[THEME MUSIC]
-[SINGING] 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 the 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?
But we are neighbors,
and I'm glad of that.
How are you doing today?
I wanted to show you this.
You know what it is?
It's a megaphone.
Hello.
See?
The megaphone makes
your voice sound bigger.
Hello there.
This megaphone belongs
to Marilyn Barnett,
and she uses it when she's in a
big class of people whom she's
teaching, so she
can be easily heard.
I thought it might
be fun for you
to see a megaphone up close.
Of course, you could try
making one with your hands.
Hello, there.
Happy we're together.
Or I think I have a
paper towel tube here.
You could use one of these too.
See?
You don't have to have
fancy toys like this.
Hello, thank you for--
[KNOCKING]
Let's see who that is.
Oh, it's Marilyn herself.
Hi, Marilyn.
-Hi, Fred.
How are you?
-Good, thanks.
Thanks for loaning me this.
-You're welcome.
Very welcome.
I don't need it, when I'm
working just with you.
But when I have a really large
class, it helps me out a lot.
-Oh sure.
Now you want some
outside exercises today?
-Yes.
And today we're going to
work on some exercises
where we help one another
and support one another.
-Good.
How do we do that?
-Well normally we jog in
place all by ourselves,
but today we're going to
hold hands and step out.
We can take a wide
step and touch,
another wide step and touch.
Bend your knees.
Wide step.
Touch.
Wide step.
Touch.
Step.
Touch.
-It's like a dance.
-Yes, it is.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-Oh, you're going fast.
-And faster.
-Hey, that gets you
warmed up, doesn't it?
-Great.
Do you feel warm?
-Uh-huh.
-Well, that's enough of that.
-Now let's try this one.
I'll have to
explain this to you.
Let's hold hands.
Still feet apart.
-Feet apart.
OK.
-I'm going to bend down halfway.
-Do I do that too?
-No, you watch.
-Oh, I just watch.
-You just watch me bend
down, and then when I come up
to a standing
position, I'm going
to go all the way up on my toes.
But I'm not going to
bend my ankle over.
I'm going to keep it straight
in line, ankle with my legs.
So I'm all the way up.
-And so I'm just
going to hold you.
-You're going to
hold me and help me.
-OK.
-Now it's your turn.
-Oh, you want me
do the same thing?
-Do you want to try that?
-Sure.
-Bend down.
Good.
Up to a standing position.
Now all the way up.
Good.
Great.
And back down.
Now we're going
to try something.
When I go down, and then when
I come up, as I'm coming up,
you go down.
-All right.
-Want to try it?
-Mhm.
-OK, I'm down.
Up.
All the way up.
You go down.
Good.
You're coming up.
I'm going down.
That's it.
Down.
Up.
-If you didn't hold
me, I'd probably fall.
-Oh no.
I'm working with you.
I'm helping you.
You won't fall.
-OK.
I go down.
Boy, I can feel those muscles.
-Good.
That helps the muscles in both
the lower and the upper leg.
Did you like that?
-I did.
Yeah.
-There are a lot of
exercises I could teach you.
But today I had a class to get
back to, and I need to run.
-Well thanks for all
the time you give us.
-You're welcome.
I always enjoy
exercising with you.
-You're always
welcome here, Marilyn.
MARILYN: Bye bye.
-Thank you.
Let's have some make-believe.
I like it when Marilyn comes.
She's great.
Come on, Trolley.
[BELL RINGING]
-Hello, Trolley.
[BELL RINGING]
Thank you.
Well, Lady Elaine Fairchilde
has been magically taking
every vacuum sweeper
in Make-Believe.
Nobody has any vacuum
sweepers at all.
She has them all.
So Lady Aberlin,
and Mayor Maggie,
and Purple Panda,
and Prince Tuesday
are all trying to do
something about it.
So let's make-believe
that they do,
after the trolley goes
by the castle garden
in the Neighborhood
of Make-Believe.
-Hello, Trolley.
Where is everybody?
I say, where is everybody?
-Here I am, Uncle Friday.
-Niece Aberlin, I presume?
-Correct as usual, Uncle Friday.
-And what is keeping you
away from the castle?
-We're still trying to solve the
vacuum sweeper problem, sire.
-You mean Fairchilde
still has them all?
-Yes.
In Make-Believe and in
Westwood, all of them.
-I may have to call
out the royal guards.
-Oh, please wait on
that Uncle Friday.
-Purple Panda is
here, and we're hoping
he'll help us solve
it peacefully.
-I'll give you 17
and 1/2 to do so.
Report back to me then.
-All right, sire.
We will.
-You are excused to
the field, niece.
-Thank you, sire.
-Oh hi, Lady A.
-Oh hi, Neighbor Aber.
-Mayor Maggie had to
go back to Westwood,
so she asked me to represent
our district at the showdown.
-Has Lady Elaine come out yet?
-Well, not that I could see.
But Purple Panda and Prince
Tuesday are over there waiting.
-We better help them.
-Hi, Purple Panda.
Hi, Tuesday.
-Hi, Panda.
Hi, Tuesday.
-Hello.
I thought she would have
come up before this.
-I'm glad you're both here.
-You're sure she has
all the vacuum sweepers?
-Oh yes.
In her VS room.
She got them with her
boomerang, toomerang, soomerang.
-We're getting
some movement now.
-Some circular movement,
faster and faster.
-But what's that on
top of the museum?
-It looks like a big megaphone.
LADY ELAINE [ON MEGAPHONE]:
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Welcome to the museum go round.
We are closed for cleaning.
Ha ha ha.
-But Lady Elaine, you said
you'd come out and talk.
LADY ELAINE [ON MEGAPHONE]:
Why do you want to talk?
-We need to speak
about vacuum sweepers.
LADY ELAINE [ON MEGAPHONE]:
Vacuum sweepers,
vacuum sweepers,
vacuum sweepers.
That's all I ever hear.
Vacuum sweepers.
-But you started it,
Auntie Lady Elaine.
-I started it,
and I'm ending it.
I've got all the vacuum
sweepers there are in there,
so I'll never hear them.
I mean, hear about them again.
-Do you not like the sound of
vacuum sweepers, Lady Elaine?
-No, I don't.
-What does it make
you think about?
-The wind blowing me away.
-And what else?
-Oh, eating me up and
never being here again.
-But vacuum sweepers
don't do that to people.
-They do it to dirt.
I've seen them.
-Oh, but people aren't
dirt, Lady Elaine.
-But what if people get dirty?
-Well, they're still not dirt.
-And vacuum sweepers would never
blow them away or suck them up.
-Never?
-Never people or pandas.
-Do you believe them, Tuesday?
-Oh yes, Auntie Lady Elaine.
Purple Panda helped
me understand
that a long time ago.
-How do you know so much about
vacuum sweepers, Purple Panda?
-A long time ago I was afraid
of them, really afraid of them.
And my purple parents
explained to me and showed me.
-Please, Auntie Lady Elaine.
Please let Purple
Panda show you.
-You mean, with a
real vacuum sweeper?
-If you just loan
him one for a minute.
-Oh, I don't think I could.
-Please, Lady Elaine.
-Oh, but they're so loud.
-We'll stand right beside you.
-Yes.
-Well--
-I promise nobody will get hurt.
-OK.
-Oh, this one's mine.
-Let's hope it will
help liberate them all.
-OK.
Here's one for you
but just on loan.
-This is what my
purple parents told me.
[SINGING] A vacuum
sweeper is just for dirt,
for dirt, and dust,
and tiny things.
A vacuum sweeper
could never sweep
us, because we're not dirt.
We're pandas.
Pandas.
A vacuum sweeper
could never sweep us,
never sweep us, never sweep us.
A vacuum sweeper
could never sweep
us, because we're not dirt.
We're pandas.
Pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas,
pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas,
pandas.
We're not dirt.
We're pandas.
That is how my purple
parents helped me.
-But I'm not a panda.
-But you are a person.
You all are people.
You can sing people
instead of panda.
Try it.
-OK.
[SINGING] We're people.
A vacuum sweeper
could never sweep us,
never sweep us, never sweep us.
A vacuum sweeper
could never sweep
us, because we're not dirt.
We're people.
People, people,
people, people, people,
people, people, people, people.
We're not dirt.
We're people.
-Well, I never thought
of it that way, Toots.
-How do you feel
now, Lady Elaine?
-I feel like I've just
unloaded a lot of stuff.
-Vacuum stuff?
-Yes.
Now you know that
little one's yours.
-Aw.
-All yours.
-Thank you, Lady Elaine.
-Thank Purple Panda.
-Thanks, Purple Panda.
-I thank my purple mom and dad.
-Our help comes from
many directions.
-OK.
Who wants to help me deliver
a car load of vacuum sweepers
to their real homes?
-I'll help.
-I'll help.
In fact, I'll take this
to the castle right away.
-Just come to the VS room.
-As soon as I take
this one to Westwood,
I'll come back and
help with others.
-Happiness to you
and your life ahead.
[BELL RINGING]
-Oh, yes, Trolley.
I'm glad too.
-So Lady Elaine was
afraid of vacuum sweepers.
And Purple Panda was able to
help her understand that vacuum
sweepers could
never sweep her up.
His parents had helped
him understand it.
And he was able to help others.
So proud of that.
You know, it would have been
so much easier on everybody
if Lady Elaine had only
talked about her feelings
about sweepers with
people early on.
She would have saved
a lot of trouble
for herself and everyone else.
Whenever you have
a worry or scary,
I hope you can talk about
it with someone you love.
That can really help.
Now there's a place
in our neighborhood
that I'd like to you to see.
It's an arts
center, where people
do many interesting things.
People helping other people.
Let's just go there now.
I know someone will take us
around and show us things.
Come along.
Bob.
-Fred.
I'm glad you could make it.
-Thank you.
I'd like you to know
my television neighbor.
Mr. Bob Bates.
-Let me show you
what we're doing.
-Certainly.
-Follow me.
-Hi.
-Mister Rogers.
Mister Rogers, you want to
place something in here?
-How can I do that?
-Um, get a piece, and
put it where you want.
-Oh, just get a piece of wood,
and put it where I want it?
-Choose a shape that
you really like.
-Like that?
That looks like something
good too, doesn't it?
Where could I put that?
Where do you think it
would be good to put?
-Over here or over there.
-Over here?
-Over here.
-Over here.
All kinds of places it could go.
And so you just--
-Talk to the children.
Like this piece,
they were telling
me that it looked like a bird.
-Yeah.
-Actually, the beak they
saw here and the shape.
So we like them to
pick out a shape,
and find out what they
think it looks like.
Every shape has a figure.
-But you mean a bird could
even go up like that?
-Yeah.
-Or up?
-Up there.
That's a good idea.
Well, OK.
Now how would you put that on?
-Well, we get glue,
a lot of glue, right?
And we try to balance it out,
so it won't tip over this way.
It won't tip over that way.
I'm very generous with the glue.
So we'll make sure
it won't come off.
So we'll stick it on there.
-The children
don't use the glue?
-No.
-No, the glue's very
hot until it cools down.
It doesn't dry,
but it just cools.
And when it gets
cold, it turns back
into the same kind of
material it was before.
-Uh-huh.
-And so she has to hold it.
There it is.
It's setting up now.
You could still tear
it off right now.
Let's take a look over here.
-All right.
Look at these.
-Yeah, look at these.
Look at this one,
Fred, over here.
It's really tall.
It's a really tall one.
-And they've already made them,
and now they're painting them.
-Mister Rogers.
Mister Rogers.
Mister Rogers.
Would you like to paint
this little bloop?
-You want me to paint some?
Oh, I'd like to try.
What color should I make it?
You want to give me a color?
-Blue.
-One of each?
How can I do one of each?
I'll try.
I'll try some here.
And some of yours.
-That's nice.
-You like that one?
Now where should I
put some of this?
-Right here.
-Right up here.
Is it OK?
You do such good work.
-Fred, let me show you
another one of our places.
-Thank you.
-Thanks.
-Come on this way.
I've got another room
I want you to see.
-Look at this.
-Yeah, look at that one.
-Right up to the sky.
-That's the tallest of them all.
-Where are we going now?
-I want you to see
our music room now.
-One, two, three.
Brian, what about
a different one?
[PLAYING XYLOPHONE]
-Good.
-Hello.
-Fred, I wand you to meet
a very special artist.
Ed is a musician that
works with the children.
-Hi, nice to meet you.
-Ed, glad to meet you.
Thank you.
-Well, welcome to our place.
We've been working on
playing some music here.
We're working with patterns,
something that repeats.
And today we're trying to
play things that are soft.
-Soft?
-Yeah.
So everyone is going
to try to play soft.
And we're just listening.
And we were expecting
you guys, so we
left the beam for
you to come and play.
-The beam?
-Let me show you what
the beam is, Fred.
Come on.
-All right.
Thank you.
-OK.
We use the mallets,
and it's made out
of simply plastic
bottles, string, and wood.
And when I hit it--
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-That sounds nice.
-I'm going to let you
play the metal part,
and I'll use the mallets.
-All right.
-OK.
So when I point to
you, it means you
start playing and keep playing.
And when I give you this
sign, it just means to stop.
And we're all kind of
watching, and trying
to work together,
and make our music.
OK?
-Make a piece together.
-Here we go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-Yeah, that sounds great.
-Ed, thanks a lot.
-Good for you.
-My pleasure.
Thanks for joining us.
-Thanks, Ed.
-It was great to be able to
be a part of your orchestra.
-Oh, so glad to have you.
-Fred, I want to show you
the surroundings right now.
Come on.
Follow me.
-Oh, all right.
All right.
-OK.
Let's switch and get some
different players up here.
Shall we?
-Did you have people
helping you to like
art when you were little?
-My mom and dad did
when I was a kid.
My dad gave me all kinds of
things, paint, and Crayola's,
and wood, and all kinds
of stuff to build.
And I've been doing
that ever since.
Since I've gotten older, I want
to be able to enable kids to do
that, so that they can
believe in themselves
and trust their own intuitions
and their own feelings.
-So you started this place.
-Yeah, with a lot of help.
Come on.
I'll show you in here.
Fred, I'd like you
to meet Robert.
-Hello.
-Nice to meet you, Fred.
We're doing ceramics.
-Thank you, Bob.
What are you working on here?
-Today they're working
on ceramic slab vases.
-Vases?
-Yes.
-I like yours.
What is this part of?
-It's part of the lid.
-Oh, for the top of it.
-Yes.
-Is it fun for you to do?
It looks like it's fun.
-Fred, would you
like to see what
one looks like
when it's finished?
-Oh, I would.
-Let's ask Judith.
-You mean this isn't finished?
-Judith, can you
show us what they
look like, when
they're finished?
-Sure, this is one that
another child made.
And it's been fired and glazed.
-Isn't that beautiful.
-And this is one that Bob made.
-Bob made that one?
-Yep.
-Looks like you're having
a good time with it too.
And you're always helping
these people here?
-Judith and Robert
really help out,
and they set up
the entire program
to do the ceramics
with the kids.
Let's look at some
of the pieces, Fred.
I know you have to
leave soon, but--
-Well, I want to see
what you all are doing.
Hi.
-Hi.
-Is this fun for you?
-Yeah.
-Now you start with this?
Is that it?
-Yeah.
-Now what do you
do with this one?
-Um, get a piece of newspaper.
-Newspaper?
-Yeah, and you kind
of like roll it.
And then you kind
of put it inside,
so the clay won't
stick to the tube.
-Oh, and then you put the
clay over the newspaper.
I see.
-Yeah.
-Well you've learned a
lot here, haven't you?
-Fred, look at the face
on this one right here.
Check this out.
-Oh.
-See how she's cut
the slope on the top,
with that top tube like that?
-Could I show-- could
I turn this around?
Look at that face.
How did you do that?
Just put extra
pieces of clay on it?
-Yeah.
I got some pieces
to make a face.
Like here, I'll put
on like a mouth.
I'll like just get it made
up, and put on the nose.
-Did you have people to help
you to learn how to do this?
-Well, when I was
little in Kindergarten
my sister showed me.
-Your sister showed you?
And now look at you making
all of these here at the arts
center.
-Fred, let's look
at one over here
that's got a lot of stamps.
Check all the stamps out
on this one right here.
-Hi.
That's beautiful.
That's neat for you to make?
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
I wish I could
stay here all day.
-Fred, I wish you could too.
I have to stay with
the kids, but we
want you to know that
you're welcome to come
any time you can.
It's a pleasure to have you
here any time you come by.
-I feel part of your family.
-Thanks.
And we're a part of yours too.
-Thanks very much, Bob.
-Thanks, Fred.
-See you soon.
Bye bye.
-See you soon.
That's gotten really good.
Boy, you really put a lot
of stamps on this one.
Are you going to be able to
take the lid off the top?
Or are you going to keep it on?
-I'm going to try
to take it off.
-Well, if you don't--
if it's not, you could--
-Any wonder children like to go
to that Inner City Arts Center.
They do lots of things
that are really fun.
You know, and the best
part about such a place
is that everyone there
knows that who you are
is more important
than what you do.
That's for sure.
Who you are is more
important than what you do.
[SINGING] It's you I like.
It's not the things you wear.
It's not the way you do your
hair, but it's you I like.
The way you are right now,
the way down deep inside you.
Not the things that
hide you, not your toys.
They're just beside you.
But it's you I like.
Every part of you.
Your skin, your eyes, your
feelings, whether old or new.
I hope that you'll remember
even when you're feeling blue,
that it's you I like.
It's you, yourself.
It's you.
It's you I like.
You.
Who you are inside
is what helps you
make and do everything in life.
Everything.
[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.
I'll be back next time.
Bye bye.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
26x15 - Episode 15
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Rogers speaks directly to the viewer about various topics, taking the viewer on tours of factories, demonstrating experiments, crafts, and music, and interacting with his friends.
Rogers speaks directly to the viewer about various topics, taking the viewer on tours of factories, demonstrating experiments, crafts, and music, and interacting with his friends.