01x04 - Practice, Patience and Persistence

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♪ music playing ♪

- Guess who?

♪ music playing ♪

- That's right.

It's Zippy.

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♪ - Sheira and Loli are
out of controli with twice ♪

♪ as much music
and double the fun. ♪

♪ With Eeky Eeky Kronk
and The Funkins, too, ♪

♪ with the quirks,
Molly and Doodles. ♪

♪ Sheira and Loli
are out of controli. ♪

♪ Come into the
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♪ Sheira and Loli's
Dittydoodle Works. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- Good morning Pink-a-Dink.

Good morning, Bluedles.

How's the Dittydoodle
data looking this morning?

Ooh, what is that?

Looks like the music
room can use an adjustment.

Let's log on and
see what's going on in there.

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- Okay, here we go.

Oh what is that?

You can say that again.

We better do something
about this right away.

Dittydoodle is
the factory that produces fun,

and there's no
way to do that without

a fully functional
music room, right?

Hey, I'm going.

♪ music playing ♪

- Oh.

What is that noise?

♪ music playing ♪

- Hello?

Anybody in -- Loli.

Loli!

Loli!

- Hi, Sis.

What's up?

- Loli, why is there
a monkey playing the piano?

- Well, Doodles here
said that even a monkey

can play the piano
better than I could,

so I wanted to
see if my [inaudible] crayon

colleague was correct.

- And guess what?

- He was.

- As usual.

- Now, wait a second,
Loli, there is no way a

monkey can play the piano
better than you can, uh-uh.

- Oh yeah?

Hip it chimp-erace.

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- Okay, I'll admit.

That was pretty good,
but I'm sure you're at

least as good as he is.

- Well, then learn
to listen to this.

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- Now I believe
that pathetic piece is

proof positive
I am no piano player.

- Okay.

I'll admit that wasn't,
um, great, but Loli,

the piano isn't
something you can just

sit down
and play right away.

- So?

- So, you're
gonna have to practice.

- And how do you propose
the rest of us survive that?

- Doodles,
you're not helping.

- Hey, I just call
'em the way I hear 'em.

- Well, I better
go find Chimpadoo's Mozart.

All this bad piano playing
is probably driving 'em bananas.

Bananas.

Get it?

Bananas.

Oh.

- Now, Loli, why don't
you sit down and try again.

I bet if you
just keep practicing

and working hard at it-

- You don't understand, Sheira.

I want to
be as amazing as Mozart,

as brilliant as Beethoven,
as breathtaking as Bach!

- I know Loli,
but the problem is you

want it now.

- Of course I want it now.

Who wants to wait
years and years and years

before playing
the perfect performance.

- Loli, anything
that's worth doing takes lots

of patience and practice, whether it's playing an

instrument or a
sport or learning to

paint or write poetry.

It all takes
patience and practice.

- Well, how come some
people are good at what

they dream of doing
on the very first try?

- Because some people
just learn quicker than others.

That's all.

The point is if you practice,
there will come a time when

you'll finally be
able to play the way you

always wished you could.

- Thanks, but no thanks, Sis.

Oh, no matter how hard I try,
that piano playing primate

will always outplay
me simply because I stink!

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- Oh.

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- No!

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - I can't do anything
right though I try with ♪

♪ all of my might. ♪

♪ I feel like I'm about
to sink, and I think it's ♪

♪ because I stink. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - Why are you so hard,
so hard on yourself? ♪

♪ You're only
trying your best. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - I may be trying my best,
but I keep failing the test. ♪

♪ I'm standing on the brink. ♪

♪ I'm just no good. ♪

♪ I stink. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - You can't be
perfect right from the start. ♪

♪ I think you're
fooling yourself. ♪

♪ - I can't do anything right,
though I try with all ♪

♪ of my might. ♪

♪ I feel like I'm about
to sink, and I think ♪

♪ it's because I stink. ♪

♪ I may be trying my best,
but I keep failing the test. ♪

♪ I'm standing [inaudible]. ♪

♪ I'm just no good. ♪

♪ I stink. ♪

♪ - No, you don't. ♪

♪ - I really, really stink. ♪

♪ - You really don't. ♪

♪ - Can't believe
how much I stink! ♪

♪ - Oh boy. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- Hey, Doodles.

- Hi.

Did you, uh, happen
to see a monkey holding his

ears run by
here a few minutes ago?

- A monkey?

- Yeah, you know,
those furry little guys,

arms down to the floor,
mouth full of dentures?

- I know what
a monkey is, Doodles.

But why is there
one running around Dittydoodle

Works holding its ears?

- Well, he kind of heard
Loli playing the piano and-

- Doodles.

There are you.

Have you found your
marvelous musical monkey yet?

- No, I have not.

But I can only
assume that he's somewhere

trying to get
the ringing out of his

ears after
your little concerto.

- Doodles, stop!

You should be supportive
of Loli's piano playing,

not insulting.

- I know, but insulting
just comes so much easier to me.

- Can someone
tell me what's going on here?

- Well, [crosstalk].

- I said some one.

- Okay.

Well, Loli just
started taking piano lessons,

and she's having
a little trouble getting over

the initial hump.

- That's 'cause the hump
is more like a mountain.

- I know exactly what
you're going through, Loli.

- You do?

- Yeah.

You're suffering from
if I can't do it perfect,

I'd rather quit itis.

- Oh no.

Sounds serious.

- No, it's not really.

As a matter of fact, I suffered
from it as a young artist.

- You did?

- I sure did.

It all started
one day when I was a

little girl
in painting class.

- No, no.

Not this story again.

♪ music playing ♪

- Miss Smith,
are we going to learn how

to paint like
the great masters?

- Painting like a great master
takes a great deal of hard work.

- Well, how do you
become great right now?

- Well, Molly, you don't.

You're gonna
have to wait to be great.

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - Its been
over a half an hour, ♪

♪ I can't
even draw this flower. ♪

♪ I want to
be a great artist, ♪

♪ create the world's
finest masterpiece. ♪

♪ But I'm wondering
how long it takes 'til ♪

♪ I can do it
perfectly without mistakes. ♪

♪ Why does it
take so many years? ♪

♪ So much practice
and so many tears? ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm just a kid,
and I can't wait now. ♪

♪ I can't wait to be great. ♪

♪ No, she can't
wait to be great. ♪

♪ I've been told by
teachers and friends you ♪

♪ have to do it over
and over and over again. ♪

♪ Stick to it
'til you get it right. ♪

♪ But I wish
that it can be overnight. ♪

♪ Why does it
take so many years? ♪

♪ So much practice
and so many tears? ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm just
a kid, and I can't wait now. ♪

♪ I can't wait to be great. ♪

♪ No, she can't
wait to be great. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - It has taken
me so many years, ♪

♪ so much practice
and so many tears. ♪

♪ And now I see
it was worth the wait. ♪

♪ It was worth
the wait to be great. ♪

♪ It was worth
the wait to be great. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - I'll have
to wait to be great. ♪

♪ She'll have
to wait to be great. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- So you see,
Loli, just like you,

I wanted to be
a terrific artist right away.

But that was the
day that I learned that

sometimes you have
to wait to be great.

- I guess.

- Look how it worked
out for Miss Molly, Loli.

You have to agree she's
the best artist we know.

- Oh.

- But-- but-- but what
if after all that patience

and practice my piano
playing still isn't showing

any signs of improving?

- What if-- just what if--

what if I told you that I, Doodles, the most connected

purple crayon this
side of the Pacific has got

a guy that can have
you tickling the ivories

faster than
you can say shebob,

shewop, shewaddle waddle, yippety boom da boom?

- Not another
one of your guys.

- Yeah.

Somehow you
always seem to have a guy.

- Mm-hmm.

- No, I don't always got a guy.

Sometimes I got a guy.

This is one of those times.

- Yeah, like the guy
you had from San Diego who

sold self-washing socks?

- Or the guy from
Minnesota who sold mini sodas?

- And let's not forget
the guy from Tennessee

who took you
for some talking tulips.

- Hey, those tulips
will be here any day.

You know how it is.

Shipping blames handling.

Handling blames delivery,
which should've been a COD,

not an FOP, but-

- There's no
stopping him now.

- Point is anyway,
this time I really got a guy.

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - I got a guy I can
give a ring who can teach ♪

♪ you that piano thing,
and if you think tickling ♪

♪ ivories is fun,
this old pro, ♪

♪ he's number one. ♪

♪ I got a guy
that will help you out, ♪

♪ show you what
music's all about. ♪

♪ His hands will
fly up and down that scale. ♪

♪ Compared to him
all the others just pale. ♪

♪ I got a guy
you should give a chance. ♪

♪ On the keyboard,
your fingers will dance. ♪

♪ Once this
maestro gets through with you, ♪

♪ they'll be nothing
that you cannot do. ♪

♪ I got a guy
I call my good friend, ♪

♪ and if
I ask him, [inaudible]. ♪

♪ So what do you say,
girl, let's give it a try. ♪

♪ - Okay, call
your piano guy. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- Melvin.

♪ music playing ♪

- Hey, Eeky, what are you doing?

[inaudible] some amazing
new machine or-

- Zippy, never,

ever sneak up on someone
when they are [inaudible].

- What's the matter?

Almost wet your plants?

- Very funny.

Well, what kind of mischief
have you been up to today?

- Eeky, just
because I'm a quirk,

doesn't automatically
make me a troublemaker.

- It doesn't?

- Well, probably does,
but I'm trying to be different.

You know, break the cycle
to be a non troublemaking quirk.

- Zippy, that is a
good thing that you are doing.

Oh, I know.

Why don't you start by helping
me out with my seedlings.

- Oh, seedlings.

Seedling, yes.

What's a seedling?

- Oh well,
a seedling is a baby plant.

You know,
just a few days ago,

this was
nothing but a little,

little seed
in a pot of soil.

- Hmm, looks like
it's gonna be a while

before that
little thing is a flower.

- Well, you've
got to understand.

It takes time to grow.

You've got to water it,
take care of it and give

it love and most of all, you
have got to give it patience.

- What happens when you--
you go away on vacation?

Who's gonna do
all those things then?

- No, no.

Zippy, you can--
you can get a friend or you

can get a neighbor
or I'll take care of it.

- [inaudible] or--
or if you forget to give

'em the key and
then they can't get in

so they can't
water the plants,

and [inaudible]
all thirsty.

- Thirsty.

- They get [inaudible].

- Zippy, Zippy, Zippy!

You're getting all worked up!

You know, taking care
of a plant is not that hard.

You see, it's important
that you know and understand

that a plant takes
time to grow from a little

seed into a blossoming masterpiece of nature.

- Nature.

Hey, isn't that kind
of like Loli and the piano?

- What do you mean?

- When she first
started playing the piano,

she was like a
little seed in the soil,

but if she keeps practicing
and has lots of patience,

time, then she'll
blossom into a big beautiful

piano playing
[inaudible] flower.

- Yes.

That-- that-- that's
exactly what it's like.

Well, sort of.

You know, Zippy,
you are now making good

progress on becoming
a more thoughtful quirk.

- Thanks, Eeky.

Oh, now can you
pass me the watering can?

- Sure, Zippy.

Here you go.

Zippy!

Why are you doing that?

♪ music playing ♪

- How else do
you expect me to grow?

- Sometimes you have
to wait to be great.

- Towel, please.

- Oy.

♪ music playing ♪

- Come on, Loli.

Just tiptoe over there
and tickle out some tunes.

Okay.

Remember, practice and patience.

Wait to be great.

Practice and patience.

Wait to be great.

- Hello, Loli.

- Oh!

Zippy!

Never sneak up on
someone when they're

painstakingly practicing
to play the piano.

- Geez, first it's
Eeky with the plant.

Now it's
you with the piano.

You can't
sneak up on anybody any more.

I guess someone's
still in a bad mood.

- No, I'm not
in a bad mood.

I just-- I--
I don't know.

I understand what
everyone is telling me about

practice and patience,but-

- But? - But-
- But- - But- - But what?

- I don't know.

- Loli, have you ever noticed
how a plant that plays the piano

starts out as a little
seed but then if you feed it,

patience and water,
it will learn how to read

music and eventually
it will grow into a beautiful

musical flower?

- A beautiful musical flower?

- Yeah, I mean, uh, no.

I mean, I, uh-- let
me check with Eeky.

Bye.

- I don't know.

On one hand,
there's a Loli that really

wants to be a primo piano
player and on the other hand,

there's the Loli that thinks she'll never be able to get it!

♪ music playing ♪

♪ - I can't do it. ♪

♪ I'm no good. ♪

♪ I just don't get it. ♪

♪ So annoyed
can't get it right,

♪ might as well forget it. ♪

♪ I look around,
what do I see? ♪

♪ Everyone is better than me. ♪

♪ Don't know who I'm kidding,
I can't play this silly thing. ♪

♪ Over and over,
I hate to practice. ♪

♪ I'm tired. ♪

♪ My fingers hurt. ♪

♪ I just can't hack this. ♪

♪ I look around,
what do I see? ♪

♪ Everyone is
better than me. ♪

♪ Don't know
who I'm kidding. ♪

♪ I can't
play this silly thing. ♪

I don't like
the way that I feel.

But I just cannot deal.

Maybe I'm thinking
about this all wrong.

You know, 'cause deep down
I-- I know that I'm strong.

♪ Everyone tells me
takes time to be great, ♪

♪ though I don't like it,
I might have to wait. ♪

♪ I think I'll just take
off this frown I'm wearing. ♪

♪ I can't be great overnight. ♪

♪ What's the use comparing? ♪

♪ I'll learn at my own pace. ♪

♪ No need to win the race. ♪

♪ I need not be Chopin,
but I'll be the best I can. ♪

♪ I'll learn at my own pace. ♪

♪ No need to win the race. ♪

♪ If I keep on practicing,
I can do most anything. ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- Yeah!

♪ music playing ♪

- Ooh!

♪ music playing ♪

- Hey, Loli.

There you are.

I've been looking
all over for you.

My guy, he's here.

- Not now, Doodles.

I'm concentrating on clearing
up this continuing crisis.

- So am I,
and my guy's just what you need.

He's quite the entertainer
and will put the sting right

into your music
playing ability.

He's really
big in the industry,

so I asked the spy
who loved me to give me a

call because
of the way we were.

Well, he's here so, anyway.

- Okay, Doodles.

I get it.

Where is he?

- Who?

- Your guy!

- Oh, he's in the music
room with the rest of the g*ng.

So, uh, what
do you say we head down there?

- Okay, let's go.

♪ music playing ♪

- It's-- it's-- is it really?

- It sure is, Loli.

It's Mr. Marvin Hamlisch.

- Did I tell
you got a guy or what?

One of the greatest
piano players and composers

in the world,
right here at Dittydoodle Works.

- And you must be Loli, right?

You're one of the future
greatest pianists and composers

in the entire world.

- Oh.

I wish.

- I heard a lot, a lot
about you and your potential.

And I know
if you keep practicing,

you know what I mean,
in time, your wish will

come true.

- Oh, Mr. Hamlisch, were--
were you always such a

perfect piano player?

- Me?

No.

Not at all.

In fact,
when I first started playing,

I was just a little
boy, you know what I mean,

and I made
very many mistakes.

In fact, people used
to call me Mess Up Marvin.

- Oh, Mess Up Marvin?

And that didn't make you want to
toss in your tone making towel?

- No way, Loli.

Just the opposite.

Made me want
to practice and practice,

and so I can reach
my personal potential of being

a proficient and professional
piano playing prodigy.

- Wow.

I know exactly
what you're saying.

- Some how I--
I knew you'd say that.

- Well, thanks Mr. Hamlisch.

And thank you guys
for helping me see that

tapping into my
talent takes time.

And Doodles, this is
the best guy you ever had!

- Well now, next time
I tell you that I got a guy,

you'll believe
me that I got a guy.

- Doodles, don't push it.

- Hey, what does
a crayon have to do to

get some
respect around here?

- Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Mr. Hamlisch,
will you play a little

ditty for us
before you go, ya?

- I'd love to, but first
I'm gonna need some help, okay?

Sheira, Doodles, okay.

Sheira, what you do,
you're on vocals, okay?

Miss-- Miss Molly,
you're [inaudible].

Okay?

You got it.

Uh, Eeky, grab the sax.

- Ya, ya.

- Okay, Funkins on
tambourine, and Loli, of course,

you help me right
out here on the piano.

One more band member
who I don't think you guys

have met yet but fantastic.

- [inaudible] ?'

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh, come on in, Elton.

♪ music playing ♪

- I got a guy you should
give a chance on a keyboard

your fingers will dance.

Once this maestro
gets through with you,

there's nothing
you can't do.

I got a guy
I call my good friend,

and if I asked him
a hand he would lend.

What do you say, girl,
let's give it a try.

- I did it!

I can't believe
Marvin Hamlisch is here!

♪ music playing ♪

- 'Cause I
am your [inaudible].

♪ music playing ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ music playing ♪

♪ music playing ♪

- And corners.

Three weeks
and all [inaudible].

You know how it is.

Shipping blames handling.

Handling blames delivery.

- Talking tulips?

- Huh?

Hey, hey boy.

Hello?

Hey, buddy.

Are you all right?

Hey, buddy.

Hello?

♪ music playing ♪

- For more information
about Dittydoodle Works,

log onto our
website at www.dittydoodle.com.

- Sheira and Loli
are out of controli with

twice as much
music and double the fun.

With Eeky Eeky Kronk
and The Funkins, too,

with the quirks,
Molly and Doodles.

Sheira and Loli
are out of controli.

Come into the
Dittydoodle Works.

Sheira and Loli's
Dittydoodle Works.

- Guess who?

♪ music playing ♪

- That's right.

It's Doodles.

♪ music playing ♪