-
-
- How'd you do that?
- It's just a skill I have.
- Yeah, but where'd
it come from?
- It's a long story.
- I have time.
- All right.
Actually, it all started
right here.
-
- Oh, yeah!
- All right.
Come on.
Right here?
- All right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Back a little.
- Come on!
All right.
- Take the sh*t.
- Oh!
- Give yourself an "s."
- All right.
- Oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah!
Give yourself an "s."
Next guy to get a letter,
and that will be you--
is the loser.
- Uh-huh.
- Top of the key,
nothing but net.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Big
old hector's going
down to little old keith,
who will be the new
supreme athlete in the hood.
- Ok. All right.
Here you go,
mr. Supreme athlete,
best sports player in the hood,
you watch and learn. Ok?
Oh!
- I watched, I learned, I won.
- What are you talking about?
- I called all net.
- I got all net.
- You caught some rim.
- Net.
- Uh-uh.
I want an "e"right there.
- I will put a "n e t"
over there for "nuh et."
- I want an "e"right there.
What just happened?
- Uh, I think you just did that.
- I...i did?
- Ok. Ok.
Do me a favor,
visualize a letter
and then twist your wrist.
Like that.
- Get a picture in my mind...
- Ok. Oh, yeah.
Now throw it.
You've got the gift, little man.
- Oh, yeah!
I feel the power!
Hey, you guys!
-
Oh, oh, oh, come on, yeah!
Feel the power!
Feel the power!
Feel the power!
Yo! And plug it in!
It's electric
electric company!
Electric company!
Electric company!
Electric company!
-
Yo, yo, yo, yo!
The power we perfected
is electrically connected
so use it as directed
and expect to be respected
-
Just turn it on
and you will see
that you belong
in the company!
Feel the power!
Feel the power!
- Oh, feel the power!
- Feel the power!
Yo! And plug it in!
-
Plug it in, everybody!
-
Electric company!
Electric company!
Electric company!
-
Electric company!
- Guess who's got the power?
Guess who's got the power?
Guess who's got the power!
- Whoa whoa whoa.
What's going on?
- Dad. Dad, dad.
I got the power!
- Wait. You got the power?
- Ok. Ok, this is what happened.
Keith b*at hector at basketball.
- Did not, sis.
- And then all of a sudden...
- I got the power!
Look! I visualize a letter
in my head and...
- Come over here.
This is some great news.
- Oh, yes! I know! - Shock!
Shock! Whatever anybody
wants... It's on the house!
- You got it.
I'm on it.
- Um, and...if
it's cool with you,
we'd like keith
to take the pledge
and join the electric company.
- Dad?
- Well, it's more than cool.
But this is a big
responsibility, son.
- I know.
- All right.
Let's get in there.
Come on.
Thanks again. Yo!
- Ooh! Free smoothies!
- Hey, yo, I'm kind of excited
right now.
- Ooh, me, too!
- Wait. What do you think
his special skill is gonna be?
- Wait. Wait.
So how does all this work?
- Well, we all have
our basic wordball skill, right?
- We think of the word
and then we throw it.
- But then when
you take the pledge
to be in the electric company,
something even more
incredible happens.
-
It happened to us,
now it's happening to you
all kinds of letters
coming outta the blue!
-
See a word in your brain,
then out come the letters
well, hold on just a second,
man, it only gets better
-
We've got skills,
we've got skills
we've got mad mad super bad
special skills
-
Yo, the way that I hear
is simply the best
I listen to a conversation,
put my skill to the test
'cause whatever ya say
I can easily recall
every word that was said,
I throw it up on the wall! Hey
-
We've got skills,
we've got skills
we've got mad mad super bad
special skills
-
Yo, skills must run
in the family
yeah, my eyes take pictures
of everything I see
I can lay out for you
whatever I've seen
like flippin' through
the pages of a magazine
now, you've got your skill,
I've got mine
lisa is next
to get in line, go!
-
We've got skills,
we've got skills
we've got mad mad super bad
special skills
-
Their skills are cute
but mine are much cuter
inside my head,
there's a word computer
the letters of your name,
go ahead
throw 'em up
on this spot, son
ok, keith watson
I rearrange letters
I'm showing you how
to make keith watson
take this now!
-
We've got skills,
we've got skills
we've got mad mad super bad
special skills
we've got skills,
we've got skills
we've got mad mad super bad
special skills
-
- All right, keith, you ready?
- I was born ready.
You know, an athlete like me?
- Oh. All right,
mr. Born ready.
Raise your right hand.
- Do you understand
the seriousness
of what you're about to do?
- I do.
- Do you recognize
the awesome power
that lives inside of words?
- I do.
- Do you accept this power
and all of the responsibility
that comes with it?
- I do!
- Francine, what are you
doing here?
- Hello, electric company.
Ohh. Oh, oh, I love it.
I just visualize something
and I can make a picture.
- She stole my special skill.
- Give it back this instant.
- Oh. Ok, sure.
Ha! Never.
And I'm not going
to change my mind either.
Get the picture?
Sorry. Sorry.
Well, I would love
to stay and chat but I can't.
See you later, alligators.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
- You'll never get away
with this, francine.
- She already got away with it.
- She did, didn't she?
- What do we do?
- Ok. The only way get it back
is if she raises her right hand
and swears to give it back.
- She'll never do that.
- Or swear to trade skills.
- But I don't have
anything to trade.
- Wanna bet?
- Ss
- ss
- ss sss
- so, let's go!
-
That's one sound of s
sitting in a word,
yes-oh-yes!
-
That's one sound of s
sitting in a word,
yes-oh-yes!
-
Sssseems kinda silly
that this little sound
is anywhere we look,
see, it's all around
sometimes at the start
and also in the middle
you'll even find it
at the end of riddles
if you sit in a seat, then
you definitely have found it
when you soak in the sun,
then it's all around
if you ask me a question,
you're just gettin' warm
that slippery s takes
all sorts of forms
in a sandwich, on a snake,
even under the stairs
simply put, it is something
that you see everywhere
-
That's one sound of s
sitting in a word,
yes-oh-yes!
-
That's one sound of s,
sitting in a word
- hop on the seesaw with me
so we can seesaw.
- Why?
-
I just can't believe...
Seesaw.
Seesaw.
Seesaw.
Seesaw.
Seesaw.
- It is finished...and it is
just as I had visualized.
- There she is.
- Look at that, man.
She's showing off
for the rest of the pranksters.
- With my special skill.
- All right, now, look,
you've got to make it appear
as though you want
to be on their side.
- I'll make it look that way.
- Good.
And remember, in the electric
company, we don't lie.
- I'll just choose
my words carefully.
- Yeah.
- I can't believe
you stole his special skill.
That was genius,
francine, genius.
- Uh...there is
a huuuuge difference
between sneaky
and genius, danny. Huge.
She is hugely sneaky
and I'm a huge genius.
- You're just jealous because
you don't have any powers.
- I'll take my
superior intelligence.
Thank you.
- We eh eh eh ell,
look who's here.
- Hello, keith.
- Hello, keith.
- Hello, keith.
- Hello, pranksters.
- If you've come to try to get
your skill back, no chance.
I'm loving it.
- I figured that.
- Don't you think it's perfect?
- What?
- The picture.
Don't you think I captured
their features perfectly?
Manny's feature, his strong
yet primitive brow...
Danny's feature, his piercing
yet shifty eyes...
Annie's feature, her creative
yet unsuccessful fashion sense.
Oh, and then there's me.
Which of my features
is your favorite?
- I can't decide
which feature I like the most.
- Hey, keith, you ever think
of joining the pranksters?
- He's no prankster.
- He's with
the electric company.
- Hey. Hey.
Hey. Hey.
You see that rest room
sign over there?
- Pest room.
Huh, not bad, kid.
I didn't think
you had it in you.
- I'm full of surprises.
That's one of my features.
- Hey, if he was one of us,
then he could be a spy.
- He'd have to prove
himself first.
- What if I was to steal
all the special skills
of the electric company?
- What are you talking about?
- You heard me.
- If you did that,
then we could
run wild
through the neighborhood.
- Dude, we would be kings.
- Chaos would rule.
- All would bow to us!
- Yo, yo, yo.
I gotta go do my homework.
I'll meet you all
back here at :.
- All right. Good.
I've got, like,
a ton of homework.
- I have a geography quiz.
- I got a bunch of math
and I gotta show my work.
- I already did mine.
- What word should we do first?
- How about that one?
- Is that the last one?
- Guess so.
See ya.
- I'd like to introduce you
to the ninja of
the english alphabet:
see that glob?
Silent "e"sneaks up on it--
and pounces!
Bam! Turning glob into globe.
Silent "e"doesn't even
make a peep,
but it changes
the sound of a whole word.
Tub...you're a tube!
Kit...go fly a kite!
Sham--what a shame.
Fat...meet your fate!
Mop...please don't mope.
Mistak...
Mistak's not a word.
Sorry. My mistake.
Hey, all you vowels--i see you,
and you can run,
but you can't hid.
I mean, hide.
From the baddest ninja in town--
silent "e."
-
Lemme tell ya
'bout a friend of mine
goes around changing words
all the time
but he's kinda sneaky,
yes, sir-eee, come on!
I make a plan,
he flies a plane
I hold a can,
he carries a cane
cook with a pan,
now he's at it again
lookin' through
my window pane
silent "e,"oh,
how it changes everything
silent "e,"it's elementary
silent "e,"
it's simple, come on
try with me
you got it!
- Yeah!
- Whoo!
Silent "e"
turns slop to slope
and gives a little hop
a lot of hope
and shapes a little glob
into a globe
ya see?
Ha! Ha!
He can change a bit to bite
a strip to stripe,
a grip to gripe
a shin to shine,
well, I don't mind
let it spin
right up my spine
silent "e,"oh,
what a great discovery!
Silent "e,"it's elementary
silent "e,"oh, who knew
how much fun it'd be?
Now ya got it,
sing along, everybody!
-
Silent "e"
-
When "e"follows the vowel,
it changes the sound
-
Silent "e"
-
Silent "e"is everywhere,
you got it now!
-
Silent "e"
-
It's simple,
come on, sing with me!
Now, I'm gonna give you a word
and you just add the silent "e"
now, when I say "mad"and ya add
the "e,"what do ya get?
- We get "made"!
- Now, when I say "slim"and ya
add the "e,"what do ya get?
- We get "slime."
- And when I say "not"and ya
add the "e,"what do ya get?
- We get "note."- Silent
"e,"silent "e,"
silent "e"...
- Great job.
Great job.
-
Silent "e"is a ninja!
Silent "e"is a ninja!
Silent "e"is a ninja!
Silent "e"is a ninja!
I didn't notice when he came
I cannot accept
any praise or blame
I was home pushing my mop
like a dope
next think you know,
and I started to mope
and at the end of my rope,
I was hopping mad
but he turned my hop into hope
and then he made his escape!
But not before he turned
my cap into a cape
and now I look
totally insane
I had a plan to catch him,
but man
he turned my plan
into a plane! Raaaa!
Silent "e"is a ninja!
Silent "e"is a ninja!
The silent "e,"
he will getcha
uh, uh, silent "e"
is a ninja!
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
He's a ninja
- hey, everybody.
- Well?
- What?
- Did you get the skills?
- You tell me.
- That's jessica's skill.
- That's the way it appears.
See, he caught some rim.
- You've got hector's skill.
- It does appear that way.
Doesn't it?
- Hold on.
You made a new sentence
out of those letters.
That's lisa's skill.
You've got all their skills.
- It does appear that way.
Doesn't it?
- Keith?
- Yes, francine?
- You know, if you wanted
your skill back,
I might be willing to trade you.
- Really? Ok.
- Ok, repeat after me.
I do solemnly promise
to trade special skills.
- I do solemnly promise
to trade special skills.
- Oh. Oh. Oh.
Ooh! Ha ha.
You little fool.
That's skills for one.
Now I have all the powers
of the electric company.
-
We got their powers!
Now we can crush them!
We got their powers!
Now we can crush them!
- The letters aren't moving!
The letters aren't moving!
The picture isn't coming!
There's no sound!
What is going on here?
- Francine, I know it appeared
as though I had
everybody's skills.
But I didn't and neither do you.
- You little trickster.
- Wow. You sure blew
that one, francine.
- Huh. You got schooled.
- Nice job, genius.
- I will get you for this,
electric company.
I have made a mistake!
- Ahh!
- Yeah! Yeah!
Man, that was awesome!
- Yes, it was.
- That was great, dude!
- Yo! Check this out!
- Ok. Tell you what?
How about we have
a rematch and then
maybe this time I'll try.
- What are you
talking about, buddy?
- I'm the supreme athlete.
I'll see you on the court, though. - That's
not what the horse says. I guess you
forgot him? - Really? Let's talk to the horse.
Oh, horse,
who's the supreme athlete?
Hector's the supreme athlete.
I'll race you to the court!
I'll race you to the court!
-
Oh, let me tell you about
my love of the silent "e"
sometimes I have a plan
when I add an "e,"
it becomes plane
and I can take that plane
and fly away
even to a hurricane
oh, oh, and then I land
in the middle of a jungle
and I get out and watch
a beautiful handsome ape
go swinging by on a vine
unfortunately, I don't
have a dime to give it
but that's ok,
'cause I get back on the plane
that I just rode on
and fly away
silent "e"
silent "e,"it works for me
silent "e,"
silent "e"
silent "e,"it works for me
- you can make soup on this.
Let's sound it out.
First sound.
Sss.
So sss t...st.
St ah, nope, it's not sta,
because there's
a silent "e"on the end.
And silent "e"makes the o
say its name, so it's sto ve.
Stove.
I make soup on the stove.
-
- I'm special agent
jack bowser.
This takes the cake.
And it's about to explode.
But I can't cr*ck
the code to get out!
Help me read this!
Woohoo!
- Joe grippo had
one incredible feature.
- You ready to be somebody?
You ready to compete?
- I want to be the champ!
- Well, then, let's get to work.
- And one, and...
- More, grippo!
- He taught him to compete.
- Bob and weave!
Bob and weave!
- He taught him to visualize.
- See it in your head!
Visualize your thumb
pushing down on his thumb!
- And he gave him a strategy.
- Go for the knuckle!
- , , , .
I declare a--
- ok, let's get you
sworn in properly.
- All right, where were we?
Keith.
Do you accept this power
and all of the responsibility
that goes with it?
- Yes, I do.
Got my friends all around me
and my hand in the air
got a brand-new power
and I solemnly do swear
to use my power
only for the good
of all the people
in the neighborhood
-
I know what I've seen,
I know what I've heard
there's a whole lotta power
in every little word
as we use our power,
we guarantee
to honor the name
of the electric company
- so, that's the story.
- Wow. So can I be
in the electric company?
- Maybe. You never know.
- Oh.
- But a guy like you,
I think you got
a pretty good chance.
- You think?
- Yeah, I do.
Come on, let's play
some basketball.
Check it.
Top of the key.
- Whoa.
- Your turn...
-
-
We here
electric company
kick it one time
-
The time is now,
the day is here
that rhythm
that you're feelin'
the music in your ear
the charge is electric
and all ya gotta do
is plug it in
- plug it in just imagine
a world where
everything around you
every sight and sound will
astound you, surround you
-
And before you know it,
even you have the power
to bring a word to life!
That's right!
-
That's right!
-
That's what we do,
we're the electric company
inviting all of you
to all the possibilities
learning to write
and learning to read
we have a good time
while we plant the seeds
and once you get it,
you have to share it
discovering your power,
you own it
you wear it proud
and you shout it out loud!
Electric company is in town
-
In town
oh! Taking over.
And forever.
- Oh!
- Do you understand
the seriousness
of what you're about to do?
- I do.
- Do you recognize
the awesome power?
-
- She stole my special skill.
- Give it back this instant.
- Ok, no. Never.
- Bam! Turning glob into globe.
Bam!
The line.
-
- Get away.
Ha ha.
Get away from me.
- "T
01x01 - Skills
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A comedy series that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes now known as Sesame Workshop.
A comedy series that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes now known as Sesame Workshop.