And now, today's adventure of
Outterscope 1. The doors
open. What a crazy
place this is. Everything here
is confused. What a funny
garden. But it's all mixed up.
Paper comes from trees, but it doesn't
grow on them. Look!
A red girl! Huh
Oh, what's going on here?
A mouse chasing a cat?That's
impossible.
I thought cats chased mice.
Wow, that didn't make sense. Nothing
seems normal here. That's for sure.
Come look at the garden we found.
That's very interesting. Have
you noticed?I wonder
why. Quick, get down.
Why, he looks like a real man.
A human being like us. I wouldn't be too
sure of that. Shh, listen.
Dear, dear, will you look at my vines?
They got all wet, all wet. It must
have been the rain that got them all wet.
Rain indoors?In a room?
Poor vines, but in just a minute I'll
have them comfy and dry. No water for
them. Look,
he's drying the plants.
But why?Plants have to have water.
Oh my, what have we here?Why, the peanut
butter is almost ripe, and so is the
jelly. Peanut butter
and jelly, plants?
Well, Well if it isn't flighty.
How are you, flighty?
He has a pet butterfly. So,
Flighty, are you enjoying the weather?No
more rain, I hope. You don't like the
rain, do you?
Edgar, am I dreaming, or is that
man talking to a butterfly?
No, you aren't dreaming, Cynthia. He
sure is talking to a butterfly.
Come on in, Flighty. I'll get you your
breakfast. Honey drops, honey
drops, today.
Hey, look, he opened the
door. How come he can't open
doors here and we can't?This
room is the weirdest place we've been
yet. It looked normal at first,
but nothing here is the way you'd expect
it to be. I don't get it. There's
something special about this room,
but I can't put my finger on it. It's all
mixed up. All crazy. Yes.
Like that funny fireplace. Oh, yeah.
Let's show them the fireplace.
Why, it's filled with ice. Doesn't make
any sense. I'm not so sure of
that. I have a hunch.
Hide.
Oh, I've got to slow down. I've
got to slow down faster. I
must miss that train. The train to the
office. Oh, I've got to be late to that
meeting. Well, it's not much nearer to
the station.
Oh, oh, thank badness. It looks
like I've missed it.
Now, what was that all about?What's going
on around here?It looked like she was
running for a train. But what she
said didn't mean anything. I could
understand each word, but put together,
they didn't make sense. You know, it's
like like some kind of mystery.
The way they speak, the way they act,
the way everything in this room looks.
There's a mystery here. I have a hunch
that all these strange things fit
together. We just don't understand them
yet. There's one big thing that makes
this place special, and if we could only
figure that out, we'd know how to leave
here. You mean we could find the right
door?Gee, let's be
like detectives. I bet we could solve
this mystery if we try. Me too,
Henry. Yeah. How?
Well, I think we should spread out and
look for clues. That's easier said than
done. It looks like we'll have to start
trying. Otherwise, we'll never find the
door and we'll be stuck here forever.
OK, I just hope it's not dangerous.
To be continued. Next time,
collecting clues.
Did you know
that long
ago And
once
upon a time
Charles Eastman is my name.
And what boy would not be an Indian for a
while?And he thinks of the freest life
in the world.
In this book that I wrote, I will tell
you about my life as an Indian boy.
One of the earliest memories of my
childhood as a Sioux Indian is the
ride I had on a pony's side.
A girl cousin of mine and I were put in
fur-lined sacks and balanced on each
side of the pony. I had a very
pleasant game of peek-a-boo with the
little girl until we came to a big
snowdrift. Then it was not
so nice. During the
summer, nature is at her
best and provides a lot of food for the
Indian. All were alike,
rich in the summer. And all were
alike, poor in the winter and early
spring.
All boys were expected to go without food
and water for two or three days without
showing any weakness,
or run for a day and a night without any
rest.
Our games were with the bow and arrow.
There were foot and pony races and
wrestling.
We had play fights with mud ba*ls and
willow wands. We
played lacrosse, made w*r
upon bees, and in the winter coasted on
the ribs of animals and Buffalo ropes.
No people have better use of their five
senses. Than the children of the
wilderness. We could smell
as well as hear and see. We
could feel and taste in the wildlife.
I owe much to my early training.
This life was mine
until I was 15 when I
went to live with the whites.
I dedicate this book with love.
To Ohaisa the Second,
my son.
My name is Julius Scissors. And my
name is Rubberhead. I can cut a piece of
paper. I can draw on it with lead. I'm a
happy winter snappy. I'm fine for any
lime. If you learn the way to use it. You
can have a real good time rub-a-dub-dub.
Well, what do you know?Twinkle toes and
rubber nose. Look
who's here. The inchworm himself.
Crummy cut-up. Folding
phony. Lead head, dead
head. Let's go!
Quick! Into this tunnel!
That was no tunnel! That was a...
Long house! Right on, Rubberhead.
An Iroquois Longhouse. Iroquois?Who
are they, Mr. Amiritis?
Native Americans, Julia. The
Iroquois call themselves Haudenosaunee.
Haudenosaunee?People of the
longhouse. Today these are the places of
worship for many Iroquois people, and
they live in everyday houses.
Haudenosaunee. People of the longhouse.
Haudenosaunee. People of the longhouse.
Do you think we can build an Iroquois
longhouse?Can
we?You bet. Okay,
you guys. Measure up.
Cut five sticks, or cut
five pieces of reed about nine inches
long. Then cut some cardboard.
We're really going strong. Take
two sheets of paper towel and soak them
in cold water. I'm ready if you
need me. I do a
little shorter. Make
five even marks. On the other
side once more, now we punch out
holes. Where are those sticks we had
before?We'll push these
through the holes and glue each one the
same. Then cover with wet
paper. That makes a real nice frame.
And when everything's dry, we'll make a
door. It's coming out great,
that's for sure. Uh, how long?
LongLong
were the long houses, Mr. Emeritus.
Most of the houses were about 60 feet,
held eight to ten families. Feet
to feet. Kind of crowded, but
good for heat. The
women of the families really ran the
show. They had a special name for them,
beginning with an O.
Owatara.
Women of the family. The
Iroquois hunted and fished and farmed
'til dark. And covered their houses with
elm tree bark.
That sure looks nice and warm! And
comfortable! Hey, wait!
Come back here! Too late, ruler!
We're... whodunnishawnee...
people at the longhouse.
Hello, my name is John Kaskaski. I'm a
Kickapoo Indian. And I was raised on my
tribe's reservation in Mexico and later
moved to Oklahoma.
But I'm also a mathematician. I work at
the Goddard Space Flight Center near
Washington, D.C.
My job is to direct the flight of
satellites flying hundreds of miles above
our Earth. In order to keep track of the
satellites, I must work with numbers and
special computers.
Computers are important in my work, but
never are they more important than the
people who operate them.
A big part of my job requires that I work
with other people, each of us working
together as a team. Right now
we're changing the direction of one of
our satellites. Okay, down here are the
latest set of elements. Already. The
purge is 151
kilometers, aperture of
that what you're... What was that, the
purge?Let me take a look at
what the injection parameters... Oh,
that's close enough. Some of the
satellites can measure the amount of the
pollution in the air. Others determine
the weather conditions all over the world
and take pictures of the Earth from
hundreds of miles in the sky.
When I was a young boy, I thought my
reservation was the center of the
universe and all the mountains and the
valleys I could see. I remember climbing
our mountain and just looking as far as I
could see and wonder what was on the
other side.
Thank you. We will see each other again.
Real people I'd like to
introduce you to some real
people Real
people
Hi, this is Joey. We're all going to the
karate school. I take my first
lesson today. Jenny,
my daughter, Angelita.
This is my son. Joey.
Please be seated. Come, Come
on. Ohh Joey, would you take your shoes
off, please?
This is Joey. Joey is going to be with
us. Come, Joey, have a seat.
Right.
Why don't why don't you sit like everyone
else is sitting, OK?Bring your legs out.
Right. RightI'll cross
this leg this way, right?OK. I
want you to sit like everyone else. Good.
Eric. Yes, Nisei?
Why do we study karate?We study
karate to make our minds and bodies
strong. Why
do we want our minds and bodies strong?To
be without fear. To be without fear.
Why do we want to be without fear?To know
ourselves. To know ourselves.
Joey, will you do Kumo one with me?
Uh-huhWould you step right here, please?
Kumo one. We'll do it soft. You
can be. Bring your hands up. Make them
touch. One.
Sit down on this leg here. Right.
Put your hand here. Step
two. Go
to the right, three.
Put your hands here,
four.
Step up, down block.
Step out, here,
six. Step straight,
rising block. Step
straight, rise and block.
Step straight, rise and block.
Little target punch step. Right.
Easy. Step around here.
Hands there, right. Just come like this.
Good. One.
Hands here.
Two. Over here.
Three. All the way around.
Hands like this. One.
Good. GoodJust.
Right.
Right
All the way around.
Put your hands here.
Right. Step out. Step
over here. Put it up here, Joey.
Ride. Eyes.
Step out. Come on.
Step.
Joe. Good, good
I like that. I like that, Joey. Please be
seated.
Class, everything has
its opposite. There is
no tall without short.
There is no smooth without rough.
There is no wet without dry.
There is no hard without soft.
Nature
consists of two principles,
Ying and Yang,
positive and negative,
male and female.
Everything has its
opposite
Tai chi, karate,
bagua. All the martial
arts are only
techniques, vehicles that
we use to perfect our
being.
Everything has its opposite.
We are those who study
the martial arts in order to
perfect our beings.
Meditation is a technique that we use
in order to still the mind
and reflect upon our true selves.
Calm your mind. Still your mind.
Drive all the thoughts out.
Calm.
Deeper and deeper into the calm.
Peace. Deeper into the
peace. Deeper,
deeper. The story of Joey continues next
time.
Hola, hola, I'm saying hello the way
it's said in Mexico, 'cause I've
got a Mexican-American tree called baked
bananas that can't be beat.
Mexican-Americans live all around the
United States in both city and town, but
mostly in and around the southwest where
their food is some of the very best. We
need eight bananas. Eight will do.
And sugar, and lemon juice too.
Remove the skins first, that's easy to
do. Then
dip the whole banana in lemon juice.
Now sprinkle with sugar, but don't you
think that we're through.
You've gotta put the banana back in the
skin! That's the truth!
Now wrap 'em in foil! Are you listening
to me?
Get a grown-up to help ya! Yes siree!
'Cause we'll be baking, as you'll see!
Bake the bananas for one half an hour at
play with your friend or hit theBut in
one half an hour, or when the skins turn
black, take 'em out and serve 'em hot!
What a tasty treat you got!
See 'em sizzling?Smell it! Smell?That's
why Mexican-Americans love 'em so well!
Platanos, aljordno son delicioso!
Big bananas are delicious! So good! So
good! I can't stop!
Did you know that words have
stories?Listen to one
now.
Asparagus?I hate asparagus.
You've never even tried it. Yeah, but I
know I don't like it. Well, that's just
prejudice. The clubhouse
is all finished, Mom. We even have a sign
that says, No boys allowed. Don't you
think that's being prejudiced?
I don't want to go. It'll be boring. No,
it won't. It's an opera for kids.
All operas are boring. Oh, don't be
so prejudiced. What's prejudice?
Prejudice comes from two words,
pre and judge.
Pre means before. And judge means to
make up your mind. Sometimes it's a
necessary part of life.
Like judging whether a branch will hold
you or not. Right. Prejudice
means making up your mind before knowing.
Like deciding you hate asparagus, even if
you have never tried it. You know,
people who are not prejudiced have a
better chance to make new friends and
discover new experiences. Come on,
get inside. Here come some boys.
Hey, what are they doing?It's a camera.
They've got a movie camera. Yeah,
that's neat. Are you thinking what
I'm thinking?Yeah, just a second.
Hey, wanna use our clubhouse for your
movie?I don't know.
You wanna make a movie with them?I guess
so. Anyone can overcome prejudice if they
really want to. It's a choice.
You can look at people and see that
they're different shades of color, or
have a different way of talking, or
live in a different neighborhood,
or you can choose to see past the
differences.
You can look for the real person inside
all of us. Maybe
you'll see that people aren't really so
different after all.
It's dinner time. What are you having for
dinner?Avocado and fish. You told
me you didn't like avocado and fish. I
know, but that was before I tasted them.
And now, today's adventure of Outterscope
One. Collecting clues.
We're still in that crazy, confused world
and looking for a way to get out.
Gee, let's be like detectives.
I bet we could solve this mystery if we
try. Me too, Henry.
Let's spread out and look for clues.
Listen. A door's opening. Quick,
here.
Want some milk, Max?No, Pop. Very
good, Max.
Now don't get all clean. I don't want to
use the dirtying machine. Yes, Pop. And
keep your hat on. It's getting warm. You
don't want to catch a hot, do you?No,
Pop. That's my boy. Why don't
you play a game of Miss?Yes, Pop.
I won't. That's a bad boy. It's
almost time to eat. Now I've got to blow
out the stove and freeze dinner.
Freeze the dinner. Play Miss.
Catch a heart. What do all those things
mean, Elinor?Beats me. That's
part of the mystery, too. Do you think we
could ask him?He looks nice.
Well, I guess we could try.
Oh, uh, goodbye.
Goodbye?Oh, no, not yet.
Hello. How do you do?
My name is Henry. Go away.
Hey, we don't want to fight. No
fight?Of course not. Come on,
let's play. Throw the ball.
Throw the ball?Sure. Throw the
ball. I throw the
ball. Hey, you dropped the ball.
Oh, drop the ball. This
is a drop. That's
a throw. This is drop.
That's throw. Throw,
drop. Drop, throw.
Please stop it. Peace.
Peace?No, No
Hey, don't be frightened. Peace.
Peace?No! No
Gee, Elna, we scared him. We
meant well. But every move we made,
he took the wrong way. He took everything
backwards. Hey, you're right. That's
why he got so frightened when you made
the peace sign. He thought I meant
w*r. A few more clues like this,
and we'll begin to solve the mystery.
Gee, I hope the others are doing better
than we are. I guess we're flops as
detectives. Quick, get down!
This might be the chance we need. Umm
Whoever she is, she's dressed like a
housekeeper. She looks like those people
on television who make everything bright
and shiny.
But look, she's making everything dirty.
Now why would a housekeeper behave like
that?Well, I don't see any old clues.
But we've got to try to understand these
people. Otherwise they can't help us.
Maybe we could ask her why she's doing
it. Well, okay. I guess
she looks harmless enough.
Uh, good day. Good day?
Shame, shame, you mean bad
night, bad night. Bad
night?Well, awful night if
you insist. Awful night?
I don't understand. Why, I
think you're familiars, familiars
to hear. Are you found?
No, we're lost. We don't know where we
are. Yes, of course,
your familiars and familiars
need harm. Harm! I'll give
you harm. Don't! We don't want
any harm! No harm?No,
please! Well then, I won't give you any
harm. Hello, Hello
I didn't get any clues there. Every word
she said seemed backwards. Yeah,
bad night instead of good day. Found
instead of lost. And harm instead of
help. Help I
think she wanted to help us. If only we'd
known her words were backwards. Hey,
Cynthia, that's our clue. Our words
and their words are backwards from each
other. Oh, Edgar, we've got a clue.
Let's try speaking to her again.
Hello. Anyone there?Come out.
Please come out. We think we can talk to
you now. Oh, please!
To be continued. Next time,
Adding Up the Clues.
What do you want to be
when you grow up?
What do you want to
be
One, two, three, go.
sh**t flies faster than me I
gotta run, run, run I won't
see it And when the man
says, Bit my foot sh**t
flies
Domino's more than I do, and there's
a chance that he may really even know
more than you. When the man
says, I don't know what to do,
Domino's.
Butterflies over the hill
Can't find us and nobody will
One man says bake my bread
Butterflies
All right, it sounded fine. Hi, I'm Bob
Sakayama. The song you just heard was
called Shoo Flies. I wrote it.
And as you can see, I'm the engineer. And
I'd like to introduce the members of the
band to you. OK, first, on piano.
Bob Sakayama. On lead guitar.
Bob Sakayama. On rhythm guitar.
Bob Sakayama. On
drums. Bob
Sakayama.
On bass. Bob Sakayama.
On organ.
Guess.
Bob Sakayama. Lead
vocalist. Bob
Sakayama. Background
vocals. First background, Bob
Sakayama. Second background, Bob
Sakayama. In the recording
that you just heard, Shoo Flies,
I'm playing all the instruments. Uh
In addition to which I'm effectively
playing the electronics, that is,
the tape recorders, the mixing
console, and the things that you don't
really see me playing but are very
necessary, things like the echo, return,
things that make the things sound better,
make the things sound like a recording. I
play each instrument by itself, piano,
organ, drums, bass, guitars,
and each singing part. doing only one
thing at a time. Then I record each sound
on a special tape recorder. Next,
I do what is called a mix, which is
combining all of the instruments and
voices that have already been recorded.
Although the finished song sounds as if
it were recorded all at once, each sound
was recorded separately and then put
together at the end, and that's what you
hear. I started to like electronics,
and I always liked playing instruments,
and the two just came together. When I
was in school and it was a hobby and I
just found it a lot of fun. And when
something's fun, you do it a lot. When
you do it a lot, you get good at it. It
tends to get to be a job because of this.
There is a structure that you have to put
on to yourself. You have to make yourself
work. It's not just sitting down and
playing. There's definitely a discipline
involved. It is work, but it's work
that's that's enjoyable.
How do you find yourself?With our
very own voices and our very own hands.
Sing a little louder. How do you
find yourself?With our
very own voices and our very own hands.
Pigs. Pigs wrinkle
through the mud.
Flies get all over them.
They like to stay dirty. Very nice.
That's a haiku poem. And haiku poems came
from Japan. They represent
feelings that people have about nature,
and animals, and the weather,
and the seasons. And they're very
short and very simple. And that's what
we're going to do today. That's why we're
out here. Let's make up another one, OK?
We're getting the feeling of the summer
thing. Now let's make up one without
using the word-- Trees. Well, wait
a minute, wait a minute. Without using
the word summer, OK, just get the
feeling of the kind of days that
you experience when you are in
a summer day, when it's when it's hot and
when it's all the things that you talked
about. But we'll use the word summer on
the last line to let people know what
season it is. But before that, why don't
you give us the feeling of the kind of
days that you feel when it is summer?Like
you write all the things in summer and
you write summer last?Uh-huh, but we're
writing a haiku poem, don't forget. So
there's only three lines. So summer line,
let's let's make the summer line the last
line. And the first two lines give me a
feeling of the kind of day, okay?
Or the feeling of something that you see
when it is summer. You know,
a picture. Paint a picture for me.
And you find out?And then I'll find out
on the last line. On the third line, I'll
find out that it's summer. I'd like to
tell you. You could tell me on the third
line.
Tell me something about about what you're
seeing now, what you're looking at. A
pond. A pond, OK. That's
nice.
And a tree. Well, what
what else does the pond do?I mean, what
else do you see in the pond or around the
pond?Or what do you smell?What kind of
light is there?Sunlight.
A pond?How about a pond in the
sunlight?OK, a pond
in the sunlight,
OK. What else is there?What
else is around?What do you hear?What do
you smell?I smell, um..
You smell anything fresh?Air.
Fresh air?Okay, and what else do you
smell?What do you
hear?Birds singing. Oh, birds
singing. How about that?A pond in the
sunlight, birds singing.
Okay. Now, Now maybe you can tell
me what the season is.
Now?NowUm, kind of
summer. Kind of summer?What do you
mean, kind of summer?Um,
like it's half of summer. It's half of
summer?All right. It's half of summer.
There's your poem. Can you read this?
A pond in the sunlight.
Birds singing. It's
half of summer.
Wonderful. That is lovely.
How do you find yourself?
With our very own voices and our very own
hands. Sing a little louder. How
do you find yourself?With our
very own voices and our very own hands.
I have a land poem.
Okay, why don't you read it?
Lambs are soft and feel like
cotton. The bird is
laying an egg. Very nice.
Very nice. What made you think of the
bird laying the egg?HuhThat
was a surprise. The many haiku poems have
surprise endings like that, which make
them very interesting, you know?Flowers
sleep when the sun goes down.
Animals go to sleep. And some wake up.
The worm is in the hole.
He went to the other hole to
see his friend.
Real people, I'd like to
introduce you to some real
people. Real
people. Hi,
this is Joey. I've been working very hard
at learning karate. It's helping me to
feel good about who I am, and I'm not
afraid anymore.
Beautiful.
Yes, yes, all right.
What do you want?I want my walkie-talkie.
I want my walkie-talkie. I don't know
what you're talking about, get out of
here. Yes you do, I want it back.
I said beat it, PR.
When you close your
eyes Do you see
White Lorelei
She's a dream
She's not half as
magic as sheBut she's
so much fun
to be with
When you close your
eyes Do you
see places that you've never
seen Yet you feel
lameYou've
been walking on the edges
of a dream And you're
so much fun to
be with
Okay, now when we go that way, we gotta
go like this, okay?
What did you do that for?Come on.
Break it, I dare you. What are you
talking about?That tree over
there. If you don't stop, I won't show
you anything. Just break it. That's all.
That's kid stuff. Then do it.
Face me. Put your legs this way.
OK. Now do what I do.
Step forward again, like that.
Turn.
When you
close your door Joey Don't say anything,
just think. Mentate. Joey.
Quiet. Frankie.
I didn't come to fight. Then what do you
want?
Just, uh, came to get a closer look.
My brother could break that tree in half
if he wanted to. Angelito?But he
doesn't want to.
I'd like to be your friend, Joey.
Mommy won't believe this.
When you close your door
with a sign,
do not disturb. Are
you disturbed to find?
That it's just as
magic as it feels
And you're so much fun
to be with
Paula, Paula, I'm saying hello the way
it's said in Mexico. 'Cause I've got
a Mexican-American tree called baked
bananas that can't be beat.
Mexican-Americans live all around the
United States in both city and town, but
mostly in and around the Southwest, where
their food is some of the very best. We
need eight bananas. Eight will do.
And sugar and lemon juice, too.
Remove the skins first. That's easy to
do. Then
dip the whole banana in lemon juice.
Now sprinkle with sugar, but don't you
think that we're through?
You've gotta put the banana back in the
skin! That's the truth!
Now wrap 'em in foil! Are you listening
to me?
Get a grown-up to help ya, yes siree,
'cause we'll be baking, as you'll see.
Bake the bananas for one half an hour at
play with your friend or hit the sack,
but in one half an hour, or when the
skins turn black, take 'em out and serve
'em hot. What a tasty treat you
got!
See 'em sizzling?Smell it. Smell?That's
why Mexican-Americans love 'em so well.
Guatanos, I'll hold no son delicioso.
Baked bananas are delicious! So good! So
good! I can't stand it!
This dude will be no trouble. He
can't run fast. We can roll the
ball of first base and beat him. I don't
need to run fast.
When I hit home runs.
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01x10 - Episode 19 & 20
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Episodes are made up of a mix of live action, cartoon, puppetry, and mixed-media segments.
Episodes are made up of a mix of live action, cartoon, puppetry, and mixed-media segments.