mm?
- ♪♪ One, two
A one, two, three, four ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ One, two, three ♪
- ♪ Yeah come on, let's go
- Four, five, six ♪
- ♪ Hey, what do you know ♪
- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Whoa! What comes next? ♪
- Uh, ten?
- Ten!
- ♪ You're the best ♪
♪ We are two,
na na na na na ♪
♪ Me plus you, na na na na na, ♪
♪ We're Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Ca-aat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
(laughing)
(clowns laughing)
(circus music)
- I'm Peg and this is Cat!
- Ohboy-ohboy-ohboy-ohboy!
- And we're both going
totally bonkers right now
because we're spending the day
under the big top!
- The big top!
- At the greatest
show on the planet...
- The planet!
- The circus!
- Ohboy-ohboy-ohboy-ohboy!
- Wow! We're so close
to the action it's like we're
practically part of the
show ourselves!
- Uh... I'm gonna need
a booster seat.
(sigh of relief)
- We've got two tickets
for these two seats
here in row number two!
Two must be our lucky number
or something. It's almost
too good to be true!
(Peg and Cat laughing)
- Two! Mmm!
♪♪♪
- Look!
Ramone is the Ringmaster!
He's so cool!
Don't you wish
YOU could perform in the circus?
- Uh... no.
- ♪♪ Ladies and gentlemen
and kids of every age ♪
♪ Direct your attention
to our circle-y stage ♪
♪ Our animals will have you
on the edge of your chairs ♪
♪ You can count them by two
as they run 'round in pairs ♪♪
Count the giraffes!
- Two!
- And tigers galore!
- Two, four!
- Some monkeys doing tricks!
- Two, four, six!
- Oooh! What a gorgeous tent
this is!
- Absolutely stunning!
A real beaut!
- Still, they could
use air freshener.
- It is a little stinky!
- Oh no! I guess
two isn't our lucky number,
because the two
Neighbor Ladies are sitting
right in front of us,
and their fancy hats
are blocking our view of
the greatest show on the planet!
This is a BIG PROBLEM!
(musical sting)
I'm gonna miss
all the wild tigers,
and amazing jugglers,
and enormous elephants,
and hilarious clowns,
and... Cat?!
- Huh?
- Why, you tricky little feline!
Where did you come up
with all this stuff?
- The snack bar... ?
- You used two, four,
six booster seats to help
boost you high enough to see
over the Neighbor Ladies' hats!
And you know what that means,
ol' buddy, ol' pal...?
♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem
Problem... ♪
- ♪ Solved ♪
Uh, the next word is "solved".
Peg? Yaaah!
- Whoa! Those swinging monkeys
swooped us right into
the middle of the circus ring.
We're so close to the action...
♪♪♪
(crowd cheering)
...we actually are the action!
- (terrified):
Ohboy-ohboy-ohboy-ohboy!
- ♪ Ladies and gents,
the circus now presents ♪
♪ The bravest of Pegs
and the bravest of Cats ♪
♪ A daredevil pair of acrobats ♪
- Daredevil acrobats?!
- Where?
- Right here and right there!
- You mean, us?!
- Looks like we've got
a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
(musical sting)
- I am SO out of here.
- Wait a sec.
This problem may be REALLY BIG,
but that doesn't mean
it's not really exciting, too!
I mean, we've always wanted
to perform in the circus, right?
- But I'm not an acrobat!
- Nope, but today
you're gonna be an acroCAT!
Come on!
Sometimes you just
gotta face your fears.
try new things.
I'll be right by your side.
Whaddaya say?
- (trembling): Well... OK.
- For their very first stunt,
they will change their attire
and climb all the way up
to the highest high wire!
(audience gasping)
- High wire?!
- Ay-ay-ay!
- You said it!
You go climb that looong ladder
up to the platform,
and I'll climb this one.
Meet you at the top!
- I think I'm afraid of heights.
Ha, ha.
- Don't worry, pal.
It's an adventure!
You've got nothing
to be afraid of.
- Waaah!
(audience gasping)
- Oh, no!
The ladders are broken!
- They are?
(drumroll)
- ♪♪ It's time ♪
- Time?
- ♪ Time to see
the acrobats climb ♪
- But our ladders are broken!
- The show must go on, Peg.
- But what are we gonna use?
♪ We need something tall ♪
♪ To climb up that distance ♪
- Pardon me,
might we be of assistance?
- Giraffes!
♪ You're both really tall
Can you reach? ♪
- ♪ Uh, not quite
- But if you stand
on each other ♪
- ♪ We double our height ♪
- ♪ An acrobat girl
can climb up each neck ♪
- ♪ Should we give it a whirl? ♪
- ♪ Why not?
- What the heck ♪
- ♪ Ohhhhh
she climbs the giraffes ♪
♪ Way up to the sky ♪
♪ That girl they call Peg ♪
- ♪ Don't step on my eye ♪
- ♪ She proved
that she's daring ♪
♪ And clever and bright ♪
♪ By stacking tall things ♪
♪ To reach a great height ♪♪
(audience cheering)
- Yeah, but what about Cat?
How is he supposed to get up
to the other platform?
With no more giraffes left to
climb, there's nothing
tall enough to stack!
(honking)
- Yuk, yuk!
- Nothing but clowns.
- That's it!
They may not be tall,
but you can stack a whole bunch
of those little clowns
on top of each other
just like you stacked
the booster seats!
- ♪ But are there enough clowns
inside that little car? ♪
- ♪ If I know clowns,
you can bet that there are ♪
- We have one!
- Yuk!
- And two!
- Yuk!
- And three! And four!
- Yuk! Yuk!
- Five!
- Come on, Cat, one more!
- Whoaaa! Whoaaa!
Whoaaa! Whoaaa! Yuk!
(audience cheering)
- Climb on up, Cat!
- Gulp! Here goes nothing...
- ♪ Ohhhhh
He climbs and he climbs ♪
♪ To the highest of heights
That cute little cat ♪
♪ In the sparkly tights ♪
♪ Two taller things
will stack high as a kite ♪
♪ But a bunch of short things ♪
♪ Can reach the same height ♪♪
(audience cheering)
- I'm so proud of you, Cat!
You did it! You overcame
your fear of heights!
- Yeah, great...
Let's get back to our seats.
- And now
for their next trick...
- Next trick?
- ♪ Our acrobat pair ♪
♪ By this one elephant
will be hurled through the air ♪
♪ The whole length of the tent ♪
- Length?! I was just getting
used to height!
- Height measures
how tall something is,
but length measures
across a distance.
- What distance?
- ♪ Behold our performers
as each of them dares ♪
♪ To fly through the air
over folding chairs ♪
- Oh, wow!
- Oh no!
- What's wrong?
- I think I'm afraid of lengths.
- Afraid? You? Never!
You're the bravest pet I know!
Come on, champ!
Are you a cat or a mouse?
- Mouse?! Where?! EEEEEK!
- Oh no! What are we going
to leap over now?
- This one chair looks good.
- Monkeys! Can you come
down here please!
- All of us?
- All of you! Quick!
♪ Lie down little monkeys ♪
Head to foot, stay still!
Will you reach
the whole length of the floor?
- Yes, we will!
- It worked!
A whole lot of short creatures
reached from the elephant
all the way to the trampoline!
- (terrified): Oh, good!
- We have something
to fly over!
- Drumroll please!
(audience cheering)
Acrobats ready?
- Nooo!
- They will now fly over
all chimpanzees!
- You can do this.
I know you can!
- ♪♪ Ohhhhh ♪
♪ They fly through the air,
the farthest of flights ♪
♪ That girl and her cat ♪
♪ In the sparkly tights ♪
♪ When measuring length ♪
♪ For fun or for sport ♪
♪ Use things that are long ♪
♪ Or a bunch that are short ♪♪
(cheering)
- Whoa! That was totally fun!
- Yeah. That was semi-enjoyable,
but now, let's get out.
Why a spotlight?
Will it ever end!?
- For their final trick...
- I think I'm gonna be sick.
- ...the acrobats will dare...
- I won't do it, I don't care.
- ...to leap through hoops...
- No more loop-dee-loops!
- ...while juggling eggs!
- Juggling?! I love juggling!
- Plus, he's super good at it.
- Well, what are we waiting for?
Hit it, Maestro!
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Watch and witness ♪
♪ The feat of fitness
as they jump through... ♪
- Two! Two, four!
♪ And jump through more ♪
♪ With the highest of kicks ♪
- Two, four, six!
(cheering)
- ♪ Now, the ultimate test
of their expertise ♪
♪ Watch them juggle
on the flying trapeze ♪
- The trapeze?! That's higher
than two giraffes!
- Or six clowns!
- I don't even think monkeys
could reach that high!
How will we climb up there?
- Are the ladders still broken?
- Yes! And look!
The show is getting so exciting,
all the animals
are watching
There's no one
left in the ring
to help us climb up
to the trapeze!
The show must go on,
but how can it possibly go on
if we're the only ones in it?!
I am totally freaking out!
Cat's right. I should count
backwards from ten by twos
to calm down. Ten, eight, six,
four, two... Whoooooooa...
- Whoa-oh-oh!
(audience gasping)
- Cat, you egg-headed genius,
you got the animals
out of the audience
and back into the ring!
- Can't talk. Must concentrate.
- Now we just have to stack
everybody high enough,
so we can climb up
to the trapeze.
Hold on! Here we go!
- ♪♪ Behold, our acrobats
will start to assort ♪
♪ A stack of creatures
tall and short ♪
♪ The more that they stack,
the higher it will go ♪
♪ Can it reach the trapeze?
- Not quite ♪
- ♪ They've run out of
creatures! They'll
just have to stop ♪
- Wait! Here's two
Neighbor Ladies to stack
to the top!
- What a splendid view!
- They still could use
air freshener.
♪♪♪
- By knowing about height
and length and counting by twos
Cat and I were able to do
three amazing stunts!
- Math really wowed the crowd!
- And so...
♪♪ Problem solved
- The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ We solved the problem
- So everything is awesome ♪
- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪
- ♪♪ Ohhhh ♪
♪ They climbed all the way
to the flying trapeze ♪
♪ With elephants, clowns,
and a few chimpanzees ♪
♪ You can measure a distance,
that's far or that's high ♪
- ♪ Using pairs of giraffes
- ♪ Some clowns just
for laughs ♪
- ♪ A barrel of monkeys
- Elephants with trunkies ♪
- ♪ A tiger or maybe...
- Your own neighbor lady ♪
- ♪ You'll go high and far ♪
♪ You're bound to succeed ♪
♪ But the bigger your beast,
the fewer you'll need ♪♪
(audience cheering)
- Whoops!
(Peg giggles.)
- That squirting flower
is so cool!
- I know!
- It goes high.
Higher. Super high!
- Yesss!
- But you know my favorite thing
it does, right?
- - Face squirting!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
- So funny, right?
- You can't not laugh! Oh! Oh!
(laughing)
♪♪♪
- ♪ We're splashing
in the bath♪
- ♪♪ One, two
A one, two, three, four ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ One, two, three
- Yeah come on, let's go ♪
- ♪ Four, five, six
- Hey, what do you know ♪
- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Whoa! What comes next? ♪
- Uh, ten?
- Ten!
- ♪ You're the best ♪
♪ We are two
Na na na na na ♪
♪ Me plus you, na na na na na ♪
♪ We're Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Ca-aat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
(laughing)
- The buried treasure problem.
- Sounds positively thrilling,
doesn't it?
- A real swashbuckler!
♪♪♪
- I'm Peg and this is Cat!
And you're never going
to believe this,
but somewhere
on this desert island there's...
buried treasure!
- Shhh!
- Sorry. But it's only like
the most exciting thing ever!
- Yeah!
- And we have
just the right tools to find it.
Our friend Ramone
gave us this map
and a measuring stick
to help us.
- It's just as tall as me!
- And it's perfectly straight,
which means it's right
for measuring things.
- And for dancing.
(Cat humming)
Yaaa! Ow!
- The map will tell us exactly
where we need to go
to find the treasure.
This looks like the banana tree
where we are right now!
The map says we need
to go one, two, three,
four, five stick-lengths
along the shore
to a big old rock
where we'll find our next clue.
- Five stick-lengths?
We only have one stick.
- We don't need five sticks
to get there, Cat.
We can measure our way
just using this one stick!
- We can?! What a great STICK!
- No time for dancing, Cat.
Let's start measuring
our way to the treasure!
- But how?
- ♪♪ To learn to measure ♪
♪ You listen to me
Put that stick down ♪
♪ Next to this Banana tree ♪
♪ Keep it pointing straight,
don't let it roll or bend ♪
♪ Mark it carefully
at the other end ♪♪
♪ The distance from that tree
to this mark in the sand ♪
♪ Is the length of one stick
- I think I understand ♪♪
- All we have to do
is keep repeating
this same exact thing until
we make five lines in the sand.
- Easy!
- Kinda.
We have to do it
very carefully
so we don't make any mistakes.
- Yes!
- ♪♪ Put the stick on the line,
now mark the other end ♪
♪ That makes two
Hup! Do it again ♪
♪ Now put the stick on the line,
now mark the other end ♪
♪ That makes three
Hup! Do it again ♪
- ♪ You need accuracy
with each stick you place ♪
- ♪ Put it down carefully
- Don't you leave any space ♪
- ♪ And if we're precise
- And we take our time ♪
- ♪ Soon we'll measure
to buried treasure ♪
- ♪ Put the stick on the line,
now mark the other end ♪
♪ That makes ♪♪
Hey, what happened?
- A wave came up and washed
our measuring stick away!
- Whaa?!
- I think we've got
a BIG PROBLEM!
(musical sting)
- Ah, my stick!
- The stick is gone!
- My sweet stick!
- It's probably drifted
all the way to China by now!
- My beautiful stick!
- We've lost our only chance
at finding the buried treasure!
Noooooo!
- And I've lost the best
dancing partner I ever had!
We were exactly
the same height! Noooo!
- That's it! You and the stick
were exactly the same height!
- I know! I know!
- And since height
standing up is the same
as length lying down, we don't
need the stick to measure
our way to the treasure.
We can use your body instead!
- This body?
- Let's try it!
But remember,
we have to be veeeery careful.
♪♪ Measuring with cats
is a tricky trick ♪
- ♪ Lie straight and still
Think like a stick ♪
- I'm a stick.
- ♪ Feet on the line ♪
♪ No space between
I'll mark your ears ♪
♪ Stay calm and serene ♪
- Sorry.
- ♪ If we've got patience
- And I stay still ♪
- ♪ Soon we'll measure
to buried treasure ♪
Yay!
♪ Keep your feet on the line ♪
♪ Now mark the other end
We've got four ♪
♪ Hup! Do it again, now put
your feet on the line ♪
♪ And what a shock!
Hup! That makes five ♪
♪ Here's the big old rock ♪♪
- It worked!
- And so...
♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ We solved the problem
Problem solved ♪
- Whoaaa!
- Yep, it looks
just like the rock on the map.
- Only bigger!
- And look!
There's our next clue!
This clue is telling us
we need to go
one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven,
eight stick-lengths...
- Cat-lengths.
- Sorry, Cat-lengths.
From this rock all the way
through the forest
to the giant gorilla head.
- Giant gorilla head?!
- The map don't lie.
Let's go find that treasure!
- Peg?
- Cat?
- I told you
it sounded like them!
- You were right!
- What a delightful surprise!
Oh, uh... Hi, Neighbor Ladies...
Sorry, we don't have
time to chat, but--
- We were just sunbathing
on the other side of this rock!
- With the proper amount
of sunblock, of course.
- Uh, that's great!
Well, Cat and I had--
- Oooh! I just had
a humdinger of an idea!
- Oooh! Spill it!
- Why don't we have little Peggy
and her Cat friend join us
for our picnic lunch?
- Great idea, Connie!
They look positively starved!
- Oh, no, we're fine!
- Oh, come on now.
You know you like
cheese, don't you, Peg?
- Of course she does!
- Who don't like cheese?
- I know I do!
- You and my hips!
(ladies giggling)
- And we've got salads,
and spreads, stews and juice.
- Whew!
- Those Neighbor Ladies
are being SO polite,
they're making it
impossible for us
to search for buried treasure.
And that's a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
(musical sting)
- Shhh!
- Exactly. We've got to measure
our way to that giant gorilla
head as quietly as we can.
- Let's go.
- ♪♪ Put your feet on the rock ♪
♪ Mark the other end
- That makes ONE ♪
- ♪ Shh! Do it again
- Now put your feet
on the line ♪
- Ow! Pebble in my back!
- ♪ Mark that two ♪
- Oooh!
- ♪ Stay on track ♪
♪ We need accuracy
from your head to your toes ♪
♪ I'll mark number three ♪
- There's a bee on my nose!
-♪ Hold still, here's four
Quit shaking your knees ♪
♪ Till I get five and six ♪
- ♪ I think I'm gonna sneeze ♪
Ahh... Ahhh...
- NOOOO!
- Phew!
- Thanks a lot!
- ♪ Put your feet on the line ♪
♪ Now mark the other end
That makes seven ♪
♪ Hup!
- Do it again ♪
- ♪ Put your feet on the line
and as the map said ♪
♪ We measured eight cats
- The big gorilla head ♪♪
- Yowza!
- Cool, huh?
And there's the next clue!
Hmm! Looks like we have to go
one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten cat-lengths
to a crate of lemons.
- That's a lot of measuring!
- Sure is, but at least
we don't have to worry
about those Neighbor Ladies
getting in the way.
- Hey there!
- We wondered where you went!
- We had to leave the beach.
- The waves crashed up
on the shore
and positively soaked us.
- Yeah, waves will do that.
- So we decided
to have our picnic here
in this beautiful forest.
- Behind this beautiful
simian sculpture!
- Hungry, Peg?
- Oh, no!
- Tell her what we've got!
- Pieces of pineapple
and pieces of cheese!
- Mm! You like cheese,
don't you, Peg?
- Of course she does!
- Mm, who doesn't like cheese?
- I know I do.
- Oh, no! Those nice
Neighbor Ladies are back
and they're being
as polite as ever! Quick!
♪♪ We've got no time
for sneezes ♪
- ♪ Or noses with bees-es
- I'll measure quick ♪
♪ Then mark and flip, one
- Who turned out the sun? ♪
- ♪ Mark and flip, two
- Got sand on my lip ♪
Pooo!
- Mark and flip, three ♪
♪ Mark and flip, four ♪
- (Ladies): Oh, Peggy dear?
- They're offering more?
- ♪ Mark and flip,
five and six ♪
- ♪ It's times like this,
I miss my stick ♪
- ♪ Mark and flip
seven, eight, nine ♪
♪ We're almost done
- Bruised my spine ♪
- ♪ Mark and flip you once again
We measured all the way to TEN ♪
- Hooray!
- Yeah...
but there's no crate
of lemons anywhere to be seen.
They should be here
unless somebody took them...
(grumbling)
- Big Mouth?!
- Gulp!
- Quick! He's got the crate of
lemons with our next clue on it!
After him!
♪♪♪
- (Ladies): Yoohoo!
- (Peg): Oh no!
- Come join us
for our picnic, Peg!
- We've got baby corn!
- And pineapple slices!
- And cheese!
- We know you love cheese, Peg!
- The Neighbor Ladies
are after us
with bags
of little yellow snacks!
Wait a sec! Cat, are you
thinking what I'm thinking?
- About yarn and laser pointers?
- All the food those Neighbor
Ladies have for their picnic
is little and yellow!
And who do we know that loves
things that are little
and yellow?
- (Peg and Cat): Big Mouth!
- Neighbor Ladies,
I've got just the guy
to join you for your picnic.
Allow me to introduce
you to Big Mouth.
Big Mouth, meet
the Neighbor Ladies.
- A pleasure!
- What a fascinating name
you have! What is the origin?
- And what a gorgeous
coat of fur!
- Care for some cheese?
(burp)
- Oooh! He loves cheese!
- Who doesn't?
- Whew! Now that they're off
enjoying their picnic,
let's look for the next clue
on the crate of lemons.
- Yaah!
- Hm! The crate
has a number on it, ,
but what does
that mean? lemons?
Does it mean we have
to measure Cat-lengths?
But in which direction?
And if we can't figure it out,
we'll never find
the buried treasure!
I am totally freaking out!
Cat's right, I need
to count backwards from five
and chill out a little.
Five, four, three...
seventeen!
- Uh, that doesn't sound right.
- No! Look at the shadow
of those palm trees!
It looks like the number !
This must be the exact spot
where the treasure is buried!
Let's start digging
as fast as we can!
- ♪ Dig dig dig,
dig dig-a dig-a ♪
♪ Dig dig dig dig ♪
- That was fast.
- The treasure chest!
- Open it, open it, open it,
open it, open it,
open it! An arrow!
- That's not the treasure, Cat.
It's another clue. The arrow
is pointing in that direction,
so it must mean
that the treasure
is behind those bushes!
- Let's go!
- Since we followed
the map directions
and measured our way here,
we're finally
gonna get our treasure!
- Math really measured up!
- Can you believe it?!
- ♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
- Oh, yeah!
- ♪ We solved the problem ♪
- ♪ So everything is awesome
- Problem-- ♪
- SURPRISE!
(Cat screams.)
- A surprise beach party?!
For us?!
- Yep!
- Ow!
- "Wow" is right, Cat!
This is the best treasure ever!
- And you measured
your way right to it
with the measuring stick!
- Actually...
we used something
much better...
- We measured in me's.
- Come on, guys!
Let's get this party started!
- (everyone): Yeah!
- ♪♪ If you do it just right,
you can use your own
height to measure ♪
- ♪ Come on, baby,
measure in me's ♪
- ♪ It doesn't take much
strength When you use
your own length to measure ♪
- ♪ Come on, baby,
measure in me's ♪
- ♪ Don't need a license
or advanced degrees ♪
♪ Just stay precise
with careful ease ♪
♪ Repeat, repeat it
- One, two, three ♪
- ♪ To measure
- Come on, baby,
measure in me's ♪
- Surf's up!
- Stick! My long lost stick!
Ha! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
I missed you!
♪♪♪
- ♪ You can measure
anything you please ♪
♪ You can measure your room
or your Aunt Louise ♪
♪ You can measure
from here To Belize ♪
- ♪ In cats!
- Or chicks!
- Or tigers with fleas ♪
- ♪ In neighbors!
- Or pirates on water skis ♪
- ♪ Even aliens
- Or bees ♪
- ♪ Who doesn't like cheese?
- There's fun in the sun ♪
♪ When you've begun to measure
- Come on, baby ♪
♪ Measure in me's ♪
- Cowabunga!
- Come on, baby,
- ♪ Measure in me's ♪
- That gorilla head
was big, right?
- Oh yeah.
- Like maybe...
five Cats tall!
- More!
- Ya think?
- Like seven, eight Cats.
(Peg giggles.)
- Really?
- At least!
- I'm not that tall.
Maybe two Cats at most.
- Hmmm, I guess he's right.
- Huh. We were way off...
- (Peg and Cat): Aaaah!
- Aaaah!
(all laughing)
(theme music)
01x05 - The Circus Problem/The Buried Treasure Problem
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Peg and her sidekick, Cat, as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.
Peg and her sidekick, Cat, as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.