[THEME MUSIC]
-[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 beauty
wood, 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 my neighbor?
Won't you please?
Won't you please?
Please won't you be my neighbor?
[TALKING] Hi, neighbor.
I'm glad we're back
together again.
I want to show you
something right away.
A little figure of
Randy S. Caribou.
A friend of mine
made this with clay.
Is that wonderfully made?
Now, I want to take
it to the kitchen
because I have the miniature
neighborhood of Make-Believe
all set up on the kitchen table.
Hi, fish.
And some surprises here too.
I'll put Randy S. Caribou
the right out here.
And then ask you who
lives in the castle?
King Friday.
Queen Sara.
And what is their
little boy's name?
Prince Tuesday.
And who helps them
with things to eat?
Edgar Cooke.
Now what about the tree?
Who lives in this
little house here?
Henrietta Pussycat.
And who lives in this
part of the tree?
X the Owl.
And he would be flying
up to be with Henrietta.
Now what about the
Museum-Go-Round?
Who stays there?
Lady Elaine Fairchilde.
And who is the little
girl in the Platypus
family who lives here?
Anna Platypus.
And what about in the clock?
Who lives in the clock?
Daniel Striped Tiger.
There are our friends in the
neighborhood of Make-Believe.
[PHONE RINGING]
Oh, there's the telephone.
We'll get that.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello.
Hi, Dave.
Well certainly.
You mean now would
be a good time?
All right fine.
Well we will.
Certainly.
Thank you.
Bye.
That's a friend of
mine, Dave Bartholomay
who is a coach for soccer.
Have you ever seen anybody
play the game called soccer?
When I first heard about that
game I thought the people
we're socking each other.
And I don't like to see
people hurting one another,
but that's not what the game is.
No that's not what
soccer is supposed to be.
Let's just go find out more
about the game of soccer.
And then we'll come
back here after that.
Come along.
Here we are at the soccer field.
And those are the players.
And that's Dave
Bartholomay, the coach.
Hey, Dave.
-Hi Fred.
-Hi.
Glad to see you.
-Well welcome to
the soccer field.
-Thank you.
-Nice to see you.
-I'm glad to see
you and I'd like
you to know my
television neighbor.
-Good.
-Mr. Dave Bartholomay we've
come to learn about soccer.
-Good, well you've come
to the right place.
The kids are
practicing right now.
We're not playing but we'll
be playing in a little bit.
-I see.
-The unusual part
about this game
is you can't use your hands, the
things would most want to use.
You use your feet,
your body, your head,
and you try to move
the ball that way.
-I see.
Can we watch them play?
-Oh, sure.
Come on over.
-Don't pass use both feet.
-What are they doing here?
-They're practicing
dribbling right now.
This is not a game
this is practice
so they're going around
and around in a circle.
But the children need to
work very hard to learn
to control the ball
with their feet.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT:
A little faster.
OK.
-They seem to be
having a good time.
-Yeah, I think they're
have a real good time.
You can see them working.
And the two adults here are
my two assistant coaches.
That's Brenda.
This is Bert coming
around right now.
Why don't I stop
them and you can
come in and have a
chance to talk to them?
-Good.
I'd like that.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
ASSISTANT COACH BERT: Hold it.
-Kids, Mister Rogers
is here today.
SOCCER PLAYER:
Hi, Mister Rogers.
MISTER ROGERS: Hi.
-And he's come--
-Hello.
-He's come to watch us play and
to learn a bit about soccer.
Come on in and say hi to him.
SOCCER PLAYER: OK.
-How do you do?
-Hi.
-Good.
-Hi.
-Glad to see you.
Hi.
-He wants to see how
you play this game.
And I thought one of the
things that we would do first
is to give Mr.
Rogers a sense of how
we move the ball up
and down the field.
First is we'll show him
how we trap the ball, which
is like catching the
ball with your foot.
And we head the ball
to make it move.
We'll go over there.
If Justin, and Heruna, and,
Daniel, and Eric, and Greg
would go over with
Brenda and Bert.
-OK.
-We could give Mister Rogers
a demonstration I bet.
-All right.
Line up.
MISTER ROGERS: And we'll
just watching here, huh?
-Line up.
Are you Ready?
Heruna, Dan, ready?
All right.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: What
he's showing right now
Mr. Rogers is how you stop
the ball with your foot
so you can control it.
-Trap and back.
Good.
Heruna.
-It's just like catching it.
-And you wouldn't catch
it with your hands.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY:
No, you can't use
your hands in the game, Fred.
It's all with your feet.
With your feet and your
head and your body.
And this is a very
important skill.
So the children learn
how to control the ball.
Now Brenda's going to have
Eric and Justin head it.
MISTER ROGERS: What's that mean?
Oh, you hit with your head.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: If the
ball is kicked up in the air
and you want to control it or
pass it while it's in the air,
you can hit it with your head.
MISTER ROGERS:
Doesn't that hurt?
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: Well,
it really doesn't.
We should ask one
of the kids though.
-Excuse me.
Brenda, I was just going
ask, doesn't this hurt?
Doesn't it hurt when you go?
It doesn't?
-No.
-Well have you all been
practicing a long time?
-Yeah.
Oh, we practice about
an hour and a half.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
-I see.
But then did you start
when you were real little?
-Yeah.
I started when I was
like four, I think.
-When you were four?
-Yep.
-And did you really want to?
ALL PLAYERS: Yes.
-But nobody told you
you had to play, huh?
ALL PLAYERS: No.
-You just wanted to
do that yourself?
-Yes.
-Well, now do you like
to play real games
or do you just like to practice?
ALL PLAYERS: Real games.
-Oh, real games.
OK.
Well, do you think they
could play a real game?
-Well, I'll tell you what we do.
The games we play at practice
are called scrimmages.
And that's when we
divide our team in half.
And half of the team
will put on grey shirts.
The other half will keep
their maroon shirts.
And we play a game
against ourselves.
-Uh-huh.
-And one of the nice
things is that it gives us
a way of practicing
for our real games.
And the coaches and
I can stop the game
and stop to teach the
children something
while we're in the
middle of playing.
But we're going to have
a scrimmage right now.
Would you like to watch?
-I sure would.
-It'll be fun.
Why don't you kids
go on over and Bert
and Brenda will get your shirts.
ASSISTANT COACH
BERT: OK, let's go.
-And we'll have a scrimmage.
-Did you play this game
when you were a little boy?
-I did for a couple
of years Fred.
And then I played
the American football
which is a very different game
that you play with your feet.
But I've always
played sports and have
always loved team sports.
-Even from the time
you were a little boy?
-Yeah, even from the
time I was a little boy.
-If you had a child
who didn't want
to play would you
force him to play?
-Oh no.
Never.
No.
I would actually like all of
my children to play a sport
and to have that experience.
But I think they should choose
what they would like to play.
-Mmm-hmm.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT: OK.
Positions.
Let's go.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: Now you see
the grey team trying to bring
the ball down this
way to that goal.
And the purple team
will kick it this way.
And what you'll watch is one
team moving the ball this way,
and the other one
trying to keep it
going in the other direction.
Now you see Bert and
Brenda are with the kids.
And what they're trying to do
is both make sure the kids play
by the rules, but also-- that
was a good play, wasn't it?
MISTER ROGERS: Mmm-hmm.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: But
also help the kids
to know what position
they should be in.
Because each child
has a position.
Ooh, that was a nice catch.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT: Stop it.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: Now
it's gone out of bounds.
This is the one time that the
children will use their hands.
When you throw the ball
in from out of bounds
you use your hands.
The team in purple is trying
to get it into that goal
down there.
MISTER ROGERS:
Must be fun for you
to see these children
developing their skills.
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: It is.
It always every season
it always seems to me
like magic that all of a
sudden we'll watch the kids
and they start to play soccer.
Not just running around the
field and kicking the ball,
but they're really
playing the game.
-It's ours.
-Was that off of your foot?
-No.
-No it was off of her foot.
-No?
OK.
All right.
Ten feet.
Ten feet.
-Here.
-Here.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT: Good
throw in this time, Drake.
-Drake, this way.
This way.
-Hurry up.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT:
Keep those heads up.
Good.
Good.
Good, Ken.
Stop it.
And oh, goal.
Great.
MISTER ROGERS: Now how long
does a game like this last?
DAVE BARTHOLOMAY: Ah, at this
age level about 50 minutes,
Fred.
MISTER ROGERS: Well I need to
be getting back to my place.
But I sure do thank you--
-Well I'm glad you came.
-for showing us about soccer.
-Well it was fun
to have you here.
-Well they're mighty fortunate
to have you for a coach.
-Well, thanks Fred.
-Bye, Dave.
-Bye-bye.
-Thank you.
ASSISTANT COACH BERT:
Bye, Mister Rogers.
SOCCER PLAYERS: Bye.
MISTER ROGERS: Thanks
for showing us.
It's fun to kick a ball and make
it go where you want it to go.
Nevertheless it takes practice
and you can feel so good
after you've learned
to do something well.
And can play on a team
with your friends.
Did you notice the things that
the players wear on the front
of their legs right
under their socks?
They're called shin guards.
And they keep
people's legs safe.
It's good to be safe when
you're playing any game.
Here you are fish.
Some food for you.
Let's just have some make
believe from here today.
In fact I think maybe we'll
have all of these people
in the castle or at school.
There.
And Randy S. Caribou could
be wanting to hide and seek.
You know he could hide and seek.
Maybe he'd even want to
play with the Trolley
as the Trolley comes
along in the neighborhood
of Make-Believe.
-[WHISTLE]
[DING DING]
[DING DING]
-OK Trolley.
-[WHISTLE]
-Now I'll hide and you seek OK?
-[DING DING] [WHISTLE] [WHISTLE]
-Here I am.
-[WHISTLE]
-OK now I get to hide again.
Ready?
-[WHISTLE] [DING DING]
-You found me.
May I hide one more time?
-[WHISTLE] [DING DING]
-OK.
Now you close your
headlight and count to ten.
--[DING DING]]
[DING DING] [DING DING]
-Very good you've
found me again.
Wanna play something else?
-[DING] [WHISTLE]
-OK.
How about soccer?
-[DING DING]
-No, not sock anybody.
I mean the game of soccer.
-[DING DING]
-Aw, that's just what
I was going to ask you.
Do you have a ball?
-[DING DING] [DING DING]
CHEF BROCKETT: Hi, everybody.
-Oh, hello Chef Brockett.
Could we play with one
of your soccer balls?
-These really look like real
soccer balls, don't they?
-Yes.
And we need only
one to play with.
-But they're not
real a soccer balls.
-Well what are they then?
-Cakes.
-[SADLY] Oh, my.
-Now what am I supposed to do?
--[DING DING] [DING DING]
[DING DING] [DING DING]
-Yeah, I know I could
make another one.
But I wish he hadn't done that.
--[DING DING]
[DING DING] [DING DING]
-Ah.
Thank you Trolley.
See ya.
-[DING DING]
-I guess I can deliver
this one, anyway.
-[DING DING]
-Oh, Chef Brockett.
You're just the person
I was hoping would come.
-How do you do Queen Sara?
-Oh, I'm just fine.
We've been having
such fun lately.
Sweet little parties and all.
-So I've heard.
-I guess you've brought
the soccer cakes.
-Yes.
-You make such marvelous
cakes Chef Brockett.
I tell everyone that
you make the finest
cakes in the neighborhood.
-I've had a little
trouble with these.
-Oh, well it looks
just perfect to me.
Won't Prince Tuesday be pleased?
You know his team won
the boys' championship.
And Anna Platypus' is team
won the girls' championship.
-Uh-huh.
-This is Anna's cake?
-It was going to
be somebody's cake.
-Well what happened to it?
-Well somebody thought that
it was a real soccer ball
and they started
to play with it.
-Oh, you see Chef Brockett
they do look very real.
-Yes.
-Now I have an idea.
-What is it?
-Would you please
call Edgar Cooke?
He's probably in
the garden kitchen.
-You mean right over here?
-That's right.
Just call his name.
-Edgar, Edgar Cooke.
-Did someone call my name?
-I did.
-And I asked him
to call you Edgar.
-At your service both of you.
-We need a cake repair Edgar.
-Yeah.
See.
-Was it once a soccer ball?
-It was.
Just like this one.
-I'd be glad to help.
-I hope it isn't too
much trouble for him.
-Edgar is very good at repair.
CHEF BROCKETT: How did he do it?
-I'm good at repair.
-I'm sure you are but it would
have taken me hours to do this.
-But remember Chef
Brockett, this
is the neighborhood
of Make-Believe.
-Aw, I know that but thanks
very much anyway Edgar.
-You are welcome.
Anything else Queen Sara?
-Only my thanks for
your help dear Edgar.
-You're welcome.
You're welcome.
You're certainly very welcome.
Farewell.
-Farewell, Edgar.
-Bye.
-Yes bye Edgar.
Now Tuesday and Anna are
going to be so pleased.
-Oh, I'll say.
Where are they?
-They're still at school.
They love their school you know.
-I know.
And they learn all kinds
of things with Miss Cow.
ALL: Pease porridge hot,
pease porridge cold.
Pease porridge in the
pot nine days old.
Some like it hot,
some like it cold.
Some like it in the
pot nine days old.
-That's fine.
Very nice, class.
-Miss Cow.
-Yes, Prince Tuesday.
-That game reminds
me of playing soccer.
-You like soccer
don't you Tuesday?
-I surely do.
And our team won.
-I know.
Congratulations to you.
-And our girls team
won in our league too.
-Congratulations
to you, too Anna.
-Thank you.
-My mom's going to have
a soccer party for us
and that should be fun.
-It might be fun for you.
-What did you say Daniel?
-I said it might
be fun for you two.
-But you can come to the party.
Can't he Tuesday?
-Of course you can come Daniel.
-But I'm not on any soccer team.
-That doesn't matter.
-It does to me.
I'm not on the boys' team and
I'm not on the girls' team.
And there isn't any tiger team.
-Excuse me, please.
-Could we help you?
-Oh, I hope so.
-What is your name?
-Randy S. Caribou.
-You're a reindeer, aren't you?
-Yes ma'am.
And I wonder if there's
somewhere I could hide.
-You want to hide?
Are you playing hide and seek?
-No ma'am I'm just playing hide.
I'm afraid that
somebody will find me.
-Well what do you think class?
Should Mr. Caribou hide in here?
-Are you a real reindeer?
-I'm as real a reindeer
as you are a platypus.
-Oh.
Well, I think that
you should hide then.
If you want to.
-I think you should, too.
-I just have one question.
-What is it?
-Do you play soccer?
-[PANICKY] Why did you ask that?
-Because I like soccer.
-I want to play
soccer after I hide.
-I think he should
hide Miss Cow.
-Very well then Randy.
We all agree that
you may hide here.
-Where?
-Oh, right over there.
And we'll go on
with our lessons.
-Oh, thank you.
And one other thing.
-What?
-If Chef Brockett
should come, please
don't tell him that I'm here.
-Chef Brockett?
-That's the one.
-And so it goes, class.
You never know what to
expect in this life.
So it's better to allow
your imagination to lead you
in the pathways of
science, art, music,
mathematics, and other
forms of learning.
You see--
-I'm sorry to disturb you all.
[EXCITED WHISPERS]
-Oh, come in Chef Brockett.
-I won't be long.
I wonder if you've seen Randy
S. Caribou the reindeer.
-Oh, well yes.
Isn't he a kindly creature.
-He certainly is.
And I'm looking for him.
-Did he do something
bad Chef Brockett?
-He thinks he did but
he didn't mean to.
-What happened with him?
-Well I'll tell ya.
I made these soccer ball
cakes for the soccer party
and he thought they
were real soccer balls
and he squashed one of them.
-Oh, for heavens sake.
-But wait 'til I tell
you what happened.
-What?
-Randy ran away
because he was scared.
But Edgar Cooke repaired the
cake and it's just like new.
RANDY S. CARIBOU:
What did you say?
-Randy.
-What did you say Chef Brockett?
-I said that that cake
you thought you squashed
is as good as new.
So now everybody can have
a championship party.
-Oh, thank you Chef Brockett.
You're a kind, kind, man.
-There's a cake for
the boys' championship.
-That's the one for our team.
-And there's a cake for
the girls' championship.
-That's the one
that our team won.
-So now everybody can be happy.
-I'll say.
-Everybody but me.
-What's the matter Daniel?
-I didn't win any
games Chef Brockett.
-Well whose team are you on?
-I'm not on anybody's team.
-Well would you like to be?
-There's a boys team at a girls
team but there's no tiger team.
-There isn't any
reindeer team either.
-How about a
reindeer tiger team?
-Oh I wouldn't be good enough.
-And I'd probably
be too foolish.
-Anna and I will
help you both learn.
Won't we Anna?
-Yes.
In fact, I think it
would be fun to have
a boy girl reindeer tiger team.
Then we would all
be on the same team.
-Yes.
And your teacher
would watch you play.
-And for prizes I'd make you
as many cakes as you need.
-And I won't put my hoof
in any more of them.
Does anybody know where there's
a real ball to play with?
-There's one right behind X
and Henrietta's tree back home.
I saw it there.
But I never touched it.
-I'll go get it.
-And I'll come
and play with you.
-You are a kindly
man Chef Brockett.
-Thanks everybody.
Bye bye.
-You're welcome.
Bye.
-Boy girl reindeer
tiger team, oh.
-So you see class the
truth will make you free.
And we have all participated
in a bit of that today.
Now let's have our
mulberry bush folk game.
ALL [SINGING]: Here we go
round the mulberry bush,
the mulberry bush,
the mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry
bush so early in the morning.
This is the way we--
-I am having so much fun.
-You really like to play
games don't you Randy?
-Oh, I surely do Chef Brockett.
Um, where did Daniel
say that ball was?
-Behind the tree.
-Oh yes, yes.
Oh here it is!
Here it is!
You you're sure it's not a cake?
-No.
It's not a cake.
But thanks for asking.
-[DING DING] [DING DING]
-Hey Trolley.
You want to play?
-[DING DING]
-OK.
-At first Daniel Tiger
wasn't on anybody's team.
And neither was Randy Caribou.
But then they decided to have
a boy girl reindeer tiger
team so everybody
could be on it.
What do you think of that?
Now they can all play together.
I was just thinking how we have
our television visits together
you and I. And how I like to
think about you whether you're
a boy or girl or a reindeer
or a tiger or whoever you are.
[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 you're 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,
you yourself, it's you.
It's you I like.
[TALKING] It's true.
I like these little figures.
We'll play with
them again sometime.
Bye fish.
I like being with you too.
[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.
[TALKING] It is a good
feeling when you see somebody
that you love coming
back, isn't it?
I'll be back next time.
Bye bye.
[THEME MUSIC]
19x07 - Episode 7
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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.
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.