22x05 - Episode 5

[bunniefuu]

[THEME MUSIC]

THEME SONG: It's a beautiful
day in this neighborhood,

a beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

It's a neighborly day
in this beautywood,

a neighborly day for a beauty.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have
a neighbor just like you.

I've always wanted to live
in a neighborhood with you.

So let's make the most
of this beautiful day.

Since we're together, we might
as well say, would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you, please?

Won't you, please?

Please, won't you
be my neighbor?

-Hi, neighbor.

How's my television
neighbor today?

I'm glad we're together.

In this bag are two things.

The first one I want to show
you is a painting of a tree.

Do you know what
color it might be?

It's a blue tree, and it was
painted by a friend of mine.

I really like it.

I especially like the
story that goes with it.

When my friend was
a little boy, he

liked to draw and paint a lot.

And one time he drew a
tree and colored it blue.

But some big person said to him,
why did you color a tree blue?

My friend didn't draw
a tree again for years.

Not until one of his
very special teachers

told him that in art, the
artist can make things

any shape and any
color they want.

Well, then he started
drawing and painting again,

and now he makes
trees of all colors.

But this blue tree of
his is my favorite.

What color trees do
you like to draw?

Do you like to look at pictures
that other people have painted?

Oh, I keep lots of
slides of paintings

that I like in Picture Picture.

So I'd just like to show some
of them to you right now.

"Hello," says Picture Picture.

Now here's a painting
that some people

found right on the
wall of a cave.

It's very old--


What kind of an animal
do you suppose it is?

I like to see that painting.

Here's a painting
called Mona Lisa.

It's a portrait
of a lady sitting

there thinking about something.

What do you suppose she
might be thinking about?

The man who painted
it is called Leonardo.

He lived in a town called
Vinci, so many people

call him Leonardo da Vinci.

Can you see Mona
Lisa's secret smile?

Here's a painting I like
with different animals

and children and adults.

But I like to see the faces
on those peaceable creatures.

Could look a long time at these.

Mhm.

Here are some people
on the beach in Tahiti.

What do you suppose they
might be talking about?

There's a very big red
flower-- a Red Poppy.

Georgia O'Keeffe said she
wanted even busy people

to see what she saw in flowers.

Looks as if you could walk
right into that big poppy.

How do you like this painting?

I like to imagine
things when I see it.

In fact, I wonder
what Jackson Pollock

was thinking when he made it.

Careful looking.

"Hello," says Picture Picture.

With this Picture
Picture, it's like having

an art gallery in
your own place.

But I'd rather see the
real paintings if I could.

If you ever have a chance
to go to a real art gallery,

I hope you will.

And see real paintings up
close, and take plenty of time

to look at them and
think about them.

I think we'd better have
some make-believe now.

Trolley?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHISTLE]

[CHIMES]

Last time, Lady Elaine
messed up the castle garden

where all of King Friday's
portraits were being shown.

She covered them
all with play clay,

magically with her Boomerang
Toomerang Soomerang.

King Friday was naturally
angry about the mess,

and he told Lady
Elaine to clean it up.

But she didn't want to.

Robert Troll was just
about to do something

that Queen Sara thought
might be helpful.

Maybe Lady Aberlin
could be helping, too.

Let's think about those things
as we watch the Trolley go

by the castle garden in the
Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHISTLE]

[CHIMES]

-Oh, yes, Trolley.

It really is hard.

[WHISTLE]

[CHIMES]

LADY ELAINE: Hey there, toots.

Up here.

-Oh, Lady Elaine,
you startled me.

-I'm a startling person.

How are you coming along?

-Well, it would be easier
if you were helping.

-Why should I?

-Become you made this mess,
and Uncle Friday asked you to.

-Oh.

-Oh, wouldn't you know?

She disappeared.

-I'm tired of your Uncle
Friday and his portraits.

That's all you see
anymore-- pictures of him.

-Well, I enjoyed making mine.

But now it has your
clay stuff all over it.

-My play clay artistry.

-It's not art if
all you're doing

is messing up someone else's.

LADY ELAINE: Well,
now look who's coming.

-Oh, hi.

Robert Troll, am
I glad to see you.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-I'll be right back.

-You don't stay long, toots.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-I have to do it right away.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Yeah.

Another portrait of
the king, I guess.

-Before you do what you
have to do, Robert Troll,

could you do a
short favor for me?

-Oh, yeah.

How short?

-Well, Daniel Tiger
has a portrait

he needs somebody to fetch.

-Oh, I'll be glad
to go see Daniel.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Oh, good.

It's probably the
only portrait that

doesn't have clay all over it.

-We'll see about that.

Where' my Boomerang
Toomerang Soomerang?

-Oh, no.

Lady Elaine, please
don't do any more.

It's already hard
enough to clean

up what you've done already.

-Spoilsport.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-I'm going to go see Daniel.

I'll be back in a minute.

-Take your time.

Take your time.

There's plenty to do
here for quite a while.

[HUMMING]

-Why, Robert Troll, what
a pleasant surprise.

-Hi, Daniel.

It's always good to
see you and visit you.

-Did you come to play?

-No.

Well, actually, I
wanted to come and get

your portrait of the king
to take over to the castle.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Oh, well, I'm not so
sure I should give it now.

-Oh.

Well, why do you say that?

-I have a nice
frame for it, but it

seems I made the
portrait the wrong color.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-What do you mean?

-I'll show you.

-OK.

[SINGING]

Oh, here.

Let me give you a hand, Daniel.

There we go.

-Thanks.

[LAUGHING]

Here it is.

-I like that a lot.

Boy, that's great, Daniel.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-I know it's a nice frame,
but it's a wrong color king.

-What?

Wrong color?

In art, there's no wrong color.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

You can paint anything you
want-- anything, any color.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-But a blue king?

-I think it's kind of nice to
have a blue king for a change.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-You sure know how to
make a tiger feel good.

[LAUGHING]

I was afraid it was all wrong.

-Oh, no.

It's all right with this troll.

Matter of fact, I'll take
it over to the castle.

I've got to get a
frame for this anyhow.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Oh, did you do another
one for King Friday?

-Oh, no, no, no.

This is-- I did something
special for Queen Sara.

She had this idea,
and I did it for her.

-What is it?

-Well, she-- she wanted
me to-- well, here,

let me put this down
and show it to you.

-Uh-huh.

-Uh-huh.

See?

-Oh.

-Lady Elaine.

-But Lady Elaine's the
one who made the mess.

-I know.

But see, the queen thought that
it was because she was jealous,

see?

And if we did a portrait of her,
it would make her feel better.

-And she might act better, too.

-Oh, yeah, because-- exactly.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Well, I have a frame
that would fit that one

if you'd like to have it.

-Oh, do you?

Boy, because I was
just going to go

over and see if
I could find one.

That'd be great.

Daniel, I mean, you are
really a great help.

You always are.

-You're a mighty special
help yourself, Robert Troll.

Come on inside, and
we'll put on the frame.

-OK.

Let me take a look at this.

I want to see.

-Oh, thanks.

-Boy, I like that.

[TRUMPETS]

-Ladies, I presume.

-Correct, as usual,
Uncle Friday.

-I expected this mess
to be cleaned up by now.

-Oh, it's very difficult stuff
to get off, Uncle Friday.

-I expected another
lady to be cleaning it.

The one who made the mess.

-You can expect all
you want, toots.

-I expect respect.

Rhyming or not.

LADY ABERLIN: Oh,
look everybody.

Look who's coming.

Robert Troll.

[LAUGHING]

-Hi, everybody.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Robert Troll, I presume.

-Oh, correct, as
usual, King Friday.

-Yes.

And what it is you
have to present?

-May I present a
portrait of the king?

By Daniel.

-I told him not to
hand in that blue one.

No one ever saw a blue king.

-Uh, that's not
true, Fairchilde.

You've been seeing a blue
king for the past two times

ever since you messed up
all my other portraits.

Daniel's blue king is
fitting and proper.

-Oh, honestly.

-Please give Daniel my royal
compliments, Robert Troll.

-Oh, he'll appreciate
that, Your Highness.

Thanks a lot.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-And Robert Troll, is the other
portrait another special one?

The one under your arm?

-Oh, you mean the
one you whispered

to me about last time?

-Hm.

-Yeah.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-You may present
it, Robert Troll.

-Thank you, Your Highness.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

[GASPING]

-Why, it looks--
it looks like me.

[LAUGHING]

ROBERT TROLL: It is a
portrait of you, Lady Elaine.

-But I didn't know
anybody cared about me.

-Oh, why, everybody cares
about you, Lady Elaine.

Look, here I am trying to
help you clean up your mess.

-Just because we don't
like some of the things

you do doesn't mean we don't
care about you, Fairchilde.

-That's right.

I had a good time
painting the portrait.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-It certainly is a
beautiful likeness.

Don't you all think so?

-It is.

-I'm just kind of
speechless myself.

As I said, I didn't know
anybody cared about me.

-If you were in any doubt
of that, Lady Elaine,

you might have asked.

After all, you have words and
that's what words are for.

Aren't they, Robert Troll?

-Absolutely.

[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Say, how would all of you
like some real clean up here?

I mean, we should
be able to see all

the portraits in this garden.

-Oh, I know I would.

-Yeah, that'd be good.

-I mean, I've done
just about all

I can trying to clean it up.

-It still looks
pretty messy to me.

-At last, she's
coming to her senses.

-We thought she might.

-You're a wise woman, Sara.

-OK.

Are you all ready for
some magic clean up?

-We certainly are, Lady Elaine.

-Boomerang Toomerange Soomerang.

[GASPING]

-You did it, Lady Elaine.

-Now that's more like
it, I should say.

-Wonderful.

-OK.

Settle down, you all.

Settle down.

Now, when you want,
we can display

all the portraits in
the Museum-Go-Round.

-Good idea.

-We could request portraits of
everyone in the neighborhood.

-What a royal idea, Friday.

-After all, I am a king, and
kings do learn from experience.

-That's a true art in itself.

-Boy, I'll say.

Learning from experience.
[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

-Yes.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHIMES]

-It does, Trolley.

[WHISTLE]

It looks a lot better now.

[CHIMES]

-So Lady Elaine
learned that people

really did care about her.

And the king learned that if you
don't have to have everything

for yourself, you're
a lot better off.

As Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll
said, learning from experience

is an art in itself.

That's really something
to think about, isn't it?

Learning from experience
is an art in itself.

Remember I told you there
were two things in this bag?

The blue tree and
something else.

Well, the other thing is a book.

It's a book about some
dogs-- about Spot,

who gets a baby sister.

Here's Spot and his
baby sister and a bone.

Let me show you some
of the pages here.

It says, "Spot, we have
a surprise for you!"

That's what his
daddy says to him.

He says, "What is it?"
"It's your baby sister."

And look behind the door.

There's the mom and
the baby sister.

I like this kind of book.

It has all kinds of
things that you look for.

See that?

What's underneath there?

A bone.

That's a present for Spot.

And here is one with a door.

And there's some friends coming
to visit-- Helen and Tom.

Well, I'd like you to
meet the person who

writes and draws the Spot books.

His name is Eric
Hill, and he told me

I could bring you for a
visit to his place today.

So let's just go to
Eric Hill's studio now.

Come along.

Meet Eric Hill.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Hi, Eric.

-Hello, Fred.
Nice to see you.

-Glad to see you.

Thank you.

I'd like you to know
my television neighbor.

Mr. Eric Hill.

-Hello.

-I was showing my friend
"Spot's Baby Sister,"

and I just wonder
if you could tell us

how you go about making a book.

-Oh, I'd be glad to.

Of course, Fred,
the important thing

is-- with starting a
book-- is the story.

You've got to start off with
some kind of a story that gives

you a plot, and of
course we all know

Spot the character--
at least I do.

I've been drawing
it long enough.

In fact, what
happens with Spot now

is that-- it's a lot of curves
and no other sharp angles

or whatever in there.

MISTER ROGERS: It
makes it so soft.

Did you like to draw
even as a little child?

ERIC HILL: Yeah, I did.

In fact, I was drawing
practically everything.

I thought it'd be very nice
for Spot to have a baby sister,

but what does she look like?

So I have to make
some scribbles.

In fact, I got some scribbles
from the original book.

Would you like to see those?

-I would.

-OK.

This is quite interesting
because you'll notice here

that already she is looking
a little bit like Spot.

And Spot, of course, has
one spot on his body.

Sally, the mommy, has three
spots-- one on her back

and two on the side.

And Sam, the dad, has no spots.

So I had to choose.

And I gave Susie a little spot
right o the middle of her back,

just like mom.

Then, following that, I
thought, well, young puppies--

they spend an awful
lot of time sleeping.

You know, they dash around
the house, and all of a sudden

they go--

[LAUGHING]

And that is so nice
to draw-- depict.

So I thought I'd do some
drawings of the little puppy

asleep.

And then build the
story out from there.

-Now, Susie, you
have drawn in pencil.

And Spot in pen and ink.

ERIC HILL: Mhm.

-But your books are so colorful.

-This, of course, is
the next thing I do.

I do a black line
drawing, and then I color.

Would you like to see it?

MISTER ROGERS: I would.

Thank you.

-Now.

-Oh, that's very much like
this page in the book.

ERIC HILL: Mhm.

Yeah.

I haven't filled in
all this color here.

In fact, would you like
me to color in Susie?

-Would you?

-Mhm.

Yeah, I'd do that happily.

-And you do that with a brush?

-The brush.

Just draw a little
water, and then I'll

put some of Susie's color,
which is the same color as Spot.

And I put my glasses
on, and here we go.

MISTER ROGERS:
Now we have Susie.

ERIC HILL: Mhm.

Oh, you want me to put the
brown on her body, huh?

Let me do this.

-Well, her spot's on
the back, as you said.

ERIC HILL: Yeah.
I'm putting on the back there.

MISTER ROGERS: Uh-huh.

ERIC HILL: Yeah.

There you go.

Now the other thing
I'm going to do

is I'm going to fill in the
black nose of Sam, the father.

And just make the eye a little
stronger, a little bigger.

MISTER ROGERS: What
about the whiskers?

ERIC HILL: O you're right.

One, two, three, four.

That's it.

-Well, that's almost
finished, but in the book

you have this door on this page.

How do you put on the door?

-Well, of course, when I've
finished this actual drawing,

I fill in all the
color behind it

because it's very
important that you actually

do the picture that's underneath
the flap first of all.

But the flap is going
to cover up that.

But first of all, you
do all the coloring,

and then I do the flap on
a separate piece of paper.

Do you want to see that?

-Sure.

I like to see everything.

This must be called a flap.

The doors and all the things
are called flaps, is that it?

Oh.

-There you go.

You see?

-Now that's all different,
filled in there.

ERIC HILL: Uh-huh.

That's all the color
that's filled in.

MISTER ROGERS: And
it's got the words.

ERIC HILL: Mhm.

MISTER ROGERS: It says,
"It's your baby sister!"

Did you have a baby sister?

-I did, but she
wasn't a baby sister.

She was an older sister.

-An older sister.

-She came before I was born.

I was the baby
boy of the family.

-But you did have a sister.

-Uh-huh.

Yeah.

-And so you thought of
Spot having a sister.

-Mhm.

I thought it was nice.

It was-- it was a
nice feeling for Spot.

He's been in a few
books without a sister,

and I thought it'd be nice.

-And now they're
behind this door.

ERIC HILL: Mhm.

And what I'm going
to do now is I'm

going to cut out the
flap of the door.

And here I've got a
copy of the actual flap.

What I'm going to do
is I'm going to cut it.

MISTER ROGERS: And you're
careful as you cut, aren't you?

ERIC HILL: Yes.
You have to.

Otherwise you go over the line.

OK.

Now I'm going to put some
glue on the edge of the flap

that I want to
stick to the paper.

And I position that
so that it covers

the illustration
underneath-- the drawing.

Now you see how it's covered
up a lot of the action there?

MISTER ROGERS: Oh, yeah.

ERIC HILL: And now would you
like to open the door, Fred?

MISTER ROGERS: I would.

Thank you.

ERIC HILL: There she is.

-There they are, the
rest of the family.

-Yep.

-And that's the important
thing, isn't it?

I was just wondering, Eric.

Do you like dogs yourself?

ERIC HILL: Oh, yeah.

Very much.

-And do you have some?

-Yep, I've got three--
three lovely dogs.

-What are their names?

-Well, one is Tiger.

He's the oldest.

And then there's Bud.

-Uh-huh.

-And then the lady dog is Molly.

And the nicest natures you
could wish ever to find.

They're beautiful.

-I can see you love dogs.

-I love dogs.

I love animals.
-Animals.

-I love animals.

-All of them.

-Yeah.

-And you give
animals and dogs and

those wonderful whimsical
animals in your books.

-Mhm.

I believe in fun.

I think the nice
thing about my books--

hopefully-- is the fun
part comes through.

-Sure does.

You've got fun inside of you,
and you're giving it to others.

-Yeah, I'm a funny guy.

[LAUGHING]

-You're a wonderful guy.

-Well, thank you.

-Thank you for showing this.

-It's been a pleasure.

-Well, to think that
every page of every book

that you've ever done, you had
to have the idea for it first.

-Yep.

The idea is the most
important thing.

-It sure is.

-And to draw and draw.

-And you're an important
person and a pleasure to know.

-Thank you, Fred.

-Thank you.

-It's been nice
having you around.

-See you soon.
-Bye bye.

-Bye bye.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Eric Hill likes animals,
so he draws animals.

The most fun about
art is doing the thing

that interests you the most.

I'm interested in fish, and
I better give them some food.

The fish are like a moving
painting, aren't they?

I love their colors
and their movements.

You know, there are all kinds
of artists in the world.

If you can combine the
talent you have inside of you

with the hard work that
it takes to develop it,

you can become an
artist of some kind.

And when you see what
you've been able to make,

it can give you
such a good feeling.

[SINGING] It's such a good
feeling to know you're alive.

It's such a happy feeling,
you're growing inside.

And when you wake
up, ready to say,

I think I'll make
a snappy new day.

It's such a good feeling,
a very good feeling,

the feeling you know that I'll
be back when the week is new,

and I'll have more
ideas for you.

And you'll have things
you'll want to talk about.

I will, too.

-We always have things to
talk about and think about,

don't we?

I like being able
to be with you.

It gives me a good feeling.

I'll be back next time.

Bye bye.

[MUSIC PLAYING]