- See that woman writing?
- Yeah...
- Her words
make people laugh
and cry
and think and rock out.
- She could make me go:
HA HA BOO-HOO HMMM YOWW!
- After this message thingy!
♪♪♪
- ♪♪ One, two
A one, two, three, four ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ One, two, three ♪
- ♪ Yeah, c'mon let's go
- Four, five, six ♪
- ♪ Hey, what do you know!
- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Wow! What comes next? ♪
- Uh, ten?
- Ten!
- ♪ You're the best! ♪
- Woo! 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! ♪♪
(laughing)
- This one's called
The Poetry Problem.
Hope you find it
very... scroblem?
I can't think
of a rhyme for problem!
I'm gonna sob-lem!
I rhymed!
- Cat and I are
in the home of a poet.
- And when you see her room,
you'll know it! 'Cause it's
filled with poems!
- That's the super-talented
Emily Dickinson over there.
Looks like she's starting
another poem.
- Man, can she write!
- Emily invites us over
sometimes to count her poems.
- Man, can we count!
And... go.
- One, two, three, four, five...
- Six, seven, eight, nine,
ten poems. Done!
- Emily's written way more
than ten poems, Cat.
- What do you mean?
- Every one of these piles
has one hundred poems.
Ten hundreds is one thousand!
- So many zeroes.
- Ten has one zero.
One hundred has two zeros.
But one thousand is a one
with THREE zeros.
- Whoa-ho!
- One thousand poems.
- All from one Emily!
- Emily's poems
sound so cool too.
- Whattaya mean?
- Well, there's something...
about how they sound.
But I can't explain it!
I've got a BIG PROBLEM!
- Slipping! YO! Tripping! NO!
- That's it, you genius
rhyming-in-a-pattern Cat!
- Why don't you explain,
while I wipe ink off my tail?
- Rhyming is when words
end with the same sound.
Like slipping and tripping,
or yo and no.
When you said "slipping yo,
tripping no", you rhymed
in a cool pattern.
First sound, second sound,
first sound, second sound.
A lot of Emily's poems
rhyme in that pattern.
- So they go like...
- ♪ Roses are RED...
- Violets are BLUE... ♪
- ♪ I have a HEAD...
- I have one TOO! ♪
- WOO-HOO!
- I get the pattern! And
we counted Emily's poems!
And I made a finger painting
with my tail!
- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved!
The problem is solved! ♪
♪ We solved the problem!
Problem-- ♪
- Oh my.
- Are you okay, Emily?
We counted your poems.
There are one thousand.
- There will never be
one thousand and one.
I thought I had an idea for
my next poem... but it's gone.
And now I can't think of...
any more poems!
- Ah! I see what's missing
from your poem! Words!
- Why don't you just write about
something you see around you,
in that first thing,
second thing, first thing,
second thing pattern? Like...
♪ I see three nickels
On the sill ♪
♪ Cat likes his pickles
Dill! ♪
Not a bad start, right?
- How'd you think of it?!
- Oh, Peg.
I've written about birds,
flowers, butterflies,
everything I've ever seen
from my room,
but I feel no inspiration.
My spirit is aching!
- Aching spirit! Not good!
- Emily Dickinson
has a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
Don't worry, Em.
Cat and I know the cure
for an achy spirit.
- Or a yucky mood.
Boredom. All that stuff.
- What you gotta do is,
get outta this room!
(tooting sound)
- But, I never leave this room!
- You need new sights!
New sounds!
To inspire you
to write more poems!
- We're not going far, are we?
- Not TOO far. I just thought
we'd drop in on...
The Purple Planet! It's got
the best view of the stars.
- And the best bouncing!
- It's a very nice planet...
- Hey, Peg and Cat!
- Hey, Richard! This is
our friend Emily Dickinson.
- Who has written
one thousand poems!
- Oh! Can I read you this poem
I wrote? Please, please, Emily?
It goes like this:
♪ I have a fluffy blanket
It's oh so good to me ♪
♪ So when no one can see
I take it out and thank it! ♪
Thank you! Thank you.
- That poem has a very
interesting rhyme pattern.
- I know, right?
The lines end...
"I-have-a-fluffy BLANKET...
It's-oh-so-good-to ME
So-when-no-one-can SEE...
I-take-it-out-and THANK IT!"
- "Blanket" rhymes with "thank
it", and "me" rhymes with "see".
- First sound, second sound,
second sound, first sound.
- Way to mix it up, Richard!
- That's my favorite pattern
for stars too.
Red star, blue star,
blue star, red star.
- So Emily, you've seen
all these colorful stars
and met an alien and heard
a totally new rhyme pattern.
Is your mind all
inspired and busy?
- Uh, she looks
more tired and dizzy.
- I woulda said dizzy and tired.
- Oh, Peg. My spirit
still feels empty.
- That's okay. We'll fill it
right up, at Peg's Pizza Place!
Papa Bear's a b*at poet.
His poems have a cool groove.
- Go, daddy-o!
- ♪ Doomba doomba doomba doom ♪
♪ This tale I'm tellin'
in a rhyme ♪
♪ Happened once upon a time ♪
♪ Our porridge was
too hot to bear ♪
♪ So we went out
to get some fresh air ♪
- The lines of his poem end...
"Telling in RHYME... once upon
a TIME... too hot to BEAR...
get some fresh AIR".
First sound, first sound,
second sound, second sound.
- Sausage, sausage,
mushroom, mushroom!
- ♪ But when we got home,
I tell ya I'm ♪
♪ Sorry to say
there'd been a crime! ♪
♪ This girl with locks
of golden hair ♪
♪ Ate all our food
and broke his chair! ♪
- Why not write a poem
about pizza?!
- "It's ooey! It's gooey!
I love it, I do-ey!"
Take it away, Em-i-lator!
- I do enjoy
this rhyming pattern.
And the pizza
is filling my stomach.
But my spirit is still empty.
- We gotta feed
Emily's spirit already!
- I know a place where
there's so much going on,
you'll have like one thousand
ideas for new poems!
- Your spirit will be
totally stuffed at...
- (both): The Mega Mall!
- It has so many
really cool stores!
Right, Emily?
- And today it's got Zebra Guy!
- Hey, Ramone.
This is my friend Emily.
- Who has written
one thousand poems.
- Hey, Emily.
- What is this "Zebra Guy?!"
- He's a performer who sings
poetry called rap
that totally rocks.
- And he's performing...
right... now!
- ♪♪ Hey there, Zebra fans!
Welcome to the Mega Mall! ♪
♪ Checkin' out the Ball Zone!
You can maybe bounce a ball! ♪
♪ Trip and you'll be swimmin!
You'll be sorry if you fall! ♪
♪ Then it's time to move on!
So say--
- BYE, Y'ALL! ♪
- Mall, ball, fall, y'all.
All four lines of Zebra Guy's
rap end with the same sound.
- They all sound like all!
- First sound, first sound,
first sound, first sound.
- A simple pattern. But fun!
- ♪ There's the comfy chair
store! Let's all stop in! ♪
♪ If you're feelin' tired,
down you're droppin! ♪
♪ If you're feelin' wild,
up you're hoppin! ♪
- Please stop hoppin'!
Happy shoppin'!
- Stop in, droppin',
boppin', shoppin'.
Those four lines end
with the same sound too.
- The "oppin"
is just not stoppin'!
- Oh yeah.
- That's right.
(chuckling)
- ♪ Over at the food court!
Time for eatin'! ♪
♪ Over at the music store!
Drums are beatin'! ♪
♪ Over at the shoe store!
Fit your feet in! ♪
♪ Over at the pet store!
Birds are tweetin'! ♪♪
Eatin', beatin',
feet in, tweetin'...
- Whew!
- Emily needs to be
treatin' herself
to some seatin'.
- So you like the Mega Mall,
Emily?
- I do.
- Enough to inspire
that next poem?
- The sights you've shown me
could inspire great poems,
written in any of those
wonderful rhyme patterns.
But I'm searching
for that certain poem
that's just right for me.
And I can't quite find it.
I am utterly
spiritually frustrated!
- Uh, in English?
- Emily Dickinson is--
- (together):
Totally Freaking Out!
(trumpet and whistle sound)
- Cat's right. I should
take a deep breath
and count backwards from five
to calm down. Five...
- We've got to help Emily!
- Four...
- We've tried everything...
- Three...
- I wish there was a way...
- Two...
- We've got to do something...
- One... That's it,
you genius helping-other-
people Peg and Cat!
- What?
- Where?
- I'm inspired to write a poem
about helping other
people feel better.
Which you two do every day!
"If I Can Stop One Heart From
Breaking". By Emily Dickinson.
♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪
♪ I shall not live in vain ♪
♪ If I can ease
one life the aching ♪
♪ Or cool one pain ♪
♪ Or help one fainting robin ♪
♪ Unto his nest again ♪
♪ I shall not live in vain ♪♪
- I love Emily's new poem!
So, what's the pattern?
- Well, the lines end with...
- ♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪
- Breaking!
- First sound.
- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪
- Vain!
- Second sound.
- ♪ If I can ease one life ♪
♪ The aching ♪
- Aching!
- First sound.
- ♪ Or cool one pain ♪
- Pain!
- Second sound.
- ♪ Or help one fainting robin ♪
- Robin!
- Third sound.
- ♪ Unto his nest again ♪
- Gain!
- Second sound.
- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪♪
- Vain!
- Second sound.
- So the pattern goes...
- First sound, second sound,
first sound, second sound,
third sound, second sound,
second sound!
- Eh, whatever works!
- I know, right?
- Oh! And by the way,
what's it mean?
- Well...
- ♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪
- ♪ If you can help somebody sad
- I shall not live in vain ♪
- ♪ Be proud of all that YOU do!
- If I can ease one life
the aching ♪
- ♪ If you can make
one person glad
- Or cool one pain ♪
- ♪ Or heal a single boo-boo
- Or help one fainting robin ♪
- ♪ Or even help a bird
- Unto his nest again
- Into his room with a view ♪
- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪
- ♪ Give yourself a woo-hoo ♪
- LOVE your new poem, Emily.
- It gives me stuff to think
about. And I can dance to it!
- Thank you, Peg and Cat,
for showing me the world,
and inspiring me
with your kindness.
♪ You stopped my heart
from breaking ♪
- ♪ We shall not live in vain ♪
- ♪ Which means
we're really useful! ♪♪
Yes! Yeah!
Ooh! Wait! Sing it
in Richard's pattern!
- ♪ Problem solved
The problem is fixed ♪
♪ And totally nixed
It's been resolved! ♪
- Ooh! Now sing it
in Emily's pattern!
- ♪ Problem solved
The battle is won ♪
♪ Me and Cat were involved
Now we sit in the sun ♪
♪ Everything is awesome
Life is fun... ♪
- ♪ We're so done! ♪
- ♪ 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!
(blowing raspberry)
- Roll it, Mac!
- So, that gigantic contraption
you made in like three seconds
in our living room...
How did you do that?
(blowing raspberry)
Ahh!
- Ooh! Interesting.
- And that musical instrument
you built in the junkyard?
How'd you make something
that's like twenty times
taller than you?
(blowing raspberry)
Oh, right.
- Huh. Fascinating.
- Okay, Baby Fox,
just one more question.
How can we get down from here?!
(blowing raspberry)
- Can you understand him?
- Not a word.
- We get stuck on the most
amazing things on--
- (both): Amazing People!
(blowing raspberry)
♪♪♪
- One, two! A one,
two, three, four!
♪♪♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ One, two, three ♪
- ♪ Yeah, c'mon let's go
- Four, five, six ♪
- ♪ Hey, what do you know!
- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Wow! What comes next? ♪
- Uh, ten?
- Ten!
- You're the best!
- Woo! 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! ♪♪
(laughing)
- The Disappearing Art--
- Problem! AAAAAAAH!
- You know us as Peg and Cat.
But tonight,
in the art museum...
- ♪♪ We're art museum guards!
Guarding the museum! ♪
- ♪ We make sure no one
takes these works!
- So everyone can see 'um! ♪
- ♪ Our flashlights
click and flash!
- It really is a dree-um! ♪
- ♪ To be museum guards
Guarding the museum! ♪
- ♪ These paintings are so cool
But no one's here to see 'um! ♪
- ♪ That's 'cause each and every
night they close up the museum ♪
- ♪ Then why are we whispering?
- We might as well scree-um! ♪
- ♪ We're art museum guards!
Guarding the museum! ♪♪
- Check it out, Cat! That brand
new flat shapes exhibit!
It focuses on shapes
that lie flat,
like triangles and squares.
- Flat shapes are easy
to walk on!
- Unlike solid shapes that stick
up, like pyramids and cubes.
- OW!
- Every room features
a different flat shape.
This one's all
about the rhombus.
- That lady's got a square face!
- Not a square, Cat. A rhombus.
It has one, two, three,
four sides the same length,
like a square. But the sides
don't all go straight across
and straight up and down.
- A rhombus is like a square...
that's tilted.
- Oh! Her face!
- Cute, right? If you're
into rhombus.
- No, it's, it's--
Gone! Disappeared!
(gasping)
- Someone should be
protecting these paintings!
Guards! Guards! Oh, right.
♪ We're art museum guards! ♪
I really gotta pay attention
to the lyrics.
- In the morning, a fancy
schmancy art critic is coming
to see the exhibit
and tell the world
if it's any good.
We need to find that rhombus
before he gets here!
- We have a BIG PROBLEM!
- That weird shadow!
- Where?
- It went into...
the triangle room.
- Where a guitar
has three sides.
(gasping)
Puh-Puh, Puh-puh-puh,
puh puh...!
- Cat got your tongue?
I always wanted to say that!
- There!
He took the guitar!
- There's a thief on the loose,
who can actually go
inside paintings!
- The art museum
guards have a--
- REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
We've got to find every shape
missing from every painting...
- Aw, these circles
are all just fine.
- Don't go too close to those--
- Circles!
- Too late.
- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round ♪
- Okay, Cat--
- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round ♪
- Come on, Cat! We've gotta--
- ♪ They make me make
a happy sound, tra-la! ♪
(gasping)
Footsteps.
(whistling)
- Whistling!
- A human being
dancing with a broom!
Now I've seen everything!
- Mac!
So you're the museum's
night janitor!
- Good to see you guys. It gets
kinda lonely here at night.
- Is that why you were
dancing with a broom?
- Oh, you mean Helga?
- He's looking at it
like it's his donut.
- Don't tell Joanie!
- Anyway, we're seeing which
paintings are missing shapes.
- The paintings are all fine
in the circle room.
And the oval room.
- You're sure every one
of these stretched round
shapes is in place?
- When you spend as much time
here as I do, you know the
paintings like family.
Well, gotta
keep sweepin'!
♪ I love you, Helga ♪
♪ Don't sweep my toenails ♪
(whistling)
- We learned
something from that!
- Yeah. Mac is bonkers.
- We learned that the thief
doesn't steal round shapes.
He only wants shapes
with straight edges,
like rhombuses and triangles...
- And... these whacha-ma-
tangles!
- Rectangles! With two
straight sides going across,
and two going up and down.
Unlike with squares,
some sides of a rectangle
can be longer than others.
- I can't believe the thief
didn't take this adorable
blue rectangle!
- Where?
- Here, where there used to be
an adorable blue rectangle.
- He struck again!
- NO!
No! What?!
♪ He got that red,
red rectangle! He took
that lady's cheek! ♪
- ♪ He got that family's table!
I'm so about to freak! ♪
- ♪ We're art museum guards!
Who're just about to scree-um! ♪
- ♪ The shapes are disappearing!
- The critic needs to see 'um! ♪
- ♪ It really is a nightmare!
- A bad, bad dree-um! ♪
- ♪ To be museum guards
With a thief in the museum! ♪
- He went into that sculpture!
Do you see him?
- I can't see anything
in all this ART!
- You'll never catch me.
I'm the Gingerbread Man!
No, I'm really not.
Why did I say that?
It didn't make sense,
plus it gave away my position.
Ah well, what are you gonna do?
And by 'you', I mean me.
- You're cornered,
art thief!
One, two, three--
- Ow.
- These flat shape
masterpieces are--
- Yes, they are!
- ...missing shapes!
The critic is going to be so--
- Yes, he will!
- Upset.
I am TOTALLY--
- Yes, you are!
- FREAKING OUT!
(trumpeting and whistling)
Cat's right.
I should count backwards
from five to calm down.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
- Squeak!
- That rectangle snapped at me!
- That's it,
you mousetrap-stepping-on Cat!
We'll set a trap for the thief!
- Like for catching a mouse?
- Kinda,
but we won't catch an art thief
with cheese. Will we?
- He wants flat shapes...
with straight edges.
- So we'll just have
to give him one!
No straight-edged-flat-shape
loving art thief
could possibly resist
the perfect square
in our masterpiece.
- Our master piece of cheese!
- One, two, three, four sides,
the exact same length,
going straight up and down
and straight across!
Here he comes.
He's stealing square
after square.
- He won't spare a square?
- Hide!
- Oof! Uh! Ah!
- We gotcha!
- Oh boy!
It wasn't me!
- You've totally got our square.
- Where?
- On your, um, tuchus.
- Oh, I love squares!
I can't help it.
Blame my parents.
- I love tuna fish,
but I don't just go around
taking it off the walls.
- What Cat's saying is,
it's wrong to steal.
- I'm not stealing. I'm
borrowing from the greats,
so I can be a great
square-painting artist.
A "squariste artiste",
if you will.
- But if you want to paint
squares, why'd you take
all those other shapes?
- Because... as I will
demonstrate with the shapes
I borrowed from the greats...
You can put triangles together
to make... a square!
You can put rectangles together
to make... a square!
- Amazing.
- Whoa.
- You can put triangles together
with a rhombus, to make...
- (Cat): No!
- Yes! A square!
- Cool.
- You can even put squares
together to make a really big...
- I won't believe it.
- I can't believe it.
- Square!
- Actually, I believe it.
- That one's fairly believable.
- Ugh! How'd this circle get
in here? ICK! EW! GET!
You can't use round shapes to
make a square, no way no how!
- So that's why you only took
shapes with straight sides.
- I did.
But I'm done.
- The squariste artiste
has ceased.
- It's morning, Toad.
Put those shapes back
before the critic gets here.
- UGH! Fine...
♪♪ Farewell, fair rhombus ♪
♪ We had the greatest of rides ♪
♪ Goodbye, good triangle ♪
♪ I was always on your sides ♪
♪ Adieu, sweet rectangle ♪
♪ Reaching up so tall ♪
♪ And square, oh square ♪
♪ I'll miss you most of all ♪
♪ With you I hoped
to rise to fame ♪
♪ In fabulous art shows ♪
♪ But now I guess
I'll always be ♪
♪ The Toad nobody knows ♪♪
(sighing)
- Aw, Toad. You don't need
to steal from the greats.
You can make great square art
on your own!
- Ya think?
- Sure! And you could
show the critic,
and if he likes your work, he'd
tell the world you're great!
- You'd be famous, Toad!
- But the critic'll be here any
minute! I can't paint that fast!
- Then Cat and I will help you
reach your dream!
- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Not good.
- ♪ The problem is solved ♪
- Not bad...
- ♪ We solved the problem
- Everything is awesome! ♪
- ♪ Problem solved! ♪
(gasping)
- It's the fancy
schmancy art critic
Ramone!
- ♪♪ I like a painting ♪
♪ That's bold and
fresh and new ♪
♪ That shocks and excites me ♪
♪ Maybe tickles too ♪
♪ Will I ever find it ♪
♪ The work I long to view... ♪
Yow!
♪ There! There! That
squa-squa-squa-square! ♪
♪ So much cooler than the others
That it isn't fair ♪
♪ I need a special chair
so I can sit and stare
at that square! ♪
♪ That square! That
squa-squa-square! Woo! ♪
♪ One line up
and one line down ♪
♪ One two straight across 'em ♪
♪ It's ravishing,
engaging, fresh ♪
♪ And yes, it's
oh so totally awesome! ♪
♪ Four sides all one length! ♪
♪ But unlike rhombus
that's all tilted ♪
♪ It goes up straight
and lifts me up! ♪
♪ Just like my uncle Milt did! ♪
♪ There! There! That
squa-squa-squa-square! ♪
♪ So bold and big I flipped
my wig and I don't care! ♪
♪ I wish I could tattoo it
on my underwear! ♪
♪ Swear I'd never tear it
Swear I'd wear it everywhere! ♪
♪ Oh that square! That square!
That squa-squa-square ♪
♪ That square squa-squa-squa
Squa-squa that square
♪ That square! ♪
(clearing throat)
♪ I'm oh so glad
you showed it! ♪
♪ Tell me, what genius
made this? ♪
- ♪ Toad did! ♪
(cheering)
- ♪ With help from my pals
Guarding the museum! ♪
- ♪ We made a great tea-um!
- Just like me and Helga ♪
♪ And Liam! ♪♪
- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round... ♪
- You've been singing that
same song over and over...
- Huh. I should mix things up--
- Yes.
- And sing it a different way.
- Huh?
- ♪ They make me make
a happy sound, tra-la! ♪
♪ I like circles
because they're-- ♪
- ♪ I still love--
- Squares! ♪
- ♪ Triangles!
- I love circles ♪
♪ Because they're round! ♪♪
(laughing and sighing)
- ♪ We're splashing
in the bathroom!
- In the tub! ♪
- ♪ At the sink!
- On the floor!
- Splishing! Splashing! ♪
♪ Splashing some more! ♪
- Welcome to the bathroom!
Where Cat and I are having
a soothing bubble bath...
- So soothing...
- Watching the bubbles,
and thinking of our friends.
- Ooh! In that round bubble
I see the pirates!
- In that oval bubble
I see Richard.
- Ooh! Can my bubble
be a rectangle?
- Uh, okay, Beethoven...
- Four sides,
one great shape.
- A trapezoid has
four sides too.
- Ach! But two of zem
are all crooked und crazy!
- You take that back!
- NO VAY!
- YES WAY!
- Uh, guys. I hate to burst
your bubbles, but...
- We're bursting
your bubbles! Yeah!
06x03 - The Poetry Problem/The Disappering Art 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.