it to me anyway. Isn't that true, Lady Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
That's true.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow. Meow meow meow meow feel?

X the Owl:
I feel ALOT better. Boy, now I can wish anything and not have to worry.

Lady Aberlin:
Why don't you try it?

X the Owl:
Okay. I wish, I wish, I wish for 3,000 oranges in my tree.

Mr. Rogers:
You don't eat bark.

Mr. McFeely:
Nope, don't eat bark.

Mr. Rogers:
You don't eat pine needles.

Mr. McFeely:
Don't eat pine needles. No, siree.

Mr. Rogers:
What about...

[Presents an apple]

Mr. McFeely:
Apples! Why, yes, I eat apples, Mr. Rogers. Red apples, I like those.

Mr. Rogers:
They grow on trees, you know.

Mr. McFeely:
They grow on trees, you're right.

Mr. Rogers:
What about...

Mr. McFeely:
Yellow bananas. They also grow on trees.

X the Owl:
I'm not so sure I want wishes to come true.

Lady Aberlin:
Why not?

X the Owl:
Well, Henrietta, you know Henrietta Pussycat, my neighbor, she said to me, "What if all your wishes would come true, X?"

Lady Aberlin:
And then what did you say?

X the Owl:
Well, I thought about the times when I'm angry and wished for bad things. I wished my tree would fall down and all kinds of bad things.

[singing]

X the Owl:
One time I wished that my tree would fall down/ And hit someone else on the head/ I was mad all the day/ And I just couldn't say/ Why owls and people and things get that way/ I wished for some terrible thing/ I'd say/ Especially trees falling down/ But that wish certainly didn't come true/ 'Cause scary mad wishes don't make things come true/No, scary mad wishes don't make things come true.

King Friday XIII:
Here is a ticket for Queen Sara. I don't need a ticket. I'm the king.

Mr. Rogers:
[assembling a model railroad] This is the flat car. I guess it's called that because it's flat.

Mr. Rogers:
[walks by Picture Picture, with the word "train" on it] What was that?

[walks back]

Mr. Rogers:
Picture Picture, wouldn't you know it? "Train". That's right.

King Friday XIII:
I trust that you will tell the world about our royal news.

Officer Clemmons:
I'll be very glad to, King Friday. I'll also be able to tell another neighborhood about your wonderful news.

King Friday XIII:
Another neighborhood? What do you mean?

Officer Clemmons:
Well you see, I just received this telegram notifying me that I've been accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Studio in another city.

King Friday XIII:
Another city?

Officer Clemmons:
Yes. My wife and I will be leaving next week.

King Friday XIII:
You'll not be a policeman anymore?

Officer Clemmons:
I'm going to be a full time opera singer.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh... I'll bet you'll go away forever. I'll bet he'll leave forever.

Officer Clemmons:
No I won't, Lady Elaine, I'll come back and visit all my friends here.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow take your bed meow?

Officer Clemmons:
Yes, Henrietta, we'll take our bed, we'll take our clothes, our television set, and all the other things we'll need to live there.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Oh we will miss you, Officer Clemmons.

Officer Clemmons:
Well I can always make believe that I'm here, though.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Some places are too far away for make believing.

Officer Clemmons:
Well, Lady Elaine, I don't know any of those places. Well, I guess I better get back to my work now. I'm so pleased to hear about your wonderful news, King Friday and Queen Sara.

Queen Sara Saturday:
And we're pleased for you, Officer Clemmons.

Officer Clemmons:
Well, this is something I've always wanted to do.

King Friday XIII:
Something he has always wanted to do, everyone!

Betty Aberlin:
[they are making paper fish] How did you put the eye on?

Mr. Rogers:
I put a little spit on it.

X the Owl:
Can you feel the baby inside you?

Queen Sara Saturday:
Just a little bit. It moves around and I know that it's there.

Lady Aberlin:
Henrietta wonders if she could see it, but I told her that nobody would be able to see it until it was born.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow. Meow meow meow meow babysitter meow meow.

Queen Sara Saturday:
I would be delighted for you to be a babysitter, dear. I just know that the baby will love you.

Lady Aberlin:
Imagine, having an owl and a pussycat for neighbors.

Queen Sara Saturday:
I just love everything about this neighborhood.

X the Owl:
What do you love the best?

Queen Sara Saturday:
Well, King Friday of course, but I think all of our neighbors are so special.

X the Owl:
We sure like you too, Queen Sara, you don't mind talking about important things.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Well talking about important things is the best way for people to grow.

Mr. Rogers:
Let's pretend that the trolley is taking us to the Neighborhood... of... Make... Be... Lieve.

Lady Aberlin:
[the trolley does not move] Something is wrong with the trolley, Bob Dog.

Bob Dog:
[Howls] Is it dead?

Bob Dog:
I don't know what to do for you, trolley. Are you dead?

Lady Aberlin:
There's something wrong with the trolley.

King Friday XIII:
The trolley?

Lady Aberlin:
Yes. It won't whistle or ding or move at all.

Bob Dog:
[Howls] Is it dead?

Queen Sara Saturday:
Oh no, Bob Dog. Trolleys are machines. They aren't alive, so they can't die.

Mr. Rogers:
[a fish in his tank had died, so he buried it in the yard] When I was very young, I had a dog that I loved very much. Her name was Mitzi. And she got to be old, and she died. I was very sad when she died, because she and I were good pals. And when she died, I cried. My grandmother heard me crying, I remember, and she came and just put her arms around me, because she knew I was sad. She knew how much I loved that dog. My dad said that we had to bury Mitzi, and I didn't want to. I didn't want to bury her because I wanted to pretend that she was still alive. But my dad said that her body was dead and we'd have to bury her. So we did.

[Goes back into the house]

Mr. Rogers:
I remember after my dog Mitzi died, my aunt and uncle gave me a toy dog, like this, that I used to play with. I used to make it go like this, then make it pop up again like that. Pretending. Even now I can still remember Mitzi's prickly fur and her curly tail. She had a tail that went around like that.

King Friday XIII:
Bob Dog, I presume?

Bob Dog:
Woof, woof, woof.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Very good, Bob Dog. [to Friday] Three times for a king.

King Friday XIII:
Yes.

King Friday XIII:
Would you like to be in a play tomorrow, Trolley? [Trolley dings in response] That's fine, whatever it means.

Bob Trow:
[tosses a clay ball to Mister Rogers] I have to go now, friend Fred. But I want you to know, it's been a ball.

King Friday XIII:
Donkeys should stay in their windmills!

Mister Rogers:
[has ordered nursery rhyme posters that don't include the respective characters on them. He reads the enclosed letter] "Dear Nursery Rhyme Fan, here are the nursery rhyme posters you ordered. If you would like to get the characters to paste on the scenery, simply send $1.00 more to the following address." [sets down paper and looks disappointed] One dollar more nothing. Why I expected there to be a Jack and a Jill on here! Isn't that disappointing? Did you ever send for anything that came and then you were disappointed about it when it came? One dollar more. Not about to send one dollar more. I have other things to do with my dollars.

Mr. Rogers:
Sometimes if you're just learning something, and it's fun for you and it's new, and then somebody comes around and does it so much better, that can take a little of the fun out of it, can't it?

Susan Linn:
I'm glad you were here.

Mister Rogers:
I'm here alot, whenever you want to talk about important things like that.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll, I presume?

Lady Aberlin:
Correct as always, Lady Elaine.

Robert Troll:
[troll talk]

Lady Aberlin, Robert Troll:
Lady Elaine got the key for Collette, Lady Elaine got the key for Collette.

Mister Rogers:
Have you ever felt bad when somebody got into something of yours? I mean, if you have a drawer, wouldn't you hate it if someone got into your own drawer without asking? Or go through the pockets of your pants without asking?

King Friday XIII:
Nothing less than a royal speech will suffice. And, a key to the kingdom.

Robert Troll:
Key to the kingdom?

Lady Aberlin:
What do you mean, Uncle Friday? Are you going to give her your whole kingdom?

King Friday XIII:
Giving someone a key is just a way of saying welcome.

Mr. Rogers:
That's one of Picture Picture's fancy pictures.

Mr. Rogers:
That's a birthday cake, isn't it? It says "Happy Birthday" on it.

Mr. Rogers:
[looking at a cake decorated for Halloween] What about that one? That's the time when you get all dressed up in false faces.

Mr. Rogers:
[looking at a wedding cake] My goodness, how long has this taken to decorate? A couple hours?

Mr. Smith:
Easy there. It depends if you get interrupted too much.

Mr. Rogers:
You always make it a special day for me. Cakes or no cakes. I like you just the way you are. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sure, I'll like you just the way you are tomorrow. See you then. Bye.

Mister Rogers:
I've been reading the newspaper, so I just brought it with me. Do you know why it's called a newspaper? Because it's made out of paper and it tells the news.

Mister Rogers:
Sam, I'm going to show you a turtle... A turtle. A trolley! Trolley sounds like turtle, doesn't it? Trolley, turtle, trolley, turtle, trolley, turtle.

Mister Rogers:
Does your newspaper have the funnies? Do you ever see a newspaper? Well, some day you'll be able to read one. Sure, you'll be able to read all the words in it, just like your mom and dad do.

X the Owl:
Oh, Nurse Miller, well how in the world are you?

Nurse Miller:
I'm just fine, X, but the real question is how in the world are YOU? You're the one who got hit with that teeny tiny hard ball.

X the Owl:
That's for sure.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
[Mr. McFeely presents Corny with his new lathe] Fine, now plug it in. Right over there.

Mr. McFeely:
Well Corny, there's some instructions in the crate...

Cornflake S. Pecially:
No, just plug it in there.

Mr. McFeely:
I think we should read these first, because there be something you just don't know.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I know all about these things. I saw one in a picture one time.

Mr. McFeely:
Well these machines are dangerous if you're not quite sure...

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I'm sure! I want you to plug it in and turn it on!

Mr. McFeely:
Alright, Corny, alright. I'll just plug it in right here.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Oh boy. Is this ever great.

Mr. McFeely:
Now be careful, I'm turning it on.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Okay... OUCH! Ow! Oh, it pinched my finger!

Mr. McFeely:
I knew we shouldn't have done this. Here, let me see your finger.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Oh, my finger. No, go away!

Mr. McFeely:
Don't you want me to do anything?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
No, I don't need any help. It's alright, just go away! I'm alright. OH! Oh, I don't know why I wanted that stupid old lathe anyhow!

Nurse Miller:
[having just injured his finger on his new lathe, Corny is inside his factory, crying] Corn, are you alright? It's Nurse Miller.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I'm fine, Nurse Miller.

Nurse Miller:
I thought I heard you crying.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I am NOT crying!

Nurse Miller:
Well it's alright if you're crying, Corny. I was just worried about you. Corny? I see you have your new lathe. Wasn't it what you expected? Were you disappointed in it? Oh, won't you come out, Corny?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
[Stifled crying] I can't. I'm... I'm busy. I'm a man who manufactures.

Nurse Miller:
I know you're a man, Corny, a grown up man and I'm very proud of what you can manufacture and I'd like to see what your new lathe can do.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I'm too busy to use the lathe right now. I may never have time to use it.

Nurse Miller:
[reads instructions] "Here are your instructions to your new lathe. Be very careful not to put your fingers in the side of the lathe. It can pinch them very badly and it will hurt enough to make a grown man cry."

Cornflake S. Pecially:
[emerges from factory] Would you read that last part again? About the pinching?

Nurse Miller:
Certainly, Corny. "It can pinch them very badly and it will hurt enough to make a grown man cry".

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Oh. Next time you see X the Owl, tell him I know it's okay. For people to cry when they're hurt.

Nurse Miller:
I'll tell him.

King Friday XIII:
Keeping my muscles in shape, for my subjects deserve a healthy king.

Mr. Rogers:
I'll-bile bobbee bobback.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
This is no time for visiting, Brockett.

Chef Brockett:
Well what's the matter?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Don't look now, but we are being invaded from outer space.

Chef Brockett:
What makes you think that?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
The flying bread. Dangerous, dangerous people, those bread people. But very clever.

Chef Brockett:
I'm not going to go along with this.

King Friday XIII:
I seem to smell something. Has Prince Tuesday gone poo poo in his diaper?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
We can make our stain from different colored earth.

Robert Troll:
That's the way the Indians used to make it.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
The Indians knew so many things that we need to learn all over again.

Mister Rogers:
[enters the television house, as usual. But instead of his usual cheery attitude, he seems solemn and upset by something. As he sings "Won't You Be My Neighbor", he doesn't change into a sweater or change his shoes, just remains in his suit, holding what looks like a ticket in his hand] I don't feel like singing "a beautiful day in this neighborhood." Oh, it's beautiful enough outside alright, but I don't feel beautiful. I'd like to take this ticket and rip it up. This is a parking ticket. Yeah, I parked my car in one of those places that has a meter. You ever seen a parking meter? You have to put nickels and dimes in and then you turn the thing and this [demonstrates with his hand] Goes up like that? Pay for parking. Well, I drove downtown, and all I had was a dollar bill in my pocket. I didn't have change to put in there. Well, I went into the drug store to get some change and when I came out again, there was this lady writing out this ticket. And I had the change right there and I said, "look, I just went in there to get the change. Don't give me a ticket." And she said, "here's your ticket. Tell your story to the judge."

Mister Rogers:
[about his parking ticket] Wouldn't do any good to tear this up. No, there's a copy of it in that meter maid's book. Well, I guess maybe what I should do is take it to the judge. What can I do when I'm angry? I can tell somebody about it. Sure.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
My friend, Malcolm Apricot Dinko, wants to know if there are any monsters here at the Eiffel Tower at night.

Dr. Bill Platypus:
There are not any real monsters anywhere, Daniel. You see, monsters are pretend. Monsters are just imaginary.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh. But, good things can be imaginary too, can't they?

Dr. Bill Platypus:
Ah, yes. There are bill-bill many, many things that are imaginary. Good things, and scary things, but they're just imaginary.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Thanks, Dr. Bill.

Dr. Bill Platypus:
Well, I'll tell Grandpere you came by.

Lady Aberlin:
You're a fine doctor, Dr. Bill.

Dr. Bill Platypus:
Well, I like being a doctor. Good day.

Mister Rogers:
Malcolm Apricot Dinko. Do you say 'ah-pricot' or do you say 'ay-pricot'? Some people like to say 'ah-pricot', and some people like to say 'ay-pricot.' Malcolm is a *real* man's name though, you know. Sure. Daniel must have really liked that name to have given it to his imaginary friend. He must really like the name Malcolm. And he must like apricots too. He must like to eat them. And I guess he must like the sound of 'dinko'.

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] It's just because I have so much work to do.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh I know, but Edgar, we hardly ever see you out here anymore.

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] A busy job, a busy job, a busy job I have. [goes back into the castle]

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] A busy job he has.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood / A beautiful day for a neighbor...

Daniel Striped Tiger:
How did you know I was going to show you my neighbor?

Mr. Rogers:
I have friends who say to me, "oh, gosh, I like that trolley. What's the exact size?" [picks it up] Well you can tell the size of the trolley. It's about... as long as the end of my finger over to my elbow.

Farmer Reardon:
[singing] What a nice cow you are, Priscilla/ What a nice cow you are/ A dear little girl cow.

Pricilla Cow:
[singing] Please, Farmer, please, I'm trying to be something else/ Can't you see?

Farmer Reardon:
[Speaking] A potato bug?

Pricilla Cow:
Do I look like one already?

Farmer Reardon:
Of course not. You'll always be a cow, Priscilla.

Pricilla Cow:
But I don't wanna be a cow. I wanna be... Groovy.

Farmer Reardon:
Well...

[singing]

Farmer Reardon:
Have you never heard of a groovy cow? A boovy cow? A soothy cow? Is there no such thing as a moooooovie cow? Have you never heard of such?

Pricilla Cow:
[singing] No, there's no such thing as a groovy cow/ A boovy cow/ A soothy cow/ And I've never heard of a moooooovie cow/ No, I've never heard of such.

Horatio Potato Bug:
[singing] I... Want to be... A Potato Bug.

Horatio Potato Bug:
[singing] I... Am... A... Potato Bug.

Pricilla Cow:
I... Want to be... A Potato Bug.

Horatio Potato Bug:
Potato Bug. Potato Bug. Potato Bug.

Pricilla Cow:
Maybe I'll run away from here/And then, I'll come back another year/'Cause I don't want to be a cow.

Horatio Potato Bug:
Potato bugs, potato bugs, potato bugs right.

Pricilla Cow:
I... Want to be... A Potato Bug.

Horatio Potato Bug:
Potato Bug. Potato Bugs groove. Potato bug. Potato bugs groove. Potato Bugs groove, groove, groove.

King Friday XIII:
[discussing Harriet Cow's plant] A rare and precious plant belongs at a royal castle, not at a donkey farm.

Lady Aberlin:
Uncle Friday, what do you mean by "belongs at a royal castle"?

King Friday XIII:
Why, I mean that me and my royal gardeners should be taking care of this plant if it is so rare.

Lady Aberlin:
[appalled] Uncle Friday, you're not gonna take it away from her, are you?

King Friday XIII:
I am the king, niece Aberlin! I believe I can have what I want!

Lady Aberlin:
[at a loss for words] Uncle Friday, this is... so unfair that... I'm speechless. You'll have to excuse me.

[leaves]

King Friday XIII:
You're excused.

Audrey Paulifficate:
[reading a note from Harriet Cow to King Friday] "Dear King Friday, your royal highness sir, I'm glad you like my plant. I cannot send it to you, though, not even for a visit. It belongs to me and I need to take care of it. Yours sincerely, Harriet Elizabeh Cow."

King Friday XIII:
Miss, Paulifficate, I must have heard wrong.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Oh, would you like me to read it again? "Dear King Friday..."

King Friday XIII:
[interrupting] Miss Paulifficate, I believe Harriet Cow was saying no to me: King Friday XIII.

King Friday XIII:
Just suppose we do one more?

Handyman Negri:
Alright, sir, but I would like to get over to the tree to help.

King Friday XIII:
The tree? What's going on at the tree?

Handyman Negri:
The fire, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
I thought you put out that fire two days ago.

Handyman Negri:
I did, but there's a lot of dirt left over there from the smoke.

King Friday XIII:
Oh you're helping with the clean up? I see.

[singing to the tune of 'Row Row Row Your Boat']

King Friday XIII:
Clean up/Clean up/ Clean up your house/Whenever you see that it is dirty/Beautify/Beautify/Beautify/Beautify/Exactly like my old Aunt Gertie.

Handyman Negri:
Exactly like your old Aunt Gertie?

King Friday XIII:
I have family you've never dreamed of, Negri. Now take your bucket and luck-it.

Handyman Negri:
Oh yes, sir. Well, farewell.

King Friday XIII:
You mean out of the blue came the purple? Ha ha ha.

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
It's a pleasure to have you singing in my kitchen today.

Chef Brockett:
Thank you.

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
And making waffles.

Chef Brockett:
Do you ever turn up the radio in your kitchen and sing along?

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
Sometimes I turn up the radio. Sometimes I turn up me. I love to sing and sing.

Mr. Rogers:
How does it sound, Mrs. McFeely?

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
Sounds very good. To me.

Mr. Rogers:
Sounds good to me. I'd like to hear you sing.

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
Mmm... Some other day.

Chef Brockett:
I like to cook things. You know why?

Mr. Rogers:
Why?

Chef Brockett:
[singing] 'Cause I'm a chef/I suggest/ That you all be very quiet/ While I cook, you may look/ But you must be very quiet/ If you don't, then I'll "Shh" and I'll "Shhhhhh"/ For it's silence that I ask for my in kitchen/ I'm a chef/ I suggest/ That you do the way I do/ 'Cause it's best, if you rest/ When you're stirring up a stew/ And if you don't, then I'll "Shh" and I'll "Shhhhh"/For it's silence that I ask for in my kitchen/ I like quiet things/ Like lockets/ Quiet pockets/ Sockets/ I like quiet high... Sky rockets/Quiet folks/ Like Brocketts/ I'm a chef/ I suggest/ That you show me what you want/ For you can

[Makes stirring motion with hands]

Chef Brockett:
You can...

[Makes another stirring motion]

Chef Brockett:
You can...

[Another stirring motion]

Chef Brockett:
And if you don't/ Then I'll "Shh" and I'll "Shhhh"/ For it's silence that I ask for/ Yes it's silence that I ask for/ Silence, Silence, Silence in my kitchen/ Shhhhhhhhhh.

[Speaking]

Chef Brockett:
But this isn't my kitchen.

Mrs. Betsy McFeely:
And you don't have to be quiet in here.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Someplace Else? What's going on there?

Chef Brockett:
I'm not exactly sure, but this morning, Donkey Hodie and Harriett Elizabeth Cow had a long meeting with the king. And after they left, he called Edgar and me in and talked to us about waffles.

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] Waffles for a king/ That's an important thing.

Chef Brockett:
[Imitating King Friday XIII] "We must have lot's of waffles on Friday at Someplace Else".

Mister Rogers:
Take a close look at King Friday XIII, and pretend that you have a puppet on your hand. And just have your puppet say something to the king. Have your puppet tell him something?

King Friday XIII:
Yes? Oh, I see. Lovely.

Mister Rogers:
Was it a scary thing that your puppet told the king? Or a happy thing? Or a sad thing? See, puppets can talk about anything.

Officer Clemmons:
[Lady Elaine holds up a sign with the letters MGR on it] What does that stand for?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
M.G.R., My Great Romance... er, Museum Go Round, of course.

Officer Clemmons:
We'd like to show you some pictures I've been taking.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, I have exactly 8 seconds to spare.

Officer Clemmons:
Well, then I'll hurry.

King Friday XIII:
I would give long speeches on television. I would say that if it were not for me, there would be no television. I am the king.

Mister Rogers:
[after he and Bob demonstrate the washer-dryer-sorter-dumper with a potato] We shouldn't play with food like that, but there's your potato.

Mister Rogers:
[as Bob is repairing a washer-dryer] When I was little, I thought that washing machines and drying machines were a kind of magic.

Bob Trow:
No magic about it. Just a machine.

Bob Trow:
It's so nice to just be able to put your dirty clothes, sheets and pillowcases in that little door over there, and push one of these dials and have it all happen. It washes, it spin dries'em, rinses'em, it does everything.

Mister Rogers:
You remember yesterday we were talking about things on television that were just pretend? Well, I was talking with a young friend of mine who said, "you know something that I think is pretend? The Neighborhood of Make Believe." And of course, my young friend was right. Many of the characters in the Neighborhood of Make Believe are puppets that *I* make talk.

Mister Rogers:
You know, some of those scary cartoons and things, they're just made out of pictures and stuff.

Mister Rogers:
Which puppets do you think would like to make up a television show of their own?

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] I'm not so sure I'd be able to.

Mister Rogers:
Well, Edgar, you can always try if you're interested.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Maybe I could talk about clocks, and loving, and things like that.

Mister Rogers:
Sure, Daniel. Whatever you'd like to do to make up a television program.

Bob Trow:
[Mr. Rogers is filling in for Mr. McFeely] Thanks for delivering the material that I needed, Mr. McRogers.

Handyman Negri:
I was just going to go over and visit Henrietta Pussycat. It seems she's afraid of something.

King Friday XIII:
I command her not to be afraid.

Handyman Negri:
Well, I don't think you can command anybody's feelings, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
I can command anything I want. Carry on.

Handyman Negri:
I'll take my guitar along just in case commands don't work.

Mr. Rogers:
Do you ever wish you were like somebody else? Bigger or stronger or able to do things you can't do yet? Does it sometimes make you feel mad when you can't do what other people can do? Well, that is hard, and I know it. But I know something else too, and that is there is only one person like you in all the world, and I like you just the way you are.

Mr. Rogers:
Chrissie, I have something I'd like to tell you. I was just thinking, grown up people like to help children. That's one thing grown ups enjoy about children. But I'm sure there are times when I bet you just wish you didn't have those crutches and braces. Is that right?

Chrissie Thompson:
Yeah.

Mr. Rogers:
Well, I know that that's a hard thing, and I'm proud of you, and I've certainly learned a lot by knowing you. I learned a lot of things I never thought of before.

Mr. Rogers:
When you play that you're a scary thing, then the scary thing doesn't come at you and surprise you, because you're it. You can make it happen just the way you want it to in your play.

Mr. Rogers:
You know, I've told you this often, but I think it's very important. Play is one of the most important things a growing person can do. And nobody plays for you. You do your own playing. Play doesn't just happen itself.

King Friday XIII:
I'm looking for my shoes.

Handyman Negri:
Oh, I just finished them, sire, and I gave them to Queen Sara.

King Friday XIII:
Is she going to wear them?

Handyman Negri:
[as the trolley goes by] Witches aren't real, Trolley.

Swan:
[singing] I will help you/ The swans and the beavers will help you.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] What a gracious swan you are.

Swan:
You're like a swan yourself, young lady/ You're like a beautiful swan yourself.

Lady Aberlin:
That's the nicest thing a swan has ever said to me/ That I was like a swan.

Edgar Cooke:
[reciting telegram] No more permission needed for travel. I like having you here. I want to help you if it's possible. I like having you in this Neighborhood. I like having you here.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Pencils and pop. Tables and tops. Rubies and race cars and rattles. Tires and trees. A cage to catch fleas. Acorns and apples and barrels... Bread baskets, balls, balloons and bananas. Beads and batons and pajamas. Snowflakes and shoelaces. Hats for your head. Kettles and kerchiefs. Umbrellas.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[singing] You're older today / You're older today / You're older than you were yesterday / You're older than I am / Much older than I am / It's your birthday / You're older today.

King Friday XIII:
All this because Trolley got dressed up as a school bus.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Just look at all the displays I have inside. I've got dinosaurs and bones and antique telephones and bells and head rests and radiator covers. I mean what more could ask? I even have a television studio in here.

Handyman Negri:
I'm just concerned about the space for the playground.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Nonsense. Who needs a playground anymore at school? There are too many important things to learn. Phooey with play.

Handyman Negri:
Well that may be YOUR idea, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I've got the best ideas of all.

Handyman Negri:
Okay well we'll let you know where we decide to put it.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Okay, but this is it, I mean I think...

Donkey Hodie:
Boy, that's alot to do in three days.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Listen, anything is possible in Someplace Else, Donkey.

Donkey Hodie:
That's for sure.

King Friday XIII:
[Deciding where to build a school] Will it be at the factory or the museum or the clock or the tree?

Lady Aberlin:
None of those, Uncle Friday. We've decided to build the school at Someplace Else.

King Friday XIII:
Someplace Else?

Handyman Negri:
Yes, sire.

King Friday XIII:
You mean my son will have to go Someplace Else to school?

Mr. Rogers:
If there's a school bus in the Neighborhood of Make Believe, what do you think the people there will want to build?

King Friday XIII:
Are you ready for a commission, Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri?

Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri:
Of course, Your Majesty.

King Friday XIII:
I hereby commission you both to build an appropriate school for the children of this vicinity.

Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri:
That's a great idea, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
In three days.

Lady Aberlin:
In three days?

Handyman Negri:
Build a whole school in three days?

King Friday XIII:
That's the commission.

Handyman Negri:
But we don't even know where to build it.

King Friday XIII:
You may build it any place, just so long as it's the BEST place.

Dr. Bill Platypus:
It's a wonderful idea, and we'll all be so happy for Ana to have a school.

Lady Aberlin:
Do you have any suggestions as to the best place to have a school?

Dr. Bill Platypus:
Well, maybe some other place than right around here. Children often like to go OFF to school. It makes them much more like they're going off to work, like their parents do.

Lady Aberlin:
You're a wise person, Dr. Bill.

Dr. Bill Platypus:
Well, I just try my best to understand children. Elsie Jean and I are so pleased with the way Ana is growing.

King Friday XIII:
If there's a school bus, there needs to be a school.

Prince Tuesday:
Could we have a school, Daddy? Could we please?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
I remember my days at school. I loved playing in the playground. 'Course, I loved the rocking chairs too. Always have.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I think I would like to go to school if I'm not too shy.

Handyman Negri:
Where do you think would be a good place to build it?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well I guess you need a lot of space, don't you?

Handyman Negri:
I think so.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'll give it some thought.

Handyman Negri:
Thanks, Daniel.

Lady Aberlin:
I think we ought to try Someplace Else.

Handyman Negri:
Perfect. There's plenty of room out there, if Harriett Elizabeth Cow and Donkey Hodie aren't using it all for the farm.

X the Owl:
Uh, you just let us know if we can help. I mean I'll be glad to teach about Benjamin Franklin. I know lots of things.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow too.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, you two are so helpful. We'll keep you posted.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
[clears throat] I'm a teacher, y'know.

Lady Aberlin:
A REAL teacher?

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Certified.

Mr. McFeely:
You're a real teacher, aren't you, Miss Cow?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
Oh yes. I studied at the teachers' school.

Mr. McFeely:
They didn't teach you to scare your students or yell at them, did they?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
Of course not. Why do you ask that?

Mr. McFeely:
Well there is somebody scaring your future students from our neighborhood. In fact, I know one little boy who might not want to come to school because he doesn't know his arithmetic.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
They don't have to know arithmetic.

Mr. McFeely:
What about numbers?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
No, uh-uh. They'll learn them soon enough by counting things they're interested in.

Mr. McFeely:
You mean like, uh, these cars?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
That's it. Those cars... that's just what they're for.

Mr. McFeely:
Your real school certainly sounds different from the one Lady Elaine's been talking about.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
Well I'll see her tomorrow. You can be sure of that.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, well, what's going on here?

Prince Tuesday:
They're talking on the walkie talkie, Auntie Lady Elaine. Isn't that fun?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
No time for fun, dear.

Lady Aberlin:
What do you mean, Lady Elaine?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well I mean this boy needs to study.

Lady Aberlin:
But he hasn't even started school yet, and school is many, many things.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I know, but first it's learning numbers and letters and all that stuff.

Lady Aberlin:
Not according to the REAL teacher. Prince Tuesday's school is gonna have lots and lots of things that are going to be fun to do.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
We'll see about this. These children need to work. Work, work, work! Now this is what I want you to start with. Oh, there goes the trolley school bus. Now start with this, Prince Tuesday, it's one, two...

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[Mr. McFeely brings a delivery for Daniel] Are they my study cards?

Mr. McFeely:
They're what Lady Elaine ordered for you, alrighty.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, I'd like to see them.

Mr. McFeely:
Okay, they're right in here... Just what Lady Elaine ordered... [sets down a card containing numbers 1-10] No-Frills numbers... and... [sets out a card containing the alphabet] No-Frills letters. There you go.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, they look funny. I wonder how you play with them.

Mr. McFeely:
Well I think they're just for work, Daniel. Lady Elaine will probably tell you how to use them. As a matter of fact, I think I'll go over to her place and tell her you have them, alrighty?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, thanks, Mr. McFeely. I'm really excited about school.

Mr. McFeely:
Well, good for you, Daniel. Speedy Delivery to you.

Mr. Rogers:
Lady Elaine seems to think that everything about school should be hard and very boring. Well, that's just not the way it is.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[ringing a bell] Attention, attention, attention!

Mr. McFeely:
What for, Lady Elaine?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, just trying to get everybody in shape for school.

Prince Tuesday:
Can I go home now, Auntie Lady Elaine?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Not until you tell me what six minus four equals.

Prince Tuesday:
Six minus four? I don't know.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
But you have to know. You can't go off to school not knowing everything. What am I gonna do with all these kids here? Now say after me. One plus one equals two. [Prince Tuesday repeats it] Two plus two equals for.

Prince Tuesday:
Two plus two equals four. Can I go home now, Auntie Lady Elaine?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
That's all you ever want to do!

Mr. McFeely:
But, Lady Elaine, Prince Tuesday doesn't have to know all of those things before he goes to school.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Of course he does. If he and Ana and Daniel are going to school, they're going to be ready and I'm going to make them ready!

Prince Tuesday:
I don't think I want to go to school.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Of course you do. Now, pretend I'm the teacher. Now study, students. Study hard. Study, study, study.

Mr. Rogers:
[both are on walkie talkies] Roger.

Mr. McFeely:
McFeely.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Lady Elaine has been saying poems to our little Ana.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, well that sounds pretty nice.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Not the kind of poems she says.

Lady Aberlin:
What kind are they?

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Well one of them goes like this: You have to be ready! You have to be ready! You have to be ready for school! For school! You have to be ready! You have to be ready! You have to be ready for school! If not, you'll be sorry!

Lady Aberlin:
Ugh, that's terrible.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Dr. Bill and I think so too and we've tried to tell her.

Lady Aberlin:
I'll do my best because it's really going to be such a nice school.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Well once the children find out for themselves then things will be happier.

Lady Aberlin:
I'll say.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh hello there, Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
Lady Elaine, I'd like to talk with you.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I don't have time. You all are starting that school tomorrow and I don't have any of these children ready.

Lady Aberlin:
The children in this neighborhood were ready long before you started drilling them.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What are you saying?

Lady Aberlin:
I'm saying that I don't like the way you are frightening these children! You are telling them things that are just not true.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Two plus one equals three is most certainly true.

Lady Aberlin:
That's right, but Ana doesn't need to know that before she goes to her first day of school.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
No, she needs to know alot more than that.

Lady Aberlin:
She already knows more than that. Ana knows that she's a growing platypus who wants to learn and be with other children. She already knows how to play lots of different things and what her favorite toys are.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I don't understand your pedigogy.

Lady Aberlin:
Wanting to learn is the most important part of learning.

Ana Platypus:
I want to learn to read like my mom and dad.

Lady Aberlin:
Well your teacher will help you learn to read, Ana.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
How can you learn to read without knowing all the letters?

Lady Aberlin:
Give the teacher a chance, Lady Elaine! Incidentally, what as your first day of school like?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Fine. Oh, I had a wonderful time. The teacher had games for us to play and milk to drink. All sorts of treats.

Lady Aberlin:
Did you know all your letters and numbers when you got there? Did you have to know everything?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Uh... Not exactly.

Lady Aberlin:
Did you have a playground?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh what a fabulous playground we had. I used to pretend I was an astronaut and fly all over the place.

Lady Aberlin:
And then when you grew up you got to be an astronaut.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Hmm... Do you think my playing about it had something to do with it?

Lady Aberlin:
Knowing how to play well is one of the most important things of all in getting ready for the first day of school.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Okay, Aberlin, take this greenboard to Harriet Cow. She'll have some fine players coming to her school tomorrow.

Lady Aberlin:
You are a good sport, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I learned to be by playing.

Lady Aberlin:
I brought you milk.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, thank you, Lady Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
When you called for it, I thought you sounded a little sad.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Would you hold it while I get a straw? Thank you. [Lady Aberlin opens the carton as Daniel returns with a straw, which Lady Aberlin puts in the carton and he starts drinking it]

Lady Aberlin:
Did you hear what I said about being sad?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes, I did. A-B-C-D-F... G-J-K... L-M-S... Oh, Lady Aberlin, I just can't go to school tomorrow.

Lady Aberlin:
Why not, Daniel?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Because I don't know everything.

Lady Aberlin:
You don't know everything? I don't understand.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, Lady Elaine said that we couldn't go to school if we didn't know ALL the letters and ALL the numbers on these charts. And I've tried and tried to learn them, but I just can't, so I guess I can't go. [starts to cry] And I wanted to go to school, I really did.

Lady Aberlin:
But, Daniel, Lady Elaine is just plain WRONG. You don't need to know everything before you begin. In fact, that's what school is for: to help you to learn, not to scare you.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
How do you know?

Lady Aberlin:
Because I went to school and I didn't know those things when I started.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
What was it like at your school?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, Daniel, I loved my school. I had a teacher who really wanted to be a teacher, and every morning she would welcome us and make us feel as though we were all kind of going on a trip together.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
What sort of trip?

Lady Aberlin:
A trip to some place new. Some place we never even though of. We learned so many things about the world and about different countries and people and ships and stars and planes...

Daniel Striped Tiger:
And trucks?

Lady Aberlin:
Yes, and trucks and cars and flowers and about how some people like some things and some people like other things.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Two plus one equals three, now say that again.

Ana Platypus:
Two plus one equals... something.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[angrily] I don't know WHY you can't get it!

Mr. Rogers:
Well, Lady Elaine was scaring everybody about school. Do you know anybody who does that? Sometimes older children will tell young children all kinds of scary things about school. Well that's just not fair, is it?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
What will the school be like inside?

Lady Aberlin:
Well, there will be chairs, it'll be the right size for children, and young tame tigers, and there will be desks you can put milk on.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Will Harriett Cow give us milk?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, of course. Almost every school gives children milk.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
And time to go to the bathroom?

Lady Aberlin:
Of course. You can go to the bathroom whenever you have to.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
It doesn't sound so bad as Lady Elaine makes it sound.

Lady Aberlin:
I'm just going to go talk with her. I don't understand why she would be scaring people so much about school. You call me again if you need me, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I will, Lady Aberlin, and thanks alot.

Lady Aberlin:
You're welcome, Daniel. You have so many people who love you.

Mr. Rogers:
You have so many people who care about you. We want you to like school, because there is so much you can learn that can be so helpful to you for a long, long time.

King Friday XIII:
[discussing the chalk board for the new school] I don't understand it. She said she would be using a greenboard.

Lady Aberlin:
That's right, Uncle Friday.

King Friday XIII:
But in my school, we used a blackboard. I think she should use a blackboard.

Lady Aberlin:
But alot of the newer schools are using green.

King Friday XIII:
Oh, this newfangled stuff. What is education coming to? Even the pencil boxes have pictures on them.

Prince Tuesday:
I could knock down people or cars or houses, because of my Superfunnel!

Lady Aberlin:
Well I hope you'll be careful.

Prince Tuesday:
Everybody else better be careful, because I'm the strongest in the world!

Lady Aberlin:
I guess sometimes you'd really like to be the strongest in the world, wouldn't you?

Prince Tuesday:
With my Superfunnel, I can do anything. I gotta take my books and go to school.

Prince Tuesday:
And here I go.

[King Friday XIII's fanfare plays]

Prince Tuesday:
See? Even the trumpets play when I leave.

King Friday XIII:
[Enters] Niece Aberlin, I presume?

Lady Aberlin:
Correct as usual, Uncle Friday. I wondered why those trumpets were playing.

King Friday XIII:
My royal fanfare, of course.

Lady Aberlin:
Prince Tuesday thought they were for him.

King Friday XIII:
Some days Prince Tuesday thinks everything is for him.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Have you been having some dreams about monsters, Prince Tuesday?

Prince Tuesday:
Yes, sometimes. But my Superfunnel will take care of everything! I could make this whole place fall down if I wanted to.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, what would happen to all of us?

Prince Tuesday:
I might save you with my Superfunnel!

Ana Platypus:
Or I could fly in and save you with my Super-skirt.

Prince Tuesday:
Your Super-skirt? How does that work?

Ana Platypus:
Well I just put on my Super-skirt and I can fly anywhere I want to. And I can save anybody from all the scary things.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well I hope somebody would save me. Because I think that all this is pretty scary talk.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Yes, it can be scary for some to hear about monsters and super things, that's for sure.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[Presents some model dinosaurs] But the real ones are much bigger than these models.

Lady Aberlin:
I know, and they lived a long, long time ago. And nobody in our world has ever seen one.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
No. Not yet.

Lady Aberlin:
What did you say?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, uh, I was just talking to myself.

Prince Tuesday:
If I wanted to, I could take my Superfunnel and knock down this whole museum.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And then what would happen?

Prince Tuesday:
I'd take my Superfunnel and build it right back up again.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You think you're pretty super, don't you?

Prince Tuesday:
I can do anything real strong. My Superfunnel is better than anything!

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You think it's better than my Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang, don't you?

Prince Tuesday:
Well it's just as good. I think.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I suppose you think you could even tame a dinosaur?

Prince Tuesday:
There aren't any dinosaurs anymore.

[pause]

Prince Tuesday:
Are there?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I'm not talking.

Mr. Rogers:
We don't waste food or orange juice in this place. No sir.

Bob Trow:
[Bob shows Mr. Rogers some wooden blocks set up like dominoes] Do you have a super-something to push these down with? You can't do this the way you did those. You need a super-something to push the first one down. There are some super-things right there. Make your choice.

Mr. Rogers:
Well... 'Guess I better not use the paint.

[Picks up a funnel]

Mr. Rogers:
How about a super-funnel?

Bob Trow:
Good. "Fun with a funnel", we'll call it.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
My Boomrang Toomerang Soomerang is the most powerful of all.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh Lady Elaine, we all know you're powerful. You just keep having to prove it to yourself.

Prince Tuesday:
Superfunnel! Super Tuesday! Superfunnel!

Lady Aberlin:
[Ana falls out of X's tree, trying to fly. Lady Aberlin catches her just in time] What is going on here?

X the Owl:
Ana was trying to fly.

Ana Platypus:
I was using my Super-skirt and I was going through the air.

Lady Aberlin:
Yes but you were going down and you might have gotten hurt.

X the Owl:
That's right, Ana.

Lady Aberlin:
You have to be really careful with super things.

Ana Platypus:
Well, everybody was doing super things. I just wanted to try.

Lady Aberlin:
Yes, but it's important to do your pretending where it's safe.

Ana Platypus:
I've got my Super-skirt.

X the Owl:
Well your Super-skirt is very nice, but it's just pretend, you know.

Ana Platypus:
I know. But how did you learn to fly?

X the Owl:
Well I just practiced and made my wings go like this.

[Flaps his wings]

Ana Platypus:
And then what?

X the Owl:
And then I just did it harder and harder and then little by little I learned.

[Ana begins flapping her arms]

X the Owl:
Um careful, Ana, I don't want you to...

Ana Platypus:
I think I'm flying!

X the Owl:
No, you're FALLING!

X the Owl:
I think that's enough about flying for today. Now Ana, you promised that you'd show me how to walk better. You know, birds don't walk very well and platypuses do.

Ana Platypus:
Oh yes, I can walk real well. Come on, I'll show you. But since you're a bird, you might not be able to learn right away.

[Mr. Rogers is getting ready to leave.]

Mr. Rogers:
[while hanging up his sweater] There's something that I want to show you outside. Wait 'til I get my jacket on and I'll show it to you. [Mr. Rogers get his jacket out of the closet and puts it on.] I like to be truthful with you. Mm-hmm. [With his feet out of sight, Mr. Rogers takes off his sneakers and puts on his dress shoes, then he picks up a small bag and a clay dinosaur that he made, then he walks up to the front door.] Come with me. [He walks out the front door and on to the porch.] Right around here. [He walks down the sidewalk.] I just want to show you how we make part of OUR television program. [He walks up to the toy neighborhood used on the show.] You know the houses and the streets and the cars that you see at the beginning of our program? Well... [He moves his clay dinosaur along the toy neighborhood.] ...that's what THIS model is. You see, I could take my brontosaurus... and move it right along these streets. And it would look VERY, very big... in with these houses. Mm-hmm. It could go right along that street there... [He points to one of the houses with the dinosaur's tail.] ...and that's... my pretend house right there -- my television house. It's such a good feeling to be truthful with people. [He sings "It's Such a Good Feeling.]

Mr. Rogers:
What do you do when you get angry you don't turn over cars or jump out of windows do you?

Lou Ferrigno:
No thank God.

Mr. McFeely:
This is an awful big place.

Bill Bixby:
[Referring to the hulk] He and I are two different... people.

Mr. Rogers:
What I'm interested in is... now, when you get angry - you, Lou Ferrigno get angry - what, uh, what do you like to do? What do you do when you get angry? You don't - you don't turn cars over and jump out windows, or things like that?

Lou Ferrigno:
No, thank God.

Queen Sara Saturday:
I must say it was quite a start at first. I was out on my back balcony looking for birds, when all of a sudden I noticed this large creature.

Handyman Negri:
A dinosaur?

Queen Sara Saturday:
Well it was much to big for a yellow-bellied sapsucker.

Purple Panda:
Let us all go to Planet Purple for dinner. We'll have purple pumpernickel and peanut butter sandwiches.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
My treat, okay? I'll treat everybody then.

Ana Platypus:
No more dress-up dinosaurs?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Not this week, dear.

Queen Sara Saturday:
[looking through a telescrope] Oh! Why - Why... It's something very big. Something's coming! It looks like it could be a...

Handyman Negri:
That's Chef Brockett, Queen Sara.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh rats! Oh rats! Oh dinosaur rats!

King Friday XIII:
You are all excused. Thank you, Miss Paulifficate, for the balogna. You may feed it to the elves out back.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Oh baloney.

King Friday XIII:
Exactly.

Jay O'Callahan:
The king took out his dagger that was like his nose: long and crooked. "I'll show you that it is trouble and not a bubble. " He lifted the dagger and stabbed the bubble. And suddenly there was trouble in the bubble, 'cause the king was in the bubble and he couldn't get out of the bubble. Trouble, trouble, trouble, 'cause you can't rule a kingdom from a bubble.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[they're blowing bubbles] They're not orange and black.

[Clemmons tries]

Daniel Striped Tiger:
They look about the same.

Fran?ois Clemmons:
You see? Mine weren't black and yours weren't orange and black.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
But we're different colors, you and I. Why are our bubbles the same?

Fran?ois Clemmons:
Because bubbles don't have anything to do with the outside of us. It's our breath from the inside that help make the bubbles.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Mr. Clemmons, why is everybody so different on the outside and so similar on the inside?

Fran?ois Clemmons:
I don't know. We do look very different, but we have many of the same feelings.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I get sad sometimes. Do you?

Fran?ois Clemmons:
Of course I do.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
And I get real happy sometimes. Do you?

Fran?ois Clemmons:
I certainly do. And do you know one of the reasons I'm happy right now?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Why?

Fran?ois Clemmons:
Because I enjoy talking about serious things with you. And because I've just decided what to be in the opera: a porpoise.

Jay O'Callahan:
It was then they all saw the 3 year-old girl up on the hill. And the girl ran all the way down and came over to the bubble. "Oh, what a beautiful bubble". Her father said, "Oh no, my daughter, its not a bubble, its trouble." "Oh no, father, its just a beautiful bubble". "It's not a bubble, its trouble. The king says so". "Father, its just a bubble. If you treat it like a bubble, it acts like a bubble. Watch," and the little girl reached out so slowly and finally, she pinched the bubble and it popped. "See? Treat it like a bubble and it acts like a bubble." And that's the story of the bubble that really wasn't trouble, it was only a bubble. Ha!

Handyman Negri:
That story was just pretend, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Well, so are we.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Where are you, Handy? I called you seconds ago!

Audrey Paulifficate:
Is this what you wanted?

King Friday XIII:
What is that?

Audrey Paulifficate:
It's bologna. Isn't that what you wanted?

King Friday XIII:
It most certainly is not. As a king, I never indulge in bologna.

Audrey Paulifficate:
But I heard that you wanted a bologna on the balcony.

King Friday XIII:
Not at all.

Handyman Negri:
There must be some mistake. The king wants a big *bubble* for the balcony.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Oh, a bubble. How lovely.

Reardon:
[Returning the Neighborhood of Make Believe after 5 years] Aw, how good it is to be back.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh Reardon. Hello, dear.

Reardon:
The first voice I hear.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Over here, dear.

Reardon:
Coming, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, well, well, well.

Reardon:
Well, well, well, well.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You're a site for my beautiful eyes.

Reardon:
Well they are beautiful and it is beautiful to be back in this neighborhood.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[Reardon has just sung a beautiful, powerful opera song] Oh! I think the opera should be just the two of us. No bubbles of frills. Just two lovely voices blending in the breeze. I, Hildegard Hummingbird, and you, the TV news man.

Reardon:
Well, er... Whom do you think I should be?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You should have a television news program that tells all about me. I could be the hummingbird who pops bubbles in Bubbleland.

Reardon:
Oh, well it sounds different anyway.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Did anybody ever make a sweater for a rocking chair?

Prince Tuesday:
[Prince Tuesday and Ana laugh] That's funny, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, I just didn't mean it to be funny.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
How did you mean it, Daniel?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, chairs have arms and legs and back and seat just like we do, so I thought maybe...

Lady Aberlin:
[Enters] Hi.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh hi, Lady Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, what were you saying before I came in?

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Well Daniel has this idea about chairs and sweaters and well we've never heard of such a thing before.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I thought maybe chairs could have sweaters since they have arms and legs and all.

Lady Aberlin:
Chair sweaters. I never thought of that.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
They'd be great for the winter time, wouldn't they?

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
I'll say.

King Friday XIII:
I like my operas on Fridays.

Handyman Negri:
I'll keep working on bubbles that last.

King Friday XIII:
Good, Handyman.

Lady Aberlin:
I'm off to Someplace Else to show the school people how to knit.

King Friday XIII:
You are both excused.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[appears] What about me?

King Friday XIII:
Everyone in this garden is most certainly excused.

Ana Platypus:
Sometimes I like to make up stories about people.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Most animals like to do that, dear. And people like to make up stories about animals too.

Reardon:
And Chef Brockett just called. He'd like to be the captain of a banana boat.

Lady Aberlin:
Banana boat?

Reardon:
Yeah. I wonder... maybe it'd be alright if it was just a boat that sold bananas.

Lady Aberlin:
That would help. And, maybe the porpoise could live beside the boat.

Reardon:
In a bubble bath? [they both laugh]

Handyman Negri:
Would you like me to blow you away, sire?

King Friday XIII:
Oh that might be pleasant for a change.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[Handy had just "blown away" the king] How did you do that?

Handyman Negri:
That's what windstorms do.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Is that what you are?

Handyman Negri:
In the opera, yes.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh. I think I'd rather be a windstorm in the opera.

Handyman Negri:
I thought you wanted to be the hummingbird.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I changed my mind. You can be the hummingbird, and I'll be the windstorm.

Handyman Negri:
Wait a minute, Lady Elaine, you can't just change your mind...

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I'll get the hummingbird costume now. [leaves]

Handyman Negri:
No, no, don't get... oh!

Reardon:
Hi, Handyman. Well, [in deep voice] Do I look like a TV newscaster?

Handyman Negri:
Oh, I guess so.

Reardon:
Is something the matter?

Handyman Negri:
Lady Elaine has just decided that she wants to be the windstorm, and she wants me to be the hummingbird.

Reardon:
But that's not possible. Besides, her costume wouldn't fit you.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[appears, holding the puppet-sized hummingbird costume] Here you are, now just try this on. Oh, hello, Reardon. Watch out, I'll blow you away.

Reardon:
Um, you are not going to be the windstorm, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh yes I will. Now, Handy, just try that on.

Handyman Negri:
Lady Elaine, it's much too small.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, you can make it into a puppet. Well... now I still want to be the wind.

Reardon:
But your part in the opera, Lady Elaine, is the VERY IMPORTANT part of Hildegarde Hummingbird.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
But I want to be something strong like the wind.

Reardon:
Hildegarde Hummingbird WILL be strong.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
As strong as the wind?

Reardon:
I hope so.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Give me that costume. I'll make her [singing] Strong as the wind/ Strong as the wind/ Hildegarde Hummingbird, strong as the wind. [leaves]

Reardon:
So, you are STILL the windstorm.

Handyman Negri:
Good.

Mr. Rogers:
You may want your whole family to be with you as we have the opera tomorrow. Windstorm in Bubbleland. It will be for everybody. Especially for YOU.

Robert Redgate:
Are we off the air?

Lady Aberlin:
I think so.

Stagehand:
Yeah, we're off the air.

Robert Redgate:
[singing; to Hildegarde] A windstorm would blow all our bubbles away.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] Our business would suffer pain.

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] A windstorm would give us a terrible day.

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
So please don't mention a windstorm again. Not again. Not again.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
You mean I am not to speak the truth in Bubbleland?

Robert Redgate:
Not about a foolish idea like a windstorm.

Captain B:
Did you see that?

Theresa:
See what?

Captain B:
See how my sailing ship did tip? I tell you there is something strange today.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
[after blowing away the wind] Well, that was that. Did you learn anything from it all?

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] Hummingbirds are really strong.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
What else?

Robert Redgate:
[singing] Sweaters are better than bottled up air.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
What else?

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] When friends tell you something caringly/ You should listen carefully.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Very good.

Theresa:
[singing] Bubbles are nice. Also, people are different from bubbles.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Now you're cooking!

Captain B:
[singing] People are far more important than bubbles.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
That's right!

Lady Aberlin:
And who taught us all that?

Lady Aberlin, Robert Redgate, Friendly Frank the Porpoise, Theresa, Captain B:
Hilde... Hildegarde!

Mr. Rogers:
When a bubble's gone, you don't see it anymore with your eyes. And when an opera is over, you don't hear it anymore with your ears. But you can remember it. You can remember what bubbles look like and what operas sound like and what friends feel like. And you'll always have them with you in your memory.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood / A beautiful day for an opera.could we make one? / Sure, we'll make one.

Robert Redgate:
[singing] There's never never never never never any trouble here in Bubbleland, Bubbleland, Bubbleland/There's never never never never never anything just joy right here/So keep on blowing bubbles/And protect the ones you earn/Remember its your bubbles that will always help you learn that there is - Never never never never never never never never NEVER any trouble here in Bubbleland, Bubbleland, Bubbleland, Bubbleland.

Robert Redgate:
That's as fast as Spray Sweater.

Lady Aberlin:
But 100% more effective.

W.I. Norton Donovan:
[sings] Now, I can be my initials. Now I can really be me! Goodbye, W.I. Norton Donovan...

[steps behind spray bottle, reappears as Windstorm]

W.I. Norton Donovan:
[sings] Hello, W-I-N-D! [laughs evilly as he flies away]

Captain B:
[singing] It's funny/It's funny/It's surely more than funny/I think there must be something I should do.

[Hildegarde Hummingbird flies by]

Captain B:
Hello, Hildegarde.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Goodbye, Captain B.

Captain B:
Going somwhere?

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Anywhere but this where.

Captain B:
Did you know there is a wave in the sea?

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
A wave or a windstorm, nothing surprises me.

Captain B:
I suggest you report the truth on television! Can't you see there's a wave out there?

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] That's what I was a afraid of/ I'm going to swim out and find out/How big it is.

Theresa:
Uh,

[Touching her hair]

Theresa:
where's that Robert Redgate?

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] He and that sweater maker went to the National Bubble Chemical Company.

Robert Redgate:
And now, here's Friendly Frank, your weather porpoise. The porpoise with a purpose.

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] In Bubbleland, the temperature is prefection/ The barometric pressure is just right/ The air is still today without direction/ And naturally there is no wind in sight/ There's never any trouble here in Bubbleland/ The weather's always beautiful and clear/ The sun shine is just enough/ The tests are not too tough/ The stars and clouds add nothing to our fears/ So there's never any trouble here in Bubbleland/ The sea is always calm/ The waves our nil/ Our bubbles are at home right here in Bubbleland/ The sheer perfection of it... Makes... Us... Thrill!

[Speaking]

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
As usual, the weather is perfect today.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
What about tomorrow, dear?

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
Tomorrow will be perfect too.

Robert Redgate:
That's the good news, and now for the very good news.

[Fanfare plays]

Robert Redgate:
The National Bubble Chemical Company has today announced its newest environmentally safe propellant product, Spray Sweater. The ultimate protection for your precious bubbles. Until today, we've always had to knit or buy old fashioned, regular sweaters to protect our bubbles. But now, Spray Sweater makes it easy for everyone. All you have to do is put those Spray Sweaters around your favorite bubbles and they'll be safe. Spray Sweater, the absolute ultimate in bubble protection.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] It's a fraud/ It's a fraud/ There's nothing in this can but just plain air/ There's no way that a sweater could come from there/ It's a fraud/ I tell you, it's a fraud!

Robert Redgate:
What's going on?

Lady Aberlin:
The chemical folks pulled the wool over you. Let me show you.

[Sprays a can of Spray Sweater. Nothing but air escapes]

Lady Aberlin:
You see?

Robert Redgate:
This is highly irregular.

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[all singing together, while dancing] There's never never never never any trouble here in Bubbleland. Bubbleland. Bubbleland/ There's never never never never anything but joy right here...

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Well I'm just trying to do my job. Why won't you believe me?

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
Because we don't want to.

[They continue dancing]

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Honestly.

Robert Redgate:
This is about one of your products...

W. I. Norton Donovan:
We pay you to sell it on television, not to ask questions about it.

Lady Aberlin:
You don't pay ME to sell it, W.I. Norton Donovan, I make real sweaters and I've never known one to come out a can.

W. I. Norton Donovan:
How about a bottle?

Lady Aberlin:
Not a bottle either. It takes time to make sweaters. And your Spray Sweater is a fraud!

W. I. Norton Donovan:
How dare you. These cans are selling very well.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] But there's nothing in this can/ No, there's nothing in these cans to make a sweater/ No needles. No yarn. No skill of any kind to make a sweater/ No heart/ No, no spray can can make a sweater/ All that's in these cans is just plain air/ All that's in these cans is just plain air/ All that's in these cans/ All that's in these cans/ All that's in these cans is just plain air! So there!

W. I. Norton Donovan:
[singing] Hee-hee. Hee-hee. It's our company's little joke/ And you were the first to find it out/Hee-hee. Hee-hee/It's our company's little joke/And you were the first...

Robert Redgate:
Bubblewitness news is always the first.

W. I. Norton Donovan:
[singing] Now I can finally use my initials/ Now I can finally be me/ Goodbye, W.I. Norton Donovan

[Enters a giant Spray Sweater bottle and emerges looking very different]

W. I. Norton Donovan:
Hello, W.I.N.D. Hee hee hee hee hee!

Robert Redgate:
Hello, I'm Robert Redgate bringing you this o'clock addition of Bubblewitness news. All the news that's fit to speak, all the news that's fit to hear, all the news to bring you cheer right here in Bubbleland. Today as usual we have some good news and some very good news. But first, the good news:

[singing]

Robert Redgate:
There's never never never never never any trouble here in Bubbleland. Bubbleland. Bubbleland/ There's never never never never anything but joy right here in Bubbleland. Bubbleland. Bubbleland/Our bubbles make us happy/They are with us night and day/We know they are so important, they must never blow away...

[Speaking]

Robert Redgate:
Of course, they never would.

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[singing] I've just come back from the ocean/Where the waves are coming in fast/The banana boat captain is asking how long we think it will last.

Robert Redgate:
[singing] We don't know how long it will last. But we do know that we announced it first.

Lady Aberlin:
Wrong! You know that's wrong.

[singing]

Lady Aberlin:
It was Hildegarde Hummingbird, smallest of all/ Who told us this morning in this very hall/ That a windstorm was coming and we should beware/ But how did we treat her?

Robert Redgate:
[singing] We sent her elsewhere.

Robert Redgate:
Robert Redgate here with an up-to-the-second report. It seems there has been some sort of mistake with the new product from National Bubble Chemical Co. , their cans of air make wind instead of sweaters. If you have a can of Spray Sweater, please don't push its button.

[phone rings]

Robert Redgate:
Robert Redgate here. You already have? Oh I see.

Lady Aberlin:
[answers another phone] Betty here. You have? I see.

Robert Redgate:
You've already let the air out too? I see, I'm sorry.

[Another phone rings]

Robert Redgate:
Yes, well thank you. Yes, you have added to the wind.

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
[on television; singing] So if you're now listening/Oh, Hildegarde brave/ Please know we're sorry, and come back and save/ Your Bubbleland neighbors from wind's awful flight/ Please, Hildegarde, from our present plight.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
[singing] Why should I save them?/ They sent me away/ Why should I save them?/ What more can I say?

Robert Redgate:
Please say that you'll come back. Please, Hildegarde, do.

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
Please say you'll come back/ We're counting on you.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
But I'm not all that interested in saving your bubbles.

Lady Aberlin:
But... you're interested in saving us, aren't you? [Hildegarde doesn't respond]

Robert Redgate:
Well? Aren't you?

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
A humming bird cares about people, and creatures with fur and with wings/ A hummingbird cares about feelings/ But doesn't care much about things.

Lady Aberlin:
Well, we have feelings, Hildegarde.

Friendly Frank the Porpoise:
And we're scared, and we need you!

Robert Redgate:
One more thing.

Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise, Captain B, Theresa, Hildegarde Hummingbird:
What's that?

Robert Redgate:
[singing] There's never any trouble here in Bubbleland/ [others protest and act incredulously as he sings] There's never any trouble here my friends/ There will never be any trouble here in Bubbleland/ That we good friends together cannot end.

Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise, Captain B, Theresa, Hildegarde Hummingbird:
Oh!

Robert Redgate, Lady Aberlin, Friendly Frank the Porpoise, Captain B, Theresa, Hildegarde Hummingbird:
[singing] There'll never be an opera here in Bubbleland/ That we good friends together... can not end.

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
I didn't come here to save your bubbles.

Robert Redgate:
But what's Bubbleland without bubbles?

Hildegarde Hummingbird:
It's you and you and you and you and you [points to Redgate, Betty, Frank, Captain B and Theresa] Can blow more bubbles, but you can't blow more you.

Mr. McFeely:
[remembering his wedding] We've been married 45 years.

Mr. Rogers:
Have you always been happy?

Mr. McFeely:
Well nobody's happy all the time. But Betsy and I have had a big share of happiness.

Mr. Rogers:
Some people get married and after a while they get so unhappy with each other that they don't want to be married anymore.

Mr. McFeely:
[talking quickly] I know and sometimes they get divorced and that's all very sad, well I've got to be going now, but thank you for playing the music for me. I appreciate it.

Mr. Rogers:
Well I'm glad you stopped by, Mr. McFeely. Thank you for telling us about your wedding.

[McFeely exits]

Mr. Rogers:
Well, Mr. McFeely left so fast. As soon as we started talking about divorce. I guess that's something he doesn't like to talk about.

King Friday XIII:
This is a lovely day. Of course it would have been more lovely if we had flown here in the purple jet.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Honestly, Friday, you have a one-track mind.

King Friday XIII:
A one-jet stream mind, Sara.

Mr. McFeely:
It's some sort of machine for Corny's factory.

Prince Tuesday:
Does it have any feelings?

Mr. McFeely:
What do you mean, Prince Tuesday?

Prince Tuesday:
I mean, does that machine have any feelings?

Mr. McFeely:
It has specifications and instructions. It says nothing about feelings. Why do you ask?

Prince Tuesday:
Just wondered.

Lady Aberlin:
Prince Tuesday and I were talking about feelings and how machines don't have feelings.

Mr. McFeely:
Oh, I see. No, I'm sure that this doesn't have feelings.

Prince Tuesday:
Well then I'd like to trade places with it. Just leave the machine here and deliver me to Corny's.

Mr. McFeely:
Oh I couldn't do that, Prince Tuesday. You'll never be a machine.

Prince Tuesday:
Even if I don't want to have any feelings?

Mr. McFeely:
No, you'll always be a person and persons have feelings and that's the way it is.

Prince Tuesday:
I don't mind having good feelings, but I don't like the bad ones.

Mr. McFeely:
Well I know how you feel, young man, and there's one thing I'd like to tell you: I'm sure glad to know you.

Prince Tuesday:
Why?

Mr. McFeely:
Because if you're concerned about feelings, you're growing up to be somebody who cares about people.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Corny! Cornflake!

Lady Aberlin:
Corny? Cornflake S. Pecially!

Cornflake S. Pecially:
[enters] Well if it's not two women with Lady names.

King Friday XIII:
Have you two been playing airplane?

Lady Aberlin:
No, we've been building with paper cups and pretending they were puppets and...

King Friday XIII:
Of course, you could pretend they were airplanes.

Lady Aberlin:
I guess we could.

King Friday XIII:
You could put them end to end and fly them around.

Lady Aberlin:
Like this? [puts two of the cups together and flies them around] Bzzzzzzzzz-zzzzzzz.

King Friday XIII:
Something like that. But make sure they sound like a jet. Jet planes go very fast, you know. [in sotto voice] Especially A & L jets. [Louder, to Prince Tuesday] YOU could pretend that they are jet planes too, Prince Tuesday.

Prince Tuesday:
I don't want to.

King Friday XIII:
Of course you do. Everybody wants to think about jets. I certainly do.

King Friday XIII:
Time to go, Tuesday, come along!

Queen Sara Saturday:
That wasn't long at all, Friday. You didn't give them much time at all to be together.

King Friday XIII:
Important castle business. We must return.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Oh, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Let's move these cups into our baskets now and go...

Queen Sara Saturday:
[angrily] You and your hurrying, Friday! It seems you're always wanting to stop something that's fun.

King Friday XIII:
Now if a representative from A & L Jets should come, please tell her that I will be in the 'A' Room. Naturally.

Lady Aberlin, Prince Tuesday:
Naturally.

King Friday XIII:
Farewell.

Queen Sara Saturday:
I thought we had decided there would be no extra plane, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
You may have decided, Sara, but I want to hear this person out.

Queen Sara Saturday:
[to Saleslady] I'm afraid this presentation may be a waste of your time.

Airplane Saleslady:
I didn't know there was a question about my coming.

King Friday XIII:
No question. Carry on, young person.

Queen Sara Saturday:
And exactly how much fuel does this plane use?

King Friday XIII:
Er, not very much.

Airplane Saleslady:
Well, it does use the most of all of our vehicles, sire.

King Friday XIII:
Naturally, for a royal plane.

Queen Sara Saturday:
But I told you, Friday, that's what I'm against. We have one plane and it already uses too much gas. And now you want a second that uses even more.

King Friday XIII:
Well, it's purple, and it will have thirteens all over it. You're not even looking at it.

Queen Sara Saturday:
I've given it a great deal of thought.

King Friday XIII:
Well, I'M the king.

Queen Sara Saturday:
And I'M the queen. We can discuss it anon. Farewell everyone. [leaves]

King Friday XIII:
Er, perhaps I should speak further with the queen. Excuse me.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[King Friday and Queen Sara just had big argument] Are they getting a divorce?

Airplane Saleslady:
They didn't mention such a thing.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Probably are. I never thought it would last. Friday is impossible to live with.

Lady Aberlin:
[as Lady Aberlin is bringing a container to Corny's factory, it mysteriously lifts off into the air] Oh! Where did it...?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Why, Lady Aberlin. Good to see you again.

Lady Aberlin:
[still in shock] Well... something's terribly wrong.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
What is it?

Lady Aberlin:
I had a container and I just about to deliver it to you, and when I brought it here, the moment I set it down, it just... flew away.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
It musta been an air-mail container. Get it? Air mail.

Lady Aberlin:
Yes, I understand your joke, Corny, but this is no joke. I'm gonna have to find that container. Incidentally, how is your new machine working?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
It's just great. Want a taste of something from it?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, it makes something to eat?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[appears behind Corny] At least we know that. I'll bet it's eggplant parmasean.

Lady Aberlin:
Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
None other, toots. None other.

Lady Aberlin:
I wondered if you'd be around here.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
The container is in my C room at the museum. Whenever you're ready to tell me what you're making. Toot toot. [leaves]

Lady Aberlin:
Just what I thought.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Please don't be concerned about it. I don't need the container for a few days. By then, everybody will know what I'm making. I mean, you'll be able to smell them.

Prince Tuesday:
I don't like it when my mom and dad are mad at each other.

Lady Aberlin:
Of course not. It's scary, isn't it?

Prince Tuesday:
Uh huh. Is it my fault?

Lady Aberlin:
What?

Prince Tuesday:
That they're fighting?

Lady Aberlin:
I don't think so. Did you do anything to make them fight?

Prince Tuesday:
Well, one time I wished I had a jet airplane.

Airplane Saleslady:
[hopefully] A Model KF-01?

Prince Tuesday:
ANY kind.

Mr. Rogers:
Prince Tuesday is afraid that his mom and dad's fighting is all his fault. That's probably why he wants to go stay with Daniel. But it's not his fault, is it? A lot of Prince Tuesday's worries are on the inside. Do you suppose his mom and dad know he's worried? They might not know if he doesn't tell them.

Ana Platypus:
What are you feeling bad about, Prince Tuesday?

Prince Tuesday:
My mother and dad.

Ana Platypus:
What's wrong with them?

Prince Tuesday:
They... they fight all the time.

Ana Platypus:
I never saw them fight.

Prince Tuesday:
Well, you don't live with them.

Ana Platypus:
Well, my mother and dad fight sometimes too.

Prince Tuesday:
I never saw them fight.

Ana Platypus:
Well, you don't live with THEM.

Ana Platypus:
I was worried about you, Prince Tuesday.

Prince Tuesday:
Why?

Ana Platypus:
I thought maybe you were lost, or very far away, or maybe even... dead.

Prince Tuesday:
I wasn't.

Ana Platypus:
I know, but I thought you might be.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
People get worried about other people when they can't find them.

Prince Tuesday:
Machines don't get worried.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
That's right, machines don't have feelings.

Prince Tuesday:
I think I want to be a machine.

Ana Platypus:
You can never be a machine, Prince Tuesday. You already started out being a person. And once you're a person, you're always a person, isn't that right, Miss Cow?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
That's right, Ana. But sometimes we have such bad feelings, we'd like to get rid of them any way we can.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Listen, toots, we've got more important things to talk about than airplanes.

King Friday XIII:
For once I agree with you, Fairchilde.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh I think I'm gonna faint.

King Friday XIII:
I have decided to hold a drawing contest.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
A drawing contest?

King Friday XIII:
Yes. Do you like the idea?

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Not usually, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
What do you mean?

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Well because everyone has different talents and everyone's drawings are different. So art contests are impossible to judge.

King Friday XIII:
I will be the judge.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
So if somebody calls and it's the wrong number, you say you're sorry?

Audrey Paulifficate:
That's right, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
But why do you say you're sorry if its not your fault?

Audrey Paulifficate:
I really don't know. Does anyone have an idea?

Prince Tuesday:
Maybe you're sorry for yourself because you had to answer the phone and you were playing.

Ana Platypus:
Maybe you were wishing that somebody special would call, and then it wasn't your friend at all.

Audrey Paulifficate:
You know, I really like you kids. I think I've learned alot more from you than you learned from me.

King Friday XIII:
You seem sad to begin with.

Bob Dog:
Oh yes, we were.

Lynn Swann:
We lost our game today, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Oh, did you do your best, Mr. Swann?

Lynn Swann:
I think we did, don't you, Bob Dog?

Bob Dog:
Yeah, I guess so.

King Friday XIII:
Well then, you won. All you need to do is your best and you've won in my book.

Lady Aberlin:
Why Uncle Friday, that is one of the most wonderful things I've ever heard you say.

Mr. Rogers:
[after unsuccessfully making a rainbow] Well, Mr. McFeely knows a lot of things about stuff like that, I'm gonna call him.

[Picks up the phone and dials]

Mr. Rogers:
Mr. McFeely? Oh, am I glad you're there. I've been trying to make a rainbow. I thought I could do it with a flashlight and some spray. Yeah, just water spray. Didn't work. Projector? Yes, I have a projector. Yeah, and some white paper too. Oh, could you come over with that now? Oh, I see. What about the gold? Mr. Aber is not there yet? Okay, nothing seems to be working out right today. All right, well, I'll see you a little later then. Thanks, anyway.

[Hangs up the phone; Singing]

Mr. Rogers:
What do you do with the mad that you feel when you feel so mad you could bite? / When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong / And nothing you do seems very right / What do you do? / Do you punch a bag?/ Do you pound some clay or some dough? / Do you round up friends for a game of tag and see how fast you go? / It's great to be able to stop / When you've planned a thing that's wrong / And be able to do something else instead/ And think, this song / I can stop when I want to / Can stop when I wish / Can stop, stop, stop anytime / And what a good feeling to feel like this/ And know that the feeling is really mine / Know that there's something deep inside/ That helps us become what we can / For a girl can be someday a woman / And a boy can be someday a man.

Charles R. Aber:
I brought this special attachment for the plane car.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What sort of attachment?

Charles R. Aber:
Well, it's supposed to make rain.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Who would want rain in make believe?

Charles R. Aber:
I guess King Friday.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, he's the goofiest king I ever heard of.

King Friday XIII:
You do know that it's the bow from the rain I'm looking for, don't you?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And what's this about rain? I don't want rain unless it's raining gold.

Charles R. Aber:
I hope this works. [concentrates] I think I can... I think I can.

X the Owl:
[Bob Dog has fallen from a ladder] Are you hurt, Bob Dog?

[Bob Dog howls in pain]

X the Owl:
Does that mean that you are or you aren't?

King Friday XIII:
I'm going to see that there are no further accidents here. I now make a new rule: there will be no more *play* in this neighborhood of Make Believe.

Mr. McFeely, Bob Dog, Handyman Negri:
No more play?

King Friday XIII:
No more play. Nobody may play *anything* *any more*.

Queen Sara Saturday:
But Friday, that would be just impossible.

King Friday XIII:
I will not have any more foolishness causing accidents. Is that understood?

Mr. McFeely, Bob Dog, Handyman Negri:
Yes, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
And is it understood that there will be *no more* play in this neighborhood?

Mr. McFeely, Bob Dog, Handyman Negri:
Yes, King Friday.

Queen Sara Saturday:
We'll talk more about that anon.

King Friday XIII:
You won't change my mind! Remember, no more play!

[trolley comes by]

King Friday XIII:
Not so playful with your running, trolley! No more play in this neighborhood.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[on the phone with the king] Hello, Friday, I'm ready to talk turkey. I did *not* call you a turkey.

King Friday XIII:
It gives me great pleasure to welcome back to our Neighborhood of Make Believe, the Museum Go Round and its curator, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, who knows so well how to talk eagle.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Talk turkey, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Oh, yes. Turkey.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Let's always talk turkey and play.

[everybody cheers]

Handyman Negri:
Wait a minute, we just gotta get some limits around here.

X the Owl:
No limits to my selling, Handy.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
We're working night and day but we still can't keep up with your orders, X.

X the Owl:
Ah, you all can do it. I'm gonna fly off and sell some more. How about pots and pans and ear muffs and suit cases and...?

Handyman Negri:
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, you all are going to have to do this without my help. Either we get some order in this operation or I can't help you any more. I'm going off to my regular job. I'll see you later.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Okay, well, thanks anyway, Handy.

Mr. Rogers:
Handyman Negri really gave up, didn't he? Corny didn't tell him how he wanted things done or what things he should do first. Sometimes when people ask us to do something and they don't tell you how you should do it, you often just don't want to try, do you?

Handyman Negri:
That's right, Trolley, time for your periodic check and cleaning. First Tuesday after the second Wednesday following the new moon in the third month of the Make Believe calendar...

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Hello, Mr. McFeely.

Mr. McFeely:
I've got some more rejects, Corny.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Okay... We'll do what we can with them. Maybe we can make them into dolls. See what you can do, Handy, would you?

Handyman Negri:
Just a minute now, Corny, you've already asked me to do three things at once. I mean, do you want the assembly line built, or the labels put on or the boxes checked?

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Well anything you can do to help I'd really appreciate.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Did you find X the Owl?

Chief of Discipline:
He's not home at the moment.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well the minute he gets there, I expect him to come over here for his spanking.

Chief of Discipline:
His what?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
His spanking. I have established a blanket policy at the factory: anyone who makes a mistake gets a spanking.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Hi, Bobby Doggy. How do you like my chapeau?

Bob Dog:
Oh... shampoo? Your hair looks real nice.

Mr. Rogers:
It's a responsibility to take care of somebody's pet like that. Do you know what responsibility means? It's a big word. But the first part of it, response, is like "answer". You know, when someone says hello to you, you answer that person and you say hello back to them. But when you're taking care of a dog, you need to answer, or respond when the dog is hungry and needs to go pee-pee or poo-poo. It's your responsibility to answer to the dog's needs. I like Barney, but before I said I'd take care of him, I had to think about the responsibility. And I wanna ask Mrs. Rogers if she thinks it's all right, too.

King Friday XIII:
At ease now, Parrot. You may address me as Your Most Royal Highness.

Parrot:
That's cool.

King Friday XIII:
Ah, you must be delighted to meet a real king, Parrot.

Parrot:
You're a sweetie.

King Friday XIII:
Ha ha, how kind of you.

Parrot:
Hi, handsome.

King Friday XIII:
You're a fine bird. With good taste, I suppose. But then, after all, when you really...

Parrot:
Who's in charge here?

King Friday XIII:
I beg your pardon?

Parrot:
Take a walk. Take a walk.

King Friday XIII:
McFeely, please do something.

Mr. McFeely:
It's a parrot, King Friday, it says what people teach it.

King Friday XIII:
Then teach it to say, "Correct as usual, King Friday. "

Mr. McFeely:
But King Friday, it takes months...

King Friday XIII:
McFeely, please?

Mr. McFeely:
Okay. Now, um, now, Parrot, say this: say, "Correct as usual, King Friday".

Parrot:
Ah, take a walk. That's cool.

Mr. Rogers:
I never saw a parrot eat a grape.

Mr. Rogers:
Well, I expected a dog and I got a parrot. Oh, and here's the dog.

King Friday XIII:
McFeely will be arriving with the parrot in one-half, so prepare yourself. While we are waiting, of course, you could pretend your hand is a parrot talking to me.

Mr. McFeely:
Now, Parrot, say this. Say "Correct as usual, King Friday."

Parrot:
Take a walk. That's cool.

Mr. McFeely:
No, no, no, Parrot, now, now listen. Say "Correct as usual..."

Parrot:
Right on. Hi, handsome.

Mr. McFeely:
No, no, say "Correct as Usual..."

King Friday XIII:
Say... Say "handsome king"...

Parrot:
Ack! Take a walk. That's cool. Who's in charge here? Who's in charge here?

King Friday XIII:
Now, stop that! I really command you to address me as king or LEAVE!

Parrot:
Hi, buddy. Right on.

Lady Aberlin:
Send the parrot back, Uncle Friday. It's not a fun pet for you.

King Friday XIII:
Very well, I suppose you're right. Farewell, bird. And to think...

Parrot:
Bye-bye, Bobo!

King Friday XIII:
Oh, how I love to go up in a swing.

Lady Aberlin:
You do?

King Friday XIII:
Up in the air, so blue.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh yes.

King Friday XIII:
I really think it is the pleasantest thing even a king could do.

Lady Aberlin:
That sounds so poetic.

King Friday XIII:
Robert Louis Stevenson and I, you know.

Lady Aberlin:
Of course.

King Friday XIII:
A swing for Ana.

Lady Aberlin:
A swing from the king.

King Friday XIII:
A swing from the king. A kingly swing.

King Friday XIII:
What an excellent thought this was of mine to have you build this mountain... I have another thought.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, you don't have another thought just today, do you, Uncle Friday?

King Friday XIII:
Yes I do.

Lady Aberlin:
Another thought?

King Friday XIII:
Another thought.

Lady Aberlin:
Well, um, what is it?

King Friday XIII:
Since I like this mountain so much, I think it would be nice to have an opera which takes place on this mountain.

Reardon:
[as news reporter] We'll have an update on that report at 11:00. The siege on Spoon Mountain grows more serious with this late breaking development: it has been learned that Wicked Knife and Fork has put Purple Twirling Kitty in chains in order to keep him on the mountain. Our exclusive Alpine News 2 footage shows the actual methods Wicked Knife and Fork used to help keep Purple Twirling Kitty in his place. It appeared at first that Wicked Knife and Fork wanted the kitty, but when we managed an exclusive interview, this is what we learned:

Wicked Knife and Fork:
I want to keep the kitty until I get Spoon Moutain. Spoon! Spoon! Spoon Mountain! Ha ha ha ha!

Reardon:
So, Purple Twirling Kitty remains a prisoner. We'll have more news as it develops. And now, this word.

Reardon:
[as news reporter] In a dazzling early dawn mission, Prince Extraordinary and Park Service Director Betty Green, climbed the peak of Spoon Mountain and rescued Purple Twirling Kitty. Not in recent memory has such bravery been displayed.

King Friday XIII:
Am I to understand that Ana Platypus has some very fancy shoes and Lady Elaine thinks these shoes should be shared?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You got it, toots.

Robert Troll:
But Lady Elaine doesn't need them, King Friday.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I don't need them. I just want them.

King Friday XIII:
Silence, please. Fairchilde, you know we share in this neighorhood.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I know that, that's why I came here.

King Friday XIII:
This is the rule. But, there are exceptions to the rule. Ana does not have to share her shoes with you.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Friday, that's not fair.

King Friday XIII:
I am a fair king.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Lady Elaine, isn't there anything in your Museum Go Round that you don't feel you have to share?

Robert Troll:
Yeah, there must be something back in there.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, not my Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang. Everyone knows that.

Robert Troll:
[Mutters] Yeah, everyone KNOWS that.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Can you understand how Ana feels? Perhaps a little?

King Friday XIII:
Yes, can you understand?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, perhaps a little.

Robert Troll:
Ana is good at sharing. Most things.

King Friday XIII:
Just like you, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, maybe you're right. I don't like being wrong one bit. But, maybe this once I might be a LITTLE wrong.

King Friday XIII:
One plus two plus two plus one...

Queen Sara Saturday:
Six, Friday. And six plus six is twelve.

King Friday XIII:
Yes, that's what I was afraid of. Sharing a household isn't easy, is it?

Queen Sara Saturday:
No, but I'm glad we're doing it together.

Prince Tuesday:
Bye Daddy, you are a good king... I think.

King Friday XIII:
Oh, why thank you, Tuesday.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] It's the apple skin way to say I love you.

X the Owl:
[singing] It's the apple skin way to say I care about you.

Henrietta Pussycat:
[singing] Meow meow meow way/ Meow meow meow way/ Meow meow meow way...

X the Owl:
Now Henrietta, you can't sing if your work suffers. I mean, I'm waiting here.

Henrietta Pussycat:
[Grumbling] Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

X the Owl:
Um, I really need to sit on this chair.

Henrietta Pussycat:
[Angrily] Meow!

X the Owl:
But I can't see my book as well as I need to, I mean, sorry but, could you move over?

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow!

X the Owl:
Um, I-I really think you should.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow like meow chair? Meow meow chair? Meow meow meow meow meow thank you meow meow meow meow.

X the Owl:
All right, I was only making a little suggestion.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow LITTLE suggestion?

X the Owl:
[Henrietta had ran out after a fight between her and X] Oh, it's silly to get mad over a bowl.

Lady Aberlin:
I don't think it was just the bowl, X.

X the Owl:
What, then?

Lady Aberlin:
Well the bowl, the chair, the bowl, the chair, the bossy way of being in charge.

X the Owl:
Just because I was the expert?

Lady Aberlin:
But Henrietta and I have cooked in our lives too. We wanted to work together, not just for you and the O.C.S. cook book.

X the Owl:
We can cook together.

Lady Aberlin:
[Sarcastically] Oh good, X, that would be more fun.

X the Owl:
But anyway, she's not supposed to walk away like that. She has to stay here and talk.

Lady Aberlin:
I think she told you how she felt. She told you when you did things that made her angry and then she walked out of here with a big, "Meow!" and took her cookies. She was pretty clear.

X the Owl:
Yeah. oh, bother. I'm tired of having friends. It's just too much trouble.

X the Owl:
Henrietta, I'm sorry, but you should have told me how you felt.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow did tell meow. Meow meow am telling meow. Meow meow mad. Meow don't like bossy friends meow. Meow go away!

X the Owl:
Well I'm sorry and I'll try not to be so bossy anymore, okay? Let's have some cookies and put the whole thing aside.

X the Owl:
Okay? Let's have some cookies and put the whole thing aside.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow cookies meow for me meow Lady Aberlin. Meow are friends. Meow meow Aberlin! Meow here meow! Meow like meow cookie, Lady Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh sure, Hen. I'm so glad you and X are feeling better. Um, aren't you?

Henrietta Pussycat:
X meow not meow friend.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, Henrietta, I don't think you mean that, really.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow was meow friend yester-meow. Meow will be meow friend tomorrow. Meow meow not meow friend today.

X the Owl:
And just because of all that, she won't let me have a cookie.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing to the tune of "There Are Many Ways to Say 'I Love You'"] Making a fruit salad can say "I love you'.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Cleaning up meow meow before you're asked to meow meow.

X the Owl:
Making sure the fruit is washed without a spot. Uh, you missed a few, Henrietta.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow meow meow meow. Meow meow meow meow.

[Angrily]

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow meow meow meow.

X the Owl:
Well, Henrietta, I'm sorry but, uh, but you did.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Has that ever happened to you?

Lady Aberlin:
What?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Somebody forgetting you?

Lady Aberlin:
Yes.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
It has? Could you tell me about it?

Lady Aberlin:
Well, it was my birthday party and my very best friend forgot to come to my party. I waited and waited for her to come to the door with a present.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
And what happened?

Lady Aberlin:
She had gone to her grandmother's house. I couldn't even get her on the telephone.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Was she mad at you?

Lady Aberlin:
No. She just forgot.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Could you tell me again why you didn't come for me? One more time?

Lady Aberlin:
I forgot. I was in such a hurry with my camera and my film... Does it make you feel like we're not really friends?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Kind of, but not I don't know why. But not really.

Lady Aberlin:
You know we're friends, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes, it seems like we just are.

Lady Aberlin:
[Lady Aberlin had accidentally forgotten about Daniel] I'm still so sorry.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'm not as sad as I was before. Before you came and talked to me.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh good.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Ugga mugga, Lady Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
Ugga mugga, Daniel Tiger.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'm ready to go to the castle now.

Lady Aberlin:
I'm ready too.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Let's go.

Mr. Rogers:
I have a different kind of an instrument for blowing in the kitchen.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Do you know any knock-knock jokes?

Lady Aberlin:
Yes, I know one: knock knock.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Who's there?

Lady Aberlin:
Ivan.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Ivan who?

Lady Aberlin:
*I've an* everlasting love for you.

[they laugh]

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I think I just made one up: knock knock.

Lady Aberlin:
Who's there?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Eyme-Sa-Hap.

Lady Aberlin:
Eyme-Sa-Hap who?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'm so happy I could sing. La da da da.

[they laugh]

Mr. Rogers:
Now I just make a fist and cover my fist with this.

[Covers his fist with hankerchief]

Mr. Rogers:
Now watch what happens.

Bob Trow:
Any magic words?

Mr. Rogers:
You can say any one you want.

Bob Trow:
Boomerang Toomerang!

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I'm glad you came to ask me. I'll all for it.

Mr. Strother:
Good.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
On one condition.

Mr. Strother, Lady Aberlin:
What's that?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
That I get to win.

Mr. Strother:
Win the Make Believe Olympic Games?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You got it, Buster.

Mr. Strother:
But there are a lot of winners.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And there are a lot of losers, and I don't want to be a loser.

Lady Aberlin:
But Lady Elaine, it's not a game if you know you're going to win.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I don't care. One thing's sure: I'll say yes if you'll say I'll win.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh honestly, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Yeah well, that's it.

King Friday XIII:
How much swimming did you do today?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, a lot of fun, Uncle Friday.

King Friday XIII:
I mean how far did you swim? How many miles?

Prince Tuesday:
Not any miles, Daddy.

King Friday XIII:
But that's what swimming is for. Miles and miles and miles.

Lady Aberlin:
Well, not when you're just swimming for fun. As a matter of fact, we made up a new game in the water. Wasn't it fun, Tuesday?

Prince Tuesday:
Yes. Betty and I would go under the water, and one of us would look for the other one, and then...

King Friday XIII:
I'm not interested in games. I'm interested in miles.

Mr. Rogers:
That's called a dish towel. Do you know why it might be called a dish towel? Because sometimes people use it to dry dishes.

Mr. Strother:
Let's see... is there a queen at this castle?

King Friday XIII:
There is.

Mr. Strother:
Well, I must ask her permission.

King Friday XIII:
She will say yes.

Mr. Strother:
Well, I must hear her 'yes' myself.

King Friday XIII:
You have very strict rules.

Mr. Strother:
All the best games do.

Mr. Strother:
Incidentally, is that a racing towel?

Lady Aberlin:
I don't know. [to towel] Are you a racing towel?

Mr. Strother:
They usually don't know 'til they try. May I?

Lady Aberlin:
Of course.

Mr. Strother:
[lays towel on trolley tracks] Let's see, are you a racing towel? Overcome the gravitational pull and move forward. [towel flies around the neighborhood] It IS a racing towel.

Lady Aberlin:
I never knew it.

Mr. Strother:
Most people never think to ask.

Lady Aberlin:
Hi, Trolley, want your hair dried?

Prince Tuesday:
Trolley doesn't have any hair.

Lady Aberlin:
I know, I was just making fun.

Mr. McFeely:
This is a delivery for Fred Strothers and the inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make Believe.

Mr. Strother:
Well, I'm Fred Strothers.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And I'm an inhabitant.

Mr. Rogers:
Why do you think Lady Elaine has to know she's going to win before she ever starts something? Maybe she's afraid people won't love her if she's a loser. I wonder if she's ever thought about the people who are the best losers in a game. Being the best loser takes talent just as being the best winner does. It's true. Sometimes people like the one who's last. You ever notice a little toddler coming behind bigger children, and the bigger children are running along like this and then the little toddler comes up kinda slowly, but still behind them, and the people are just clapping and clapping for the little toddler at the end of the line. Whether you're first or middle or last, what's important is that you're YOU, and people can like you just the way you are.

Robot67-Bridge2:
I am here by the authority of the Committee on Make Believe Olympic Games.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well I'm not part of that unless I win.

Robot67-Bridge2:
You will win. If you're good enough.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Yes, but I want to be assured of a win.

Robot67-Bridge2:
But there is no excitement when all is assured.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I guess you got a point there. But will people like me if I don't win?

Robot67-Bridge2:
What means "like"?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
It means LIKE, that's all. Either you like something or you don't.

Robot67-Bridge2:
Robots do not like. Do not dislike. That is all.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You're a strange lot.

Robot67-Bridge2:
And your lot is 3. 14159 meters.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Okay. Just don't tell anybody I might let them do it here. I like to keep people guessing.

Robot67-Bridge2:
You play many games.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And they're not all make believe, toots. Toot toot.

Robot67-Bridge2:
Exit greetings.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Robot67-Bridge 2, will you play with me?

Robot67-Bridge2:
No.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Why?

Robot67-Bridge2:
I have no more time for you. Exit greetings.

[Rolls away]

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[Handyman Negri approaches] The robot said it didn't have any more time for me.

Handyman Negri:
It's strange to have a machine that talks, isn't it?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes. You start to get to like it and then...

Handyman Negri:
And then what?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well then you realize it doesn't have any feelings.

Handyman Negri:
But you still have feelings.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I know. Do you think it's good to have feelings, Handy?

Handyman Negri:
I think it's the best, Daniel. Because if you have feelings, you can love people and you can feel that they love you and that's the greatest thing in the world.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh honestly. You're grasping at straw.

Mr. Strother:
You know what I think?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What?

Mr. Strother:
I think the first Olympic game should be called "see how much snow you can shovel."

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
But that might take all day.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I'm sorry about all this. I didn't wanna ruin the fun.

Lady Aberlin:
What DID you want to do?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I wanted to show I was in charge of something important, like Friday was in charge of timekeeping.

Lady Aberlin:
You wanted to be in charge of the weather?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Yes.

Lady Aberlin:
Have you learned anything?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I sure have. Nobody can be in charge of a big thing like the weather.

Lady Aberlin:
Good. Now we're on the road to fixing things up.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What's going on here?

Mr. Strother:
The snow has stopped, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I knew I could do it.

Lady Aberlin:
Uh, the children did it, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, then the children won the first game of the Olympic games. I know one thing: I'll never try to be in charge of weather again. It's too hard to control.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow just talked meow meow telephone meow Harriett Cow.

Lady Aberlin:
What did she say?

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow school children meow meow idea.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, I'm so glad!

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow go to meow Museum right away.

Lady Aberlin:
What's the idea?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, do you remember the opera about the snow?

Lady Aberlin:
Yes.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, we were thinking that maybe we could stop the snow the same way you did in the opera.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] You need a very special teacher.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
My students selected me.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] And a warm pussycat.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow beautiful.

Lady Aberlin:
[singing] Suppose we concentrate on that. Suppose we concentrate on that.

[They all concentrate. Moments later, the snow disappears and the sun is out]

Lady Aberlin:
You did it! Oh I just knew you could do it.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
All gone, the snow. You believe in children, don't you, Lady Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
I certainly do.

Mr. Strother:
Oh, look! There's the parade that begins the Make Believe Olympic Games!

X the Owl:
I think we should get a big blanket, as big as the sky, and just put it up there and let it catch all the snow.

Mr. Strother:
Are you suggesting that we have a very special teacher and a warm pussycat come together in order to stop the snow?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
We could try.

Mr. Strother:
But who would that be? Who is a very special teacher?

Daniel Striped Tiger, Prince Tuesday, Ana Platypus:
Harriet Elizabeth Cow.

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
Thank you, class.

Mr. Strother:
Would you help us, Miss Cow?

Harriett Elizabeth Cow:
I'll do anything I can. Of course, Henrietta Pussycat is a very warm pussycat. I could call her to help.

Mr. Strother:
Oh, thank you. Thank you, all. Let's all meet at the Museum Go Round as soon as possible. You all have such good ideas.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Thank you for asking us.

Mr. Strother:
It was Lady Aberlin's idea.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, she believes children.

Mr. Strother:
I know.

Mr. Rogers:
Well, make believe people can stop snow like that, but that's not the way snow stops in the real world, is it? I hope you'll make up your own pretend about what the Make Believe Olympic Games are like. You might even want to ask the grown ups who love you what they think Olympic games would be like in a make believe land. You remember the racing towels? Well, that was make believe, wasn't it?

Mr. Rogers:
[after playing the Neighborhood of Make Believe board game] Well, that's how that game is played. 'Think that's kinda fun. We thought that up ourselves. It's for friends to play. You're my friend. [sings "You Are Special"]

Queen Sara Saturday:
We've always been noted for our crown storage, Mr. McFeely.

Mr. McFeely:
How do you store your crowns?

Queen Sara Saturday:
We wear them all the time.

Prince Tuesday:
[King Friday and Queen Sara are going away to teach a course] You're not going 'cause I was bad one time, are you?

King Friday XIII:
Of course not, son. If you were a bad person, we couldn't even think of going away. After all, when we go, you and your night and day care giver will be incharge of this castle. A large job.

Prince Tuesday:
I see. And, are you going to wear your crowns when you go?

King Friday XIII:
Oh yes. We always wear our crowns.

Prince Tuesday:
Okay then. When will I be old enough to wear a crown?

King Friday XIII:
When you become a man, Tuesday. And you're working on that right now.

King Friday XIII:
What is the nature of your business today?

Mr. McFeely:
This speedy delivery.

King Friday XIII:
You may read it.

Mr. McFeely:
It says, "To King Friday and Queen Sara Saturday, Neighborhood of Make Believe".

King Friday XIII:
Oh, well, we'll need the queen for this reading. Sara dear, will you come here?

Mr. McFeely:
Sheer poetry.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Did you call, Friday?

King Friday XIII:
Yes, I said, "Sara dear, will you come here?"

Queen Sara Saturday:
Oh, that's lovely.

King Friday XIII:
We want to ask your advice on something.

Prince Tuesday:
What is it?

King Friday XIII:
Whom would you like for a babysitter?

Prince Tuesday:
Nobody.

King Friday XIII:
Nobody? Why not?

Prince Tuesday:
Because I'm not a baby.

King Friday XIII:
Well, of course, you're not a baby. That's just something that people say.

Prince Tuesday:
Well I don't want a babysitter.

Queen Sara Saturday:
How about a night-and-day-care-giver, son?

Prince Tuesday:
Oh, well, that sounds good.

Mr. Rogers:
So King Friday and Queen Sara are going to go away for a few days. And they're going to get a night and day care giver to stay with Prince Tuesday. Did you ever have a babysitter or a night and day care giver? Did you like that person? You know, mothers and dads want to be sure that the person that comes to take care of you when they're out is someone who takes GOOD care. That is very important to moms and dads. In fact that's something you can talk to your mom and dad about: what babysitters and caregivers you really like and why. That's important talk. Because everyone has feelings about that.

King Friday XIII:
Why Tuesday, where have you been?

Prince Tuesday:
Playing.

Queen Sara Saturday:
We've been looking everywhere for you, son.

Prince Tuesday:
How could you hear my voice?

Queen Sara Saturday:
What do you mean, dear?

Prince Tuesday:
How could you and daddy hear my voice with all those other voices?

Queen Sara Saturday:
Parents know how to listen for their children's voices, dear.

King Friday XIII:
That's just something that parents are able to do. I guess it has something to do with love.

Chuck Aber:
I am the associate mayor of care.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh well have you come to care for me?

Prince Tuesday:
I want to call them now.

King Friday XIII:
But we're not there yet, son.

Prince Tuesday:
I know but I want to tell them that you're coming.

Lady Aberlin:
Just a moment, I'll get the phone.

King Friday XIII:
Um... Well I... I'm not sure I see the point.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Tuesday may want to check on the number, dear.

Chuck Aber:
And he may want to hear what the people sound like where you're going.

Prince Tuesday:
You're both right.

Lady Aberlin:
[brings the phone] Here go, Tuesday, would you like me to make the call?

Prince Tuesday:
I'd like to do it. Operator? I'd like to call 111-222-3334. Hello? This is Prince Tuesday. Yes, that's my parents. Well they're going to come to your place to teach and then they're going to come home. You take good care of them, okay? Yes. Well they're the only mom and dad I have. Okay, then. Bye. Thank you, Lady Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
You're welcome, Tuesday.

King Friday XIII:
Thank YOU, Tuesday, for wanting us to have good care too.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[concerning Prince Tuesday] Who's going to take care of him while they're gone?

Mayor Maggie:
Mr. Aber will.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Does he have to go to Mr. Aber's house?

Mayor Maggie:
No, Mr. Aber will be coming here for a few days.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Alot of children have to go to other people's houses when they get night and day care.

Mayor Maggie:
I know and that's important to talk about, isn't it?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
It surely is, Mayor Maggie, anything that people feel really strongly about is important to talk about.

Mayor Maggie:
Why do you think that is, Daniel?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well I guess if you talk about something, it doesn't seem so scary.

Mayor Maggie:
Not so scary as when you sit and think about it al by yourself.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes. All by yourself times can be pretty scary.

Mayor Maggie:
Especially when there isn't someone you love real close by.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
But you can call and ask them to come and be with you. And sing to you.

Mr. Rogers:
Do you know what zippers were called when they were first invented? Clasp-lockers. They were called that for about 30 years before people started calling them zippers.

Prince Tuesday:
I think my mom and dad would like to see these people dance.

Chuck Aber:
Well they could come when they get home.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
That's right, and of course if they don't come home, Prince Tuesday can come and live with me here.

Prince Tuesday:
What do you mean if they don't come home?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, you know people take chances when they go...

Chuck Aber:
King Friday and Queen Sara ARE coming home, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I'm sure they will. It's just that I was trying to help, you know. Tuesday likes it over here and all.

Prince Tuesday:
I think I'd like to go home now.

X the Owl:
This is an OCS Moving Picture. Just look at it very carefully and you'll see the waves move.

[the waves in the picture start moving]

Chuck Aber:
[X, Mr. Aber, Prince Tuesday and Handyman Negri watch with awe] Wow. I wanna get a surf board.

X the Owl:
Yeah, some people like to swim in there. You have to be very careful, though.

Prince Tuesday:
[about his parents] What if they don't come back?

Handyman Negri:
What do you mean what if they don't come back?

Prince Tuesday:
Well Auntie Elaine said some people don't come back and I can stay with her, and I just don't know what to think about it.

Handyman Negri:
But your mom and dad are coming back. I'm getting the castle ready for them to come back.

Chuck Aber:
Do you think this might be a good time to call them on the phone? Why don't we just do that. I'll go get the phone.

[Exits]

Handyman Negri:
Tuesday, I don't know why Lady Elaine said what she did, but I know what that feels like. I remember one time when I was a little boy, and my mom and dad went away for a little while. I wasn't sure they were ever going to come back. Well my grandmother said they were. And they did.

Prince Tuesday:
They did?

Handyman Negri:
Yes, but I knew how scared I was for a while. I just wanted you to know that.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
To the Museum Go-Round, the purple way!

[they disappear]

Chuck Aber:
[singing] It's a beautiful night in this neighborhood!

Queen Sara Saturday:
I just wanted you to know, Friday, that I really love you.

King Friday XIII:
And may I say the same, Sara. You are a most satisfactory queen.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Thank you, dear.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[about Prince Tuesday] One thing: I said I'd keep him if you all didn't make it back, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Oh Fairchilde, I can see how that might have been somewhat comforting, but very disturbing at the same time.

Prince Tuesday:
I wanted you to come home, especially in the nighttime. And I dreamed that I couldn't find you - I mean, I dreamed about a little fish that couldn't find its mother and I cried. And then today I didn't care if you came back or not. And now Mr. Aber is going back to his home and, well it's always something.

King Friday XIII:
Yes that's right, Tuesday. It is always something. We always have something to think about. And will always have people who will love us no matter where we are. Your mother and I loved you even while we were gone away, and you had people here who loved you too, and took very good care of you. I'm proud that you faired so well. I think you've grown these past few days. And I want you to know, all of you, that I am pleased with all of you.

All:
Thank you, King Friday.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Now, which country do you think this is. Class?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, with the mountain and everything, maybe it looks like Up-Above Land, Miss Cow.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
You're absolutely right, Daniel. And what about this one?

Ana Platypus:
Um, I think that's Down-Under Land.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
Yes, Ana, it used to be Down-Under Land, but not anymore.

Prince Tuesday:
Oh, I know. I know. That's the one that had the war with Side-Step Land. So now everything from Down-Under Land is in with Side-Step Land.

Harriet Elizabeth Cow:
That is correct.

Ana Platypus:
I'm glad I don't live there.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I am too. I wouldn't like to live where they're having a war.

Prince Tuesday:
Careful, Trolley, Daddy has a pretend bomb!

X the Owl:
[Trolley dings and whistles] It's just pretend, Trolley.

Prince Tuesday:
We've never had a war in this neighborhood, have we?

King Friday XIII:
No, we haven't. Why do you ask?

Prince Tuesday:
Well, we were studying about countries and wars and things like that at school. And Miss Cow said she thought we never had a war.

King Friday XIII:
Oh no. Your grandfather and your great grandfather and your great great grandfather never believed in wars. They used to say there are other ways to solve a problem. They even taught us a song in the kingly school about that.

[singing, to the tune of "There Are Many Ways"]

King Friday XIII:
There are other ways/To solve a problem/There are other ways to solve a nasty problem/Other ways/Other ways...

[Speaking]

King Friday XIII:
What could solve this problem?

[Studies spare part from Corny]

Prince Tuesday:
Where did it come from?

King Friday XIII:
Mr. Pecially is making these for Southwood. It's just a part of something.

Prince Tuesday:
Has Southwood ever had a war?

King Friday XIII:
I believe they did once. Long, long ago.

Prince Tuesday:
Wow. Then they know how.

King Friday XIII:
Yes, I guess they do know how...

Prince Tuesday:
...To build bombs and make bullets and make all kinds of bad stuff to hurt people.

Handyman Negri:
Oh Tuesday, I don't think a little part like this could ever be part of a bomb or...

Prince Tuesday:
You never know.

King Friday XIII:
That's right. This could be part of a bomb... Or something.

Handyman Negri:
[about a strange spare part they got from Corny] I was wondering, do you think it may be a part of a windmill or something like that?

King Friday XIII:
I have reason to believe that it might be part of a bomb.

Handyman Negri:
A bomb?

King Friday XIII:
Yes, so here is your assignment, Handyman Negri: you are to order a million of these from Cornflake S. Pecially and conscript everyone in the neighborhood to help put the bombs together.

Handyman Negri:
But King Friday...

King Friday XIII:
No buts about it, Handyman, this is serious business.

Handyman Negri:
Yes, sire, but a million of them?

King Friday XIII:
Yes, a million. If Southwood has a million, we will have a million and ONE.

Handyman Negri:
I see.

King Friday XIII:
You have your work to do. I must get in touch with our known allies.

X the Owl:
[has been asked to help assemble a bomb] I don't think we should call them "bombs", though. We should call them "surprise treats" or something like that. Bombs are scary things and hurting things.

Handyman Negri:
Yeah.

Handyman Negri:
King Friday has ordered one million parts from Corny. That's going to take all of the country's money.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
A million parts for what?

Handyman Negri:
To make bombs.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Bombs? Who's having a war?

Handyman Negri:
Well, he thinks we may have to.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
With whom?

Handyman Negri:
With Southwood.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Southwood? Why I've heard that those people are tamer than Daniel Tiger. They wouldn't hurt anybody.

Audrey Paulifficate:
[Answers phone] Neighborhood of Make Believe, castle garden. Yes, he is. He's working on the bomb right now.

Handyman Negri:
I don't think you're supposed to say things like that, Miss P.

Audrey Paulifficate:
Oh. No, he's not working on a bomb.

Bob Dog:
I'm a spy for the war.

Lady Aberlin:
A spy for the WHAT?

Bob Dog:
The war. The war with Southwood.

Lady Aberlin:
But we're not having a war with Southwood. We're not having a war with anyone!

Bob Dog:
[after pause] Well, then, just in case. See, I like to do detective work and that's alot like spy work, you know.

Lady Aberlin:
I know, but war is not a game, Bob Dog. War isn't anything that's fun. War is a terrible thing and we must do all we can to not EVER have one.

Bob Dog:
Okay, well I can still wear this costume though, can't I?

Keith the Southwood Carpenter:
[has just assembled a record player from bomb parts] This record player was made from left over parts, Your Majesties.

King Friday XIII:
Just what our school needs, Mr. David. May we express our royal appreciation to you.

Keith the Southwood Carpenter:
It's fun for me to make things like this.

King Friday XIII:
How many pieces did it take to make?

Keith the Southwood Carpenter:
A hundred.

King Friday XIII:
And, Handyman Negri, how many pieces do we have left from our factory order?

Handyman Negri:
About 100,000, sir.

King Friday XIII:
That means we could make about 1,000 record players, if Mr. David were willing to supervise the work.

Keith the Southwood Carpenter:
That's true, but why would you need so many, Your Majesty?

King Friday XIII:
I'd like to give one to every school in the world.

Lady Aberlin:
I'm doing a show about peace.

X the Owl:
Oh, well peace is a good thing, isn't it?

Lady Aberlin:
I'll say. Would you like to say something about peace?

X the Owl:
Certainly. I think peace is what everybody should have. In fact, I think everybody should have a piece of peace.

Lady Aberlin:
And why do you think it's so good?

X the Owl:
Well, it's that quiet feeling inside that makes you feel all warm and, I don't know, I just like it, I do.

Lady Aberlin:
What do you know about a swimming pool?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What's to know? It's a pool people swim in.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Then you've got plenty of time before the survey is completed.

Lady Aberlin:
Survey?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Listen, toots, you don't just dig a hole and call it a pool. It takes a lot of work.

Ellen Paterson:
[totalling up the price of the proposed neighborhood swimming pool] With tile around the edges, and two fountains, the royal swimming pool should cost exactly 4,500.

King Friday XIII:
Four...? I had planned on it costing less.

Lady Aberlin:
What about with only one fountain?

King Friday XIII:
One fountain?

Ellen Paterson:
That would make it 4,000.

King Friday XIII:
But we have only 3,000.

Ellen Paterson:
Well, Your Majesty, looks like you have a problem.

Beaver O'Day:
A big problem.

King Friday XIII:
A pool problem.

X the Owl:
There's a chapter in my new OCS course on money that has to do with work.

Ellen Paterson:
Money has *a lot* to do with work.

X the Owl:
Because?

Ellen Paterson:
Because most people get paid money when they work.

X the Owl:
Oh. Like you?

Ellen Paterson:
Uh huh.

X the Owl:
Well, what if you work and don't get paid money?

Ellen Paterson:
Then you get paid in other ways, like food to eat or a place to sleep or even a good feeling about it.

Lady Aberlin:
Watching them work made ME feel hot.

King Friday XIII:
Yes, and I was so looking forward to that pool.

Lady Aberlin:
I wonder if there is anything we can do to help.

King Friday XIII:
In what way, Niece Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
Part of building a pool is digging a very large hole.

King Friday XIII:
I fail to see the point.

Lady Aberlin:
What if we dug the hole? That would save money, wouldn't it?

King Friday XIII:
Oh, it would. I so declare that everyone in the kingdom help dig the hole for the neighborhood swimming pool!

Lady Aberlin:
Oh, wait a minute, Uncle Friday, we have to ask people first if they want to.

King Friday XIII:
Very well, but be quick about it. It's an excellent idea you have, Lady Aberlin.

Lady Aberlin:
I can hardly wait to start. Nothing like good, hard work to make you feel healthy.

King Friday XIII:
I of course shall perform in a supervisory capacity.

Lady Aberlin:
Of course. Now I'll check with Corny about the tools. He said he had plenty, I trust they're the right kind. Do you know that Ana Platypus is going to help us dig?

King Friday XIII:
Platypuses are excellent diggers. She should do very well. It will be a true community effort.

Lady Aberlin:
Indeed. [Trolley goes by] Big day tomorrow, Trolley, be sure to bring your shovel.

King Friday XIII:
Yes, Trolley.

Mr. Rogers:
Well, there may be a way to get the pool after all. If people can do some of the work themselves, then they don't have to pay someone else to do it.

Mr. Rogers:
Sometimes when you go to a store, you see a toy or something that you would really like to have, but you just might not be able to have it. You see, many things children want cost more money than their moms and dads can spend. When that happens to you, maybe you can find things like empty milk cartons and then think of ways to make things from them. It can give you a very good feeling to be able to think up your own toys. Your very own toys.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
What is it that you're doing, Ana?

Ana Platypus:
Well everytime a big shovel of dirt is moved, I move all the little stones that are left over.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Good for you, Ana.

Bob Dog:
[They're digging a hole for a swimming pool] The water's already here, your highness, and we're not finished digging.

King Friday XIII:
Why... It's too soon! It's too soon!

Ana Platypus:
Is it time to go swimming already?

Lady Aberlin:
Oh no, dear, this water is coming unexpectedly.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, are we going to drown?

King Friday XIII:
Of course not, Daniel, but we must not waste this water.

Lady Aberlin:
What?

King Friday XIII:
Not a single drop. This is Neighborhood water. It must be saved.

Ana Platypus:
[while digging a hole for a swimming pool, they accidentally broke water pipes; Daniel and Ana are collecting the water in buckets] It's all too gushy!

Daniel Striped Tiger:
It is, but we've got to try.

Ana Platypus:
I'm trying, but I can't do this, Daniel. It's too hard!

Daniel Striped Tiger:
But if you cry, you'll make more water, Ana.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
[X the Owl is renting tools from Corny] The buckets are 6 for 1. Shovels 6 for 4. Buckets 6 for 1.

X the Owl:
Um, how am I supposed to rent all these different things at once? I mean, it's confusing.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Well, first you think about it, and then if you need help I'll be right here to help you figure it out.

X the Owl:
I think that buying is alot harder than selling, Corny.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Well it takes very careful thinking.

X the Owl:
All the same, I wonder if it wouldn't be easier if people just gave each other the things they need instead of buying all the time and selling all the time.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Well in some places, it's like that, X. But in most places, people earn money for work and then pay that money for what they need.

X the Owl:
Like shovels and buckets.

Mr. Rogers:
You know we've been pretending that there's going to be a swimming pool in the Neighborhood of Make Believe, and something very important I want to mention to you before we have our make believe: water and pools are NOT for children to play in by themselves. When you're near a swimming pool, you must NOT go in without a grown-up around. That's very important to remember. Okay, let's get the trolley.

Bob Trow:
I'm just fixing this old shovel handle here.

Mr. Rogers:
What happened?

Bob Trow:
It broke.

Bob Trow:
That Phillips screwdriver there ought to do the trick.

Mr. Rogers:
Why is that called a Phillips screwdriver?

Bob Trow:
I understand that a man by the name of Phelps invented it. And over the years it just became Phillips.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
How much will it cost to fix the pipes?

Lady Aberlin:
3,000.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, that's a bundle. Wait a minute, I've got a great idea: sell the castle. Friday and all of them can live someplace else.

Lady Aberlin:
I don't think they'd like that, Lady Elaine. How about selling the Museum-Go-Round?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
I don't think *I* would like THAT.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[Holds a sign reading "Hey Sky! Please Rain" skyward] Hey, Sky! Please rain! Come on, can't you read? We need the water!

Grandpere:
[about a French trolley] It's saying that somewhere inside is a little box with une cloche rouge on it. Could you find it, Lady Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
A box with what?

Grandpere:
Une cloche rouge.

Lady Aberlin:
And what is "une cloche rouge"?

Grandpere:
Une cloche rouge. That means a bell red. I mean, a red bell.

Lady Aberlin:
So I'm looking for a little box with a red bell on it?

Grandpere:
Oui.

Lady Aberlin:
I'll bet you really like being a grandfather, don't you, Grandpere?

Grandpere:
Ah, oui. Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui.

Lady Aberlin:
Oh. That's nice to say. Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Well it's certainly easier than yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Isn't it?

Lady Aberlin:
It certainly is. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That's hard.

Mr. Rogers:
[At an aquarium] Goodbye, Severum. Goodbye, Festivum. It's fun to know the names of things, isn't it?

King Friday XIII:
Do you think you'd like to be in an opera, Mrs. Templeton?

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
You can call me Betty, hon.

King Friday XIII:
Well, Betty hon, do you know how to sing?

Officer Clemmons:
Do you know if Reardon is a grandfather?

King Friday XIII:
I think he is not.

Officer Clemmons:
Then is he a grandchild?

King Friday XIII:
That I do not know.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
Well, hon, of course he's a grandchild. Everybody is a grandchild. You know what I mean.

Officer Clemmons:
Everybody is a grandchild to somebody. That's right! Just like everybody is a child to somebody. Thank you very much, that solves that.

Lady Aberlin:
That solves what?

Officer Clemmons:
Well, the flying trolley will fly only grandparents or grandchildren. Now I can say Reardon is a grandchild.

King Friday XIII:
What would you like to be in the opera?

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
I always thought it would be so much fun to play the part of a fish. Y'know, one that swims and all.

King Friday XIII:
I think that would be very nice to have a fish in the opera.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
I thought it would be fun to be a fish. I just love fish, don't you? I mean the way they swim and all.

Reardon:
Oh, yes, yes. Fish do swim very well.

Mr. Rogers:
Did you ever wait for something to happen and then the time really came for it to happen? Like a birthday or a visit from some special people? Well it's very exciting when the time finally comes for something you've waited for. So, now's the time for the Neighborhood opera called, "A Grandad for Daniel".

Officer Clemmons:
[singing] Welcome four/ Welcome all/ Have a seat/ Near the wall.

Mr. Rogers:
[singing] It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood/A beautiful day for an opera/Would you like one?/I know I'd like one.

Officer Clemmons:
[singing] I remember my grandad / He used to use straws / The kind that wound bend in the middle

Mr. M:
[Demonstrates] Like this?

Officer Clemmons:
That's the kind.

Mr. M:
You may have it.

Officer Clemmons:
Thank you. He'd hum me a song in water, like this.

[Blows bubbles in his water while humming]

Daniel Striped Tiger:
That's funny!

Officer Clemmons:
But the song had words.

Lady Aberlin:
Did your grandad teach those, too?

Officer Clemmons:
He certainly did.

[singing]

Officer Clemmons:
When the day turns into night / And you're way beyond my sight / I think of you / I think of you/ When the night turns into day / And you still are far away / I think of you / I think of you / Even when I am not here / We still can be so very near / I want you to know, my dear / I think of you / When the night turns into day / And you still are far away / I think of you / I think... of... you.

Mr. M:
[singing] I sell straws. / Real straws.

Officer Clemmons:
[singing] Do you sell all kinds of straws?

Mr. M:
Yes, I sell all kinds of drinking straws / And I sell all kinds of painting straws / Drinking straws/Painting straws / Yes I sell all kinds of building straws and I sell all kinds of counting straws / Building straws / Counting straws / Sewing straws / Wind chime straws / Any straws / Maybe you could use some straws in here / For police to work they must not fear / Any straws / Any straws / For police / For police, use all kinds of straws.

Officer Clemmons:
I see.

Chuck Aber:
[singing] Didn't I see you back at home? Is there something you want?

Old Goat:
Baaah. Baaah.

Chuck Aber:
Oh you want your horns polished? Well I'm glad to do that for you.

[singing]

Chuck Aber:
Polishing. Polishing. Polishing. Everything / Polishing / Polishing / Everything / Leaves of plants and trees / shoes of ants and seeds / Polishing / Polishing / Anything / Anywhere / Anytime / I will try to make it shine / Anything. Polishing / Polishing / When I'm glad / When I'm sad / Polishing / Polishing / Polishing / When I'm mad / Polishing / Polishing / When I'm mad / Polishing / Polishing.

Old Goat:
Baaaah. Baaah.

Chuck Aber:
Why should I feel mad?

[singing]

Chuck Aber:
Well, my father went away / A long, long time ago / He went on a boat or a plane / I don't know.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow, X. Meow meow Mr. McMeowly.

Mr. McFeely:
Hi, Hen, we're planting some seeds out here.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow.

X the Owl:
My Speedy Seeds came, Hen, so now I can invite you to dinner.

X the Owl:
[Waiting for seeds to grow] Maybe they need more water.

Mr. McFeely:
What they need is patience, X.

X the Owl:
Well where do you get that?

Mr. McFeely:
Patience comes from inside yourself.

Henrietta Pussycat:
Meow meow little meow meow seed?

Mr. McFeely:
That's true, Henrietta. Patience is a little like seeds. It's something that grows little by little.

X the Owl:
[Glumly] Oh boy!

Mr. Rogers:
[At a vegetable soup factory] Look at the peas coming along here. Oh, that looks like a waterfall. It's a peafall. Look, it's a peafall instead of a waterfall.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[Bob Dog has made a vegetable soup can tree. Daniel thinks it's real] Isn't that great? You told me it would grow, Bob Dog. Some people told me it wouldn't work. And they said they hoped I wouldn't be too disappointed if it didn't.

Bob Dog:
Who are they?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Ana and Lady Aberlin. But I'll show them.

Bob Dog:
Yeah.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Now, will you help me with something?

Bob Dog:
What do you want me to do, Daniel?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
This will be wonderful. I want to plant each one of these little cans and we'll have that many more trees. And then I'll get more big cans and plant them and we'll have a whole garden of trees and get lots of cans of soup everyday for this neighborhood and any other neighborhood that needs them.

Bob Dog:
Cans everyday?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh sure. If we can grow vegetable soup right in the can, we've really discovered something very important. Don't you understand?

Lady Aberlin:
Let's go see Lady Elaine Fairchilde.

James Michael Jones:
I'd be glad to meet that lady. I've heard many things about her.

Lady Aberlin:
Well she's a pretty famous person.

James Michael Jones:
Famous, I understand. Pretty, I haven't heard.

King Friday XIII:
[Prince Tuesday tries to sit on King Friday's large tricycle, falls off and starts crying] I thought I heard some crying in this garden. I'm sure I heard some crying in this garden. What is my large tricycle doing here?

Prince Tuesday:
I can explain, Daddy. I...

King Friday XIII:
Tuesday, I thought you were on your way to school.

Prince Tuesday:
I was, Daddy, but then I saw your big tricycle and I just sat on it and I fell.

King Friday XIII:
You know I told you that you are not to use my large tricycle, Tuesday.

Prince Tuesday:
I know.

King Friday XIII:
It's not your size and it could be very dangerous. Now what did I do the last time you rode my tricycle?

Prince Tuesday:
You sent me to my room.

King Friday XIII:
And so you will do the same.

Prince Tuesday:
But I have to go to school.

King Friday XIII:
You will go to your room immediately after school.

Prince Tuesday:
Oh! That really makes me angry.

King Friday XIII:
And it makes ME angry when you do things that could hurt you. Now off you go to school.

Prince Tuesday:
Ohh!

King Friday XIII:
That's right, off you go now. Well... My large tricycle. When a king says no, he MEANS no... Certainly does.

[Ana doesn't get to participate in a wedding]

Ana Platypus:
What am I going to do about it?

Lady Aberlin:
You'll go with your mom and dad.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
And you'll be able to sit with us and watch the whole thing.

Ana Platypus:
But I want to be in it!

Elsie Jean Platypus:
No, dear, you may go to it, but not be IN the wedding.

Ana Platypus:
[Near tears] Oh phooey! You say no, but I want you to say yes.

[Exits]

Lady Aberlin:
She really is determined, isn't she?

Elsie Jean Platypus:
She certainly is and it's really hard when a mother has to say no.

Lady Aberlin:
We just can't have everything we want in life, can we? But learning to cope with disappointments when we're young helps us to deal with other disappointments when we're grown up.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Oh, that is so helpful for me to hear, dear. As I say, it's very hard for a mother to say no when her child wants something so much.

James Michael Jones:
I trust that you like this Sanctum Sanctorum?

Lady Aberlin:
Is that what this place is called?

James Michael Jones:
That's what I call it.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
I call it The Wedding Place.

Lady Aberlin:
I was on my way to Southwood, Elsie Jean, and I thought I heard you calling.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
I know, and I am a tiny bit upset.

Lady Aberlin:
What's the matter?

Elsie Jean Platypus:
It's Ana. She says she wants to be in the wedding. She says that Daniel is the ring bearer, and Prince Tuesday is going to help hold the train, and you and Lady Elaine are going to be bride's maids, and she wants to do something.

Lady Aberlin:
I can understand that.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
But I just told her that everybody cannot be in the wedding.

Lady Aberlin:
Well you and Dr. Bill and Ana are all invited, aren't you?

Elsie Jean Platypus:
Indeed we are. But Ana is very determined.

Lady Aberlin:
[Ana appears] Oh hello, Ana.

Lady Aberlin:
We were just talking about you.

Elsie Jean Platypus:
I told Lady Aberlin about you wanting to be in the wedding.

Ana Platypus:
So?

Lady Aberlin:
If everyone were in the wedding, Ana, there wouldn't be anybody to sit and watch it.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
[Daniel is having trouble being the ring bearer for the upcoming wedding; Betty is helping] There, is that better?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, the ring part is better.

Lady Aberlin:
What other part is there?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
The bear part. I just don't think I want to wear the costume.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
But you haven't even seen the costume, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I know, but I want to look like a tiger.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
Well of course you do, Hon, you'll always look like a tiger.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Not in a bear costume.

Lady Aberlin:
A bear costume?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Don't I have to wear a bear costume to be a ring bear?

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
Oh gracious sakes no. You're thinking of a bear like an animal bear, aren't you?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Sure. And I'm a tiger and I don't want to be a bear.

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
But that's not what a ring bearer is, Hon. You tell him, bride's maid.

Lady Aberlin:
Bear-ER means somebody who carries something, Daniel. So a ring bearer is somebody who carries a ring. A boy can be a ring bearer and a girl can be a ring bearer and a tiger can be a ring bearer.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh. I don't have to look like a bear?

Betty Okonak Templeton-Jones:
Oh no, Daniel. You'll look like yourself. Only you'll wear a little suit.

Lady Aberlin:
Just right for a tiger.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh I feel so much better. Thank you for explaining that to me.

King Friday XIII:
Niece Aberlin, bass violin player, I presume?

Lady Aberlin:
Almost correct as usual, Uncle Friday.

King Friday XIII:
What do you mean by "almost correct", Lady Aberlin?

Lady Aberlin:
I am Lady Aberlin, that's correct. But I am not a bass violin player.

[Begins playing the bass badly]

King Friday XIII:
But that is a fine instrument that I have provided for you. It was made by excellent instrument makers.

Lady Aberlin:
But Uncle Friday, just because a person has a fine instrument doesn't mean that person can play it well.

King Friday XIII:
It's a good beginning, however.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
[Jimmy Bass Violin is crying] Oh, um, Jimmy, I'll play with you.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Who are you?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'm Daniel Striped Tiger and I'm a good player.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Well I didn't expect you to come and help me.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well sometimes people get sad and sometimes people get angry, and I know all about that.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Do you know about brothers who won't play with you when you want them to?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Yes, I do. Oh look, here comes your big brother now.

Keith Bass Violin:
Who are you?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I'm Daniel Tiger and I'm Jimmy's friend.

Keith Bass Violin:
Are you part of the puppet show?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Oh, no. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. I forgot it was a show. Excuse me.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Oh you're welcome to stay, Daniel.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well, uh, thank you.

Keith Bass Violin:
My friends didn't want to play with me, so I came back to play with you, Jimmy.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Well!

Keith the Southwood Carpenter:
These are our two puppets, Keith Bass Violin and Jimmy Bass Violin. They're brothers. Now James is going to make Jimmy talk and I'll make Keith talk.

[James Michael Jones and Keith present their puppets and hide]

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Hello, Keith.

Keith Bass Violin:
I don't wanna talk.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Well what's the matter?

Keith Bass Violin:
I don't know.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Well I thought we could play together.

Keith Bass Violin:
I don't feel like playing with you.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Why not?

Keith Bass Violin:
You're too young.

Jimmy Bass Violin:
But I'm your brother and I want to play with you.

Keith Bass Violin:
Well that's too bad. I'm gonna play with my big friends. Bye!

Jimmy Bass Violin:
Oh. I feel so sad. I think I'll cry.

[Cries]

Mr. Rogers:
[from the "Music and Feelings" video] Old Goat's poem was fun, wasn't it? Can you talk like Old Goat? Maaaa! Maaa! Can you do that?

[sits down at the piano]

Mr. Rogers:
I'll play some music while you talk like Old Goat.

[plays a tune on the piano long enough for the viewers to talk like Old Goat]

Mr. Rogers:
Maaa! Maa!

Mr. McFeely:
Oranges grow on trees.

Mr. Rogers:
I was just telling my friends about that.

Lady Aberlin:
[on why she's sharing orange juice with the neighborhood] I just thought you might like it, and since we're neighbors, somehow, I wanted us all to have something out of the same pitcher. A little part of the same orange.

Lady Aberlin:
I brought some orange juice.

Ana Platypus:
You mean, for us to drink?

Lady Aberlin:
That's right.

Lady Aberlin:
[reading from Orange-o-gram] "Dear Cousin X..."

X the Owl:
Oh, it's from a cousin.

Lady Aberlin:
I guess so.

X the Owl:
I wish something grew on my tree.

Lady Aberlin:
Leaves grow on your tree.

X the Owl:
I mean something we could eat, or squeeze. You know what I mean.

King Friday XIII:
Did I hear a plea for quality ideas?

Handyman Negri:
Lady Elaine is doing some research at her museum.

King Friday XIII:
Well, Fairchilde, you've certainly come to the right place.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
And the right king, I guess.

King Friday XIII:
Without a doubt. When it comes to ideas about everything, King Friday XIII has them.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
In abundance.

King Friday XIII:
Yes, there. And everywhere else.

King Friday XIII:
You wish to know what to do with your Museum-Go-Round?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, ummm.

King Friday XIII:
You could put my picture on the roof and make the whole thing into a King Friday-Go-Round.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
That's what I mean by one of your ideas, Friday. And what is everybody supposed to do while your picture is going round and round?

King Friday XIII:
Why they are to stand at attention and watch it, of course. So you like that?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Not very much. I want my exhibits to be fun for everyone, not just for kings.

King Friday XIII:
I have a better idea.

Handyman Negri:
What is it, Your Majesty?

King Friday XIII:
Instead of my picture on top of the museum, we could use my statue. What about that?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well, if you have any more ideas, just let me know, toots. Somehow I'd like to do something with mud and brown paint and automobiles.

Handyman Negri:
With a king on top?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
With or without.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Well, well, hello everyone...

Chuck Aber:
[Wearing a King Friday XIII mask] Hello, Queen Sara.

Queen Sara Saturday:
Why Friday, you must have had a huge breakfast.

King Friday XIII:
[Chuck Aber is wearing a King Friday mask] Who is holding that large mirror?

Lady Aberlin:
There's no large mirror here, Uncle Friday.

King Friday XIII:
But there's a very large me.

Queen Sara Saturday:
It's the largest you I've ever seen, Friday.

King Friday XIII:
The large me may speak.

Chuck Aber:
King Friday XIII's the name, sire.

King Friday XIII:
But I am the person. Who speaks under that cover?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh, Friday, you guessed it was a cover, you clever king.

King Friday XIII:
Of course I guessed. There's only one of the real me.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well there's only one of everybody, toots.

King Friday XIII:
I guess that's true.

Chuck Aber:
We stopped and talked with someone who thought I was you, King Friday.

King Friday XIII:
Oh they must have been so disappointed when they found that it wasn't.

Handyman Negri:
Hi Edgar, how are you?

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] I am baffled, Handy. I am confused.

Handyman Negri:
Why are you baffled and confused?

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] King Friday and his comet.

Handyman Negri:
What's he want now?

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] He wants a comet cake.

Handyman Negri:
Oh, a comet cake. That sounds nice. A little cake that looks like a comet.

Edgar Cooke:
[singing] But King Friday wants a life-size comet cake.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
What have you been playing?

Chuck Aber:
Well, you put this ball in a basket, and that's what it's called.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Ball in A Basket?

Lady Aberlin:
Basketball, Lady Elaine.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Oh. You learn something new everyday.

Chuck Aber:
And something old.

Chuck Aber:
Is Henrietta all right?

X the Owl:
I don't know what you mean by "all right", Mr. Aber. I just know that she doesn't want to play and she doesn't want to talk much at all, and she seems sort of sad. Is that all right or is that all left?

Chuck Aber:
Sounds like a little of each to me.

Lady Aberlin:
You look very happy.

Chuck Aber:
Oh yes. I'm celebrating.

Lady Aberlin:
Did you win a game?

Chuck Aber:
No, we didn't win. As a matter of fact, we lost.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
Well then why are you so happy?

Chuck Aber:
Because our team played better than we ever played before, even though we didn't win. We really tried hard and made some very good plays. Don't you think that's alot to celebrate?

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
You've got a point there, toots.

King Friday XIII:
[gives Lady Aberlin a clown's hat to wear] We need balloons and clowns to celebrate my comet's coming.

Lady Aberlin:
I'd rather not.

King Friday XIII:
But I would rather. Now try on the hat, Niece Aberlin. [She puts it on] Now smile.

Lady Aberlin:
Next thing, there'll probably be a blimp.

Cornflake S. Pecially:
Why yes, I think King Friday did order one of those too. In fact, there it is now. Just look up there. [a blimp flies over head with the words "Coming Soon: Friday's Comet" written on it. "Coming Soon" is flashing]

Lady Elaine Fairchilde:
[sees the blimp King Friday commissioned for the coming of his comet] I just don't believe it. I mean he's gone too far this time. That Friday, he's gonna get it.

Lady Aberlin:
Well, 'guess when you have a job to do, you just do it.

Half Moon:
[singing] I am the Half Moon on your birthday eve.

Kitty:
[singing] How did you know that? How did you know that my birthday is tomorrow?

Half Moon:
The Half Moon knows everything.

Kitty:
Everything?

Half Moon:
Yes. Everything.

Kitty:
[singing] Then tell me, please/Please tell me/What I'm going to get for my birthday.

Half Moon:
[singing] Whatever you wish/Just make a wish.

Kitty:
I can wish for anything?

Half Moon:
Anything you want.

Kitty:
[speaking] Anything I want?

Chuck Aber:
[as H. J. Elephant III] Hello, Daniel. Hi, friends. I'm a toy, and Mr. Aber makes me talk.

[as himself]

Chuck Aber:
See what I mean?

Daniel Striped Tiger:
Well if H. J. is a toy, am I a toy, too?

Chuck Aber:
You could be.

Daniel Striped Tiger:
I never thought of that.

Ana Platypus:
Am I a toy, too?

Chuck Aber:
You could be.

Prince Tuesday:
Well I'm not a toy, I'm a prince.

Chuck Aber:
You see, in make-believe, toys can be real if you want. Anything is possible in make-believe.