- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪♪♪
♪♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting like a trombone)
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ 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, tuh?
- (kids): Ten!
- ♪ You're the best ♪
(kids cheering)
- ♪ We are two, na na na na na ♪
- Huh?!
AAH!
♪ 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 Peanut Problem. Weeee!
♪♪♪
- Ooh!
(laughing)
(insects buzzing)
- Check out the fields
of peanuts!
- The swarms
of mosquitos!
- Welcome to the South, Cat.
- Where it gets kind of hot.
- And very cool
when we're visiting, like,
the most amazing inventor ever!
♪♪♪
George Washington Carver!
- Hey, Peg and Cat!
- George is working
on an invention, Cat.
An invention's a brand new,
really useful thing.
- ♪♪ When you want something ♪
♪ That can't be found
on any shelf ♪
♪ Create it yourself ♪
♪ Invention ♪♪
- Cool!
- Careful, Cat!
This isn't a play room.
It's George's lab
where he invents stuff,
using imagination,
concentration--
- And peanut shells.
- Oh yeah!
George has invented
so many things using peanuts.
We came today
to help him celebrate
peanut-based invention
number !
- "peanutty" inventions!
WOO HOO!
- Only so far,
but this peanut soap makes .
- George just invented
this new soap
that's made of peanuts.
- So is he almost at ?
- Pretty close.
Check it out.
Each of these boxes
has inventions,
so altogether he's got...
, , , , ,
, , , --
- ! Say ! Please!
- Not yet. This last box
only has inventions.
And now .
- (Peg): Making inventions
altogether.
We still need one more
to get from to .
- So, have you got an idea
for number yet, George?
- No one idea in particular.
- Hmm... How about now?
Now? NOW!
- You gotta be patient, Cat.
- You never know
just when an idea will come.
- I can't wait
for that th invention
because I have zero patience
and a--
- (Peg and Cat): BIG PROBLEM!
- No use getting all
"flustrated."
- Huh?
- "Flustrated" is this word
I made up
for when you're feeling
frustrated and upset.
- George even invented a word!
He's really inventive.
- Whoa!
- Instead of pacing,
why don't you help me name
these last few inventions?
(Cat gasping)
- I've always dreamed
of being an invention namer!
- !
- ♪♪ Peanut floor cleaner ♪
- ♪ Call it cleanut butter ♪
- !
- ♪ A shell umbrella ♪
- ♪ Peanutbrella! Do another ♪
- !
- ♪ Peanut fudge ♪
- Pudge. !
- ♪ Nut rubber ♪
- Nubber!
♪ Pudge is mighty tasty ♪
♪ To a bouncy nubber lover ♪
- !
- ♪ Nut-based face powder ♪
- ♪ Call it
the peanut powder peader ♪
!
- ♪ Nut-based fuel ♪
- ♪ This peanut-powered car's
the leader ♪
- ♪ Call it peanut gas,
or pass ♪
- ♪ Fill 'er up with passoline ♪
- ♪ Scrub 'er down
with cleanut butter ♪
♪ For a sparkly clean machine ♪
!
♪ Nutty noodle ♪
!
- ♪ Nut-based leash ♪
- ♪ Neash ♪
- 's soap!
♪ Scrubber nutter
- For just one more I wish ♪
Yah!
♪ I guess I made a mess ♪
- ♪ You kinda goofed
- I sorta blundered ♪
- ♪ And invented peanut paint
- Nutter colors ♪
- ♪ Makes ♪♪
- He made it
to "peanutty" inventions!
- And they've all
been named.
- And so...
♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem
Problem-- ♪
- Uh oh!
- What is it, George?
- A few of my new inventions
are missing!
- NOOO!
- Oh, that is so flustrating!
- It sure is.
- Whoever took 'em
was really fast.
- And an incredible hider.
- Or an incredible spider!
- What's a spider
doing with inventions?
- She does seem to enjoy them!
- ♪♪ Inventions, inventions ♪
♪ They whirr and clang
and spin ♪
♪ Inventions, inventions ♪
♪ They always make me grin ♪
♪ Inventions, inventions ♪
♪ So colorful, they shine ♪
♪ Inventions, inventions ♪
♪ They're mine mine
mine mine mine ♪♪
I got inventions! Weee!
- We've got to get
George's inventions back
so he'll have !
- We've got a--
- (Peg and Cat):
REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
- That spider got one, two,
three, four inventions.
- She's still around here
someplace, right?
- I'll look high.
Peg, you look down low.
- What do I do?
- Guard the box
so she doesn't get any more.
- Box guard!
- I see the soup can!
- Weee-heeheehee!
- Here it comes, Cat!
- I think I can! I think I can!
I can!
- Hey, Cat, how many we got now?
- Uh... Counting in the nineties
is way too high for me. Um...
- It's just like counting
from one to ten,
but with a nine in front.
So it goes
ninety--
- One.
- Ninety--
- Two. Ninety-three.
Ninety-four. I can't believe
I'm doing it!
Ninety-five. Ninety-six.
Ninety-- Uh, where was I?
Oh right, after six comes seven,
so after ninety-six
comes ninety --
don't tell me -- seven!
- Here comes the soap!
- A clean catch!
♪♪♪
- I got the nutter colors!
- A colorful catch!
- Oooh!
- Ah!
Here comes the neash!
- I got the neash! Sheesh!
- How many does that make?
- You had ninety-seven so...
- Ninety-eight. Ninety-nine!
Ninety-ten!
- (laughing):
There's no ninety-ten!
After ninety-nine
comes one hundred.
- One hundred!
Got it on my second try.
- Woohoo!
- Yes!
- Well done.
- I got all ten inventions
on MY second try!
Weeee!
- Don't let her get out!
- Those inventions
won't get past us!
- Not gonna happen.
- Oh?!
- And yet, it happened.
- Awww...
- ♪ I got inventions
I got inventions ♪
♪ Oh, did I mention
I got inventions ♪
Yippee!
- What's a gopher
want with inventions?
- ♪♪ Inventions ♪
♪ They're these cool things
nobody else has ♪
♪ So when you've got 'em
everybody says ♪
♪ Wow look at all those cool
inventions that gopher has ♪
♪ That gopher has
so many inventions ♪♪
See you later!
- That annoying little gopher
lives underground.
When he gets ahold
of something, it's gone.
- NOOO!
- It's all my fault!
- (together):
We are totally flustrated!
- Cat's right.
- We should count backwards
from five to calm down.
- (Peg, Spider, George): Five,
four, three, two,
one.
- Yo!
It's my cousin
who lives in the South!
Hey, Virginia!
Ah, you're not Virginia.
You're sticky!
Help!
- It's a glop of peanut glue
I'm working on.
- I still see a resemblance.
Virginia always has
this nutty smile.
I see a way to catch
the gopher!
You thinking
what I'm thinking, George?
- I think I am.
- I'm thinking it too! I think.
- I have no idea
what anybody's thinking.
- We just invented
the Peanut Glue Gopher Trap,
which works like this.
I can't believe you stole
nine of my inventions, Gopher!
- You've got
the most inventions
of any gopher
in the whole South!
- You're the fastest, trickiest,
most annoying gopher ever!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah! Now what?
- Shh!
- Hey, pal.
You got nine inventions?
So what? I got ten!
Right here! See?
Ten's more than nine.
So who's the trickiest?
Not you!
Now get out of here! Go!
Oh, you are stubborn.
And sticky!
Get me out! Somebody!
- We'll get you out...
- Now that my inventions
are safe.
- Ooh! Getting unstuck is sweet!
- So is having
peanut-based inventions!
- WOOHOO!
- And so...
- ♪♪ Problem solved
The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ No more flustration
- Just peanut celebration ♪
- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪
- There's no celebration for me.
I don't have
any inventions!
- I don't have
one invention!
- ♪♪ Don't you whine ♪
♪ 'Cause you can't take mine ♪
♪ Pay attention ♪
♪ You can make
your own invention ♪
♪ The idea you choose should be
something folks can use ♪
♪ Think of what people
really need ♪
♪ Then draw up a plan,
sketch yourself a diagram ♪
♪ Do some research,
think and read ♪
♪ Get materials ♪
♪ Boards or tubes or cereals ♪
♪ Stuff you borrow,
find or reap ♪
♪ I use nuts from the ground ♪
♪ They're growing all around
You can get them really cheap ♪
- ♪ Cheep ♪
- And then...
♪ Fit fidget fiddle ♪
♪ Maybe improvise a little
Tapping, tapping, taping ♪
♪ Gluing, concentrate
on what you're doing ♪
♪ Don't give up
Twisting, turning, messing up ♪
♪ Re-thinking, learning,
jammin', slammin', hammerin' ♪
♪ Nailin', flailin',
wrenchin' until ♪
♪ The thrill of invention ♪
- (together): Yay!
Aww!
- ♪ Don't boohoo ♪
♪ As you give in to ♪
♪ Flustration ♪
♪ Time for guts
and concentration ♪
♪ Snip snap doodle ♪
♪ Rearrange the whole kaboodle ♪
- ♪ Fixing! Mixing!
- Fixing! Mending! ♪
- ♪ Testing
- ♪ Don't give up ♪
- ♪ Keep on tapping
- Scraping ♪
- ♪ Scrapping
- Never napping ♪
- ♪ Jamming
- Jolting
- Hammering ♪
- ♪ Bolting
- Nailing
- Wrenching ♪
- ♪ Until the thrill
of invention ♪
- ♪ Until the thrill ♪
♪ Of invention ♪♪
- Woohoo!
- Yeah!
Hoho! Fun!
- George invented
a whole new way to end the show
that uses peanuts.
- You just relax
with your friends,
eating peanuts!
The Carver Close!
- Whoa, whoa!
You invent 'em. I name 'em.
- OK!
- I say we call
the peanut-based close the...
OK, actually Carver Close
is good.
(all laughing and sighing)
- Live from the tree, it's...
- Amazing People!
- Today on Amazing People,
we're gonna check out
these amazing people
who make animation.
- I love cartoons! I can't wait
to see how they do it!
♪♪♪
They're drawing stuff.
- (Peg): Jamming!
Clicking buttons.
- (Cat): Ooh!
WHOA!
(Peg gasping)
- I wanna make animation!
- It does look cool, right?
By drawing and jamming
and clicking buttons,
they make pictures come to life!
- Could they make
a dinosaur fly?
- I don't know.
Maybe!
- Those drawing, jamming
button clickers are amazing!
- Whoa.
- Everyone's amazing on...
- Amazing people!
♪♪♪
- One, two!
A one, two, three, four!
♪♪♪
♪♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
(Cat tooting like a trombone)
♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
- ♪ One two three!
- Yeah, c'mon let's go ♪
- ♪ Four five six!
- Hey, what do you know ♪
- ♪ Seven eight nine!
- Whoa, what comes next? ♪
- Aaah! Ten?!
- (kids): Ten!
- ♪ You're the best ♪
(Cat screaming)
♪ We are two, na na na na na ♪
- Ugh! Ugh!
- ♪ Me plus you, na na na na ♪
- Aaah!
- ♪ We're Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat ♪
- ♪ Peg plus
- Ca-at ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪♪
(all laughing)
- More adventures of--
(cell phone ringing)
Robin Hood.
(indistinct talking over phone)
- NO! This sounds
like a job for...
ME!
(medieval ballad music)
- ♪♪ Wandering balladeers
are we ♪
♪ In the Forest of Sherwood
- Fa la ♪
- ♪ We sing our stories merrily
of brave Robin Hood ♪
- ♪ Fa la ♪
- ♪ It's Maids Marion and Mora
- La ♪
- ♪ Robin Hood evens the score-a
- La ♪
- ♪ By giving the ones
with less ♪
♪ More than before-a
- Ta da ♪
- ♪ Not any more-a ♪♪
- Wha?!
- Ever since you gave
Robin Hood this!
- The sign
for greater than...
Or less than...
♪♪ When it's turned around
- Fa la ♪
- You told him it opens
towards the side with more.
- ♪ Like with these stones
upon the ground
- Fa la ♪
- He used it to take
from more and give to less
so we each had
the same amount.
- And then the evil Sheriff of
Nottingham steals it all away.
- But after stealing it,
the Sheriff would take a nap,
we'd hold up the sign,
and Robin would take
from the Sheriff who had more
and give back to us.
- ♪ Totally defeated,
the Sheriff went away ♪
- The Sheriff of Nottingham
is gone?!
- ♪ Fa la?! ♪
- ♪ No longer needed,
Robin Hood didn't stay ♪
- Robin's gone too?!
- Fa la?!
- ♪ We have the same
of everything ♪
♪ So all day I skip and sing ♪
♪ She just stands there
smiling ♪♪
- Sure it's great for you,
but for the Balladeers,
no more adventures of Robin Hood
to sing about
is a BIG PROBLEM!
Less than! Cat's right!
Today, we Balladeers can just
sing "less than" we usually do.
- Math can help you
be happy with less!
- And so...
♪ Problem solved
- Life's greater than before ♪
- ♪ Fa la la
- The problem is solved ♪
- ♪ Less trouble 'ever more
- Fa la la ♪
- ♪ We solved the problem
- So everything is
ending early ♪
- ♪ Problem solved ♪♪
- Cat?
- Yes?
- Usually, before
we get to the tree,
there's some
really big adventure, right?
- I know!
- This time,
hardly anything happened.
- I just hope we still get
to end with--
- A laugh and a sigh, right?
- You're talking my language!
That's all I need!
(both laughing)
(Cat sighs.)
- (women): HELP!
(Peg and Cat gasping)
♪♪♪
- Neighbor Ladies
Connie and Viv, what is it?
- Our trinkets
have been stolen!
- Along with our knickknacks!
- And our tchotchkes!
- Who would take them?
- Who would tell me
what they are?
- Little thingy-things.
- He did it!
(pig snoring)
- (Peg): The Sheriff
of Nottingham!
- (Cat): So that's where he came
when he left Sherwood Forest!
- Don't worry, Neighbor Ladies.
We can take back your stuff
while he's snoozing.
(dinging)
- Not snoozing!
- Run away!
- Help! Pig!
- Pig! Help!
(all gasping for breath)
He is really scary.
- I don't get it.
He used to sleep a long time.
- But now he's got
my egg timer.
- He took that too!
- (Connie): Before he snoozes,
he sets it to five seconds.
- Five seconds
is only like
one, two, three,
four, five.
(timer dinging)
We can't get their stuff back
that fast!
- We've got a--
- (all): REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
- But don't worry,
Neighbor Ladies.
I'm calling someone
who can stand up
to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- This sounds like a job for...
- ♪ I am the gallant
Robin Hood ♪
- I got his recording.
- Robin Hood's too busy
to answer his phone?
What is he? Ramone?
- Finish the song already
so I can leave a message!
- What kind of name
is Robin Hood?
- He's a bird.
He wears a hood.
- It's actually a hat.
- He should be called Robin Hat.
(Beep!)
- Hi, Robin Hood. It's--
- (recorded woman's voice):
To leave a message for--
- (Robin): Robin. Hood.
- (voice): Wait for the beep.
- I've been waiting!
- (voice): To hear your message
when you're finished, press one.
- Come on!
- (voice): To re-record
your message, press two.
- UGH!
- (voice): If you think
math doesn't show up
in everyday life, press three.
(Beep!)
- Hey, Robin, it's Peg and Cat.
The Sheriff of Nottingham
is in our neighborhood
and we really need your--
- (Neighbor Ladies): HELP!
(cell phone ringing)
- Robin Hood?!
- Robin: [Sorry I didn't
hear your call, Peg.]
I'm using more and less
to help George Washington
cross the DelaWARE!
- You OK, Robin?
- Robin: [The back of the boat]
[is too low!
And the front, too high.]
- To even things out,
you need more weight in--
- Back?
- Peg: [Uh, front actually.]
Weight makes things go down.
You want more weight in front,
so the front will go down.
- Then I, Robin Hood, shall move
everything to the front.
- Peg: [If you move everything
to the front...]
[the front will be too heavy.]
- How right you are!
- Peg:
08x01 - The Peanut Problem/More Adventures of Robin Hood
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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.