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[♪♪♪] ♪ Waahoooa yay! ♪
♪ Vamonos! ♪
♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> Lo le lo lai, lo lai lai lo le. ♪
♪ It's Alma's Way! ♪
♪ Here she comes. ♪
♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> Beaming with pride and something to say! ♪
♪ Hear those drums? ♪
♪ Playing Alma's Way. ♪
♪ From the Bronx, ♪
♪ Singing a le lo lai, lai lo lei, ♪
♪ our island songs, ♪
♪ Saying Alma's Way. ♪
♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> So many questions. So much to explain. ♪
♪ Hoh! ♪ ♪ Figure it out as you hop on the train. ♪
♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> Hoo! <span> ♪ ♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> With Mami, Papi, Junior and Abuelo, mi gente. ♪
♪ I'll think it through and share it with you. ♪
♪ Come on vente! ♪
♪ There she goes! ♪
♪<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> Learning about her world every day. ♪
♪ The whole world knows. ♪
♪ It's Alma's Way... ♪
♪ Alma's Way! ♪
♪ Wepa! ♪
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ALMA: "Cardboard Club"
RAFIA: Alllllmmmmmmaaaaa! ANDRÉ: Alllllmmmmmmaaaaa!
ANDRÉ: Come out and play!
ALMA: Alright. I'm ready!
Let's have some fun!
Bye Abuelo!
Yeah!
ALMA: So, What do you want to do today?
ANDRÉ: Something fun.
RAFIA: And it's gotta be awesome.
ANDRÉ: Hey, I know.
How about some chalk art?
RAFIA: Maybe...
[gasp] ...or maybe we can play...
RAFIA: ...basketball?
RAFIA: Thanks, see ya.
ANDRÉ: Oh, oh! What if we go duck walking?
ANDRÉ: Quack, quaaaack, quack!
KIDS: Quack, quaaaack, quack!
Quack, quaaaack, quack! Quack, quaaaack, quack!
[giggle]
ANDRÉ: Quack, quaaaack, quack!
ALMA: Orrrrr...
We could play with the world's most humongous box!
C'mon!
RAFIA: Quack, quack, quack, quack, Quaaaaack?
Quaaack!
Hey, wait up!
ALMA: Hey Frankie!
RAFIA: Whoa! That box is huge!
ANDRÉ: It must be for a spaceship.
FRANKIE FOUR FEET: [laughs] I wish!
But nah... we just got a new refrigerator at the Center
and this is the box it came in.
ALMA: Uh Frankie, can we have it?
Please?
FRANKIE FOUR FEET: Oh, sure thing, it's all yours!
ALMA: Sweet!! Thanks, Frankie!
KIDS: Byeee! Byeeee! Thanks Frankie!
FRANKIE FOUR FEET: [giggles] Have fun kids!
RAFIA: What are we even gonna to do with this box, Alma?
ALMA: Oh, this is way way wayyyy more than just a box.
We're going to turn this into something awesome and fun.
ALMA: This is gonna be our...
clubhouse!
ANDRÉ: Awesome!
RAFIA: Yeah!
ANDRÉ: Hey, since our clubhouse is made of cardboard...
Let's call ourselves the Cardboard Club...
ALMA: I love it!
And everyone can play in the Cardboard Clubhouse!
Right?
RAFIA: Absolutely! ANDRÉ: Oh yeah! Of course!
KIDS: [sigh]
KIDS: Hmm...
RAFIA: I hate to say it,
but our clubhouse is kinda plain.
ANDRÉ: Yeah, too cardboard-y.
ALMA: [gasp] Totally!
The first mission of the Cardboard Club
should be to decorate our clubhouse.
ANDRÉ: Oh!
I'll go home and get my art stuff!
ALMA: Cardboard Club on three...
ALMA: One...
ANDRÉ: Two...
RAFIA: Three...
KIDS: Cardboard Club!
ANDRÉ: Woo-hoo!
RAFIA: I spy with my little eye something that is...
blue.
ALMA: Hmmm...
the fence!
RAFIA: Right! Your turn.
ALMA: I spy with my little eye something that is...
EDDIE: Nice box!
KIDS: Waahhhhh!
EDDIE: [chuckle] Sorry.
Can I come in?
ALMA: Yeah!
Everyone can play with us.
EDDIE: Whoa! Check it out!
It's so roomy!
ANDRÉ:<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> Cardboard Club!
ANDRÉ: Hey, Eddie.
You joined our club.
EDDIE: Yup, I sure did.
ALMA: What did you bring André?
ANDRÉ: Oh, I brought everything!
ALMA: Okay, everybody, let's decorate!
Ready and...
KIDS: Caaaardboard Club!
EDDIE: Hey, how about a little b*at?
[clave b*at]
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KIDS: Whoo [giggle]
[♪♪♪]
EDDIE: Oops. ALMA: [giggle]
[♪♪♪]
ANDRÉ: Hmmm....
Whoa!
[♪♪♪]
[giggles]
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ALMA: This is fan-tastic!
KIDS: Yeah! So amazing!
BECKA: Oh! Sweet cardboard house!
Can I play too?
ALMA: Sure!
And you're just in time for our first Cardboard Club meeting.
Everyone inside!
KIDS: Alright! Yes! Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
[scoot efforts]
KIDS: Excuse Me! Thanks! Whoops! Whoops!
[giggles] Owie!
ALMA: Excuse me.
Huh, this isn't working. I'm out here.
But I should be in there.
KIDS: Yeah! Come in, Alma! Come in, Alma!
EDDIE: Try here.
ALMA: Okay, maybe I can fit in here...
ALMA: ...nope. KIDS: [efforts]
Uh... Maybe I'll try this way...
KIDS: [grunts]
ALMA: Nope.
ALMA: [sigh] There's gotta be a way we can all fit.
ANDRÉ: I'll make myself small and squeeze in.
[holds breath]
ANDRÉ: Okay, come on in.
ALMA: Waitamiunte, that's it!
ANDRÉ: What's it?
ALMA: When I want to fit all my toys in a box,
I have to turn them in different directions...
like a puzzle.
KIDS: That's a great idea! Okay!
Let's give it a try!
ALMA: Okay André, slide over there.
Tuck into that corner Rafia.
Okay, a little to your right Becka,
and Eddie, move to your left.
Great!
ALMA: And now I'll just... sliiiiide in.
There!
EVERYONE: [cheers] We did it! Yay!
ANDRÉ: Uh...
I can't see anyone.
EDDIE: Someone's elbow is in my ribs.
BECKA: There's a foot in my back.
RAFIA: Leg cramp. Leg cramp!
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
EDDIE: Umm, now there's a leg on my head!
ALMA: Mmm.
On the count of three everyone change positions...
to make more room, okay?
One... Two... Three!
[grunts]
ALMA: Oops, sorry, my bad.
JUNIOR: Mami, can I go play with Alma?
MAMI: Sure, I'll be on a bench just over there.
JUNIOR: Okay, Mami.
EDDIE: I can't really move.
ALMA: Oops, sorry.
JUNIOR: I don't know what you're doing,
but I want in.
Please!
ALMA: Ay.
The only way we could all fit in here...
is if we were the size of hamsters,
but I can't say 'no' to Junior so...
Suuure..?
JUNIOR: Yes!
EDDIE: How are we gonna all to fit?
ALMA: There's gotta be a way.
KIDS: Whew.
ALMA: Oh! When my mami packs her suitcase she rolls up
her clothes so she can get more in.
Let's try that.
RAFIA: Okay, roll into the box, everybody!
KIDS: [laughing]
JUNIOR: Alright!
ALMA: Incoming!
EVERYONE: [efforts]
ALMA: Welcome to the first meeting...
of the Cardboard Club...
Which is kinda squishy-squashy.
EVERYONE: [Uncomfortable cheers]
ANDRÉ: High-five, nope up high.
BECKA: I caaaan't reeaaaach! ANDRÉ: I'm here.
KIDS: [efforts] Ooooh!
EVERYONE: Whooooaaaa! Ahhh!
ALMA: Hmmm...
What if we take turns using the box?
No, then we wouldn't be together.
ANDRÉ: We could flatten the box and sit on top.
But then we wouldn't be inside the box.
RAFIA: So, we can't play together inside?
ALMA: No!
We made the Cardboard Clubhouse with one idea!
That we should all have a place to play.
KIDS: Yeah!
ALMA: We will not leave any friend out of this box!
KIDS: Nooo!
ALMA: We are the Cardboard Club, and in our club,
everyone can play...
together!
ANDRÉ: Cardboard Club! Cardboard Club!
KIDS: Cardboard Club! Cardboard Club!
ALMA: Now let's all get inside that box!
KIDS: [screaming] Yeaaah!
Let's do it! Woo-hoo!
C'mon!
ALMA: Huh.
Well, that didn't work.
ALMA: Huh? [gasp]
More kids are coming!
There has to be a way for everyone to play together.
I gotta think about this...
KIDS: Cardboard Club!
ALMA: Everyone was really excited about playing together
in the box...
KIDS: [efforts]
ANDRÉ: Uh... I can't see anyone.
EDDIE: Someone's elbow is in my ribs.
BECKA: There's a foot in my back.
ALMA: ...But we don't all fit.
ALMA: What do you do when you have a whole lotta friends
who want to play together, but only one cardboard box?
ALMA: I wonder what would happen if we got a giant box...
big enough for everyone?
KIDS: [cheer]
ALMA: Nah, there's no way to get one box that big...
But maybe we don't need just one box...
[gasp] Oh!!
I know what to do!
ALMA: Hey, Cardboard Club!
I have an idea so that everyone can play together...
but we're gonna need more boxes.
EVERYONE: [half-hearted cheers]
ANDRÉ: I can't feel my foot.
ALMA: A lot more boxes.
ALMA: [sigh]
Now we have a place where we can all play together.
Welcome to Cardboard City!
KIDS: [cheers]
ANDRÉ: [trumpets] I'm André, King of the Cardboard!
LUCAS: World's greatest cardboard garden!
RAFIA: Welcome aboard to the cardboard club express!
Stand clear of the closing doors please.
KIDS: Yes!
[laughter]
Yeah! Yeah! Woo-hoo!
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[Chacho barks] JUNIOR: Yeah!
Whoa!
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ALMA: Cardboard Club City!
It's time for our cardboard club cheer!
Ready?!
EVERYONE: Cardboard club!
Cardboard Club! Cardboard Club!
JUNIOR: Alma... Look!
KIDS: [laughter]
ALMA: Oh, we're gonna need more boxes!
A lot more boxes.
KIDS: [cheer] [playful laughter]
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ALMA: "Alma Clues In"
MAMI: [singsongy]<span tts:fontStyle="italic"> A can of peas, a bag of rice...
Oh, and don't forget the cinnamon spice...
ALMA: Ah-Hah!! MAMI: Ay!
ALMA: I knew it! The Giggler took the diamond dog collar!
MAMI: Something tells me you just finished
the new Carlotta Clues book?
ALMA: Yep! "The Case of the Missing Diamond!"
Carlotta Clues is my favorite detective!
MAMI: Time to go to the store.
Can you bring your wagon, por favor?
ALMA: Yep!
Waaait...
Where is my wagon?
I knew it was here this morning.
MAMI: Ooooh, this sounds like a case for Carlotta!
What would she do?
ALMA: "When you don't know what to do,
you've gotta look for a clue!"
MAMI: [mwuah]
ALMA: Detective Alma is on the case!
Cluuu-ue where are you..?
ALMA: Hey, Junior!
My wagon was here, but now it's gone.
Have you seen it?
JUNIOR: Last time I saw, it was beside the recycling bins.
ALMA: Thanks, Junior!
ALMA: Huh, no wagon.
But maaaybe there's a...
Clue!
Ah-hah! Wagon wheel tracks!
ALMA: Ah-hah again!
There it is! Maybe Eddie was using it.
The case of the missing wagon is solved.
MAMI: Alma!
ALMA: Coming Mami.
KIDS: Ooooh! Wow! Nice!
RAFIA: Thank you!
ANDRÉ: Hey Alma! RAFIA: Hey Alma!
ALMA: Hi Rafia! Hi André!
ANDRÉ: Hi Mrs. Rivera. RAFIA: Hi!
ANDRÉ: Rafia and I are going to the park...
RAFIA: We're gonna split our piragua...
ANDRÉ: Wanna come?
ALMA: Sure!
Right after I help my mom with the groceries.
Oh! Guess what!
I just finished the new Carlotta Clues book!
RAFIA: Really? I love those books.
ANDRÉ: Me too!
ALMA: Hey, wanna play Carlotta Clues later?
RAFIA: Yeah! ANDRÉ: Yes!
ALMA: Okay, I'll be Carlotta Clues.
RAFIA: I'll be The Giggler. ANDRÉ: I'll be The Giggler.
ANDRÉ: Please, please... Can I be The Giggler?
RAFIA: Okay André, then I'll be Brainy McBrains.
ANDRÉ: [giggles] I'm the best giggly giggler...
that ever giggled! [cackle]
KIDS: [laugh]
ALMA: Cool! Okay, meet you at the park.
RAFIA: Race ya there!
[giggle]
ANDRÉ: Oh, the race is on.
MAMI: Hi, be there in a minute.
Have fun with your friends,
I'll be over there with the Lazinski's.
ALMA: I'm gonna find Rafia and André,
like Carlotta would. With clues.
ALMA: Hmmm...
Dirt...
Grass...
An old button.
[gasp] I know those shoes!
ALMA: Hi, Safina.
Have you seen Rafia and André?
SAFINA: [giggle]
ALMA: Okay, thanks!
[kids laughter]
ALMA: A-ha!
There they are!
Rafia! André! Ready to play?
ANDRÉ: No!
I'm so mad I'd rather brush my teeth with sour milk...
than play with Rafia.
RAFIA: And I'd rather drink a fish smoothie...
than play with André.
ANDRÉ: Hmph!
That's fine with me!
ALMA: What's going on?
Uh, Rafia, what happened?
RAFIA: Well, we were gonna share the piragua.
But I forgot to bring an extra spoon.
So I raced over to Safina and got one.
But when I got back, our piragua cup was empty!
And André was gone.
He totally ate it!
ALMA: Whaaaat?
Why would he do that?
I'm gonna go talk to him.
ALMA: André? Did you eat the piragua?
ANDRÉ: Me? Eat it?
No way!
Rafia ate it while I was with the giant squid.
ALMA: Oh...
Wait whaaaat? A giant squid?
In the park?!
ANDRÉ: [giggle] Yeah.
Turns out it was a guy in a costume.
But I just had to draw him.
See!
ALMA: Oh, nice!
Looks very squiddy.
ANDRÉ: Thanks. Those are my best tentacles yet.
But Rafia definitely ate it!
When I got back to the picnic table,
Rafia was there, and the piragua cup was empty!
Empty!
ALMA: Ouff!
Rafia and André are so mad at each other.
I need to find out what really happened,
but how do I do that?
I gotta think about this...
ALMA: Hmm...
To solve "The Case of the Missing Wagon"
I started off with what I knew...
ALMA: I know it was here this morning.
JUNIOR: Last time I saw it was beside the recycling bins.
ALMA: Then, I needed to look for clues.
ALMA: Wagon wheel tracks!
ALMA: And the clues led me to my wagon.
Ah-hah again!
There it is.
Hmm...
A-ha! I know what to do!
ALMA: André, c'mon, we're gonna cr*ck this case!
ALMA: Hey Rafia!
RAPHIA: Hmph! ANDRÉ: Yeah! Hmph!
ALMA: Okay, let's start with what we know.
ANDRÉ: All right. RAFIA: Ho-kay.
ALMA: Great.
Now, Rafia, you said when you got back to the picnic table
with the extra spoon, the piragua was gone.
And so was André.
RAFIA: That's right 'cause... he ate it!
ANDRÉ: Did noootttt!
ALMA: André, you said after Rafia left,
you drew a picture of a squid.
And when you came back, Rafia was there...
but the piragua cup was empty.
ANDRÉ: Yep, because Rafia ate it!
RAFIA: No, I didn't!
ANDRÉ: Hmpf! RAFIA: Hmpf!
ALMA: I need more clues!
So, what else do we know for sure..?
Hmm...
Rafia and Andre had a piragua...
and they were going to share it.
Ah-ha!
What flavor was your piragua?
KIDS: Orange!
ALMA: Oh!
Whenever I eat a piragua,
my tongue turns the color of the flavored syrup.
So, whoever ate the orange piragua...
should have an orange tongue.
RAFIA: Okay André, let's see your tongue.
ANDRÉ: You first!
ALMA: [sigh] At the count of three,
you both stick out your tongues, 'kay?
One, two, three!
KIDS: Ahhhhh.
Huh?
ALMA: Nope, not orange.
So neither of you ate the piragua.
RAFIA: Huh?
So we both didn't eat it?
ANDRÉ: I don't get it.
RAFIA: Um, I'm sorry I blamed you.
ANDRÉ: And I'm sorry I blamed you.
But if we didn't eat it, who did?
ALMA: Was there anyone else that could've eaten the piragua?
ANDRÉ: I didn't see who could have done it,
because I was drawing my picture.
ALMA: That's it!
Maybe your picture has a clue.
ANDRÉ: [gasp]
ALMA: Ah-hah!
This Squid Guy was around when the piragua went missing.
I bet he saw something.
C'mon!
SQUID GUY: Have a squid-ily day!
ALMA: Excuse me? Mister, um, Squid Guy?
SQUID GUY: Oh, Squiddle-do, can I help you?
ANDRÉ: Did you see anybody around that picnic table
in the last hour?
SQUID GUY: Hm, come to think of it, yes I did.
KIDS: [gasp]
SQUID GUY: There was a little boy, with his dad,
oh, and a very barky dog.
Sounded like this,
[barks].
KIDS: Chacho!
ALMA: Thank you, Squid Guy!
SQUID GUY: Oh, my pleasure.
Squid-ily-doo!
[Chacho barks]
ALMA: Papi! Junior!
PAPI: Hi niños.
ALMA: Did you see anyone eat a piragua?
JUNIOR: Oh! Oh!
Me! I ate a piragua!
ANDRÉ: So it was youuuuuu!
You ate our orange piragua!
JUNIOR: Orange?
No, it was blueberry. See?
Aaahhh...
ALMA: Yep! Blueberry blue.
Junior didn't eat your orange piragua.
PAPI: And I had a red one.
Cherry.
ALMA: Yup, cherry red.
Gracias, Papi.
Thanks, Junior.
PAPI: De nada!
JUNIOR: Sure Alma!
[Chacho barking]
ALMA: [sigh] This mystery is a hard case to cr*ck.
ANDRÉ: Yeah, and we don't have any more people
or squids to talk to.
RAFIA: What would Carlotta Clues do if she were stumped?
ALMA: Hmm...
She'd return where the mystery started...
to see if she missed any clues.
C'mon!
ANDRÉ: I found it!
ALMA: [gasp] Another clue?
ANDRÉ: No. My red marker.
RAFIA: Ugh. It's too hot to look for any more clues.
RAFIA: Ew, why am I so sticky?
ALMA: Sticky?
Waitaminute!
Sometimes when I eat a piragua, my hands get all sticky.
This could be another clue!
Sticky orange syrup...
And an orange puddle on the table...
Hmm...
ALMA: Ah-hah, ants!!
That's your cup.
And those ants are the only ones eating your piragua!
ALMA: Ah-hah again!
I've got it!
It's been so hot, the sun must've melted the piragua.
And it leaked through this hole...
RAFIA: Oh! And then the ants got it.
ANDRÉ: Lucky ants.
ALMA: "The Case of the Missing Piragua" is closed!
KIDS: Wha-hoo! Yeah!
RAFIA: Now we can play Carlotta Clues!
ALMA: Yeah! I just need my...
ALMA: [gasp] Heeeyyyy... who took my magnifying glass?
ANDRÉ: [cackle giggle]
[cackle giggle]
RAFIA: That sounds like...
RAFIA: The Giggler! ALMA: The Giggler!
ALMA: Brainy McBrains!
We have another mystery to solve...
"The Case of the Missing Magnifying Glass."
RAFIA: My super speedy brain is at your service, Alma!
Oh, I mean, Carlotta Clues!
ANDRÉ: [cackle]
KIDS: [giggle]
SQUID GUY: Mmm, squid-il-licious!
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01x05 - Cardboard Club/Alma Clues In
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The show is set in The Bronx, New York and revolves around Alma, a six-year-old Puerto Rican girl, as she ventures out into her Latino neighborhood to demonstrate decision making and social awareness skills.
The show is set in The Bronx, New York and revolves around Alma, a six-year-old Puerto Rican girl, as she ventures out into her Latino neighborhood to demonstrate decision making and social awareness skills.