16x07 - Episode 7

[bunniefuu]

[THEME MUSIC]

-[SINGING] It's a beautiful
day in this neighborhood,

a beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

It's a neighborly day
in this beauty-wood,

a neighborly day for a beauty.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have
a neighbor just like you.

I've always wanted to live
in the neighborhood with you.

So let's make the most
of this beautiful day.

Since we're together, we might
as well say, would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you, please?

Won't you, please?

Please, won't you
be my neighbor?

[SPEAKING] Welcome,
television neighbor.

Glad we're together.

I want to show you something
that I have in this box.

Know what that is?

Do you know what's inside here?

In here?

Little peas.

In fact, I need to
get some of these peas

shelled so we can
cook them for dinner,

so let's just go to the kitchen.

Hi, fish.

Need a plate here.

I want you to see.

You ever seen peas
in their pods?

Those are the peas
inside the pod.

And you just take the peas off
like that, and we have the pod.

Come on.

There it is.

Look how many are in there.

Imagine those peas growing
in there like that.

Isn't that wonderful?

I've watched very young children
do this and do it very well.

[CHUCKLES]

In fact, there are many things
that young children can do.

[SINGING] Who can
crawl under a table?

Who can sit under a chair?

Who can fit their feet in little
shoes and sleep most anywhere?

Who can play very
much longer, play

much harder than
grownups ever dare.

You're a child,
so you can do it.

You can do it anywhere.

Roll in the grass.

Squish in the mud.

Lick an ice cream cone.

Sing to a bass.

Splash in a flood by a
stepping stone, all alone.

Who can put your hand
in my hand and be

ready to feel all
safe and strong?

You're a child,
so you can do it.

Children do it all life long.

[SPEAKING] It's
great to be a child.

What do you suppose people
could do with these empty pods?

Well, some people feed
them to farm animals.

Some throw them away.

What would you do with an
empty pea pod if you had one?

[TELEPHONE RINGING]

There's the telephone.

Let's see who that is.

Hello?

Oh, just shelling
peas and singing.

No, not yet, but I guess
we could make up one.

Yeah.

Well, I'd like to.

Eva Kwong?

But Eva Kwong's a person
who makes pottery.

OK.

Be glad to come.

Thanks.

See ya.

Bye bye.

That was Chef Brockett.

He wants us to
come to his bakery.

He says that Eva Kwong
and her grandmother

are there making something
very interesting.

So let's just go to
Brockett's Bakery right now.

We'll come back a little later.

Come along.

-Thank you very much.

Mr. Rogers.

Como esta usted?

-Muy bien, gracias.

Y usted?

-Muy bien, gracias.

-Good.

Is Eva Kwong here?

-Yeah, she's back in the
kitchen with Chef Brockett.

-Oh, good.

Well, may I go back?

-Sure.

-Thank you.

-Go ahead.

WOMAN: OK?

-Hi, Don.

-Hi, Fred.

Wait till you see what
we're making here today.

-Good.

How are you, Eva?

-Hi.

Hi, Mr. Rogers.

-Glad to see you.
-How are you?

-Eva Kwong, my
television neighbor.

Remember, she makes
the beautiful pottery?

This is her grandmother, Poppy.

-Hi.

Hi.

-Yes.

Now what are you making now?

-Oh, she's going to make these
dumplings wrapped in leaves.

-Oh, good.

I'd like to see how you do that.

-All right.

You need the zong leaf.

Zong leaf.

-Yeah.

-And what did she say, Eva?

-These are the leaves
for making the zong.

They're wide bamboo leaves.

They've been dried.

-Ah-ha.

-And she soaks them in water
first, and then she boils them.

And then she soaks them in
water for several more days,

and she washes them every day.

-So that's like a
little boat there.

-Yes.

-Then you put things in it?

[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-She puts a sticky rice inside.

It's called sweet rice.

It's stickier than the
regular rice we eat.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-These are mung beans.

MR. ROGERS: Mung beans.

-They take the green skin off.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-That's Chinese sausage.

MR. ROGERS: Uh huh.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-That's dried mushrooms.

MR. ROGERS: Dried mushrooms.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-That's ham.

In China, they usually use
roast pork, but we use ham--

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

---today.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Dried chestnuts.

-Chestnuts.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Salted duck egg yolk.

They soak the duck eggs in
salt and water for 40 days.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-40 days?

-Dried shrimp.

-So and you're going to
put those things in here?

-Yes.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: [SPEAKING CHINESE]
That's how you wrap them.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: You start off by
putting the rice in the middle.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

MR. ROGERS: Uh huh.

EVA KWONG: So they
make a little nest.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: She's going
to put the beans in next.

MR. ROGERS: Beans?

Beans into the nest?

Uh huh.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: And the
salted duck egg yolk.

MR. ROGERS: Ah.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: The Chinese sausage.

MR. ROGERS: And who
taught her to make--

who taught you to make these?

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-She watched her
mother made it--

-Ah-ha.

---when she was young.

And over the years,
then she started

helping her mother make it.

And now she makes
it all by herself.

-But she's taught you too now?

-Yes.

All my brothers
and sisters, we've

watched her since we
were kids, and now we

help her make them also.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: She put
the chestnuts in.

MR. ROGERS: That has quite--

EVA KWONG: [SPEAKING CHINESE]

MR. ROGERS: --an
artistic look to it.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: That's the mushrooms.

MR. ROGERS: Mushrooms inside.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: That's
the dried shrimp.

-Uh huh.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: She's going to put--
MR. ROGERS: Another mushroom.

---another mushroom in.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Oh, and then more rice on top.

-Yeah, she's going to put
more of the sticky rice

on top so all the ingredients
are covered with the rice.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-So when you open
it, you see the--

MR. ROGERS: I see.

EVA KWONG: --white rice

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: She
folds the leaf over.

MR. ROGERS: Ah.

EVA KWONG: And you
gotta hold it tight.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

MR. ROGERS: Make
it into a package.

EVA KWONG: Mm hmm.

And fold it over.

-You're going to put
string around it?

-She's going to be
wrap it with string--

-Ah-ha.

---so it doesn't come
apart in the cooking.

-You must have made
many of these, Poppy.

EVA KWONG: [SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Ah, yeah. [SPEAKING CHINESE]

-She says she makes
them every year.

-Uh huh.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-So we eat them every year,
so she makes them every year.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-She's probably made hundreds
and hundreds of them.

-Yes.

-We've probably eaten hundreds
and hundreds of them too.

EVA KWONG: Now she's going to--

MR. ROGERS: That
really is a package.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: She needs
to make it tight.

MR. ROGERS: Make it tight.

EVA KWONG: So the
leaf doesn't open up

and everything falls out.

She ties it three times.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

MR. ROGERS: Do you
have to pat it?

EVA KWONG: Yeah.

She pats it so-- sometimes
there's space between the rice.

So it evens out.

It makes it more compact--

-Ah.

---and you have
the distinct sides.

-And then you cook it?

-Yes.

Then we cook it in
a big pot like this.

We put it in water and
boil it for many hours.

MR. ROGERS: Ah-ha.

Wonderful.

Now are these already boiled?

-Yeah, those are already boiled,
and we can open one to eat.

-Let's see what it looks like--

-OK.

---when you open it.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

MR. ROGERS: And that's been
boiling for several hours.

EVA KWONG: Yeah, we boiled
it for four and a half hours.

But we had a big pot, a pot
bigger than this one, at home.

MR. ROGERS: I see.

You have so many different
things in your bakery.

CHEF BROCKETT: I'll tell you.

This is a really creative one.

EVA KWONG: See, it's
fun to unwrap it too.

CHEF BROCKETT: Uh huh.

MR. ROGERS: Let's
see what it looks

like after it's all cooked.

EVA KWONG: See, the
rice is real sticky.

CHEF BROCKETT: Ah.

Wow.

EVA KWONG: And it
holds its shape.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

EVA KWONG: So she's
going to slice it.

CHEF BROCKETT: Wow.

-And that's how you slice it.

-With the string.

-You see the different
filling inside.

So you can see the
Chinese sausage--

-All the different things.

---the mushrooms.

-Yes.

EVA KWONG: Or you can just hold
it in your hand with the leaf

and eat it like
an ice cream cone.

-[CHUCKLES]

MR. ROGERS: And Poppy makes
her own knife out of a string.

-Mm hmm.

-So you can eat it anywhere.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-What a great idea.

-Yeah.

-Look at that.

And what do you call it?

EVA KWONG: Zong.
MR. ROGERS: Zong.

CHEF BROCKETT: Zong.
MR. ROGERS: Zong.

And does that mean
dumpling, zong?

-Sort of, yeah.

-Sort of.

-Yeah. [CHUCKLES]

-OK.

I wonder if I might
have one of those.

-Yes.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-I'd love to take one.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Oh, two.

-[CHUCKLES]

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Yeah.

-What'd she say?

-Oh.

Those don't have meat, the
ham and the sausage for you.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Oh, for me?

-That's specially prepared.

-For a vegetarian.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-Oh, thank you very much.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-How would I say thank
you very much to your--

-Doh je.

-Doh je.
-Doh je.

-Doh je.
-Doh je.

-Doh je.

-Doh je.

-Doh je.

Doh je, Poppy.

-Yes.

-And doh je to you.

-Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

-Thank you very much, Eva.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]
-It's good to be with you--

-Bye, Fred.
---as always.

Thank you.

Oh, come along.

-[SPEAKING CHINESE]

-That was very interesting.

-I'm glad you liked
it, Mr. Rogers.

-Yes.

Thank you.

Well, adios.

-Adios, Mr. Rogers.

Que pasas bien.

-Oh, uh, gracias.

-Adios.

-Come along.

-That will be $5.

[CASH REGISTER CLICKS]

-Doh je, Poppy.

That means thank you, grandma
in the Chinese language.

Doh je, Poppy.

Did you hear how Poppy said
she watched her mother make

the dumplings when
Poppy was a little girl?

And now she's teaching
Eva, her own granddaughter.

There's so many things
that children can learn

to make from their parents
and their grandparents.

You might want to think
of some of the things

that your parents or your
grandparents have taught you.

And maybe you've learned some
things about make-believing

from your television friend, me.

Let's do some make-believe.

I'll clean up the pea
pods after a while.

Trolley.

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

OK.

Last time, we pretended about
Lady Elaine's putting a car

cover on the trolley,
so the neighbors

decided to make all
kinds of covers.

Well, let's make-believe
about making more covers today

in the Neighborhood
of Make-Believe.

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

-This crochet work, I think
it's just lovely work.

[TROLLEY WHISTLES]

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

-I have enjoyed it.

-We're making a balcony cover.

Everyone's making
some sort of a cover.

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Yes, Trolley.

But where's your car cover?

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Well, I haven't seen it.

-Mm hmm.

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Good.

-It is good.

He'll put it on.

-It'll be fun to see
Trolley looking like a car.

-Oh, of course. [CHUCKLES]

-Oh, why, hello, Edgar Cooke.

-[SINGING] I trust you
ladies are well today.

-We're fine, thanks.

-Uh, what brings you
to the garden, Edgar?

-I am looking for Chef Brockett.

Have you seen him here?

-[SINGING] Not since we've been
[SPEAKING] working out here,

Edgar.

-He is helping me to
cover my refrigerator.

-Oh, that should be fun.

-Whatever we do can be fun.

It all depends on our attitude.

-On our attitude.
[TROLLEY CHIMING]

-Well.

-Yes, well, that's true.

-I guess so.

-Uh, there's a car.

[TROLLEY WHISTLES]

There's a car on
the trolley track.

-Oh.

[TROLLEY WHISTLES]

That's Trolley's cover.

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-It looks very good.

-I would never have
known you, Trolley.

[TROLLEY WHISTLES]

-May I lift your
cover and show Edgar

that it's really
Trolley underneath?

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Oh, it's Trolley on the inside.

-And its cover is a car.

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Oh, very good.

Very good.

-I think our balcony cover
is finished, Lady Aberlin.

-Oh, yes.

And it looks very good.

-We made it, and we like it.

-That's right.

Now I'm going to go
over and help Corny.

He's making some sort of a
cover over at his factory.

-If you see Chef Brockett--

-[SINGING] I'll tell
him you're waiting.

-In the kitchen.

-Very good.

-I feel like eating
a blueberry, Edgar.

I think I'll come to
the kitchen with you.

-They're in the refrigerator
without the cover.

-Oh, very good, then.

I'll see you there.

-[SPEAKING] Corny?

Cornflake S. Pecially?

-Why, hello there, Lady Aberlin.

[CHUCKLES]

-Why, hello, you handsome
manufacturing man.

-Why, you make me feel
like singing. [CHUCKLES]

-Oh, please, go right ahead.

-[SINGING] I'm a man
who manufactures--

LADY ABERLIN: I know that song.

---who manufacturers what?

-Chairs.

[SINGING] You're a
man who manufactures

chairs and everywheres.

-[SPEAKING] Right.

[SINGING] I'm a man--

-Who manufactures.

-[SPEAKING] Absolutely correct.

-[SPEAKING] Hmm.

-And today, I'm
manufacturing a cover.

-A cover?

What are you going
to use the cover for?

-Uh, one of my rocking chairs.
[CHUCKLES] Wait a minute.

I'll get it. [CHUCKLES]

-[SINGING] and everywheres.

He's a man who manufactures.

[SPEAKING] Chairs and
covers for chairs?

-Now--

-Ohh.

---this is my model 8-13-51.

It's my top-of-the-line.

[CHUCKLES]

-Beautiful chair.

-Yes. [CHUCKLES]

-But what are you going
to use for a cover?

-What would you
think about a horse?

-A horse for a cover?

-That's right. [CHUCKLES]

-A real live horse?

-Oh, not a live one.

[CHUCKLES] Just a minute.

I'll show you what
I mean. [CHUCKLES]

-That's a funny idea,
having a, a horse

sitting on a rocking chair.

Hmm.

-Well, here it is.

[CHUCKLES]

-How does it work?

-Well, just put it on.

Just put it on the 8-13-51.

[CHUCKLES] Oh, no.

That-- that's good.

But just turn it around and see.

-Turn it around.

-Yes.

That's right.

-[GASPS] Wow.

-See what happens? [CHUCKLES]

-It looks just like
a rocking horse.

-Well, that was my
idea. [CHUCKLES]

-Well, you make that
all by yourself.

-It was fun thinking about
it, and it was fun doing it.

[CHUCKLES]

-Well, you certainly didn't
need any help from me.

-Uh, but I do now, Lady Aberlin.

-Oh, how can I help?

-Uh, would you please take
it to the Museum-Go-Round?

Lady Elaine told me she
wanted to put it on display.

She likes the idea of
a rocking chair horse.

[CHUCKLES]

-Oh, I'll be glad to.

I'll be glad to take it over.

-Good.

That means I can get back to
my regular work. [CHUCKLES]

I've always got a
lot to do, you know.

-I know.

You're a man who manufactures.

-Mm hmm.

-Well, have a
peace-filled day, Corny.

-Thanks.

You too, Lady A.

-Adieu.

Bye.

Oh.

Hi, Chef Brockett.

--[CHUCKLES] You look like
you were in another world.

-I was thinking about
this rocking chair horse.

-A horse chair cover.

Did Corny do it?

-Yes.

And Edgar's been
looking for you.

He says you're going to help
him cover his refrigerator.

-What do you think of this?

-Oh, that's a wonderful idea.

Not hot.

-Yeah.

You know, it'll fit right over
the refrigerator in the castle,

because that's about
as big as my arm.

-Oh, perfect.

I know he'll like it.

-I hope he does.

-He said to tell you
that he's waiting

in the kitchen at the castle.

-Fine.

Thanks.

-And Aunt Sara may be with him.

She's eating a blueberry.

-I'll join them.

Doh je.

-Doh je.

Oh, no.

Henrietta, what
am I going to do?

-Well, meow, meow, Lady Aberlin.

Meow you out?

-Well, Corny made
this wonderful cover,

a horse that covered his
top-of-the-line rocking chair.

And I took it over and
showed it to Chef Brockett.

And I, I was just saying goodbye
and it just-- it took off.

-Meow, meow, took off, meow?

-Yes, look.

There it is over there.

-Meow.

Meow, meow catch it, meow.

-Yes.

But how?

-Uh, meow, meow,
X, meow, meow help.

-Oh, good.

I'll ask him.

-Uh, meow, meow, meow,
here, meow, tomorrow.

-Oh.

Oh, no.

-Uh, meow, meow, meow,
bell, meow, help.

-Yes, good idea.

We'll ring your bell.

-Meow.

-Where is your bell?

-Uh, meow, meow,
under, meow, cover.

-Oh, you covered it.

-Mm hmm.

-What, what is this?

-Meow, meow, pea pod. [CHUCKLES]

-Oh, it's a pea pod.

-Mm hmm.

-With, with a bell
inside instead of peas.

-Mm hmm.

Meow, meow, ring it.

Meow.

-[INAUDIBLE]

-Meow.

Meow, meow.

-It seems to like the bell.

-Meow.

Meow, certainly, meow.

-Oh.

Oh.

-Meow.

Meow, come close.

-Will you do me a favor?

-Meow.

-Would you just keep
on ringing the bell--

-Meow.

---so the horse will stay close?

-Meow.

-And I'll go and ask Aunt
Sara and Uncle Friday

and the others what I can do.

-Meow, meow.

-After all, I'm supposed to
take it to the Museum-Go-Round.

I, I said I would.

-Meow.

Meow, meow, ring, meow, bell.

-Thank you.

-Meow ring it.

Meow, meow, horse.

Meow, meow, meow, meow.

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

-Oh, of course.

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

Oh, yes, except for the
rocking chair horse.

But I'll tell you
about that next time.

I've got to go
and see Aunt Sara.

[TROLLEY CHIMING]

[TROLLEY CHIMING AND WHISTLING]

-Everything was going
very well until that horse

took off the air.

Now how do you
suppose that happened?

Of course, anything can
happen in make-believe.

Maybe you could make up
your own story about it

in between now and the next time
that we make-believe together.

And you could make some
covers too, if you like.

I have an idea here.

Yeah, here it is.

This is a little bell.

Can you hear it?

I want to put this little
bell in one of these pea pods.

And I'll mix them up here.

And then you can guess
which one it's in.

Ready to look?

OK.

Let's try this one.

Is it in this one?

No.

How about this one on this side?

No, not in there.

So it's in one of these.

Let's try this one.

No.

So it must be in this one.

And there it is, a little
bell in the pea pod.

Let's look in one
more of these and see

how many peas are inside.

Can you count them?

One, two, three,
four, five, six.

Now they are growing
right inside that pea pod.

There.

I'll put them in here.

Take them home and finish
shelling them for dinner.

And I think I'll
take the empty pods

and just put them in the garden.

Yeah.

That'll help the ground.

There.

I'll put that bell in
my pocket, because I

won't be cooking that.

But I will cook these
dumplings from the Kwongs.

Give you a little food, fish.

Yeah.

Well, this is a good
part of my dinner.

[SINGING] It's such a good
feeling to know you're alive.

It's such a happy feeling.

You're growing inside.

And when you wake
up ready to say,

I think I'll make
a snappy new day.

It's such a good feeling,
a very good feeling,

the feeling you know that I'll
be back when the day is new,

and I'll have more
ideas for you.

And you'll have things
you'll want to talk about.

I will too.

You always make each
day such a special day.

You know how?

By just your being yourself.

There's only one person in
the whole world like you,

and people can like
you exactly as you are.

I'll be back next time.

Bye.

[THEME MUSIC]