01x13 - Maps/Termite Towers

[bunniefuu]

♪

♪ Hey!

♪ What?

♪ Come over here,

♪ The Cat in the Hat
is about to appear. ♪

♪ He's whizzing over
to whisk you away ♪

♪ On a fabulous
journey today. ♪

♪ He's coming!

♪ And now he's arrived
In the Thingamajigger ♪

♪ the thing that
he drives ♪

♪ He's a Cat and
he's oodles of fun ♪

♪ With his hairy helpers
Thing Two and Thing One ♪

♪ Instrumental

♪ Instrumental

♪ It's the
Cat in the Hat! ♪

♪ All of our adventures
start like that. ♪

♪ Wherever you're going
Where ever you're at ♪

♪ The Cat in the Hat
Knows a lot about ... ♪

♪ He knows a lot about,
he knows a lot about, ♪

♪ He knows a lot about
....THAT! ♪

[Laughter]

♪

Arr!

There's pirate
treasure buried here,

or my name's not
Saltwater Sally!

Arr! I
hope we find gold.

I hope we
find jewels.

I hope you find
a light switch.

My it's dark down here!

The Cat inThe Cat in
the Hat!the Hat!

Hi Sally.
Hi Nick!

What are you
digging for?

Pirate treasure!

Do you want to help?

Oh, I do,
I do!

♪

Arrr!

Captain Blacktail's the name,

treasure finding's the game!

Right,
Polly?

Awk!

Find the treasure!
Find the Treasure!

[giggles]

So! Let's see
your treasure map.

A map?

What do you mean?

You know, a
picture of a place,

to help you find
where you're going!

♪

You don't have one?

No problem.
You can use mine!

Pirate Rule # -

don't leave home
without your treasure map!

Wowww!
It looks like an island.

Is this a real
pirate map?

Well, a real pirate
gave it to me.

Wowww!

What does this
big 'X' mean?

Well, that's where the buried
treasure is, of course!

COOL!

Can we go
find it?

Of course we can!

We'll go to the
island of Tiki-Taroo.

Your mother will not
mind at all if you do!

Let's go and ask!

Mom!
Can we go

to Tiki-Taroo Island
to dig up pirate treasure?

[laugh]
Sure, honey.

Just leave me a shovel so

I can plant my tomatoes,
okay?

[laugh] Okay.
Thanks, Mom!

We can go!We can go!
We can go!We can go!

I know!
I know!

To the Thingamajigger!

Buckle up,
Mateys!

That's Pirate Rule # .

[honk]

♪

Flick the Jiggermawhizzer!

[laughs]

[boing]

[honk]

[pop]

♪

[giggles]
Isn't this fun?

Yahooooo!

♪ Here we go, go, go, go!
On an adventure. ♪

♪ The Thingamajigger
is up and away! ♪

♪ Go, go, go, go!
On an Adventure. ♪

♪ We're flying with the
Cat in the Hat today! ♪

♪ With our pirate map,
we're off on a quest

♪ To find our way to a
full treasure chest! ♪

♪ Here we go, go, go, go!
On an adventure. ♪

♪ Go, go, go, go, GO!

♪

Now... which island
is Tiki-Taroo?

Well... the one
on the map

is shaped
like a banana.

Hmm...

There's a pineapple-shaped
island -

and there's
a strawberry-shaped island...

Is anyone
else hungry?

Hey!

That one's
banana-shaped.

It looks just like the map! So it has to be

[Sally and Nick]
... Tiki-Taroo!

Awk! Tiki-Taroo!
Tiki-Taroo

[laughing]

Come on, let's go
find the treasure!

Hmmm....

Hmmm...

[silly noises]
Weee!

Oh...

Umm...

Which way is
the treasure?

Don't ask me,
Nick.

All I see is sand!

[giggle]

And a seesaw.

Wheee!

I LOVE seesaws!

Oh, they're
so much fun!

Is there room for three more?

Mhm!

[happy sounds, laughing]

You guys really know
how to teeter a totter!

[giggles]

Whoops!
I dropped the map.

Hey...this seesaw
is on the map!

So THIS must be where we are!

And THIS is where we want to go.

Hmm, but I don't see
an 'X' around here.

Hey, Polly's
picture is on there!

Awk!

That's not your parrot,
Cat -

It's a rock that
looks like a parrot!

And there's the real one!

The pictures
on the map

must show where
the real things are

on the island!

Look,
more pictures!

Sunflowers...and
a Big Blue Thing -

they must be real places too!

And they're all on
the way from here...

....to the treasure!

Let's head for Parrot Rock!
Come on!

Ooof!
Ooooh...

Nick, you're supposed
to get off a seesaw slowly.

That's Pirate Rule # !

[embarrassed laugh]
Sorry, Captain.

Wow.
Hah!

I'm glad I don't have
to clean his birdcage.

[laughing]

So. What's next
after Parrot Rock?

On the way to the treasure,
the next thing we see

should be...
sunflowers!

Oh!

[as parrot]
Awk!

All I see is
a big rawk!

Me too.
Where are the sunflowers?

Maybe they're on the other
side of the mountain?

We can't climb
over that!

Then we'll have to
find a way around.

Let's see the map again.

Okay...
Here's Parrot Rock -

but what's this long,
curvy line here?

Hm. What is
long and curvy,

and can go all the
way around a mountain?

While you guys are thinking,

I'm gonna check
out this trail.

[gasp][gasp]
A trail!A trail!

That's what the
line means...

there's a trail
around Parrot Rock!

Maybe it leads to
the sunflowers?

Cat,
wait up!

Arr! Keep a
close lookout

for those
sunflowers!

I am,
Cat.

But all I can see are
these skinny trees.

Maybe we took
the wrong trail?

Maybe the
map is wrong.

Wrong?

WRONG?

After we came
all this way?

Oh,
how cruel!

How unfair!

Cat!Cat!

How YUMMY!

Sunflower seeds!

These
aren't trees.

They're giant
SUNFLOWERS!

Cool...

that means our
map is right after all!

So all we have to do is get past this big blue thing -

And we'll find
our PIRATE TREASURE!

Good news...

I can see a big
blue thingamaboo!

You do?
Where?

What is it?

I can't tell from here.

But it's big
and it's blue -

Wheeeee!

and I'm going to
get there first!

[laughs]

Last one to the big,
blue Thingamaboo is-

Aaar!

[parrot voice]
Awk! Polly wet.

Polly wet.

What happened,
Cat?

I found the Big
Blue Thingamaboo.

Turns out?
It's a pond.

My poor Hat!

Poor Polly!

Anyone know if pond
slime washes out?

Yech!

Aw, cheer up,
Cat.

We're almost there!
Look, see the 'X'?

It's right there on that flag!

We just have to
cross this pond.

But we haven't
got a boat!

Oh but we do,
my fine pirate crew.

We just have to call
for Things One and Two.

[whistles]

♪

Now, flick the
Float-a-ma-boater!

All aboard shipmates!

Avast,
me hearties.

Sing with me!
[laughs]

♪ We're the finest crew
on the deep blue sea ♪

♪ Sally and Nick
and the Fish and me. ♪

♪ We'll find that treasure
just wait and see! ♪

♪ Yo ho ho and
a bowl of Fish! ♪

♪

♪ My hat got slimy,
but I don't care, ♪

♪ A pirate captain
always has a spare. ♪

♪ And anyway we're
almost there! ♪

♪ Yo ho ho and
a bowl of Fish! ♪

Ahoy!
[laughs]Land ahoy!

That was fun!

Blow me down.
It's a treehouse!

A pirate treehouse.

I thought pirates
buried their treasure?

Guess we won't need
this shovel after all.

Ha ha, ha...
it's Sharky!

De Cat in de Hat?
You furry old barnacle,

it's good to see ya!

Nick,
Sally,

this is Sharky McGee.

Hi!Hello!He's the pirate who
gave me the map!

I give 'em to
all me friends,

so they can
come visit me!

Did the interestin'
little pictures on it

help ye find your way?

Yes! They were
a BIG help.

We went from
the seesaw,

to parrot rock,

past the sunflowers
and over the pond,

right here to you!

Some call them little
pictures, land marks.

Land marks.
Cool.

But, if you made
this map to

help people come
and visit you...

does that mean
there's no treasure?

Of course
I have a treasure!

I'm a pirate,
aren't I?

Yay!Yay!

[giggles]

[Cat in the Hat]
Ooooh!

Wow!Neat!

'Course, I never had much
use for gold and such...

[excited gasp]

...so I use it to
store me pens, and

me map-makin' papers.

They're beautiful!

Very pirate-y.

Yes indeedy
they arrrrre.

Eh, Ye can take home one
of each, if you like.

I haves plenty.

Really?
Thanks, Sharky!

Yeah,
thanks!

And I know just what
to use it for...

Bye Bye!

Good-bye!Bye!

And the 'X'
goes there.

Done!

Okay Cat,
you can look now!

[gasp]
Oh my goodness.

A new treasure map!

With a real
treasure.

Have fun!

Ooh, I will,
I will!

♪

A map is a picture

of somewhere that's real.

For finding your way,
it's simply ideal!

Just follow the pictures,

it's as easy as that.

And you'll get where
you're going

in no time flat!

The treasure!
Yippee!

Yay!

[gasp]
My parrot!

And all the slime cleaned off!

Aww,
thanks mateys.

Pirate Rule # -

a clean parrot
is a happy parrot!

Awk!
I'm fluffy.

I'm Fluffy.

[laughing]

♪

Careful,
Sally...

Yes!
We DID it!

Uh-oh,
look out Nick!

Whew!
Uh!

Whooa!Whooa!

WHEW!

Not again! Our block towers

always fall down!

[laughs]

It's the Cat!

The Cat in the Hat!

Well it looks
like you've got

toppling tower trouble.

We sure do!

Well if there's one
thing I know a lot about,

it's how to build a tower!

Put this here.

[hums]

There you go!
A perfect...

Ugh! ...
pile of blocks!

That's the same
problem we had.

Hmmmm.
We need help.

[gasp] Let's visit my
friend Terry the Termite,

in the grassy grasslands

of the Bobana Savannah!

Aren't termites little bugs?

They are!

But they build
awfully big towers.

We gotta go
see Terry!

Your mother will not
mind at all if you do!

Mo-ooom! Can we go
visit Terry the termite

and learn how to
build a big tower!

Terry the Termite?

Good idea!

Oh, and ask him
to show you how to

pick up your blocks,
too.

We can go!We can go!
We can go!We can go!

I know!
I know!

To the Thingamajigger!

Terry's one mighty termite-y!

You're so right-ey!

Buckle up!

[honk]

♪

Flick the Jigermawhizzer.

[laughs]

[boing]

[honk]

[pop]

♪

[laughs]
Isn't this fun!

Yahooooo!

♪ Here we go, go, go, go!
On an adventure. ♪

♪ The Thingamajigger
is up and away! ♪

♪ Go, go, go, go!
On an Adventure. ♪

♪ We're flying with the
Cat in the Hat today! ♪

♪ Terry the Termite can
build towers so high ♪

♪ He'll help
us to raise one ♪

♪ right up to the sky!

♪ Here we go, go, go, go!
On an adventure. ♪

♪ Go, go, go, go GO!

♪

There's the Bobana Savannah.

Wow.
It really is grassy!

But where are
the termites?

Whoa!

Now THAT is a tower!

A termite tower.

There's Terry's place.

How can a little bug

build a tower
like that?

Let's ask Terry...

hmmm...

TERRY!

Cat in the HAT?
Is that YOU?

[giggle]

Ah-ha!

There he is!

Terry the Termite,

you old
tower-builder!

We'll be right down!

Press the
shrink-a-ma-doodle!

[laughs]

♪

Waddayaknow!
My old friend the CAT!

What brings a fine furry
fellow like yourself

to our little
tower?

Little?
It's...AWESOME!

Yep.
It's a doozy.

By the way, I'm
Terry the Termite!

Hi, Terry
the termite.

I'm Nick the boy!
[giggle]

And I'm Sally.

My friends are
having trouble

with their towers.

They're wa-aay
smaller than yours.

And they always
fall down.

Well, if you really
wanna learn about towers,

there's only one way to do it.

Join the crew!

The crew!

Whoop-ee-doo!
We're in the crew!

Uh, what's
a crew do?

The crews are the termite
teams who build the towers.

EXCELLENT!
Safety first.

Now, you're
ready to BUILD!

[Nick]
The bottom of the tower

is so wide.

Has to be.

Because the whole tower
is built on top of it?

You got it!
A big wide base

keeps the tower
steady and balanced.

Then narrower and narrower

the higher you go.

That's the secret
of a good tower.

♪

What's your tower
made of, Terry?

Sand...
and a special glue

the guys mix in
as they carry it.

Stand back! Mixing crew
coming through.

Hmm. I don't see
them carrying any sand.

It's in their mouths!

Right! And the glue
is termite spit!

[spitting sounds]

Sure is.
Best glue going!

Nice work with
the dirt, Bert.

Cool!

Ewwww.

You want us
to chew dirt?

No, that's
the MIXING crew.

Whew!

You're on the
FIXING crew.

Follow me!

♪

Wow! It's nice
and cool in here.

[sighs] But maybe
a little windy!

That's how
we like it.

We build our towers high,

so cool breezes
blow through.

Fixing crew -
this way.

[effort sounds]

Ugh!

WHOA,
this place is big!

Uh-oh!
What happened HERE?

Hmmm...
cr*ck in the wall.

We get them
all the time.

Fixing is our
job for today!

The mixing crew already
left us some dirt.

You ready,
Fixing Crew?

I'm on it!

We're all on it!

♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall,
fix the wall. ♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall today!

♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall,
fix the wall. ♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall today!

♪

Help!
HELP!

CAT!CAT!

HEEEEELLLLLPPPPP!

Ye-es?

There's a big pink SOMETHING

digging through
the base of the tower!

Big,
pink...

something that's
big and pink...

I heard. A hole in the base
of the tower means trouble!

Fixing Crew,
let's roll!

♪

What is THAT?

It's enormous!

With a nose
for trouble!

Ha ha...
I recognize that nose.

Whoah!

And teeth for trouble!

Teeth trouble is way
worse than nose trouble.

What should
we do Cat?

Let me think.
What should we do?

I know -
run!

♪

It's a huge,
pink,

tower-eating monster!

No. Raymond's
a Desert Mole Rat.

He's ruining all your work!

We've got
to stop him!

Leave it to me!

Uh-hmm....

[yelling]
RAYMOND!

I'M HERE!

Raymond's a nice guy, but he's
got no sense of direction

and he doesn't
see too well.

Raymond!
Hello!

Whoah!

Why Raymond!

What big teeth
you have!

Thanks.
They're my best feature.

Make him stop!
Make him stop!

Careful! Careful!
Careful!

Look out Raymond!
Watch where you're walking!

Whoops.
Didn't see you there.

Look out!

Whoops! Didn't see
you there either.

I've never met a
mole rat before!

Neither have I.

[chuckle] Well that's because
mole rats live underground.

You KNOW you need
to be underground-

you'll get a sunburn.

I'm NOT underground?

Where am I?

The Termite Tower -

you dug a hole in it -

again!!

Oh, dear.
I AM sorry!

I thought I was digging DOWN.

Raymond!
No!

Oh!

Phew!
Close one!

No problem,
Raymond.

You just get back
in your tunnel.

Raymond!
No!

Raymond!

[Worried noise]
Oooh.

Can we help him,
Cat?

A mole-rat is lost,

oh what's to be done!?

It must be a job for
Thing Two and Thing One!

[whistles]

Wheee!

♪

[blowing whistle,
beeping sounds]

♪

[blowing whistle,
beeping sounds]

Wha!

Whoa!

Ah!

♪

Yahoo!

Hmm...
Fixing crew!

Over here,
on the double!

We need this hole in the
base of the tower fixed.

Can you do it?

[all together]
YES!

♪

[spitting sounds]

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall,
fix the wall. ♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall today!

[spitting sounds]

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall,
fix the wall. ♪

♪ With sand and spit
we'll fix the wall, ♪

♪ Fix the wall today!

♪

Well,
how did we do?

That looks great!

You're real termite
tower builders now.

We learned it
from Terry

and now we know why

some towers topple,

and other stand high.

If you want to build towers
that stay in one place,

Remember to give
them a wide, solid...

BASE!

Bye Terry, thanks for
teaching us about towers.

Now we've gotta
build one at home.

Bye.

Remember,
it's all about the base.

Careful...

We DID it!

That's a really big tower.

With a really
wide base.

So it won't fall over.

That tower's so big,

we used up all of
our blocks to make it.

So, what do you
want to do now?

Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

[laughing]

Now let's build
a NEW one!

Yeah!Yeah!Yay!

[Laughs]

Froggy?

Welcome to
Hat Chat!

We are here in the forest
looking for our guest.

Froggy?

Oh, I found him!

No,
I see him over here!

Great! Two frogs are
even better than one!

Ahem!

Iam a toad!

I'm a frog!

But you look the same.

Look closer.

Frogs prefer to live
in or around water

so they are
smooth and moist.

Yes and toads prefer
living on land

so they have warts to blend
into the forest floor.

Look, us frogs
don't have warts.

You are different!

Yes! And toads legs are a
little shorter than a frogs.

See? We're really
quite different

but we both
love to jump!

Do you want to
jump with us?

YEAH!YEAH!

That ends our interview
with a frog...

...and a toad!

Bye!Bye!

♪

♪ The busy bee
flies fast and low ♪

♪ Flower to flower
watch her go ♪

♪ Landing on the
plants below ♪

♪ She helps to make the
flowers... ...grow. ♪

♪ And everywhere she lands,
buzzing to and fro ♪

♪ The busy bee is moving
spreading pollen as she goes ♪

♪ Everywhere she lands,
buzzing to and fro ♪

♪ The busy bee is helping all
the plants and flowers grow! ♪

♪ In the flower's center
there is a little wick ♪

♪ The pollen coats the surface,
it's fluffy and it's thick ♪

♪ When the bee gets closer,
its body makes it stick ♪

♪ When it moves from
plant to plant, ♪

♪ ahh that's what
does the trick ♪

♪ [buzzing instrumental]

♪ And everywhere she lands,
buzzing to and fro ♪

♪ The busy bee is moving
spreading pollen as she goes ♪

♪ The busy bee is helping all
the plants and flowers grow! ♪

How do we know
a bird is a bird?

Do we ask it politely
and take the bird's word?

Do we know it's a bird
when it crosses the sky?

[Chirp][Hoo]That sounds pretty good,

but some birds don't fly.

Do only bird's sing?

[tweets]Is that how we tell?

[Whale call]But whales are not birds
and they sing songs as well.

Ahh! says the Cat,

I'm still ever
so clever,

for I know an answer
that will last forever.

What makes it
a bird--

let's all say
it together

lies under my hat...

...Yes, you're right,
it's a feather.

All birdies have feathers,
big ones and tiny,

Some feel so soft and
some are quite spiny.

They help a bird fly,
keeps it warm as can be...

...And some make the birds
look as handsome as me.

The mystery's solved
by the Cat in the Hat,

All birds have feathers,
and that's simply that.

[Chirp]
[Chirp][Giggles]

Hi Everybody.

Today's question is
about Beavers...

What do beavers do when
they're scared by something?

Scared by a loud
noise like this!

[Cymbals]

[SMACK]

So do you know what beavers
do when they're scared?

[Cymbals]

[SMACK]

Did some of you say they
slap their tails on the water

then hide!?

That's right!

They make a big noise to warn
all the other Beavers

to hide too!

♪♪

Psst. Hey kids,

do you want to
find out more stuff

about animals,
plants and well fish?

Go to:
pbskids.org

for fun games,
fascinating facts,

and fintastic
activities.

Ha, ha, ha, ha

♪♪