♪ Wake up in the morning, let's start the day! ♪"
♪ Wimzie!"
♪ Everybody's coming over to play! ♪"
♪ Get up mom and dad the kids will be here ♪"
♪ At wimzie's house!"
♪ At wimzie's house!"
♪ Go to grandma's room, is she still in her bed? ♪"
♪ She's already in the kitchen baking bread! ♪"
♪ Forget the stairs use railing instead! ♪"
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ Spend a day with wimzie, her family and friends! ♪"
♪ Welcome to a place where the fun never ends! ♪ (Door bell rings)"
♪ Everybody here is waiting for you ♪
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ Because we're laughing and we're learning ♪
♪ We're singing a song (door bell rings)
♪ If you learn to trust your feelings ♪
♪ You'll never go wrong
♪ And you know that we will always belong ♪
♪ At wimzie's house! (Door creaking shut)
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ At wimzie's house!
♪ At wimzie's house!
And today on wimzie's house:
"You just gotta keep trying!"
(Humming)
Are you finished drawing me, wimzie?
Please can I see it now?
Uh, you gotta wait till I'm done, loulou.
Ohh...
What's it look like, horace?
Ahh...
You look pretty, loulou!
(Gasps)
Really? Ahh...
Yeah.
You look pretty goofy!
Hmph.
Oh! Don't make fun.
Ha!
Uh.
(Sighs)"
There!"
It's done!"
(Gasps)"
Now you can see -"
See yourself."
Loulou: (gasps)"
Loulou!"
Ahh!"
Wimzie: like it?"
Ahh..."
I wish I could draw like that!"
Oh..."
Oh, draw me now, wimzie."
I want a turn too."
Mmm."
Mm-hmm."
No, you're to uh..."
Cute?"
Hmm. No, you're just too uh..."
Too goofy? (Laughs)"
Wimzie: (giggles)"
(Groans)"
Oh, I wanna be an artist too."
I'm gonna draw a beautiful picture"
Of you, wimzie. (Laughs)"
Yeah, well, uh,"
It's not easy."
Mm-hmm."
It can take a long time."
I don't care!"
Nothing's going to stop me!"
Ha!"
Now, I know that it's in here somewhere,"
It has to be!"
Uh!"
What's she doing?"
Looking for her guitar."
Oh."
Oohh..."
Here! Catch!"
Both: huh?"
Huh."
Doesn't look like it's in there!"
(Grunts)"
Oh my, can you take this, jonas?"
Yeah."
Huh?"
Oh!"
Yaya: (groans)"
Huh?"
(Pins crash)"
Oh, come on now!"
I know that you're in here!"
Ohh..."
Ah!"
(Chuckles) here you are!"
Gee whiz, yaya."
I didn't know you could play guitar."
Are you kidding?"
I taught old gonzales segovia"
And that nice hendrix boy"
Everything they knew."
Uh..."
Both: who?"
Oh. Just two of the pickingest,"
Pluckingest, strummingest,"
Serenadingest guitarists of all time."
Both: huh?"
Err..."
That just means they played guitar very well."
Oh."
Uh..."
Question."
Fire away."
Would you play for us?"
Well, at last."
Thought you'd never ask."
(Electric guitar plays)"
(Sound of pencil scratching)"
Hey! Wimzie! Loulou!"
Come on! Yaya's gonna play her guitar!"
I didn't know she could play the guitar."
Jonas: oh yeah!"
And she's good!"
She was the one who taught gonzovia hendrix."
Both: who?"
Why, only the greatest picker and hacker"
And strumming humbug and uh..."
I don't know, he was some guy!"
Come on, come and see!"
Coming, loulou?"
No, I wanna finish this first."
Jonas: hey! Wow!"
That's a really nice tree."
Come on, it's not a tree."
It's wimzie."
Jonas: (chuckles)"
Oh yeah?"
I think it looks more like a great big tree!"
But I don't wanna draw a tree!"
I wanna draw wimzie."
(Laughs)"
That's too hard for you."
You'll never do it, loulou."
Oh, yes I will!"
I'll just try and try until I draw wimzie"
Just the way I want to!"
Huh!"
Yaya: now, before I begin,"
You'd all better stand back,"
'Cause I'm planning on letting her rip!"
(Laughter)"
(Cracks fingers) ahh..."
Boy oh boy, oh boy, how does she do that?"
Well, that oughta do it."
The old fingers tend to get a little rusty"
After a hundred and fifty years,"
Two months, four days, six hours, and,"
Fourty four seconds."
Horace: uh,"
Question!"
Yaya: what is it, horace?"
Do you know any songs by the heebie jeebs?"
The heebie jeebs?"
Yeah, they're a rock group for kids."
Let me think,"
One of their songs goes kinda like uh..."
Uh..."
♪ Yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa ♪"
♪ Bah bee bah deebie heebie deebie jeebie doh ♪"
♪ Ram a lam a ding dang ♪"
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!"
Or something like that."
Err..."
I can't say I'm familiar with that one, horace."
But let's see,"
What ya think of this one!"
Okay."
Okay."
(Plays "green sleeves")"
All: (sigh)"
(Sighs)"
Aww!"
How'd you like that?"
Wow!"
That was really, really cool."
Yeah! Awesome!"
I'll say!"
Grandma moo... Sic."
Jonas: you're the greatest, yaya!"
Hurray for wimzie's cool grandma!"
I sure wish I was able to play guitar like that."
Ah. Thank you, thank you."
And now, fans, for my next number,"
Lunch is ready."
Kids: (cheering) yeah!"
(Laughter)"
I won, I got here first!"
That's not fair!"
He made me trip!"
Uh-huh."
Bo here firss! Bo here firss!"
(Laughs)"
Horace, jonas: bo got here first."
Come on, bo."
Bo here firss!"
That's right."
Yippe!(Laughs)"
Hey, grandma?"
Yaya: yes?"
Is it really, really hard to learn how to play guitar"
Like you?"
Yaya: hmmm..."
It's not easy, it takes time."
Wimzie: I wanna learn to play like you."
Teach me, please, grandma!"
Well, I'd be delighted to give you a lesson."
Right after lunch."
Loulou: (shouts) hey!"
Look, everybody!"
Look at my picture!"
Oh!"
Loulou: how do you like it?"
Wow."
It's real nice."
A great racing car!"
Mm-hmm!"
But, but it's not a car!"
Uh, no of course it's not,"
Because it's a..."
It's a pussycat!"
Unh-unh!"
No?"
It's wimzie."
Uh oh!"
Uh, bo, doesn't this look like wimzie?"
(Cries out)"
♪ Sometimes I can't catch a ball at all ♪"
♪ Sometimes I trip when I jump rope ♪"
♪ Sometimes I run and then I fall ♪"
♪ Sometimes I think that there's no hope ♪"
♪ If there is something that you just can't do ♪"
♪ Don't ever give up there and then ♪"
♪ 'Cause if at first you don't succeed ♪"
♪ Just try"
♪ Try and try"
♪ Try again"
♪ I'll practice throwing all week long ♪"
♪ And I'll jump rope three times a day ♪"
♪ I'm gonna run till I am strong ♪"
♪ And I won't let hope slip away ♪"
♪ If there is something that you just can't do ♪"
♪ Don't ever give up there and then ♪"
♪ 'Cause if at first you don't succeed ♪"
♪ Just try"
♪ Try and try"
♪ If there is something that you just can't do ♪"
♪ Don't ever give up there and then ♪"
♪ 'Cause if at first you don't succeed ♪"
♪ Then try try and try ♪"
♪ Try again"
♪ Then try try and try ♪"
♪ Try again!"
Yeah!"
Bo scare!"
Oh. Don't you cry now, honey."
I tried really hard!"
Aww, I'm sure you did, loulou!"
(Chewing) it's really hard to be a good artist, loulou."
Well, I don't care!"
I wanna try!"
Yaya: you know, loulou,"
You shouldn't have torn up this drawing!"
I really like wimzie's nose here!"
Loulou: you do?"
Yep! That's wimzie's honker, all right!"
Wimzie: hey!"
And the antlers look pretty good, too."
But what's that bump in the middle of her head?"
Hmm?"
That was a little accident."
Yaya: oh!"
Well, it's still a lovely picture, loulou."
One of the best you've ever done!"
Are you going to try another one?"
Mmm..."
I think it's pretty!"
Wimzie: sure!"
It's pretty goofy looking."
No!"
But it'd be a pretty good idea to start over."
(Laughter)"
That was not very nice!"
Well, I'll show you!"
I'll keep doing it and doing it"
Until I get it right!"
Ohh! She's really serious about learning to draw well,"
Isn't she?"
Like me!"
I'm serious about playing the guitar."
Yaya: as I said,"
I'll be glad to give you a lesson,"
As soon as you've finished your lunch."
Oh!"
Finished!"
This is a scale."
All music's built on this. It goes:"
(Singing) do, re, mi,"
Fa, sol, la, si, do!"
Wimzie: (giggles)"
Yeah, I knew that."
It's like when we sing."
And play, too."
Go on now, you try."
Oh."
(Plays guitar)"
Uhh..."
Hmph."
Err... Am I doing it right?"
Uh, let me see now..."
Look closely at this picture."
Place your fingers exactly the way"
You see them here,"
And play the notes. Hmm?"
This hand here presses down on the strings, you see."
And this hand here is used for strumming."
Okay, now you try it."
Ah. (Strums guitar)"
Hey."
(Strums guitar)"
Oop."
(Strums guitar)"
That was pretty good."
Keep going."
That's the way."
Uh, uh..."
(Strums guitar)"
Oh."
It's hard!"
Oh, I know."
Maybe it'd be easier if you taught me a song."
No, dear me!"
To play any musical instrument,"
You have to learn your do re mis, you know."
Later I can teach you a song."
Come on, try again."
Yeah!"
(Grunts of effort)"
(Strums guitar) (grunts of effort)"
(Frustrated groans)"
Ahhh..."
This is no fun at all."
(Sound of pencil scratching)"
Okay! That's pretty good..."
Now!"
Hmm. No good!"
(Sighs) have to try again."
Ah."
(Strums guitar)"
Oh! No!"
I'll never be able to do it!"
(Frustrated cry)"
Arr!"
Try it again!"
(Sighs) okay."
(Strums guitar)"
(Frustrated groans)"
You're doing quite well."
No! I'm terrible!"
Yaya: no, you're not."
Scales are very difficult."
You're doing very well for a first lesson."
Oh. Then can I learn a song?"
Err..."
I don't think you're ready for a song just yet, dear."
Hmmm..."
I'd play better"
If I knew a song."
Teach me the one you played."
Yaya: well..."
I can teach you a song,"
But let's start with an easier one."
Let's see."
Give me the guitar."
Okay."
Thank you!"
Listen to this."
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
Hey!"
That song is for..."
Babies."
Oh! But it was written by a great composer,"
Named mozart!"
Now you try. Hmm."
All right."
Fine."
Here I go. (Clears throat)"
(Strums guitar)"
(Frustrated groans)"
I'm not good!"
Yaya: (chuckles)"
Don't give up now, wimzie."
Some day you'll play just as well as I do."
Maybe even better!"
Huh?"
You really think so?"
But you'll never get there unless you keep trying,"
And you don't give up."
Mm-hmm."
Wow!"
I'll play better than grandma!"
And here she is,"
Fresh from her tour of the universe,"
Please welcome the pickingest, pluckingest,"
Strummingest, senedariest seneradingest..."
Oh boy! I knew I could't say it!"
Audience: (laughs)"
Anyway, she's really good at playing the guitar!"
Let's hear it for..."
Wimzie!"
Audience: (cheers)"
Thank you, thank you,"
Love ya!"
(Clears throat) yeah."
For my first song,"
I'd like to play something I learned from my grandma."
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
Audience member: oh!"
Get ready!"
Now I'll do it with one hand."
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
Audience member: oh! Wonderful."
And now, with no hands!"
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
Audience: (laughs)"
Hands behind my back!"
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
Audience: yeah! (Laughs)"
Without looking!"
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")"
(Laughter)"
Audience member: that's incredible!"
Jonas: and now speaking of hands,"
Let's have a big one for this gal!"
She's only had one lesson!"
Is she amazing, or what?"
(Chanting) wimzie! Wimzie! Wimzie! Wimzie!"
Wimzie! Wimzie!"
Wimzie! Wimzie! Wimzie!"
Ahh... I can't wait till I'm that good!"
Hmm."
(Strums guitar)"
(Frustrated groan)"
Hey, that's pretty good!"
That's "frere jacques", right?"
No picklehead!"
It's mozart!"
Hello, everyone!"
Well, you're home early today!"
Wimzie: mommy! Grandma!"
Graziella: yeah?"
Wimzie: listen to this!"
I'll play you a song."
Ohh."
(Clears throat)"
(Strums guitar)"
(Frustrated groan)"
That doesn't count."
My finger got stuck."
Ah-huh."
Wimzie: (strums guitar)"
Both: (gasps)"
That doesn't count either."
Okay, this time I'll get it for sure!"
Oh."
(Strums guitar)"
Arrrgh. Ooh!"
I hate this guitar!"
I'm never gonna learn how to play"
This dumb old thing!"
I give up!"
Oh!
Poor wimzie!
It's not easy to learn how to play guitar!
Lettuce?
And catch!
Thank you!
You're right about that!
I remember when I first learned.
It took me a long time to catch on.
Tomato?
Yeah.
Thank you!
Loulou: yaya!
Oh. Yes?
I finished another drawing.
You see?
Ohh, that's such a big improvement!
Does it look like wimzie?
Let me see!
(Shudders)
Oh my! (Laughs)
That is very good, loulou!
Yes, but does it look like wimzie?
Uh, well.
If you had fun drawing it,
And it makes you happy,
Then I'd say it's very good, loulou.
No! It's no good!
It has to be perfect! Hmph!
(Stammers)
Oh, my word!
I hope she's not discouraged.
Oh, I hope not either,
But you never know!
Yeah.
We'll see!
Here you are. A salad.
♪ Once is not enough
♪ You've got to try till it's right ♪
♪ Practice what you do again and again ♪
♪ Gotta practice day and night ♪
♪ Once a long long time ago ♪
♪ I decided that I would fly ♪
♪ Practiced in my plane again and again ♪
♪ Never did it on the very first try ♪
♪ Practice makes perfect that's what they say ♪"
♪ Practice makes perfect every day ♪
♪ Practice makes perfect we'll say it again ♪
♪ Practice and you will succeed in the end ♪
♪ Now fighting fires is rough ♪
♪ You must learn the things to do ♪
♪ Over and over and over again ♪
♪ Never get it on the first time through ♪
♪ Practice makes perfect that's what they say ♪"
♪ Practice makes perfect every day ♪
♪ Practice makes perfect we'll say it again ♪
♪ Practice and you will
♪ Succeed in the end
♪ Practice and you will
♪ Succeed in the end
I can't do it!
I'll never do it!
I'll never, ever do it!
Oh. Wimzie!
Feel like practicing some more?
No!
No?
I thought you were doing really well.
Ow! Not me!
I'll never play like you do.
Yaya: you might.
But you'll never know if you give up now.
It's way too hard!
That's true, it is hard!
Was it hard for you too?
Oh! Very hard!
They call it a first lesson
'Cause you're supposed to have a second lesson,"
And a third lesson
And on and on it goes.
Oh.
How many in all?
Yaya: if you want to play
Really well,
You might need hundreds of lessons!
Huh!
But then there's no time left over to play!
(Laughs)
You'd find the time!
But if you stick to your lessons,
Playing an instrument becomes easier.
Oh.
Well, maybe I'll try again.
Well, it's up to you!
(Laughs)
Jonas: yaya!
Wimzie!
Come to the living room! Hurry!
Graziella wants to show something to everyone.
Yaya: okay!
I'll leave the guitar with you.
If you want another lesson,
Just bring it downstairs.
Is that okay?
That's okay.
Good.
Yeah.
Well... Hmm.
(Strums guitar)
Arrgh. Who am I kidding?
It'll take forever!
Arrgh!
Now then, is everybody down here?
Yaya: wimzie will be down soon.
I think she's practicing her guitar.
Ohh.
Wimzie: no, I'm, not!
And I'm never gonna play that thing again!
Oh.
Well, whatever you say.
Now pay attention, everyone.
Loulou has something she'd like to show you!
Uh-huh.
I have finished my drawing of wimzie.
(Laughs)
Wonder what kinda tree she drew this time.
(Laughs) or what kinda car!
Now, now, now, wait till you've seen it.
Hmm?
Loulou?
Well, here it is.
I call it, "picture of wimzie"!
You can show it now, they're ready.
Horace: (gasps)
Jonas: wow.
That's wimzie, all right!
Ohh! It sure is. (Laughs)
How'd you do it, loulou?
Well, I just had to keep on trying.
And keep on trying, and keep on try-
Loulou, it's just beautiful.
And I think we ought to give her a big hand.
Yay!
Yeah, well, she's my little sister.
She's a girl who never gives up!
(Laughs)
(Ahem)
Wimzie, do you...
Like it?
It's just fabulous!
Loulou: you can keep it!
Hey, draw a picture of me, loulou!
No, me! Big brothers go first!
I asked her first.
Graziella: okay, well,
We'll worry about it tomorrow.
Because right now,
It's time for everyone to go home!
Loulou: (laughs)
Hmm...
Wimzie?
Hmm?
Remember her first drawing?
Yeah. It was no good.
Hmm. Yes, that's right.
Yeah.
But this one's very good, and do you know why?
Yeah. She kept trying.
Yep! You got it, dear!
You got it!
There!
Ready?
I'm ready! Give me your worst!
Eh!
Oh...
Thank you. Next serve.
Op!
And again!
Ah! Yes!
You know, it's too bad
Wimzie gave up on the guitar so soon.
Ahh, she thought she'd be really good right away."
When she realized
It was going to take a lot of time,
And a lot of hard work she got frustrated.
I'll say!
I thought the same thing would happen to loulou, too,"
But she just kept right on trying!
And she succeeded!
Uh-huh.
(Guitar plays "twinkle twinkle little star")
Ohh...
Graziella: listen!
Do you hear what I hear?
Yes!
Sounds like wimzie!
And she's practicing!
(Wimzie makes a mistake)
Come on, wimzie!
Steady there, little girl!
Don't give up!
(Wimzie keeps playing "twinkle twinkle little star")"
You hear? She just keeps trying.
Oh! I knew she wouldn't give up!
That's my little girl!
Ah! Yes, indeed, that's my little girl!
I'm your little girl.
It's a figure of speech.
(Strums guitar)
Awww!
Bo: ahhh...
Rats!
A-gain! A-gain!
Yeah, bo. I'll try it again.
Hmm.
(Strums guitar)
Oh, rats!
A-gain! A-gain!
Don't worry, bo. I'll try again.
Ahh.
(Strums guitar)
(Gasps)
(Plays "twinkle twinkle little star")