Wonder/ Raffle Day
Season 2 Episode 6 | 28m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
It’s okay to not have all the answers; Simple things can bring fun in unexpected ways.
After Albie discovers there’s a neighbor in the building she hasn’t met, she is overwhelmed by what else she doesn’t know, but a visit to a museum educator reveals it’s okay to not have all the answers and wondering can be fun; On Raffle Day, Albie is disappointed in her prize – a lump of clay - until a ceramicist demonstrates how it can be transformed into something fabulous in a fun activity.
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Wonder/ Raffle Day
Season 2 Episode 6 | 28m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
After Albie discovers there’s a neighbor in the building she hasn’t met, she is overwhelmed by what else she doesn’t know, but a visit to a museum educator reveals it’s okay to not have all the answers and wondering can be fun; On Raffle Day, Albie is disappointed in her prize – a lump of clay - until a ceramicist demonstrates how it can be transformed into something fabulous in a fun activity.
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(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 continues) ♪ 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) (upbeat music) (characters chattering) - A scarf for me.
A scarf for you.
A scarf right there.
Yes, that will do.
Heh.
Oh, hi!
Welcome to my silky swishy elevator.
You're here.
I'm here.
Huggy is here.
- Oh!
- This feels like a great time to make sure the elevator is ready for the day.
Hm.
- [Tibitz] Right you are, Albie!
- Elevator buttons, ready?
(upbeat music) - [Tibitz] Elevator buttons are colorful, shiny, and activated.
Ready!
- Best buddies, ready?
- [Tibitz] Friends forever.
Ready!
- Aw.
Pep talk, ready?
- [Tibitz] Pep talk.
Your imagination is endless.
- Endless?
- [Tibitz] Endless!
(soft music) - Wow!
Thanks, Tibitz!
(upbeat music) Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
(elevator dings) Ooh!
(doors whirring) (upbeat music) - Well, hey everybody.
Albie, Huggy Pepper, Tibitz.
Loretta.
♪ Hello, Gene.
♪ - How y'all doing?
- Hey, Gene.
Where to?
- Um, floor 15, please, Albie.
- You got it.
What are you delivering?
- Oh, this right here?
This is a very special package.
See?
It even comes with a note, "Delivered to Claire.
Floor 15.
Apartment E." - Oh.
- Claire?
What does that mean?
- That's who the package is for.
- There's someone named Claire who lives here?
- I believe so.
- And, and they're getting this cool pink package?
- Oh!
(soft music) - It seems that way.
- And I don't know them?
- Well, it's a pretty big building, Albie.
Uh, I'm sure there's lots of people that you don't know.
- Yeah, but I'm the elevator operator.
- I know everyone who lives here.
(Albie panting) - Maybe Claire takes the stairs.
(dramatic music) - What!
- Albie, don't get too frazzled.
There's lots of things I don't know, like how to eat soup dumplings.
(soft music) Or what makes the stars shine, or how to say arboretum.
Arboretum?
Arboretum.
Hey, I think I did it!
(tone chimes) (elevator dings) Oh, floor 15.
Here we are.
- But, Gene!
How am I supposed to just go around not knowing who Claire is?
- I wouldn't worry about it too much, Albie.
It's okay to not have all the answers.
(sad music) (door whirring) - No, it's not!
Huggy!
- A boo!
Uh.
Tibitz?
- Huggy, that's brilliant!
I'll ask Tibitz.
(dramatic music) Tibitz knows everything.
(dramatic music) (both grunting) Tibitz!
Your big beautiful robot brain knows about all kinds of stuff, right?
- [Tibitz] Well, Albie, how kind of you.
I do have a great deal of information available to me.
- Like what is arboretum?
Arboretum?
Arboretum.
Hmm.
- [Tibitz] It's a garden of just trees.
Oh, how delightful.
Any other questions I can answer?
- Oh, boy.
A ton.
Let's start with the questions, then we can move back towards the answers.
- [Tibitz] Lovely.
I'll create a list.
(characters chattering) (Albie grunting) - Let's do this.
Are cats and dogs friends?
Can birds swim?
How old are Kiwis?
When was the first sandwich made?
Why is Tuesday called Tuesday?
Why do I have to sleep?
Did dinosaurs live at the same time as frogs?
Why don't we sleep with our feet under the pillow or head under the covers?
Do pigs have names?
Does it ever snow in the summer?
Why do I get wrinkly in the bathtub?
How tall will I be when I get older?
How many people will I meet?
What is Novas Scotia?
(Albie rambling) (machine whirring) Who is claire?
- [Tibitz] Enough!
(panting) - Tibitz?
- [Tibitz] I cant keep up, Albie.
It's simply too many questions.
I have some of the answers, but not all of them.
Ah, I need to power it down for a moment.
(Tibitz whirring) - But Tibitz.
- [Tibitz] A crepe is like a flapjack, but thinner.
But I have absolutely no idea if it's possible to touch a dream.
Oh!
(Tibitz whirring) (elevator dings) (doors whirring) - Albie!
Would you rather be a sweet little rock or a fluffy cotton candy cloud?
Oh!
(body thuds) (heart thumping) - Where did this lamp come from, Zia?
- Uh.
I found it on the curb.
Someone must have been getting rid of it.
- And how do lamps work?
- Beats me.
I just flip the switch.
- And what is light?
- Whoa.
What is light?
- Ah, you heard that question!
- Oh man.
Albie, I'm not sure I know.
Maybe Tibitz does.
- [Tibitz] My circuits are still recovering.
I couldn't possibly answer!
- But I need answers.
I need to to know everything!
Or, or, or... - Or what?
- Well, I'm not sure.
- No one knows everything, Albie.
- Really?
- Sure.
Come on.
Let's go meet my friend.
- Are they the one person who has all the answers?
- Nope.
But I think you'll wanna meet them anyway.
(air whooshing) (drum rolling) - Who is this person and what do they know?
- Would you just press the button?
- Destination person who knows stuff!
Ha ha!
(machine buzzing) (upbeat music) - Stalling mode activated, Albie!
♪ Powering up, up, up, up ♪ ♪ (indistinct) soon ♪ ♪ Location locked on ♪ - [Tibitz] Springs shrugging at full speed!
- [Both] Shrug, shrug, shrug, shrug.
Shrug, shrug, shrug, shrug, shrug, shrug.
♪ Powering down, down, down, down, down, down ♪ - [Tibitz] We have arrived.
(elevator dings) - Hey, Zia.
- Hey.
I was just telling my friend Albie about you.
She has a lot of big questions, - But not a lot of answers.
And I really wanna know everything.
- I love big questions.
- And big answers?
- Hmm.
Well, I don't always think the answers are so important, but the big questions, they're great.
In fact, my friends and I were just about to do some wondering like this.
(upbeat music) Hmm.
I wonder what this is seeing to make their head spin.
- I wonder why this artist used these particular colors.
- I wonder why there's some full circles and some half circles and some ovals.
- I wonder why there is a ear or foot, whatever that is.
- I wonder why the artist used those shapes.
- All right, everybody, come on over.
Gather around.
All right, so I have this incredible work of art that I wanted to chat about with you, but we're gonna split up our conversation into three steps.
So first we're going to see, then we're going to think about what we are seeing.
And third, we're going to wonder together.
We're gonna ask so many questions about this work of art.
Do you feel ready?
Okay.
Let's start off by walking all the way around it so you can look at this art from every angle.
Check out the bottom, let your eyes travel up to the top.
And then let's take a seat together.
And I would love to hear what you noticed when you were traveling around the work of art.
- I noticed that there is like a lot of points.
- Really nice.
What else did you notice when you were walking around?
- I noticed it was rainbow color.
- Rainbow colors?
Yeah, absolutely.
- I noticed it looks really heavy and it looked like more 3D.
- More 3D.
Tell me what you mean by 3D.
- Like it looks more like it's popping out.
- Excellent.
- (indistinct) are like in like flatter.
- Yeah, it's popping out.
We were able to walk all the way around it.
It's a 3D artwork.
What does this artwork make you think about?
- That it reminds me of like mountains and valleys.
If you look into the middle, there's lots of like wavy parts that are lower.
- Yeah, I love that you use the words "mountains and valleys" to describe the shapes going on in this work of art.
I'm wondering if this was like a mysterious land what kind of creatures might live in here?
- Maybe a dragon.
- I love that.
Maybe dragons live through here.
- If you turn some stuff the other way, then they would look like cones of an ice cream cone.
(Zia gasping) - These are such good observations.
- Those primary colors over there.
Why are they not mixing?
How did they keep it separate?
- Oh, so Logan's already wondering, has got some good questions going on about why aren't these colors mixing together?
Like how you're wondering about the process in making this work of art.
- But what about the wonder part?
Don't you want answers?
- So sometimes you can look up the answer on the computer or in a book, but other times it's okay to not know.
Wondering helps our imagination grow.
- So you don't need to know everything?
- No, of course not.
It's the wondering part that's important.
You don't need to have all the answers.
- Thanks for your help.
- No problem, Zia.
Bye, Albie.
- [Kids] Bye.
- So good to see you.
(soft music) - So it's not always about having all the answers.
- Nobody does, Albie.
- It's okay if I don't know who Claire is.
Maybe Claire doesn't know who I'm either.
- I'll be honest.
I don't know what you're talking about and I'm okay with that.
(bright tone plays) - What should I do with all these questions then?
Hmm?
I wonder.
- Hmm.
Huggy!
- [Huggy] Huh?
- Do you have any good wondering tunes?
- [Huggy] Huh?
(fist thuds) (Huggy chattering) - Ha.
(wall thuds) (soft music) (upbeat music) ♪ What does a jellyfish dream about when it goes to sleep ♪ ♪ Can you imagine a color your eyes have never seen ♪ ♪ How many times can you really remember a memory ♪ ♪ Before it leaves ♪ ♪ Step inside the space between the answers ♪ ♪ Take a little chance or ♪ ♪ Sing a song and dance inside ♪ ♪ The spaces between the answers ♪ (bell dings) (upbeat music continues) ♪ How many times can you really uncover a mystery ♪ ♪ When you don't where you're going ♪ ♪ Find the magic in not knowing ♪ ♪ Every single answer ♪ ♪ Take a little chance or ♪ ♪ Sing a song and dance inside the ♪ ♪ Space between the answers ♪ ♪ Take a little chance or ♪ ♪ Sing a song and dance inside the ♪ ♪ Space between the answers ♪ ♪ Space between the answers ♪ ♪ Space between the answers ♪ (audience applauding) (upbeat music) - I always wondered what I'd look like with a beard.
(all laughing) - I'm happy to say, you look wonderful.
Get it?
Get it?
(chuckles) (elevator dings) (doors whirring) - Howdy!
Wow.
Nice beard, Zia.
- Gene!
Did you deliver the package to Claire?
- Of course, Albie.
I always get the job done.
(soft music) Do you have any other questions or did you figure it all out?
- I figured out that it's okay not to have all the answers.
It's okay that I don't know our mysterious neighbor, Claire.
It's okay to just wonder.
- Oh!
Do you guys wanna do a wonder wonder?
It's where we take turns wondering about something.
- Yes.
- Okay.
I wonder what it would be like to have big ears like an elephant.
- Ooh.
And I wonder what it would be like to go to a rock concert with my big new ears.
- Ah, ah, I wonder, uh, what it would be like for them to make music for big ears that you could dance to.
- Oh yeah.
(elevator dings) - Huh?
(doors whirring) - [Claire] Hi.
So this is what the elevator looks like.
I've always wondered.
- Oh, hi Claire.
(Claire gasping) (sad whistle playing) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (elevator dings) (door whirring) (people chattering) - Here we go.
Are all you ready?
Drum roll me.
(laughing) Okay, here we go.
What does the lobster say?
The next ticket is 215!
(audience cheering) Billy Giggles, you've won a hot air balloon!
It's waiting outside.
The next winner is zero, a four, a two.
- Oh my goodness.
That's me.
- It's you.
Yes.
You've won the giant monkey.
Is it big?
Is it small?
Is it big?
Is it small?
Is it big?
It's a giant primate to you, Paisley.
Enjoy.
Bye-bye monkey.
Thanks for being my friend.
- Oh, hi.
Welcome to my elevator.
If your ticket is picked, you win a prize.
It's called a raffle.
Mm-mm.
Time to make sure the elevator is ready.
Tibitz?
- [Tibitz] Ready, Albie!
- Elevator buttons, ready?
- [Tibitz] Elevator buttons are colorful, shiny, and activated.
Ready!
- Duck, duck, goose, ready?
- [Tibitz] Duck, duck, (duck quacking) goose!
(goose honking) Ready, Albie!
- Pep Talk, ready?
- [Tibitz] Pep Talk, you can do anything.
- (gasping) I can do anything!
I am ready for the day.
- [Jay] We have another winner!
(audience cheering) (Albie gasping) - The raffle!
Who wants a hat?
Who wants a hat?
Who wants a hat?
Who wants a hat?
You've won a rancher hat from Neighbor Eagles Haberdashery.
(laughing) - Wow!
An original Rico!
(audience cheering and clapping) - I know.
Great job.
- That is your jacket.
- Only one raffle left.
- Oh, the last raffle.
- Huggy Pepper, let's spin that raffle basket!
(Jay laughing) The winning ticket.
Who's a winner?
Who's a winner?
Who's a winner?
Is chicken dinner, chicken dinner, chicken dinner.
Ticket number three.
A three, a three.
(triumphant music) - 333!
I have it!
I have the ticket!
(fireworks bursting) - The winner is elevator, elevator, elevator.
Albie!
- Way to go, Albie!
- Ha, ha!
I won the key to the city!
A trip to the moon!
A lady bug that plays piano.
- Your prize is (drum rolling) (bird squawKs) clay!
- Clay,?
- This raffle is over.
Gavel, gavel, gavel, gavel.
(audience cheering) - That's what I call a raffle.
- Have a nice one.
Enjoy that prize.
I like your hat.
Bye-bye now.
Bye-bye.
Thank you for coming.
Bye-bye.
Congrats, Albie.
- I got mud.
- A special kind of mud.
It's clay!
- Mud.
- This was the prize I brought to the raffle.
- This is your mud?
- Now it's our mud.
(laughing) - What did Huggy Pepper win?
(upbeat music) - Scoobie dooba.
- Scuba diving gear.
Hey Huggy, don't you wanna trade me for this bag of mud instead?
- Hmm.
Scoobie, dooba.
Whoo!
- Aw.
(water splashing) - Albie, what's wrong?
- This isn't the raffle prize I wanted.
- This might not be the prize you wanted to win, but it's still really cool.
- Aw.
(sad music) Can I have something else?
- That's not how a raffle works.
This is your prize.
- Oh, oh!
Maybe I could get someone to trade with me.
(drum rolling) Destination someone who wants mud!
- Clay!
- Yeah, sure.
(hand thuds) (upbeat music) - [Tibitz] Starling mode activate, Albie!
♪ Powering up, up, up, up ♪ ♪ (indistinct) soon ♪ ♪ Location locked on.
♪ - [Tibitz] Swimmy swirlers swirling.
- [Both] Swirly, swirly, swirly.
♪ Powering down, down, down ♪ - [Tibitz] We have arrived.
(elevator dings) - Oh, hi, Albie.
Hi, Jay.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Do you like bags of mud?
- (laughing) I do.
I love clay.
You can make anything with it.
Anything?
- Anything.
- Can I trade you my bag of mud for something amazing?
- What if I told you you could make something amazing out of clay?
- Amazing mud.
- Could you show us?
- Let's do it.
(upbeat music) I'm gonna make something outta clay with my kid Henrick.
- Hi, Albie.
- Hi.
- We use the pottery wheel to make things like cups, mugs, bowls, bottles, or vases.
Anything that's round in shape we could do on a wheel.
The wheel spins the clay around and we use our hands to shape it.
What would you like to make, Albie?
- A mug for hot chocolate!
Mm-hm.
- Let's try it.
- I'm gonna take this clay.
Help me throw it on.
Throw it right in the middle.
Alright, now we're gonna get the wheel moving.
What we need to do next is make sure the clay's really well attached.
So I'm gonna take both hands and squeeze down onto it.
- Whoa.
- Alright, put your finger right here.
You're gonna push down real hard.
Drill a hole right in the center.
- Oh my.
- Keep pushing, keep pushing, keep pushing.
All right.
Now pull it towards you.
Open that piece up.
- Oh!
What?
Whoa.
Here, grab this.
Put it right there.
Push it in.
- Whoa.
- Get rid of some of the clay from the bottom here.
- That's actually a cool cup.
- Does this look like a good mug shape?
- [Henrick] Yeah.
- And the next step is we have to add a handle.
- That's the important part of our cup.
- Alright, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna wrap this around my hand to get a nice shape.
We'll get a little bit of water here.
Start at the bottom, push that in.
Do the same with the top.
And we got a handle.
What do you think?
- Ta-da!
- We made the clay into a new shape.
- Wow!
- Once the shape is done, you have to let the clay dry.
Fire it once, and then?
- It looks like this.
(mug clinks) - Whoa.
- You can color your mug with glaze.
So the glaze is a mixture of different chemicals and colorants in a big bucket.
We can mix it up and either dip the piece in there or we can paint it on with a brush.
- Yeah.
- Let's get that off.
And then we need to mix this bucket up.
(drill whirring) Hold the tongs.
I'm gonna dip it real quick.
All the way down.
Lift it up, pour out the excess.
- [Albie] Hmm.
- The next step is to put the piece inside the kiln.
The inside of these kilns get very hot.
It actually fuses the clay together, so it's hard.
And that's where we get all the colors from the glaze.
The inside of that kiln gets to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Wow.
That's hot!
- After the kiln, the clay goes from this... - To this.
- A mud mug!
- An amazing mud mug.
This started as just a piece of clay.
Remember?
- Oh yeah.
- So Albie, what can I trade you for your bag of clay?
- Hmm.
Actually, I wanna keep it.
- You're gonna have a lot of fun.
Bye, Albie.
Bye, Jay.
Make something cool.
- Bye.
- Bye.
(soft music) - Albie, you kept the clay.
What made you change your mind?
- This bag of clay can be anything!
- From a bag of mud to a flower bud.
- From a bunch of clay to a can of hairspray.
- From a bag of muck to a royal duck.
(both laughing) - Hm.
I'm sorry I didn't want it before.
- Oh.
Oh.
I know the clay wasn't the prize you expected.
- Uh-uh.
- But the reason I'm excited you won this is because it means you and I can make something together.
Even if it was just a bag of mud.
It will be our bag of mud.
(both laughing) - You're my mud bud.
- Oh, you're my mud bud too.
What do you say, Albie?
- Let's make anything!
- Yes.
- Yay!
(upbeat music) - Sometimes you just need your hands to make something out of clay.
I made a key to the city.
(Albie gasping) - How do I make a lady bug?
- Ooh.
I take a piece of clay and roll it in between my hands like this to make a ball.
- Whoa.
- Oh.
- Then I'll use this tool to make polka dots.
- Yeah.
(Albie grunting) Good job, Albie.
(Huggy chattering) - It's a lady bug!
- Wow.
- That looks amazing.
(Albie chuckles) - Thanks for spending time with me today.
You can make anything out of clay.
My raffle prize was the best because I got to play with my friends.
- Albie, check it out.
Huggy Pepper made a giant clay monkey.
- Jooba, scoobie, adooba.
- The clay monkey is scuba diving!
- Ooh, scuba monkey dive a monkey, scuba monkey dive a monkey, water, water, water, splash!
Try it.
- Oh, um, uh, clay mug, monkey mug.
Clay, clay, clay, monkey mug.
Clay, clay, clay, mug.
- Ooh, Albie, let's have a raffle to give away the clay monkey.
- Ah, let's do it.
- Okay everybody, if you want that giant clay monkey, give a big wiggle.
Lemme see you wiggle, lemme see you wiggle.
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