( gasps ) ahoy, chirp! peep! what are you doing? sailing to green island! stay right there. i'll come get you. hmm... how do i make this thing turn... or stop... or anything? i don't know. boats aren't for birds. get out! this water's moving a lot faster than the water in that pool. ( gasps ) chirp: uh-oh... that's a lot of water. jump up here! jump up! cusack: chirp realized that peep's boat was being pushed by the current into the bay. once he passed under the log,

she wouldn't be able to help him anymore. you've got about two seconds to jump! okay... now! ( thud ) ( groan ) oh, no! ( grunts ) why'd you jump? so i'd know where you are. but now we're both stuck. uh... i know. cusack: it's one thing to be stuck in a narrow creek. it's another to get lost in... big bay. there's no way to turn this boat around! cusack: peep thought about how his life would change if he had to stay on the boat. he'd miss his home... ( sighs ) but he'd meet a lot of fish, which wouldn't be bad. i have an idea! what?

( inhales deeply ) ( screaming ): help! cusack: meanwhile, on green island, quack was taking the perfect nap... ( snoring ) chirp and peep: help! help! cusack: until he was awakened by the distant shouts. chirp and peep: help! help! ( shouting ) help! help! hey, you guys! quack! ( grunts ) quack... you heard us! yes. you're making a lot of noise. could you please keep it down? ducks are napping. okay, i'm going back to, ahh... green island. bye! ( both yell )

hold it. what are you doing way out here? the water keeps pushing us away from shore. could you call for some help? sure. ( shouting ): help! no! go and get help! but if i leave, i may never find you again. this calls for... the power of duck feet! ( hums a fanfare ) ( humming ) hey, this might be a really good time to take us to green island. ( struggling )

i don't think i'd... i'd make it. ( quacks ) ( sighs ) cusack: and so, the stalwart blue duck fought the relentless current and swam for shore with all his amphibious might. ( strains and quacks ) ( grunts ) ( kissing ) ( panting with exhaustion ) that was so interesting! i never knew water moved like that. careful, peep! didn't you learn anything? sure. water can be dangerous,

so until you understand it, always bring a duck. ( groans ) a duck... who's had his nap. ( groans ) could someone turn the water on for me? whoa! girl: i'm pouring water into the pool and it's making the leaves, sticks and pine cones move around. can you see that? the leaves and things are moving. the direction the hose is pointing is where everything is going, and the current's going around. ( water sloshing ) whoa, that's like a waterfall. whoa... i pushed down the pool and it let all the water out. turn the water on!

now i tried putting the hose on the sidewalk. i'm going to put some of these in to see where it takes them. i put in some little seed pods and leaves. they're really going fast. now i'm blowing bubbles. awesome! cool... that's awesome. i love that. it's kind of cool because who would know that bubbles would float on the water? see what happens when you put things in streams of water. ( thunder rumbling ) ( chirp giggling ) cusack: one day, when peep was exploring in nellie's backyard,

he discovered the most amazing, the most stupendous, the most incredible thing he had ever seen. it's just a ball. yeah, but it's... it's round... and blue... and green. blue and green. let's play. okay, peep. ( both giggling ) ( quack humming ) oh! ( gurgling ) ( spitting ) what? what? what? peep: sorry, quack. aah, i should say so. ( scoffs ) my hat! where's my hat?! who's got my hat? where is it? who took my... ah! ah, there, a duck is not a duck without his hat. remember that, peep.

okay, off you go. ( both giggling ) cusack: all was right with the world, but then suddenly... ( birds cawing ) cusack: ...it wasn't. peep: oh, no, it's those blue jays. let me do the talking, okay? and hide that ball. ( inhales, then gulps ) hey, it's peep and chirp. what are you doing? uh, nothing. ( chuckles ) not a thing. we were just leaving! a ball! would you look at that? nice, big ball. oh, a beautiful ball. ( bird laughing ) be careful. it's not yours, you know. we'll be careful. we're always careful.

careful is our middle... uh-oh! uh-oh! chirp: oh, no! now look what you did. cusack: it's always the same with blue jays, isn't it? they don't mean to cause trouble, but when they show up, something goes wrong. look at the time. we got to go. blue jays: bye-bye. they make me so mad, those guys. ( thunder rumbling ) and now it's raining. ( groans ) come on, peep. peep: hmm... hey, chirp, look at that. it's floating right to the top. peep, bend down.

what? why? ow! hold on... wait... i've got it! oh, no! oh, no! ( both groan ) there it is! hooray! hooray! hooray! whoo-hoo! yeah! cusack: and so the afternoon wore on. peep and chirp played kickball while quack dreamt about his favorite thing-- ducks-- until... hey, it's quack. shh, he's asleep. really? you think? hey, quack, are you asleep?! what are you doing? hey, go away! be gone. leave the duck alone. hey, that feels great. you try it, quack. ( quack sputters ) give me my hat. blue jay: in a minute. two. in two minutes. three.

blue jays: in three minutes we'll give it back. stop it. chirp: go find some other duck to bother. okay, okay. we were just playing catch. here, catch. ( quack gasps, blue jay caws ) my hat! i'm ruined! i dropped it, and the wind took it... and threw it into the jar. can you believe it? it wasn't the wind. it was you, and you'd better go get it. relax. not a problem. we'll get it out. we have the perfect plan. we always manage. it's perfect. ( sighs ) just a little to the left. no, the other left. blue jay: nope, too far. too close, too close. too close. both: there you go!

perfect! quack: what are you doing? put me down! ( quack screams ) one duck and one hat reunited. both: uh-oh! get me out of here! what are you talking about? it's perfect. you can see. blue jay: and it's warm. oh, yeah, warm. if i had a place like that, i'd... never leave. he can't stay in there. do something. hmm. um, chirp, i think i've got it. i mean, well, quack is sort of like a ball, isn't he? i am not a ball! i am a duck! quack. i mean you float like a ball, so if we put water in the jar... that's it. you got it. you are an extremely clever peep. cusack: the blue jays sprang into action. they scooped up quack's puddle and poured it into the jar.

hey! ahh! watch where you're putting that! cusack: the more water they poured in, the higher quack floated. ( gurgling ): i want out of here! help! ( quack sputtering ) ( coughing ) cusack: finally quack arrived at the top only to discover that he had a long way to go. okay, quack, we know you can do it. jump! go, quack! ( quacking fearfully ) quack, if you don't jump, how will you ever get your hat back? ( chirp gasps ) cusack: quack really had no choice, did he? so he closed his eyes... and then he opened his eyes. big mistake. so he closed them again, and prepared to jump... and prepared some more, and some more...

until finally... ( quack screaming ) quack, are you all right? all i want to do right now is put on my hat and go sit in my puddle. aah! what happened to my puddle?! we had to put it into the jar so you could float to the top. remember? like the ball. i... am going home. ( giggles )

( caws ) blue jays: good-bye, peep. good-bye, quack. both: good-bye, chirp. that was fun. let's do it again. don't you say good-bye to me--not until you apologize! quack: do you hear me?! you owe my hat an apology! oh. what? ah, there. ( peep and chirp giggling ) ( scoffs ) ( peep and chirp giggling ) okay, turn the water on. girl: keenan is spraying some water in the pool. some things are floating, other things are not. we're going to drop them in the pool. and see if they float or sink. i think it will sink. keenan: i don't.

girl: i think it will float. keenan: and it is floating. girl: emma found a little tube. emma: it sinks. girl: she is blocking up the holes with the seed pods. i plugged up the holes. so it wouldn't breathe. emma: it floats. if i put these out, the water can come in and it will just sink. this is a walnut with skin on it, and this is a walnut without skin on it. girl: the one with skin is sinking, and the one without skin is floating. the one with skin has no lines on it, and it puts heavy weight in the water, and that's how it sank. and the one without skin, it has lines on it, and it doesn't have heavy weight, so that's how it floats. girl: put things in the water to see what floats.

major funding for this program has been provided by the national science foundation. additional funding has been provided by northrop grumman. peep has a web site. science, games and lots more fun, all at: captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ( alarm ringing ) >> pato! elly! loula! sleepy bird!

pocoyo! >> narrator: oh, look! here comes pocoyo. and can any of you tell me what he's carrying? >> it's a balloon. >> narrator: that's right. it is a balloon. and a fine balloon at that. ( pato quacks ) ( elly trumpets ) ( sleepy bird chirps ) ( chirping )

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( pato quacks ) ( stretching )

( quacking ) ( creaking ) ( loud pop ) >> balloon, balloon, balloon... balloon! balloon, balloon! balloon! pato! balloon. help pocoyo. ( quacks ) no! >> narrator: can any of you tell pato why pocoyo is upset? >> he's lost his balloon. the balloon is gone. >> narrator: oh, look, pocoyo! ( loud pop )

>> not pocoyo's! mine...! ( pato quacking ) ( elly trumpeting ) ( trumpets ) ( trumpeting ) ( dance music playing ) ( needle scratches ) ( cart creaking ) no. ( pato quacks ) ( sleepy bird chirping ) ( trumpet playing happy tune ) ( crash, squish ) >> narrator: oh, dear! >> no...! no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! ( quacks )

>> balloon! >> narrator: let me see if i understand. you're not going to play with any of your friends until your balloon comes back. so if your balloon doesn't come back, you're never going to play again. hmm... but some things, like lost balloons, simply don't come back, and there's nothing anyone can do about that. oh, i see. but pocoyo, no one is stopping you from playing with your friends. you just have to decide to have fun again. >> yay! whee...! >> narrator: that's better. hooray for pocoyo, and hooray

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and now back to our regularly scheduled programming. here are your five words: limerick -- a limerick is a special kind of rhyming poem with five lines. structure -- structure is how something is put together. distracted -- if you're distracted, your attention is taken away from something. valid -- if something is valid, then it means that it counts, it's right. but then there's invalid -- if something is invalid, then it means that it's wrong. so we have: limerick, structure, distracted, valid and invalid. watch out for these words in today's show. ♪ ah, here comes trouble. hello, manny. hello, hector. i was wondering, do you know what today is? tuesday, glad to help, bye. ah, but today is not just any old tuesday. manny, what are you talking about?

i'm talking about the limerick slam, it's today! the greatest limerick competition in the land. forget it, manny, i'm not interested. wait, what's a limerick? a limerick is a poem with its own special pattern, and it goes a little something like this. there once was a boy from the city, who was always so charming and witty, but when it came time to give a great rhyme the result just wasn't so pretty! come on, jess, let's go. come on, hector, sign up. no, manny, how about you just win it automatically like you do every other year? let's go. hector, what's wrong? poor hector was just so afraid of the horrible goof that he made. so, he runs and he hides... alright spamboni, don't talk to my brother like that. you want a match? jessica, no! you got one. oh, so you think you can limerick?

my name is jess, i'm a lyrical master. nobody rhymes better, nobody's faster. if you try to beat me, it will be a disaster. eh! that is not valid! what do you mean it's not valid? it doesn't count, jess...that's not how you make a limerick. wait... the limerick competition is on. see you at 3:00 in the theater. bye-bye! (cackling) hector... hey you guys! ♪ ♪ come on, feel the power feel the power ♪ ♪ feel the power, yo and plug it in! ♪ ♪ it's electric... electric company ♪ ♪ get connected... electric company ♪ ♪ it's electric... electric company ♪