01x10 - Angelina and Super Polly/Angelina's Dance Like a Cake Day

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- ♪ She's a dancing star

♪ She loves to twirl all day

♪ She's gonna go far

♪ That's the angelina way

♪ Follow your dreams wherever they take you ♪

♪ You can succeed

♪ Don't let anything shake you ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ The little star with big dreams ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

- I'm angelina ballerina.

And today I met someone with superpowers.

- "The volcano started rumbling."

- Oh, no!

- "It was going to erupt."

- Oh, no!

- "Suddenly, heroic music filled the air.

"Super sally flew up to the volcano.

"Whoosh!

"Then she used her super strength

"To throw a boulder into it.

Plop!" - [Gasps]

- "Super sally saved the day."

Both: hurray!

- Again. - Again?

But I've read it five times already.

- Six times, please?

- All right.

"Sally thought she was

"A perfectly normal little mouseling.

But then"...

- Hi, mum. Hi, polly.

- Her sister came in.

- Look what we learned in class today.

- Hey, hey.

[Cheers and applause]

- It's called a sissonne.

- Isn't it so fun?

- Yeah.

- [Claps]

It sure is.

Now, if you'll excuse us,

Polly and I were reading a book together.

For the sixth time.

- [Giggles]

- Wow,

That must be a really good book.

- It's the best book ever.

Super sally.

I love, love, love, love, love, love, love it!

- What's it about, polly?

- Super sally has superpowers.

She can fly.

Whoosh!

And she's super strong.

Grr!

And her favorite color is pink,

And her favorite food is cheese.

[Sighs]

Just like me.

I'm just like super sally.

Ooh, maybe I have superpowers too.

Maybe I'm...

I'm super polly.

- [Grunting]

[Gasps]

Help!

- [Gasps] - help!

- Super polly to the rescue.

- [Grunts]

[Screaming]

All: yay! Super polly!

- [Sighs]

- Super job, super polly.

Just for that, you get to stay up late tonight

And play with your dolls.

- Yay!

- Earth to polly.

- Uh-oh.

Whoa!

- Earth to polly.

- You mean super polly.

- I think she was daydreaming like you do, angelina.

- It runs in the family.

- How did super sally become super?

I don't remember.

- Super sally first got her powers

When she heard a trumpet fanfare.

- Then all I need is a trumpet fanfare.

What's a trumpet fanfare?

[All giggle]

- A fanfare is a short, exciting piece of music

Played when something important happens.

- Like when super sally becomes super.

- And fanfares are often played on trumpets.

You've seen trumpets at your father's music store.

- Oh, can I go there?

Maybe if dad plays a faffer and a foofer--

- A fanfare.

- That's it.

Maybe if dad plays a fanfare,

I'll get superpowers.

Whoosh!

- Well...

- Pretty please, with cheese?

If I'm a superhero,

I can save lots of people.

- [Giggles]

Well, all right.

- Wha-hey! Wha-hoo!

- [Sighs]

- This is a trumpet, polly.

You make it play music

By buzzing air into it with your mouth.

Then you push these buttons, called "valves,"

To make music.

Watch. [Inhales deeply]

[Exuberant trumpet music]

♪

- That's really, really neat.

- And now here's what a trumpet fanfare sounds like.

[Celebratory trumpet music]

♪

- Wow!

- So good!

- Awesome!

- Neat!

Can you come play that in the park, daddy?

- Uh, not now, sweetheart.

I have work to do.

But I can record the fanfare on this music recorder.

And you can bring that to the park.

- Yes, do that.

Please?

[Celebratory trumpet music]

♪

- Got it.

Listen.

[Celebratory trumpet music]

♪

- Wow, thanks.

- Uh, polly, why do you need

To play a fanfare in the park, anyway?

- I need to be outside when I fly,

Or I'll bump my head on the ceiling.

- Oh, that makes sense.

Uh, wait.

No, it doesn't.

Did you say, "when you fly"?

- I think I might have superpowers.

- Oh.

Well, that's very exciting.

- Yep. Bye.

All: bye.

- Let me know how it turns out.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, stand back.

I need room to fly.

That's good.

Now play the f-f-f--fanfare,

Please, angelina.

[Celebratory trumpet music]

Bye, everybody.

[Grunts]

[Groans]

[Grunts]

Try playing it louder.

[Celebratory trumpet music]

♪

[Sighs]

It's not working.

- I know.

Maybe you should start with an easier superpower.

- Yeah, like super strength.

I'll go pick up our house.

- I don't think mum would like that.

It would make a mess.

Why don't you pick up that bench instead?

- That's easy for super polly.

[Grunting]

- She can't lift that.

It's too heavy.

- We'll lift it for her.

But try not to let her see.

Come on.

- [Groaning]

I think this is a super bench.

- Try again, polly.

You can do it.

[Whispering] one, two, three,

Lift.

- Ooh!

I have super strength.

This is easy.

- No, it isn't.

- Wow, a ladybug.

Hey.

Why's the bench still up there?

All: oops.

Thud! - Uh...

- You were holding it up.

- Sorry, polly.

- We know you really want superpowers.

We were just trying to make you happy.

- Oh.

I'm really, really frustrated.

- Because we helped you?

- No,

Because I'm not super at anything.

You're super at drumming.

[Drum fill]

- And spelling

And at telling stories

And at taking care of pets

And-- - marco!

- Oops.

- And, vici, you're super at art.

Angelina, you're a super dancer.

But I'm not super at anything.

[Sniffles, whimpers]

All: aww!

- Don't cry, polly.

I'm sure you're super at something.

- Yeah!

Everyone's super at something.

- We just have to find out what.

- So let's try to find out what you're super at.

- Okay.

- All right, polly,

We've got a lot of things for you to try.

I'm sure you'll be super at one of them.

All: yeah.

- One, two, three.

[Giggling]

- Oops.

- Oh.

- [Gasps]

- Oh.

[Giggling] - whoa.

- Oh.

- Oh.

- Ugh.

[Gasps]

- Careful, polly.

All: , .

- Ready or not, here we come!

- ♪ Dum, dum, da-da, dum, da-da! ♪

- Hmm.

- ♪ Dum, dum, da-da, dum, da-da! ♪

♪ Dum, da-da-dum, dum, da-da!

♪ Dum, da-da-dum, dum, da-da!

Oh, how did you find me so fast?

- Because you were singing.

- And your feet are sticking out.

- Oopsie.

I'm not super at hide-and-go-seek either.

- That was the fanfare you were singing, right?

- Uh-huh.

I really like it.

♪ Dum, da-da-dum, dum, da-da!

- You sing it so perfectly.

-[Gasps] polly!

We've discovered what you're super at:

Singing!

- Really?

All: yeah.

- Oh, I have an idea.

Let's write some words for the fanfare.

Then polly can sing it.

- Stupendous idea, marco.

- Yeah-hey!

- Introducing super polly,

The super singer!

[Applause]

[Upbeat electronic music]

♪

- ♪ Don't worry if it seems hard ♪

♪ To kick a soccer ball

♪ Don't worry if when you dance ♪

♪ You slip and take a fall

♪ Don't be sad if you're not as strong ♪

♪ Or fast as all the rest

♪ Someday soon, oh, you'll find out ♪

♪ What it is that you do best

♪ 'Cause everyone is good at something ♪

♪ Hold your head up high

♪ Let's see you grin

♪ It's time for you to shine today ♪

♪ Just remember what I say now

♪ They'll call you "super" anyhow ♪

♪ You are special

♪ In your own way

♪ In your own way

♪ In your own way

[Applause] all: hooray!

- Bravo! - Wow!

- I'm very proud of my super sister.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

- Now it's time to meet camembert's shining stars.

- My name is tiffany.

- I'm stefanie.

- I'm brittany.

- I'm lisa.

- We dance with the new york chinese cultural center.

[Clamorous music]

♪

- We're performing the lion dance.

This dance is over , years old,

And usually it's danced to celebrate during festivals.

♪

- The lions are played by two people.

One is the head, and one is the tail.

They're good lions.

- The little girls play with the lion,

And all together we try to scare the evil spirits away

And bring in good luck.

♪

- When you first learn how to do a cartwheel,

You just can't stop.

- The musicians,

They follow along as we go on in the dance.

♪

During more exciting parts in the dance,

The music gets louder.

♪

- My part in the dance is to tease the lion,

And the lion kind of scares me,

So I have to tease him back.

I get to jump on the lion's back and ride on him.

Sometimes it's a little bit hard,

'Cause I have to jump high.

♪

- Chinese dance sometimes have acrobatics

To, like, make it feel, like, joyful.

♪

- It's fun,

And I love wearing makeup.

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And today vici's going to tell us about her great idea.

I wonder what it is.

- It's going to be so amazing.

I just can't wait.

- Can't wait for what, vici?

- Dance like a cake day, of course.

- Huh?

- Dance like a fake day?

What's that?

- Cake, a.z.

I want you all to make a cake and--

Cookies, muffins, biscuits,

Anything will do.

- I love cakes!

- Me too.

- Mum bakes great cakes.

- Hold up, mouselings.

Cooking's only part of what I want you to do.

And here's the amazing part.

You have to perform a dance that goes with your cake.

- Huh?

- You mean we dance like a cake?

- Exactly, alice.

- That's cool.

I'll make a pineapple upside-down cake.

[All laugh]

- How are you going to do a pineapple upside-down dance?

- Hip-hop.

Watch.

[Hip-hop music]

♪

I'll dance upside down like this.

[Laughter and applause]

- I already know what I'm gonna do.

- What?

- Here. Guess.

- Dance like a wiggly worm?

- The twist.

I'll make a lemon twist cake to go with my dance.

- Can I do a gymnastic dance, vici?

- Of course, alice.

But it might be tricky finding a cake to go with it.

- I'll make pancakes.

I'll flip them in the air

Just like little bouncy gymnasts.

- That's a stupendous idea, alice.

- What about you, angelina?

- I'm going to do something

From the hansel and gretel ballet,

And I'll make a gingerbread house

To go with my dance.

- Awesome idea, angelina.

I can't wait for dance like a cake day.

- One, two, three.

One, two, three.

- Ahh.

[Rapid percussive clicking]

- [Laughs]

- One, two, three, and--

[Rapid percussive clicking] marco!

What are you doing?

- I'm learning to play the castanets.

[Percussive clicking]

Did you know that spanish dancers

Hold castanets in their hands

And click them as they dance?

- You're cheating, marco.

You're not holding them in your hands.

- My hands aren't quite big enough yet.

This helps.

It's a castanet machine.

- It doesn't look like any machine I've ever seen.

- Uh, it's not really a machine.

It's really just castanets attached to this block of wood.

See?

They can click really fast

And play cool rhythms.

- And a-one, two, three.

- Ee-yay!

Yay!

- And a-one, two, three.

- Yes!

- And plie.

There.

Now I just need to make my gingerbread house,

And I'm ready for dance like a cake day.

"Add eggs to the sugar and the flour.

Blend until light and creamy."

- What kind of cake are you making, angelina?

- I'm making a gingerbread house that goes with my dance.

- But hansel and gretel didn't live in a gingerbread house.

- I know that, polly,

But the witch locked them up in her gingerbread house.

But they tricked her in the end and ran away.

- I get it.

A birthday dance would match a birthday cake.

- Where was i?

Did I add the eggs?

- And a football cake would go with a football dance,

Wouldn't it, angelina?

And a thanksgiving cake

Would go with a thanksgiving dance.

- Mum!

My gingerbread cake is ready to go into the oven.

- Okay, angelina, it won't be long.

- I can't wait.

[Sighs]

- Angelina, your cake is ready.

- [Giggles]

- Watch out, girls. It's hot.

- [Gasps]

Oh, no!

I'll never be able to make

A gingerbread house out of that.

[Sighs]

- I'm sorry, angelina.

- What am I going to do now?

- Why don't you go and see how your friends are doing

While I try and figure out what went wrong with your cake?

- Okay, mum.

[Hip-hop music]

[A.z. Beatboxing]

Oh, yeah!

- A.z.,

Can I be in your upside-down dance?

- You bet.

- Thanks, a.z.

[Hip-hop music]

Whoa.

Oh.

Whoa. - Not sideways, angelina.

Move forwards.

- I can only go sideways.

Oh-oof!

Whoever heard of a silly sideways dance?

My gingerbread cake's ruined, alice.

Can I practice with you?

Maybe I'll get an idea for a new cake and dance.

- Of course you can, angelina.

What cake will you make now?

- [Gasps]

I'll make a jelly roll cake to go with my forward rolls.

Whoa! - Watch out, angelina!

- Oof!

Oh!

I squashed your lunch.

- Oops.

I shouldn't have left my lunchbox there.

- I'm so sorry, alice.

[Sighs]

I keep messing up everything I do.

There's no way I'm ever going to be able

To dance like a cake.

[Sighs]

I just don't know what to do.

- Where do oranges come from?

What does that say?

- They're spanish oranges, polly.

They come from spain.

Hmm?

What's that noise?

[Hollow tapping]

[Sighs]

[Rapid percussive clicking]

♪

[Sighs]

Spanish oranges.

[Gasps] spanish dancing.

Mum,

Can we find a cake recipe that uses spanish oranges?

Hmm.

Yes!

Here it is.

Orange and oat cake.

Mum, will you please make the cake for me

While I learn a new dance?

- Of course, angelina.

Good luck.

- Thanks.

[Bell rings]

[Rapid percussive clicking]

♪

Marco,

Will you play the castanets for my flamenco dance?

- I'm there.

Oh, but the flamenco's

A really complicated dance.

- I know.

But I'm sure ms. Mimi could teach me some easy steps.

- Clap and turn and dig your heel.

- [Giggles]

Clap and turn and dig.

- Looks good.

And again. The other way.

- Clap and turn and dig.

[Gasps]

Oh, this is amazing.

[Rapid percussive clicking]

♪

- We've got the cake, angelina!

- Thank you for helping me.

Now I've got everything I need.

[Dramatic acoustic guitar music]

♪

Ole!

[Cheers and applause]

- You go, girl! - Yay, angelina!

- Amazing!

- "Orange" you glad we did the cake dance?

I sure am.

Hello, I'm angelina ballerina.

My friends are performing the chinese lion dance.

Two performers are needed for each costume:

One for the head and one for the tail.

I wonder how the dancers know

How to jump and roll at the same time.

They told me the lion's heads are made of papier-mache,

And a boy lion wears a red bow,

While a girl lion wears a green one.

But I think she should wear a pink bow,

Like mine.

[Giggles]

Hello, I'm angelina ballerina.

Today we're going to see some ballroom dancing.

Now, this is called merengue.

It's a latin dance from the dominican republic.

It has a two-step b*at, like a march.

Right, left; right, left.

My, what a fancy dance!

Sometimes ballroom dancing is called social dancing.

But whatever you call it,

Ballroom is simply a ball.