- [Child] Lead support for this program has been provided by the William Penn Foundation with additional support from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Sidewater Family Foundation, the Thomas Locke Charitable Fund, and viewers like you.

(upbeat music) ♪ At the start of the day ♪ The sun says hello ♪ It's shining my way ♪ It's saying let's go ♪ It's so nice to hear the button go ding ♪ ♪ Who could it be ♪ My heart starts to sing ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Oh yeah (upbeat music) ♪ Each floor is a friend ♪ Each floor is a neighbor ♪ And where do we meet ♪ On Albie's elevator ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Albie's elevator ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Albie's elevator (upbeat music) (elevator dings) ♪ Have you met the cactus man ♪ A-prickle prickle ♪ A-prickle prickle ♪ Hey I am the cactus man I live on Prickly Lane ♪ ♪ A-prickle prickle ♪ A-prickle prick prick Oh, hi!

Bye Devin.

Welcome to my amazing elevator.

I'm happy you're here.

Time to make sure the elevator is ready.

Tibitz?

- Prickle prickle.

Ready, Albie.

- Elevator buttons, ready?

- [Tibitz] Elevator buttons are colorful, shiny, and activated.

Ready.

- Basketball hoop, ready?

Ooh.

- [Tibitz] Basketball hoop, ready.

- This one's for you, Hug.

(Albie groans) - [Tibitz] And it's good.

Albie does it again with a splashy J.

- Albie for the three.

(laughing) Yeah.

Pep talk, ready?

- [Group] Bravo!

- [Tibitz] I love to watch you shine.

- I'm shining like a star.

And so are you.

And so are you.

And so are you.

And so are you.

And so are you.

I'm ready for the day!

Huggy Pepper, I love your whistle.

Do you wanna sing in my quartet?

(Huggy speaks gibberish) A quartet, it's when four friends sing together.

You, me, Tidbitz.

- Me?

You're making my sensors blush.

I'd be delighted.

- And Zia!

Everybody gets their own singing part to shine on.

Do you wanna play?

(Huggy speaks gibberish) Woohoo!

(elevator dings) - Hey everybody.

Notice anything different about me?

I thought we could all wear matching hats when we sing in our quartet.

So, a hat for Albie.

- Wow!

- A hat for Huggy Pepper.

And a hat for everybody's favorite robot, Tidbitz.

- Oh my, I look dashing.

- The dashiest, Tibitz.

The dashiest.

- Thanks Zia.

We look so cool.

- Look good, feel good.

♪ Sing good ♪ Sing good I mean, sing well.

I've been practicing the lyrics all day.

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - Lyrics, definition, the words in a song.

Downloading lyrics now.

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - Don't worry, Huggy, I'll help you.

I'll help everyone.

- Each person gets one line in the song.

Only that person sings when it's their turn.

We wanna see everyone shine.

Then we all sing the last line at the end.

Loretta, would you play along?

(organ plays) - Ready Huggy?

(Huggy harmonizes) - Oh dear.

- Loretta, whenever you're ready.

(organ plays) A one, two, three.

♪ Take me up to the top floor ♪ Take me down to the ground ♪ We take you anywhere in a snap ♪ ♪ Here or there while we have a nice chat ♪ ♪ Albie pushes the button ♪ No one does it better ♪ We all hope you come back again on our elevator ♪ (Albie laughs) Woo-hoo, that was great!

Let's do it again.

Hit it, Loretta.

♪ Take me up to the top floor Huh, huh?

- Albie, why don't we take a little break.

- Right-o.

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - Wait, nobody wants to play anymore?

What happened?

- Albie, each of us had a special part to sing.

- I know, I sang my part.

- And my part.

And Huggy Pepper's part and Tibitz's part.

You sang all the parts.

- Yeah, it was awesome!

- Each part is a chance for someone else to shine.

I don't think Huggy or Tibitz had much fun.

I didn't either.

- Oh.

But, but it was fun for me and why does that.

If I was just, oh.

- Albie, deep breath in.

- No.

- Albie.

- Okay.

(Albie breathes deeply) - I have an idea.

Come on.

Could you hit that button, please?

- You got it.

Going somewhere.

- Starling mode activated, Albie.

(upbeat music) ♪ Powering up up up up up ♪ Calling voice ♪ Location locked on - Pulling thrusters pulling.

- [Both] Pulling, pulling, pulling, pulling.

- Powering down, down, down.

- [Tibitz] We have arrived.

(elevator dings) - Great job everybody.

Oh hi, what brings you here?

- Hi, my name's Zia and this is my friend Albie.

- Hi.

- Hey, Zia, hey Albie.

My name is Dan and this chorus is called the Philadelphia Voices of Pride.

(group shouts) A chorus is a group of people who get together to sing.

- We were singing with our friends today.

Each person has a different part to sing.

- And I may be saying all of the parts, not just mine.

Do you sing all the parts too?

- Our chorus is made up of four different groups.

Sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses.

Sometimes each group sings by themselves and other times we sing together.

First the sopranos sing.

♪ Row row row your boat - Then the altos sing.

♪ Gently down the stream - Then the tenors sing.

♪ Merrily merrily merrily merrily ♪ - And lastly, the basses sing.

♪ Life is but a dream - Very good, then we all sing together.

♪ Row row row your boat ♪ Gently down the stream ♪ Merrily merrily merrily merrily ♪ ♪ Life is but a dream - Now let's try something.

Everybody sing whatever part you want.

(group sings out of sync) Hmm, that didn't sound quite right, did it?

When you're part of a chorus you don't want to just sing over other people.

We wanna hear everybody's part.

♪ Warm summer sun shine kindly here ♪ ♪ Warm souther wind blow softly here ♪ ♪ Green sod above lie light lie light lie light ♪ ♪ Goodnight dear heart ♪ Good night good night - Each part of the song is important.

The part where you sing and the part where you let other people sing.

It's so much more fun when we can hear everybody shine.

- Just like us.

- Just like us.

- We'd better keep practicing.

It was nice to meet you Albie.

- [Group] Bye Albie.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Maybe I shouldn't have sung over everybody.

I want everybody to shine.

- Then when we sing together at the end it will be even more special.

- Huggy, Tibitz!

- Yes, Albie.

- Huggy Pepper, Tibitz, Zia, I'm sorry I sang over you.

That was only fun for me and I want everybody to have fun.

I promise not to sing your parts this time.

- Apology accepted.

Thank you, Albie.

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - Let's sing together again.

- Yes and we should pick a name for our quartet.

- Great idea!

Oh, oh, oh, oh Music Infinity.

- Oh, how about the Silly Singer's Symphony?

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - Nice.

- Oh, what about The Four Beeps?

Beep beep, beep beep.

(guitar riffs) - What's that mean?

- I don't know.

- I love it.

(Huggy speaks gibberish) - The four beeps it is.

Places everyone, hats are on.

Loretta, you know what to do.

A one, two, three.

♪ Take me up to the top floor ♪ Take me down to the ground ♪ We take you anywhere in a snap ♪ ♪ Here or there while we have a nice chat ♪ ♪ Albie pushes the button ♪ Lo ba do de da za ♪ We all hope you come back again on our elevator ♪ - That was amazing.

I didn't sing all the parts and all my friends got to shine.

We sounded so good.

- Albie, the Peps are calling for an encore.

- Oh, coming right up.

- A one, two, three.

♪ Take me up to the top floor ♪ Take me down to the ground ♪ We take you anywhere in a snap ♪ ♪ Here or there while we have a nice chat ♪ ♪ Albie pushes the button ♪ No on does it better ♪ We all hope you come back again on our elevator ♪ (playful music) (upbeat music) (elevator dings) ♪ Take your fuzzy hand and put it in the air ♪ ♪ And shake it then shake it ♪ And push that button push that elevator button woohoo ♪ Oh hi, welcome to my any where any time elevator.

I'm so happy to see you.

Time to make sure the elevator is ready for the day.

Tibitz!

- Ready anytime, ready anywhere.

- Elevator button ready?

- [Tibitz] Elevator buttons are colorful, shiny, and activated.

Ready.

- Pillow fight ready?

- [Tibitz] Pillow fight is approaching a feathery finish.

Ready.

- Pep talk ready?

- [Tibitz] Pep talk.

I feel like a winner when I'm with you.

- Aw.

You know what makes me feel like a winner?

You and you and you and you.

And you and you.

I'm ready for the day.

(elevator dings) Oh.

(frogs croak) (trumpet blows) - Hear ye, hear me, ribbit.

(royal music) - Huh?

- Announcing a special competition.

A dance competition for the lilypad crown, ribbit.

- The lilypad clown?

Like with a red nose.

(honks) (Huggy speaks gibberish) - The lilypad crown, ribbit.

Observe.

(magical music) - It's so shiny.

- The best dance wins the lilypad crown, ribbit.

Would thou like to enter the competition?

- Yes!

- Name?

- Albie!

- Albie, ribbit.

Show us your dance.

- Okay.

♪ Take your fuzzy hand and put it in air ♪ ♪ Then shake it ♪ Then shake it ♪ And push that button push that button ♪ ♪ Push that elevator button whaa ♪ - Thank you, Albie, ribbit.

Name.

- Huggy Pepper.

- Huggy Pepper, ribbit.

Show us your dance.

(slow tempo music) (slow tempo music continues) Thank you, Huggy Pepper, ribbit.

Best of toad luck to the both of you, ribbit.

Farewell.

(royal music) (royal music continues) - I'm going to win.

My dance move was awesome.

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) They must be seeing a lot of dance moves.

It'll probably be forever before they- (elevator dings) (royal music) (trumpet blows) - Hear ye, hear me, a winner has been selected.

(royal music) The one with the best dance moves and the winner of the lilypad crown is.

- I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.

- Ribbit.

- Huh?

- Oh, oh, pardon me.

The winner is Huggy Pepper.

(Albie shouts) - What?

- Huggy Pepper is the winner of the lilypad crown, ribbit.

(Huggy gasps) Farewell.

(royal music) - Huggy, how did you win?

You barely danced.

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) My dance was awesome.

Why didn't I win?

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) You're dance was, was stinky.

You shouldn't have won, I should have won.

(murmurs) (somber music) (Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) Ha ha, the lilypad crown is mine.

(Albie laughs) Woo hoo!

(laughs) The lilypad crown is mine!

This is great, this is great!

Where did Huggy Pepper go?

Huggy, Huggy?

- Huggy Pepper left after you said beep boop bop, your dance was stinky.

- Hey, my dance wasn't stinky.

- Correction, that is what you said to Huggy Pepper.

- Oh, I did?

- You also said beep boop bop, you shouldn't have won.

- Yes, I should've.

I don't like when you say that, Tibitz.

- Correction, that is what you said to Huggy Pepper.

- Oh, I bet Huggy Pepper didn't like hearing that either.

- Then Huggy took off the lilypad crown and left.

- Huggy probably didn't feel very good when I said those things.

Oh, I need some help.

Going somewhere.

(elevator whirs) - Starling mode activated, Albie.

♪ Powering up up up up up up up ♪ ♪ Whirly voice fluxing ♪ Location locked on - Thermal shim shams shimmy.

♪ Shimmy shimmy shimmy shimmy shimmy shimmy ♪ ♪ Powering down down down down - [Tibitz] We have arrived.

(elevator dings) - Hey.

- Hi.

- Hi, I'm Albie, who are you?

- I'm Emory.

- And I'm Teo.

We're twins.

- We're practicing right now.

- We have a dance battle later.

- What's that?

- It's basically when you show off your moves in front of people.

- And they cheer for whoever they like best or the moves they like best.

- Like if you win or lose?

- Kinda, watch this, follow me.

- Let the dance battle begin.

(group cheers) (group shouts) (group shouts) (group claps) (group shouts) - Let's go.

- Let's go.

- Let's go, let's go.

- Hey!

- Teo, you're next.

- My turn.

- Good luck, Teo.

(group cheers) (group cheers) (group claps) - Good job, Emory.

- Thanks, you too.

- The dance battle is over.

(group cheers) - This is the part where they pick the winner.

I hope I win.

- No, I hope I win too.

- The winner of today's dance battle is, get excited.

(hands tap) Teo.

(group cheers) - Teo won, go Teo.

- But you didn't win.

- I know, I'm still proud of my dance.

I think it was awesome.

- Wow.

- And my brother won.

I'm so happy for Teo.

- Like when Huggy won the lilypad crown?

- Emory, I won!

- Time for a victory dance.

Good luck, Albie.

- Bye.

(playful music) - Oh, maybe I can cheer Huggy on too.

Huggy!

Huggy, open up.

(door creaks) I'm, I'm sorry I said your dance is stinky.

It's not.

I said that because, because I was mad that I didn't win.

(gentle music) And you did deserve to win.

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) - I didn't like losing, but I'm happy you won.

I'm sorry.

Oh.

(Huggy gasps) (Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) You're welcome and I'm proud of the dance I did, even if it didn't win.

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) Oh, thanks.

Can you show me your dance?

I wanna try.

(Huggy agrees) I think I'm getting it.

(elevator dings) (trumpet blows) - Hear ye, hear me, wouldst thou agree that this dance is toad-ally awesome, ribbit?

(toads giggle) - This dance is awesome.

(Huggy Pepper speaks gibberish) You want to do my dance now, really?

- Splendid, Albie would thou show us your dance again?

Ribbit.

♪ Take your fuzzy hand and put it in the air ♪ ♪ Then shake it ♪ Then shake it ♪ Push that button push that button ♪ ♪ Push that elevator button ♪ Take your fuzzy hand and put it in the air ♪ ♪ Then shake it shake it ♪ Then shake it ♪ Shake it ♪ And push that button push that elevator button ♪ ♪ Push it push it push it ♪ Wahoo ♪ Woo (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music) - [Child] Lead support for this program has been provided by the William Penn Foundation with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Sidewater Family Foundation, the Thomas Locke Charitable Fund and viewers like you.

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