♪♪♪
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 Imaginary
Friend Problem."
I had an imaginary friend,
when I was little.
Quiet, Christopher the
ballet dancing space goat!
(chuckling): Baaaa!
(dramatic, epic music)
(bird of prey cawing)
- Hey! I'm Peg
and this is Cat,
and we're in
the prehistoric valley
to have a picnic
with our friend Stegosaurus.
- Mmrph!
- Steg and I made up
a special dance. We call it...
- Mmrph--
- ...ing, because
all Steg can say is:
- Mmrph.
- And I like finishing
people's sentences!
- It's true!
She does it all the--
- ...time!
- I was actually gonna
say: live long day.
- So let's do some
- Mmrph--
- ...ing!
- Mmrph! Mmrph! Mmrph!
- Cat, do you want
to dance with us?
- No thanks, I'm dancing
with Minkus Berry Whitkins.
- Ooh. Minkus is
Cat's imaginary friend.
He's an invisible monkey!
- He prefers the term
"visibility challenged."
- Mmprh! Mmrph!
- Great idea,
Steg! Let's swirl
in a circle
and make a zero!
- Minkus, may I have this swirl?
- Look at that!
Two perfect zeros!
- Minkus loves
their round shapes!
- Phew! All that
- Mmrph--
- ...ing made me hungry!
Let's have our picnic!
Now let's dig in.
We're eating carrots! Cat,
you've got a big appetite,
so you get a big pile!
And I've got a bigger appetite,
so I get a bigger pile.
And Steg's got
the biggest appetite,
so she gets the biggest pile!
Now let's dig in!
- Hang on a second!
Aren't we forgetting someone?
- Oh right...
I forgot Minkus.
- Hoo! He likes carrots too!
And his appetite
is as big as mine!
And you're all out of carrots!
This is a BIG PROBLEM!!
- Mmrph!
- I know,
we'll just take
some of our carrots,
and give them to Minkus!
- Oh thanks, Peg!
Um, but he's over there.
- Oh, sorry, Minkus.
♪ Problem solved!
The Mmm... solved! ♪
♪ We solved the problem-- ♪
- Hey!
Steg ate Minkus's carrots!
- Mmrph!
- Steg says she's sorry, Cat.
- "Sorry?"
There's an invisible monkey
with an empty stomach and a rash
and all you can
say is "sorry"?!
- He has a rash?
- All over his tuchus.
- Mmrph.
- Cat, Steg is sorry,
but is it such
a big deal? I mean,
Binkus isn't actually real.
- His name is...MINKUS!
Not Binkus! Though
Binkus is actually
his middle name. But you
couldn't have known that
because I just decided it now!
Because it turns out
I like the name Binkus! Come on,
Minkus Binkus Berry Whitkins,
we'll have our own picnic.
- Cat, wait!
- Cat! Caaat!!
- Horn!
- Whoah!
That springy plant
just sh*t my carrot
way into the forest!
- Mmrph!
- Hey, Cat's footprints
stop right at the plant!
Triceratops, did Cat
step on the plant
and get thrown into the forest?
- Horn, horn, horn.
- So that means Cat
could be anywhere in there!
This is a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!!
(dramatic music)
- Cat probably landed
in the far corner of the forest.
That's where the
springy plant sends stuff.
- Whoa! You can say
more than horn!
I keep forgetting.
- It's understandable.
- So you think Cat flew
into the forest like the carrot?
- Yep. In fact,
that carrot
should be hitting him
on the head right about...
- (from afar): Ow!
-...now.
- Do you know how
to get to the far corner
of the forest, Triceratops?
- Not off the top of my head,
but you should take my map.
- Your map? Where?
- Off the top
of my head!
That is a map
of the whole forest.
- OK, so we have to get
from this corner,
where the springy plant is,
all the way
to that corner,
with the really tall tree.
First we'll pass
by sticky flowers.
- Hang on. Doesn't it say " "
next to the sticky flowers?
- No because that circle
next to the
is the number zero.
- But doesn't zero mean "none?"
- Yes, but there's
more to it than that.
♪♪ Zero is the least
of anything that there can be ♪
♪ But if you put that little
zero right after a three ♪
♪ The number gets much bigger
now thirty's what you've got ♪
♪ So if you put it here-o ♪
♪ Small as it may appear-o ♪
♪ That little number zero ♪
♪ Can really do a lot ♪♪
- I don't get it.
- OK, look!
There are ten sticky
flowers on each plant.
That's , , flowers!
And here are flowers.
... !
- Ohh. is more.
- Way more! Whoa!
I just tripped
over that ridge!
- This is a ridge too far.
- Hey, this ridge
isn't on the map!
Maybe because...
it wasn't a ridge!
It was Brachiosaurus!
Yaa! Anyone ever tell you
your horn plate is
great for map reading?
- I get that a lot, yes.
- These plants are all
made out of solid shapes!
- Mmrph!
- ♪♪ Look at all ♪
♪ These shapely
prehistoric organisms ♪
♪ Cubic trapezoidal
even rectangular prisms ♪
♪ The stems are
all cylindrical ♪
♪ Which means they're
shaped like tubes ♪
- ♪ The map says we'll be
passing by Four green ♪
♪ Spotted cubes ♪♪
- Mmrph?
- Four? Lemme see that...
Actually, Triceratops,
it says four hundred
green, spotted cubes. See,
this time we have two zeroes.
One zero after a four
makes it forty.
But two zeroes,
makes it four hundred!
Here they are!
- Each bush
should have cubes.
- So let's count!
, ,
, cubes!
Here are four cubes.
is way more than !
Two little zeroes after a number
make a big difference!
- Mmrph!
- Now where do we go-- Oof!
A hill? There's
no hill on the map!
Unless... Brachiosaurus!
- Horn!
- Mmrph!
- Whoa!
- You've gotta stop doing that.
- Oof! Where am I? Hey!
It's the really tall tree!
And Cat's at the top!
- Peg! You're here!
What a re-leaf! Get it?
- No!
- Because leaves. On trees.
- Oh!
- See, he gets it!
- Well don't worry, Cat,
we'll get you down!
How's Minkus,
by the way?
- He's fine, thanks.
He asks how you are.
- I'm fine, thanks.
- He says good, good.
- We can't reach
Cat from here,
and the tree's too
high for him to jump!
- Mmrph.
- Steg, that's it!
You made steps by putting
these rocks in height order.
Maybe if we stand
in height order,
Cat can use us as steps
to climb down from the tree.
- I'm pretty tall,
so I'll stand here.
Steg is even taller,
so she'll stand here.
And Triceratops,
you're the tallest,
so you stand there!
- It's...too far!
I can't reach!
- Oh no! We still
can't get Cat down!
And if we can't get Cat down,
then who'll be my best friend,
always ready with a
cool song or a warm hug?
A Peg without a Cat
is no Peg at all!
I AM TOTALLY
FREAKING OUT!!
(little musical noises)
You're right,
Stegosaurus.
I should lean against this hill
and count backwards
from to calm down. ,
, ,
, .
(gasping): That's it!
Brachiosaurus!
You're the tallest
dinosaur I know!
If you stand between
Steg and the tree,
Cat could get down.
What do you say, old pal?
- It can't answer you
because it's a hill.
- What?! I was sure it was
gonna be Brachiosaurus!
- She is always where
you least expect her.
- That's true!
So maybe if we look
where we don't expect her
to be, she'll be there!
- This is getting
a little weird!
- ♪♪ Oh Brachio
Brachiosaurus ♪
♪ I don't wonder
where you could be ♪
Whoa!!
- ♪ I don't think that you're ♪
♪ Waiting for us ♪
- Mmrph!
- Horn!
- ♪ I don't think
your leg is this tree ♪
♪ I feel like
a backwards detective ♪
♪ Whose directive
is not to detect ♪
♪ Of every dinosaur, you are ♪
- (together): ♪ The one
we least expect ♪♪
- Brachiosaurus!
Now let's line up
in height order!
- The stairway to
the treetop is complete!
- Don't be scared,
Minkus. Hold my hand!
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Mmrph!
♪ The problem is solved ♪
- Mmrph!
♪ We solved the problem ♪
- ♪ Minkus says
everything's awesome ♪
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Mmrph!
- Thanks for rescuing me, Peg,
but I'm still a little upset
about how you treat Minkus.
- What do you mean?
- I know he can't eat
real carrots, or play with real
toys, or take real antibiotics
for the rash all over
his tuchus since he's imaginary.
But still, I wish you wouldn't
always leave him out.
- That's it! You drew
a zero, you amazing Cat!
And that's how we can
always include Minkus:
by offering him
zero of everything!
- Peg, that's brilliant!
♪ An invisible monkey
who's not really real ♪
♪ Can be tricky
to deal with fairly ♪
- ♪ If you give him a bit
of your favorite treat ♪
♪ Do you think he'll eat it?
- Rarely ♪
- ♪ No matter how little ♪
♪ That little bit
it'll be more ♪
♪ Than he'll use ♪
(Chomp!)
- ♪ But don't just forsake him
when you can make him ♪
- ♪ An offer
that he can't refuse ♪
♪ Offer him...
- (all): Zeeero ♪
- ♪ Of it
- (all): Zeeero ♪
- ♪ He'll love it.
- He isn't real ♪
- ♪ That's undisputed ♪
- ♪ But Minkus should
still feel included with ♪
- (all): ♪ Zeeero ♪
- (Cat): ♪ Great ideeear-o! ♪
♪ What do you get
for the monkey ♪
♪ Who has none of everything? ♪
- (all): ♪ Zeeeeeee-ro
- Mmrph! ♪
- He's the most incredible
dancer I've ever seen!
- Go, Minkus! Go, Minkus!
It's your birthday!
You're invisible!
- Did he just do a
standing triple back flip?
- Oh, quadruple, at least!
- Those animators
really went all out on this one!
- Spared no expense!
(chuckles)
- Live from the tree, it's:
- (together):
♪ Amazing People! ♪
♪ The show where we
interview Amazing People ♪
- Today on Amazing People:
they're wild,
they're crazy,
they are:
- The Pirates!
- So, pirates, did you want
to tell us a humorous story?
- Or sing a pirate song?
- We're nervous.
- We've never been
interviewed before.
- While our guests
relax, let's watch
these crazy pirates in action!
Roll it, Mac!
♪♪♪
How about those pirates!
- They sing, they dance...
- Except when you're
interviewing them.
- Then, you get nothing.
- Mommy!
- (giggling): I guess that's
what makes them such...
- (together): Amazing People!
(guitar notes)
- 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)
(opera high note)
- Huh!
- The Promise...
-...Problem!
- (both): Alas!
(bells chiming
and Renaissance music)
- I made a promise to Juliet!
A promise
must be kept!
That's why when Peg
and Cat showed up
Oh how my heart leapt!
- So I'm Peg, this is Cat
and that's Romeo.
- Whose heart is
jumping up and down.
- Romeo loves
talking in rhyme.
- Especially about
Juliet! Hmm!
- We promised to meet each other
between our balconies!
- With you two friends
to help us out,
we'll meet
between with ease!
- Romeo and Juliet want to meet
right between their balconies.
Up above this wall.
- So glorious will be the scene!
Not on her side, or my side,
but right between!
- Whoa-ho!
- Wall below Sky above!
I'll sit by Juliet.
- Aww!
- His lovey-dovey-dove!
- So give your
trusty rope a toss
to make a horizontal line,
going straight across!
- But I feel that
something will go wrong!
I've been having big
problems all day long!
Something, something
will happen yet
That will stop me
from reaching Juliet!
- Like what?
- A rain cloud
has covered up the sun!
- The cloud moved on.
- Problem done!
- Those vines in front
of my window blew!
- Brushed aside!
- Problem through!
- Outside my window's
a dinosaur.
- A dinosaur outside his window!
(chuckles)
- Good one, Romeo!
I'm laughing too
hard to even rhyme!
- What rhymes with
dinosaur anyway?
- Shine a floor?
- China store?
- Time to snore!
(liquid sound)
- (both): YAAAA!
- It's Brachiosaurus!
- Whenever you don't expect her,
ha ha! ...there she is!
- Yep, Romeo. There's
a dinosaur outside your window.
- Crueller words
were never spoken!
- His promise to Juliet
might be broken!
- Our meeting between
will never come!
- You've got a
REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
- (dramatically, all)
♪ Dum dum dum dum ♪
- Oh sun! Oh moon!
Oh stars! Oh Venus!
A dinosaur has come between us!
- If I don't reach
Juliet I can't go on!
Uh, Peg? Cat?
Where have you gone?
- Down here! We have a plan
to clear the way for you!
- So you can get
to you-know-who!
Eh? Eh?
- So like, is anybody
here a plant eater?
'Cause Romeo's yard
has some tasty leaves.
Green and juicy!
- Mmm! Oh, that is
good foliage! Mmm!
Open up the hangar!
Numma-numma-nummy!
Num-num-num!
- Quick, Romeo!
While she's eating!
The horizontal line!
- Come rope! Good rope!
Oh precious rope!
- Upon that rope
rests all our hope!
- He's tying one end
to his balcony.
- I've got a really
good feeling about this!
- But he threw
the other end
down to the ground!
- OK, bad feeling.
- ♪ Oh line that's horizontal ♪
♪ The line that is the best ♪
- Uh, Romeo...
- ♪ So horizontal ♪
- About that...
- ♪ The horizontal-est ♪
- Romeo, Romeo!
- Juliet! For whom
I long so dearly!
Am I getting close?
- Not nearly!
- No! I pace and pout
and whine and frown.
- Horizontal line,
you let me down!
- The rope let you
'down, all right
'cause the line you made
with it isn't horizontal!
- It doesn't go...
you know...
- ...Straight across.
- Alas!
- It's vertical!
- It goes...
- ...Straight up and down!
- Vertical! Not horizontal!
Ay me! I messed up
the geometry!
- The big words are flying!
- And so is he!
- Weeee!
- Geometry is like
lines and shapes and...
- Uh, Peg? Somebody's
done eating...
- Wait a minute,
young lady.
Where do you think you're going?
Sure you ate
some green leaves...
- A whole lot of green leaves!
- ...but you didn't finish
your brown leaves, did you?
- The crunchy brown
ones are the best!
See? Ah, hm!
(spitting and groaning)
- I'm back with the rope
and ready to throw!
- Someone else is back!
- (Romeo and Juliet): Oh no!
- Don't worry, we've
got another plan
for getting her head
down low.
- And a one and a...
- (together): ♪♪ Rockabye dino ♪
♪ On the tree-top ♪
♪ When the bough bends ♪
♪ The cradle will rock ♪
- ♪ As will the entire planet ♪
- OK, Romeo!
- Go for it!
- I tie this end so it's secure
and hurl this end
further than before!
- He's throwing it
all the way across!
- (all): YAAAY!
- (Cat): Boo!
- The other end
didn't make it across!
It landed in the middle.
- I hope Romeo realizes
it's not hori--
- ♪ Horizontal ♪
- Oh well.
- ♪ It's taking me to her ♪
- Romeo!
- ♪ So horizontal ♪
- Not really.
- ♪ None horizontal-er ♪
Juliet! Brighter than sunshine!
Cleaner than soap!
Did the rope that's our hope
bring me to you?
- Nope!
- NOOO!
- My heart is like
a flower that's wilted.
- My horizontal line is tilted!
- Your line isn't
horizontal at all, Romeo!
- It's not going
straight across!
- It's not
vertical, either.
- It's not going
up and down!
I'm starting to
really get this stuff!
- It's diagonal!
- Diagonal?!
- Diagonal! Meaning?
- Tilted, like this,
or this, or this!
- My diagonal line
I'll quickly climb!
- Oh Romeo! Get it
right, this time!
- He's pulling it up.
- And throwing it far!
- Horizontal line,
there you are!
- He did it!
(Cat gasps.)
- Don't wake up NOW, dinosaur!
(little growl)
- (P and C): ♪ Rockabye dino
on the tree top ♪
- At last!
♪ It's horizontal ♪
- ♪ It's not diagonal ♪
- ♪ It isn't vertical ♪
- ♪ That's gonna hurt-ical ♪
- (Peg): Romeo!
- (Cat): Juliet!
Are they finally giving up?
- Not yet!
That promise to meet
in the middle,
I too did make it!
Not even a dinosaur
will make me break it!
- Go girl!
- Woo hoo!
- (P and C): JULIET! JULIET!
- Let's coax her down lower!
- We'll gently shove!
- When she's below,
we can go above!
- You can't really squish
a dinosaur down, can you?
- They don't flatten like
pancakes, is the problem.
- Then high up into the sky
we'll throw her!
- When she's above,
we'll go below her!
- Nobody can lift
a dinosaur, right?
And throw it into the sky?
- Maybe like, uh,
if it's a baby dinosaur, and you
have a bunch of friends helping,
and, eh, they're
super heroes.
- This curtain rod
will serve us best
We'll go around
our prehistoric guest!
- They're not right between
the balconies, right?
- Closer to hers
than his.
Now they're closer
to his than hers!
- Still not right
in the middle.
- And now they're
getting desperate.
- We're too high!
- Too low!
- Whichever way we swing...
- Between is just
not happen-ing!
- My promise is broken,
like a tub that's leaking!
- My soul is weeping!
- My heart is shrieking!
- The saddest words
those guys are speaking!
- (both): Totally out
we two are freeea-king!
(little musical noises)
- Cat's right. You guys
gotta take a deep breath
and count backwards from five.
- (together): , ,
, , .
- That's it, you lying down
and rising up genius!
- Uh... Let me down please!
Ow.
- And why is the green-ness
between us a genius?
- Good one, Juliet!
- Check it out.
You two want to be
between the balconies, right?
- Indeed!
- 'Tis true.
- But the dinosaur's head
is between the balconies.
- 'Tis true.
- Indeed!
- And so, you gotta
head to the head!
- (together): Totally!
- Could you give us
a diagonal line, please?
- That's the one
that goes like this.
- Walk this way.
- Now if you could make
your back horizontal.
- That's one of these bad boys.
- Let's have the neck
be diagonal!
And now, vertical!
- Take it straight up!
- With the sky above
and the earth below...
- ...I'm between the balconies
with my Romeo!
- Thanks to
horizontal, vertical,
and diagonal lines,
they kept their promises!
- Math can make
dealing with a dinosaur
just fine for sure.
Another dino-rhyme!
- Good one, Cat!
- And so...
- (both): ♪ Problem solved
the problem is solved ♪
- ♪ They solved our problem
- So everything is ♪
- ♪♪ Horizontal ♪
♪ Like the ground is ♪
♪ Horizontal ♪
♪ All around us ♪
- ♪ I love diagonal ♪
♪ Two can make a triangle ♪
- ♪ When upon a... ♪
♪ Horizontal ♪
- ♪ Up and down ♪
- ♪ Is vertical ♪
- ♪ From cloud-cream cone ♪
- Mm!
- ♪ To dirt-sicle ♪
- Ugh! Yucky!
- (both): ♪ We feel glee
vertically ♪
- ♪ Look at me
- With all three ♪
- (all): ♪ Geooo-metry ♪
♪ Geooo-metry ♪
♪ Lines lead me ♪
♪ To a friend ♪
♪ The end ♪♪
(applause and Bravos!)
- Thank you! Thank you! Ah!
Who can blame you for being--
Who's cheering?!
- I have no idea.
- We get this a lot, actually.
- Diagonal! Horizontal!
Vertical! Horizontal!
- (gasping): She's gone!
Disappeared!
- The brachiosaurus shows up
where you don't expect her.
That's her thing.
- I expected her to be there,
so she's not there. Huh!
- And she's back.
- You again!
I did not expect that!
But I do expect
that branch to break.
(cracking sound and chuckles)
(theme music)
05x06 - The Imaginary Friend Problem/The Promise 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.