Peg + Cat
The Potty Problem/The Butter Problem
Season 1 Episode 27 | 25m 55sVideo has Audio Description
Peg and Cat teach Big Mouth how to potty. / Peg and Cat enter a butter sculpting contest.
Peg and Cat must teach Big Mouth the 6 steps for making on the potty, or his visit to Viv's house will be ruined -- along with Viv's carpet! / To compete in a butter sculpting contest, Peg and Cat must learn certain math skills by doing farm chores.
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Peg + Cat
The Potty Problem/The Butter Problem
Season 1 Episode 27 | 25m 55sVideo has Audio Description
Peg and Cat must teach Big Mouth the 6 steps for making on the potty, or his visit to Viv's house will be ruined -- along with Viv's carpet! / To compete in a butter sculpting contest, Peg and Cat must learn certain math skills by doing farm chores.
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- Is that what I think it is?
- It sure smells like what you think it is!
If you think it's what I think you think it is!
- Can we even say it?
- We can sure smell it!
- Find out if it's... that thing we can't say-- - But can sure smell-- - 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!
- Woah!
What comes next ♪ -♪ Uh, ten?
- Ten ♪ - ♪ You're the best ♪ ♪ 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 ♪♪ - Woo hoo!
- La-dee da!
- Mm!
The Potty Problem!
- Doo-dee doo!
- La-dee dee!
♪♪♪ (laughter) - It's a really giggly day in the neighborhood.
- Hold still!
- So cute!
- I'm Peg, this is Cat, and those are the Neighbor Ladies, squealing with glee, (laughter) Because somebody came to visit them for a whole week-- - Ooh!
- Space Creature Big Mouth!
- Bello!
- Big Mouth loves little yellow things.
And the Neighbor Ladies love giving him little yellow things!
♪♪♪ - ♪♪ It's a lovely day - It's a lovely day ♪ - ♪ Since our friend has come to play ♪ ♪ Song is everywhere ♪ - Ha!
Ha!
- ♪ Joy is in the air ♪♪ - Something besides joy is in the air!
- A stinky smell!
- Coming from a stinky thing!
- Who went potty on my carpet?!
(gasps) - We've got a BIG PROBLEM!
- There's five of us in the room.
So to figure out who did it, let's ask everyone one at a time!
Was it you, Connie?
- No!
- Viv?
- No!
- Cat?
- No.
- Hm.
I know I didn't do it.
So that just leaves...Big Mouth?
- Hm?
- Did you go potty on the carpet?
- Oh!
Plippy plop plippa?
Rup!
- You can't go potty on my carpet, Big Mouth!
- The bathroom down the hall is where you go.
- Bo-kay!
- The carpet is all clean!
- And Big Mouth knows where to go!
- And so... - ♪ Problem solved ♪ ♪ The problem is-- ♪ - Oooh!
(sniffing) - Again?!
- Why didn't you go to the bathroom?
- He can't help it!
- Mm, mm.
- On his planet he just goes wherever he feels like it.
- Mm hmm!
- But on this planet, where you make potty is a really big deal.
- It's huge with us.
- I've been really looking forward to your visit.
But if you can't control where you go potty, you just can't stay with me... - Or me!
- WAAAAAAA!
- WAAAAA!
- Big Mouth and the Neighbor Ladies have a REALLY BIG-- - PROBLEM!
- GROBLEM!
- But we can solve it with potty training!
- Rotty raining?
- Don't worry, Big Mouth.
Learning how to go on the potty is a problem everybody faces, and everybody solves.
- Rrrr.
- Peg had that problem herself a few years ago!
Ha!
Ha!
- She was one stinky toddler!
- Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
- But I'm not stinky now, - (Big Mouth): Mm mm.
- 'Cause of six steps I'm about to tell you.
I'll write the steps, too.
Since writing things down is a great way to keep them in order!
There are six steps for goin' on the potty!
- ♪♪ FIRST!
♪ - ♪ Listen to your body!
If your body's sayin' you gotta go ♪ - ♪ You gotta go ♪ - ♪ SECOND!
- Head to the potty, yo ♪ - If nothing comes, it's all great!
'Cause the... - ♪ THIRD!
- Step is wait ♪ ♪ When it comes - FOURTH ♪ - ♪ Wipe!
- FIFTH ♪ - ♪ Flush it away!
Then - SIXTH ♪ - ♪ Wash your hands and shout hooray ♪ ♪ I'm the king of the potty!
A potty makin' machine ♪ ♪ I can go where I go ♪ ♪ and be totally clean!
♪ ♪ I'm the bathroom champ!
Check out me ♪ ♪ Total toilet royalty ♪ ♪ Everybody, near and far ♪ ♪ I'm a potty superstar!
♪ - ♪ Excuse me, Miss Potty Queen ♪ ♪ What does listen to your body mean ♪ - ♪ Pay attention to what you feel ♪ ♪ What your body's trying to reveal ♪ - ♪ My back is saying it's a little bit sore ♪ - ♪ My tummy's saying "Please!
One piece o' cheese more?!"
♪ - ♪ So you see big guy?
There's nothing to it ♪ - ♪ Try it yourself!
- See if you can do it ♪ - ♪ FIRST - Listen to your body ♪ ♪ What's it saying to you?
♪ - Ruh-roohh!
- ♪ Sounds like it's time for step two ♪ - ♪ Better get moving!
And don't be slow ♪ - ♪ Cause the SECOND step's Head to the potty, yo ♪ - What is taking so long?
- ♪ Don't sweat it!
- Chill ♪ - ♪ You're doin' great!
Cause the-- - THIRD ♪ - ♪ Step is wait ♪♪ (sound of ticking clock) - RRRRRRRR!
- Big Mouth doesn't like waiting... - We could help him relax by singing... - The Boomy Boom song!
- (Big Mouth): Hmm!
- How's it go again?
- I can never remember the pattern... - Sattern?
- A pattern's something that repeats over and over in the same order.
- Three boomies then one boom?
- Two boomies then two booms?
- Oo oo oo!
Its... ♪ Boomy boomy boomy boom boom ♪ Oh yeah!
- Yes!
Three boomies then two booms!
I'll write down three then two on this piece of toilet paper so we'll remember.
♪♪♪ - ♪ Boomy boomy boomy boom boom ♪ - ♪ Boomy boomy boomy boom boom ♪ - Goom!
- All right!
- Woo hoo!
- He went in the potty!
- ♪♪ Since it came ♪ - ♪ FOURTH - Wipe ♪ - ♪ FIFTH!
- Flush it away ♪ - ♪ Then ... - SIXTH ♪ - ♪ Wash your hands!
- And shout hooray ♪ - ♪ He's the king of the potty ♪ - ♪ A potty makin' machine ♪ - Ruh-rooh - ♪ He can go where he goes ♪ ♪ And be totally clean ♪ - Uh ooooh!
- ♪ Let's head to the store to get the big fellow ♪ - ♪ More yummy treats... - That are little and yellow ♪♪ - Plippy plop plippa.
- Uh, somebody has to go again!
- Not in the car!
- Is this the button that unlocks all the doors?
- There's no reason to panic.
- You pushed the safety-lock button that LOCKS all the doors!
- Reason to panic!
- RRRRRR!
- Hold it in, Big Guy - The instructions for undoing the safety lock say.... - To unlock the car, do three steps in order.
Just like Big Mouth had to follow six steps in order to go on the potty.
- What steps do we do?
- First press the green button, second red, third yellow.
- Red yellow green!
- Ah!
(car alarm sounds) - You got the colors in the wrong order.
- First green.
Second red.
Third yellow.
- Green, red, yellow!
(click) - Now do those six steps for going on the potty!
♪♪♪ - ♪♪ FIRST!
- Listen to your body ♪ - He's already done that step!
- ♪ His body's saying he's gotta go ♪ - ♪ So - SECOND ♪ - ♪ Head to the potty, yo ♪ - Which he has already done.
- ♪ The-- - THIRD ♪ - ♪ step's wait!
- So wait he will ♪ - ♪ He's waiting - We're waiting ♪ - ♪ And waiting still ♪♪ - Goomy goom!
- He wants the Boomy Boom song!
- Everybody sing four boomies and three booms!
- Isn't it two boomies... - And one hundred booms?
- We wrote down... - The numbers?
- Of boomies and booms?
- On a piece of... - Toilet paper!
- That I gave-- - Big Mouth?
- When he was-- - Wiping?
- So it's flushed - Down the-- - Toilet.
- We'll never get him to relax!
- He won't go on the potty!
- He won't be able to stay with us!
- We are TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!
(Cat blows a whistle.)
- Cat and Big Mouth are right.
We should count backwards from five and calm down.
- Five, four three, two-- - REE ROOO!
- Three two!
That's it, you amazing genius space creature!
- Ree roo!
- Those are the numbers we wrote down!
- ♪ One two three one two ♪ - ♪ Boomy boomy boomy boom boom ♪ - ♪ Boomy boomy boomy boom boom ♪ - Goom!
- We boomied right out of the bathroom!
- We better boomy back!
- WAIT!
Big Mouth listened to his body all by himself and hurried to the potty all by himself.
And sat and waited... - He did the first three steps for going on the potty just fine!
- I think he can take it from here!
- You mean-- - Uh huh!
- Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
- Because we know how to remember steps in order, Big Mouth is potty trained!
- Math can make you master of the bathroom!
- And so... ♪♪ Problem solved!
- The problem is solved ♪ ♪ We solved the problem!
- Beverything is rawsome ♪ - ♪ Problem solved ♪♪ - He went in the potty again!
- How's he doing with the rest of the steps?
- ♪♪ Well...
He - FOURTH - Wiped ♪ - ♪ Then - FIFTH - Flushed it away ♪ - ♪ Now he'll - SIXTH - Wash his hands♪ - ♪ And shout - Hooray!
- You're the king of the potty ♪ - ♪ Yes!
A potty making machine ♪ - ♪ You can go where you go ♪ ♪ And be totally clean ♪ - Rotally!
- ♪ We can take you to a restaurant ♪ ♪ a lake, or a mall - And know there'll be ♪ ♪ no messy-mess at all ♪ - ♪ We can go to a concert, a circus, a play ♪ - ♪ Will we smell stinky-winky?
♪ - ♪ Not with this guy!
- No way ♪ - ♪ You can go for a ride in a boat ♪ - ♪ In a bus!
- You can go any place ♪ ♪ In this whole town with us!
- You can go anywhere ♪ ♪ Near or far!
- 'Cause you're a potty ♪ - ♪ Rime a rotty!
- Super ♪ - ♪ Booper - Star!
♪♪ - A Booper Jar!
- So do you think Big Mouth will become really neat and polite like the Neighbor Ladies?
- Or maybe they'll become more like him-- - Oh Peg!
We're taking you shopping to replace that ghastly dress!
- So they each changed a little bit!
- Yeah, I guess so!
♪ - ♪♪ 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!
- Woah!
What comes next ♪ -♪ Uh, ten?
- Ten ♪ - ♪ You're the best ♪ ♪ 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 ♪♪ - Woo hoo!
- The Butter Problem!
- Moo?
- Oink?
(country music) - The farm!
Known for its corn, wheat, the occasional rutabaga.
But today the farm is all about... - Butter!
- I'm Peg, this is Cat, and we're here on the farm for the All Valley Butter Sculpting Contest!
- Butter!
- That's right, we'll be making sculptures, not out of clay or blocks, but out of-- - Butter?
Really?!
- Don't worry, Cat.
The Farmer's going to show us everything we need to know about molding butter, so we can be better butter sculpting champions!
- It doesn't get any butter than that!
Ha!
Ha!
- Help!
Somebody!
- Farmer!
What are you doing up there?
- While I wuz buildin' this stage for the contest, I got m'self into a real predicament.
Now if I move, the whole ding dang thing's gonna fall apart!
So I need you to bring me just the right piece from that pile, to take m' place up here!
- There are so many pieces in this pile!
I have no idea which piece we need.
- Me neither!
- I've never built a stage before!
I've got a BIG PROBLEM!
- ME TOO!
- Cool yer jets now, Peg.
Yuh know how to put together puzzles, right?
- We're really good with puzzles.
But what's that got to do with building a stage?
- Sometimes you can use what you know about doin' one thing, to solve a problem that involves somethin' else.
- You mean, we can use our awesome puzzle skills to find the right piece to fit the wall!
- Good thinking, Farmer!
- And you thought I was some goofy ol' chicken chaser.
I got farm smarts.
Ow.
- With puzzles, we focus on the shape of the space we need to fill.
So here we need to fill the space the Farmer's in.
- He's shaped ... like this ... - This has one, two, three, four lines.
The shape we're looking for just has one, two.
- Oh.
- This has one, two lines.
- But one line crosses on top of the other.
We need two lines crossing in the middle.
- Hm... That's it!
- Huh?
- You found the exact shape that goes up there!
And so... ♪♪ Problem solved ♪ ♪ The problem is solved ♪ ♪ We solved the problem ♪ - Yee-haw-whoa-oh-oh!
- ♪ Problem solved!
♪♪ - Now I can show you two the secret to making a prize-winnin' butter sculpture!
- Butter late than never!
Who's funny?!
This guy!
- Butter!
- Yaaa!
- No!
- Phew!
Uh oh.
- I'll have to get right to work to have it all fixed up in time for the contest.
So I won't have time to teach you how to make butter sculptures.
- But if you can't show us how to make a butter sculpture we don't have a chance of winning the contest!
We've got a REALLY BIG-- - No no no, ya got no problem at all!
- This here book tells everything ya need to know about butter sculpting.
- A book that holds the secrets to butter sculpting?
This is the coolest thing since-- - Teenagers!
- G2G... - That means "gotta go".
- MMBAS... - ..."to make mind-blowingly awesome sculptures"!
- OODP!
- "...out of dairy products"!
The Teens are going to be in the butter sculpting contest!
- Ya-ho Peg!
- Did you come to watch us make mind blowingly awesome butter sculptures?
- Actually, Cat and I are going to make butter sculptures ourselves!
- Ah, mind-blowingly awesome ones, in fact!
- You two know how to make butter sculptures?
- Sure, you start out by, uh ... milking a cow?
I mean, building a scarecrow... - One milking a cow sculpture coming right up.
Just give me one... make it four, no five minutes ...
There we go.
- This book only shows how to do farm chores!
- And these butter bricks are totally frozen!
- Uh, Cat and I just need a second to, uh-- - Run and hide in shame!
- Totally!
- Ow!
- There's nothing about butter in this whole book!
The farmer gave us the wrong book!
- Uh, also, the barn door is stuck.
- How could things possibly get worse?
- Oink!
- If we had garbage stuck to our face.
- Oink!
- Poor Hog!
You got into some really sticky stuff!
- It should come right off with just a little soap-- - Or not.
- I think the farmer's book has a page about washing a hog... - Oink?
- This diagram shows that we need to add two cups of water to one bar of soap.
- Oh, Hog - a diagram's a picture that shows you how to do something.
- Oink.
- ♪♪ Take one bar of soap ♪ ♪ Then add first cup, second cup ♪ - ♪ The soap's nice and bubbly ♪ ♪ Gonna scrub you up ♪ - ♪ You'll be clean to the tip of your nose ♪ ♪ Cause we did what the diagram shows ♪♪ - Oink!
- That means "thank you" in hog.
- Rockin!
- And that means "we're having an incredible time" in teen.
- They're making stuff with those great big butter bricks!
And we're stuck in a barn with a hog.
- Mooooo!
- And a really unhappy Cow!
- Moooooo!
- You gotta go to the bathroom?
- Mooo!
- In all the excitement about the contest, the Farmer forgot to milk you!
- MoooOOOoooOOO!
- Uh...
The milk isn't coming out.
This cow is broken!
- Hm, the milk will come out just fine, according to this diagram.
If we push up, pull down, push up, then spin the tray around to fill up the next bottle.
- All right!
And a one and a two and a... - ♪♪ Up, down, up, around ♪ - ♪ Up, down, up, around ♪ - ♪ The milk is coming!
- Look how it flows ♪ - ♪ If we do what the ♪ ♪ Diagram shows ♪♪ - Happy now, Cow?
- Moooo!
- (the Teens): All right!
(electric guitar sounds) - Whoa!
The Teens made those butter bricks into super soft buttery heaps, perfect to make incredible enormous sculptures!
- I can't see!
- Now I can't see!
- Oof!
- Woah!
- We're outside!
- And out of control!
- Scarecrow!
- No!
Um, it WAS a scarecrow.
- We better fix it fast, or the crows'll eat all the farmer's corn!
- Scary?
Huh?
Terrifying?
(crows laughing) Or just funny... - According to this diagram, to make a scarecrow, we should look at the way the parts of a real farmer fit together ... and copy that.
- So... ♪♪ The arm goes on the shoulder ♪ - ♪ And down just a little ♪ - ♪ The head goes way on top ♪ - ♪ Right in the middle ♪ - ♪ Now let's see if it can scare some crows ♪ ♪ Since we've done what the ♪ ♪ Diagram shows ♪♪ - Save us from that horrible monster!
- Hoo-ee!
That scarecrow is one handsome feller!
- So this has some really nice pictures but it was kinda totally the wrong book!
And meanwhile look at what the teens have been making!
- A giant pizza!
- A giant cell phone!
A giant trapezoid bag?!
- Each butter than the last!
- Ramone's starting to judge the butter sculptures, to pick the winner!
- Come on, butter!
We gotta make you into something!
- Anything!
- Now!
- We have no idea what we're doing!
We just know how to wash a hog, milk a cow, and build a scarecrow!
We don't know a single thing about making butter sculptures!
I am TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!
(whistle blows) - Farmer's right.
I should count backwards from five to calm down.
- Nope!
You should wash the hog.
- I can't wash the hog now!
I need to figure out how to make a butter sculpture.
- You already know how, Peggy.
Yuh just don't know you know.
- What's he talking about?
- No idea.
- It's like what I told ya before!
Sometimes you can use what you know about doin' one thing to solve a problem that involves somethin' else.
- Like when we fixed the stage using what we knew about doing puzzles.
- Oh right... - You can soften these butter bricks by usin' what you know about hog washin'!
- So we should... ♪♪ Add water to the butter ♪ ♪ One cup, then two ♪ - ♪ The butter's nice and soft ♪ - ♪ All right!
- Woo hoo ♪ - ♪ Now milk the Cow ♪ - Now?!
Just when we were starting to get somewhere... - No, Cat!
The Farmer means we should use what we know about milking a cow to make the butter even better!
- ♪ Up, down, up, around ♪ - ♪ Up, down, up, around ♪ - ♪ Bigger and bigger!
- This really grows ♪ - ♪ You gotta do what the ♪ ♪ Diagram shows ♪♪ - Now, build a scarecrow.
- Wait a minute.
You're not saying we should REALLY build a scare crow, are you?
- He's saying that to make a butter sculpture, we should look really carefully at the thing we're trying to copy.
- Hell-O!
- Hell-o-o-O!
- Whoa.
You guys really do know how to make butter sculptures!
- We just didn't know we knew what we know.
No?
- But since we used farming skills and diagrams, we're totally set to sculpt some butter!
- Yes!
- And so... - ♪♪ Problem solved ♪ - ♪ Yer problem is solved ♪ - ♪ We solved the problem ♪ - ♪ This is gonna be awesome ♪ - ♪ Problem solved ♪♪ - ♪♪ You know so much incredible stuff ♪ ♪ And yet sometimes when things get rough ♪ ♪ You turn and just run out ♪ ♪ What is that all about ♪ - ♪ Your skills are tools that you can use ♪ ♪ Use them and you'll never lose ♪ ♪ It's amazing what you'll do ♪ ♪ With the smarts inside of you ♪ - ♪ You know things you don't realize ♪ ♪ That can sail you up to the skies ♪ - ♪ To the top where you're going ♪ ♪ When you use all you're knowing ♪ ♪ To the top in any game or match or test ♪ ♪ To the top you are rising ♪ ♪ Dontcha stop it's surprising ♪ ♪ When you look around and see that ♪ - ♪ You're the best ♪ - ♪ When trouble's really on your trail ♪ ♪ And you are sure you're gonna fail ♪ ♪ Don't turn around and scat ♪ - ♪ I mean really, what is that?
♪ - ♪ If you can build with blocks use that skill ♪ - ♪ If you can dance then maybe that will ♪ ♪ Supply the help you need ♪ - ♪ So you can do the deed ♪ - ♪ You're learning new stuff every day ♪ ♪ That can sail you up and away ♪ - ♪ To the top where you're going ♪ ♪ When you use all you're knowing ♪ ♪ To the top soaring over all the rest ♪ ♪ To the top - We are rising ♪ - ♪ To the top - It's surprising ♪ - ♪ When you look around And see that-- ♪ - ♪ We're the best!
- You're the best ♪♪ - So now I want to make finger paintings out of peanut butter.
- I want to make hats out of whipped cream.
- Bathing suits out of lettuce.
- Electric guitars out of ice cream.
- What would the strings be?
- Spaghetti.
- That would sound awful.
- Does not!
(electric guitar sounds) It totally works!
Wah!
Wowwww!
- Those spaghetti strings sound awesome!
- But the ice cream's melting all over me.
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
- Hee!
Hee!
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