02x07 - Angelina and Roquefort's Rhythmic Ghost/Angelina's Lunch Table

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- ♪ She's a dancing star

♪ She loves to twirl all day

♪ She's gonna go far

♪ That's the angelina way

♪ Follow your dreams wherever they take you ♪

♪ You can succeed

♪ Don't let anything shake you ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ The little star with big dreams ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

[School bell rings]

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And today I'm learning tap dancing,

But I'm thinking about lunch.

[Upbeat music]

[Bell rings]

[Music stops]

- And we'll finish this lesson after we take our break.

- I want to sit next to ms. Mimi.

- I want to sit wherever there's a plate full of cheese.

[Both giggling]

- I'm so hungry,

I'm not even going to take my tap shoes off.

- Me neither.

Let's go.

[Pleasant orchestral music]

♪

[Tapping]

- Hello?

[Tapping]

Ah...ah...

[Tapping]

[Tapping]

Gulp!

Hello?

[Tapping]

Hello? Is anybody here?

[Tapping]

[Intense tapping]

Eek!

[All gasp]

Double eek!

- Gracie, what's wrong?

- Are you all right?

- [Breathing heavily]

There--there is a gh-ghost in the roquefort theater.

[Both gasp]

- Why do you think it's a ghost?

- Because the ghost went "tap, tap, tap,"

Like in the book ms. Mimi read to us.

[All gasp]

- Oh, I remember that book.

- And then there was no sound except...

[All gasping]

A knock at the door.

[Taps]

[All scream]

[Chuckles]

Don't worry.

It's just a story.

- I wasn't afraid.

Ghost stories don't scare me.

- But sometimes these stories can be true.

What if there is a ghost in roquefort hall?

- Oh, I wouldn't like that.

- Me neither.

- What about you, a.z.?

You're really, truly brave.

You aren't afraid, are you?

- Who, me?

Afraid?

[Chuckles]

I'm from new cheese city.

I'm never afraid.

Don't worry, girls.

A.z., Ghost-catching mouse, is in the house.

- Oh, no. We can't be ghost catchers.

It's too scary.

- All right, if you're so afraid,

We can tell ms. Mimi about it over lunch.

[Stomach rumbles]

- Or...

We could introduce ourselves

And try to be this ghost's friend.

- Be the ghost's friend?

Oh, no, no, no.

There is no way I will make friends with the ghost.

I'm afraid.

- Me too.

- Me too, but a.z. Isn't.

He can lead the way.

- Mm-mm...

[Gulps]

Yeah, um,

That's right.

I said I wasn't afraid,

And so...i'm not.

I'll just go right in there, shake that ghost's hand,

And say, "hello, ghost."

Yeah, that's what I'll do.

[Inhales]

[Quietly] ready or not, here we come.

[All sigh]

Okay, so far, so good.

Who's with me?

[Together] we are!

[Mysterious music]

♪

- Say something brave.

- Yo, ghost!

A.z. Here.

♪

- Hello, mr. Ghost.

Are you there?

[Whispers] you try.

- Uh...

Hi, there, mr. Ghost.

Nice weather we're having, isn't it?

- I think the ghost is gone.

Time for lunch.

- Maybe gracie should try too.

Gracie, where are you?

- Gracie.

- Gracie.

- C'est moi.

It's me.

[All sigh]

I don't want to talk to this ghost.

- If we meet him, maybe he won't seem so scary.

- Oh...

Hello, ghost?

[Tapping]

[All gasp and shriek]

- Well, vici was wrong.

We met this ghost, and he isscary.

[Rapid tapping]

[Syncopated tapping]

- Huh?

Wait a minute.

This ghost has rhythm.

[Together] what?

- That ghost went "tappity tap tap"

Like this.

[Clapping rhythmically]

♪

- Wait, aren't you afraid of the ghost?

- [Clapping rhythmically]

♪

Nothing with rhythm this good could ever be scary.

[Rapid tapping]

This ghost is the best.

[Clapping rhythmically]

♪

He's got awesome rhythm, just like me.

Hip-hop is all about doing what the other guy can do

And then doing something more.

- Tap dancers do that too.

Watch this.

Here's what the ghost sounded like.

[Clacking]

And then a.z. Added a rhythm that sounded like this.

[Clapping rhythmically]

And this is all me.

[Clacking]

- [Clapping]

[Applause]

- It's my turn to dance with the ghost.

Everybody knows I am the best tap dancer.

[Rhythmic tapping]

[Cheery instrumental music]

♪

Voila.

- Well, don't forget that you're dancing with a ghost,

And aren't you afraid of ghosts?

- Not anymore.

Now that I've met this ghost, he is mon ami,my friend.

[Tapping]

My goodfriend.

- He's my friend too, and I bet you can't do this.

♪

- I bet I can.

♪

- No one can do it like this.

♪

- What about this?

♪

[Tapping]

- Later, ghost.

- Oh!

- We're coming.

Maybe we were right all along about ghosts being scary,

Because this one sure scared us.

- Ms. Mimi!

[Together] ms. Mimi!

- Ms. Mimi! - Ms. Mimi!

- Ms. Mimi!

- Ms. Mimi!

- Huh?

[Together] ms. Mimi!

- What's wrong?

- There's a ghost!

- There's a ghost in roquefort hall.

- And it's dancing.

- One at a time, please.

- There is a ghost in roquefort hall,

And he goes...

- Tap tap tap tappity-tap.

- He's really good.

He's got rhythm.

- And so we danced with him.

- Like this: tap tap tap tappity-tap.

- And we all wanted to be better than everyone else,

And now the ghost is...

- Totally mad.

- A.z.'S right.

- A ghost?

Are you sure?

- Oui.

- Definitely.

- It was a ghost.

- And you're sure this "ghost" was mad?

Because when dancers try to one-up each other,

It's a great thing.

It's a way for your friends to challenge you to be better.

- So the ghost was just being a good friend.

- I knew that.

I knew he wasn't scary.

Yeah, uh, I did.

The only reason I ran away so fast

Was because I wanted to tell ms. Mimi and...

Okay, I was a little afraid of the ghost.

[Laughter]

- If there is a ghost...

[Rhythmic tapping]

Listen.

[Rhythmic tapping]

All: huh!

- Hey.

The ghost is in the yard.

- Yes, and so is a family of woodpeckers.

They are making their home

Up in the roof of camembert academy.

[Tapping]

[Laughter]

I would imagine their tapping would sound very loud

Inside roquefort theater.

- Gracie, where are you going?

- I think we should introduce ourselves

And become friends.

- You are so right.

- Hello! Woodpeckers!

[Tapping]

[Tapping]

[All tapping rhythmically]

- It doesn't matter that our new friend

Turned out to be a woodpecker instead of a ghost.

What really counts is, he's a good friend

And he's got rhythm.

Now it's time to meet camembert's shining stars.

- My name is leanne.

- I'm kayla.

- I'm hector.

- The name of our group is the keltic dreams irish dancers.

We're from the school p.s. In the bronx.

♪

You don't have to be irish to do irish step dancing.

Our teacher, caroline duggan, is irish, but none of us are.

We're all from different countries,

And we all do it together.

♪

- The part when we do the competition,

It's not really, like, a competition,

But we just make the dance feel fun for us.

[Shoes clacking]

- Making the sound with irish dancing hard shoes

Is one of the most important things.

When we stamp, it's, like, it makes so much noise

That we make the floor shake.

♪

- I always practice at school and at home,

And we lived in a house, so then people downstairs,

They said, "knock it off," because I was, like, too loud,

So I had to practice outside.

♪

- In our school, when we do shows for them

And then when we go back to our classes,

They always ask, "can you teach us that?

Can you teach us this?"

So it's like people want to be like us.

♪

- What I like about irish dancing

Is that we have fun.

We go to new places.

- We've been to city hall, to ireland twice,

And chicago and washington.

And in ireland,

We performed for the president, mary mcaleese.

♪

- I love irish dancing.

It's so fun.

It's like a dream come true to me.

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And here I am at one of my favorite spots,

The lunch table.

Every day at lunch, my friends and I

Talk about the dance steps we've learned,

And then we talk about the fun we're going to have

In the afternoon.

This isn't just a lunch table.

It's a friendstable.

- Guess who.

- Alice!

[Both giggling]

- You won't believe what I found.

- [Gasps] wow.

Our "best friend forever" wand.

- I thought it was lost,

But I found it in the back of my closet.

- Remember when we waved the magic wand

And we were the fastest running jumpers ever?

- And when we were prima ballerinas?

Let's have a sleepover this saturday

And use the friendship wand some more.

- Oh, yes.

[Gasps]

Oh. Oh, no.

I can't come over on saturday. I promised vici--

- Angelina, I've got your ticket.

The tap dance concert is all sold out,

But my mom got the last two tickets for me and you.

- [Gasps]

- Hmm.

- Oh, I love tap dancing.

♪

- I'm so lucky I could invite a friend.

- Oh.

- Oh, you'll have so much fun.

- Uh...

- Come on!

It's the first day of camembert junior chorus.

- Oh.

Thanks for reminding us, marco.

Wow.

We all get to sing together.

- Angelina, I've been waiting for you.

You wanted to see my fashion drawings, right?

- Oh, yeah, I forgot.

Angelina, we're poem partners,

And I found the perfect poem.

- I thought we could be partners.

- I wanted to be your partner, angelina.

- Oh, sorry, but marco asked me first.

- Angelina, come look at my drawings.

- Whew.

Everyone wants to talk to me at once.

I feel dizzy.

Sorry. I'm coming, gracie.

- Hello, class.

Ready for your first day of camembert junior chorus?

All: yeah!

- I'll look at your drawings at lunch, okay?

- Okay, everybody,

Is this a good position for singing?

All: huh?

[Piano intro]

- ♪ La, la, la, la, la

All: ♪ la, la, la, la, la

- Oh!

[Laughter]

- This is hard.

- [Chuckles]

You're not kidding.

- Try this.

♪ La, la, la, la, la

All: ♪ la, la, la, la, la

- That sounds better.

- Because we're standing up straight.

- Exactly.

Let's stand up tall, side by side,

And get ready to sing our song.

- Whoops. Sorry.

- Hmm.

[Plays note]

[All singing at different tempos]

- [Laughs]

- Hey, we're all singing at different times.

- Is that what a chorus does?

All: no.

- Everyone sings together.

- Absolutely.

All: ooh.

- That looks like our friendship wand.

- It's called a baton.

Now, singers, watch me, and when I point to you,

Sing.

Both: ♪ someone sure to be

♪ The someone next to me

All: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- [Sustaining] ♪ friend

[Giggles]

- So if a chorus starts together,

Should a chorus end together too?

All: yes.

- Let's try the last line again.

All: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- Better.

Now, everybody choose a partner to sing a note with.

- Be my partner.

- Sing with me, angelina.

- Sing with me, angelina. - Over here.

- Who should I choose?

Hmm?

- Be my partner.

- Sing with me, angelina.

- Come on, angelina. - Over here.

- [Gasps] I have an idea.

I can be partners with everyone.

- ♪ Someone sure to be

♪ The someone next to me

Both: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- ♪ Someone tried and true

♪ In old times and the new

Both: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- ♪ Someone with a heart

♪ Who's helpful from the start

Both: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- ♪ Someone really kind

♪ Who's never hard to find

Both: ♪ you're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- Everyone join in.

[Bell rings]

Oh.

We'll work on more tomorrow.

- [Sighs]

At least I don't have to choose between friends here.

- Let's practice our poem together.

- Let's practice tap dancing.

- Ah, angelina, you said you would look

At my fashion drawings.

- The lunch table is kind of crowded today.

- Oh, we can share the seat, angelina.

. Oh!

[Laughter]

- Let us try back-to-back.

Oh!

- [Giggling]

This is just like musical chairs.

- That's it.

Let's play musical chairs.

- We can use the friendship wand like a baton.

- I'll be the conductor.

- We all have to watch angelina.

- Yeah.

- ♪ Someone sure to be

♪ The someone next to me

♪ You're that someone once again ♪

- I got one.

- I'm sitting.

- I've got one too.

- Ooh.

I still do not have a place to sit.

Can we play the game one more time?

- Yeah, that was fun.

♪ Someone sure to be

- Got one. - Got one.

- Got one again.

- What? What?

Ohh!

That was not fun.

- Gracie, where are you going?

- Hey, angelina, you promised we'd practice our poem.

- Uh...

- And what about our tap steps?

- Well, um...

- Let's use the friendship wand again, angelina.

[Bell rings]

- We missed our chance to dance.

- And we can't do our poem now.

- No more wand today.

- And I do not like this lunch game.

- Oh, no.

Now all my friends are mad at me.

[Sighs]

- How was school today, angelina?

- It was fun,

And then it wasn't so much fun.

- Oh.

- [Sighs]

Do you think someone can have too many friends?

- No, not if they're true friends.

- But what if all your friends are cross with you?

What am I going to do?

Lunchtime!

Oh.

Where are all my friends?

Hello?

[Children giggling]

Alice!

Vici!

Marco!

Gracie!

It's me, your friend angelina!

I have a table all ready for lunch.

All: we don't have a friend named angelina.

- [Gasps]

All: we don't have a friend named angelina.

- Angelina?

Angelina?

- [Gasps]

Oh, no.

Oh, I was having a bad dream.

- I made something for you, angelina.

See? It means "friends."

Mum helped me make it because I'm your friend too,

And I'm your sister.

- Oh, polly.

Thank you.

You've given me a great idea.

What an idea I had.

I realized that you don't need to be

With just one friend at a time.

The lunch table could be for lots of friends

Doing lots of things together.

Gracie, how about if you put your fashion drawings

On the table?

- But why?

- Alice, where's the "friendship forever" wand?

- Here.

- Hey, look.

- Gracie, can we all look at your fashion drawings?

- I guess so.

- Wow.

These are great.

- Fantastic.

- Oh, beautiful.

- [Giggles]

Merci.

Thanks.

- And, vici, let's show everyone our tap dance.

- Oh, yes.

We can join in.

- Uh-huh.

Five, six, seven, eight.

♪

- It's shuffle and then shuffle hop step and...

[All giggling]

- All right, class.

Let's remember what we learned yesterday about a chorus.

. I know.

It's best when everyone sings together.

All: yeah.

- Oh, yes.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- [Laughs]

All: ♪ someone sure to be

♪ The someone next to me

♪ You're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

♪ Someone tried and true

♪ In old times and the new

♪ You're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

♪ Someone with a heart

♪ Who's helpful from the start

♪ You're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

♪ Someone really kind

♪ Who's never hard to find

♪ You're that someone once again ♪

♪ And that makes you my friend ♪

- It's like being with lots of friends.

It's the best fun ever.

Hello, I'm angelina ballerina,

And today I'm watching my friends

Perform an irish step dance.

Do you see how their feet and legs move quickly

But the top part of their bodies hardly move at all?

They're wearing hard shoes that are like tap shoes,

Which make a sound every time they hit the floor.

Tap actually began with irish step dance.

It's stupendous to watch and even more fun to try.

- Hola,marco here.

I know what that is.

It's a marimba.

Marimbas were first made in africa and latin america.

They hit the wood blocks with the mallets,

And those tubes underneath help make that cool sound.

Marimba is a percussion instrument.

A drum is another kind of percussion instrument,

Like the one I have here.

You hit it.

That's how it makes sound.

Magnifico.

I wonder if they'd let me play my steel drum with them.

We'd make a great trio.