♪
- ♪♪ One, two!
A one, two, three, four ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ , , , , ♪
- Waaa!
- ♪ Peg plus Cat
and a Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ , , , , ♪
- !
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat
- , , , , ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat
and a Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ , , , , ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
- Ha! Ha! Ha! Cat!
- Peg! Ha! Ha! Ha!
- Ho ho ho!
The Christmas Problem!
Ho ho ohhhh!
- ♪ Silent night ♪
♪ Totally awesome night ♪
- Hello! I'm Peg.
That's Cat.
And these buttons
are so amazing!
When I press one, the ship takes
us to the place in the picture!
Cat doesn't even have to steer!
- No hands!
- But tonight I didn't press
any of these far-off planets...
I pressed this place,
way at the top of the world!
- The North Pole, baby!
- 'Cause it's
Christmas eve and--
- ♪ We're gonna have hot cocoa
with Santa ♪
- Oh, yeah!
- Ho ho ho, yeah!
- Just before Santa delivers
presents all over the world!
- Uh, speaking of presents...
- I got a present
to give Cat on the ride home.
- Can't we do presents now,
please, please, please, please?
- After our visit with Santa!
- Whoa! That kind of looks
like, um...
- My favorite number: .
Can you believe some people
have actually counted
that high, by ones?
- No!
- That must feel so cool...
to count all the way to .
- Think you'll do it someday?
- Maybe.
Like when I'm !
- Ha! Ha! Ha!
- Till then, we can count
to by tens, right?
- Sing it!
- ♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ , wahoo ♪
- The North Pole!
- Time to land in Santa Land!
- (Peg and Cat): Santa Claus!
- Peg and Cat! Ho ho ho!
- What's all the noise, Santa?!
Is everything OK?
- Of course
everything's OK, Peg!
Everything's holly
and jolly and ho ho ho--
What's the use?
I can't hide it from you guys.
Your old pal Santa's
really tired.
- How come, Santa?
- Kids today want
so many presents.
We can't just fill one sleigh
with toys anymore!
We need a whole lot of sleighs.
- That is a lot of sleighs.
- Way more than one!
- The reindeer are trying
to figure out some way
to lead them all into the sky.
It's OK, Donner! Take a break.
- Oy.
- But the real headache
is our new Super Big
Present Making Machine.
- (Cat): Whoa!
- The parts of all
the different presents
are fed onto the machine here.
Yo, Bodkin!
That doll arm goes
with the green parts,
not with the blue parts!
If they're not the same
the machine stalls out!
- Sorry, Mr. Claus!
- Here in the middle,
the parts get put together.
You've got to keep the smooth
shape there, Schneedwick!
- Will do, Mr. Claus!
- Here's where the toys are put
into boxes and wrapped.
Small toys
in the small boxes, Woody!
- Excuse me, Mr. Claus
with all due respect --
by the way,
red is definitely your color --
but, the... the machine
is moving so fast,
it's making me
a little tense and, um...
- If I turn the dial
to a lower number,
the machine goes slower...
- (Peg): That didn't help.
- If I turn it higher,
it goes faster...
- That didn't help!
- Nothing helps!
I can't work
with this machine!
I am totally freaking out!
- Santa!
- Ho ho, look at me, Peg!
I'm frazzled! "Flabuzzled!"
- And not in
the Christmas spirit!
- Santa can't deliver presents
like this!
We've got a BIG PROBLEM!
I have no idea
what to do, Cat...
- Time to go back
to the spaceship
and give each other presents?
- The ship! That's it!
- We can do presents?!
- No, we can invite Santa
to have hot cocoa in
our peaceful, quiet spaceship!
- Ho ho! Sounds great to me!
- (elves): Us too!
- To Peg and Cat's
spaceship!
- We found a way
for Santa to relax,
so he can make the toys
and bring them
to all the children
of the world. And so...
♪ Problem solved
- The problem is solved ♪
♪ Fa la la la laaaaa la
- Problem solved ♪
- (Peg): It's so great
seeing Santa smiling!
- (Cat): And the elves dancing!
- (Peg): And Donner sitting
on the buttons on the
control panel.
- (Cat): Ah! Donner's tush gave
one of the buttons a push!
- The ship is going
to whatever planet he sat on!
We have no idea
when Santa will be back!
- Isn't Santa supposed to be
delivering presents tonight?
- But he can't!
So we've got to make presents
for every kid on Earth
and deliver them
all over the world tonight!
We've got a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
We've got a REALLY, REALLY,
REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
(expl*si*n)
The Super Big Present
Making Machine!
- Calm down, machine!
(slapping noise)
OK, who did that?!
- Our really, really
big problem
just got really bigger!
There are kids
all around the world
who can't wait
for tomorrow morning.
How will we ever
save Christmas for them?
We've solved
so many problems, Cat,
but this one's just too big.
- So can we at least
give each other our presents?
- My present for you is
on our ship, flying away!
- I mainly can't wait
to give you your present!
It's not on the ship, so I can
give it to you right now!
- Awww! Cat, that's so sweet.
But I can't even think
about presents for me
at a time like this!
- ♪♪ Dashing through the snow ♪
- You hear that?
- ♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪
- Yeah!
- ♪ O'er the fields we go ♪
- It's coming from...
- ♪ Laughing all the way ♪
- Up there!
- ♪ Ha ha ha haaa haaa ha ♪♪
- Ramone!
- Hey, Peg! Hey, Cat!
- What are you doing
in the North Pole?
- I'm here to patch up
a hole in the ozone.
- The what-zone?
- The ozone.
It's like a hat made of clouds
that keeps the planet safe
and clean.
- We came to visit Santa,
but he got blasted into space,
so we need to make toys for all
the children in the world!
And box them! And wrap them!
And deliver them! Right now!
It's just too much!
It's boggling my brain!
I just want to run away
and give up and quit!
- You know, Peg...
♪♪ You don't climb a mountain
in one giant leap ♪
♪ You go step by step
as you climb ♪
♪ When a problem's too big,
you can break it apart ♪
♪ And solve it
one step at a time ♪
♪ Step by step
by step by step ♪
♪ Though the steps that you take
might feel tiny at first ♪
♪ As you slip and you struggle
and try ♪
♪ If you just keep going
one step at a time ♪
♪ You can step by step
to the sky ♪
- ♪ Step by step
by step by step ♪
- Woah!
- ♪ Don't turn and run off
whatever you do ♪
♪ Don't hide
or go jump in a hole ♪
♪ Take your time
Take it slow ♪
♪ And you'll have it all
under control ♪
♪ So remember the hero
who reaches that height ♪
♪ Step by step through the snow
and the grime ♪
- ♪ Step by step
by step by step ♪
- ♪ He climbs to the sky
and he does it all ♪
♪ By marching on one step
at a time ♪♪
- (all): Weeeeeeeeee!
- One step at a time!
We can do that!
- One step. Then another step.
No problem!
- I'll find someone
to help deliver the toys.
If you'll get in there
and start assembling them.
- We'll march right in there--
- And save Christmas!
- ♪ One step at a time ♪
- Ow.
- The machine is a total mess!
I can't imagine
fixing it in one step,
or lots of steps, or any steps!
- Let me give you my present!
- Cat--
- I can't wait another second!
- Cat--
- It's a dance
I made up just for you.
It's not like any dance
I've ever done!
It's graceful, it's beautiful
and it's totally "un-clumsy".
And all you have to do is
stand there and watch it. OK?
- OK.
- I call it, "A Dance for Peg."
♪♪♪
Ow.
That-- that wasn't
the dance!
- But it is the first step
to solving the problem,
you genius cat!
- Huh?
- You took those tall parts off
the conveyer belt,
separating them
from the short parts.
Santa said a conveyer belt
won't work
unless it has all
of the right toy parts on it!
So sorting out the toy parts
would be a great step
in fixing the machine!
- And saving Christmas!
- ♪♪ So let's sort sort sort
- Sorty sorty sort sort ♪
- ♪ Sort firm parts
from stretchy ♪
- ♪ And tall parts from short
- Sort by shape ♪
- ♪ And color!
- And softness ♪
- ♪ And size!
- Sort wires and dials!
- From smiles and eyes ♪
- ♪ Gonna sort and shake
Gonna sort and shout ♪
♪ Gonna sort and sort and sort
till they're all sorted out ♪♪
- The parts are sorted,
and the machine is working!
- Or not.
- Though we didn't
solve the whole problem,
we did take one step
towards solving it.
But what step is next?
- How about I do
my dance for you!
- Cat--
- Shh!
Oh! Oh-oh! Ah! Oh! Oh!
Woaah! Ugh!
- You did it again!
- I didn't do it again!
That wasn't the dance!
- But it was a great idea
for our next step!
The presents need
to go in boxes
that are the right size
for them!
Just like you needed
to fit in a box
that's the right size for you!
But look!
That big box is below
that medium-sized present!
- That doesn't seem quite right!
- It's not! It's totally wrong!
- Then let's totally fix it!
- ♪♪ To get
this big machine working ♪
- ♪ As we're hoping
and we're wishing ♪
- ♪ We got to move these boxes
- To just the right position ♪
(Cat humming)
- ♪ Small present, small box!
It's a perfect fit ♪
♪ Put the small boxes here
- Yeah, Peg! That's it ♪
- ♪ A medium box holds stuff
that's medium size ♪
- ♪ Put the medium box here?
- Cat, you are wise ♪
- ♪ Big present, big box,
fits so snug and tight ♪
- ♪ So if we put
those boxes here ♪
- ♪ Whoa! I see the light ♪
- ♪ We got
this big machine working ♪
- ♪ Just like we were wishing
- Cause we moved these boxes ♪
- ♪ To just
the right position ♪♪
- Woo-hoo!
- We solved another step,
and there's still
something wrong.
- Yeah! You haven't
seen my dance!
- But Cat--
- This time I won't trip
on the machine
or go flying over the machine.
I'll back way away
from the machine! Back...
- Cat... Cat!
- Back... Baaaack!
What was I saying?
- A diagram of a Super Big
Present Making Machine!
- And a diagram is?
- ♪♪ A picture that shows
where everything goes ♪
- ♪ To this diagram
we will be clinging ♪
- ♪ We can figure what's wrong
and do it in song ♪
- ♪ We seem to work best
when we're singing ♪
- ♪ These belts seem to be
where it says they should be ♪
♪ Starting here,
going in that direction ♪
- Blue, red, green!
- Blue, red, green!
- ♪ We've fixed this part
to perfection ♪
- ♪ Big over here,
small over there ♪
♪ This section is
a beautiful sight ♪
- Woo hoo!
- ♪ But there in the middle
is something a little alarming ♪
♪ And just not right ♪
- Ooooo!
- ♪ The diagram shows ♪
♪ A shape here that goes ♪
Curving!
- Swerving!
- ♪ So smoothly and neatly ♪
- ♪ It must have been changed
- Gotten rearranged ♪
- ♪ And then been bent up
and stretched out completely ♪
- ♪ So let's smooth the curve
as this diagram serves ♪
♪ To show us
what to be doing ♪
- ♪ Now we matched it
just right ♪
- ♪ And we turned on the light ♪
- ♪ We should both of us
now be woo hoo-ing ♪♪
- (both): Wooo hooo!
- We got Santa's whole
toy-making machine working!
- Woo hoo!
- We solved another step
in saving Christmas
while Santa's stuck in space!
- Woo hoooooooo!
- The presents are being made,
and boxed, and wrapped!
The next step is getting them
into the sleighs
so they can be delivered!
- Actually, there's one step
before that.
- What?
- Getting down
from this machine!
(both screaming)
Help!
- Where are you, Cat?
- I've been gift wrapped!
- Which box are you in?
- The one with a Cat in it.
- Keep talking
so I can find you!
- I can't think
of anything to say!
Not a single word!
Oh no, no, no, no! Aaaah!
- (puppet): Hello!
- (robot): Hello.
- Hello!
- Cat!
- May I please do
my dance for you now?
- Watch out for that tube!
- Ah! Ugh! Oh!
- That tube is sending
the presents into the sleighs!
That's the next step
we needed to solve!
- Nice!
- Presents are piling up
too high in those first sleighs!
They'll fall into the snow
and be ruined!
- (Cat): Not nice!
- Cat! Do you think turning
this dial to higher numbers
will make it sh**t
the presents further?
- I have no idea!
- If I try turning it up,
can you go to the window
and let me know
what's happening?
- I can and I will!
- It's on . I hardly ever
count in the thirties...
But I know that counting
in the thirties is just like
counting from one to nine...
After eight comes nine.
So to turn this dial higher,
I go from to .
- The presents
are going further!
- All right!
does the trick!
- All the sleighs are full,
except for the ones
way in the back!
- Luckily, this thing
still can go one higher...
to !
- All presents are in sleighs
and ready for delivery.
- The presents are made,
and wrapped, and put in sleighs!
We solved another step!
- All right!
- All sleighs
now ready for takeoff.
- sleighs?!
- That's a lot!
- But it would be wise to delay
takeoff until after snowstorm.
- (both): Snowstorm? Snowstorm!
- The wind's blowing so hard
I can't open the door!
- Can't we stay inside,
maybe curl up by a fire?
- We've got to get out there
and fly those toys
to the children of the world!
- Oh, oh, right.
- It's open! We're out of here!
- Or not!
- AAAAAAAH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
- Woah-ho.
- I think I'm OK! Are you OK?
- I think I'm OK!
- We're both OK!
Now we just have to fly those
sleighs all over the world!
- Wooo hoo!
- Just the two of us...
- Woo hoo...
- Even though we have no idea
how to fly a single sleigh
around the block!
- Woo...
- We can help with that.
- Ramone!
- Everybody, take a jet pack,
head to a sleigh, and get ready
to fly it up to the sky!
- How'd you get our friends
to come from all over
the universe?!
- I tracked down one,
then another, then another.
then another!
- ♪ One step at a time ♪
- But before the sleighs
can take off,
there's still one step left.
- Another step?!
- We made it
through so many steps, Cat!
We can do one more!
- I mean, another step!
- That snowstorm really knocked
these sleighs around.
If even one sleigh is missing,
an awful lot of kids
won't get their presents.
So you need to count the sleighs
to make sure they're all here.
- But there are
sleighs!
I can't count that high!
Can you do it?
- I have to get to work
on the ozone layer.
- The thing is,
Ramone, you see,
I've never counted
to before.
- You can do this, Peg.
One step at a time.
- If you want
to freak out,
I'm ready to do that thing
with my hands...
- I'm not going to freak out
this time, Cat.
I'm going to keep it
together and think.
- Hmm...
♪
♪
- You genius Cat! Give me
a super big Christmas Eve hug!
- What'd I do?
- You reminded me
that you can count to
by tens!
If you shout out , ,
as I reach those numbers,
you'll give me the courage, and
guidance, and support I need...
- Getting a little squished
here.
- ...as I count by ones
from to ,
from to ,
from to ...
all the way up to !
- OK!
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Oo oo ooooo ♪
- Harmony! Nice!
- , , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ Count Peg
Oo oo ooo ♪
♪ We're counting on you ♪
- !
- , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ Count Peg, count away,
you can save the holiday ♪
- !
- , , ,
, , ,
, , !
- ♪ Count Peg more and more ♪
♪ Like you've never
counted before ♪
- !
- , , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ Oh, count Peg
Keep on counting ♪
- ♪ The tension's
really mounting ♪
- !
- I'm counting beyond .
It's the same , , ,
as in the twenties
and thirties...
so here it goes!
, , , , ,
, , , !
- Thirsty?
Sweaty?
Dirty? Hungry? Sleepy?
Stinky? Binky?
- ♪ No no no and no ♪
♪ I've got to go go
go go go and go to ♪
- !
- , , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ Count Peg
higher and higher ♪
♪ You're on fire ♪
- !
- , , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ She's getting
closer and closer ♪
- ♪ Could I take the pressure?
No sir ♪
- I've never counted
anywhere near this high, Cat!
What if I mess up?
- You won't.
- What if I can't think?
- You will.
- What if I--
- What if you say
the next number already?
- !
- , , , , ,
, , , !
- ♪ Count Peg,
you must not fail ♪
- ♪ Shaking right down
to my tail ♪
- !
- , , , ,
, , , , !
- I'm so excited I can't think.
I can't talk. I can't breathe.
I can just make weird sounds.
Ay-ee-ay-ee-ay-ee-ay ee!
Brrrrrrrrr! Eee! Awooooooooo!
Aw, that's it.
That's all I can do.
- This is the last row!
- ♪ Ah ah ah ♪
- The final showdown!
Last chance!
All or nothing! Do or die!
I'm so close to
I can taste it!
- What does it taste like?
- Ice cream.
- ♪ Ice cream ♪
- Then count me in!
- !
- !
- !
- !
- !
- !
- !
- !
- Few more!
- !
- !
- !
- !
- !
- This is heaven!
- !
- This is great.
- !
- This is so fine!
- Don't stop now!
- But--
- You can't stop now!
- But--
- It would drive me insane with
frustration if you stopped now!
- But I can't find
the last sleigh!
- Nooooooo!
- (both): Yaaaa!
- That last sleigh must have
gotten covered with snow
somewhere right around here!
Help me look for it!
- As soon as I get this toy
out of my ear.
- Toy?!
- Some kind of wind-up duck...
- (toy): Quack!
- Do you know what that means?
- "Hi, how are you?" in duck.
- Where there's a toy,
there just might be...
- A box!
- And where there's a box,
there just might be...
- A sleigh!
- Pull!
- I'm pulling!
- Grunt!
- I'm grunting! There it is!
The last sleigh!
- !
- You counted to !
- Before I turned !
We solved every step!
- After step after step!
- We got the presents made,
wrapped, put into sleighs
and now they're about
to be delivered
all over the world!
- ♪♪ Problem solved
- Ooo oo ooo ♪
- ♪ The problem is solved
- Fa la la laaa ♪
- ♪ They solved the problem
- The whole gigantic problem ♪
- ♪ And everything is awesome
Ho ho ho ♪♪
- Santa?!
- Peg and Cat!
You got all the presents
ready to go!
How can I possibly thank you!
- No need to thank us, Santa.
(Cat whispers.)
Although...
there has been a request
for you to ride with us
in our sleigh
and lead the way!
- Gladly!
- Delivering presents
with Santa!
Ho, ho, all right!
- Oh-oh-oh! Before we go,
I need to get something really
special from the spaceship!
- For me?
- Open it!
It's a wool hat! Like mine!
Don't you like it?
- It's the best present
I ever got!
But I don't have anything
for you.
- You did that great dance
for me!
- I tried,
but I kept messing up.
I'm just not graceful.
I don't deserve this.
- Of course you deserve it, Cat!
You help me calm down
when I'm scared!
You help me keep going
when I'm stumped!
With you at my side,
I can do things
I never thought
I could ever do!
It doesn't matter if you have
a present for me or not
or if you're a graceful dancer!
Who cares?
You're my perfect teammate.
My best friend ever.
I think
you're totally great, Cat,
and I want you
to have this gift...
I knew you'd look amazing in it!
- Whoa! I look good.
- Oh, Cat, you'll be able
to do that dance someday
if you take it
one step at a time.
In the meantime, we've got
some presents to deliver.
- Okey doke. Wait!
A Dance for Peg.
- ♪ Oo oo ooooo ♪
♪ Ooo ooo oooooo ooo ♪
- Cat's dancing
without falling down!
- It's a Christmas miracle!
(panting)
Did you like it?
- I loved it!
It's like the best dance ever!
And the best present ever!
Thank you so much, Cat!
Time to take to the sky!
- Would ya... Would ya, please?!
- ♪♪ Don't turn and run off ♪
♪ Whatever you do,
don't hide ♪
♪ Or go jump in a hole ♪
- ♪ Take your time,
take it slow ♪
♪ And you'll have it
all under control ♪
- ♪ So remember the hero ♪
♪ Who reaches that height ♪
♪ Step by step through the snow
and the grime ♪
♪ Step by step by step by step ♪
- ♪ She climbs to the sky ♪
♪ And she does it all
by marching on ♪
- ♪ One step at a time ♪♪
- Love my hat!
- Love my Cat!
You're next, !
- (all): Merry Christmas!
- Ho ho ho!
- Ha ha ha!
- He he heee!
(all laughing)
- ♪♪ Deck the halls
with boughs of holly ♪
- ♪ Fa la la la la
La la la la ♪
- ♪ Tis the season to be jolly ♪
- ♪ Fa la la la la
La la la la ♪
- ♪ Follow me in merry measure ♪
(Cat laughing)
- What?
- I don't understand
a word of this song!
- "Follow me in merry measure,"
what does that even mean?
- I understand
"Fa la la la la," but--
- That means, like,
"We're having hot cocoa!
Happy holiday to you!" Right?
- Yes!
- ♪ Fa la la la laa
La la la laaa ♪♪
03x08 - The Christmas Problem
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Peg and her sidekick, Cat, as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.
Peg and her sidekick, Cat, as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.