03x59 - Too Cool

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time

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too cool

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dad the guys and i were just breaking in

my new baseball mitt no weather's kind

of stiff

oh excuse me

look uh you may be uh breaking in more

than that glove

like uh maybe your heads hmm why don't

you just try

oiling it huh ah we've done that hey

thanks guys

take a lap

tat want that one look

oh excuse me uh could you tell me where

to find the

how-to section of the library certainly

at the top of the steps take a right at

the monkey on stilts

i see the thanks you're welcome

dad that's a new guy at school

derrick cheetah oh he's the best

baseball player i've ever seen

why don't you ask him to be on your team

what

no way he'd never do it he's too good

for us

probably laugh at me for asking well you

never know

he's a new guy right oh he'd probably

like to have a new friend

derek my friend

ah he's way too cool

you know lionel friendships are kind of

like

uh they're like oh

they're like a new baseball glove they

can be a little stiff at first

you just have to break them in

nice try dad i don't think so hey

hey hey where

hey up here i've got something for you

here whoa nice snack son thanks dad

earl's too cool for me oh great

book yeah hey wait a minute you were

eavesdropping you were

oh yeah you'd be surprised what you can

pick up from up here

well turtle loo

whoops

well at least your teammates cushioned

his fall what a mess

oh lionel this book is perfect hmm

why do i smell a book that's going to

teach me a lesson

hey let's go read it i think this glove

needs a rest huh

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earl's too cool for me by leah camacho

illustrated by laura cornell very good

earl's got a bicycle made of hay

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he takes rides on the milky way

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earl's too cool for me

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earl's got a hat with a real horse

feather

he wears socks made of chicken leather

chicken leather earl's too cool for me

earl knows all the letters in the zulu

alphabet

he caught wild boars in a butterfly

event

that's too cool for me

earl's been to france at south zanzibar

drove to china in an egg roll car

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earl's too cool for me

girl swings with gorillas

and when he's tired that

he plays jazz with the alley

earl's cat cool for me

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earl's friendly with the martians

and a few movie stars

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he keeps monster eyes empty jelly jobs

earl's too cool for me

now here comes girl

and he's going to ask why

i'm not cool like he is but all he says

is

hi we smile at each other

he's a regular guy

yes earl's pretty funny and he's really

nice

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he's eight years old and only thrown up

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twice

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all right dad that was one of those

books with a lesson

well i'll do it huh i'll just walk up

and say

hi uh earl uh oh i mean go

derrick and ask him if he wants to be on

our team i mean

why not right

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what just happened oh don't worry dear

one childhood crisis diffused

brilliantly i might add that's right

that's what good parenting is

oh i can't do it mom derek's just way

too

cool you were saying love

oh nothing there nothing just uh

clearing my throat

it's okay son hey lionel

i've got a good idea

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oh actually it's my real hair oh get

into the groove as

birth the reader in the vowels prune the

double

oh in the word

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and now it's time for

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excellent gwen here once again at

blending fields where

two brave knights and armor will charge

together

at high speed and make a word competing

today we have

sir

and sir

blender

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oh

excellent that's the wingsword for today

and this is wayne saying

i hope to whoop it up with you real soon

see you next time on great word great

words

hoop loop

pool pooch

wow cuddly kitty don't you just love

little wendy tails

i wonder what'll happen to lil wendy and

her pooch poopsie next

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poopsie laughs when she sees little

wendy slip

on the dripping ice cream oh

no poor little wendy and poopsie

cuddly kitty this looks like a job for

the punctuator and

emoticon the cat

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apostrophe apostrophe

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wow cuddly kitty don't you just love

little wendy

tails i wonder what'll happen to lil

wendy and her pooch poopsie nest

and now new york jets star linebacker

moe lewis

will recite a poem mouse hair

don't raise a great hullabaloo if you

find click the mouse in your stew

just be quiet don't shout wave her about

or the rest be one and one too oh

brilliant

a poetic touchdown applause for

linebacker

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so you want to practice asking this

derrick person to be on your team

yeah it's mom's idea it's called

role-playing

oh i get it it's pretend so i'm this

really cool

derek cheetah guy that you want to ask

and you're um

you're um you right

right this'll never work yes it will

watch lionel

okay hey your glove is stiff

you should oil it i have oh leona can we

try this now i need the practice you

know to

get my nerve up okay

okay give me your best sh*t man you

don't have to go overboard

oh it's just getting into character okay

go ahead lay it on me satchel

hi derek yeah what's up man

so uh derek you want to uh

uh i mean then would you like to uh i

don't know what

would you like to play yeah that's it

yeah yeah would you like to play on my i

mean

not my i mean our baseball team now when

i say r

i don't mean mine in yours i mean

derek do you want to be on the

boomerangs golly gee

i'd love to be on your team

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derek cheetah wouldn't do that not sure

he would oh

brother

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let me reaffirm lionel i am to pretend

that i am a fine baseball player well

that's right yet uh it didn't work out

with leona but hey

maybe it'll work with you and you are

going to pretend

to ask me to be on your team that's

correct and

are you aware that i am an enhanced

computer input device

yeah but uh right now we're gonna

pretend

that you are a cool baseball player

named

derek hmm cool

i see let us proceed okay okay

here it goes take me out to the ball

game take me out to the crowd

throw it in right here baby scratch

scratch

click click can we get on with it

certainly

proceed okay okay here we go

scratch scratch hiya derek

my name's lionel would you like to be on

my baseball team the boomerangs

i cannot be on your baseball team

why not i am an enhanced computer input

device lino

click we're role playing okay we're

pretending

we're pretending you're derek okay

no i am click the mouse derek

definitely click the mouse never mind

perhaps i could drag and drop this derek

person onto your team photo

i will process that as a no

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no it's okay i can't do it mom i pretend

anything just didn't work

lion-o you're too hard on yourself

hey you won't know if derek will will

swing at the ball until you throw it to

him

stay on the mound throw him a pitch and

just ask him to be on your team see what

happens

that's what this game is all about take

a little risk

you're right mom i just have to stay in

there and

wind up throw in my best pitch

take a chance yeah ah

thanks man you're the best

you're welcome hey that's my home team

there

come here

okay i can do this

hiya derek i'm i'm lionel and uh

i was uh i oh

i know it

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for all readers

by the uh association of america

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because a little bug went

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because a little bug

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don't miss double o making their oo

sound in because a little bug went

written by rosetta stone illustrated by

michael fritz the double ooh sound

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information and speaking oh

hello mr weisenheimer how nice you

called what can i do for you

what do you call a train with a very bad

head cold

interesting question i'll have to look

it up yes

all right here it is here it is a train

with a very bad head cold

is called an uh uh

train you know what i mean well that's

what it says an

ah train

oh you're very welcome mr weisenheimer

no no no no i've told you before we

don't know which came first

why don't you call mr hawking

two two

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two

the monkey pop-up theater

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we dance

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they

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[Laughter]

tango

peace

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oh

paste toothpaste

toothpaste

dig it ready yeah baby

smooth smooth

yeah gr

oof

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cool cool cool

cubie

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cool

hey you can't treat my brother like that

well what do you mean well at least you

could be

nice you don't have to be so so cold or

cool or whatever me

cool yeah you

you just walked off you wouldn't even

talk to lionel

he just wanted to ask you to be on his

team

wow well i'd like to be on his team

what why didn't you talk to him huh

oh well yeah that well you see

i'm the new guy at school i'm really shy

i mean lionel he's so funny and

and kids like him and stuff he's so cool

well i know this cool

wow things sure can turn around can't

they

cool

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oh i know go away leona

can't you see i want to be by myself oh

no

you don't yes i

do no you

don't i brought a new friend for you

come on come on in derek

lionel uh i uh i came to the library

today for for two reasons uh

one to get a book uh this one how to

make friends

by dale carnegie and two

well because i thought i might see you

here and

ask if i could play on your team

you were going to ask me if you could be

on the boomerangs

yeah yeah i love sports but i have a

hard time meeting people

derek hmm i was going to ask you if you

wanted to be on our team

you were yeah yeah

look we have the same gloves

cool is yours all brand new and really

stiff too

yeah mine too

let's break them in oh great yeah yeah

how do you do that

well that's easy you jump on them

hold on there team let's not uh break in

gloves in the reading nook okay

please sorry all right there you go son

wow all right earl's too cool

wait a second derek you and i should

read this book together

what do you say well sure great

all right you guys enjoy now okay we'll

see you later have fun

hey he's a good cub huh yes yeah

all right who wants a story huh

okay thanks leona

oh you are cool i know

no leona you're cool oh

all right hey guys let's read derek's to

i mean earl's too cool for me

huh by leah comico

earl's got a bicycle made of hay

he takes rides on the milky way

earl's too cool for me you go

earl's got a hat with the real horse

feather

he wears socks made of chicken leather

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hey buster you want to be on our

baseball um

uh team yeah

team well um depends on what position i

play

oh well uh how about um hey how about

pitchers um

uh

yeah pitchers mound

hey walter i can see the whole

field from up there

no here

sh**t

she's out barnaby b mustafa the third

you are too cool for me

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all kids need to be read to every day be

a designated reader

if you help a child get wild about

reading you get a child wild about

learning and when they're wild about

learning they

stay off the furniture

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between

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i love how you said that

cleo we do have additional funding to

talk about

oh right of course um

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and the civil society institute you know

theo i never get tired of telling people

about our funders

me either i could do it at least once

every day

we do oh yeah

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