[Serene instrumental music]
♪
[Birds chirping]
- Whoo.
Oh.
- Ah.
- What's wrong, ming-ming?
- I can't lift my snowball.
♪ It's too heavy
- Ming-ming, some jobs are too big to do alone.
- They are? - Mm-hmm.
♪ Sometimes you need to ask for help ♪
♪ You can't always do it on your own ♪
- ♪ When things get tough, one's not always enough ♪
- ♪ Some jobs are too big to do alone ♪
- You don't have to lift the snowball by yourself, ming-ming.
We can help you.
- Great.
I could use a strong friend.
Tuck, you can help too.
[All groan]
- Yeah.
My snowman is done.
- Ming-ming, you can't be serious.
♪ Your snowman needs a smile ♪
♪ And clothes to make it fancy ♪
♪ I'll add this hat for style ♪
♪ There, I call him clancy ♪
- Thanks, tuck.
[Jingling]
- Huh?
[Jingling]
- It's a groundhog in a snowy forest.
- ♪ That groundhog's not wearing a coat ♪
- ♪ And the breeze is really breezing ♪
- ♪ No shoes, no shawl, no clothes at all ♪
- ♪ The groundhog must be freezing ♪
- And it's up to us to warm him up.
- ♪ A shivering groundhog who's really cold ♪
- ♪ This is se-weious
- ♪ We have to help him
- ♪ Let's help the groundhog
- ♪ Let's help the groundhog ♪
- ♪ Let's help the groundhog ♪
Whee!
- ♪ I'm shivering
- ♪ I'm quivering
- ♪ And I'm delivering
♪ Blankets
Nice and cozy.
- ♪ Linny
- ♪ Tuck
- ♪ And ming-ming too
- ♪ We're wonder pets and we'll help you ♪
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
Ooh.
- Cool.
- Hop in the flyboat, wonder pets.
We've got a groundhog to help.
- We're coming to help you, groundhog,
And warm you up.
- Whee! Whoa!
- ♪ Wonder pets, wonder pets ♪
♪ We're on our way
♪ To help a chilly groundhog and save the day ♪
- ♪ We're not too big
- ♪ And we're not too tough
- ♪ But when we work together we've got the right stuff ♪
Gooooo, wonder pets!
Yay!
- Here we are, wonder pets,
The groundhog's forest.
- I see the groundhog.
- Good eye, tuck.
- Hello, groundhog.
We're the wonder pets.
- The wonder pets? I've heard of you guys.
You sing that song.
♪ Wonder pets, wonder pets ♪
♪ Dah da-da da-da dee
- Uh, sort of.
- Tell me, what are the wonder pets
Doing out here in the forest?
- We brought a blanket to warm you up.
- Wow, no wonder they call you the wonder pets.
You're wonderful.
Hey, look at me.
Now I'm a wonder pet.
- Hee-hee-hee. You're funny, groundhog.
- Yeah.
So are saved?
- Yep. I'm even warm,
Thanks to you guys.
- Then it looks like our work here is done.
Time to head back to the classroom.
- You should go home too, groundhog.
- Oh, I would, but I don't have a home.
- You don't have a home?
What do you mean?
- I used to have a home, but it was destroyed
By the snow and the wind a few days ago.
So now I live out here in the forest.
- That's so sad.
- Oh, don't you worry about me.
- But don't you want a home, mr. Groundhog?
- Want a home? Of course I do.
There's nothing like home.
♪ I adore the forest
♪ It's clean and beautiful
♪ You can hear the birds sing if you listen ♪
[Bird singing]
♪ But although I love this view ♪
♪ No matter what I do
♪ I feel like something's missing ♪
♪ Home
♪ A place where you can lay your head each night ♪
♪ I think of home
♪ When you're there, everything feels right ♪
♪ I know that it sounds childish ♪
♪ Wishing for walls and doors ♪
♪ But a home is the one place ♪
♪ A place that's really yours
♪ Home
♪ I dream about my cozy little den ♪
♪ I dream of home
♪ What it would be like
♪ To have one again
♪ Dah da-da dee
- Linny, we have to do something for the groundhog.
We can't just leave him out here.
- But how can we get groundhog a home?
- There's lots of space in the forest.
Why don't we just look for a home?
- Good idea, ming-ming.
Let's spread out and search for a place
Where the groundhog can live.
- We'll be right back, groundhog.
- ♪ I bet groundhog could live inside this tree ♪
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- ♪ We live here already - oh.
- I found the perfect house.
♪ Groundhog can live inside these bushes ♪
Or not.
♪ They're full of skunky tushes ♪
No offense.
- The groundhog can live here.
♪ There's a door and a sign ♪
♪ It's the perfect place
- Excuse me, little turtle.
♪ There's just no space
- Sorry.
- That's okay, baby deer.
Thanks anyway.
- ♪ There are no houses in this forest ♪
♪ Anymore-est
- You're right, ming-ming.
All the houses have been taken.
- Hiya, wonder pets.
Why the long faces?
- Groundhog, we tried to find a house for you,
But there aren't any left in the forest.
- Well, there's one thing
You wonderful pets are forgetting.
- What?
- ♪ Here's a little fact that's sure to astound ♪
♪ Groundhogs live in the ground ♪
- Huh, that makes a certain kind of sense.
- We build our houses by digging in the dirt,
Or in this case, the snow.
- So all we need to do is dig you a house?
Stand aside, groundhog,
And I will dig for you.
Oh, hey, this ground is frozen.
- Oh, no.
It's too hard for us to dig.
- Thanks for trying, you three,
But it's really starting to snow out here.
You guys should head on home.
- Groundhog's right.
- But we can't leave the groundhog.
It's too cold to stay outside.
- ♪ This is se-wious
- Wonder pets, we have to figure out a way
To give groundhog a home.
- We already tried, linny, but we just couldn't do it.
- Just like when I couldn't lift my snowball.
- But you lifted your snowball when linny and I helped you.
- That's it.
This job is too big to do alone.
We need to ask for help.
- Huh?
- ♪ Sometimes we need to ask for help ♪
♪ We can't always do it on our own ♪
- Yeah.
♪ When things get tough
- ♪ Three's not always enough
- ♪ Some jobs are too big to do alone ♪
- ♪ We can build a home for groundhog
If we ask for help.
- But who can we ask?
- I know.
We can see if the forest animals
Will help us build groundhog a home.
- Yeah.
Let's spread out and ask for help.
♪ Linny
- ♪ Tuck
- ♪ And ming-ming too
- ♪ We're wonder pets and we'll help you ♪
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
- We did it.
We built a home for groundhog.
- Yay!
- What do you think, mr. Groundhog?
Do you like it?
- Do I like it?
It's wonderful.
♪ I love the tunnel and the sweet old sign ♪
♪ I can't believe that this is mine, all mine ♪
♪ I've never felt better than I feel today ♪
♪ I've got a home, and this is where I'll stay ♪
♪ I used to feel defeated, I was sad as could be ♪
♪ But this is what I needed, and now look at me ♪
♪ I couldn't have completed this job on my own ♪
- ♪ But together we succeeded ♪
- ♪ Now you've got a home ♪
- ♪ We didn't want to leave you ♪
♪ Out here in the winter and the snow ♪
- ♪ But now you have given a home for me to live in ♪
♪ I'm the happiest groundhog I know ♪
- ♪ Now you have a place that you can go every night ♪
- ♪ Somewhere to go to bed and pull the covers tight ♪
- ♪ A place that you can go when the snow starts to fall ♪
- ♪ I've got a home now thanks to you all ♪
- ♪ When we learned about you
♪ We wanted to do what we could ♪
- ♪ So we all lent a hoof to build walls and a roof ♪
- ♪ Now you're part of the neighborhood ♪
- ♪ This never could have happened without turtle tuck ♪
♪ Linny the guinea pig and ming-ming the duck ♪
♪ Thanks to you three, I'm not out here alone ♪
♪ Thank you, everyone
♪ Now I've got a home
♪ Da-da-da-da dee
[Wild birds singing]
[Percussive instrumental music]
♪
- [Sniffing]
[Bell rings]
- ♪ There, our track is finished ♪
- We have pink cars and blue cars.
Which one would you like to play with, ming-ming?
- ♪ After careful review
♪ I choose blue
- ♪ I'll take a blue car too
Tuck, which one would you like to play with?
- Um, well, if you guys both want blue,
♪ Then I'll choose blue too
- Va-woom.
- [Sighs]
- What's the matter, tuck?
Don't you like playing with cars?
- Yeah, it's just...
♪ I really like the pink car ♪
But I don't want to be the only one with pink.
- Tuck, it's okay to be different.
Just be yourself.
- Be myself?
- Yeah.
♪ Be yourself
♪ Be yourself
♪ Do what you like to do ♪
♪ Don't follow the crowd
♪ Be yourself and be proud
♪ 'Cause no one else is quite like you ♪
- That's true.
- Aw, thanks.
- Tuck, you should play with the pink car if you want to.
- I will play with the pink car.
It's got pizzazz.
♪ It's sleek and it's chic
♪ I think we call can agree
♪ The blue may be you
♪ But the pink is much more me ♪
[Jingling]
- It's a lion cub in africa.
♪ And this little lion cub is looking very nervous ♪
- ♪ Linny, can you show us?
- ♪ At your service
- What's wrong, little lion cub?
- I have to perform for the king of lions today.
But I don't have anything to show him.
♪ Not matter how hard I try
♪ I'm just not good enough
♪ I can't do any lion stuff
- You can't do any lion stuff?
- Nope you got to help me, wonder pets.
- We'll be right there, lion cub.
- ♪ A little lion who can't do lion stuff ♪
- ♪ This is se-wious
- ♪ We have to help him
- ♪ Let's help the lion
- ♪ Let's help the lion
- ♪ Let's help the lion
Whee-hee-hee!
- ♪ I'm a tiger
- ♪ I'm a lion
- ♪ I'm a dinosaur
- ♪ We look very different
♪ But we all say roar!
[Giggling]
- ♪ Linny
- ♪ Tuck
- ♪ And ming-ming too
- ♪ We're wonder pets and we'll help you ♪
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
- ♪ What's gonna work?
- ♪ Teamwork
Ooh.
- Wowza.
- Now hop in the flyboat, wonder pets.
We've got a lion cub to help.
- We are coming to help you, little lion cub.
All the way in africa.
- Whee!
- Whoa! - Whoa!
- ♪ Wonder pets, wonder pets ♪
♪ We're on our way
♪ To help a little lion cub and save the day ♪
- ♪ We're not too big
- ♪ And we're not too tough
- ♪ But when we work together we've got the right stuff ♪
Gooooo, wonder pets!
Yay!
- Here we are, wonder pets,
The african savannah.
- And there's the lion cub.
- Good eye, tuck.
Let's land.
Hi, lion cub.
- Wonder pets, thank goodness you're here.
You got to teach me lion stuff before the king comes.
- No problem, lion cub.
Um, what kind of stuff do lions do?
- ♪ Lion cubs can roar - ♪ roar
- ♪ They can pounce too
♪ But I can't do
- ♪ Roar - ♪ what the other lions do
♪ Now the king is almost here
♪ And even though I'm trying
♪ I can't pounce and I can't roar ♪
♪ Like every other lion
- With our help,
You'll be doing lion stuff in no time.
- Oh, boy.
- Yeah, lion cub.
You are in luck.
I happen to be a great roarer.
- A great what-er?
- A roarer.
One who roars.
- Oh.
- ♪ To make a noisy roar
♪ You start by bending your knees ♪
♪ Fold you arms out in front ♪
♪ And give your tummy a squeeze ♪
♪ Roar
- Whoa, that was a great roar.
Can I give it a try?
- The stage is yours.
- ♪ First I'll bend my bendy knees ♪
♪ Then I'll give a little squeeze ♪
♪ Here I go
[Whispering] roar.
[Sighs] I can't do it.
I can't roar like the other lions.
- Well, you didn't roar,
But that was a great dance.
- But the king is on his way,
And I can't do any lion stuff.
- Don't worry, lion cub.
I know how to pounce.
- I'll show you how to do it.
♪ Put your paws on the ground ♪
♪ And your bum way up high
♪ Give your back legs a push ♪
♪ And then you pounce in the sky ♪
- Wow, that pounce was perfect.
- Thanks, lion cub.
Now it's your turn.
- ♪ First my paws go on the ground ♪
♪ Then my bum goes way up high
♪ This is it
♪ I pounce in the sky
That wasn't a pounce, was it?
- Sorry, lion cub.
- It wasn't a pounce,
But it was a really great dance.
[Dramatic horn fanfare]
- Oh, no.
The king is here,
And I still can't do any lion stuff.
- ♪ This is se-wious
- Lion cub, you're a great dancer.
Why don't you dance for the king of lions?
- But I don't want to be the only one who dances.
- I know how he feels.
Back in the classroom,
I didn't want to be the only one with a pink car.
- But when we told you to be yourself,
You had a great time.
- You're right.
That's it.
Lion cub, you should be yourself.
- Be myself?
- Uh-huh.
♪ Be yourself
♪ Be yourself
- ♪ Do what you like to do ♪
- ♪ Don't follow the crowd
♪ Be yourself and be proud
- ♪ 'Cause no one else is quite like you ♪
- That's true.
- It's okay to be different, lion cub.
Just be you.
- Yeah, if you like to dance, then you should dance.
- Really?
You think I should dance for the--
[Gasps]
- I am the king of lions.
I have come to watch your pounces
And hear your roars.
I have come to see lion stuff.
- The king didn't say anything about dancing.
- That's okay.
- Will the first lion cub please step forward?
Let me see your lion stuff.
- Roar!
- Ah, a roar.
Very good. Next.
- She was so good at roaring.
- A pounce. Excellent.
Next.
- He's such a good pouncer.
- Don't worry, lion cub.
You'll be great too.
- And you, what lion stuff do you have to show me?
A roar?
- Uh...
- A pounce?
- Well, i...
- Just be yourself.
- Your majesty, I'm not going to roar or pounce.
- Mmm?
- ♪ Some lions like to pounce
♪ And others like to roar
♪ But I'm a little different
♪ There's something I like more ♪
I like to...
♪ Dance
♪ I like to dance
♪ I like to skip, I like to flip ♪
♪ I like to prance
♪ See me twirl
♪ Watch me swirl
♪ You haven't lived until you give it a whirl ♪
♪ I can't pounce or roar for you, mr. King ♪
♪ But I'm really good at shaking my thing ♪
♪ Yes, I
♪ I like to dance
- You're doing great.
- Come onstage with me, wonder pets.
We can all dance together.
- Yeah!
- ♪ I'm linny
- ♪ Tuck
- ♪ And ming-ming too
- ♪ We are the wonder pets
♪ And we will dance with you
[Upbeat instrumental music]
♪
- Talk about teamwork.
- ♪ A lion who dances
♪ I can't believe it
- ♪ Well, this is me, so take it or leave it ♪
♪ 'Cause I
- ♪ 'Cause he
- ♪ Yes, I
♪ I sure like to daaaance
- ♪ Oh, yeah
- Very good.
- You mean you liked my dance?
- After years of hearing roars and watching pounces,
You gave me something different: a dance.
I loved it.
- Oh, boy.
- Aw.
- Thank you, wonder pets,
For showing me how to be myself.
- This calls for some celery.
- Mmm.
- Refreshing.
- Yummy.
- Excellent.
- Well, wonder pets,
It looks like our work here is done.
- Please, wonder pets,
Won't you stay and dance with us?
- Your wish is our command.
- Little airplane.
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03x18 - Help the Groundhog!/Help the Lion Cub!
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Series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck, and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to help animals in need.
Series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck, and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to help animals in need.