- Ok, so here are your words.
You use binoculars
To see something up close
That is really far away.
When you observe something,
It means you watch it
Very carefully.
If you're flustered,
You feel nervous
About something and you show it.
When you admit something
To someone,
You're saying you did it,
Even if it's something
You're not proud of.
When you discover something,
You find or see it
For the first time.
So, we have...
Watch out for them
In today's show.
- Oh.
- Oh, annie.
- Huh?
- I was hoping I would
Find you here.
- Hi, uncle sigmund.
I've been reading this new book
That you like so much.
- That's great, but I am
Leaving town for a few days,
And I need you to feed
My turtle.
- Where are you going?
- Oh, I'm just taking
A little bus trip
To see
The monongahela waterfalls.
- Since when are you
Interested in waterfalls?
- Are you kidding?
I love waterfalls.
I love the way the water falls.
- Uncle sigmund,
Why are you staring at
That picture of natalie mcnally?
- I wasn't staring.
- You were so too staring.
Tell the truth. Admit it.
- I'll admit no such thing.
- I have been watching you
Very closely,
And you have been staring
At her eyes...
- I wasn't staring
At her sparkling green eyes.
- And her warm smile...
- Warm.
- And you have been reading
And rereading her new book
"Observing gorillas: how I
Looked at a lot of gorillas
Really closely...
And I mean closely."
You must have read it times.
- .
- [Gasps]
- All right. I admit it.
I was staring at her.
I'm in love with her.
I've been in love with her
Ever since the class trip
To the zoo in the second grade,
But I've never had the courage
To admit it to her.
- Why not?
- I don't know. I don't know.
Whenever I'm near her,
I feel nervous and excited,
And I can hardly speak.
- You get flustered.
- Yes, flustered,
So flustered I can barely speak,
So I'm leaving town until she
Goes back to the jungle.
- Uncle sigmund,
I hate to admit it,
But this sounds like a job
For the electric company.
Mm-hmm. Lisa! Hi.
Would you come over here?
Heh. Look at you in that pink.
Whoo! Hi.
- Hi, annie.
- Hi.
- Hi, sigmund.
- Hi.
- This is gonna sound
A little strange,
But we need the help
Of the electric company.
- Really? Why?
- Because I'm in love
With natalie mcnally,
But I get so flustered
When I'm around her,
I can't even tell her.
- Is this some kind of prank?
- No. Cross my heart.
He's in love with her.
- All right. Hey, you guys!
- 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, the power we perfected
Is electrically connected
So use it as directed
And expect to be respected
- Turn it on,
And you will see
That you belong
In the company
Feel the power,
Feel the power
Feel the power, yo,
And plug it in
Feel the power,
Feel the power
Feel the power, yo,
And plug it in
Electric company
Electric company, yeah
Electric company
Electric company
- I can see why
You like her so much.
I've been reading her book.
She's really special.
- I know.
- He's been in love with her
Since grade school,
But he's too afraid to tell her.
- Oh, it's too bad hector
Is off on a camping trip.
He'd be able to give you
Some romantic advice.
- Sigmund, why don't you
Just go right up to her
And tell her how you feel?
- I tried that yesterday.
- What happened?
- Well...
[Screech]
Oh, natalie.
- Sigmund.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Natalie, all these years,
I have been meaning to tell you,
I feel--
- Yes?
- I feel--haangansabah--
- Yes?
- I feel...
A little chilly.
I'm going to go home now
To get a sweater.
- Bye, siggy.
- You got flustered.
- Tell me about it.
- Maybe you should talk
About some other stuff
Before, you know, you get into
Talking about your feelings.
- What would I talk about?
- Her new book.
- The book. That's good.
- Yeah. That's great.
- Ok. I'll try.
- Oh, that's the spirit,
Uncle sigmund.
Now, where can we find
Natalie mcnally?
- She's a gorilla expert, so I
Think I know just who to ask.
Come on.
- I'll catch up
With you guys later.
I'm gonna finish the book.
- [Humming]
- There's paul.
- Hi. Have you seen
Natalie mcnally?
- Mm-hmm. Mm.
- The lady with the binoculars?
- Is she studying you, paul?
- Mm-hmm.
- This is fascinating.
The gorillas I have observed
In africa spend their afternoons
Picking bugs out if their fur
And eating bananas,
But from what I have observed
Through my binoculars,
This gorilla seems to spend
His afternoon
Doing a daily crossword puzzle,
Drinking iced tea,
And now he's communicating
With humans.
- Oh, uncle sigmund,
This is chance.
- What should I say?
- What sort of things
Did you find out about her
When you read her book?
- What did I find out?
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, I discovered that she
Spent months in the jungle
Observing how gorillas eat,
Sleep, and communicate.
She ate a lot of bananas, and
She is tired of eating bananas.
- Ok, so just tell her
That you read her book
And you discovered that
She's tired of eating bananas.
- So, I read your book,
And I discovered you are tired
Of eating bananas.
So, I read your book,
And I discovered that you
Are tired of eating bananas.
- Siggy.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- So, I read your banana,
And I discovered that you're
Tired of eating books.
- Huh?
- Ohh.
- Mm!
- Excuse me.
- Siggy?
- Uncle sigmund!
- Wait.
- Ugh, what?
- Ugh, what?
- Don't give up.
- It goes...
What?
It goes, "ou"
Ok, it goes, "ou"
Announce it with your mouth
Makes the world go round
What?
It goes...
It goes, "ou, ou, ou"
What?
It goes, "ou"
It goes, "ou, ou, ou"
What?
It goes, "ou, ou, ou"
What?
It goes, "ou"
[Beeping]
- Ready, set...
- O-u?
- It's "ou,"as in "go around."
- Go around? I'll try.
Bad idea.
Now we're stuck in mud.
- Watch out.
- Watch out for what?
- That cloud.
- I can't see.
- Uh-oh. Big mouth.
- Big mouth? Guh!
That is a big mouth.
- Stop talking
And just go around.
- Ok. Aah.
- I'm proud of you.
- Thank you, bob.
- [Beatboxing]
- I am mouth.
- Now you're scaring me.
- So, what's happened so far?
- Uncle sigmund,
You look flustered.
- Who? Why?
What makes you say that?
- Well, you seem confused,
Upset, and nervous.
- I'm flustered because I'm
In love with natalie mcnally,
But I'm too shy to tell her.
- Lisa, we need you help.
- Hey, you guys!
- There's natalie,
But what is she doing?
- She's hiding so that
She can observe paul.
She's watching him and
Noticing all of the different
Things that he does.
- She's using binoculars
To watch paul.
- That way, she can be far away
But still see him
Like he's up close.
- Now's your chance.
Go talk to her.
- I, er, um ,uh--
- Wow, he really is flustered.
Look how upset
And nervous he is.
- It's hopeless.
- No, it's not.
I was able to observe
The problem,
And I know how to help.
- You do?
- You do?
- Yep.
- Yay!
- Yay!
- Mm mm. Mm mm mm.
- This incredible gorilla
Plays basketball like a pro.
Is there anything he cannot do?
- Mm mm! Mmm!
- So, explain this plan
To me again.
- All right.
You're gonna go over there.
You're gonna be yourself,
And if you start to feel
A little flustered,
You just look at lisa.
She'll throw a word ball.
You'll know exactly what to say.
- Right. Right.
- Yes.
- How could this go wrong?
- It can't. Uh, she's that way.
- Oh.
- There you go.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.
I didn't think you'd come back.
- Oh, uh, uh, uh...
Uh, uh, uh...
"What are you up to?"
- I am observing
This remarkable gorilla.
- Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh...
"May I observe him with you?"
- Sure. Want to share
My binoculars?
Observe the ape
From this hidden location
Observe the ape
Enjoy an ice cream cone
Observe the ape,
And what's your observation?
- "I observe
The ape is alone"
- Oh, how true
Observe the ape
At his piano lesson
Observe the ape,
His technique, and control
What does he play?
- I think,
But I'm just guessin'
That he plays the sad,
Sad song within his soul
- Oh, how deep
- He plays the sad,
Sad song within his soul
- I didn't tell him to say that.
- Those are his words?
- He plays a love song
To a girl who's caught his eye
A girl he cannot ask out
On a date
- Why not? Why not?
- Because he tries to speak,
But, sadly, I'm too shy
- Wait. What?
- I cannot find
The words to tell you--
Wait, wait did I say i?
- You did say I
- I did say I
- I'm not sure why
- Here we go.
- "I--shashneechahashah"
- What?
- Sigmund?
- I'd like to fix your hat.
It's not on straight.
- He choked.
- Mm. Mm.
- Observe the ape
- The ape, I was forgetting
- He's over here,
Don't look at me that way
- Mm? Mm. Mm-mm.
- He may not speak,
But you know what I'm betting
- What?
- He'll tell me
How he feels someday
- I'm sure he'd like to.
- He'll tell me how he feels
- Tell you how he feels
- Someday
- Someday
- It's been so nice spending
Time with you, sigmund.
It reminds me
Of our second-grade trip
When you were so nice to me,
And I first started to feel--
Goodness, look at the time.
I have to get ready to autograph
Copies of my book.
- Ok.
- I have an extra ticket.
- Maybe you could sell it.
- Ohh!
- I mean, uh, "thank you.
I'd love to come."
I got so flustered,
I forgot to read my lines.
- What do you mean,
Read your lines?
You mean, all the things
You've been saying
All this time, they were
Somebody else's words?
- Uh, uh, uh...
A little help here?
- Uh, not really. No.
- Just admit it.
- I'm sorry.
You don't like me, do you?
- How can you feel--
It's all spelled out
On the cover of my book.
[Wheels squeaking]
- Mm!
- Yeah. That didn't go
As well as I'd hoped.
- Yeah, not so much.
- Mm mm.
Mm-mm.
- This is how I feel
When I am really sleepy
But I have to get up, anyway.
It starts with "gr,"
And then we have an "o."
Normally, the "o"makes
The "ah"sound,
But when "o"is next to "u,"
It usually makes the "ou"sound,
So we've got...
Yeah. That's how I feel,
Just grouchy.
- Period.
Exclamation point.
Question mark.
[Buzzer]
- This is a spamboni
Punctuation switcheroni remote.
It has the power
To change the meaning
Of any sentence I choose.
Period.
Let's try an exclamation point.
Ha ha ha!
What else can I try? Uh...
Oops. A question mark.
There is no question
That I am a great genius.
I will do what
Any great genius would do.
I will answer the question...
The answer is yes, period.
No. Wait.
Yes, exclamation point.
Yes!
[Organ plays "charge"]
- Ball .
- Timeout!
Yeah.
- Play ball!
- [Exhales]
- Strike . You're out!
- Win! Yes! Whoo! Ah.
- Punctuation mark
Punctuation mark
Punctuation mark
Punctuation
When you see
A punctuation mark
Yeah, you have to know
What to do
A period, comma,
Question mark
And an exclamation point,
Too
So, when you see
A punctuation mark
You have to know what to do
A period shows that
A sentence is over.
A question mark shows
You're asking a question.
An exclamation point
Expresses excitement. Hey!
A comma means you slow down,
Pause, take a breath.
When I want to go to spain,
I hop onto my plane.
When you see
A punctuation mark
You have to know
What to do
A period, comma,
Question mark
And an exclamation point,
Too
They're in every sentence
That you read or write
Take a look, it's true
So, when you see
A punctuation mark
- Thank you so much for coming.
- She loves me not.
She loves me not.
She loves me not.
- He's been doing this
For an hour.
- She loves me not.
- He's gonna run out of daisies.
- She loves me not.
- You guys are
The electric company.
Can't you do something?
- What?
Do you want me to go
Get more daisies?
- It's no use. She loves me not.
- Sigmund, I think you're wrong.
I think she does
Have feelings for you.
- What did she say?
"It's all spelled out
On the cover of my book"?
- I'll tell you who she
Has feelings for--gorillas.
Look at this.
"I heart melvin and ursula
And blah, blah, blah."
I'd give anything
To be a gorilla.
- Look again. See how she
Named her gorilla friends?
"Melvin, ursula, desmond, sally,
Ivan, nancy, and gertrude."
Maybe there's
A scrambled message.
See anything, annie?
- Oh, it's too many words.
- Ok. Well, what if we just used
The first letters
Of these names?
- "I love mudsing"?
- Oh, I see something.
"Sigmund.""I love sigmund."
Oh, she does love you,
Uncle sigmund,
And of course she does.
You are the most lovable uncle
In the whole wide world.
Now you get over there,
And you tell her how you feel.
- All right. I'm going.
Natalie!
Pardon me. Excuse me.
Pardon me. Excuse me.
- Hey!
- Natalie, I'm sorry
About the word balls.
I admit, that wasn't
The best idea,
But I get so flustered
Around you.
- Why, sigmund?
- Oh, natalie, I have to admit
I have feelings for you.
Did I just say that out loud?
- Yeah, you did.
- Anyway, that's all
I wanted to say.
Have a safe trip back to africa.
- Wait.
I'm thinking about not going
Back to africa.
- What?
- Well, this is my home,
And it would be hard
To find a gorilla
More interesting than paul.
- Mm. Mm-hmm.
- Plus, if you look carefully
At the cover of my book--
- I did.
- So, you know?
[Laughs]
Now I'm flustered.
So, anyway, that's another
Very good reason for me to stay.
- Mm.
- What is?
Oh, you mean--
Oh, well, yes,
And I would like
For you to stay,
I mean, if you would
Like to stay.
- I'd like that very much.
- Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm!
Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm.
- Yay! Too much.
- Too much.
Commas help you read a list.
Commas show you
When to take a pause
In the middle of a sentence.
When a comma comes
Before quotation marks,
It tells you someone
Is about to talk.
Get your super value pack
Of commas today.
- [Crying]
- There, there, snookums.
- That's a loud baby.
- Oh, captain cluck,
Baby doesn't know
About commas and quotes.
- Strange thing for a baby
To be upset about,
But have no fear.
Professor helen von chicken
Is here.
- [Bawk bawk]
- She said,
"Quotation marks tell you
That somebody
Is saying something,
And the comma tells you
That they finished talking.
- The comma goes
Inside the quote, baby. See?
- Yeah. That makes sense.
- Smart baby.
- Hmm.
- Oh, well...
- Hmm.
- Hmph!
- Mom, can I have a comma
For my birthday?
- [Beatboxing]
- Ah
- Ah ah ahh
- [Beatboxing]
- Shock, sh-shock,
Lynnie, lynnie, lynnie
- You are totally not
Going to believe this.
So, my mom came home,
Right, and...
Billy is my little brother.
So, billy, what do you have
To say for yourself?
Uh-oh.
I'm in so much trouble.
- Mm-hmm.
- Saw these little lines,
They were floating in the air
And I turned
And asked my mama
"Mama, why are they there?"
Then she noticed
The quotation marks
Up floating by my head
- [Beatboxing]
Ok, well, thank you, mama,
But now I have to go
She said,
"Wait a minute, son,
There's something else
You have to know"
So I stopped and turned around
And said, "what is it, mama?"
So, if you
Have quotation marks
Floating near your head
Remember, you can use them
To show what someone said
But also please remember
The words of my sweet mama
- Wait. That was you
The whole time?
- Yeah, shock. That was me.
How about that, huh? This guy.
- I'm special agent jack bowser.
I love peanut butter,
But not being stuck in it.
It's about to explode,
And I can't cr*ck the code
To get out.
Help me read this.
Huh? Oh.
Aah!
- Feels pretty good to help
People, doesn't it, annie?
- Whatever. I don't even know
What you're talking about.
Oh...
- Hmm. Hmm?
Hmm? Hmm.
Mm. Hmm? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- And action.
- [Beatboxing]
- Uh. We're here.
Electric company,
Kick it one time.
- The time is now,
The day is here
The rhythm
That's you're feeling
The music in your ear
The charge is electric,
And all you got to 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
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
- Oh, taking over.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- And forever.
- Are we on? Are you now?
How about now? You're on?
- Gah, what?
- Eh, what?
- Don't give up. I can help.
- Ha ha ha!
- I've loved her every since
The class trip to the zoo
In the second grade,
But I've never had the courage
To admit it to her.
- Why not?
- I don't know. I don't know.
Ha ha ha!
- Ha ha ha!
- I didn't tell him to say that.
- Those are his words?
- Mm-hmm.
- Snap.
02x37 - Bananas
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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.