Wimee’s Words
Pie
Season 2 Episode 20 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Laugh and learn with Wimee and friends in this episode about pie. It’s as easy as pie!
Wimee and friends sing about their favorite kind of pie; Wimee writes a story about his “thinking fork;” Ms. Sara teaches us different Spanish words for “pie;” Dr. Paige shows us how to make a magic pie crust; and Wimee dreams about making spaghetti pickle pie for a friend who was sad!
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Wimee’s Words
Pie
Season 2 Episode 20 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Wimee and friends sing about their favorite kind of pie; Wimee writes a story about his “thinking fork;” Ms. Sara teaches us different Spanish words for “pie;” Dr. Paige shows us how to make a magic pie crust; and Wimee dreams about making spaghetti pickle pie for a friend who was sad!
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I was just thinking.
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four and 20 black birds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened, the birds began to fly.
Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
Wait, the birds were supposed to sing, not fly.
Oh my goodness.
Hmm.
What is this all about?
Discuss.
(upbeat theme music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it, too ♪ ♪ Think of words, and of rhymes ♪ ♪ And make Wimee just, please do ♪ ♪ Do-Do-Do ♪ - [Child] It's time for Wimee's Words!
(applause) (cheering) - (singing) (laughs) I'm so glad you're here.
Ah-ha.
So we've got some friends on the show with us.
Miss Sarah.
I wanna come to you with a question right away.
Hi, Miss Sarah.
- Hi, Wimee.
- Got a question.
When was the last time that you had some pie?
- Ooh.
I had pie with my mother-in-law.
She makes the best, best pies and it was a cherry pie, I think.
It was during Christmas.
- Man.
Did you put anything on top, or keep it classic cherry pie?
- Oh no.
I had to put ice cream.
- Ice cream!
- A little bit.
- Little bit, little bit.
Awesome.
Thanks Sarah.
We'll see you later on the show.
Same question for Brody.
What about you?
Last time you had pie.
- It was Easter.
- Ooh, what kind?
- Key lime.
- Oh, key lime.
What's the difference between a lime and a key lime?
I have no idea.
Do you?
- Mm-mm.
No, I do not.
- Maybe it's the solution.
The key!
The key lime!
(Wimee laughs) Thanks Brody.
We'll see you later in the show.
All right, friends.
I need you to tell me what is your favorite kind of pie?
(clears throat) ♪ Grandma made pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ Grandma made pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ Grandma made pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ Oh, I guess I will, okay ♪ (laughs) Okay.
What kind of pie?
Let's go with key lime like Brody had.
(clears throat) ♪ Grandma made key lime pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ Grandma made key lime pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ Grandma made key lime pie and I won't share ♪ ♪ And boy does it sound great ♪ (Wimee laughs) I guess I'll share.
Okay.
I'm just torn, torn between if I share, if I don't.
Okay, okay.
What's your favorite kind of pie?
I'm gonna go with apple because that's my favorite kind.
Oh, strawberry-rhubarb.
That's next on deck.
Here we go.
♪ Grandma made strawberry pie and I don't care ♪ ♪ Grandma made strawberry pie, blueberry pie ♪ ♪ Grandma made all kinds of pie ♪ ♪ It's actually a berry pie and boy does it sound great ♪ (laughs) Just combined a lot of things in there.
Okay.
Strawberry-rhubarb.
Was that the last one?
Started thinking about blueberry suddenly.
Yeah, strawberry-rhubarb.
Okay.
Let's see if I can get it in there.
♪ Grandma made strawberry-rhubarb pie ♪ ♪ Grandma made strawberry-rhubarb pie ♪ ♪ Grandma made strawberry-rhubarb pie ♪ ♪ And boy does it tastes great.
♪ Okay.
I'll share.
I've decided I'm gonna share.
♪ Grandma made chocolate pie ♪ ♪ Grandma made chocolate pie ♪ ♪ Grandma made chocolate pie ♪ ♪ I'll share cause it tastes great ♪ (laughs) (children laughing) Banana cream!
♪ Grandma made banana cream pie, yes she did ♪ ♪ Grandma made banana cream pie, yes she did ♪ ♪ Grandma made banana cream pie ♪ ♪ And boy does it tastes great ♪ Would you like a piece?
(laughs) I just have fun.
It's fun.
Okay.
Friends.
Let's find out what Moby will say today.
(upbeat music) - Hi friends.
Guess what?
I learned that when the first pies were made you couldn't eat the crust.
Yeah.
The crust was just a hard shell to keep the fruit the meat, the vegetables, cheese or whatever else was cooked in the pie fresh until you ate it.
Fortunately, someone found a way to make the crust soft flaky and delicious.
Mmm.
Now the crust is one of the best parts of any pie.
Yeah.
Do you like pies?
Do you like the pie crust?
Oh, I'm hungry.
(upbeat music) - (laughing) Oh man, I'm hungry too.
And the pie crust.
I didn't know it didn't taste good at first.
Hey, Story.
Did you know about this?
Did you know that pie crust originally wasn't all the best tasting?
- I had no idea.
- I know.
Man, Moby's full of stuff.
Hey, what's your favorite kind of pie?
- Oh, you mentioned it at the start.
Blackbird pie.
Yum.
- Do you know much about that nursery rhyme?
I was reading it before the show and - hmm.
- Not really.
- Why did they - Yeah, but like okay.
But maybe - Okay.
I'll do some research.
- It's delicious.
That's why.
(Wimee laughs) - Okay.
Thanks, Story.
We'll see ya a bit later on the show.
(Wimee laughs) Okay.
Okay.
(humming tune) Okay, friends, it's time for today's One, two, Three Sentence Story.
Let's write a story, friends.
And we'll do it in three sentences.
In the first sentence, we'll set the scene.
In the second sentence, there is a problem.
And then comes the solution.
(laughs) I'm excited.
Friends, share with us a person place or thing.
And like I said, we'll put 'em in the stories.
First word.
I'm gonna go back to Story.
Hey, Story.
What you got for the first word?
Any word at all?
- How about spoon?
- Spoon?
That works good to scoop up the pies.
Especially if there's ice cream in there.
All right.
The first sentence is spoon!
Okay.
Friends, here we go.
(clears throat) I was deciding to make, wait no - I was deciding what type of pie I wanted to make for dessert.
And I used my spoon to think about it.
(laughs) I don't know why I was just thinking to myself, like tapping my head like, "hmm, what kind of pie should I make?"
Hmm, kind of a long sentence.
I might revise it.
Ooh.
Addie's recommending lion!
Oh, man.
Addie, I love that.
You've just got a love of lions.
I remember from previous shows.
Oh, there I am thinking with my spoon.
Okay.
There's a problem with the lion.
(clears throat) Okay.
I was thinking to myself, what kind of pie should I make this afternoon?
My neighbor, the lion, came in and took my thinking spoon.
No!
How am I going to decide what kind of pie to make?
I don't have my thinking spoon anymore.
Lion, what were you thinking?
Ooh, fork.
That's the solution, friends.
Ha-ha.
Okay, here we go.
From the top.
I was thinking to myself, what kind of pie should I make for this afternoon?
Out of nowhere, my neighbor, the lion came in and took away my spoon.
I opened up - You don't have to tease me, lion.
(laughing) I opened up the drawer, got my thinking fork and decided to make strawberry-rhubarb.
(Wimee laughs) We did it.
There's a - the moral of the story is: if you don't have a thinking spoon, look for a thinking fork.
(laughs) I'll even share it with the lion.
(laughs) All right.
Great job, Wimage Board.
I'll check back with you later to see if more of your illustration unfolds during this show.
Ah, thanks friends.
Man.
Thinking fork.
Maybe that will solve lots of problems.
Hmm.
Maybe a thinking ladle?
I don't know.
Okay.
Okay, friends.
It's time for today's Language Explorers, and Miss Sarah's with us here to teach us some things in Spanish.
(calm music) [Wimee] Hi, Miss Sarah.
- Hi Wimee.
- Man, I keep thinking about all the pie.
You had cherry pie, right?
That you recommended with a little bit of ice cream.
- Yeah.
I like key lime, like Brody, too.
That's one of my favorites.
They're just great.
You know?
- Yeah.
Love it.
Well, teach us some things.
What, what words are you thinking today?
- Well, I wanna talk about the idea of a pie.
Like you said before, pies are made all over the world.
They're just called different things because it's kind of like food wrapped in another food, you know?
And then, there's many ways in which you can call that.
You put different names to it.
So I wanted to say in South America and Central America, there's many different ways in which you could - or things that you could call a pie.
But I have chosen a couple of words that are, you know widely known as translation.
So in Spanish, pie is, "tarta."
- Tarta, tarta.
- Tarta.
And depending on where you are in South and Central America, you will also use the word, "Pastel."
- Pastel.
- Pastel.
Tarta or pastel.
So it can be, you know things it can be made out of.
It can be salty like meat and potatoes.
It can also be fruits or sometimes a combination of things.
But usually it's made so that you can travel with it, and go and take your pie and go somewhere.
- Nice.
- But I wanna tell you something funny, Wimee.
- Yeah?
- You know what, in Spanish, the word pie, the way that you spell it in English.
P-I-E.
If you say that word in Spanish it's "pié," and the word "pié" in Spanish means foot!
- Foot?
(laughs) A foot pie?
That would not taste too good.
(laughing) - Yeah.
I know.
I know, maybe a little stinky.
But, that's just funny.
You know, you say "pie" in English then you translated it, you know, or you just say it, pronounce it like, "pié."
That is pié, in Spanish.
- Oh.
So if someone was looking at a menu, and on the menu it said, "P-I-E," If they're thinking in Spanish, they might go, "What?
I don't wanna eat my foot."
(laughs) - Wait, what is that about?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's right.
So, there you go.
Now you, you learned three words.
Pie, or tarta or pastel.
Pié in Spanish, it's foot.
- It's foot.
Oh man.
This is so fun.
I love it Miss Sarah, thanks for teaching us and - Words are amazing!
I love it.
We'll see you later on the show.
Causes we're gonna play some more games soon.
(laughs) Oh, friends.
Guess what?
It's time right now for today's Explore and Create.
(jazzy music) (happy music) - Hi, Wimee.
Hi, friends.
Today, on the pie episode, I'm gonna be showing you how to make a magic pie crust.
I call it magic because you don't have to roll it out.
Okay.
So the four ingredients that we need for the magic pie crust are: 1 1/2 cups of cake flour, 3/4 teaspoon of salt, 3/8 a cup of vegetable oil, and three tablespoons of water.
You can mix those dry ingredients together.
The dry ingredients being the cake flour and the salt.
So I just mix that up together.
And now we're going to add the liquid ingredients.
So first we need 3/8 a cup of vegetable oil.
So I'm going to stir this up as well.
So right now, this is what it looks like with just the flour, the salt and the oil.
But we're going to add just a little bit of water.
This is a tablespoon.
We're going to add three tablespoons of water.
One, two, three.
So right now they're not mixed at all.
I'm going to start stirring.
(fast drum beat) Keep stirring until all that water gets absorbed.
(fast drum beat) And now it just looks like a ball of dough.
So you can take your ball of dough, and you just put it into the pie pan.
So instead of rolling it, you just pat it and smoosh it with your hand to make it fit in the pie pan.
(fast drum beat) It will taste delicious.
It tastes just like a regular pie crust when it's cooked.
So I'm going to be making an apple pie for my family today using these excellent pieces of fruit.
So when it's made and it comes out of the oven I will show you what the apple pie looks like using the magic pie crust.
(happy music) (jazzy music) - (laughing) Oh, man.
That looks amazingly simple and yet delicious.
Okay.
Okay.
Friends.
So let's see here.
It's time to find out what Siblee's got for today's Laughing with Siblee.
(children cheering) - What is the best to put in a pie?
- [Wimee] I don't know.
What is the best thing to put in a pie?
- Your teeth!
(laughs) (children cheering) (jazzy music) - [Siblee] Do-do do do do.
Oh my, goodness.
I wanna go back to Story.
Hey, Story.
You got any jokes for today's episode?
- How about, knock knock?
- Who's there?
- Tank.
- Tank, who?
- Tank you!
(both laughing) Well, tank you for telling a joke.
(laughs) Let's go see if Brody's got a joke.
This is fun, putting people on the spot for jokes.
Brody, you got a joke?
- Yes I do.
Okay.
Three guys walked into a bar.
The third one ducked.
- (laughing) Playground.
Like, oh no, the monkey bar.
Boom!
That's silly, that's silly.
Okay, Brody.
Let's hear Miss Sarah.
I'm putting everybody on the spot just like Wimee did.
Any jokes, Miss Sarah?
- Only one in Spanish.
- Okay, great.
(both laugh) - I invited centipede to have lunch and he wasn't coming.
And I said, "why?"
And he said, "I'm putting my shoes on."
Ciempiés, is in Spanish.
- (laughing) Oh, that's centipede.
Like the root word or connected to the full word?
- Yes, yes.
Its connected to the word "pié."
Centipede, "ciempiés."
And he was putting shoes on, just taking a long time.
- 10 shoes?
Cien?
- Cien is 100.
- A hundred?
(laughing) I got mixed up, 10.
That makes more sense.
I thought they had more feet.
- Ciempiés.
Centipede.
Centipede means "100 feet."
- 100 feet?
- And then millipede means a 1,000-pede.
A 1,000 feet.
1,000 piés.
- I had no idea.
I just keep learning.
Thanks Miss Sarah.
Thanks Wimee for letting me go longer, for more jokes with my friends.
Okay.
Okay.
So I get the honor now of introducing the next part of this show, right Wimee?
- [Wimee] Oh yeah.
You can keep going.
- Okay.
Take a deep breath, breathe in, (inhales) hold it (exhales) It's time for today's Slowing Down.
(relaxing guitar music) - Breathe in.
(inhales) Hold it.
And, let it loose.
(exhales) That looked delicious.
Nice.
Friends, are you ready to play a game?
Play at home with us and get ready, Brody, Miss Sarah, and Story.
It's time for Number Crunching.
(upbeat music) ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ♪ ♪ Eight, nine, ten ♪ (crunching) - Ah, so.
Here's what we're gonna do, friends.
We need to pick a number in our brain, and then we'll go around in a corner - like in a circle.
And we'll guess if the number's correct or we tell each other higher or lower.
Okay.
I've got a number in my brain.
I'm thinking of it between one and 10.
Story, what number do you think I'm thinking of?
- Nine.
- Oh lower.
Miss Sarah?
- Eight.
- Oh, lower.
Brody?
- Five.
- It's five!
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
(laughs) Your turn, Story.
- Okay.
I have a number.
- Okay.
- What about five?
- Lower.
- Three?
- Yes!
- Oh, it's three, you've got it.
- Brody is rocking it.
Okay.
I'm thinking a number.
- Okay.
- Go, Brody - Seven.
- No way.
Really?
What are you eating now?
What kind pie are you having?
(laughing) - Number pie.
And Brody.
- Okay, I got a number.
- Okay.
Is it 10?
- Lower.
- Ah, five.
- Well, you got one digit of it.
It's pi.
(all laughing) - Nice.
- Brody.
- Brody.
All right, friends.
Thanks for playing Number Crunching.
Okay.
Let's see here, friends.
Let's go check in with the Wimage Board and see if there happens to be more added to the mix.
Wimage Board.
What?
Wait, what?
Oh.
Oh yep.
I shared with the lion and there's birds, and the penguins.
(laughing) It looks like a party.
Woohoo.
Do, do, do, do, do, do.
(laughs) I love it.
I love it.
Thanks, Wimage Board.
Hey, friends.
It's time.
Because we love books, It's time for Check out This Book.
(rock music) - Hi, I'm Ms. Graciela from the Los Angeles Public Library.
And the book I'm sharing with you today is Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie A Thanksgiving Celebration by Jack Bishop and illustrated by Michelle Mee Nutter.
Although the word Thanksgiving is in the title, this book is more about food than it is about Thanksgiving.
Peyton is particular about her food.
Although her parents call her picky.
I think all of us can relate to either being a particular eater, or knowing someone who is.
Peyton's parents like to cook, so she worries about whether her parents want her to change to be less particular.
For gatherings like Thanksgiving, Peyton's parents ask all their guests to bring a pie.
Sometimes it's hard to try new foods but Peyton is determined to find at least one pie that she likes.
Turns out there are a lot of different pies out there, some fancy and some simple.
You can see on the back.
There's actually some pies and that some of them look very different.
Some of them look like the things that we're used to seeing.
Some pies don't even look like pies.
Luckily, Peyton does find a pie that she likes and decides that she might even be willing to try more new foods.
At the end of the book, there's a recipe for delicious apple pie.
So if you're a particular eater, knows someone who is, or simply want to read about pie, you'll need to check out this book at your local library.
(rock music) - [Wimee] Ha-ha, well, hey friends.
Speaking of being particular about pies, my friend Moby you guys know Moby, he's got a very particular favorite kind of pie that I made for him once when he wasn't feeling well.
And here's a here's - (laughs) here's more on that.
- [Narrator] Wimee sat down, looked around the room and began to wonder.
He imagined making spaghetti pickle pie for a friend who was sad.
- Potatoes, got 'em.
Mayonnaise, marshmallows, tomato, corn.
Hmm.
What's next?
Ooh, there they are, pickles.
Okay.
Now I just need to find the noodles.
I just know this will be so delicious.
(laughs) That's his favorite pie, right, Moby?
- [Moby] I - oh yeah.
That is my - it was so good.
- (laughs) It's so good.
Okay.
Friends.
We have got to play Fine it Fast.
(exciting music) (vrooming) [Wimee] Are you ready, friends?
Find something that starts with P. Find something round, find something delicious.
You know, like a round delicious pie.
Brody, what have you found?
- Well, I found something yellow.
I mean, round.
Sorry.
See, it's a pop, and it's delicious.
- Oh ding, ding, ding!
You got me thinking yellow was the thing you were looking for.
Okay.
P, round, delicious, and bonus points for yellow.
Let's see, Story.
What have you found?
- I have paper towels, which the roll is round.
- Yeah.
- And it's good for when you eat something delicious.
- That's true.
Bonus points for cleaning up something delicious with that.
(Wimee laughs) Oh man.
Friends, what are you finding at home?
Let us know.
Miss Sarah, what have you found?
- Alright.
I found something delicious because it's coffee, (speaking Spanish) and it's yellow, and it's round.
- We started a new theme.
- And it starts with a P because there's a pod.
But I also have the honey that goes with a pod and it's round and yellow.
- That's delicious.
- But it doesn't start with a P. - [Wimee] Put it in a honey pot.
(laughs) - Oh, blueberry pie.
Blueberry is delicious.
Pizza puff.
Whoa, ding, ding, ding, double air or triple.
It's delicious, it starts with P. It's round, it's pizza in a puff.
Oh, is it a pizza puff, or is it pizza and puff?
I'm hoping it's a pizza puff.
(laughs) Oh man.
Miss Sarah's got bonus points too, I think, all the bonus points going on.
What did you find now, Miss Sarah?
- I found a pin.
This pin belongs to my coworker, Hannah.
It's given to her because she's helpful.
And it's, it starts with a P, is a pin, it's round.
And it's because she serves with passion.
And I don't know, maybe it's because she brought something delicious?
- (laughs) I was thinking you could scoop up some delicious honey with that, like a spoon.
- Maybe she can help us with that.
A pin.
- Yeah.
(laughs) A pin.
Man, oh man, friends.
It's been such a great episode.
We've created, we've played.
We've hung out, man.
I'm always sad when it's time to go.
But we get to do it again, friends.
Join us anytime.
Keep finding us.
We're glad you're here.
Let us get ready for the dance party.
(rock music) Jim, Thanks for running the show.
Story, Brody, Miss Sarah.
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