03x09 - The Flat Woman Problem/The Hanukkah Problem

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Peg + Cat". Aired: October 7, 2013 - April 23, 2018.*
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Peg and her sidekick, Cat, as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.
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03x09 - The Flat Woman Problem/The Hanukkah Problem

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♪♪

One, two.
A one, two, three, four!

♪♪♪

♪♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat humming)

♪ 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? ♪

- Ohhh! 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-at!

- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
(laughing)

- The Flat Woman Problem. OK!

♪♪♪

(police siren blaring)

- Hi! We're Super Peg!
- And Cat Guy!

- Defenders of Mathtropolis!

My Sphere of Focus helps me

think really hard
to solve any problem.

- And I can do
nine clumsy things

without even scraping my knees!

- Which look great, by the way!
- That's Chief Toad.

We're driving super fast
on his Cube Cruiser,

thanks to its brand-new,
super-fast spherical wheels!

- What-i-cal wheels?
- Spherical! That means

they're spheres;
they're shaped like balls!

- Spherical wheels!

- I call 'em "spheels"!
I'm trying to make it catch on.

- And we need their extra speed,
'cause we're trying to catch...

- Triangulo!
(diabolical laughter)

- He's causing triangle-shaped
havoc everywhere he goes!

- How can you tell?
- Just count the sides!

One, two, three sides.
That's a triangle!

- One, two, three.

- Another triangle!
(Peg gasps.)

- Look! He's landing!

And when he does,
we'll catch him!

Prepare to answer
for your crimes, Triangulo!

- Yeah! If you can even
call them crimes.

- Yeah! All in all,
they're pretty minor.

- Yeah! But justice
will be swift!

- Yeah! And probably take
the form of a small fine,

maybe even a time-out!

- Tough talk. I'm sure
he's shaking in his boots.

(siren blaring)

- (always singing operatically):
♪ I have escaped ♪

(Triangulo laughing)
- What happened?

- Someone popped
our two front tires!

I mean spheels! It's not
catching on, even with me.

- This flat tire used to be
a sphere like this tire!

- It's been flattened
down to a circle!

- When it was a sphere you could
ride on it, even bounce around!

- You can't bounce
on this one! Uh-uh! Nope!

- That's because the popped
tires are circles! Flat shapes!

- We can't drive on flat tires!
- This is a BIG PROBLEM!

The triangles that popped
our tires were hurled

from up that way!
- Who would do such a thing?!

- (woman): I would!
- And who might you be,

young lady?
- I'm Flat Woman,

crusher of cubes,

smusher of spheres,

flattener of all solid shapes!

- Whoa!
- And I will not rest

until I've turned--
- Until you've turned

every solid shape
in Mathtropolis into a flat one?

- That's right, Super Peg.
- And I'm Cat Guy by the way.

Really looking forward
to, uh, defeating you.

- That's not going to happen!

As long as Triangulo and I
work together...

- ♪ We're unstoppable ♪

(Triangulo and Flat Woman
laughing)

- Wait, Flat Woman!
Don't you want to
hang out sometime, maybe?

She didn't hear me.
- Joanie!

(weeping): Nooooo!

Why do these villains keep
targeting an innocent doughnut?!

- Don't worry, Mac,
we'll stop 'em!

But first, we need to fix
the tires on the Cube Cruiser!

We need solid shapes,
not flat ones.

- And, uh, remind me
the difference.

- Shapes like squares
and circles are flat,

but shapes like cubes
and spheres are solid!

They stick up
and take up space!

- Solid shapes don't lie flat,
like these flat shapes do.

- Exactly!
- Sol-id!

- If we can't find some spheres
to replace these two flat tires,

we'll never catch either
of those two villains!

(Cat gasps.)
- And I'll never
see Flat Woman again!

To stop her
is what I want. Ha ha ha...

- Sphere of Focus,
I must inquire:

with what can we replace a tire?

That's it, you
cream-puff-loving cat!

Mac, does the doughnut shop
have any giant cream puffs

that are really stale and hard?
- Oh, definitely!

- Bingo!

And so...

♪ Problem solved,
the problem is solved ♪

♪ We solved the problem,
problem solved ♪

- Super Peg, I'm getting reports
of flat, triangle-shaped crimes

down in the skate park!

(police siren blaring)
- Who's that hang-gliding

pig dude?
- ♪ I love triangles ♪

(police siren blaring)
- Oh no!

- Triangulo cut the kites
into triangles!

- You've got to,
like, help us!

- We were really enjoying the
good, clean fun of kite flying!

- Not to worry, teens!
We can fix this by sticking

the pieces back together!
- All right! Let's get to--

- Wah...

(Peg gasps.)

- It's Flat Woman!
And she's flattening

Baby Fox's exercise ball!

- Huh? I didn't even know
babies exercised!

- Gagaga...

(Baby Fox crying)

- Um, there there now,
Baby Fox. We can fix this.

- How?!
- The ball's a flat circle

because all the air got out.
But if we fill it up again,

it'll turn back into a sphere!

Put your mouth
on it and blow!

- I'll blow!

- And I'll entertain Baby Fox!

♪♪ Oh Mr. Baby ♪

♪ Mr. Baby Fox ♪

♪ You've got a diapey,
a diapey on your bottom ♪

♪ And it's so stinky
Stinky, stinky, stinky ♪

- Nooooooo!

- Whoa!
- It's Triangulo!

Come on, Cat Guy!

- Ha! Ha! Ha!

- What's going on, Beethoven?

- I vas going to put on
a concert vis my nice,

cylinder-shaped vind chimes.

But zen zat pig in ze mask,

he starts flattening them,

and bending them
into triangles.

(Ding!)
And now he is dinging them!

I AM ZE DINGER!

- Ugh!

Well, Ludwig, we can try
to fix your wind chimes

by bending them back
into cylinders.

(Peg and Cat
grunting with effort)

- Bend ze metal!
Aren't you super heroes?!

- The goofy, math-doing kind,

not the strong,
metal-bending kind.

- It's no use, Cat Guy!

While we're busy
fixing one problem,

Triangulo and Flat Woman
are off causing another!

- Oh, they're an impressive duo!

And I know from impressive duos.

- You are not that impressive!
- Well...

- All I know is that defeating
these two villains

is gonna be
a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!

(Flat Woman laughing)

- You catch on quick, Super Peg!

As long as Triangulo and I
work together...

- ♪ WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE ♪
- Ugh...

That was right in my ear!

- ♪ SORRY ♪

- You may be tough,
Flat Woman.

- And smart and pretty!

- But you're not unstoppable!
We will defend Mathtropolis!

- Defend it all you want!
We're headed to...

MATH JERSEY!
- Math Jersey?!

- Mathtropolis's neighbor
across the river.

We've got to stop them
before they get there!

- The only way to Math Jersey is
the Bridge and Tunnel! Hop on!

(police siren blaring)

- Aren't there supposed
to be chickens here?

- Yeah!
Where are those chickens?

- ♪ I LOVE PYRAMIDS ♪

(chickens chirping a song)

(Peg gasps.)
- Triangulo stacked

the chickens
into a pyramid!

And if even one of them moves...

- ♪ They'll all fall down ♪

(laughing)

- This is easily
the most diabolical misuse

of chickens yet!

- Though still not really
that big a deal.

- No, not really.

- How are we supposed
to get these chickens down?

And even if we do find a way,

Flat Woman is just gonna
flatten something else! I am--

- (Flat Woman):
Totally freaking out!

- Wait, Cat Guy.
I didn't say that!

- That's right. I did!
(Cat gasps.)

Pyramids aren't flat shapes;
they're solid!

- ♪♪ But they're beautiful ♪

♪ Three faces, each a triangle,
this pyramid has got 'em ♪

♪ It even has a triangle
on its bottom ♪

♪ Like me ♪♪

- Now there's something
you don't see every day.

- ♪♪ But a pyramid's
a solid shape ♪

♪ A triangle is flat
Let's make a chicken triangle

♪ How about that? ♪

- ♪ Absolutely not,
no way, forget it ♪

- ♪ If that's your decision,
you're going to regret it ♪

- How could Triangulo turn
against Flat Woman like that?

She's a sensitive woman!
(Peg gasps.)

- Cat Guy, you soft-hearted
genius, that's it!

Triangulo and Flat Woman are
unstoppable when they
work together,

but if they start fighting
with each other...

- Then maybe
we can stop them!

- We've got to make sure they
keep arguing. Follow my lead.

♪ Just look at him, so proud
of his chicken pyramid ♪

- ♪ You told him not to make
a solid shape, yet he did ♪

- ♪ From one girl to another,
we know what must be done ♪

- ♪ I'll flatten all the faces
of his shape into one ♪

- ♪ She'll flatten all the faces
of your shape into one ♪

- Ha! Ha! Ha!
- Cheep, cheep!

- How's that, Triangulo?

Now your pyramid is a triangle!

- It's working!
If we can keep them fighting,

I bet they'll fix all the damage
they've done to the city.

♪ There's no way that you're
gonna let her get away
with that ♪

- ♪ My precious solid pyramid
- Reduced to something flat ♪

- ♪ Even worse,
she laughed out loud ♪

- ♪ She L.O.L-ed! She LOL-ed ♪

- ♪ I'll take a shape
we've flattened out ♪

♪ And make it solid
- He'll take a shape ♪

♪ You flattened out
and make it solid ♪

(Ding! Dong! Ding!)

- Oh, thank you, little pig man!

Now, he is very impressive.

- ♪ I am not a woman
with whom you want to tangle ♪

♪ I'll reassemble any shape
resembling a triangle ♪

- ♪ Well, I'll unflatten this,
which you went and popped ♪

- ♪ You thought
you were unstoppable
- But you've been stopped ♪

- They tricked us
into fixing everything!

- ♪ We thought
we were unstoppable ♪

♪ But we've been stopped ♪♪

- We just can't work
together, Triangulo.

We've gotta break up
our shape-based crime duo.

- ♪ You've saved Mathtropolis ♪

- Whoopee!
- Woohoo!

- Wait, Flat Woman!

I made you this.

It's an origami heart.

♪♪ Just like mine, it's solid ♪

♪ But tender
through and through ♪

♪ With many sides and faces,
all of them for you ♪

♪ I hope it will remind you ♪

♪ Of your humble friend,
the cat ♪

- ♪ It's very nice, but even so,
I like it better... ♪

- Hahahaha!
- ♪ It's very nice ♪

♪ But even so,
she likes it better flat ♪♪

Hahahaha! Oh...
Tough break, buddy.

- I'm sorry Flat Woman
crushed your heart, Cat.

- Ah, it's OK. I'm just glad

I didn't do nine clumsy things

and scrape a knee.
Whoa-oh! Oh!

There's never a rake there!

It's like, "never rake there,
never rake there,

rake there!" Oh! My nose.

(both laughing)

(both sighing contentedly)

♪♪

- One, two.
A one, two, three, four!

♪♪♪

♪♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat humming)

♪ Peg plus Cat ♪

- ♪ One, two, three
- Yeah, come on, let's go ♪

- ♪ Four, five
- Hey, what do you know ♪

♪ Six, seven
- ♪ Whoa, what comes next? ♪

- Uh, eight?
- Eight!

- ♪ 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-at!

- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
(laughing)

- (both): The Hanukkah Problem.
Hanukkah!

- This way!
- Let's go!

- Can't wait!
♪♪♪

(squirrels chattering)
(birds twittering)

- Outside, it's really cold
and windy and dark.

You do not want to be out there,
if you're a person,

or an animal, or a plant,
or whatever you are.

But inside the home
of Albert Einstein,

it's a totally warm, bright,
just-right night of...

- (all): Hanukkah!

- Hanukkah's this really
special winter holiday

that my pal Al celebrates.

- Mmm-hmm! Every year
since I was a little boy.

- This year,
Al invited Cat and me

to celebrate with him,
and to bring friends.

So we told our number-one
ninja girl Aki...

- I came all the way from Japan!

- ...our space alien
pal Richard...

- I came all the way
from the Purple Planet!

- We even got Ramone!

- I've never celebrated
Hanukkah before!

- None of us have! So let the
Hanukkah celebrating begin, Al!

Al?
- Hm. Mm-hm. Yes.

- So I know you're like this
world famous scientist

who's always having
genius ideas for equations,

but can't you give it
a rest on Hanukkah?

- Oh, Peg. Ho! Ha! Ha!

I'm not writing equations.
You see...

♪ To keep things very simple ♪

♪ So you won't have any doubt ♪

♪ I'm writing down the number ♪

♪ That Hanukkah's all about ♪

- (others): The number eight!

- ♪ Hanukkah O Hanukkah ♪

♪ It's time to celebrate ♪

♪ Hanukkah O Hanukkah
- It's starting ♪

- Awesome!
- Great!

- ♪ Hanukkah goes on-ukkah
so many days straight ♪

♪ One two three,
four five six, seven eight ♪

- One holiday for eight days?

- It's like a holiday-day-day-
day-day-day-day-day!

- What's this object,
Peg's genius friend Al?

- A special candle holder
called a menorah.

And you can call me just Al.

- Thanks, Peg's genius friend
Just Al!

- What's a menorah for-a?
- ♪ Eight nights in a row ♪

♪ It holds the candles
that we light ♪

- ♪ First night, one
Second night, two ♪

- Third night, three?
- ♪ That's right ♪

- ♪ Fourth fifth sixth seventh
- Now's the eighth
and final night ♪

♪ When all eight candles
burn at once ♪

♪ They glow so bright ♪

- ♪ One two three
- Four five six ♪

- ♪ Seven eight ♪♪

- Are there any
Hanukkah traditions especially

for the youngsters?
- Yes!

♪ The kids play with a dreidel ♪
- (others): WHOA!

- ♪ It spins like a tornado
- If I had a little dreidel ♪

♪ I'd shout hip hip hooray-doh
- We also give out presents ♪

- ♪ You do?
- For real? ♪

- ♪ It's true
And look, I got a dreidel ♪

♪ For every one of you ♪

- ♪ It's like
a little game board ♪

- ♪ With triangles and squares ♪

- ♪ A ninja flag for waving ♪

- ♪ A hat a cool cat wears ♪

- ♪ But these dreidels
won't spin ♪

- ♪ Never?
- Never ♪

- ♪ This is
the worst Hanukkah ever ♪

- We've got a BIG PROBLEM!

- ♪ To make this spin ♪

♪ You take it in to ♪

♪ Another dimension ♪

- ♪ Another dimension ♪

- ♪ You got my attention ♪

- ♪ This piece
of cardboard's flat ♪

- ♪ Flat
- It has length ♪

- ♪ Ooooh!
- That's how long it is ♪

- ♪ And width
- That's how wide it is ♪

- ♪ It has one, two dimensions ♪

- ♪ Triangles and squares
also have two dimensions ♪

♪ Just thought I'd mention ♪

- ♪ But this dreidel isn't flat,
it's solid ♪

- ♪ Solid ♪

- ♪ Besides length and width ♪

♪ It has height ♪

- ♪ Height
- That's how high it is ♪

- ♪ It has one, two,
three dimensions ♪

- ♪ Pyramids and cubes
also have three dimensions ♪

- ♪ She mentioned again-shun ♪

- ♪ I want a solid dreidel,
not a flat one ♪

- ♪ How can our dreidels
have three dimensions ♪

♪ Like that one? ♪

- ♪ To give it height
you fold it and add
some glue to hold it ♪

- ♪ It's gone from
two dimensions to three ♪

- Hi-yah!
- Whoa-oh!

- ♪ Glee
- Add a straw ♪

♪ And make it spin ♪

- ♪ Problem solved,
the problem is solved ♪

- ♪ We've taken it
into another dimension ♪

- ♪ Hanukkah O Hanukkah ♪

- ♪ It's candle-lighting time ♪

- ♪ Hey people
- Come on-ukkah ♪

- ♪ The glow will be so fine ♪

- ♪ Fill each candle holder ♪

- ♪ Let's do this
- I can't wait ♪

- ♪ One, two, three,
four, five, six ♪

- ♪ Seven eight ♪♪

(rumbling)
- (all): AAAAAAAH!

- Are there ghosts
on Hanukkah?!

- Be gone,
evil Hanukkah spirits! Hi-ya!

- I want my blankie!
- I want your blankie!

- We can't celebrate
with all that noise.

So, though we don't
have ghosts, we do have...

- (both):
A REALLY BIG PROBLEM!

- It's coming from up there!

- My attic is up there,
filled with--

- Monsters and ghosts?

- Old clothes and books.

- Back off,
old clothes and books!

(all yelling)

- Look! On that box!

- (Ramone): It's a family
of birds...

...being pushed off
by squirrels.

- (Peg): And a family of
squirrels being pushed
off by birds!

- The birds come in
through that pipe when it rains.

The squirrels come in through
that hole when it's windy.

- They both use
the top of the box

as their home
in bad weather.

- Tonight, the weather's so bad,
they both want it.

- But there's only room
for one family.

- So many animals,
so little box!

- Then, let's make a new box
for one of the families
out of this!

- ♪♪ Let's begin
to take this into ♪

♪ Another dimension ♪

- The cardboard's flat,
but to make it into a box,

we have to make it solid.

- ♪ It's got length and width ♪

♪ But it also needs height ♪

- ♪ To give it height,
you fold it ♪

- ♪ Use some tape to hold it ♪

- ♪ It's gone
from two dimensions to three ♪

- ♪ We've taken it into ♪

- ♪ Another dimension ♪♪

- There ya go, birdies.
- Or squirrellies.

(birds twittering)
(squirrels chattering)

- Why don't they like
the new box?!

- Because it's just a box.
It's not their home.

- Al's right. They're totally
used to that box.

Just like I'm used to my room.

- They love their box
sweet box.

- It was a good idea, but...
(rumbling)

- But the noise
is ruining Hanukkah!

- Then let's block out
the noise!

- With a cloak of silence!
- This blanket isn't big enough.

- Then my blankie will help
save Hanukkah!

- The cloak of silence
is complete!

- And the silence is sweet!
- Hanukkah is on-ukkah!

- ♪ One two three
four five six ♪

- ♪ Seven eight ♪
They're all there!

- So, light 'em up!
- I can't.

- We blocked out the sound
of the animals thumping!

- And bumping!
- But I know they're in there,

scared and angry and struggling.

- Just because THEY'RE unhappy
doesn't mean WE have
to be unhappy!

- I don't feel like celebrating.
- Me neither.

Let's take off the blankets and
see if they stopped fighting.

(birds twittering)
(squirrels chattering)

It's gotten way worse!

- My friends have come so far
to celebrate Hanukkah...

- (both): So far!

- ...but Al can't light
the candles--

- Not when there's fighting.
- Stop fighting, animals!

- (all): We are
totally freaking out!

- Cat's right.
- We should count backwards.

- From eight.
- And calm down.

- ♪ Eight seven six five ♪

♪ Four three two one ♪

- That's it,
you genius Einstein!

- How's he a genius?

- He's made amazing discoveries
that changed the way

people think about space,
time, and light.

- Plus I fell
on my bottom!

- And took that box into...

- ♪ Another dimension ♪

- Whoa-oh!

- When their box
is three dimensions,

there's only
this much room to sit on.

- The squirrels and birds
can't sit on the sides.

- But when it's flattened
to two dimensions...

- They can sit
on the whole thing!

- (Peg): By losing the height--
- (Aki): You get more length!

- (Richard): And more width!
- And way more room to sit!

Stand back, animal families!

We're gonna make your home
big enough for both of you!

♪♪ Both families will win ♪

- ♪ True ♪

- ♪ Because we know
how to take something into ♪

- ♪ Another dimension ♪♪

- Can math bring peace?

- Don't be scared,
little animals.

It's still the same cardboard,
in the same moonlight,

where you guys have cuddled
together so many times.

But now, you're sharing it.

We really need you to deal
with a little change.

Please? It's Hanukkah!

(squirrels chattering)

(birds twittering)

- ♪♪ Problem solved
- The problem is solved ♪

- ♪ We solved the problem ♪

- ♪ Everything is peaceful,
so let us celebrate ♪

- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪

- ♪ One two three
- Four five six ♪

- ♪ Seven eight ♪

- Whoa!

- ♪ I got you each
another gift ♪

♪ Keep it somewhere
you won't lose it ♪

♪ It can help you do
amazing things ♪

♪ If you use it,
use it, use it ♪

♪ Use your light
when you come upon a problem ♪

♪ And nobody can figure
what to do ♪

♪ Look from near, far and wide ♪

♪ Look from side to side
to side ♪

♪ Maybe even look
from upside down too ♪

♪ Use your light
from every different angle ♪

♪ Shine it bravely
high and low, day after day ♪

♪ Keep on searching
till you see ♪

♪ What the answer has to be ♪

♪ Use your light
until you find the way ♪

♪ Use your light to make
the cold a little warmer ♪

♪ Use your light to make
the weak a bit more strong ♪

♪ Use your light in the night ♪

♪ And who knows,
you even might ♪

♪ Find a way
that everyone can get along ♪

- ♪ Use your light
from every different angle ♪

♪ Shine it bravely high and low,
day after day ♪

♪ Keep on searching
till you see ♪

♪ What the answer has to be ♪

♪ Use your light
until you find ♪

♪ The way ♪♪

- Happy Hanukkah, Al!

- Happy Hanukkah, Peg...

and Cat.

And everyone.

Hmm... Yes.

- Seven plus one...

- Whoa!

- Wanna play
with my special marble?

- Or my special dreidel?

- You two are so alike,
you're like twins!

- I'm also like you, Cat,

because I love to dance!
♪♪♪

(Al and Cat yelling)

- Aha!

We're triplets 'cause we trip!

(all laughing)

(all sighing contentedly)

(theme music)
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