26x16 - Brave and Strong

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood". Aired: February 19, 1968 – August 31, 2001.*
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Rogers speaks directly to the viewer about various topics, taking the viewer on tours of factories, demonstrating experiments, crafts, and music, and interacting with his friends.
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26x16 - Brave and Strong

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

-[SINGING] 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 beautywood,

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 in my neighbor?

Won't you please,
won't you please,

please won't you be my neighbor?

We're neighbors again.

I'm glad to be with you.

I want to show you
something really pretty.

Mr. McFeely loaned
this snow globe

to me so I could show it to you.

When you go like this, it
looks like it's snowing inside.

Take a real close look at it.

Isn't that beautiful?

You could even
pretend that you're

in here where it's snowing.

Pretend you're upside down.

And now you're right side up.

[KNOCK]

Is that knock in your
pretend, or is it

right here in my place?

[KNOCK]

It's here.

Let's see who's at the door.

Oh it's Mr. McFeely.

-Speedy delivery,
speedy globe delivery.

I found another one
for you to show.

-Oh thank you.

I was just showing-- oh
this is an even bigger one.

-But it works just
the same though.

Turn it over, and it snows.

MR. ROGERS: Inside the--

MR. MC FEELY: Inside the globe.

MR. ROGERS: I think these
are beautiful, Mr. McFeely.

MR. MC FEELY: You can keep
them as long as you like.

-Really?

-Yes.

Oh and by the way, I
have a videotape I found.

I thought that you and your
neighbor may like to see it.

-What is it?

-It's called "How
People Make Cereal."

-Cereal, yeah.

-I know a lot of
people who like cereal,

so I thought you might
find this interesting.

-I certainly would.

-Do you have time
to show it to us?

-I'd be glad to see it again.

And while we're watching
it, I'll explain it to you.

-Very good.

Let's put it on Picture Picture.

I'll put this down carefully
with the other one.

Two snow globes--
and you say we can--

we can borrow them for a while?

-For a while.

Now there's the tape.

-OK.

-"How People Make Cereal,"
I've got the box right here.

-Take a look on Picture Picture
at "How People Make Cereal."

That's a good idea, Mr. McFeely.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
When people make cereal,

they start with a
mixture of flour,

salt, and other ingredients.

And that's what's
in the big bag.

This man uses a special
crane to move the bag over

to a gigantic container
called a hopper.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]: Hopper?

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]: Mhm.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
What happens next?

MR. MC FEELY
[VOICEOVER]: In a moment

he's going to cut open
the bottom of the bag

so that the ingredients can
pour out into the hopper.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
He's going to cut that.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
There he goes.

He's cutting the bag.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
Out it comes.

Look at that.

I must make a lot of cereal.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
It surely does.

Now from the hopper the mixture
travels through some pipes

and into the sifter.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]: Sifter?

What does a sifter do?

MR. MC FEELY
[VOICEOVER]: Sometimes

the ingredients get lumpy.

The sifter shakes out the lumps
so that the mixture is smooth,

almost like sand.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]: Uh huh.

MR. MC FEELY
[VOICEOVER]: Everything

gets stirred up come
more in this machine.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]: It looks
like he's checking carefully.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
That's exactly what he's doing.

And now on to the cooker.

Here's where the water is
added to the dry ingredients.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
Oh so it's like dough.

MR. MC FEELY
[VOICEOVER]: Exactly.

And the dough then moves
to this part of the cooker

where it gets
shaped into circles.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
It's O-shaped cereal.

Oh that's fun to watch.

It works so fast.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
That's for sure.

More traveling through pipes.

This woman checks
some of cereal to be

sure the shapes are just right.

She also squeezes
the dough to make

sure that it's just right too.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
She squeezes it?

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
Squeezes it, uh huh.

And here we are at
the drying machine.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
Drying machine?

MR. MC FEELY
[VOICEOVER]: Yes, drying

helps make the cereal crunchy.

And after it's dried
and puffed, the cereal

is checked by this man.

He smells it and
carefully looks at it.

This batch seems
to be just fine.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]: Look
at them going along there.

And there they go,
the dancing Os.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
The dancing Os.

When the cereal
gets to these bins,

it's measured so
exactly the right amount

goes into each package.

When the bin fills
up, the cereal

is emptied into this machine
where it's put into a bag.

The open end of each
bag is sealed up tight

so that the cereal
won't come out.

MR. ROGERS [VOICEOVER]:
Up the conveyor belts.

MR. MC FEELY [VOICEOVER]:
That's right.

This bag of cereal will join
lots of other bags of cereal.

And that's how people
make O-shaped cereal.

-All that cereal, Mr. McFeely.

Oh that's really interesting.

Thank you.

-I thought you'd enjoy it.

It's one of my favorite tapes.

You know Betsy
and I are supposed

to babysit some
pet lambs later on.

-Pet lambs?

-Pet lambs, so if you
like come on over.

-Oh I'd be glad to come over.

And I'll bring the snow
globes with me when I come.

-There's no hurry.

We're not in any hurry for them.

Keep them for a few days.

Just bring yourself.

-All right.

Thank you very much for
your generous delivery.

-Well I like my work.

As a matter of fact--

[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 deliveries
are speedy deliveries.

Speedy delivery to you.

-To me and to everybody.

Thank you.

-Speedy delivery, and I'll see
you around the neighborhood.

-All right, Mr. McFeely.
-Bye bye.

-Thanks again.

-You're welcome.

-[SINGING] Yes, a speedy
delivery is a speedy delivery.

Speedy delivery to you.

It's beautiful.

I have an idea.

It's going to require a trip
to the kitchen, this idea.

Do you know what this is?

The Castle, the Trolley,
the Factory, the Tree,

the Museum-Go-Round,
the Platypus Mound.

And who lives in the Clock?

Daniel Tiger.

Now let's make believe
that something happens

around the Platypus place
and around Daniel's Clock

which gets everybody wondering.

Remember it's just
pretend, only make-believe.

The trolley goes into the
Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Meow meow, Robert Troll.

-Hi, Henrietta.

How you doing today?

[GIBBERISH]

-Meow fine.

Meow meow meow doing?

-Well I'm-- I'm looking for
someone who's brave and strong.

-Meow meow strong?

-Mhm.

Yeah, somebody
brave and strong, so

I can see what-- what it's like.

You know what I mean?

[GIBBERISH]

-Meow.

Meow X the Owl meow brave meow.

-Oh is he?

Well thank you
very-- very meow-ch.

X?

-Meow not home meow meow moment.

-Ah.

Will-- will he be back soon?

-Meow hopes so

-I hope so too.

[GIBBERISH]

OK, thanks Aunt Hen.

-Meow welcome.

Meow, meow.

-OK.

-Meow meow meow meow.

-I'll get your door for you.

-Meow thanks.

-Robert Troll.

Robert Troll.

Hi.

-Neighbor Aber,
are you all right?

-I was just going to
ask you the same thing.

-No, [GIBBERISH].

I always look like this.

-You didn't get any
cereal on you then?

-Cereal?

-Yeah.

-I don't think so.

No, not today I didn't.

-It's been snowing
cereal in Westwood,

and I see that there's some
over at the Platypus Mound

and at Daniel's Clock.

ROBERT TROLL: Oh yeah, I'll say.

Let's take a quick look at that.

-Hi, Dr. Bill.

Hey, Elsie Jean.

-Elsie Jean, Dr.Bill.

-It looks like
it's been snowing.

-You're right, Dr. Bill.

-But the snow is cereal.

-Well you're right
too Elsie Jean.

-Well what a Bill Bill
interesting mystery this is.

-I've never seen
anything like it.

-I think I'm going to fill
up some boxes with it.

Little Ana will love it.

-She'll get a big kick
and a bang out of that.

[GIBBERISH]

-Do you think it's anything
to worry about Dr. Bill?

-Oh no, not as long as
we don't have a blizzard.

-[GIBBERISH].

A cereal blizzard?

-Right you are, Robert Troll.

Well I must get to my
office now, gentlemen.

-Have a good day.

-Good day to you, gentleman.

Bill Bill good day.

-I should have asked him
if he was brave and strong.

-Brave and strong?

-Yeah, I'm looking for
someone brave and strong.

-Why?

-So that I can ask
them to-- to tell

me how to be brave and strong.

-You mean the song,
"Brave and Strong."

-It would be a start, sure.

-Oh that's easy.

-Is it?

-[SINGING] Be brave.

-[SINGING] Be brave.

-[SINGING] And then be strong.

-[SINGING] And then be strong.

-[SINGING] Be brave.

-[SINGING] Be brave.

-[SINGING] You'll not be
wrong if you are right.

-[SINGING] You'll not be
wrong if you'll be-- if--

-Oh--

-What?

-Robert Troll, look
over at the Clock.

-Why it's--

-We better see if
Daniel's all right.

-Yeah, we better check him out.

-Daniel.

-Oh Dan.

-Daniel.

DANIEL TIGER: I'm-- I'm
too scared to come out.

-We just want to be
with you, Daniel.

Hi.

-Why is it snowing cereal?

NEIGHBOR ABER: We're not sure.

ROBERT TROLL: Oh no.

-Is it doing it everywhere?

-Um no, just at
your place, Daniel.

-Oh I'm really scared.

-I think we should
go to the Castle

and tell the people there.

-Yeah, that's a good idea.

I do too.

-Oh please-- please
don't leave me.

-Oh we're not going
to leave you, Daniel.

We're going to take you with us.

-Yeah, and we're going
to be brave and strong

all the way over.

DANIEL TIGER: OK.

-To the Castle!

-To the Castle.

-[SINGING] Be brave,
and then be strong.

Be brave.

You'll not be wrong
if you are right.

Keep your chin up tight.

And be brave, and
then be strong.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Assembled guests, I presume.

-Correct as usual, King Friday.

-And why are you singing
"Brave and Strong?"

-Because we need to be,
Your Highness. [GIBBERISH].

-It's snowing cereal at
Daniel's Clock, King Friday.

-Why there and not here?

-We don't know, King Friday,
but there's so much of it.

It's really scary.

-Thus the song,
"Brave and Strong."

-Well you've come
to the best place.

I am the bravest and
strongest of all.

I will show you.

Here, B stands for bravest.

S stands for strongest.

Now come with me
to the B & S room

where we shall
discuss what to do.

-OK.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-See what you can do with your
pretend, with your imagination?

We'll make up more
about this Neighborhood

of Make-Believe next time.

Did you notice how much
braver and stronger Daniel

was able to feel
when Neighbor Aber

and Robert Troll were with him.

It helps to have people
you love right beside you.

Put away our toys.

Let's leave those there
for a little while.

Oh I know.

You want some food, fish.

They're hungry.

I think I'll call Mr. McFeely.

See if the lambs are there yet.

Hello, Mr. McFeely?

I was wondering if the
lambs were there yet.

Oh well sure.

I'd be very interested.

Fine.

All right.

See you in a few minutes then.

Thank you very much.

Bye.

Mr. McFeely says it turns out
that the lambs aren't coming

today, but one of
their neighbors

is giving a taekwondo
class in their yard.

And we're welcome to
come and see some of it.

So let's do that.

We don't have to take
these back for a few days,

so I'll just let them sit here.

And we'll just go
to the McFeely's

and see people
learning taekwondo.

Did you ever see
anybody doing karate?

Well taekwondo is
something like that.

So we'll just go to the
McFeely's and watch.

Come along.

-OK.

Let's warm up those necks.

Nice and easy, roll those heads.

Let's go the other way.

All right, big arm
circles forward.

OK, good.

-We have a visitor.

-Oh, Mr. Rogers.

-Good to see you, Mr. Kim.

-Nice to see you again.

-I'd like you to meet
my television neighbor.

-Hello.

-Mr.Kim.

Is it all right if
I watch you class?

-Absolutely.

-What were you
doing as I came by?

-We were warming up, preparing
for our taekwondo class.

-Aha.

So you do these-- these
warm up exercises.

-That's right.

-What else would you
be doing besides--

-We would loosen up our legs
and stretch our legs out.

-Could I see you do that?

-Sure, Sure.

OK, let's roll those.

Feet together, nice and easy.

Small circles, good.

Let's go the other way.

OK.

All right.

Let's do some leg stretching.

Spread those legs out
about shoulder width apart.

Legs straight, hang
down to the middle.

Good.

Lets straight.

OK, now to the right leg.

And to the left.

-That's really
stretching, isn't it?

-It certainly is.

-Good.

One more time to the middle.

Very good.

All right.

Everybody stretched out?

-Now what's some
of the first things

that you learn in taekwondo.

-Some of the first things
are some blocking techniques.

Would you like to see them?

-I sure would.

-OK class, let's show Mr.
Rogers some blocking techniques.

Everybody, heels in.

To me.

All right.

We'll start off with
a face block, OK?

Ready.

[KOREAN]

Good.

Pause there for a second.

Very nice.

-What are those words that
you're saying to them?

-I'm counting in Korean
because taekwondo

is a Korean martial art.

They-- all the
students are required

to learn some language
and some culture.

-I see.

Boy that takes a lot of
practice, doesn't it?

-Lots of practice.

Lots of years of practice.

-Now I know that you-- you
do things with your legs too.

-Right.

A lot of the
techniques of taekwondo

are kicking techniques.

Would you like to see
some of the kicks?

-Oh sure.

-OK.

All right, everybody.

Right leg back in fighting
stance on my command.

Ready?

[KOREAN]

OK.

Right let back.

All right, let's start off
first with the front snap kick.

OK remember, bend
those knees up.

Curl those toes back.

Kick with the ball of the foot.

Out and back.

Ready.

[KOREAN]

Let's try the other leg now.

[KOREAN]

Good.

-Now they're not trying
to hurt somebody?

-No, absolutely not.

One of the first things that we
teach children when they come

into class is that taekwondo
is for self defense only.

And the main thing
is to you know

help yourself develop
more self esteem.

We try to explain to kids that
bravery comes from inside.

-Aha, isn't that true.

-Absolutely.

Absolutely.

-Oh my.

Who taught you, Mr. Kim?

-Oh my father taught me.

I started when I was
about five years old.

And he's still
teaching in his school,

and I still learn from him.

-You must be proud of him
as well as your students.

-I'm very proud of everybody,
my father and the students.

Right.

-I sure would like
to see more if I may.

-Sure.

OK, let's switch those legs
and try the straight leg raise.

[KOREAN]

OK.

Switch those legs.

Straight leg raise.

Remember leg
straight, up and down.

Ready.

[KOREAN]

Switching.

[KOREAN]

-I noticed that the
different students

have different color belts.

-Right.

The different belts represent
different levels of skill.

And we have kids with white
belts who just started out.

They're just beginning.

And we also have kids that
are almost black belts.

MR. ROGERS: And black belt
is the greatest skill?

MR. KIM: Black
belt is the highest

rank they can hold, yes.

MR. ROGERS: I see.

Could I see some of the people
who are close to black belt?

-Sure.

In fact, they're-- they're
going to be testing

very soon for their black belt.

And why don't we show
everybody what they're

going to have to
demonstrate for the test.

-Good, good.

-All right.

Everybody else, have
a seat along the back.

TJ is here, and this
is Joey over here.

-Hi Joey, TJ.

-They're going to
be demonstrating

one of the patterns
in taekwondo.

OK?

[KOREAN]

-Beautiful, beautiful.

Boy how much they've
had to memorize.

-It takes a lot of
practice and lots of years.

TJ and Joey have been at
it almost four years now.

-Any wonder you're
proud of them.

Oh my, thank you very much.

May I say thank you to them?

How would I say thank you.

-Thank you in Korean
is kamsahamnida.

-Kamsahamnida.

-Everybody bow.

-Kamsahamnida.

And to you, Mr. Kim.

-Kamsahamnida.

-Kamsahamnida.

-Thank you for stopping by.

-Thank you.

Wish you well.

Catch you later.

-OK class.

-Oh yes.

[KOREAN]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Kamsahamnida.

Can you say that?

Kamsahamnida.

They're so graceful.

It takes so long to learn
such wonderful things.

And as Mr. Kim
said, real bravery

and strength comes from inside.

Just like all important
things, who we are in here

is the most
important part of us.

[SINGING] It's you I like.

It's not the things you wear.

It's 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.

And that's the way you can
feel about your neighbor.

Anyone you happen to be with
at the moment is your neighbor.

[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.

It's such a good feeling,
a very good feeling,

the feeling you know that I'll
be back when the day is new.

And I'll have more
ideas for you.

And you'll have things
you'll want to talk about.

I will too.

You always make it
in such a special day

by just your being you.

Only one person in the
whole world like you.

And people can like
you exactly as you are.

I'll be back next time.

Bye bye.

[MUSIC PLAYING]
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