- Okay, so here are your five words.
Inspire.
To inspire people is to encourage them
to make or do things.
Signature.
Your signature is your name written down
in your own special way.
Petition.
A petition is a letter that people sign
to get what they want.
Verify.
Verify means to prove something's true.
Preserve.
Preserve means to keep
something the way it is
and protect it.
Alright, so now we have inspire,
signature, petition, verify, and preserve.
Watch out for them in today's show.
(comical music)
- And the next room of our tour
is the famous little green room
from JT Bookbinder's story Goodnight Robot
about the night--
- The night Sarah Stark's bedroom
turned into a spaceship.
- That's right.
Maybe you should be the tour guide.
(laughing)
- We know all about Goodnight Robot.
My sister here used to make me read it
to her every night
before she went to sleep.
It's weird that I've lived
in this neighborhood my entire life
and I've never been here before.
- I know, this is the house
that made JT Bookbinder
want to write Goodnight Robot.
This is the little green
room that inspired him.
- Oh, is this his signature?
- That's right.
He wrote his name right there.
- It's so cool to see how
he turned all the things
in here into characters in his book.
- Yes, you're right.
These are all the things
that inspired Mr. Bookbinder
to write the book.
- Check it out, Jess.
That old radiator's what
inspired him to make the robot.
- Oh, and that's the radio that turns
into the controls for the spaceship.
- Yes, Mr. Bookbinder had
an amazing imagination
for the (sniffling) future.
- Um, are you okay?
- I'm fine.
Where were we?
Ah yes, Mr. Bookbinder
kept all these rooms
as they were when he was a child
so that people could be
inspired for many years to come.
(blowing)
- Maybe we should come back another time.
- No, no, I'm happy that you're here.
See, happy Steve.
- Steve, you don't look so happy.
- I'm sorry, I just found out that they're
going to tear down the Bookbinder house.
- Why would they tear down
such an inspiring place?
- Because somebody wants to build a hotel.
- [Jess] Who?
- The Antigone Carruthers Corporation.
- Antigone Carruthers?
- That's Francine's mom.
- Yeah, Steve, put your hankie away.
We're not gonna let them
tear this place down.
Hey you guys!
Come on now
Feel the power, feel the
power, feel the power
Yo and plug it in
It's electric, Electric Company
The connected Electric Company
It's electric, Electric Company
The connected Electric Company
Yo, the power we perfected
is electrically connected
So use it as directed and
expect to be respected
Just turn it on and you will see
That you belong in the company
Feel the power, feel the power
Feel the power
Yo and plug it in
Plug it in
Everybody
Yo and plug it in
Electric Company
Electric Company
Electric Company, Electric Company
- Goodnight Robot, oh, I love this book.
I cannot believe they're
gonna tear down the house
that inspired it.
- Antigone Carruthers Company website
says that she wants to
build some fancy hotel there
named The Francine.
- What?
- They're gonna call it The Francine?
- Okay, we have to protect
the Bookbinder house
so we can have it forever.
- Yeah, yeah, we need to
preserve it, you know,
keep it exactly how it's always been.
- But how do we preserve the house
if Francine's mom wants to tear it down?
- We'll have to go and try to talk to her.
- [Jess] There she is.
- Ms. Carruthers?
- The Electric Company.
- Electricians, what do they want with us?
- [Francine] Just pretend
like you don't hear them.
Maybe they'll go away.
- Ms. Carruthers?
Could we talk to you about
the Bookbinder house?
- The Bookbinder house?
Don't you mean the future
home of The Francine?
- That's right, Electric Company.
My mother is building me a hotel.
So now if you don't mind, we
have very important mother
daughter planning to attend to.
- Well that's actually what
we want to talk to you about.
- Ms. Carruthers, you may not know this
but this is the house where JT Bookbinder
wrote his famous book, Goodnight Robot.
- Goodnight Robot?
- Aren't you all a little
old for children's books?
- Yes, of course.
I am much too grown up.
- Oh come on, doesn't
everyone love Goodnight Robot?
- Not me.
- Oh really.
- Nuh-uh.
- You don't love the part when she goes--
- Nuh-uh.
- Yeah, you don't love the
part when she goes robot--
- Nope.
- What about the--
- Nuh-uh.
Okay, you know, lalala, I can't hear you.
- Look, electricians, maybe you should all
follow the example of my daughter
and move away from silly childhood things.
- Well that was unsuccessful.
- What do we do now?
- Okay, if a house has a lot of history
and it's important to the whole community
then the city will save
it, it'll preserve it.
- How do we do that?
- I don't know but I'm gonna
go to city hall and find out.
(upbeat music)
- Next!
- Hi, how are you today?
We are here to save a house that's going
to be torn down.
- You can't preserve a
house unless it's important
to your community.
So next.
- Wait, this house is very important.
- Yeah, that's what they all say.
Next!
- No, wait, wait, hold up, come on.
How can we prove that it's important
to the whole community?
- Well you can go around the neighborhood
and get signatures from all the people
who wanna save the house.
- Oh, like a petition.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, like a petition.
Yeah, the preservation committee
is meeting tomorrow at noon so if you
can get enough signatures
on your petition,
they'll preserve your house.
- No problem, how many
signatures do we need?
- A thousand.
- A thousand?
Wait, by tomorrow?
- Mm-hmm.
- No problem.
- Next!
(upbeat music)
- Ight.
- Ight.
- Bright.
Oh bright, ight, ight
That's bright, ight, ight
It's all right, right, ight
That's tight
Sometimes things just don't look right
We get mixed up, day becomes night
But on the other side of night
Is the dawn's early light
With the light we just
might improve our sight
Think through a problem
You will never lose a fight
Stretch out your brain and
you'll always shine bright
All right, right, ight
That's right, ight, ight
Oh, that's tight
All right, right, ight
That's right, ight, ight
To shine bright
(upbeat music)
- Tight.
Tight.
Ight, ight, ight!
Tight!
(shattering)
Light.
Light.
Ight, ight, ight, ight, ight, light!
(shattering)
Might.
Might.
Ight, ight, ight, ight, ight, might!
(shattering)
Frighten, frighten, ight, ight, ight!
Frighten!
(screaming)
Bullfight.
Bullfight.
Ight, ight, ight!
Bullfight!
Ight, ight.
Ight!
Ight, ight, ight!
(mooing)
- It turns out that I-G-H-T
makes the same sound
as I-T-E.
How could you do that to me, I-G-H-T?
It's just not polite.
I can fly my kite, my white
kite, without I-G-H-T.
My kite can take flight without I-G-H-T.
Oh man.
You mean my kite can't take
flight without I-G-H-T?
That's not right.
Some things you just can't fight.
- Hello Josephine.
- Hi, Ms. Dwight.
I'm raising money for my school.
Want to buy a light?
- Josephine, your
lighthouse is too bright!
- Well then, how about
your very own knight?
- This knight would frighten Mr. Dwight.
- Oh right.
How about this night?
- I love this night.
I'll take two.
- All right.
(upbeat music)
- [Male] So what's happened so far?
- [Jess] This house inspired
the book Goodnight Robot.
- [Hector] The writer got all of his ideas
from the things in this room.
Look, that radiator inspired
him to create the robot.
- [Jess] This house is inspiring.
- [Francine] This house
is getting torn down.
- [Both] Hey you guys!
- [Hector] We have to
preserve this house, save it!
- [Lisa] We can't let them tear it down!
- [Female] Then you need a thousand people
to write their names on this petition.
- [Lisa] I'll give you my signature.
- [Hector] You can have my signature.
- [Lisa] Signature!
- [Hector] I feel inspired
to go get signatures.
Give us the petition
We'll get a thousand names
And then preserve the building
So it always stays the same
(upbeat music)
- [Jess] Thank you.
- Thanks a lot, man.
- Okay, so we've got signatures.
We only need more.
- Yeah.
Hi, help us save the Bookbinder house?
- Sure.
- [Both] Thank you.
- I cannot believe the Electric Company
is trying to stop us from
building The Francine.
This is my mother's gift for me.
For me, for me.
I have got to stop them.
Francine style.
- I've gotten over a
hundred signatures already.
If we keep this up we'll definitely
save the Bookbinder house.
- Oh, hold on.
Oh.
I just got another commercial
sent from Francine.
- That's never a good sign.
- Announcing the newest hotel
from the Antigone Carruthers
Corporation, The Francine.
Coming to this neighborhood
as soon as we can tear
down the Bookbinder house.
- You're looking at the future home
of utter elegance and luxury.
- Named after me.
- Yes.
A fantastic example, a hotel
of your wildest dreams.
- Called The Francine.
Who needs another quaint
little house in town
Our plan is to bulldoze this
(mumbling) to the ground
And build the greatest hotel in history
And we'll call it
The Francine, The Francine
Picture this, first thing we plan to do
is to level out this lawn.
- Goodbye tree.
- Build a nice wide driveway
to park those stretch limos on.
- That sounds lovely.
- We'll kindly usher that
happy little squirrel
down the street into the park.
- Get going.
Our security is airtight,
thieves and squirrels alike
Will shudder when our guard dogs bark
Puppies!
Next thing we will do
is to expand this porch
And make it times the size
But of course
To fit a hundred bellhops
who'll be ready to assist you
The moment that your bags arrive
And to top it all of,
the final missing piece
The sight for the world to see
I'm so excited
At the very front, there
will be a magnificent foot
Golden statue of me
The Francine, the Francine
- The most incredible hotel the world
has ever seen will be--
The Francine, the Francine
- Who would want a snooty hotel
instead of preserving
the Bookbinder house?
- What's up, guys?
- Hey!
- Look how many signatures I've got.
- Jess, that's great.
How'd you do that?
- People just started coming up to me.
I guess they saw some
commercial for The Francine
and it convinced them to help
save the Bookbinder house.
- Looks like Francine's
little commercial backfired.
- I don't understand!
Why didn't my commercial work?
- Oh, how many signatures do you have?
- I'll give them signatures.
Fake signatures.
- Oh, .
Oh no, hey, .
This petition keeps filling up so fast,
I can't even keep track.
- Nice.
Well let's go.
- Alright.
- Next.
- Coming in, I'm coming
in, signatures.
Count them, they are all there.
- I have to verify the signatures.
I have to check to make sure
that each single signature
is from a real person in the neighborhood.
- Oh sure, go ahead, check the signatures.
Verify the signatures.
But believe me, there are no fake names
on that petition because we
got every signature ourselves
from people in our neighborhood.
- [Female] Really.
- Mm-hmm.
- So you live in the
neighborhood with Mr. Nobody?
- What?
Can I see that?
- [Female] Uh-huh.
- Oh there it is, Mr. Nobody.
Ivana Million Dollars.
Ms. Fake Namerstein.
This petition never left my hands.
I don't understand how these fake names
could've gotten on here.
- [Both] Francine.
- Oh.
Well now she's just playing dirty.
And once we verify these signatures
and cut out all the fake names,
we'll have nowhere near signatures.
- Well we have until noon.
We can still save the Bookbinder house.
- How?
- I think it's time for a read in.
- A read in?
- You'll see.
(upbeat music)
- [Female] Sh, silent E.
(bell ringing)
Let me tell you about a friend of mine
Goes around changing
words all the time
But he's kind of sneaky, yes siree
Come on
I make the plan, he flies the plane
I hold the can, he carries a cane
Cook with a pan, now he's at it again
Looking through my window pane
Silent E, oh, how it
changes everything
Silent E, it's elementary
Silent E, it's simple,
come on, try with me
Cap, cape
At, ate
You got it
Yeah
Silent E turns slop to slope
And gives a little hop a lot of hope
It shapes a little glob into a globe
You see
He can change a bit to bite
A strip to stripe
A grip to gripe
A shin to shine, well I don't mind
Let it spin right up my spine
Silent E, oh what a great discovery
Silent E, it's elementary
Silent E, who knew
how much fun it'd be
Hop, hope, shin, shine
Now you got it, sing along everybody
Silent E
When it follows a vowel
it changes the sound
Silent E
Silent E is everywhere, you got it now
Silent E, it's simple,
come on, sing with me
Now I'm gonna give you a word
And you just add the silent E
Now when I say mad and you add the E
What do you get?
We get made
Now when I get slim and you add the E
What do you get?
We get slime
And when I say not and you add the E
What do you get?
We get note
Silent E
Silent E
Silent E
(upbeat music)
(b*at boxing)
Ame, ame
Na na name, na na name
Na na name
Game
Game
Ga ga ga ga game
Ga ga ga game
Sh sh shame
Sh sh shame
Sh sh shame
Fl fl flame, fl fl flame
Fl fl flame, fl fl flame
Fl fl flame
- This is a phrase that you use
when there's almost a tie.
Alright, let's look for what we know.
Well, that's I-G-H-T
and I know that's ight
so t-ight, tight.
Next word, look for what I know.
Well, there's a silent E at the end
so I know the a will say its name, A,
and I know that A-M-E
together makes the ame sound
so it's guh-ame, game.
Tight game, guys.
Hey, that was a really
tight game, you know?
I feel like maybe you should've won
but you didn't, sorry.
(upbeat music)
- Tell me again why I'm
dressed up like a dog?
- Because it's a read-in.
It's where we dress up
like all the characters
in Goodnight Robot and
then we read it out loud
to get attention for our petition.
It's to, you know, tell people
why they should help us
save the Bookbinder house.
- Why do you get to be the robot?
- Because I make this suit look good.
- Hector, this is a great idea.
I've already gotten so
many new signatures.
Plus I've had a lot of strange looks.
- Hey, don't even try to complain
about your costume.
At least you're dressed up as a human.
- Oh.
Does somebody need me to
scratch behind his ears?
Ah!
- Look at them.
They think they're going to win this.
- [Hector] Now are you sure
there are no fake names
on that thing?
- Oh yeah, I'm sure.
I learned my lesson.
This time I'm verifying
every signature as I go.
- Well if she's already verified the names
then she won't notice if I
add some more fake names.
- Alright, let's do this thing.
Goodnight Robot.
Once upon a time, there was
a little girl named Sarah.
- She had a bedroom all to herself.
"That's enough, Robot," Sarah said.
"It's time to go home now.
I want to go home."
- When Sarah opened her
eyes, she was back safe
and sound in her little green room
and her mother sat beside her on the bed.
- What, boy, what is this nonsense?
I've heard from the preservation committee
that some electricians are trying
to keep me from building my hotel.
- Well yeah, we're gonna
give the committee a petition
by noon today to stop you
from tearing down this house.
- Well, it's almost noon.
Where is this silly petition of yours?
- I've gone to every person I can find
and we're still missing one
signature on our petition.
- Oh no.
Isn't there anyone left
who can sign the petition?
- Well it looks like my daughter
will get her hotel after all.
- I'll sign the petition.
- [Group] What?
- Francine, darling.
Mother's confused.
- I love Goodnight Robot, I admit it.
- Oh, yes!
I knew she loved this book.
Who wouldn't love this book?
- After hearing Goodnight Robot read,
it reminded me of when we
used to spend time together.
- Oh Francine.
- Does this mean that you're not
gonna buy the Bookbinder
house and tear it down?
- Don't be ridiculous, robot boy.
I am going to buy the Bookbinder house.
But as you have inspired
me to preserve it,
it is a present to my daughter
so that no one will ever tear it down.
(upbeat music)
Oh
Let me tell you about
my love of the silent E
Oh, oh, oh, E, E, E
Sometimes I have a plan
When I add an E, it becomes plane
And I can take that plane and fly away
Even to a hurricane
Oh, oh, and I land in the middle
Of jungle and I get out
Watch the beautiful handsome ape
Go swinging by on a vine
Unfortunately I don't
have a dime to give it
But that's okay 'cause to get back
On the plane that I just rode on
And fly away
Silent E, it works for me
Silent E, silent E
Silent E it works for me
(upbeat music)
- N.
- Ot.
- [Both] Not.
- R.
- Ip.
- [Both] Rip.
- C.
- Ap.
- [Both] Cap.
- Hey, I wanna add a silent E.
- Okay.
- C.
- Ape.
- [Both] Cape.
- R.
- Ipe.
- [Both] Ripe.
- N.
- Ote.
- [Both] Note.
- Good call.
(upbeat music)
Silent E is a ninja
Silent E is a ninja
Silent E is a ninja
Silent E is a ninja
I didn't notice when he came
I cannot accept any praise or blame
I was home pushing my mop like a dope
Next thing you know
And I started to mope
I'm at the end of my rope
I was hopping mad but he
turned my hop into hope
And then he made his escape
But not before he turned
my cap into a cape
And now I look totally insane
I had a plan to catch him
But man, he turned
my plan into a plane
Silent E is a ninja
Silent E is a ninja
That silent E, he will get ya
Silent E is a ninja
Where'd he go, where'd
he go, w-where'd he go?
Where'd he go, where'd
he go, where'd he go
He's a ninja
(upbeat music)
- I'm Special Agent Jack Bowser.
This takes the cake.
And it's about to explode.
But I can't cr*ck the code to get out.
Help me read this.
Dan, Dane, is a teenage ap, ape.
He came to the game with five cakes.
Dane is a teenage ape.
He came to the game with five cakes.
Woo hoo!
(upbeat music)
- Not only did we save
the Bookbinder house
but it's more popular than ever.
Antigone Carruthers is even
sending over tour groups
from her other hotel, the Antigone.
Come on by and discover it for yourself.
- That's great news.
I don't think I've ever
seen Steve so happy.
- I never thought I'd say this
but I'm glad everything
worked out for Francine too.
- Yeah.
- "It seems like you had quite a dream,"
Sarah's mother said, "But it's time
to say goodnight, sweetheart."
Sarah looked over at the
radiator and whispered--
- Goodnight, robot.
(upbeat music)
I just found out how you
can see videos, pictures,
and super secret information
about your favorite person ever, me!
Also, anyone else in the Electric Company
but more importantly, me.
So go online to pbskidsgo.org.
- [Hector] Hey guys, it's Hector here
from the Electric Company.
You know, the thing I love
most about our neighborhood
is the people.
Folks from all over live here.
In fact, some of our
friends came all the way
from another planet.
- I am from the Planet Skelecki.
- [Hector] They're called Skeleckians.
For the most part they're just like us
except for a few small things.
- Would you like to smell my feet?
- Like fresh chocolate chip cookies.
- [Hector] You can always spot Skeleckians
by the unique necklaces they wear.
But the coolest thing
about the Skeleckians
is all their awesome gadgets.
In fact, one of the Skeleckians, Dax,
has a machine that can shrink people down
smaller than ants.
You might think it's funny
that we have aliens in our hood
but once you've met some
of our other friends,
you'll see that the
Skeleckians fit right in.
- What was that?
- Excuse me.
- [Hector] The Electric
Company is never too far away
so keep tuning in.
- The preservation committee.
The preservation committee.
(laughing)
- It's a book in.
- Going to buy it as a
present to my daughter
so that it will never ever ...
The greatest hotel in
history and we'll call it
The Francine, the Francine
- Good riddance.
02x34 - Goodnight, Robot
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A comedy series that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes now known as Sesame Workshop.
A comedy series that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes now known as Sesame Workshop.