06x03 - The Poetry Problem/The Disappering Art Problem

[bunniefuu]

- See that woman writing?
- Yeah...

- Her words
make people laugh

and cry
and think and rock out.

- She could make me go:
HA HA BOO-HOO HMMM YOWW!

- After this message thingy!

♪♪♪

- ♪♪ One, two
A one, two, three, four ♪

♪♪♪

♪ Peg plus Cat ♪

♪ Peg plus Cat ♪

- ♪ One, two, three ♪

- ♪ Yeah, c'mon let's go
- Four, five, six ♪

- ♪ Hey, what do you know!

- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Wow! What comes next? ♪

- Uh, ten?
- Ten!

- ♪ You're the best! ♪
- Woo! Yeah!

- ♪ We are two
Na na na na na ♪

♪ Me plus you ♪

♪ Na na na na na ♪

♪ We're Peg plus
- Cat! ♪

- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat! ♪

- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat!
- Peg plus Cat! ♪♪

(laughing)

- This one's called
The Poetry Problem.

Hope you find it
very... scroblem?

I can't think
of a rhyme for problem!

I'm gonna sob-lem!

I rhymed!

- Cat and I are
in the home of a poet.

- And when you see her room,
you'll know it! 'Cause it's
filled with poems!

- That's the super-talented
Emily Dickinson over there.

Looks like she's starting
another poem.
- Man, can she write!

- Emily invites us over
sometimes to count her poems.

- Man, can we count!
And... go.

- One, two, three, four, five...

- Six, seven, eight, nine,
ten poems. Done!

- Emily's written way more
than ten poems, Cat.
- What do you mean?

- Every one of these piles
has one hundred poems.

Ten hundreds is one thousand!
- So many zeroes.

- Ten has one zero.
One hundred has two zeros.

But one thousand is a one
with THREE zeros.
- Whoa-h*!

- One thousand poems.
- All from one Emily!

- Emily's poems
sound so cool too.
- Whattaya mean?

- Well, there's something...
about how they sound.

But I can't explain it!

I've got a BIG PROBLEM!

- Slipping! YO! Tripping! NO!

- That's it, you genius
rhyming-in-a-pattern Cat!

- Why don't you explain,
while I wipe ink off my tail?

- Rhyming is when words
end with the same sound.

Like slipping and tripping,
or yo and no.

When you said "slipping yo,
tripping no", you rhymed
in a cool pattern.

First sound, second sound,
first sound, second sound.

A lot of Emily's poems
rhyme in that pattern.
- So they go like...

- ♪ Roses are RED...
- Violets are BLUE... ♪

- ♪ I have a HEAD...
- I have one TOO! ♪
- WOO-HOO!

- I get the pattern! And
we counted Emily's poems!

And I made a finger painting
with my tail!
- And so...

- ♪ Problem solved!
The problem is solved! ♪

♪ We solved the problem!
Problem-- ♪

- Oh my.
- Are you okay, Emily?

We counted your poems.
There are one thousand.

- There will never be
one thousand and one.

I thought I had an idea for
my next poem... but it's gone.

And now I can't think of...
any more poems!

- Ah! I see what's missing
from your poem! Words!

- Why don't you just write about
something you see around you,

in that first thing,
second thing, first thing,
second thing pattern? Like...

♪ I see three nickels
On the sill ♪

♪ Cat likes his pickles
Dill! ♪

Not a bad start, right?
- How'd you think of it?!
- Oh, Peg.

I've written about birds,
flowers, butterflies,

everything I've ever seen
from my room,

but I feel no inspiration.
My spirit is aching!

- Aching spirit! Not good!
- Emily Dickinson

has a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!

Don't worry, Em.

Cat and I know the cure
for an achy spirit.
- Or a yucky mood.

Boredom. All that stuff.
- What you gotta do is,

get outta this room!
(tooting sound)

- But, I never leave this room!

- You need new sights!
New sounds!

To inspire you
to write more poems!
- We're not going far, are we?

- Not TOO far. I just thought
we'd drop in on...

The Purple Planet! It's got
the best view of the stars.

- And the best bouncing!

- It's a very nice planet...

- Hey, Peg and Cat!
- Hey, Richard! This is
our friend Emily Dickinson.

- Who has written
one thousand poems!

- Oh! Can I read you this poem
I wrote? Please, please, Emily?

It goes like this:

♪ I have a fluffy blanket
It's oh so good to me ♪

♪ So when no one can see
I take it out and thank it! ♪

Thank you! Thank you.

- That poem has a very
interesting rhyme pattern.

- I know, right?
The lines end...

"I-have-a-fluffy BLANKET...
It's-oh-so-good-to ME

So-when-no-one-can SEE...
I-take-it-out-and THANK IT!"

- "Blanket" rhymes with "thank
it", and "me" rhymes with "see".

- First sound, second sound,
second sound, first sound.

- Way to mix it up, Richard!
- That's my favorite pattern
for stars too.

Red star, blue star,
blue star, red star.

- So Emily, you've seen
all these colorful stars

and met an alien and heard
a totally new rhyme pattern.

Is your mind all
inspired and busy?

- Uh, she looks
more tired and dizzy.
- I woulda said dizzy and tired.

- Oh, Peg. My spirit
still feels empty.

- That's okay. We'll fill it
right up, at Peg's Pizza Place!

Papa Bear's a beat poet.
His poems have a cool groove.

- Go, daddy-o!
- ♪ Doomba doomba doomba doom ♪

♪ This tale I'm tellin'
in a rhyme ♪

♪ Happened once upon a time ♪

♪ Our porridge was
too hot to bear ♪

♪ So we went out
to get some fresh air ♪

- The lines of his poem end...

"Telling in RHYME... once upon
a TIME... too hot to BEAR...
get some fresh AIR".

First sound, first sound,
second sound, second sound.

- Sausage, sausage,
mushroom, mushroom!

- ♪ But when we got home,
I tell ya I'm ♪

♪ Sorry to say
there'd been a crime! ♪

♪ This girl with locks
of golden hair ♪

♪ Ate all our food
and broke his chair! ♪

- Why not write a poem
about pizza?!

- "It's ooey! It's gooey!
I love it, I do-ey!"
Take it away, Em-i-lator!

- I do enjoy
this rhyming pattern.

And the pizza
is filling my stomach.

But my spirit is still empty.

- We gotta feed
Emily's spirit already!

- I know a place where
there's so much going on,

you'll have like one thousand
ideas for new poems!

- Your spirit will be
totally stuffed at...

- (both): The Mega Mall!
- It has so many
really cool stores!

Right, Emily?
- And today it's got Zebra Guy!

- Hey, Ramone.
This is my friend Emily.

- Who has written
one thousand poems.
- Hey, Emily.

- What is this "Zebra Guy?!"

- He's a performer who sings
poetry called rap

that totally rocks.

- And he's performing...
right... now!

- ♪♪ Hey there, Zebra fans!
Welcome to the Mega Mall! ♪

♪ Checkin' out the Ball Zone!
You can maybe bounce a ball! ♪

♪ Trip and you'll be swimmin!
You'll be sorry if you fall! ♪

♪ Then it's time to move on!
So say--
- BYE, Y'ALL! ♪

- Mall, ball, fall, y'all.

All four lines of Zebra Guy's
rap end with the same sound.

- They all sound like all!
- First sound, first sound,

first sound, first sound.

- A simple pattern. But fun!

- ♪ There's the comfy chair
store! Let's all stop in! ♪

♪ If you're feelin' tired,
down you're droppin! ♪

♪ If you're feelin' wild,
up you're hoppin! ♪

- Please stop hoppin'!
Happy shoppin'!

- Stop in, droppin',
boppin', shoppin'.

Those four lines end
with the same sound too.

- The "oppin"
is just not stoppin'!

- Oh yeah.
- That's right.
(chuckling)

- ♪ Over at the food court!
Time for eatin'! ♪

♪ Over at the music store!
Drums are beatin'! ♪

♪ Over at the shoe store!
Fit your feet in! ♪

♪ Over at the pet store!
Birds are tweetin'! ♪♪

Eatin', beatin',
feet in, tweetin'...

- Whew!
- Emily needs to be
treatin' herself

to some seatin'.

- So you like the Mega Mall,
Emily?
- I do.

- Enough to inspire
that next poem?

- The sights you've shown me
could inspire great poems,

written in any of those
wonderful rhyme patterns.

But I'm searching
for that certain poem
that's just right for me.

And I can't quite find it.

I am utterly
spiritually frustrated!

- Uh, in English?
- Emily Dickinson is--

- (together):
Totally Freaking Out!

(trumpet and whistle sound)
- Cat's right. I should
take a deep breath

and count backwards from five
to calm down. Five...

- We've got to help Emily!
- Four...
- We've tried everything...

- Three...
- I wish there was a way...
- Two...

- We've got to do something...
- One... That's it,

you genius helping-other-
people Peg and Cat!

- What?
- Where?
- I'm inspired to write a poem

about helping other
people feel better.

Which you two do every day!

"If I Can Stop One Heart From
Breaking". By Emily Dickinson.

♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪

♪ I shall not live in vain ♪

♪ If I can ease
one life the aching ♪

♪ Or cool one pain ♪

♪ Or help one fainting robin ♪

♪ Unto his nest again ♪

♪ I shall not live in vain ♪♪

- I love Emily's new poem!
So, what's the pattern?
- Well, the lines end with...

- ♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪
- Breaking!

- First sound.
- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪

- Vain!
- Second sound.
- ♪ If I can ease one life ♪

♪ The aching ♪
- Aching!
- First sound.

- ♪ Or cool one pain ♪
- Pain!
- Second sound.

- ♪ Or help one fainting robin ♪
- Robin!
- Third sound.

- ♪ Unto his nest again ♪
- Gain!
- Second sound.

- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪♪
- Vain!
- Second sound.

- So the pattern goes...

- First sound, second sound,
first sound, second sound,

third sound, second sound,
second sound!

- Eh, whatever works!
- I know, right?

- Oh! And by the way,
what's it mean?
- Well...

- ♪♪ If I can stop one heart
from breaking ♪

- ♪ If you can help somebody sad
- I shall not live in vain ♪

- ♪ Be proud of all that YOU do!
- If I can ease one life
the aching ♪

- ♪ If you can make
one person glad
- Or cool one pain ♪

- ♪ Or heal a single boo-boo
- Or help one fainting robin ♪

- ♪ Or even help a bird
- Unto his nest again
- Into his room with a view ♪

- ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪

- ♪ Give yourself a woo-hoo ♪

- LOVE your new poem, Emily.

- It gives me stuff to think
about. And I can dance to it!

- Thank you, Peg and Cat,
for showing me the world,

and inspiring me
with your kindness.

♪ You stopped my heart
from breaking ♪

- ♪ We shall not live in vain ♪

- ♪ Which means
we're really useful! ♪♪

Yes! Yeah!

Ooh! Wait! Sing it
in Richard's pattern!

- ♪ Problem solved
The problem is fixed ♪

♪ And totally nixed
It's been resolved! ♪

- Ooh! Now sing it
in Emily's pattern!

- ♪ Problem solved
The battle is won ♪

♪ Me and Cat were involved
Now we sit in the sun ♪

♪ Everything is awesome
Life is fun... ♪

- ♪ We're so done! ♪

- ♪ Live from the tree, it's--
- Amazing People! ♪

- The show where...
- We interview...

- Amazing People!

Today on Amazing People,

the Amazing Baby Fox
is going to explain

how he builds
his amazing contraptions!

(blowing raspberry)
- Roll it, Mac!

- So, that gigantic contraption
you made in like three seconds

in our living room...
How did you do that?
(blowing raspberry)

Ahh!
- Ooh! Interesting.

- And that musical instrument

you built in the junkyard?
How'd you make something

that's like twenty times
taller than you?
(blowing raspberry)

Oh, right.
- Huh. Fascinating.

- Okay, Baby Fox,
just one more question.
How can we get down from here?!

(blowing raspberry)
- Can you understand him?
- Not a word.

- We get stuck on the most
amazing things on--

- (both): Amazing People!

(blowing raspberry)

♪♪♪

- One, two! A one,
two, three, four!

♪♪♪

♪ Peg plus Cat ♪

♪ Peg plus Cat ♪

- ♪ One, two, three ♪

- ♪ Yeah, c'mon let's go
- Four, five, six ♪

- ♪ Hey, what do you know!

- ♪ Seven, eight, nine
- Wow! What comes next? ♪

- Uh, ten?
- Ten!

- You're the best!
- Woo! Yeah!

- ♪ We are two
Na na na na na ♪

♪ Me plus you
Na na na na na ♪

♪ We're Peg plus
- Cat! ♪

- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat! ♪

- ♪ Peg plus
- Cat!
- Peg plus Cat! ♪♪

(laughing)

- The Disappearing Art--

- Problem! AAAAAAAH!

- You know us as Peg and Cat.

But tonight,
in the art museum...

- ♪♪ We're art museum guards!
Guarding the museum! ♪

- ♪ We make sure no one
takes these works!
- So everyone can see 'um! ♪

- ♪ Our flashlights
click and flash!
- It really is a dree-um! ♪

- ♪ To be museum guards
Guarding the museum! ♪

- ♪ These paintings are so cool
But no one's here to see 'um! ♪

- ♪ That's 'cause each and every
night they close up the museum ♪

- ♪ Then why are we whispering?
- We might as well scree-um! ♪

- ♪ We're art museum guards!
Guarding the museum! ♪♪

- Check it out, Cat! That brand
new flat shapes exhibit!

It focuses on shapes
that lie flat,

like triangles and squares.
- Flat shapes are easy
to walk on!

- Unlike solid shapes that stick
up, like pyramids and cubes.

- OW!
- Every room features
a different flat shape.

This one's all
about the rhombus.
- That lady's got a square face!

- Not a square, Cat. A rhombus.

It has one, two, three,
four sides the same length,

like a square. But the sides
don't all go straight across
and straight up and down.

- A rhombus is like a square...
that's tilted.
- Oh! Her face!

- Cute, right? If you're
into rhombus.
- No, it's, it's--

Gone! Disappeared!

(gasping)
- Someone should be
protecting these paintings!

Guards! Guards! Oh, right.

♪ We're art museum guards! ♪

I really gotta pay attention
to the lyrics.

- In the morning, a fancy
schmancy art critic is coming
to see the exhibit

and tell the world
if it's any good.

We need to find that rhombus
before he gets here!

- We have a BIG PROBLEM!

- That weird shadow!
- Where?
- It went into...

the triangle room.

- Where a guitar
has three sides.

(gasping)
Puh-Puh, Puh-puh-puh,
puh puh...!

- Cat got your tongue?
I always wanted to say that!

- There!
He took the guitar!

- There's a thief on the loose,
who can actually go
inside paintings!

- The art museum
guards have a--

- REALLY BIG PROBLEM!

We've got to find every shape

missing from every painting...
- Aw, these circles

are all just fine.
- Don't go too close to those--

- Circles!
- Too late.

- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round ♪
- Okay, Cat--

- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round ♪
- Come on, Cat! We've gotta--

- ♪ They make me make
a happy sound, tra-la! ♪

(gasping)
Footsteps.

(whistling)
- Whistling!

- A human being
dancing with a broom!

Now I've seen everything!
- Mac!

So you're the museum's
night janitor!

- Good to see you guys. It gets
kinda lonely here at night.

- Is that why you were
dancing with a broom?

- Oh, you mean Helga?

- He's looking at it
like it's his donut.
- Don't tell Joanie!

- Anyway, we're seeing which
paintings are missing shapes.

- The paintings are all fine
in the circle room.
And the oval room.

- You're sure every one
of these stretched round
shapes is in place?

- When you spend as much time
here as I do, you know the
paintings like family.

Well, gotta
keep sweepin'!

♪ I love you, Helga ♪

♪ Don't sweep my toenails ♪

(whistling)

- We learned
something from that!
- Yeah. Mac is bonkers.

- We learned that the thief
doesn't steal round shapes.

He only wants shapes
with straight edges,

like rhombuses and triangles...
- And... these whacha-ma-
tangles!

- Rectangles! With two
straight sides going across,

and two going up and down.
Unlike with squares,

some sides of a rectangle
can be longer than others.

- I can't believe the thief
didn't take this adorable
blue rectangle!

- Where?
- Here, where there used to be
an adorable blue rectangle.

- He struck again!
- NO!

No! What?!

♪ He got that red,
red rectangle! He took
that lady's cheek! ♪

- ♪ He got that family's table!
I'm so about to freak! ♪

- ♪ We're art museum guards!
Who're just about to scree-um! ♪

- ♪ The shapes are disappearing!
- The critic needs to see 'um! ♪

- ♪ It really is a nightmare!
- A bad, bad dree-um! ♪

- ♪ To be museum guards
With a thief in the museum! ♪

- He went into that sculpture!
Do you see him?

- I can't see anything
in all this ART!

- You'll never catch me.
I'm the Gingerbread Man!

No, I'm really not.
Why did I say that?

It didn't make sense,
plus it gave away my position.

Ah well, what are you gonna do?
And by 'you', I mean me.

- You're cornered,
art thief!

One, two, three--
- Ow.

- These flat shape
masterpieces are--

- Yes, they are!
- ...missing shapes!

The critic is going to be so--
- Yes, he will!
- Upset.

I am TOTALLY--
- Yes, you are!

- FREAKING OUT!

(trumpeting and whistling)
Cat's right.

I should count backwards
from five to calm down.

Five, four, three,

two, one.

- Squeak!
- That rectangle snapped at me!
- That's it,

you mousetrap-stepping-on Cat!
We'll set a trap for the thief!

- Like for catching a mouse?
- Kinda,

but we won't catch an art thief
with cheese. Will we?

- He wants flat shapes...
with straight edges.

- So we'll just have
to give him one!

No straight-edged-flat-shape
loving art thief

could possibly resist
the perfect square
in our masterpiece.

- Our master piece of cheese!

- One, two, three, four sides,

the exact same length,
going straight up and down
and straight across!

Here he comes.

He's stealing square
after square.

- He won't spare a square?
- Hide!

- Oof! Uh! Ah!
- We gotcha!
- Oh boy!

It wasn't me!

- You've totally got our square.
- Where?
- On your, um, tuchus.

- Oh, I love squares!
I can't help it.

Blame my parents.
- I love tuna fish,
but I don't just go around

taking it off the walls.
- What Cat's saying is,
it's wrong to steal.

- I'm not stealing. I'm
borrowing from the greats,

so I can be a great
square-painting artist.

A "squariste artiste",
if you will.

- But if you want to paint
squares, why'd you take
all those other shapes?

- Because... as I will
demonstrate with the shapes
I borrowed from the greats...

You can put triangles together
to make... a square!

You can put rectangles together
to make... a square!

- Amazing.
- Whoa.
- You can put triangles together

with a rhombus, to make...
- (Cat): No!
- Yes! A square!

- Cool.
- You can even put squares
together to make a really big...

- I won't believe it.
- I can't believe it.
- Square!

- Actually, I believe it.
- That one's fairly believable.

- Ugh! How'd this circle get
in here? ICK! EW! GET!

You can't use round shapes to
make a square, no way no how!

- So that's why you only took
shapes with straight sides.
- I did.

But I'm done.
- The squariste artiste
has ceased.

- It's morning, Toad.
Put those shapes back

before the critic gets here.
- UGH! Fine...

♪♪ Farewell, fair rhombus ♪

♪ We had the greatest of rides ♪

♪ Goodbye, good triangle ♪

♪ I was always on your sides ♪

♪ Adieu, sweet rectangle ♪

♪ Reaching up so tall ♪

♪ And square, oh square ♪

♪ I'll miss you most of all ♪

♪ With you I hoped
to rise to fame ♪

♪ In fabulous art shows ♪

♪ But now I guess
I'll always be ♪

♪ The Toad nobody knows ♪♪

(sighing)

- Aw, Toad. You don't need
to steal from the greats.

You can make great square art
on your own!
- Ya think?

- Sure! And you could
show the critic,

and if he likes your work, he'd
tell the world you're great!

- You'd be famous, Toad!

- But the critic'll be here any
minute! I can't paint that fast!

- Then Cat and I will help you
reach your dream!
- And so...

- ♪ Problem solved ♪
- Not good.
- ♪ The problem is solved ♪

- Not bad...
- ♪ We solved the problem
- Everything is awesome! ♪

- ♪ Problem solved! ♪

(gasping)
- It's the fancy
schmancy art critic

Ramone!
- ♪♪ I like a painting ♪

♪ That's bold and
fresh and new ♪

♪ That shocks and excites me ♪

♪ Maybe tickles too ♪

♪ Will I ever find it ♪

♪ The work I long to view... ♪

Yow!

♪ There! There! That
squa-squa-squa-square! ♪

♪ So much cooler than the others
That it isn't fair ♪

♪ I need a special chair
so I can sit and stare
at that square! ♪

♪ That square! That
squa-squa-square! Woo! ♪

♪ One line up
and one line down ♪

♪ One two straight across 'em ♪

♪ It's ravishing,
engaging, fresh ♪

♪ And yes, it's
oh so totally awesome! ♪

♪ Four sides all one length! ♪

♪ But unlike rhombus
that's all tilted ♪

♪ It goes up straight
and lifts me up! ♪

♪ Just like my uncle Milt did! ♪

♪ There! There! That
squa-squa-squa-square! ♪

♪ So bold and big I flipped
my wig and I don't care! ♪

♪ I wish I could tattoo it
on my underwear! ♪

♪ Swear I'd never tear it
Swear I'd wear it everywhere! ♪

♪ Oh that square! That square!
That squa-squa-square ♪

♪ That square squa-squa-squa
Squa-squa that square

♪ That square! ♪

(clearing throat)
♪ I'm oh so glad
you showed it! ♪

♪ Tell me, what genius
made this? ♪

- ♪ Toad did! ♪
(cheering)

- ♪ With help from my pals
Guarding the museum! ♪

- ♪ We made a great tea-um!
- Just like me and Helga ♪

♪ And Liam! ♪♪

- ♪ I like circles
'cause they're round... ♪

- You've been singing that
same song over and over...

- Huh. I should mix things up--
- Yes.

- And sing it a different way.
- Huh?

- ♪ They make me make
a happy sound, tra-la! ♪

♪ I like circles
because they're-- ♪

- ♪ I still love--
- Squares! ♪

- ♪ Triangles!
- I love circles ♪

♪ Because they're round! ♪♪

(laughing and sighing)

- ♪ We're splashing
in the bathroom!
- In the tub! ♪

- ♪ At the sink!
- On the floor!
- Splishing! Splashing! ♪

♪ Splashing some more! ♪

- Welcome to the bathroom!

Where Cat and I are having
a soothing bubble bath...

- So soothing...

- Watching the bubbles,
and thinking of our friends.

- Ooh! In that round bubble
I see the pirates!

- In that oval bubble
I see Richard.

- Ooh! Can my bubble
be a rectangle?

- Uh, okay, Beethoven...
- Four sides,

one great shape.
- A trapezoid has
four sides too.

- Ach! But two of zem
are all crooked und crazy!

- You take that back!
- NO VAY!
- YES WAY!

- Uh, guys. I hate to burst
your bubbles, but...

- We're bursting
your bubbles! Yeah!