- Today on Peg Plus Cat, you
can rock out to the Pentagirls!
- I'm the Pentagirls'
number one fan.
And as a true Penta-groupie,
I want the world
to feel their power!
- And feel it they shall.
- ♪ After this message ♪
♪♪♪
- 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 Pentagirls Problem.
Who tickled me?
Oh, you crazy pop stars!
(chuckling)
- (narrator): On their own,
they were Cleopatra...
Juliet... Aki...
Tessa... and Peg.
But when these
five formed a band
named after the
five-sided pentagon,
they rocked the world
as the Pentagirls!
- ♪ We're the Pentagirls, yeah ♪
- Today they're recording
their new song with the world's
greatest music producer.
This super-producer,
who has made
countless hit records,
is known as the Worm, because...
he's a worm.
- That's right, it's me.
- So we're the Pentagirls.
This is Cat, our manager.
He carries our stuff.
And we are so excited
to be working with you,
Mister Worm, sir!
- Like so excited!
- Girls, girls. I eat and sleep
like everybody else.
The only difference is,
when I get up in the morning,
I make hit records.
- He totally does!
- We can't start recording
till I've shown you
the Worm's Four Secrets
to Success in the music biz.
If I can find my pie chart...
- Uh, pie chart?
- A pie chart is a round graph.
- Graph?
- This bar graph shows
that I have more blue socks
than the others, 'cause
the blue bar's tallest.
- But what does this bar graph
have to do with the pie chart?
- Well, another way to show
I've got more blue socks
is to make a graph that's
round, called a pie chart.
Blue socks are the
biggest piece of the pie.
- So a pie chart
is NOT actual food.
- Cat! Did you think
the Worm's pie chart
was a real pie and eat it?
- No, but I did chew
on it for a while.
- If I can't show you
my Four Secrets to Success--
- We Pentagirls have a...
- BIG PROBLEM!
- There's no problem,
if Worm can describe
his pie chart to me.
- Well, the pie had four pieces.
- One, two, three, four pieces.
- One piece is for pitch.
That's how high...
or low a note is.
- Pitch.
- One's for rhythm.
That's how fast...
or slow... the b*at goes.
- Rhythm.
- One's for volume,
LOUD or soft.
- Volume.
- And the last secret to success
is having a hi-tech microphone!
- So how's this look, Worm?
- It looks like my pie chart!
- Very nice!
(camera shutter sound)
- The Pentagirls can see
the four things we need
to make a hit record.
- And we're working
with the Worm.
- Who's the best of the best!
- And really handsome in person!
- Girls, girls.
I'm just like any other guy
who makes the hits that
make the whole world sing.
- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Save your voices
for the new song!
Who wants to record first?
- I, Queen Cleopatra,
will go first.
- Mister Worm,
we five Pentagirls
always sing together.
- I record each voice one at
a time, to get it just right.
Then I put all five
recordings together,
to make a number one hit.
- But--
- Uh, Peg. He's the Worm!
- Um, OK...
♪♪♪
- ♪ A pentagon has side,
side, side, side, side ♪
♪ A Pentagirl has pride,
pride, pride, pride, pride ♪
- You got a little
problem with pitch, Cleo.
- You're saying I sang
too high or too low?
- I'm saying you sang
too high AND too low.
- Which isn't easy!
- I, Queen Cleopatra,
shall try again.
- You don't need to.
I got a special button
that'll make your pitch perfect.
Hit the green
button for me, Cat!
- Gladly!
♪♪♪
- ♪ A pentagon has side,
side, side, side, side ♪
- I sound like a robot.
- A robot who sings in tune!
- If you're going to use
that fake-sounding Cleopatra
instead of the
real Queen, I quit!
- (various): No! Alas!
- We don't have five Pentagirls
anymore! We have
a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
- OK, we're here with the Worm,
he wants to record us and he's
letting me touch the buttons!
So I say, let's keep going.
- (all): Yay!
- But there aren't five of us,
so we can't be the Pentagirls.
Penta means five!
- What's in a name?
- You'd rather work
with the Worm than keep
the five of us together?!
- There are still one,
two, three, four of us.
- There must be some shape
that has four sides, right Peg?
- I guess we could
be the Rectangirls.
The Square Sisters.
The Rhombus... uh...
- The Rhombettes! I love it.
♪♪♪
- ♪ A rhombus has side ♪
♪ Side, side, side ♪
- Whoa, Julie. Repeat after me.
One, two, three, four, one.
♪ A rhombus has side,
side, side, side, side ♪
- One, two, three, four, one.
♪ A rhombus has side ♪
♪ Side, side, si-- ♪
- You got a little
problem with rhythm.
But I got a blue button that'll
put you right on the b*at!
- ♪ A rhombus has side,
side, side, side ♪
Oh, mean machine that
forces me to sing to a b*at.
I cannot defeat it!
And so I'll b*at it!
- Oh, well. We can't
do our song with just--
- Three is like
the perfect number!
- A triangle has three sides!
- So now the Rhombettes
are becoming...
- The Trian-girls!
♪♪♪
- ♪ A triangle has side,
side, side ♪
♪ A Trian-girl has pride,
pride, pride ♪
- Really nice, Tessa.
- So I'm totally
friends with the Worm!
He says I'm, like, really nice!
- Purple.
- Check out what
I just recorded, Mora!
♪♪♪
(quiet): ♪ A triangle
has side, side, side ♪
I can hardly hear myself!
- Volume is one of the four
secrets to success.
And your voice
sounds better quiet.
No need to thank me.
- I am unfriending you
and untagging you
and deleting myself
from this room!
- Uh, translation?
- Uh, she's leaving.
- I guess this high-powered
recording business
just isn't for me and... Aki?
- Ready to record, oh,
wise and famous Worm.
- With just two, what can
we even call ourselves?
- The Two-premes?
- The Twice Girls?
- But our new song is about
a shape with a certain
number of sides.
Is this two-sided
"whatsahoosit" even a shape?
- The Whatsahoosit Women! Go!
♪♪♪
- ♪ A whatsahoosit
has side, side ♪
♪ A Whatsahoosit Woman
has pride, pride ♪
- Whoa, whoa! You can't jump
around my hi-tech mic!
♪♪♪
- ♪ A whatsahoosit
has side, side ♪
♪ A Whatsahoosit Woman
has pride, pride ♪
- You hear that? More knocks
than a knock-knock joke.
- Aki has to move around.
- Listen, sister. When you're
recording with the Worm,
you have to stay as still
as these golden statues
that I won for making
hit records, baby!
- Anyway... heh, heh.
- But I'm not a statue.
I'm a Ninja. I can't stop.
I'll never stop.
- She totally flipped out!
- And now that the Pentagirls
have lost every girl but me,
I am TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!
(horn tooting)
(whistle blowing)
- The Cat's right.
You got a great freak-out, Peg.
You could make it as
a star all by yourself.
- You mean that, Worm?
- I gotta tell you.
I got a fever. And the
only cure is more Peg!
- But the other
Pentagirls dance.
I'm more a singer than a dancer.
- I can help you out there.
- I'm feeling
a number one song here
and a hit music video. Go!
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Little Peg, hangin' on ♪
♪ One by one, friends are gone ♪
- Check it out!
- ♪ Five, four, three,
two, one, they're gone ♪
♪ Five, four, three,
two, one, they're gone ♪
- I know that voice!
- ♪ I'm filled with doubt ♪
♪ Totally freaking out ♪
- It's Peg!
- ♪ I've gotta shout
Totally freaking ♪
- She misses us!
- ♪ Totally freaking ♪
- Aww!
- ♪ Totally freaking out ♪♪
- Peg, baby!
That song is hot! Hot!
- Me too.
- Your freaking out song
is bound for greatness!
And yet you seem not so happy.
- My friends are all
so far away.
- Uh, no, we're not!
- We missed you too, Peg.
- We should never let
a worm drive us apart.
- Not even THE Worm.
- The Pentagirls
are back together!
- This is a big moment
in rock history!
Wait! Where you going?
- Sorry, Worm.
Those four things on your pie
chart are really important.
But for the Pentagirls,
the most important thing
is performing our own way,
totally loving singing
and dancing and each other.
For us, it's all about heart.
- How about we take my chart
and add a lotta heart?!
- Thanks to pie charts,
the Pentagirls will be rockin'
with heart!
- And working with the Worm!
- Hey! I'm just
like every other guy.
Except I get to work
with the Pentagirls!
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ A pentagon has side
- Side ♪
- ♪ A Pentagirl has pride
- Pride ♪
- ♪ We're a crazy crowd
- Crowd ♪
- ♪ Unique and proud
- Proud ♪
- We can add cool sound effects?
- Yeah!
- Make you sound like robots?
- ♪ We're the penta ♪
♪ Penta pentagirls
We're the penta pentagirls ♪
- Maybe not.
♪♪♪
♪ We're who we are,
through and through ♪
- ♪ I'm so me
- You're so you ♪
- ♪ I sing how I sing
- In my own style ♪
- ♪ I walk how I walk
- I smile how I smile ♪
- ♪ Don't diss my girls
'cause we're each a star ♪
- ♪ We're who we are ♪
- You're giving me fever!
- ♪ Givin' him fever ♪
- I'm shakin' and sore!
- ♪ Shakin' and sore ♪
- And there's only one cure!
- ♪ Giving him ♪
- ♪ More ♪
- ♪ We're who we are,
through and through ♪
- ♪ I'm so me
- You're so you ♪
- ♪ I laugh how I laugh
- I love how I talk ♪
- ♪ I like how I look
- I walk how I walk ♪
- ♪ We're all unique
Everyone's a star ♪
- ♪ We're who we are ♪
♪ We're who we are ♪
♪ We're who we are ♪♪
- That's the Pentagirls'
new hit that's number one
with kids everywhere!
- Our song's number one!
- It's also number one with
parents, barnyard animals...
- Oh, that is good!
- Woohoo!
- Everyone but Peg and Cat!
- Yup, can't listen
to it anymore.
- They play it over and over.
Enough already!
(chuckling)
- ♪ We're splashing
in the bathroom ♪
- In the tub! On the floor!
- At the sink!
- ♪ Splishing, splashing
Splashing some more ♪
- Welcome to the bathroom,
where Cat and I are
doing our rock opera,
Seasons of Bath!
- ♪♪ Da, da, da, da ♪
- ♪ In the fall
there's leaves everywhere ♪
- ♪ We need a bath
- In winter there's snow ♪
♪ In my hair
- We need a bath ♪
- ♪ In spring we play outdoors
- We need a bath ♪
- ♪ In summer we go to the shore
- We need a bath ♪
- ♪ One thing's totally clear
- Da, da, da, da ♪
- (Peg's mom): ♪ You two
need baths all year ♪
- Whoa, mama!
- Splash, splash!
Oh, yeah!
(guitar sounds)
- Yeah!
- (Peg's mom): That's right!
- 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)
- Hup, two, three, four!
Hup, two, three, four!
The Tree Problem...
of National... Importance!
Two, three, four!
(chirping)
(marching music)
- (Peg): Washington, DC.
Usually it's bustling
with excitement.
But today the streets are empty.
Do you know why?
No really, do you know why?
We have no idea!
- It's, uh, it's
really creeping us out.
- I'm Peg, this is Cat.
And we've been called to the
White House by the President.
- Who is a big deal.
- So you know something
super important is going on.
- Peg and Cat.
- (both): Madame President.
- We have a problem that
must be kept top secret.
- I knew it was super important!
- Top secret!
- We can tell them, right?
- Hmm... Can they keep a secret?
- Totally.
- Yeah, I'm not
so sure about Lauren.
And Charlie! I see you, Charlie.
- The problem is the Vice
President of the United States
has gotten stuck in a tree.
- Oh! That is so embarrassing.
- As you know from personal
experience, right?
- Maybe.
- If people find
the nation's second-highest
leader stuck in a tree,
it would be a major
embarrassment.
- We've got a big problem.
- ♪♪ Of national importance ♪
♪ And it's all
'cause I got him ♪
♪ That really big pogo ♪
♪ I should have said no, no ♪
♪ He wanted it so, though ♪
♪ The whole world
will laugh at us ♪
- ♪ Ha ha ha ho ho ♪
- ♪ The Veep's in a tree
with a really big pogo ♪♪
- She calls the Vice President
the Veep for short.
- Oh! Like I like to
call you Pegarino for long?
- I knew he'd get stuck
in a tree sooner or later,
so I had every
tree in town measured
by the Tree Measuring Company.
- The Tree Measuring Company!
- They are so good
at measuring tree!
- They measured
the tree to be feet.
- Trees don't have feet!
- Feet are a way of measuring.
One foot's about this long.
- And feet is this long.
- You had a -foot ladder
ready to go, just in case?
- A president's got to be
prepared for anything, Peg!
- Hey, Mister Vice President!
- We'll have you down
before anyone knows
you were stuck
in a you-know-what.
- I had Drum Major
Ramone lead a parade
away from the center of town.
- That's where everybody went.
- Oh. I thought
they were avoiding me.
- But they won't stay away long,
so we have to work fast.
- Since length lying down is
the same as height standing up,
feet long
can be feet high.
Madame President,
we have a problem.
- The ladder doesn't
go nearly high enough.
- I just realized why!
Remember the Tree
Measuring Company's TV ad?
- Oh, right!
- ♪ The Tree Measuring Company ♪
♪ Can't be b*at, we measure
in meters, not in feet ♪
- I thought this meant feet.
But if they measure in meters,
the tree's height is meters!
- Uh, what's the difference?
- Meters are a different way
to measure. They're way longer
than feet. One meter
is more than THREE feet!
So to get near the top
of the -meter tree,
we'd need THREE
-foot ladders!
- Which we have!
- Huh?!
- ♪♪ She tucked a second away
in case the first got busted ♪
- ♪ She tucked the third away
in case those two rusted ♪
- ♪ If we could tie 'em together
We'd totally rock it ♪
- ♪ Of course she keeps a jump
rope in each jacket pocket ♪
- ♪ With her you never
need to be scared ♪
- ♪ The president's
always prepared ♪
- ♪ The ladder stops short
'cause three's not enough ♪
- ♪ She'll shimmy the rest
'cause she's just that tough ♪
- ♪ No truer words
were ever declared ♪
♪ The president's
always prepared ♪♪
- Hey.
- Mister Vice President!
We came to get you down.
- Cool pogo stick, by the way.
- It's so fun.
- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
♪ The problem is solved ♪
- Don't do that!
(Vice President yelling)
Where did he go?
- Uh, Madame President...
on top of the
Washington Monument?
- It isn't!
- It is.
- Then we've got a...
- REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
- ♪ Of national importance ♪
- Having him stuck on
the nation's most famous,
super-tall monument
is even more embarrassing
than having him stuck in a tree!
- Which is already very
embarrassing. The shame!
- We've got to get him down
before anyone sees!
- But it goes up SO high.
- Whoa.
- Hmm... According to the
Monument Measuring Company...
- She had it measured by
the Monument Measuring Company!
- They measure monument, yo!
- ...it's feet tall.
- We'll never find
a ladder that long.
- There's one
on this fire truck.
- Nice!
(whirring)
- It's not nearly tall enough.
- Not nice.
- But it's feet long!
- I just remembered the Monument
Measuring Company's ad.
- Oh, yeah...
- ♪♪ We measure each monument ♪
- ♪ Stone
- Or concrete
- In meters not in feet ♪
- ♪ We really mean it
- In meters not in feet ♪♪
- I really have
to watch more TV.
- So it's meters tall.
- Which is way more
than feet.
- We'll never get up
there! Unless...
♪♪ She had a second truck
made in case the first
wouldn't start ♪
- ♪ She had a third tucked away
in case those two fell apart ♪
- ♪ She's well-read,
well-schooled ♪
- ♪ And great-haired ♪
- ♪ The president's
always prepared ♪♪
- We're still too far from
the top to reach the Veep.
- Right, since it takes MORE
than three of these ladders
to make meters.
- Got any more ladders?
- Or ropes?
- Nothing but a giant rubber
band that I keep in my pocket
in case I need to make
an emergency mid-air rescue.
- Oh, well.
- Huh.
- Wait. We should totally
use the rubber band!
- I knew this thing
would come in handy.
- So we'll tie this end
around the ladder...
- This end around the president.
- Ready to rescue, Madame
President?
- Let's do this thing.
- One, two, three!
- She's reaching for the Veep.
- The rubber band snapped!
(yelling)
- You OK?
- I'm OK!
- I'm not OK!
I'm stuck on top of
the Washington Monument!
- Hup, two, three, four!
Hup, two, three, four!
- And now the parade's
heading this way.
Everybody's going to see
the Vice President. And me!
- We gotta get 'em down.
Onto my shoulders!
- Onto your tippy toes!
- Onto YOUR tippy toes
on my tippy nose!
- Not even close.
- We'll never reach that
super-high height! I am--
- Really embarrassed!
- Madame President?
- Pictures of me stuck up here
will be on newspapers and
TV screens around the world.
No one will ever
respect me again.
- I respect you even more!
- Huh?
- You got stuck up there
because you were taking
a really brave risk.
- Which backfired.
- That happens
when you take risks.
Cat and I embarrass
ourselves every day.
- Some days twice!
- If you're going to solve
big problems you gotta
take big risks.
So instead
of feeling embarrassed,
keep right on going,
after we count backwards
from five and calm down.
- Five, four, three,
two, one.
(Cat sighing)
- That's it,
you lying down genius!
- Huh?
- Height standing up is the same
as length lying down!
- So if we...
- Make the rubber
band into a lasso...
Toss it around the Monument...
And get the bottom
truck driving...
(beeping)
- You guys are amazing!
- meters of height...
becomes meters of length.
- Oh, oh! Not too fast.
Oh, oh-- Careful. Aaah!
- Because we know
about height and length,
we're rescuing the leaders
of the free world.
- Math can save your
nation from humiliation.
- And so...
- ♪♪ Problem solved ♪
♪ The problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem ♪
- ♪ So everything is awesome ♪
- ♪ Problem
- Of national importance ♪
- ♪ Solved ♪♪
(dramatic music)
- People of the United States,
the world, and everywhere else.
- It's the President
of the United States, Mom!
- This morning something
really embarrassing happened
to the Vice
President and myself.
After consulting with
my Directors of National
Problem Solving,
I have decided to reveal
our embarrassing secrets.
- So embarrassing!
Right, blankie-wankie?
- My fellow citizens.
Our nation is facing
some really big problems.
To solve them, we'll
have to take big risks
and probably endure
some big embarrassments.
But we won't let that stop us!
So I say...
♪♪ Don't be afraid
to look ridiculous ♪
- ♪ Ridiculous
- To seem a little silly ♪
♪ Now and then
- Now and then ♪
- ♪ It happens to us all
We stumble, even fall
- Fall ♪
- ♪ Then stumble right
back up and try again ♪
- ♪ Try again
- Don't be afraid ♪
♪ To seem a nincompoop
- Nincompoop ♪
- ♪ Your hair a mess
and bruises on your knee ♪
- ♪ On your knee
- Keep smiling when you spill ♪
- ♪ Spill
- Eventually you will ♪
- ♪ Will
- Trip your way to victory ♪
- ♪ Victory
- When there's pie on my face ♪
♪ I get right back in the race ♪
- ♪ When I'm stuck upside down
I get right back on the ground ♪
- ♪ When I'm tripping and
slipping and breaking
furniture ♪
♪ And getting the hiccups
on national television-- ♪
- Mister Vice President!
- It's OK! They get it!
- ♪ And laughing so milk
comes out my nose ♪
- It's OK, it's OK,
they get the point.
Which is...
♪ Don't be afraid
to seem preposterous ♪
- ♪ Preposterous
- Your underwear is showing ♪
♪ All can see
- All can see ♪
- ♪ Keep on smiling
when you spill ♪
- ♪ Ooh, spill
- And eventually you will ♪
- ♪ Will
- Trip your way to victory ♪
- ♪ Sweet victory ♪
- ♪ Trip your way to victory ♪♪
- Hic! Ha ha ha.
- Woo! These new strings
you sent away for
are really interesting.
- They're supposed to be
two feet long. The company sent
strings that are two METERS.
- Just a bit too long.
- That one-meter pogo stick
was too long for the Veep.
- Yeah. Hence all the trouble
he caused himself and us and
the leader of the free world.
- The President got him
a new one that's shorter.
Only one foot long!
Much safer for everyone.
- Ouchy.
- Definitely.
- Live from the tree, it's...
- ♪ Amazing People ♪
- ♪ The show where
- We interview ♪
- ♪ Amazing People ♪
Today on Amazing People,
the amazing Baby Fox
is going to explain
how he builds his
amazing contraptions!
- Pthhh!
- Roll it, Mac!
- So that gigantic contraption
you made in like three seconds
in our living room.
How did you do that?
- Pthhh!
- (Peg): Ahh!
- (Cat): Oh! Interesting.
- And that musical instrument
you built in the junkyard?
How'd you make something that's
like times taller than you?
- Pthhh!
- Oh, right.
- Huh. Fascinating.
- OK, Baby Fox,
just one more question.
How can we get down from here?
- Pthhh!
- Can you understand him?
- Not a word.
- We get stuck on the most
amazing things on...
- ♪ Amazing People ♪
- Pthhh!
(theme music)
06x01 - The Pentagirls Problem/The Tree Problem of National Importance
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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.