06x04 - The Friday the 13th Problem/The Looking Glass Problem

[bunniefuu]

- Today on Peg + Cat...
- Yes?

- We've got a spooky tale.

- A spooky tail? Ah!

- A spooky story, Cat.
- Ooh.

- After this message thingy.

♪♪♪

- 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 Friday the
th Problem. Ooh!

♪♪♪

- The sun is setting
on Camp Niniwawa.

(muffled speaking)

I mean... Hi, I'm Peg.

This is Cat.
- (muffled): Hello.

- We're chewing on
roasted marshmallows

with our fellow
Gophers Aki and Richard.

Our bunk is called the Gophers.

Jesse's our counsellor
and Tess is helping out.

And this is the camp
marshmallow roaster, Mac!

- (muffled): Good to see you!
- Tonight is the coolest part

of the whole summer
at Camp Niniwawa.

It's the...
(muffled shouting)

Camp Niniwawa Sleepover!

We get to stay at camp
after the sun goes down.

- Uh, can somebody
bring the sun back up?

- Richard's scared of the dark.
I hope this isn't a...

- BIG PROBLEM!

(crying): Mommy!

- Cheer up, Richard!
At the camp sleepover,

we do really cool things.

- Name .
- Well... One...

Roasting marshmallows. Two...
- Telling stories!

- Three...
- ♪ Singing songs ♪
- Four: late-night games.

- Five: late-night snacks.
- Six: late-night races.

- Seven: using flashlights.
- Eight...

- Staring up at the stars
with your friends!

- Nine...
- A talent show on the stage

for the camp director himself.

- And ! Uh...

roasting more marshmallows!

- You had me at marshmallows.
- The first one?

- No, the last one.
I needed that whole list.

- As long as you're happy,
we're happy.

So the first
campfire song can be...

- ♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪

♪ We solved the problem
Problem solved ♪

- Now how about a story!
- I got a story!

I brought my tuba to
accompany this spooky tale...

called Friday the th!

♪♪♪
- Oooh!

- Why did everybody go "oooh"?

- 'Cause Friday
the th is a night

when scaaary stuff happens.

- Just in stories.

- Today's Friday, right?
- Yeah, but--

- What day of the month is it?
- Yesterday was the th.

My cousin's BFF's birthday!

- If yesterday was the th,
today is one more than th!

Friday the th!

I'm in the wilderness in the
dark on a super scary night!

- Oh, boy.
- Richard. Check it out.

If you start at ,
and go , , more,

there's . This little
with a after it.

How can it hurt you?
- I don't know.

And I don't want to find out.

- When you get busy with
the cool stuff planned

for our sleepover,
you'll totally forget

that today happens to be--
- Friday the th!

(screaming)
♪♪♪

- Keeping Richard calm tonight

will be a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!

♪♪♪
- Follow him, Gophers!

- Oh! My story
spooked everybody out

before I even
started telling it.

Heh. I am good!

- So our first sleepover
activity is led by...

- Arts and crafts
counselor Ramone!

- I'm here for the
sleepover bagel spinning.

- Ramone's gonna spin
a dozen bagels on sticks!

- A what bagels?
- A dozen means .

- Let the bagel spinning begin!

- One. Two.

- Go for it, Richard.
- Three. Four.

- Five. Six.

- Seven. Eight.

- Nine. Ten.
- He's spinning so many bagels!

- . .
- ?!

- (all): Nooo!
- Ah!

- Sometimes a baker
throws in an extra bagel

and calls it a baker's dozen,
which is really .

- plus more is .

See, Richard? It can all
be explained by addition.

- It can all be explained
because is unlucky!

I wanna go home!
- No, you don't.

You want the carrot run!

- To the carrot patch!

- ♪♪ By Lake Niniwawa
- With its water so clean ♪

- ♪ There's a row of carrots
- through ♪

- ♪ Pass them all
- And you'll have done ♪

- ♪ The Niniwawa
carrot run ♪

- Gophers... go!

- ♪ One two three four ♪♪

- Richard's leading the way!
- Go Richard!

It's your carrot run!
- I'm past ...

... ... ...

Wait. Where's carrot number ?!

I just see ! Ah!

Whoa!

- The water in Lake
Niniwawa is clean.

- But the mud sure is muddy. Ew.

- You said there were
carrots, Peg! Not !

- Looks like one of
the carrots was taken away.

- It was!
- Whoa!

- If you have of
something and take away ,

you get .
It can all be explained

by subtraction.
(wolf howling)

- ♪♪ You say it's subtraction ♪

♪ I say it's the action ♪

♪ Of a spooky, frantic,
weird, gigantic ghost ♪

♪ You say it's addition
I say it's a vision ♪

♪ Of a ghoul who'll scare us all
And me the most ♪

♪ Friday isn't my day
when it's number ♪

♪ I'm blasted with disasters
more than I've ever seen ♪

♪ I'm buried in bagels
I'm covered with muck ♪

♪ , you're bad luck ♪

- OK. So the dozen bagels

and carrots were a bad idea.

- Too close to for comfort!

- But the camp talent show
doesn't have anything to do

with . The trumpet
we'll play has three valves.

If you add one
to three you get four.

If you take away one
from three you get two!

Either way,
you're nowhere near !

- ♪ You just keep on saying
that taking away-ing ♪

♪ Can explain the spooky
nightmare that I'm in ♪

♪ You think a little plussing
can finish all my fussing ♪

♪ And make me settle down
and skip and grin ♪

- The drum set
only has three pieces.

A guitar only has six strings.

- Look again, Peg!
- Besides the usual six strings,

it has... one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven more.
- And six plus seven equals--

- !
- And you said the trumpet

has three valves?
- Plus one, two, three,

four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten more.

- Which equals...
- !

- OK. Officially creepy!
- It is strange!

- Wanna take a peek
at the drum set?

- I'd rather not.
- Don't do it, Peg!

- Besides the snare,
bass and cymbal, it has...

- more pieces!

For a grand total of--

- Write it!
- I can't! I won't!

- You must!
- (both): !

- So bizarre.
- Really strange.

- I do believe 's unlucky!

I do believe 's unlucky!

- See what I mean?!
- OK, Gophers.

I'm turning on the lights.
(clicking)

- The lights aren't coming on.

- Except for that--
- (all): !

(screaming)

♪ Sleeping out means
freaking out on Friday ♪

- ♪ We're blasted with disasters
- More than we've ever seen ♪

- ♪ We're tangled in
things that you b*at ♪

- Blow!
- Or pluck!

- ♪ , you're bad luck ♪
- That's right! We said...

- ♪ , you're bad luck ♪♪

- Wait a minute, Gophers.

We didn't get stuck
in these instruments

because of the
number . We got stuck

because we were running
around totally scared!

We all need to
take a deep breath

and count backwards
from five to calm down.

- Five... four...

three... two... one.

- Now from eight.

- Eight... seven... six...

five... four... three...

two... one.

- Do you know how many numbers
we just counted all together?

- ?
- plus more

is . We all just
counted numbers.

- And nothing happened!

- Peg's right. You got
covered in bagels and mud

for the same reason we got
stuck in these instruments.

- We let the number
make us crazy.

- So, as long as we're not
scared, can't hurt us!

- I bet you could even
play a -piece drum set.

- (Cat): Oy!
- I could play all night!

- Richard's not scared
of anymore!

- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved ♪

♪ The problem is solved ♪
- But the mystery's not solved.

Who changed these instruments
to make everything ?

(tuba playing)

- Who added a bagel
and took away a carrot

to make ?
(tuba playing)

- Who made the light
shine a great big ?

(tuba playing)

- I'm guessing
it's the same person

who keeps blowing that
tuba every time we hear

the number !
- Mac! It was you?

- Eating all the marshmallows?

(muffled): It was me.

- We're talking about
the tuba playing.

- Oh. That wasn't me.
- Tessa! It was you all along?

- Uh huh.
- Scaring us with that stuff?

- Yeah.
- Why?!

- is my age.

I wear . I am .

I love . And loves me.

- OK...
- I gave you guys

of everything
so you'd stop being scared,

and learn to love like I do.

But it only made
you more scared.

Oh, I'm sorry!
- Don't cry!

- We forgive her,
right, Gophers?

- Totally!
- I feel so bad about it,

nobody can cheer me up. Nobody!

- Except maybe...
the camp director!

- ♪♪ Whether day
or late at night ♪

♪ On drier days or damper ♪

♪ Don't you fear a
Don't you be a hurt teen ♪

♪ Be a happy camper ♪
- OK!

- ♪ Singing gaily every day ♪

♪ Laughing daily as you play ♪

♪ Singing mi mi la la
Laughing tee hee ha ha ♪

♪ That's the Niniwawa way ♪

- ♪ Singing gaily every day ♪

♪ Laughing daily as you play ♪

- ♪ Singing mi mi la la
- Laughing tee hee ha ha ♪

- ♪ That's the Niniwawa way ♪♪

- It was a dark and
stormy night when suddenly...

(Cat gasping)
...something really terrible

happened! Aah!
- Aah! What happened?

- What was the terrible
thing that happened?!

- I forgot the story!

- That is pretty terrible!
- That is one terrible story!

- Thank you!
- (laughing): Mac!

- ♪ Amazing People ♪

♪ The show where
we interview amazing people ♪

- Today on Amazing People,
we're honouring Mac.

- This guy right here.
- Hello!

- We put together a film
about all the jobs Mac does

and Cat wrote a poem.
- To get the poem,

you need to know that
a yak is really hairy

and Paskrooki is far away.
- Roll the film, Mac!

- You said I didn't
have to work today.

- Sorry.
(groaning)

- He'll just be a second.
- Here we go.

- (Cat): There once was
a fellow named Mac,

with more jobs than hairs on
a yak! If you counted them all

while bouncing a ball, you could
bounce to Paskrooki and back.

- Amazing poem, Cat! And you
only had to explain half of it!

- So uh, what did Mac think?
- I loved it!

It's my favorite poem ever.

I even understood it!

- Aw! Bring it in, big guy!

- Amazing things happen on...
- ♪ Amazing People ♪

♪♪♪

- 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 ♪♪
- Woohoo!

- Huh?

- The Looking--
- Glass Problem!

- I was going to say that.

- I DID say that.
- Ugh!

- Peg and Cat here, with...

- ...just up
from the basement...

- ...a trunk of junk.
- Ooh!

A floppy flipper!
- That's a chess board, Cat.

When you play chess,
you move pieces

like this king and queen around
on the board a certain way.

- What certain way?
- I don't know.

- I wanna move the pieces
the certain way.

I've got a big problem!

- That's it, Cat!

This diagram shows that a king
can go one square at a time.

- One! Go, your majesty!

- And a queen can leap
all the way across the board!

That's eight squares!

- The queen can really move!

- We figured out how to move
these chess pieces and so...

- ♪♪ One, one, one
- Eight, eight ♪

- ♪ One, one, one
- Eight, eight ♪

- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪
- Ooh!

Check out this book, Cat.
- A girl and a cat.

Woo! I'm intrigued!
- Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll.
A looking glass is a mirror.

- Like this?
- Alice and her cat are looking

at the room in the mirror.
- There's a room in this
mirror too!

- But Alice goes into
the room in her mirror.

You can't go into that room.

- I wanna go into that room!

I've got a really big...

No problem.

- You went through
the looking glass, Cat!

What's it like over there?

- Kinda like over there.

(gasping)

- You're right.

This other room
is just like my room.

Same bed...
- Same chess pieces.

- Put me down.
- Sorry, your majesty!

- The chess piece is talking?

- Of course we're talking!

How else can we tell you
that you have a chance

to get something remarkable!
- If you hurry!

- What can we get?
- And how should we get it?

- Pass eight blab-jabber
blab-jabbers,

cross the burble-burble
splat-splat

burble-burble
splat-splat and you'll win

mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah
mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah!

- All right!
- Let's go for it!

- Wait, what?
- I have no idea.

Wait, your majesty!
- We have no idea

what you were talking about!

Did they just walk
through the wall?

- Things through the looking
glass are totally not the same!

- I want that mo-mo-mo gah-gah-
gah mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah!

Whatever it is.
- The queen's directions

were like a riddle. And each
of those silly words she said

is a clue to solving it.
- So if we figure out

what the three
silly words mean...

- We'll solve the
REALLY STRANGE RIDDLE!

- And get us some fine
mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah

mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah!
- Woo woo woo, hoo hoo hoo!

- I'm saying you're wrong!

- You're saying I'm right!
- I'm right!

- You said it again!
- Excuse me.

We need some help.
- Can't you see I'm busy

arguing with him?
- I'm arguing with him.

- How about we help
settle your argument,

and then you can help us.
- The problem is

we each want to be the first
to win a Me-got Me-got.

- A prize for doing
eight amazing things

before the king and queen.

- My brilliant plan is
to do seven amazing things,

then one more.
- My incredible plan

is to do six amazing
things and then two more.

- Seven plus one
more equals eight.

So your plan works.
- Ha ha!

- But six plus two
more equals eight too.

- Yes!
- Both plans totally work.

- ♪ I'll get, I'll get ♪

♪ The Me-got Me-got ♪

- The thing we need help
with is: what are blab-jabber

blab-jabbers?
- People!

- Who doesn't know that?
- So we need to pass

eight people and cross
a burble-burble splat-splat

burble-burble splat-splat.

- To win mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah
mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah!

- I have no idea
what those words mean.

- They're way too big for me.

- Way, way too big for me!
- What do they mean the words

are too big for them?
- I think it has to do

with patterns, Cat. The silly
words all repeat sounds

in a certain order.
Me-got Me-got

is a first thing,
second thing, first thing,

second thing pattern.
Like blab-jabber blab-jabber.

- Those guys like
that little pattern.

- But burble-burble splat-splat

burble-burble splat-splat

is first thing, first thing,
second thing, second thing.

Two of one thing,
then two of the other.

- Aha!
- And mo-mo-mo

gah-gah-gah mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah

is first, first, first,
second, second, second.

Three of one thing,
then three of the other.

- The shorter pattern
is more their thing.

- Now we know we need
to pass eight people.

We passed those two guys,

so we need to pass
six more to get to eight.

- More blab-jabber
blab-jabbers ahead!

- Aah!
- Ha ha ha!

- ♪ You pushed me off zee vall
- Now I'm on tippy tippy
top top ♪

♪ Tippy tippy top top
'cause you had a fall ♪

Aah!
- Ha ha ha!

- ♪ You pushed me off the wall
- Now I'm tippy tippy top top ♪

♪ Tippy tippy top top
'cause you had a fall ♪

Hee hee! Aah!
- Ha ha ha!

- ♪ You pushed me off the wall
- Now I'm tippy tippy top top ♪

♪ Tippy tippy top top
'cause you had a fall, woo ♪

- Why are you guys pushing
each other off the wall?

- It's not very nice!
- ♪ It's vat vee like to do ♪

Aah!
- ♪ We love our little game ♪

Woo hoo!
- ♪ And now I'm back ♪

♪ On tippy tippy top top
- Tippy tippy top top ♪

- ♪ Tippy tippy top top
- Tippy tippy top top ♪♪

- Hold on, Cat!
Tippy tippy top top

is that first, first,
second, second pattern.

- Like that next thing
we're looking for!

- The burble-burble splat-splat
burble-burble splat-splat!

So maybe they'll
know what it means!

- It's a river, of course. Aah!

- You'll find one-- Aah!

- That way! Aah!
- So after we pass eight people

we'll cross a river.
- And get that mo-mo-mo

gah-gah-gah
mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah!

Which I'm thinking is really
shiny. Or cuddly. Or loud!

- We already passed
the two men by the tree.

And now we've passed... three.

- Aah!
- Four.

- Aah!
- Five altogether.

Five plus three more is eight.

So we need to pass three
more people to get to...

- (horses): Six. Seven. Eight.
- Whoa!

- Do horses count as
blab-jabber blab-jabbers?

- Yes. Yes.
- Oh, yes.

- At least they're not
a bunch of nay-sayers!

- We've passed all eight
blab-jabber blab-jabbers,

and there's the
burble-burble splat-splat

burble-burble splat-splat!
- Which we are crossing...

to find the king
and queen, all grown up!

- ♪♪ Sing out merrily,
tra la la ♪

- ♪ Tell your mama
and pa pa pa ♪

- ♪ You've won
mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah ♪

♪ Mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah ♪

- Three mo's followed
by three gah's!

- I am so thrilled to receive
this incredible-- Aww!

Wha... what is it?
- Mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah

mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah is power!

- All hail King Cat!

- And Queen Peg!

♪ Everyone near
and so fah fah fah ♪

- ♪ Give them a very loud
hoo-rah-rah ♪

- Hoo rah rah!
- ♪ They've won mo-mo-mo ♪

♪ Gah-gah-gah mo-mo-mo
gah-gah-gah ♪♪

- By using patterns and counting
to eight we solved the riddle.

- Math makes you
feel like a king!

- And so...
- ♪ Problem solved ♪

- Greetings, royal subjects!
- It's good to be the king!

- ♪ You've solved the problem ♪

- ♪ So everything
- Is awesome ♪

- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Now that we have another king,

let the game begin!

- (various): Yay!
- What game are we playing?

- And why does it
involve chasing me?

- We're playing chess.

The goal is to capture
the other side's king!

- I love capturing a king.

- I don't wanna be captured!

- I don't want my friend chased!
I don't wanna play this game!

I am TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!

(horn tooting)
(whistle blowing)

Cat's right. I should
count to eight to calm down.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

That's it, you hopping geniuses!

- Huh?
- Excuse me?

- You two are making
those little hops

because you're kings.
A king in chess can go one space

at a time. But a queen
can leap eight spaces!

And I'm a queen so...

I can go eight times
further than a king.

Like this! And this!

- Why didn't I think of that?
- Why are you leaving?

- Because...

♪♪ I don't want
to rule the land ♪

♪ If it means
being chased around ♪

♪ I don't want to climb a wall ♪

♪ If it means
pushing someone down ♪

♪ I don't want to win a prize ♪

♪ If that's all you talk about ♪

♪ Those games are not for me ♪

♪ And so I'm getting out ♪

- I must say,
I don't understand!

- Maybe you'll understand
if we put it like this.

♪ We don't want
- Mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah ♪

♪ Mo-mo-mo gah-gah-gah
- It's really not our style ♪

- ♪ We don't want to be on
- Tippy tippy top top ♪

♪ Tippy tippy top top, oh, no
- It doesn't make us smile ♪

- ♪ We don't want a
- Me-got Me-got ♪

- ♪ No sir, that is not
a game we play ♪

- ♪ So later
- Blab-jabbers blab-jabbers ♪

- ♪ We'll be on our way ♪

- ♪ Gimme an
- Octa wocky, octa wocky ♪

♪ Whoo
- Octa wocky, octa wocky ♪

♪ Whoo
- A dee-dee fa-fa ♪

♪ Dee-dee fa-fa too ♪

- ♪ A dee-dee fa-fa
dee-dee fa-fa too ♪

- ♪ Now a
- Boo-boo-boo bay-bay-bay ♪

♪ Boo-boo-boo bay-bay-bay ♪

- ♪ Boo-boo-boo bay-bay-bay
Boo-boo-boo bay-bay-bay ♪

- ♪ And now a
- Toodle-oo ♪

- ♪ Toodle-oo
- Goodbye to all those ♪

♪ Mo's and gah's
That pattern three by three ♪

- ♪ Oo oo oo
- Goodbye to fancy ♪

♪ Shiny crowns
Goodbye to royalty ♪

- ♪ Oo oo oo
- The tippy tops ♪

♪ And the Me-gots
You babble merrily ♪

- ♪ Merrily ♪

- ♪ They're fun to say
But at the end of the day ♪

- ♪ They're nonsense
- Nonsense ♪

- ♪ To me ♪♪

- Peg and Cat
never asked our names!

- They don't know
I'm Tweedledum.

- I'm TweedleDEE.
- Why would you say

"I'm TweedleDEE"?
- What would I say, TweedleDUM?

- What? You called my name!
- Did not.

You must have called yourself.
- Why would I call myself,

Tweedledee?
- What? YOU just called ME!

- Did not!
- Did too!

- Ugh.
- Ugh.

Today has been
so goo-gee goo-gee.

(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 just saw
Misty Copeland dance Swan Lake.

- One two three! One two three!

One two three! One two three!

- She's so famous.

- She's on every stage
around the world!

- On Broadway!
- On TV!

- She's even in our bathroom!

- Whoa ho ho!
- One two three four.

One two three four.
- Misty's counting to four.

We were counting to three.

- Different musical
patterns, right?

- I wanna dance
like Misty Copeland!

- One two three four! One two
three four! One two three four!

One two three four!

- To see more
of our musical adventures

- Go to out totally rockin'
website at PBSKids.org.

- Til then, we're Peg and
Cat.

- and Misty Copeland.

♪ Splashing some more! ♪