28x04 - Episode 4

[bunniefuu]

[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?

Hi, neighbor.

Welcome to this neighborhood.

I brought some pictures
of a friend of mine

that I'd like you to see.

His name is LeVar Burton.

There he is holding a book.

He likes books.

And here he is as a
younger person in "Roots."

And here he is acting
in "Star Trek."

That's part of his costume,
those fancy glasses.

And here he is
painting in a program

that he likes to do very much
called "Reading Rainbow."

Have you ever seen
LeVar on television?

Well, he and I got to be friends
because we're both interested

in making programs for children.

In fact, LeVar loves
reading so much

he said that he'd
come over and read

something to us later today.

So--

[PHONE RINGS]

-That sounds like the telephone.

Let's see.

Hello?

Hi, Mr. McFeely.

Yes, sure.

Oh, the book.

Well, fine.

Yeah, that's great.

Well, I look forward
to seeing you.

Thanks.

Bye bye.

Mr. McFeely says he will
deliver a book which LeVar wants

to read, and he'll bring
it over in a few minutes.

You know, Mr. McFeely
is one of the kindest,

most helpful people.

He's always doing
something for someone.

I think I'd like to
make something for him.

Maybe I'll get an idea if
I get out the craft box.

Just some little something
to give him when he comes.

Piece of paper.

Maybe we'll make him a card.

Here's some tape, some
tissue paper, some markers.

That's enough.

Let's see now.

He wears a certain kind of tie.

It's called a bow tie.

Maybe I could make a bow
tie out of paper like this.

Let's see.

Think if I just twist that.

Pretty good?

OK, let's just
put that in there.

It'll keep it down.

And I think if I
just outline it.

There.

Use this marker to
write uh, I think

I'll write thank you on here.

T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U. Thank you.

Two of the best words
we can ever learn.

In fact, thank you is a
way of saying I love you.

[SINGING] There are many
ways to say I love you.

There are many ways to
say I care about you.

Many ways, many ways, many
ways to say I love you.

There's the singing
way to say I love you.

There's the singing something
someone really likes to hear.

The singing way, the singing
way, the singing way to say I

love you.

Cleaning up a room
can say I love you.

Hanging up your coat before
you're asked to do it.

And drawing special things for
a special friend, and making

plays.

You'll find many ways
to say I love you.

You'll find many ways to
understand what love is.

Many ways, many ways, many
ways to say I love you.

You will.

You'll find many ways as
you grow to say I love you.

In fact, that's one of
the most important things

you will be finding.

I put Mr. McFeely
on the outside.

And then inside, thank you.

Now I'll put all of
these things away.

And when he comes--

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

-Oh, maybe that's
Mr. McFeely now.

Let's see.

It is.

-Speedy delivery!

-Hey, Mr. McFeely.

-LeVar Burton will be over soon.

-Oh fine.

-But here's the book
he's gonna read for you.

-Oh, it looks like a good book.

-It is.

It's about fathers and children.

-Well, you're a father
and a grandfather.

-I am and glad of it.

-And you're a great
helper too, Mr. McFeely.

-Well, I hope so.

-I know so.

In fact, I have a
delivery for you.

-Well, that's my business.

-Well, this happens
to be a delivery for--

-Mr. McFeely it says.

-Mm hmm.

-Let me see what this could be.

-I made it.

-You-- thank you, and
there's my bow tie.

-That's it, yep.

-Oh, that was very
thoughtful of you.

You made it yourself.

-I did Just for you.

-Just for me.

Well, that means
all the more to me.

Thank you for the thank you.

-You're welcome, Mr. McFeely.

-In fact, I feel
a song coming on.

[SINGING] If there's anything
you want, if there's anything

you need, McFeely's
Delivery brings

it to you here with speed.

Yes, our speedy delivery
is a speedy delivery!

Speedy delivery to you.

Thank you!

-Oh, you're welcome,
Mr. McFeely.

-See you around
the neighborhood.

-All right, and
thank you for this.

-You're welcome.

Bye bye!

-He really seemed
to like that card.

I'm glad.

'Cause when you make
something for somebody,

you hope that
person will like it.

Just as you hope that
person likes you.

I'll put this book over
here for when LeVar comes.

Let's just have
some make believe.

I think I'll set up the model.

Yep.

The castle.

Who lives in the castle?

And the factory.

Who works in the factory?

Corny.

And the tree.

Henrietta Pussycat and X
the Owl live in the tree.

And what about the
Museum-Go-Round?

Go round and round.

And there's the Platypus Mound
and Daniel Tiger's clock.

Get the trolley.

Now last time, X the
Owl gave Neighbor Aber

some finder balloons.

You know, those
are magic balloons

that fly around and help
find people and things.

And since Lady Elaine and
the Fortune Cookie Man

have been missing, let's just
pretend that those finder

balloons find where they
are in the Neighborhood

of Make-Believe.

OK Trolley, are you
ready for make believe?

Here we go.

[BELL RINGING]

-Hi, Trolley!

[BELL RINGING]

-Oh yes, the finder
balloon is still working.

[BELL RINGING]

-Thanks, Trolley.

[BELL RINGING]

[FLOURISH OF TRUMPETS]

-Neighbor Aber, I presume.

-Correct as usual, King Friday.

-And the purpose of your visit?

-I'm following this
finder balloon hoping

to locate Lady
Elaine, Your Majesty.

-You mean that balloon
can find Fairchilde?

-We think it can, yes.

-Oh, fortune cookies,
pitching bucket balls,

following balloons!

What are these
neighborhoods coming to?

Farewell, Mr. Aber.

-But we have to try
everything, don't we?

I mean, Lady Elaine and Fortune
Cookie Man are still missing,

so come on, finder balloon.

Where's Lady Elaine?

Hi.

-Hi.

-Robert Troll, is that you?

-[INAUDIBLE].

Of course it's me.

Doot.

-I didn't recognize you.

What big glasses you're wearing.

-Oh yeah.

Well, better to
find people with.

-Oh, I could see how.

-Sure.

-Have you found anybody yet?

-Yeah.

[INAUDIBLE] found
Fortune Cookie Man.

-You did?

-Yep.

-Where was he?

-He was in the FC room.

He was taking a rest there.

-So his finder
balloon was right.

He was in the museum, huh?

-Sure, yeah.

-Hmm.

-Yeah, he was.

But now, what about Lady Elaine?

-Oh, well this is the finder
balloon with her name on it.

So--

-Oh, is it?

-Yeah, we'll just
see what hap-- oh!

Looks like we have
some action here!

-Oh, [INAUDIBLE] action.

--[LAUGHS] Find Lady
Elaine, finder balloon.

-[LAUGHING]

-[TOGETHER] So!

-Lady Elaine must
be in here too.

-Oh hello there, dears.

Have you heard?

We found the Fortune Cookie Man!

My, that was exciting
knocking on the FC room door

and actually having an
answer from him inside.

You know what I mean?

It's enough to make
your heart pound and--

-And have you heard
anything from Lady Elaine?

-No, not yet.

What's the finder balloon say?

-Oh, it brought us back here,
didn't it, Robert Troll?

-Yeah. [INAUDIBLE]
But the long way.

-So what you and the
balloon are saying

is that Lainey is
somewhere in here too.

Well, the Fortune Cookie
Man is looking in the J room

as we speak.

So I'll go look in the
K room, and then he

can look in the L room.

And you know how the alphabet
goes, one after another.

Sorry I have to run.

See you boys later.

-OK.

-[SPEAKING SPANISH]

-Hello.

We're glad you're found.

-[SPEAKING SPANISH]

-Ah.

We're quite sure Lady
Elaine is inside.

Betty Okonak Templeton's
checking in the K room

right now.

-[SPEAKING SPANISH]

-Uh, [SPEAKING SPANISH]

-What did he say?

-He said that he
went to the L room.

-The L room.

He's gonna check in the L room?

-He's gonna check in
the L room, uh huh.

-Oh, OK.
Wow, I hope he finds her.

-Well, she's not in the K room.

I though she might because you
know how she likes kangaroos

and kilts and kayaks
and kettledrums

and kidney beans and--

-And she wasn't in the K room?

-No.

FORTUNE COOKIE MAN:
Betty Okonak Templeton!

Senora Templeton!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

-Sounds like he's
found something!

Now this is the
kind of drama that

would make a great picture
show, don't you think?

ROBERT TROLL: Oh yeah.

-I mean, someone missing and--

FORTUNE COOKIE MAN: Senora
Templeton, [INAUDIBLE]!

-Guess I better go!

-Wow, hope she's all right.

-I hope she's all right too.

I hope she feels well.

-Mmm.

-Does either of you
boys have a key?

-A key?

-Lainey's got herself
locked in the L room

and I don't have a key.

--[INAUDIBLE] You were in
the K room, weren't you?

K for key!

-Good idea, Robert Troll!

You're always thinking.

That's what I like about you,
always thinking helpful things.

K for key.

I'll look.

-Good idea. [INAUDIBLE].

-Well, I thought it
might be worth a try.

-Oh, Lainey!

Oh, I am so glad I found you!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

-Well, thanks for
the rescue squad.

-What happened, Lady Elaine?

-Oh, I forgot that the L
room had a big lock on it,

and I got locked in there.

But I knew you'd find me.

-You mustn't go
in there anymore!

-Oh OK.

I'll never go in an
L room without a key.

[FLOURISH OF TRUMPETS]

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Assembled throng, I presume.

-Correct as usual, King Friday.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

-I see the lost have been found.

-Don't go giving me
a lecture, Friday.

-I have come not to
condemn, but to appreciate.

-Oh really, sire?

-I have come to
apologize, Neighbor Aber.

Your finder balloons
did their job.

My son's pitching bucket balls
is strengthening his character.

And fortune cookies have brought
pleasure to this neighborhood.

--[SPEAKING SPANISH]
The king gives

a happy ending to the story.

-Yay!

-Yeah!

-You see?

The pleasure continues.

Yes.

-Well, I think the
happiest thing about it

is that it got us all
together in a common cause,

a mutually satisfying
enterprise.

And you know that isn't
always the case in our--

[BELL RINGING]

-Well, there were lots of
surprises in Make- Believe.

And lots of helpers giving
and receiving what they could.

King Friday even
gave an apology.

He had learned to appreciate
other people's gifts,

even though they didn't seem
very important to him at first.

And the finder balloon
finally found Lady Elaine

locked in the Museum-Go-Round
in the L room.

Well, that's all make believe.

All make believe.

But it's still something to
think about it, isn't it?

Lots to think
about in this life.

And your imagination
helps so much.

Now we can think about the fish.

Hello, fish.

I wonder what fish are thinking?

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

-Oh, maybe that's my friend.

It is.

Come in, hello!

-Hi!

How are you?

-So good to see you.

-Is now a good time for a visit?

-It's a perfect time.
-Good.

-I'd like you to
know my television

neighbor, Mr. LeVar Burton.

-Hi.

-Please come in.

I showed my friend
some pictures.

Why, why don't we sit
over on the couch?

-Great.

Oh, I see Mr. McFeely
made the delivery.

-He did.

There's your book.

-OK.

-I was showing them, well, this
picture of you with a book.

LEVAR BURTON: [LAUGHS]
That's, that's me.

MR. ROGERS: You love
the books, don't you?

LEVAR BURTON: I do, I do.

Wow, this one is old.

This one was taken
over 20 years ago.

That's me a long time ago,
and this is my friend Louis

Gossett, Jr. This is
from a, a television

miniseries called "Roots."

-Oh, yes.

And how well I remember that,
all of you acting on that.

-Ah, this is me
as Geordi La Forge

on "Star Trek: The
Next Generation."

And the character that I
played, Geordi, is blind.

And that's why he
wears this visor.

When he puts it
on, he can see more

than everybody else around him.

He sees, he sees sound.

-Oh.

-Geordi does.

-So that's sort of
magic, isn't it?

LEVAR BURTON: It is, yeah.

Yeah.

MR. ROGERS: And there you are.

LEVAR BURTON: And that's
me acting really as myself,

as LeVar as the host
of "Reading Rainbow."

-You like to act, don't you?

-Oh, I love my job
for a lot of reasons.

Mostly because, you
know in my job, Fred,

I get to use my
imagination every day.

And it's also an
important part of my job

to be in touch with my
feelings and to share

those with the audience.

But I think the reason I
like acting most of all

is because it always
requires that I read.

Scripts and magazine
articles and books.

-But when you're
acting, for instance,

if you're acting about
somebody who's feeling sad--

-Mm hmm.

Mm hmm.

-How would you do that?

-Well, for me it all, all
begins with a feeling, right?

-Right.

-Um, and the feeling starts
here and I connect it in here

and it comes out on my face.

So it begins with a thought.

So if I'm acting, if, if what's
required is a sad feeling,

then it starts in there.

And then it goes
there, and soon--

MR. ROGERS: Soon you look sad.

-Comes out on my face.

-And what if you're supposed
to be feeling very happy?

--[LAUGHS] Well, it's the same
process, just in reverse.

Again, it starts with the,
the happy feeling inside.

And then it connects and
it comes out on the face.

-But you think of something
that has made you happy?

-Oh sure.

For me, I like to
think about well,

like my daughter, Michaela.

She makes me smile all the time.

-She's three years old.

-She's three years old.

So she lives in a
constant state of happy.

-Well, you're a daddy.

-Mm hmm.

-And that's a daddy book.

-Well, that's the book that I
brought to, to share with you.

It's called "The Daddy Book."

Shall we read it?

-Sure.

Please.

LEVAR BURTON: "The Daddy Book."

And it's by Ann Morris and the
photographs are by Ken Heyman.

This is my daddy.

MR. ROGERS: There's the daddy.

LEVAR BURTON: Right.

And that's his little boy.

And this is my daddy.

MR. ROGERS: This is the
daddy of this child.

LEVAR BURTON: Mm hmm.

And they live in northern India.

MR. ROGERS: Uh huh.

LEVAR BURTON: In
the mountains there.

And this is my daddy.

MR. ROGERS: Do these
people live in Japan?

LEVAR BURTON: They do.

They do.

MR. ROGERS: So they're
daddies all over the world.

LEVAR BURTON: Daddies
love you in many ways.

Isn't that a wonderful picture?

MR. ROGERS: Mm hmm.

There are many ways
to say I love you.

LEVAR BURTON: They
tell you stories.

[LAUGHS]

MR. ROGERS: Look
at that cello bow

and that child
touching the cello bow.

LEVAR BURTON: Reaching out.

MR. ROGERS: Mm hmm.

LEVAR BURTON: It says,
they play songs for you.

MR. ROGERS: That child
listening to that cello music.

LEVAR BURTON: Mm hmm.

MR. ROGERS: Is
that a kitty there?

LEVAR BURTON: That's a kitty
asleep on, on the chair there.

And teach you many things.

To read.

There's a daddy sharing a
story with his daughters.

Here's a daddy teaching
his daughter how to write.

To ride a bike.

MR. ROGERS: Oh, that
must feel good to ride

behind your daddy like that.

LEVAR BURTON: If you
look closely Fred,

you can see that the boy
in this picture is blind.

MR. ROGERS: Oh, so
he's learning to ride

a bike first with his daddy.

LEVAR BURTON: Right.

MR. ROGERS: And
probably later he'll

learn many things, even
riding bikes by himself.

LEVAR BURTON: By himself.

Absolutely.

And to feed chickens. [LAUGHS]

MR. ROGERS: They're feeding
the chickens together.

LEVAR BURTON: Daddies
play with their children.

Don't they?

MR. ROGERS: Yeah.

And some day maybe this
daddy and this child

will watch you right
on that television.

[CHUCKLES]

LEVAR BURTON: And talk with
them about many things.

I love this photograph.

MR. ROGERS: Are these
people in Egypt?

LEVAR BURTON: They are.

They live just outside
of Cairo in Egypt.

Daddies have daddies, too.

MR. ROGERS: Is
this a grandfather?

LEVAR BURTON: Yes, that
would be the grandfather

of this little
person right here.

Sometimes they are
called Grampa or Gramps.

We call ours Opa.

MR. ROGERS: Opa.

You know what my
grandsons call me?

LEVAR BURTON: What?

MR. ROGERS: Baba.
LEVAR BURTON: Baba.

MR. ROGERS: Mm hmm.
LEVAR BURTON: Baba.

We called my grandfather, in
our family we called him Apapi.

-Apapi.

-Apapi.

-Lots of names.

-Daddies help you feel good.

Look at that smile.

MR. ROGERS: Mm hmm.

Do you think maybe they'll
have a pizza later on?

LEVAR BURTON: I bet they will.

Sure, for lunch.

MR. ROGERS: Daddies can
help you to feel good.

I bet you help
Michaela to feel good.

-Oh, and she helps me too.

She is such a joy.

So much fun to be with
and hang out with.

-Do you play together?

-We play together.

We read together, of course,
every night at bedtime.

MR. ROGERS: Just like
your mother read to you?

-My mother read
to me, absolutely.

And her mother read to her
when she was a little girl.

-My, there are wonderful
things about growing up

with people who care about you.

-Mm hmm.

-Aren't there?

-Mm hmm.

-And you have shown so much care
to so many people in this life.

-Thank you, Fred.

Thank you.

And I am grateful to be
able to call you my friend.

-Good things work both ways.

-You know, I promised to read
this book over at the library.

So I'd better get going.

-OK.

Thanks for coming.

-Thank you.

-You're always welcome here.

-I'd like to come back.

Bye bye.

-Isn't it great to
have good friends?

What a wonderful gift.

I'm glad you and I are friends.

[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.

[SNAPS FINGERS]

[SINGING] 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.

We always have things to
talk about, people to meet,

and feelings to feel.

It's so good to know
that we can give

and receive each other's love.

I like that.

And I like being with you.

I'll be back next time.

Bye bye.

[MUSIC PLAYING]