- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪♪ Peg plus Cat
- Tudu tudu dudu du ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat
- Tu tudu dudu du ♪
- ♪ One two three
- Yeah! C'mon 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 ♪
- Yeah!
- ♪ 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 ♪♪
- Cat!
- Peg plus Cat!
- Woo-hoo!
(children's laughs)
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Wandering balladeers
we are ♪
♪ Fa-la fa-la fa-la
- -- fa-la ♪
- ♪ We sing our stories
near and far ♪
♪ Fa-la fa-la fa-la
- falafel ♪
What!? Just mixing
it up a little!
- ♪ In this forest
called Sherwood ♪
♪ We tell the tale
of Robin Hood ♪
♪ He helps when folks
are in distress ♪
♪ By taking from
those with more ♪
♪ And giving to
those with less♪
- ♪ Now we meet Maid Marian ♪
♪ Sad about what
she's carryin' ♪
- Just potatoes, apples--
- ♪ Has she ♪
- I need more to feed my family!
- ♪ More to feed her family ♪
- ♪ Just how much more
to feed them a feast? ♪
- Ten apples
and ten potatoes, at least.
- You must have a large family!
- My brother Hank
eats like a beast!
Hank waits in our hovel.
- ♪ To feast like a beast ♪
- He needs ten apples
and ten 'taters
- ♪ (together): At least ♪
- Who's over by THAT tree?
- ♪ The fair Maid Mora ♪
♪ Has quite a chore-a ♪
♪ To lift her basket
is quite a task ♪
♪ It Is way too heavy for Mora
- I'm sure-a ♪
- How many apples
and potatoes have you?
- apples
and potatoes!
But I can't possibly carry
more than ten of each
all the way
to my castle, hello!
- If I only had more!
- If I only had less!
- ♪ I am the gallant
Robin Hood ♪
♪ And lest I be misunderstood ♪
♪ I should I could,
I DO do good ♪
- ♪ (Peg and Cat): Says he
the gallant Robin Hood ♪
- ♪ I'm handsome YES
I must confess ♪
♪ Quite good looking
I digress ♪
♪ My mission in life
I proudly stress ♪
♪ Take from those with more ♪
♪ And give to those with less ♪
- ♪ If someone has more ♪
- ♪ He evens the score ♪
- ♪ (all three): By giving
to someone with less ♪♪
- Two fair maidens with too many
and too few. I, Robin Hood,
shall even the score!
Done!
- Robin Hood took from Marian
who had LESS and gave to Mora
who had MORE!
- Now I've got even LESS, alas!
- And I've got
even MORE, hello!
- Robin Hood! Wait!
- You're supposed to take
from the one with MORE
and give to the one with LESS!
- Which is what I,
Robin Hood, just did!
- Uh, not really!
Do you know the difference
between more and less?
- More is the one
that's less, right?
- Robin Hood doesn't
know the difference
between more and less!
The people of Sherwood Forest
have a BIG PROBLEM!
(twang of a string)
- Whoa.
- A line! That's it,
you genius balladeer!
We could show Robin
Hood more or less
using a number line.
- Maiden Marian, how many
potatoes do YOU have?
- I have but one.
- And you, Mora?
- So, I've got, like, .
- But which is more
and which is less?
- is all the way up here,
which means it's
much higher than one
which is all the way down here.
Higher number, more;
lower number, less!
- Ah, yes! I see!
♪♪ potato potato
potato, ♪
♪ potato potato
and still more ♪
♪ potato potato ♪
- ♪ And that's all
the potatoes I needed ♪
- ♪ She said ♪
(bell ring)
- ♪ In terms of potatoes ♪
♪ Hank will be fed ♪
- ♪ I have more than before ♪
- ♪ I have less than before ♪
- ♪ Carrying those
won't be so great a chore ♪
- ♪ He evened the score
- And I'm still just ♪
♪ As handsome
Perhaps even more ♪♪
- Now Robin Hood
knows the difference
between more and less!
- Yay!
- And so...
♪♪ Problem solved
the problem is solved ♪
We solved
the problem problem--
- Not yay.
- Oh, no!
It's NOT!
- It's NOT!
- It's NOT!
- It IS!
- ♪ (all): The Sheriff
of NOT-tingham ♪
- ♪ Wants way more
than he's GOT-tingham ♪
- He's got a whole LOT-tingham!
- ♪ That rotten Sheriff
of NOT-tingham ♪
- ♪ Sheriffs are meant
to help you ♪
♪ Some can't help enough ♪
- ♪ The only helping
this sheriff does ♪
- ♪ (Peg and Robin): Is helping
himself to your stuff ♪
♪ That rotten Sheriff
of NOT-tingham ♪
- (other whispering): tingham,
tingham, tingham, tingham!
- The greedy Sheriff
is out to get more
for his sack
today! So run home
with your goodies
before he takes them!
- But even though
you solved our potato problem,
I still don't have
enough apples for Hank!
- And I can't possibly
carry all these apples.
- Robin Hood has to get
everybody the right amount
of apples before the Sheriff
takes all their food!
We've got a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
We're counting
on YOU counting, Robin Hood.
- One two, uh... I,
Robin Hood, am not good
at counting really fast.
- Don't worry, Robin,
counting's not the only way
to figure more and less!
♪♪ When you're in a rush
with no time to count ♪
- ♪ Fa-la fa-la fa-la ♪
- ♪ Take a careful guess
at the amount ♪
- ♪ Fa-la fa-la fa-la ♪
- (both): ♪ You can estimate
- If estimate means guess,
I, Robin Hood,
can do it!
- All the apples
are about the same size.
So, the bigger pile has more
and the smaller pile has less.
- I ask myself: Self,
which pile looks bigger
and which looks smaller?
And I answer: This one looks
bigger, and that one smaller!"
- And is bigger MORE
or LESS than smaller?
- Uh...
- He really has trouble
with the concept.
- Can't you, like,
tell him already?
- Robin has to figure
this out himself.
- It's the only way he'll learn.
- Someone approaches!
- The sheriff!
- Like, Oh!
- (everybody): Friar Ramone!
- Ramone! What are
YOU doing here?
- Working as a friar.
That's someone who helps others
while wearing a brown hood. Want
anything from my sack of shapes?
- The problem we're dealing with
has nothing to do with--
- RRR!
- Actually there IS a shape
that could help.
Thanks, Friar Ramone.
- I do what I can.
- This shape is
the sign for MORE than.
And THIS means LESS than.
- How will I remember
which is which?
- Think of the open end
as a hungry mouth.
It wants to eat from the pile
that has more.
- Me too!
- So do I!
- I as well!
I know, right?
- Big hungry mouth
wants to eat MORE!
- He's taking from the pile
with more apples...
- Go Robin!
- ... and giving
to the pile with less!
- My basket has enough
to feed my brother!
- My basket is light
enough to, like, carry!
- Oh, thank you, Robin!
- Later!
- Get home safely!
♪♪ I should I could ♪
I did do good
- ♪ (both): Says he,
the gallant Robin Hood ♪
- And we never even saw,
uh, what's his name?
- (the maids):
The Sheriff of Nottingham!
- ♪ They'll get a time-out
in his rolling room ♪
♪ His terrible dungeon
of doom and gloom ♪
- ♪ They can yell, holler
and scream and shout ♪
- ♪ But no sound
can ever get out ♪
- ♪(both):
And neither can they ♪♪
- What's this see-saw thingy?
- A pan balance. It's another
way to figure more and less.
This side is tipping down
'cause it's heavier.
It has more weight. When there's
more weight on the other side
it tips that way,
and the door locks.
- You have so much already,
you wicked sheriff.
And yet you take ours?
- Yeah, what's that about?
- ♪♪ More ♪
♪ Is what I adore ♪
♪ Though I've goodies galore ♪
♪ I always want more ♪♪
- He took almost
all our food!
- ♪♪ O Robin Hood ♪
- ♪ Please do good ♪
- I, Robin Hood,
shall save the day!
First, I must find that wicked
Sheriff wherever he might be!
- He be right over there!
- The Sheriff took all
they have but these.
So they're the ones with way--
- More!
- Surely, you are wrong.
- I goofed. And don't
call me Shirley!
I am Robin Hood,
taker from those with more
and giver to those with less.
- So let's make THAT happen!
- You don't have
time to count. So--
- ♪♪ Take a careful guess
at the amount ♪
♪ You can ♪
- Estimate!
- And we can help!
- Open mouth wants MORE!
Which is there! Less,
to the tune of none, is HERE!
So here I go!
- Taking from more, and...
giving to less!
- Uh, hello!
- I can't carry all these!
- Keep your eye on the sign.
- Hungry mouth wants more,
so I take from the more
and give to the less!
- I have enough
to feed my family.
But not too much to carry!
- Same here!
- ♪♪ I am the gallant
Robin Hood ♪
♪ And less and more
I've understood ♪
♪ I must go tell
the neighborhood ♪
- ♪ (Peg and Cat): And so the
Sheriff known for his greed ♪
♪ Was made to look
very foolish indeed ♪
- ♪ So utterly
totally foolish was he ♪
♪ It makes me laugh tee heeeee ♪
- Uh, Peg!
- Hee?
- ♪ More ♪
- We're balladeers,
your Sheriff-ness!
- ♪ I had more before... ♪
- We just TELL the story!
- We don't want to be IN it!
- ♪ ... until I did snore ♪
♪ A time-out is in store ♪♪
- It's the balladeers,
in that cozy little cabin
with the pan balance!
Hello, friends!
I'll give them an apple
so they can have more.
But how do I open
this unusual door?
It looks like
Balladeer Peg
is totally
freaking out...
with joy! Cat is...
holding up his paws...
as Peg counts
backwards from
five, four,
three, two,
one. What a merry game!
Now they're playing
with that shape.
Hungry mouth wants MORE.
I, Robin Hood, should
take from the pan with MORE
And give to the pan with LESS!
You amazing
genius Robin Hood!
- ♪♪ By knowing less and more
he opened the door ♪
- ♪ And helped the maids
with their goodies before ♪
- ♪ Using math you can
even the score ♪
- And so...
- ♪ (all three): Problem solved
- Fa-la fa-la fa-la ♪
- ♪ The problem is solved
- Fa-la fa-la fa-la ♪
♪ I solved the problem
- So everything is ♪
- Handsome!
- ♪ (group): Problem solved ♪
- Hungry mouth wants more
to give to those with less.
- (all): He solved the problem
problem solved ♪♪
- I'm down and you're up.
So I weigh more than you!
- Even if I'm...
lying down?
Or standing up?
Or standing on my head?
- I'll always weigh
more than you, Cat.
Unless you grow a lot...
- Or have friends on your lap!
(laughs)
- Ow!
- ♪♪ We're splashing ♪
♪♪
- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪♪ Peg plus Cat
- Tudu tudu dudu du ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat
- Tu tudu dudu du ♪
- ♪ One two three
- Yeah! C'mon 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 ♪
- Yeah!
- ♪ 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 ♪♪
- Cat!
- Peg plus Cat!
- Woo-hoo!
(children's laughs)
- Hey there!
We're Peg and Cat.
- In our jammies!
- Because my Mom's about
to read us a bed time story.
- Any chance she'll
read us more than one?
- I hope she reads us
two stories!
- Or three!
- Or infinity!
- Or gobble-ty gibble-ty.
- I'm not just making
words up, Cat. Infinity
means more than any number.
- Huh..?
- More than anyone
could ever count, if they
just kept counting forever.
- Huh...
- So, do you understand
infinity yet?
- Uh, ye... no.
- I have no idea how
to explain infinity to Cat!
I've got a BIG PROBLEM!
- Whoa-ho-ho!
Whoa! There's
a lot of stars out there.
- That's it!
- What?
- Infinity.
- Where?
- Out there!
- There are soooo many stars!
Wherever you look,
in every direction.
You couldn't count them all
if you counted all night.
The number of stars is infinite.
It can't be counted.
That's infinity.
- This sideways eight thing
means infinity.
- So that stands for that!
- Do you get infinity now?
- I kinda sorta do!
- Cat understands infinity!
- Kinda sorta! For now!
- And so...
- ♪♪ (both): Problem solved
the problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem
problem solved ♪♪
- So for tonight's story...
- Can we have two stories,
please, please?
- Or three, please,
please, please?
- Or infinity, please, please,
please, please, please, please,
please please please please
please please pleeeeease!
please, please, please, please,
please, please, please, please,
please, please, please, please,
please and like that forever?
- Ha! Ha! Ha! Well,
why don't we start
with this one story.
A poem by Edward Lear called:
The owl and the pussycat.
- (both): Ooooo!
- This is gonna be so good!
- You just like that it has
a cat in it.
- Yeah!
- "The owl and the p*ssy cat
went to sea
"in a beautiful pea green boat.
"They took some honey
and plenty of money
Wrapped up in
a five pound note."
A five pound note is paper
money, for buying things.
- So with a ten pound note,
you could buy more things
than with a five pound note?
- Uh huh!
- And with an infinity
pound note
you could buy more and more
and more and more
(snoring): and...
- "Owl looked up
to the stars above
And sang to a small guitar."
(Peg yawns and Cat mumbles)
Heh! Heh! Let's skip ahead.
"And hand in hand
on the edge of the sand
♪♪ They danced by the light
of the moon the moon ♪
♪ They danced by the light
of the mooooon ♪♪
Sleep tight, Peggy-Peg!
I sure wonder
what she's dreaming...
- Hm!
♪♪ Peg and Cat went to sea ♪
♪ In a beautiful
pea green boat ♪
♪ They took some jacks
and plenty of snacks ♪
♪ Tucked in a hat with a goat ♪
- Baa!
- ♪ Peg played a song
as they drifted along ♪
♪ And Cat felt
the cool breeze that blew ♪
- ♪ Your music is pleasing
but my ears are freezing ♪
- He said:
- ♪ I need a warm hat too ♪
♪ I do
- He said: ♪
- ♪ I need a warm hat too ♪
- Where will we find a warm hat
in the middle of the sea?!
We've got a--
- Uh Peg!
The poem-y thing?
- Oh right, uh...
♪ What a really big problem
we have we have ♪
♪ What a really big problem
we have ♪
- ♪ They sailed to a wood
where a piggy-wig stood ♪
♪ With a tall hat
- I sure wish I wore it ♪
- ♪ Oh Piggy I beg
for your cool hat ♪
- ♪ Said Peg.
- So like what could we ♪
♪ give you for it? ♪
- ♪ Three crackers
- Or more ♪
- ♪ Two jacks
- Three
- Or four ♪
- ♪ A goat that's as cute ♪
♪ As can be ♪
- Tha-anks!
- ♪ Well then what do you want?
- Say it ♪
- ♪ Sing it
- Point
- Grunt ♪
- ♪ Said the Piggy-wig:
- Infinity! ♪
- Come again?
- ♪ Infinity! ♪
- He wants infinity?
- Infinity jacks? Snacks? What?
- How can we give him
infinity anything?
- Even in your dreams,
that Pig is weird!
- I know, right?
- ♪ They sailed for a while
to a tropical isle ♪
♪ Where a great big
gorilla head statue said: ♪
- ♪ I can see that you are
shivering you very cool cat! ♪
- ♪ 'Cause my ears have no hat!
- But his need would be met ♪
♪ If we only could get a hat ♪
♪ So big for Cat from the Pig! ♪
- ♪ Give the Piggy my 'nanas ♪
♪ They're so very good
he'll trade the hat ♪
♪ For these 'nanas
anyone would ♪
- How many 'nanas ya got?
♪ The pig wants a lot ♪
- ♪ One two three four ♪
♪ Five six-- ♪
- If you count every 'nana,
My ears will be ice!
- ♪ They come ten in a bunch ♪
♪ You can count them up
quickly by tens, friends! ♪
- Nice!
- (both): Ten,
twenty!
- (Cat):♪ To the Pig ♪
- But wait Cat!
- ♪ Here's twenty bananas ♪
♪ For that one hat ♪
Nooo?!
- He doesn't want my 'nanas?
- ♪ Though twenty bananas
is quite an amount ♪
- The Piggy-wig in the wood
wants more than you can count!
- ♪ He wants--
- Infinity ♪
- ♪ It's way more than twenty
- It's really a lot ♪
- Can you give us infinity?
- ♪ Guess not ♪
- I can!
- ♪ Said Cleopatra ♪
♪ The powerful Queen ♪
- ♪ With my sapphires blue ♪
♪ And emeralds green ♪
(gasp)
- ♪ I'll give you more jewels
than that pig's ever seen ♪
♪ None can say no to my jewels
- Said the queen ♪
- All right!
- How many jewels
are we talking about, Clee?
- Epidermis!
- Mrahaha.
- ♪ Bring me my royal
ten jewel scooper ♪
- Ten jewel scooper?
- Super!
- ♪ Ten twenty thirty
forty fifty! ♪
- ♪ She thundered
- Sixty seventy eighty ♪
♪ Ninety one hundred
That's way more than twenty ♪
- I see what you mean
- ♪ But I'm giving you ♪
even more jewels
- ♪ Said the queen ♪
(whistle)
- Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
- Two hundred! Three hundred!
Four hundred!
- ♪ Growing ♪
- Five six seven
eight nine hundred!
- Girlfriend's still going!
- One thousand jewels!
- So many!
- ♪ It's almost absurd ♪
- The way biggest number
♪ I've ever heard ♪
- I confess I'm a royal
jewel counting machine!
Bring them all
to the pig for the hat!
- ♪ Said the queen! ♪
- No way the Pig'll
turn us down this time!
- Well...
- jewels for the hat!
Here you go!
- No?
- NO?!
- MRA-HA-HAAA?!
- Is nothing enough for you,
you insatiable Piggy-wig?!
- ♪ Though one thousand's
a really mind boggling amount ♪
- The piggy wants more
than you ever could count!
- The queen counted
jewels!
- But no one can ever count to--
- Infinity!
- ♪ It's way more than ! ♪♪
- Oh!
- Can anyone give us infinity?
- (all): No!
- Nobody can give us infinity!
So I'll never get that hat
from the Pig to cover your ears!
- It's okay, Peg,
my ears are already covered.
- With icicles
and more icicles!
This dream is turning
into a nightmare.
I am TOTALLY
FREAKING OUT!
- Cat's right, I should
count backwards from five
to calm down. Five,
four, three,
two..?
- One, two, one, two...
- Ramone! What are you
doing in my dream?
- Like he's not in all of them!
- SH!
- I'm rowing
Albert Einstein's boat,
so Al can
look up at the sky.
- When a problem
has me stumped,
I gaze up at the clouds
and sometimes,
an answer just comes!
- If it's good enough
for Albert Einstein,
it's good enough for me!
- And me!
- One, two, one, two...
- Hm... Any answers
just coming to you, Cat?
- Nope, too distracted
by that cloud.
It reminds me of something.
- Me too.
- But what?
- Huh...
- Hmm...
(Both gasp.)
- (both): Infinity!
- It looks just like
the infinity sign!
- So that's what we can
give the Piggy-Wig!
- We're gonna give him a cloud?
- Heh! Heh! Not exactly.
But because we know that shape,
we're going to give the Pig
what he wants,
and get you what you need!
- Math can give you infinity!
- ♪♪ Problem solved
- The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ They solved the problem ♪
- Mra-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪
- Check it out, Pig.
We're giving you
the symbol that stands for--
- ♪♪ Infinity! ♪
- ♪ I have the symbol
for infinity! ♪♪
- And I have warm ears!
- ♪♪ So Peg and Cat ♪
♪ Set off to sea ♪
♪ As Peg plucked a lovely tune ♪
♪ They saw friends on the way ♪
♪ And stopped to-- ♪
- Par-tay!
- ♪ And danced by the light
of the moon, the moon ♪
♪ They danced by the light
of the moon ♪
- And now,
by the light of the moon:
Ramone, Albert
Einstein and a mermaid!
- ♪ When your friend
the pig has infinity ♪
- ♪ You might feel poor
- Life is so unkind ♪
- ♪ But take a closer
look around you ♪
- ♪ You have so much
- It will boggle your mind ♪
- ♪ Count the grains
of sand on the beach ♪
- ♪ There's a lot
- You could count for days ♪
♪ And not be through ♪
- ♪ If the beach
is your vacation spot ♪
♪ You've got infinity
infinity too ♪
- ♪ Count the droplets
in the sea ♪
- Every dot?
- ♪ You could never ever ♪
♪ Count them all ♪
- True!
- ♪ If you swim or sail
in the sea a lot ♪
♪ You've got infinity
infinity too ♪
- ♪ Hearing what you say
makes my day ♪
- ♪ I got more than I thought
- I feel rich ♪
- As you ought!
- ♪ If sea and sand are mine ♪
♪ I'm doing fine
- What I've got is infinite ♪
- I am just so into it!
- ♪ Count the stars
above in the sky ♪
- ♪ Every spot
- All those sparkling dots ♪
♪ That light up the blue ♪
♪ The sky is yours for free ♪
- ♪ So's the sand ♪
- ♪ And so's the sea ♪
- ♪ I have got infinity ♪
- ♪ So do you and me
- And me ♪
- ♪ So rock this dream
woo hoo! ♪
♪ We've got infinity ♪
♪ Too ♪♪
- The Pig sure has
a lot of 'nanas!
- Well, we've
each got two, so...
- Robin Hood?!
- I thought I'd try
taking from LESS and giving
to MORE for a change.
- Could you go back to taking
from more and giving to less?
- It's more fair.
- Well, you each have
one banana, and the Pig has...
(Burp!)
... zero bananas. So...
- Ha! That does feel more fair!
- That guy!
(laughs)
(theme music)
04x09 - The Robin Hood Problem/The Owl and the Pussycat 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.