♪♪♪
- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪♪♪
♪♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting like a trombone)
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting)
- ♪ 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 ♪
(kids cheering)
♪ 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 ♪♪
(all laughing)
- The Mermaid
in the Mall Problem.
A mermaid in a mall!
♪♪♪
- Welcome to the Mega Mall!
I'm Peg, this is Cat,
that's my mom,
and we've come to the mall...
- Yay!
- But not for
the cool games or toys.
- Aww.
- Today we're here for the--
- Furniture store!
- Where you can buy stuff for
any room in your house.
- Oooh!
(giggling)
To my Mom, shopping for a chair
is like this
totally exciting thing.
- What do you think,
Peg? This one?
Or this one?
- They're all really nice, Mom.
- We're looking at chairs?
- This means a lot
to my mom, Cat.
So even if it's not
our favorite thing,
we have to try
to care about chairs.
- There's a chair I care about!
- Cat loves that vibrating
chair.
- Aaah...
- Don't make it go too fast.
(beeping)
- Aaah...
(screaming)
(crashing)
- We look, but we don't touch.
And that way,
we don't knock things over, OK?
Happy shopping!
- We have to shop without
touching stuff?!
- It's not gonna be easy, right?
(trumpets)
- (woman): ♪ Help, knights of
the round table ♪
- Did you hear that, Cat?
- Yes.
- We have to find a round table
so we can run around it
and become knights
of the round table!
- Table!
♪ Around and around ♪
♪ And around and around and ♪
- Wait, Cat!
The top of a round
table is round,
like a circle,
with no straight sides.
-This table has two straight
sides going across.
And two going up and down.
All four sides
are the same length.
So this table is square.
- Unlike this one! A--
- Wait! This table has sides
going across like a square.
But these sides aren't going
straight up and down.
One's tilted one way,
the other's tilted another way.
And some of the sides are
longer than the others.
They're not all the same.
So this table's not a square.
- Score!
- But it's not a circle either,
since it has straight sides.
- Oh.
- It's a trapezoid.
- What is it with these tables?
- They all have straight sides!
- ♪ Oh, knights
of the round table ♪
♪ Please help ♪
- Without a round table
we can't become knights
of the round table!
We've got a BIG PROBLEM!
- And now I'm rolling
on a table.
- If the table's rolling,
it must be round!
If it had straight sides
it couldn't roll!
- Round has been found!
- And so...
♪♪♪
- ♪ Problem solved!
- Please skip to where you go ♪
- ♪ Around and around
and around and around ♪
♪ And around and around and
around and around and around ♪
♪ And around and around and
around the round table ♪
(trumpets)
- Help!
- Where's that voice coming
from, Peg the Bold?
- From that bathtub lake,
Brave Sir Cat!
- ♪♪ To the lake, to the lake,
to the lake, to the lake,
to the lake, to the lake♪
♪ To the lake, to the lake ♪
- ♪ Oh, knights
of the round table ♪
- ♪ Fair mermaid,
what is the trouble? ♪
- ♪ You sound
really miz-rubble ♪
- ♪ Well... I've lost
my sparkly shapes ♪
♪ My sparkly shapes ♪
♪ They're solid shapes,
like tubes of drapes ♪
♪ Or purple grapes
Shapes, just like ♪
♪ These paper weights,
this crate of crepes ♪
♪ My sparkly shapes ♪
- Some of the mermaid's missing
shapes are pyramids.
Solid shapes with triangles
on their sides.
And some are cubes. Solid shapes
with squares on their sides.
- So how many sparkly shapes
we lookin' for?
- I dunno. Maybe five?
- ♪ We head off on our quest ♪
- ♪ The knights
will never rest ♪
- ♪ Until we find your shapes ♪
- ♪ Your spar--
- --kly shapes ♪
- ♪ We'll find your shapes
- As sure as tapes ♪
♪ Stick grapes to drapes
- Did they fly away ♪
♪ Like capes?
- Or kinda traipse ♪
- ♪ When making their escapes? ♪
- ♪ My solid shapes
- Like paper weights ♪
- ♪ Or crates of crepes
- Made their escapes ♪
♪ Those solid shapes ♪♪
(bubbling)
- I don't know how
my sparkly shapes got away.
All I know is, I lost them
somewhere in the store.
- The mermaid can never
leave the water.
So she must have lost them
in the tub!
- But before I was in this
little tub, I was in...
...this big tub...
...this hot tub...
...this water bed...
- She's been in everything
but the kitchen sink!
- That too!
- We have to search
the entire store?
- The knights of
the round table have a--
- Really big problem!
(dramatic music)
- Sir Cat!
- Huh?
- I spied something sparkly
in the closet cave!
- ♪ To the cave, to the cave,
to the cave, to the cave ♪
♪ To the cave, to the cave,
to the cave ♪
- Hello.
- O dragon of closet cave!
Have you any
sparkly pyramids or cubes?
- Nothin' but spheres in here.
- Spheres are round, like balls.
They don't have flat sides,
like the shapes we seek.
- ♪ I lovey-love the spheres ♪
♪ In the Land of Mall ♪
♪ Bouncy or floaty,
lovey-love them all ♪
That chair looks nice too.
(crashing)
- Oopsie.
- You broke my favorite chair.
- Sir Cat!
- Wuh?
- I spied cubes
by the toad stool!
- ♪ To the stool, to the stool,
to the stool, to the stool ♪
♪ To the stool, to the stool ♪
- Oh, toad on your toad stool.
Have you any sparkly cubes?
- Nope. I got
a cube with spots...
A cube with a head...
(jingling)
(yelling)
- Are you OK, Sir Cat?
- I don't know.
I'm seeing sparkles!
- A sparkly triangle!
- A sparkly square!
- You have found many sparkly
shapes, you genius knight!
- Hell-oo! Those are flat.
We need solid.
- But you can put flat shapes
together to make solid shapes.
- This I gotta see!
- One, two,
three, four triangles
can make...
- A pyramid!
- One, two, three, four,
five, six squares can make...
- A cube!
- We found two of the mermaid's
sparkly shapes!
- Go knights! All right!
Go knights!
All right! Go knights--
- Uh, knights...
- My sparkly shapes are gone!
- Again!
- (all): Nooo!
- Pe-eg! You about ready to go?
- We can't go until we've found
the Mermaid's
sparkly shapes, Mom!
- Can't she find her own shapes?
- No.
- OK, I'll pick out
some seat covers.
But then we really gotta go.
- You're leaving?
- Without finding my shapes?!
- We are...
- (all): Totally freaking out!
- ♪ Look what's coming near ♪
- ♪ Behold the sparkly sphere ♪
- ♪ Wizard Ramone ♪
- I heard your cries
at Forever Twelve.
- Oh, wise wizard.
Our quest to find
the mermaid's missing shapes
is getting nowhere!
- The important thing
is to stay calm
so you can keep doing your best.
- That vibrating chair
would help us relax.
- Too bad somebody
broke it... Hmph.
- I can take care of that.
- Ohh yeahh!
- Thanks, Ramone!
- I do what I can!
(grunting)
- Don't touch that--
- Button?
(yelling)
(crashing)
- Cat!
- Nothing to see here. Back to
your shopping, everybody.
Come on. Shop shop.
- ♪♪ Halt, O store person ♪
♪ Who was hiding
behind the counter ♪
♪ Do I spy you wearing
sparkly trapezoids? ♪
- ♪ Maybe
- Who cares about trapezoids? ♪
♪ I have no use for trapezoids ♪
- ♪ You heard the lady
She has no use for trapezoids ♪
Happy shopping!
- ♪ But a trapezoid can be ♪
♪ Broken down into a square
and a triangle, can't it? ♪
- ♪ Sometimes
- And you can put triangles ♪
♪ With triangles ♪
♪ And squares with squares ♪
♪ To get
- My sparkly ♪
- ♪ Her sparkly ♪
♪ Pyramids and cubes ♪♪
- You took the mermaid's
solid shapes,
broke them down
into flat shapes,
and put them together
to make trapezoids.
Didn't you?
- I love trapezoids!
Is that so wrong?
- It's wrong to take them
if they're not yours.
- Oh. Right. Sorry.
- It's OK.
- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ The knights solved
the problem ♪
- ♪ So everything is sparkly
- Problem solved ♪
- But why would a furniture
store guy go to all that trouble
to get trapezoids?
- Because, Sir Cat,
the furniture store guy
is also...
- ♪ Pass one side, two sides ♪
♪ Three sides, four sides ♪
♪ Of the trapezoidal table ♪
- The Knight of
the Trapezoidal Table!
- ♪ To the knights, to the
knights, to the knights ♪
♪ To the knights, to the
knights, to the knights ♪
- Knights of the Round Table.
We meet again.
- We've met before?
- At that knight get-together.
- You remember that party
for the knights, Cat.
Knight Night?
- Oh, Knight Night!
That was some night, right?
- Knight Night always is!
♪♪ Knight Night
is the right night ♪
♪ For a knight
to come socialize ♪
♪ With other armored guys ♪
♪ Eating our favorite pies ♪
- ♪ Knight Night
- Pure delight night ♪
- ♪ Every knight guy
- Or girl
- Or cat ♪
- ♪ Shows off his metal hat ♪
- ♪ Knight Night's
where it's at ♪
- ♪ Each knight's table
is the right shape there ♪
- Trapezoidal
- Round...
- ♪ Or even square ♪
- It's only fair!
- ♪ Knight Night ♪
- ♪ Outta sight night!
- We invite knights
to share a thrill ♪
- ♪ Dancing til
we say nighty night ♪
- I love your round table,
knight.
- We love your trapezoidal
table, knight.
- It's quite a sight.
- The knight is right.
- You really love
my table, knight?
- No. Just being polite.
(laughing)
- ♪ Knight Night
- Show your might knight ♪
- ♪ We invite knights to share ♪
- A thrill ♪
- ♪ Dancing til we say nighty ♪
- ♪ Dancing til
they say nighty ♪
- ♪ Dancing til we say nighty ♪
- Pe-eg!
- Coming, Mom!
- ♪ Dancing til we say ♪
♪ Nighty night ♪♪
- That chair Mom got
reminds me of that guy.
- The Knight of the Trapezoidal
Table, 'cause the back
is a trapezoid.
- What if he got into
your house?!
- Making all your shapes
into trapezoids!
- See ya!
- Mom, that chair is a knight
who steals shapes!
- Don't bring him inside!
- Oh, you two.
(giggling)
(sighing)
♪♪♪
- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting like a trombone)
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting)
- ♪ One two three
- Yeah, c'mon let's go ♪
- Ta-da!
- ♪ Four five six ♪
- ♪ Hey, what do you know?
- Seven eight nine ♪
- Woah! What comes next?
- Uh, ten?
- (all): 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 ♪♪
(all laughing)
- Whoa!
The Painting Proble-em!
- I'm Peg Casso
and this is Vincent van Goo.
- Bonjour.
- That means hi there in French.
We are totally
world famous artists,
known for our amazing
style of painting.
- People know us?
- Yep, because we paint
with shapes! Regard!
That means look.
This lady is made of cubes.
We call the style "cube-ism."
- This flower is made of
squares. We call it...
- Square-ism?
- Bingo!
And these. Triangle-ism!
- Even triangle-and-circle-ism!
- There is nothing
we can't paint.
- I don't do bathrooms...
I can, but I, I won't.
- Ah, Peg Casso and Van Goo.
- The Countess de Viv!
- Bonjour! That means hi.
- We know.
- I have a special
guest visiting,
and I must have
my fancy French mansion
completely painted
before he arrives.
- I see!
- I already have a famous artist
painting the walls. But I need
someone to paint a picture of me
on the ceiling. Ha ha!
- We're someone!
- We're some two!
- We'll do it!
- Hold your hors d'oeuvres.
First I'll need you to paint
a small picture of me
as a test. Right now.
- We've never had to paint
under pressure before!
This is a BIG PROBLEM!
- (singsong): Famous painters,
I'm waiting!
- OK... one rectangle...
some triangles to make her
dress... circles for her face
and eyes...
- I got this.
- And more circles
and a trapezoid to
make her purple hat.
- Fantastic! You've got the job.
Walk this way.
♪♪♪
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
♪ Le problem is solved, the
painters solved le problem ♪
♪ Problem solved ♪
- Your mansion sure is fancy!
- Schmancy even.
- Here's the famous painter
who's painting the walls.
- Jackson Pig!
I love your work!
- As do I! I own one of his
most famous paintings.
- Magnifique!
That's French for--
- "Bleh?"
- "Magnificent!"
But will he have
these walls covered
before your guest arrives?
- Oh, I'm sure he'll start
painting any second now.
(high wail)
Ahh!
He's gone into
a creative trance!
- Or, uh, something.
- I'm off to pick up
my famous guest.
My servant Mac will get you
all the paint you need!
Happy painting!
Oh, and it better be perfect.
No pressure.
- Ok, Van Goo. To paint a
masterpiece in our famous style,
we need to use the exact same
amount of each color.
- Mac!
- Oui oui? Meaning yes?
- We need five cans each
of red, blue, yellow,
brown, purple and green paint.
- Very good, mademoiselle.
- We'll use our small painting
of the Countess to guide us
as we paint the big one.
Let's start with purple!
- Up we goo!
- ♪ Square
- Circle ♪
- ♪ Square
- Circle ♪
- ♪ And one more there
- Circle ♪
- Jackson Pig has painted
a masterpiece!
- You call that a masterpiece?
- You gotta work fast to
keep up with that guy!
- ♪ Square
- Circle ♪
- ♪ There
- Circle ♪
- ♪ And then another pair
- Circle ♪
- Another work of genius! How?!
- I could do that in my sleep!
- But he does do it in his
sleep... by sleepwalking!
- Right into our paint!
- This is a REALLY
BIG PROBLEM!
(high-pitched wail)
We gotta stop him, Van Goo!
- It's goo time!
- Come back here!
- He went that way.
- This way?
- Over here! Oof!
And also ick.
- GOTCHA!
- Quick!
Drop cloth for a blanket!
- Fluffy pillow!
(snoring)
He is down.
- So are lots of cans
of our paint!
- We can ask Mac
for more, right?
- But how many more?
We've got one,
two, three, four cans
of red still standing.
One, two, three blue.
- One, two brown. And one green.
- We need five of every color!
- So what do we tell Mac?
- That's it, you genius Cat!
A number line will tell us
how many cans we need!
- Huh?
- Starting with red...
♪♪ We know that
we have four cans ♪
♪ But we must have five cans ♪
♪ So how many more cans? ♪
- Uh...
- ♪ If there's already ♪
♪ Four cans,
then to get to five cans ♪
♪ We will need one more can ♪
- ♪ One two three four ♪
♪ To get to five
we need one more ♪
- One more red, please, Mac!
- Very good, Monsieur.
- See? Four cans plus one can
equals five cans. These signs
mean plus and equals.
- Oui, oui.
- There ya go.
- Thanks Mac!
Now in terms of blue...
♪ We just have three blue cans ♪
♪ If we add one two cans
that will equal five cans ♪
- Two blue cans, Mac!
- ♪ Three plus two more ♪
♪ Equals five we can be sure ♪
- Voila. Meaning, here ya go!
- Now brown!
- One, two cans plus one, two,
three more should do it.
- ♪ Two plus three more ♪
♪ Gives us five,
we can be sure ♪
- We're doing the Can-Can!
- Can we call it
the Can Can-Can?
- We can!
We have only one green,
so we need one, two, three,
four more to get five.
- I'm all over it.
- ♪ One plus four more ♪
♪ Gives us five,
we can be sure ♪
- Badabing-badaboom.
- Thanks, Mac.
- ♪ Can can
- Can can ♪
- ♪ Can we do it? Yes we can
- Can can can can ♪
♪ Can we do it? Yes we can ♪♪
(clapping)
- Now let's finish our painting
before he wakes up.
(wailing)
- ♪ Square
- Circle ♪
- ♪ There
- Circle ♪
- ♪ Rectangle... Triangle...♪
- ♪ Circle
- Trapezoid ♪
- ♪ Circle ♪
- Check it out, Van Goo!
- It's magnifique!
- It's miraculous!
- It's tuna fish!
What? I like tuna fish.
- But it's missing something...
the Countess's purple hat!
- Purple paint, coming up!
(crashing)
Or not...
- Our purple paint!
Jackson Pig has done it again!
- We need four more cans
o' purple, Mac!
- (Countess): Oh!
It's such an honor
to have you as my guest,
Your Famousness...
- The famous guest is here!
Hurry, Mac!
- I'm all outta purple paint.
I only got red, yellow and blue.
- But the Countess's hat
MUST be purple!
The great Peg Casso is
TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!
(horn)
(whistle)
Vincent Van Goo is right.
I should count backwards
from five to calm down.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
- Ugh. I'm all Van Gooey.
- That's it,
you amaaazing genius!
You added blue paint
to red and got purple!
Blue plus red equals purple.
- How do you like that!
- We can make all
the purple paint we need
with red plus blue.
Hurry!
Finished!
Another masterpiece by us.
- Oh Van Goo,
you've done it again.
- ♪ Problem solved
Le problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved le problem ♪
- So everything is magnifique!
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- And just in time.
- Peg Casso and Van Goo,
meet my extremely
famous guest...
- Claude Ra-Monet! The most
famous famous-painter of all!
- Whoa.
- The walls are by Jackson Pig.
(snoring)
Look at him,
dreaming up his next
masterpiece! Ah!
- Peg Casso, Van Goo --
did you paint that portrait
of the Countess?
It's spectacular!
- Thanks, Ra-Monet!
- I recognize your wonderful
plus and equal signs too!
- You like plus and equal signs?
- More than anything! You see...
♪♪ My life was
such a dreary chore ♪
(sighing)
♪ To sum it up ♪
♪ Just one big bore ♪
(sighing)
♪ Til my brush
made two small strokes ♪
- Plus!
- ♪ And then two more ♪
- Equals!
- ♪ Blue plus yellow ♪
♪ Equals green
It adds up like a dream ♪
♪ A dream in which
we're flying ♪
♪ Red plus white
it equals pink ♪
♪ We glide in perfect synch ♪
♪ It's gravity-defying ♪
- ♪ Red plus yellow
equals orange ♪
♪ With which we can adorn ♪
♪ Just everything we see ♪
♪ I'd write a novel
and a sequel ♪
♪ 'Bout the plus and the equal ♪
♪ Forever and a week we'll fly,
or three ♪
- ♪ It's the plus sign
and the equal sign for me ♪
♪ You plus me, it equals we ♪
♪ With Cat it equals three ♪
♪ More than when we began ♪
- ♪ Me plus Cat
plus you plus this ♪
♪ A day I'd never miss ♪
♪ A formula so grand ♪
- ♪ For plus ever
will we dream ♪
♪ Of things more
than they seem ♪
♪ Of all there is in store ♪
♪ No matter where we seek we'll
find no symbols more unique ♪
♪ We'll raise a glass
of milk to toast you ♪
♪ Plus four more ♪
- ♪ I had only red and blue ♪
♪ Now I have purple too ♪
♪ Thanks to youuu ♪
- ♪ With plus and equal signs ♪
♪ There's always more and more ♪
♪ It's the equal and the plus ♪
♪ That we adore ♪
- This is amaaazing, Ra-Monet!
- Je fais comme je peut.
That means "I do what I can."
♪♪♪
- ♪ La la la la la la
- Laaa ♪
- ♪ La la la la la
- Laaa ♪
- ♪ La la la la la
- La-aa ♪
- Cat?
- Yeah?
- Do you like math better
or art better?
- Hmm... Depends.
- On what?
- Art who?
(laughing)
- No?
- I like you best, Cat.
(gasping)
- Great minds think alike!
- Live from the tree, it's...
- Amazing People!
- Today on Amazing People, I am
going to show the amazing Peg
a clip that will
make her freak out! I bet.
- I bet it won't
make me freak out.
- Roll it, Mac!
- When the farmer sees
chickens out of the coop,
he'll be mad! They'll be sad.
I'll feel bad.
I'm totally freaking out!
(horn)
(whistle)
- So Peg, when you freak out,
you look pretty silly, right?
- I had no idea
what I looked like!
I am totally freaking in.
- Huh?
- I freak out because I care
and then I calm down
and solve the problem.
I'm proud of my freak-outs.
- I lose the bet.
I never win anything!
- Cat is...
- Totally freaking out!
- Amazing things happen on...
Amazing People!
♪♪♪
05x04 - The Mermaid in the Mall Problem/The Painting 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.