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01x03 - The Lost Coin/Lost and Found

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Gerbert". Aired: May 1, 1988 – December 25, 1991.*
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A friendly, loveable puppet named Gerbert teaches children about making right choices and learn different lessons about life.

01x03 - The Lost Coin/Lost and Found

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[Music]

I just say I want to spend my day with

you you are my best friend I want to

share the things you do oh baby make me

smile W I just want to spend my day with

you I just

[Music]

all right hey hey Rory I'm about to do a

puppet show for you I just love puppet

shows all right so you stay there and

I'll go get all the rest of the props

ready then I'll start Okie do all right

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bab

but first a word from our

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doorbell hey it's miles hey miles it's

me

gerbert how good is it my little man

smooth and easy I'm with you buddy hey

what you been up to I haven't seen you

all week well you know what me and Rory

and all my friends out there we're about

to watch a puppet show actually I'm not

going to watch the puppet show I'm going

to be the puppet no that's a wild idea I

love puppet shows May I watch yeah sure

come on

in hey guess what guess what Rory miles

is going to come in and watch the pupp

show with us maybe he can sit with you

okay oh great I'll be right

back looks

like hey it is Miles hey miles how's it

going hey buddy how you doing easy easy

right yeah you can just sit right there

with aor if you want okay y let's see

your show okay man I'll get ready here

we go I'm props and

stuff okay um once upon a time there was

a little puppy and his name was Ruff

this is Ruff and one day Ruff was

sitting in his dog housee watching dog

food

commercials yeah so anyway he said all

this food has made me hungry I'm going

to go find something to eat so he put on

his leash and he started walking on his

leash hang on just a

second hang on I have technical

difficulties right hang on got to hide

good puppeter always hides okay so

anyway he's uh finding something to eat

put on this lace he starts walking and

finally he finds a great big hot dog hot

dog rough shout it but he couldn't eat

it because it was a toy Hot Dog so he

walked on some more and then he found um

a yo-yo right okay he found a yo-yo and

he couldn't eat the yo-yo um because uh

you really can't eat yo-yos you know why

I heard that because uh they don't stay

down right okay so anyway he found a

yo-yo and he said um I can't eat the yo

so he kept walking and he kept walking

but he never found any food so he

decided to go back home because it was

getting dark but he couldn't remember

how to get back home

so he went is it this way or is it this

way what did R do gber well he um he

fought real hard and then he remembered

that he had passed the yo-yo so he

walked to the yo-yo and um then he

remembered he still went oh no I still

don't know my way home so then he

remember that he passed the hot dog too

so he walked to the hot dog and and um

he walked to the hot dog and he saw his

house and he went oh boy I can see my

house I can see my house from here he

remembered how to get home so he is real

happy thank great man great oh I almost

forgot I have a package for you oh boy

is it your birthday again nope it's not

my birthday well then uh somebody sure

likes to send you packages cuz this

one's got your name on it who what wa

what that sound what do you think it is

maybe it's a real hot dog little noisy

for a real hot dog maybe it's a real

noisy hot

dog yeah oh no I'm late um I I'll tell

you what gerbert I'll swing past later

so we can check out to see what it is

okay okay you can swing by or you know

what you can just walk miles

yeah uh Hey keep it smooth man I'm on

the move okay bab smooth and easy got it

bye ni cre

I wonder what it

is stay tuned gerbert will be right back

after these

messages wow this is really neat look at

this oh hi hey guess what it was in that

box it's a biggie Bank huh and that NE

it's from my see there's a note right

here it's from my um grandom it says um

dear gerbert here's a piggy bank just

for you and uh quarter to start your

savings too quarters nickels pennies and

dimes kept in here are safe all the time

wow did you see that Roar see the shiny

quarter what that neat well this is

going to be great well this is really

nice of my grandom to send me this neat

present like this I'll be sure and thank

her for for that let's see wow Rory how

about this a brand new piggy bank I

better put the quarter in the piggy bank

just so it'll stay safe like my

Grandmama

said well I don't know I would kind of

like to hold on to the shiny quarter

just for a little while feels kind of

neat holding it in my hand and stuff

I'll put it in there later yeah that's

what I'll do I'll put the quarter in

there later okay hey you know what Mr

Piggy I can take you to show and tell my

teacher will love you and you'll love

her she's

[Music]

wonderful she teaches us to read and

right she teaches us to

beite she teaches us so many things

arithmetic and how to sing teaches us to

ring the clock so we can know how much

time we've got she gives us gra on how

we've done so we can show how much we

have Lear our

teacher our

teacher teaches us what we know know our

teacher our teacher will be in our

hearts and everywhere we

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go our teacher teaches us to trust she

takes such special care of us when we

miss school she is concerned to teach us

what we did not workn as we grow up we

all will miss the teacher

that we've all been with and day will be

our I like be

teacher else we our

teacher our

teacher teaches us what we don't know

our

teacher our

teacher will be in our hearts and

everywhere we go

I have a really neat teacher our teacher

what's your teacher name our

teacher teaches us what we don't know

our

teacher our teacher will be in our

hearts and

everywhere we

go and you know maybe someday I could be

a teacher and to teach people need

stuff but I don't know

wow look how big and shiny it yes

gerbert I want you to stay close to the

house we may have some errands to run in

a little while and I want to be able to

find you quickly all right yes ma'am

okay do you want me to put that quarter

back in the piggy bank for you I'd hate

for you to misplace it um I'll put it

back real soon Mommy I just want to

stare at it for a little

while all right remember stay close

okay wow it's big isn't it and

shiny hey hey Mr quarter you want to

swing on my swing set with me come on we

can go let's go

well on second thought I do swing real

high and I'd hate to lose you um I just

set you down right here and then I when

I'm swinging I'll pick you back up I'll

just set you down over here by the

flower pot there you stayed on the step

that's good all right I'll go

swing

wo

wait this is

fun just swinging on a

swing up and down up and down higher

than everything

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this time I'll stretch out my legs and

try to touch the sky but as I do I'll

hold on tight because I don't know how

to

fly I love to swing upon my swing and

today it is so bright and

sunny swinging is the funnest thing oops

I lost my tummy

well I was swinging real high gerbert

can you help with something please okay

yes ma'am I'm coming here I

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come here we can come back to play right

after these messages

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a

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there you go gerbert I hope you enjoy

the hats thanks for helping me clean up

the

attic

there wow hey hey hey Rory hey look at

all these neat hats my mom gave me

aren't these NE hey you got one H these

are fun huh I'm

Napoleon H pretty neat huh I'll get

another one

here who fell

off this is a hat for fruit cakes I

think what's this Rory to Market to

Market to buy a Fed

big oh my hat fell off because it was

too

biggy get another hat

here oh this is a good one yeah got it

yep H hey

Roar I'm quick quarter mecoin and this

is my quarter horse

Rory we can play Cowboys and Indians hi

h* find my silver

away there's my silver my silver

cooling

over what what wait a

second where's my

quarter I've got to find my quarter I

supposed to put it in here and

keep Ro have you seen my

quarter oh no where's my

quarter have you seen my

quarter water

well hi there how are you today fine did

you bring this money to the bank to put

it in our big Bank yes that's wonderful

how long did it take you to save it

about a week only a week you must save

every penny you get okay I'll tell you

what it would take me a long time to

count it by hand so how about if I take

it in the back and put it through our

big counting machine that counts money

real fast and I'll be right back

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[Applause]

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okay there we go you have

$17 32 that you have have saved mhm and

we're going to put that in our special

big bank so it stays safe and I'm going

to give you a book that tells you how

much money you've put in our bank so

right here on the first page I put

$17.32 and the next time you come in

bring your book with you so we can add

the two amounts together all right okay

bye-bye

bye-bye Kate come on

back we have some very old Banks in the

bag would you like to see them yeah I

think you'll like them come on

back come on up let me help you there we

go this is one of the banks I was

telling you about it's very heavy see

it's Uncle Sam M it's made of cast iron

and it's almost 100 years old and this

is how the bank works you put the penny

in Uncle Sam's hand then you push this

button it's going to fall in the back

that's right that's a fun way to save

money isn't it this is the other one

it's called trick dog and it has a

circus clown in his little dog okay you

put the penny in the dog's mouth and you

push the button and the dog puts the

penny in the

barrel well I really enjoyed talking to

you Katie here's your book don't forget

to bring it back and whoops we almost

forgot here's your bank okay byebye

byebye

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oh oh where's my quarter have you seen

my

quarter where is it over here air

quarter quarter air quarter quarter it's

not there it's not there it's oh it's

still

it's quarter Corner air quarter a

quter oh it's not there either oh can't

believe this I can't believe this oh I

have got to got to find that quarter oh

I wanton my quarterback

oh yo D you call me no I didn't call you

I didn't call a football quarterback I

said I want to find my quarter again I

want my

quarterback oh

sorry some neighborhood I live in oh oh

I've got to find that quarter Head

Quarter here quarter here quarter here

quarter

gerbert gerbert can't believe I can't

smile find my quarter it's got to be

under here somewhere

but can't find

it come on come on quarter come on

quarter come on Bab baby all all income

free Mr quarter I've been looking

forever I've been looking at FS like

four miles I'm sorry I startled you

gerbert did you hear me calling you no

what were you doing under there uh

pretending to search for Hidden Treasure

uh I'm not pretending miles I lost my

quarter and I can't find it any

anywhere oh I'll never find

[Music]

it stay tuned gerbert will be right back

after these messages

remember your puppet show with Ruff

everything turned out fine for him yeah

that was just pretend this is real ah

but sometimes we learn real lessons from

pretend stories what did Ruff do when he

couldn't remember his way home he just

looked for the yoyo hey you're right

looked for the yo-yo the hot dog and

then he remembered his way home where's

the last place you remember having the

quarter well I did swim on my swing

today maybe that's where it is then the

swing set I'll go look around and in the

meantime you try to remember any place

else you have the quarter okay okay

thanks miles sure buddy we'll find it I

hope

so I got to remember some place well

where else did I go with my quarter

today um I better put the quarter in the

piggy bank just so it'll stay safe like

my Grandmama said I'll put it in there

later it's big is

and shiny I'll just set you down right

here and then I when I'm through

swinging I'll pick you back up I'll just

set you down over here by the flower

pot I remember where I left it I

remember where I left my quarter oh this

is great miles where oh miles is outside

I'll have to go get him oh boy I

remembered I remembered

ah oh boy oh boy I found it I found it

you found it already yes I sure did

Miles I did just what you said I

remembered all the places that I put my

quarter and then I remembered where I

left all right I found my shiny quar in

a simple way I thought about the many

things I did throughout the day I found

my shiny quarter and I must really say

I'm glad I found my quarter I'll be for

always I looked inside my toy chest I

looked under my bed but still I could

not find it so this is what I said I'll

only find my quarter in a simple way by

thinking of the many things I did

throughout the day now I have my qu I

found it right away it was where I left

it earlier today I looked inside my toy

chest I looked under my bed but still I

could not find it so this is what I said

I'll only find my Bo

in a simple

way yeah I've learned an important

lesson miles it's like that lady in the

Bible who lost her coin and kept looking

and looking and looking and finally

found it yeah yeah I get it if you don't

want to lose something right keep it in

a safe place a that jingle that makes me

tingle see you later alligator after a

while crocodile bye

[Music]

don't go away I just want to say thank

you for being my friend and I want to

thank us I want to thank Rory and I want

to thank cuz he my stuff L and my friend

and I want to thank um I want to thank

my frog I want to thank my GTV and I

want to thank my chers and I want to

thank my wooden floor and I think

Benjamin Franklin and George Washington

and your teacher and your mommy and your

daddy I thank you and I want to thank

all the people that watch it and watch

the show and I want to thank everybody

else in all my world

wow what a neat letter H I just love it

when people write me letters you can too

here's

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