01x08 - One Big Dinosaur/Play Date With Annie

[bunniefuu]

Hello, folks. It's me, the conductor.

Today, we're gonna visit the argentinosaurus family and find

Out just how big they are! So come on along with me on the

Dinosaur train. All aboard!

This pr ♪ dinosaur train ♪

[Whistle blows] ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Once upon a time there was a mom

Her name was mrs. Pteranodon sitting on her nest

She heard a scratching and said... ♪

Oh, boy! My eggs are hatching!

♪ One by one her kids popped free

Baby pteranodons , , ♪

I'll name you tiny, shiny, and don.

♪ But tiny said... ♪ Wait! There's one more, mom!

♪ Last little baby was a different size

With teeth and a tail and big green eyes

He didn't look anything like the rest ♪

What am I doing in a pteranodon nest?

♪ But dear, old mrs. Pteranodon said... ♪

Oh, this is your family, and I'm your mom. You may be

Different, but we're all creatures. All dinosaurs have

Different features. Come on, buddy. We'll take a vacation.

I'll get us a ticket at pteranodon station. We'll

Travel the world in sunshine and rain and meet all the

Species on the...

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ We're gonna ride ♪ ♪ ride, ride, ride, ride ♪

[Whistle blows] ♪ the dinosaur train ♪

[Roaring] [captioning made possible by

The jim henson company] there. Ok. Don's turn.

Why are you doing this, buddy?

So we can see how big we're growing.

What? No. We're gonna stay this size forever.

Yeah!

Aren't we?

Heh heh heh!

I think we're all gonna grow up, don.

Ok. Let's measure buddy.

Wow!

Have you been growing, buddy?

I guess.

Don't you want to mark your height, tiny?

Nah. Why should i? Everyone knows I'm the smallest kid.

Even my name is small: tiny.

Sounds so tiny.

Aw, it's a great name.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter how small or big you are.

All sizes are good. And there are lots of good things about

Being small.

Like what?

Like, you can fit into small places that other animals can't.

That's true! Still, you'll probably always be bigger than

Me.

I'm not trying to be bigger.

I'm trying to be bigger!

Rowr! I'm the best because I'm the biggest!

Ohh. I think don's right.

Being the biggest does mean you're the best.

Oh, come on, tiny, that's not true.

I wonder who really is the biggest dinosaur.

I think the biggest dinosaur ever is the triceratops.

Well...their heads are big.

Let's ask mom who's the biggest.

[Squawk] good question. The biggest

Dinosaurs that I know of are called argentinosaurus.

Ar-who-what-a-saurus?

Mom said "argentinosaurus."

How big are they, mom?

Hmm. I'd say they're as long as it is from here to...about

At that red bush.

Oh! That's one big dinosaur.

Aah!

I can't even imagine a dinosaur that big. How's that

Possible?

Well, maybe we need to go see one for ourselves.

[Squawk] good idea!

Are you sure you're ok meeting a really big dinosaur,

Tiny?

I think so. Maybe those big guys would want to meet someone

Tiny.

I'll stay here with dad and don.

Yeah! We're gonna help dad fix the nest.

Great. Well, we're off to catch the dinosaur train. Bye!

Bye, mom!

Well, hello, mrs. P and buddy and tiny.

Hello, mr. Conductor.

So, want to go for a train ride?

Yeah!

All aboard!

Awesome! Hooray!

Let's play a game. Is the argentinosaurus bigger than--

Bigger than mom and dad together? Or mom, dad,

Shiny, and two dons eating a huge fish?

Or dads, of mom, two shinys and dons and me and

Dinosaur trains together?

Tickets.

[Giggling] argentinosaurus, eh? Heh! I

Wish we could fit an argentinosaurus on the dinosaur

Train. They're just so big.

Back at dinosaur train industry zoo, we're working on--

Hey, mr. Conductor, look.

It's the-- whoops. Time tunnel. Time

Tunnel, approaching!

[Bell ringing] argentinosaurus plains station.

So long, pteranodon family.

Enjoy the big dinosaurs, kids.

If you climb one, hold on tight! Bye!

Climb one?

Ok, kids. Let's take a stroll.

[Train whistle blows] wow. Being here makes me feel

Even smaller.

Remember, no matter how small or big you are, all sizes are

Good.

I'm just nervous about meeting an argentinosaurus.

Well, they're really big, tiny, but everyone knows they're

Really nice.

[Gasp] tiny?

[Gasp] [chomping]

Hi. I'm mr. Argentinosaurus.

Well, very nice to meet you.

I'm mrs. Pteranodon, and these are my kids tiny and buddy.

Hi.

Uh...

[Grunts] uh, hi. I'm tiny, very tiny.

Hi! I'm arnie--arnie argentinosaurus.

I'm tiny pteranodon. Can I ask you something, arnie?

What's it like to be so big?

Is it fun to be big, or hard?

It's good being big, but being big is all I know about.

Dad, I'm still hungry!

Wasn't arnie just eating?

Have some of those, son.

[Chomp] wow, arnie, you were really

Hungry.

Oh, he's hungry all day, always. He's a growing boy.

[Rumbling] whoops! Dad's tail! Jump!

[Gasp] watch out!

Hey, I'm all turned around.

Where's arnie?

Down here, dad! Hey, buddy, tiny, run down here to me!

But your dad is so long!

Make it a race! Ready, set, go!

[Breathing heavily] so...long.

Mind if I fly, buddy?

Go...right ahead. Aah!

My dad's twice as long as I am. Hey! Do you guys want

To climb on my tail? Go for it.

I don't mind.

Hmm.

I used to climb on my dad's.

Climb on your tail? Really?

Come on. It's great up here.

Well, like the conductor said, hold on tight.

I am.

Come on, buddy.

Now the fun part. Slide back down!

Whoo-hoo!

Whoa! It's like a cave under here. Look at those legs.

He's way bigger than the boulders at the big pond.

[Yawn] I am so tired. I--i'm just

Sitting down.

Look out! He's gonna sit!

[Laughter] dad wouldn't actually sit on

You.

Yeah! I'm just kidding, kids.

Just watching you guys running made me hungry.

Really? Are you always hungry?

Always. I have a huge appetite.

And a really long neck.

But why is your head so small?

That's just the way I am.

You're small. That's just who you are. But you can move fast.

I can't.

I have a hypothesis about arnie. Being that big means

Arnie always needs to eat a lot so he can move his body.

You know, I think you're right. When I don't eat, I can

Hardly move at all. That's really smart, buddy.

I observe that you only eat plants. So...are you a

Herbivore?

I am. Plants and bushes for me.

He's a hungry, hungry herbivore. Imagine being so big

And eating so much.

But you know what, tiny?

Sometimes, I wish I was small like you.

You do? Why?

Well, so I could do things big guys like me can't do.

You're lucky. You can run fast and fly.

Hmm. Maybe I am kind of lucky.

Or play hide and seek.

You mean like this? Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Nice hiding spot, tiny.

See, tiny? It would be so fun to be small enough to do

That.

Look at this little guy. I guess I must seem like a giant

To him.

You're right, tiny. Arnie's way bigger than us, but we're

Way bigger than that little bug.

You know, I remember when I was smaller, I used to love

Getting a ride from my dad.

Yep, and I enjoyed giving you rides.

[Sigh] those were the days.

Hey, dad! I've got an idea!

You could give buddy and tiny a ride.

Oh, that'd be so fun, wouldn't it, buddy?

[Gulp] all the way up there?

Here, climb on! I'll lift you up.

Going up!

Wow! This must be what it's like to fly.

It is like flying, except this time, I'm with you, buddy.

Ha ha ha!

Yoo-hoo! Hello up there!

Hi, mom.

Hey, look. I see the dinosaur train chugging along, way over

There.

Oh, my! We'd better get going. Can't miss the train.

So, who wants an argentinosaurus ride to the

Train station?

Can we ride there, mom?

Please?

[Squawk] oh, sure, you can.

Next stop: the train station!

Thanks for the ride, and thanks for a great day. It was

Really fun.

Same here, buddy--my new buddy.

Arnie, thanks for telling me how being tiny can be great.

Heh heh heh!

Yep. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter how big or small

You are. All sizes are good.

That's what I told her, but she wouldn't listen.

Next time we visit you, arnie, I might not be so tiny,

Because guess what? I'm still growing!

Yeah! Ha ha! You'll be big tiny.

[Laughter] all aboard!

Good-bye!

Good-bye!

Visit soon for another ride!

Mmm. Yum!

I'm a huge, hungry argentinosaurus.

Tickets. Tickets, please.

[Squawk] oh, the tickets are caught

Right between the seats.

[Grunting] I can reach the tickets. I'm

Exactly the right...tiny size!

Got them!

[Laughter] awesome!

Tiny power! Tiny power! Tiny power! Whoo-hoo!

Hi. I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist. Hey, guys, I'm

Down here. This dinosaur is so big, you can barely see me. Do

You know what kind of dinosaur this is?

Argentinosaurus.

Argentinosaurus.

That's right, this is an argentinosaurus, one of the

Largest animals ever to live on land. Now, what's the biggest

Animal living on land today?

An elephant.

Right. Elephants are big, but argentinosaurus was about

Feet long. That's as long as elephants put together.

[Aroo] an argentinosaurus weighed

About as much as elephants.

[Aroo] now, that's a lot of

Dinosaur. And just like elephants do today,

Argentinosaurus must have eaten an amazing amount of plant

Food. Paleontologists still wonder how argentinosaurus

Could have eaten enough food with such a small head. Now,

How do elephants reach high up into trees to find food?

With their trunks.

Argentinosaurus didn't have a trunk, but it did have a long

Neck that it probably used to reach high into trees, and being

Such a gigantic animal, it probably spent most of the day

Just trying to find enough of the green stuff to keep itself

Going. Ok. Remember, get outside, get into nature, and

Make your own discoveries.

What do you use your feathers for?

I have a hypothesis.

I have a hypothesis.

I have a new hypothesis to test out.

Tiny, I have a hypothesis.

You mean an idea you can test?

I have a hypothesis. I think you guys are faster because

Your legs are longer. So I have a hypothesis.

But how can we test that?

It was an interesting hypothesis.

Buddy really likes the word "hypothesis."

It means an idea you can test.

♪ I'm a t-rex yeah, I'm a t-rex

A-roaring round the forest tyrannosaurus rex

T-rex rowr

I'm a tyrannosaurus I'm the biggest carnivore

In the cretaceous forest gonna romp and stomp around

The biggest dinosaur in town a-roaring round the forest

Tyrannosaurus rex rowr ♪

Hello, folks. It's me, the conductor. Today, we're gonna

Find out more about tyrannosaurus rex--their amazing

Eyes and terrific sense of smell. So come on along with me

On the dinosaur train. All aboard!

Ok. Here's today's rules for dinosaur hopscotch: we toss the

Stick over our shoulder onto a square, then hop

Backwards--buddy, are you even listening?

Oh, sorry, shiny. I thought I heard the dinosaur train

Whistle.

Yeah. Today's the day that the tyrannosaurus family is

Coming to visit us for the first time.

Ooh! Delores tyrannosaurus?

Yeah, and her daughter annie.

She's really fun.

Does annie look like you, buddy?

Well, pretty much. Her hands have two fingers, and she has

Big, green eyes and sharp teeth like me.

Yeah!

And we both have good eyesight and a good sense of

Smell. We both like to run and play kick the cone.

Hmm. I don't really like to play kick the cone.

I like to play kick the cone!

Not as much as annie does.

You know who I can't wait to meet? Her mom. She's a grownup

T-rex.

Right!

So I get to see how big you'll get when you're grown up,

Buddy.

I guess you will! Rowr!

Can we please go to the train station and wait for them?

Sure, don. Let's go.

[Squawk] come on!

[Sigh] [train whistle blows]

Hey! Buddy!

Rowr! Hey, annie, high two!

This is shiny and don, and you remember tiny.

Sure. Hi, tiny. Hi, shiny.

Don, how's that old tooth collection coming?

[Giggles] whoa!

[Laughing] she's really big, buddy. Are

You gonna be that big someday?

Maybe even bigger! Rowr!

[Laughter] ho ho ho! You must be mr.

Pteranodon. Hi! I'm delores tyrannosaurus.

That's a powerful handshake.

So good to see you, delores.

Come on, we'll show you around the nest.

You like it? It's called the cretaceous western interior sea.

I love it. We don't have a sea where we live. It's all

Forest.

[Gasp] so you've never seen

A sea?

No. Amazing!

Full of fish, huh?

Oh, yeah. Fish--that's what pteranodons love to eat.

Is that some other kind of pterosaur way out there?

Gosh, I guess. It's so far away, I can barely see it. You

Have such great eyesight, delores. Is that because your

Eyes face forward?

Yep! That way, they're more useful for catching our prey,

Like this.

[Chomp] [gulp]

Ok. Before we went to the train station, we were

Playing...

Kick the cone! Because we can play that.

I love to play kick the cone, right, buddy?

Yeah!

You know that game, shiny? I count to , you all

Hide-- I know how the game is

Played, annie, but I don't really feel like playing it. I

Think I'll hang out with the grownups.

[Squawk] um...

[Squawk] want to play something else?

How about I smell?

Ooh, I love I smell!

How do you play it?

Like this. I smell with my big nose...

[Sniffs] something that is fruity.

[Sniffing] I only smell leaves and dirt.

Ooh, and bugs!

[Sigh] I smell with my big nose

These fruity-smelling berries.

Ding ding ding! You're right, buddy. That's what I can

Smell! High two!

Boy, t-rexes sure can smell, huh?

We're so much alike!

Yep.

Hey, buddy, let's play a better game, one that

Pteranodons can win.

Ok. How about kick the cone?

Great idea! Here's a cone.

I knew they'd pick that game. They both have big, strong

Legs.

Yeah. Annie's a t-rex, just like buddy.

Ok, buddy. You count to , and we'll all hide. And

Remember, no flying. We all have to run.

Heh heh heh!

, , , , !

Ready or not, here I come!

I see you, don!

Aah!

[Panting] ta-da! I've kicked the cone!

Buddy, how could you see me where I was hiding?

I guess I just have good eyesight. And maybe next time,

You shouldn't hide behind such a little bush, don.

Right.

Maybe we should play some-- don't feel bad, don. We

T-rexes have eyes that face forward. That's why we can spot

You so easy.

Yeah! Rowr!

We're t-rexes!

I said, let's play something else!

Can we play another t-rex game?

Oh! Here's a game that I know buddy would love.

I don't want to play t-rex games anymore!

I do.

Ok. Um, what's a game that of us can play?

We could play bug collectors.

That sounds fun. How does it go?

Well, you collect bugs. Come on, I'll show you.

Tiny?

She'll probably come right back.

Hmm. T-rex can do this, t-rex can do that! Ugh!

Wait. Why am I still walking like a t-rex?

[Squawk] [humming]

Hey, buddy, you haven't collected any bugs. What's

Wrong?

I was thinking about tiny.

Something made her feel sad or mad. I think we should go find

Her.

We could make it a game and call it, "let's find tiny."

Whoa, that sounds like fun.

We'll see who's first to find tiny by following her tracks.

It's called "tracking," don.

Ooh! Ooh, I like the skinny silver ones.

Mmm. Heh! But try these round ones. They're my favorite.

Mom, dad, have you seen tiny?

No. Should we have?

Well, she kind of went off by herself. I thought we'd

Better look for her.

[Squawk] oh, thanks, buddy. We'll

Help. Come on, everybody. Tiny?

Tiny?

Tiny?

[Sniffing] buddy, I can smell tiny.

[Sniffing] I smell her, too.

Tiny's footprints!

They go this way!

Come on!

T-rexes are good at tracking.

Tiny? Tiny?

Look! The tracks just stop.

And now I can't smell her anymore!

I have a hypothesis. The reason her tracks stopped and we

Can't smell them anymore is because tiny must have started

Flying.

Look! Way up there, I can see a hole in that tree and

Something green inside it.

Me, too!

What are you guys talking about?

I remember once tiny told me that she found a hole way up in

The trees where she likes to go when she wants to be by herself.

Oh, I see what you're pointing at. I'll fly up there

And get her.

[Squawk] hi, tiny.

[Squawk] what's up, don?

What are you doing way up here?

[Sigh] it's just a place I found. It's

Kind of a hiding place.

Well, it sure is tiny, tiny.

Yeah. I call it my tiny place.

Oh, right. That's what buddy said.

Buddy said that?

Yeah! He's looking for you all over. He's sniffing around

And using his super eyesight.

Buddy noticed that I was gone?

He thought you might be sad or mad or something.

I was! I didn't think anybody wanted to play with me.

Well, we do. Want to come back down?

Yeah, sure, if they're looking for me.

Come on!

Hi, buddy. Hi, annie. I'm sorry that I said I didn't like

Your t-rex games and flew off by myself.

Aw, don't worry. We should have played more games that

Pteranodons are good at.

Yeah, we were just playing t-rex games.

But we liked searching for you. We used our sense of smell

And our forward-looking eyes!

We followed your tracks.

It was like a huge game of kick the cone!

[Laughter] oh! There you are, tiny.

[Squawk] I was just up there in the

Trees, mom, and I was only gone a minute.

Well, it's ok to take some time by yourself, but you need

To let us know where you're going. We were scared.

I didn't think of that.

Sorry, mom.

[Whimper] well, mr. And mrs.

Pteranodon, it's probably time that annie and I head back to

The train station.

Already? Aww!

Sorry you had to spend half your visit looking for me,

Annie.

Are you kidding? It was my favorite part! Rowr!

[Laughter] oh, annie!

Bye, delores!

Bye, pteranodon family.

Annie, get on board!

Coming, ma!

Bye, you guys! Rowr!

[Train whistle blows] come on, kids, let's go make

Dinner.

[Squawk] buddy, can I talk to you for

A second?

Sure.

I was wondering, do you like playing with annie more than me?

No. Did you think I did?

Well, I just felt bad that you and annie were having so

Much fun being t-rexes. That's why I flew away by myself. I was

Afraid that if annie was your friend, you wouldn't like me

Anymore.

What? But you're my sister and my best friend, tiny.

Boy, is that a relief, because you're my best friend,

Too.

Think of all the special things we know about each other.

Like you knew about my tiny place.

And we both really like the dinosaur train.

And we both think bugs taste awful!

You know what? We may not be the same species, but we're

Pretty much the same on the inside. I like you because

You're you, tiny.

Buddy's my best friend.

I'm glad it didn't end.

I felt bad and sad and mad and flew away.

But then we talked it out, and you know what?

It turns out, we're still best friends

Forever, anyway.

Hooray!

[Laughter] come on. We'd better catch

Up with everyone. They must be halfway to the nest by now.

I'll run. You go ahead and fly.

Nah, buddy. I'll run with you, t-rex style.

Ha ha ha!

Come on, buddy.

Hi. I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist. Can you think of

Any animals you've seen sniffing around on the ground?

A dog.

Right. Dogs use their great sense of smell to find things

Like...

Food.

Yeah! And we think that tyrannosaurs also had a great

Sense of smell, which they used to track other animals when

They were hunting.

Tracking means that animals follow smells like detectives

Until they find where the scent is coming from.

Plenty of other animals have a great sense of smell--for

Example, bears and wolves, some fishes, even moths. In fact,

Most animals have a better sense of smell than humans do.

We depend mostly on our eyesight, but for many other

Animals, a great sense of smell is just as important as being

Able to see. T-rex was probably more like a bear or a dog,

Relying on a great sense of smell to find its food. Ok. Keep

Watching for more dinosaur discoveries.

Did you know that the dinosaur train travels

Everywhere in the mesozoic era?

Let's look at the map.

There was the triassic, jurassic, and cretaceous time

Periods.

Let's visit the cretaceous.

Many new kinds of flowers and insects appeared during this

Time.

The most dinosaurs, like tyrannosaurus rex, and flying

Creatures, like pteranodons, lived in the cretaceous, and

That's just one of the stops on the dinosaur train.

♪ And we figured it out ♪ ♪ we figured it out ♪

♪ We worked together and figured it out ♪

[Laughter] yeah. Aah!

All right.

Dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train dinosaur train

We're gonna ride the dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ we're gonna ride ♪

♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪ ♪ the dinosaur train ♪