- Ok. So here are your words.
A western is a story set in the
West with cowboys and horses.
Positive.
People who are positive always
See the good side of things.
Negative.
When someone is negative,
They only see the bad things.
It's the opposite of positive.
A conflict is a problem between
Two or more people.
Confident people feel strong
And good about themselves.
So we have...
Watch out for them
In today's show.
[Shock beatboxing]
- And grabbing that giraffe
Doubled-backed with laughter
We could live happily,
Horribly ever after
- [Imitates expl*si*n]
- Oh, nice one, guys.
- Hey, danny,
What's going on, man?
- Isn't it funny? I was just
About to ask you the same thing.
- Oh, we're rehearsing for our
Show tonight--the rap battle.
- Oh! I see.
So I guess you decided to ask
Mario to be your partner
And not me.
- Oh, uh, sorry, danny. Did we
Talk about being partners?
- No, no. I guess I should
Have brought it up,
But instead I just waited by my
Phone, waited for it to ring.
But it never did.
I thought my phone was broken.
You know, I guess it's not
My phone that's broken.
It's my heart.
- You know, shock, if he really
Wants to take my spot--
- No, no, no, no.
The damage is done!
I guess I'll just have to enter
The rap battle all by myself.
And you look out
Because I have skills.
And those skills are mad!
- Well, this should be
Interesting.
Hey, p.j., You're coming
Tonight, right?
- I don't know, man.
- What do you mean,
You don't know?
- Believe me, dude,
I want to come,
But I got to finish up this
Story for my writing class
Back at home.
Look. This is all I got.
Check it out.
- "The"? W-well, that's
A good start.
- Dude, this assignment is
Driving me nuts.
I mean, our teacher's
Trying to prove that
You can write a story
Taking place anywhere, right?
She had all the kids pull
A place out of a hat.
You know, and one kid gets
To write about the moon.
Another kid gets to write
A story on a river.
Ha ha. What do I get?
A refrigerator!
That's right. I have to write
A story that takes place
In a refrigerator.
Anybody have any ideas?
[Crickets chirping]
Well, how about
A little help, guys?
- What do you mean?
- You know, you know.
The screaming thing. Do it.
- Oh, ok. Hey, you guys!
- Electric company
- 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!
Get connected,
Electric company!
It's electric,
Electric company!
Get connected,
Electric company!
- Yo, yo, yo, yo!
The power we perfected
Is electrically connected
- Go, go...
- 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!
- Feel the power!
- Yo! And plug it in...
Electric company!
Electric company!
Electric company!
- A story that takes place
In a refrigerator?
That's kind of weird.
- Yeah.
- This is totally weird.
Why couldn't I write something
Fun, like a western?
- I love westerns.
- You see what I mean?
- You know, with like...
[Deep voice]
Old towns, and cattle
And cowboys on horseback.
- Yee-haw!
- [Regular voice]
That would have been amazing.
- It would have been amazing,
But I'm still stuck in
The fridge.
- P.j., I can help you.
Hey, guys, go ahead and get
Ready for tonight.
We'll figure something out.
- Thanks.
- Ohh...
- Bye.
- Good luck.
- Can I go, too, please?
- Oh, very funny.
You know, I am confident
We can figure this out.
I'm just sure of it.
- I'm glad you're confident
Because I'm sure not.
- Well, I was thinking, if you
Want to write a western,
Then just write a western.
- In a refrigerator?
- Sure. It's weird,
But weird could be good.
"Weird could be good"? What?
Weird could be good.
Yeah!
[Deep gravelly voice]
Cold creek, colorado.
Without a doubt, it was the
Chilliest town in the old west.
But when it came to the good
Folks who lived there,
Well, you couldn't find
Anyplace warmer.
Our story begins with
Sheriff frank,
An honest fellow
With one simple rule.
- If you don't have
Something nice to say,
Don't say anything at all.
Isn't that right,
Deputy pickles?
- It sure is. In cold creek,
We only use words
That are positive.
- Yup. Good words that make
Folks feel good, like...
- Howdy, sheriff frank.
- Howdy, mary lou.
Lovely day.
- It's beautiful.
Cold but not freezing.
- How's everything
At the schoolhouse?
- Everything is wonderful.
The children are napping.
So lovely when they sleep.
- I do agree.
Howdy, old pop.
- Good morning, sheriff.
I do hope you come
By the general store
And have a juice.
- Bonjour.
The juice is delicious today.
Hee hee!
- I reckon deputy pickles and I
Will be by later,
But right now we got
To head to the crisper
And wrangle some onions.
Let's ride, pickles.
[Pickles makes neighing
And nickering noises]
[Deputy pickles making clopping
Noises]
- [Regular voice]
All right. Now, this
Feels like a western.
- Yeah, it does.
Now, all you have to do is add
Some conflict,
You know, some trouble for
The characters.
- Yeah. Usually these westerns
Always have somebody that's bad
And causing trouble.
- Mm-hmm.
- But everybody in this town
Is so positive.
- You know, what if--
- What--
- No, you go.
- No, no. Go ahead. No, no...
- No, you go. No, I insist.
- No, no. I mean,
It's gonna be--
All right. Fine. Listen,
What if we have somebody
That's not a positive character?
- Oh, yeah, like
A negative character,
Someone who always says
Bad things.
- Yes! Yes!
[Clears throat]
[Deep gravelly voice]
Folks at cold creek thought
That their town would be
Peaceful and positive forever.
But that all changed the very
Same afternoon
Because while
The sheriff and the deputy
Were off wrangling onions,
A stranger came to town.
[Hawk calls]
- Howdy. It seems like
A nice town.
- We'll never find a nicer one.
- And it is so wonderful to
Welcome a new neighbor.
- Especially a tomato like you.
[Cow moos]
- What did you call me?
- Old pop doesn't have his
Glasses on.
He is an apple, pop.
- Oh. My mistake.
- Do I look like a tomato
To you?
Where I come from, you call
An apple a tomato, you've
Made yourself an enemy.
[Birds calling]
- Enemy? What a negative word.
- Well, if you want an enemy,
You've got one
Because I'm going to make life
In this town miserable.
- Sheriff frank, help!
[Makes short "e"sound]
- Hey, you short "e"
- Eh, eh-eh
- Eh-eh-ell
- Ok, you ring that
Be-eh-eh, eh-eh-eh-ell
- Eh, eh-eh
- So all of you can...
- Now, let me scream
No, yell
That short "e"is best
Standing tall as it takes
It will never need a rest
In the middle of a word,
It will always pass the test
When you need it most
To cast a spell
Grab your pencils,
Your pens...
The time isset
For you to ring that bell
Eh, eh-eh-ell
- Eh, eh-eh
- Eh, eh-eh
- Yo, short "e"
Come and ring that bell
- "Eh, eh..."
Cobweb!
[Blows]
Ted?
[Record needle scratches]
- Yo.
- Ted!
- Coach, we're losing. You got
To send in a better batter.
- Got it.
- Bitter up.
- I'm sick of this thing...
All right.
- No, he's a bitter batter.
We need a better batter.
- Oh, of course.
Butter up.
- That's a butter batter.
We need a better batter.
- Settle down, coach. I'm on it.
- Come on!
- Batter up!
- Cake batter's the best.
- Finally!
- What's up, everybody?
It's time for
Short vowel sounds.
Let's go.
- Short u
- Up, up
Come on, everybody,
Get up and dance
- Short a
- Aaa, clap, get up
You know you got to dance
And clap
- Short I
- Iii, kick
Kick up your heels
You know you love
How it feels
When you dance
And clap like that
Oh, yeah
Short e, eee
Step, step to the left,
Then kick to the right
Jump up and down
And clap times
- Short o
- Ooo
- Stop
- Now kick up your heels
And dance and shout
And you don't have to stop
'Cause we're singing about
We're singing about,
We're singing about
Short vowel sounds
- All right. So now your story
Has some conflict.
- [Regular voice]
That's right. A negative
Apple in a positive town.
- So what's next?
- [Clears throat]
[Deep gravelly voice]
The people of cold creek
Were in shock.
They had never heard words
Like this before.
- Hey, milk, your sell-by date
Has long past. You smell...
Rotten.
- Please! Don't speak that way
In front of the children.
- He scares me.
[Slurping]
- That juice was disgusting.
- [Gasp]
- I sure hope sheriff frank
Gets back soon.
- Me, too.
- Hey, peach, you're the pits.
Heh heh. Got him.
[Crickets chirp]
Don't you get it?
You have a pit. Your sense
Of humor is terrible.
- I am confident that sheriff
Frank can stop this apple.
- Everywhere he went,
The bad apple spoke nothing
But negative words.
All those negative words
Were polluting the crisp
And refreshing air
Of cold creek.
But then the sheriff and deputy
Rolled back into town.
- [Clop clop]
[Deputy pickles
Makes neighing noises]
- "Awful"?
"Horrible"?
"Disgusting"?
- Oh, no.
- I understand you've been
Saying some negative
Things around here.
- Well, somebody
Called me a tomato.
- Be that as it may, we like
To keep things positive here
In cold creek.
- Well, I think that's idiotic.
- Oh, no.
[Children crying]
- Looks like we got a conflict
On our hands.
This fridge ain't big enough
For the both of us.
- I was thinking the same thing.
- Why don't you fellas have
A showdown?
The sheriff's positive words
Against the apple's
Negative words.
- That's a mighty fine idea.
[Apple chuckles]
- You sound pretty confident.
But what happens if I win?
- If you win, I'll leave town.
You can have my sheriff's star.
- No!
- Ohh!
- But if I win, you leave on
The horseradish you rode in on.
Deal?
- Deal.
[Cow moos]
- If you want to tell
A story about something
That already happened,
Then you'll need "ed."
Put "ed"at the end of a verb
And you're instantly
Telling a story
About something
That already happened.
It's that easy!
Now available in grape, cherry,
Strawberry, and chicken.
[Bawk]
- When you want to tell
A story
- [Beatboxing]
- About something that already
Happened
You can use "ed"
- "Ed"
- At the end of the word
- "Ed"at the end
Of the word
- Together!
- When you want to tell
A story
About something that already
Happened
You can use "ed"
- "Ed"
- At the end of the word
- "Ed"at the end
Of the word
- Yeah!
- Word.
- May I go surfing now?
Now may I go surfing?
- Arr! Me ship.
- Now may I go surfing?
[Dog barking]
- Ok...
Now may I please go surfing?
- Go for it.
- Whoo-hoo!
All right!
- What's the game today?
- Um, I don't know.
- How about saying
Everything in
The past tense?
- Like adding "ed"to the end
Of every word.
- Watch this. Hee-haw!
I acted like a donkey.
- Oh, nice. Oh, I got one.
[Snort]
- You snorted like a pig.
- Yup.
- Nice snort. Ok.
[Meow]
- Meowed like a cat.
Ok, how about this one?
[Aroo]
- Oh! Trumpeted like
An elephant.
[All laugh]
- You know it! Ha ha!
- That'll work.
- Old school...
- Right about now
- Old school
- Come on, new school
- We want the old school
And the new school
On the dance floor
- Uh-huh, uh-huh
- This right here
Is called the slide
- Hey, hey!
- We about to do it
- Welcome to
My scene, y'all
- Now slide
- Hey!
- Two steps to
The left, electric
Two steps to
The right, electric
Two steps to the front,
That's electric
Now slide
- Come on!
- Two steps to the back,
You're electric
Hands up now, freeze
- Freeze, freeze
- Feel my electricity, yes
- Slide
- Come on!
- My toe bone's connected
To my foot bone
- Yup...
- My foot bone's connected
To my ankle bone
My ankle bone's
Connected to my leg bone
My leg bone's connected
To my feet, feet, feet
, , Feel that b*at
, ,
Tweet tweet tweet
Like a mocking,
Mockingbird, I repeat
Tweet tweet tweet
It's ok to read now
Two steps to
The left, that's electric
Two steps to
The right, that's electric
Two steps to the front,
That's electric
Now slide
- Come on!
- Two steps to the back,
You're electric
Hands up now, freeze
- Freeze
- Feel my electricity
And slide
- Come on!
- Welcome to my city
Filled with electricity, yeah
You can be anything
You want to be, yeah
Welcome to my city filled
With electricity, yeah
Where you can be anything
You want to be, yeah
A doctor
- Oh oh oh
- A lawyer
- Oh oh oh
- A rapper
- Oh oh oh
- A singer
- That's what I got
- An astronaut loves
To get to outer space
She want to be an actress
With the pretty face
Or you could be
The president
Of the united states
Or you could be
Like jerry wonder
And slap that bass
Two steps to
The left, that's electric
Two steps to
The right, electric
Two steps to the front,
That's electric
Now slide
- Come on!
- Two steps to the back
- You're electric
- Hands up now, freeze
- Freeze
- This is great. You have
The classic ending for
A western.
The showdown at high noon.
- [Regular voice]
That's right. Now,
The only thing left to do
Is write it.
[Deep gravelly voice]
It was moments before
High noon in cold creek.
The sun was a-blazin'.
The townsfolk were nervous.
And down on main street,
A frankfurter and an apple
Prepared to face off.
They both looked confident.
[Echoing whistle]
[Deputy pickles beatboxing]
- Ready?
- Ready.
- Draw.
- Where do I start?
Oh, this is dreadful
You want some negative words,
I got a handful of rhymes
That are terrible and wicked
- And I can make the terrible
Terrific when I kick it
- W-w-wicked, I can flip it
And reverse
And make it wonderful without
The need to rehearse it
Take a head full of dreadful
And make it dreamy
I could turn your sadness
Into smiles when you see me
- Oh, leave me alone,
I think this place is awful
You're a frankfurter?,
Well, I prefer a falafel
Every waffle,
Every frozen food
Is horrendous
- And this is going from
Awesome to stupendous
When this started, see,
I knew you were resilient
- More like resentful
- See, that's brilliant
- What?
- Bad apple, give me
Another word
I can make it positive,
Rest assured
Great, what else you got on
Your mind?
- This is dumb
- It's divine, I'm delighted
You visited
- Miserable
- It's a little
Magnificent, isn't it?
- Laughter,
We can live
- Horribly
- Happily after ever
[Boom]
[Cow moos]
- Well, I'll have to tip my cap
To you, sheriff.
You won fair and square.
And it looks like I
Best be going.
- Safe travels to you.
I mean that.
- Be well, apple.
- We wish you all the best.
- Come back and visit sometime,
Cherie.
- Goodness. You mean
After all the negative
Words I've said,
You folks are still so kind
And sweet. What a lovely
Bunch of foodstuffs you are.
- Jumpin' jehoshaphat!
He's using positive words.
- Say, apple, I feel confident
You've changed.
And we don't like to hold
A grudge here in cold creek.
So if you'd love to stay, well,
We'd love to have you.
- Really?
If my arms were
A little longer...
I'd hug you.
- And so life in cold creek was
Back to normal.
And from that point forward
When it came to negative words,
All was quiet
In the western fridge.
- P.j., I think that you just
Wrote the world's first western
In a refrigerator.
- Well--ahem.
[Regular voice]
Sorry. Well, I could not
Have done it without you.
I really appreciate it. Thanks.
- Oh, sure.
Oh, and we still have time
For the rap battle.
- Do we?
- Yeah.
- Well, how about you go ahead?
There are still some things
In the ending
That I want to fix, so...
- Sounds good. See you there.
- I will see you there.
- Ha ha!
[Sighs]
- I'm annie.
And I have a plan to get
Everything I've ever wanted.
Want to know
How I'm going to do it?
Apostrophe-s.
Apostrophe-s is the best.
Say--say I want a puppy.
All I have to do
Is throw an apostrophe-s
At the end of my name,
And it becomes annie's puppy.
Oh! Aren't you cute?
Yes, you are. Ha ha!
And it's not just about puppies.
Now that I have
An apostrophe-s
At the end of my name,
Any word that comes
After it becomes mine,
Like annie's roller coaster.
Oh! I could do this all day.
Annie's castle.
Hey. I said "annie's castle,"
Not manny's.
Ahem. That's better.
How can you argue with
Apostrophe-s? You can't.
Apostrophe-s.
[Chickens clucking]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What's with all the noise?
There's no need
To fight over your food.
Don't you know about apostrophe
And the letter "s"?
And this is amy's. See?
If you add an apostrophe-s
To the end of your name,
You know it's yours.
Apostrophe-s at the end
Shows possession.
Enjoy your meals, ladies.
- [Ba-kaw]
- Hmm? "Cluck's."
Chickens are very sweet.
- Aaahhh--huh?
[Reading out loud]
[Woman screams]
- [Reading out loud]
No! But I've got to howl
At the moon.
- I've got to walk around
And say "aaaahhhh."
[Bat reading out loud]
- But I don't even have hands.
- Not our problem.
[All reading out loud]
- Typical.
- I'm special agent jack bowser.
I'm trying to keep
My sunny side up,
But this carton of eggs
Is about to explode.
And I can't cr*ck
The code to get out.
Help me read this.
[Slowly reading sentence]
Stan's son said
He will say something
About susan's breakfast.
- [Deep gravelly voice]
Yes! All was quiet
In the western fridge.
But that quiet didn't last long.
Yee-haw!
Gold! I found gold!
- Gold?
- Yeah, I was up there
Prospecting in the freezer,
And I came across gold--
Bars and bars of it.
- Well, that's
Mighty impressive,
But I do reckon it's butter.
- Butter?
[Sniffs]
I reckon you're right.
[Squish]
- You sound familiar.
Do we know you?
- Well. Ha ha. Yeah, you know,
People know my voice.
Check it out. Check it out.
Ahem.
Cold creek, colorado.
The chilliest
Town in the old west.
- That was you? Oh!
- I thought I
Was going plumb crazy.
- Well, nice
To finally meet you.
Say, we're having a barbecue.
Would you like to join us?
- You know what? You know what?
That'd be swell.
That'd be swell. Hey, tell you
What, I'll bring the butter.
Let's roll.
[Regular voice]
Kind of an unusual ending
For kind of an unusual story.
Unusual, but I like it.
Rap battle, here I come.
- Boom-boom-boom-boom,
Click-click-click-click
- Yeah, come on
- Boom-boom-boom-boom
- What
- The time is now,
The day is here
- Here
The rhythm
That you're feelin'
The music in your ear
The charge is electric,
And all you got to do is
Plug it in
- A-plug, a--
- Plug it in
- Well, imagine a world
Where everything around you
Every sight and sound
Will astound you, surround you
Before you know it,
Even you'll have the power
To bring a word to life!
That's right!
- That's right!
- This is 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
- Oh!
- Ha ha!
- Yeah! Monique!
- Yeah!
- What
- Because I have skills.
And those skills are mad!
[Laughter]
- Are you all right?
- Ha ha!
- A positive apple
In a negative town.
- What's next?
- That's wrong. A negative
Apple in a positive...
- Ha ha!
- Miserable.
- It's a little
Magnificent, isn't it?
[Both saying gibberish
Syllables in rhythm]
[Laughter]
02x30 - One Bad Apple
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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.