Wubbzy's ABCs

Wubbzy's ABCs  is the sixth episode of the first season of Wubbzy's Clues.

Summary
James and Wubbzy have some fun reading, and we play Wubbzy's Clues to figure out what book Wubbzy wants to read.

Transcript
(The door opens and we see James, holding a book in his right hand, as well as the Thinking Chair, which has a label, same with the drawer next to it and the picture frame on the wall.)

James: Oh, hi! I'm just...reading. (turns to his book and reads) "The boys watched as the guards went into the cave and, seconds later, reapp-" (looks back at the viewers) Oh, I'm sorry. (chuckles) It's just that this is a really great book I'm reading. (turns the book around, showing its cover) It's "The Mark On The Door", the 13th book in the Hardy Boys mystery novel series that I like. Oh, right, we're having reading time. You're just in time! Come on in! (walks towards the bedroom, where Wubbzy is seen reading another book and more things have labels. There is also a picture of James and Wubbzy making the letter "A" with their arms) Hey, Wubbzy! W-U-B-B-Z-Y! Look who's here!

(James turns around, and we see that his name has been written on the back of his shirt)

Viewer: James!

James: (turns around, walks back towards the audience) Yeah?

Viewer: On your shirt!

James: (looks down, then back up, then realizes what's going on) Oh! (clears his throat, turns around, and points to each letter in his name as he spells it out.) J-A-M-E-S. James. That's me! (turns back around) It's my new shirt, you like it? (goes over to Wubbzy) Hey, Wubbzy, what are you reading?

Wubbzy: Wow, wow, James! Wow, wow, everyone! I'm reading "Hey, Diddle, Diddle". Wanna read it with me?

James: Sure. Let's read it together!

(James sits on the floor next to Wubbzy, who gives him the book.)

James: Alright, here we go. (points to each word as he reads it) "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the cat and the..." (stops at the word "Fiddle") What's that word?

Viewer (with Wubbzy): "Fiddle".

James: "Fiddle", right. (continues reading and pointing) "The cow jumped over the..." (stops at the word "Moon") What's that word?

Viewer (again, with Wubbzy): "Moon".

James: "Moon", right. (continues reading and pointing) "The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon". (closes the book) Good reading, Wubbzy. And you, too. (sets the book down and picks up his Hardy Boys book) Hey, Wubbzy, do you wanna read this book now?

Wubbzy: No, thank you.

James: Are you sure? I mean, the Hardy Boys is very intriguing. I think you might like them.

Wubbzy: Positive.

James: Oh, okay. Well, what book do you want to read?

Wubbzy: You'll have to play Wubbzy's Clues to figure it out.

(Wubbzy rushes forward and puts a handprint on the screen.)

James: (rushes forward himself) I knew that was coming. We'll play Wubbzy's Clues to figure out what book W-U-B-B-Z-Y, Wubbzy, wants to read! (music starts) 🎵We are gonna play Wubbzy's Clues because it's really fun. Yeah!🎵 (music stops) So, remember, Wubbzy's handprints will be on the clues, Wubbzy's Clues. Hey, what letter does "handprint" begin with?

Viewer: An "H"!

James: "H", right. (writes an "H" on the handprint with his finger) There.

(The handprint grows two legs and walks off the screen)

James: Hey, did you see that? That handprint just hiked right out. And you know, "hiked" starts with "H", just like "handprint". That's cool. You know what we need for Wubbzy's Clues, our?

Viewers: Notebook!

James: Notebook, right, come on.

(James goes over to the drawer)

James: Let's open the drawer and see what's inside. (opens the drawer and takes out his notebook) Here it is! (sees something on the back and turns it around, revealing a label with the word "Notebook" on the back cover) Hey, "notebook" starts with "N"! (stands up) You know, I think I'm really gonna need your extra help today. Think you can help me figure out what book Wubbzy wants to read? You will? Great! Let's go! (starts walking while holding his book and singing) 🎵We are reading for Wubbzy's Clues (x3) I wonder....🎵 (He walks past a table showing an open book with a picture of a mouse that has a yellow handprint on it) I wonder what this word is...

Viewer: A clue, a clue!

James: No, no I don't think it's "clue". Clue is "C-L-U-E", kinda like "blue", but with a "C".

Viewer: No, a clue!

James: (closes his book) Oh! Oh, you see a clue! Where?

Viewer: Over there!

James: (turns around and sees the mouse clue) Oh my! It's our first clue to what book Wubbzy wants to read! (goes over to it) Our first clue! And it's on the word...the word...

Viewer: Mouse!

James: "Mouse". Right, good reading! Hey, you know what we need; our Useful Friendly...(pulls out his Hardy Boys book) Notebook! (realizes his mistake, puts it back, and pulls out his notebook) Notebook! (opens it up and takes out the crayon) Alright, let's draw this mouse clue in our notebook. So, "mouse" is spelled "M-O-U-S-E". Then we draw an oval shape for the body, two semicircles for ears, dots for the eyes and nose, lines for the whiskers, and a long squiggly line for the tail. A mouse. Wow. So what book could Wubbzy want to read with a mouse in it? What do you think? Yeah, I think we need to find two more clues to figure this out.

Butterbean (offscreen): James, do you need anything?

(James makes a "follow me" gesture with his hand and walks into the kitchen.)

James: Do I need anything? Well, I've got my book, I've-(bumps into the counter) Oop! (chuckles, then puts his book on the counter) I could use two more clues.

(James continues walking, and meets up with Butterbean, who is holding a basket in one hand and a piece of paper in the other)

James: Hi, Butterbean. Were you calling me?

Butterbean: Yes, James. Do you need groceries?

James: Groceries, sure.

(Madame Butterfly enters, pushing Catrina in her leaf stroller.)

Madame Butterfly: Hi, James. Uh, we may need your help with our grocery list.

James: Hi, Madame Butterfly. Hi, Catrina.

(Madame Butterfly holds Catrina up in the air and James tickles the Catrina, making her giggle.)

Catrina: Catrina hungry!

Madame Butterfly: Oh, we better hurry. (puts Catrina back in her stroller)

(Butterbean hands James the paper, and its revealed to be a shopping list with the words "Milk", "Bread", and "Juice" written on it)

James: Do you think we can help Madame Butterfly and Butterbean with their grocery list?

(Although the viewers make no response, James assumes they say yes and gives a thumbs-up in response.)

Catrina: Hungry, hungry, hungry!

(The trio move on, with Madame Butterfly pushing Catrina in the stroller, and stop at a cupboard that has a carton of eggs and a carton of milk on the top shelf and a box of cereal underneath on the bottom shelf. All three items are labeled as such)

James: Let's see what we need to find from this list. (points to the word "Milk") Let's find this first. Do you see this item?

Viewer: That one!

James: You found this item! What is it?

Viewer: Milk!

Butterbean: Milk, just what we were looking for. (puts the milk in the basket)

James: Milk, check. (checks the milk off the list) See? (points to the word "Milk" again) Milk. Good job!

Catrina: Catrina hungry!

Butterbean: What's next on our list?

(They move on, and stop at a second cupboard. This one has a loaf of bread and a brownie on the top shelf and a banana and a pineapple on the bottom shelf. Like the items from the first cupboard, each item is labeled as such.)

James: Well, let's see. (points to the word "Bread") Do you see this item?

Viewer: Over there!

James: Oh, you see this item! What is it?

Viewer: Bread!

Madame Butterfly: Bread, for our peanut butter sandwiches! (puts it in the basket)

James: Right, bread, check. (checks the bread off the list and points to the aforementioned word again)

Catrina: Bread. Now?

Butterbean: Soon, Catrina. Almost done!

(They move on, and stop at a third cupboard, which has a bottle of water and another carton of milk on the top shelf and a carton of juice and a jar of jam on the bottom shelf. Like the items from teh first and second cupboards, each item is labeled as such.)

James: Okay. Well, do we have anything else on our list? (points to the word "Juice" as Catrina falls asleep) Do you see this one?

Viewers: That one!

James: Oh, yeah. What is it?

Viewers: Juice!

Butterbean: Juice, Catrina's favorite! (puts the juice in the basket)

James: Right, juice. (checks it off, points to the aforementioned word on the list) You are so good at this reading business!

Catrina: Catrina want juice.

James: Well, I think that's everything. (points to each item as he calls it out) Milk, bread, juice.

Catrina: Juice, juice.

Madame Butterfly: (gives Catrina a bottle filled with some of the juice) Here, Catrina.

(Catrina giggles as she happily drinks the juice)

James: So, do you think Catrina is hungry?

(Catrina holds the empty bottle)

James: Yup. Hey, do you see any clues around here? (assumes the viewers haven't seen any) Me neither. We'll have to keep looking! (turns to Madame Butterfly, Butterbean, and Catrina) Bye!

(James walks on, holding his book)

James: Hey, did you know that "book" starts with "B"? (walks past the back door) Oh, and "door" starts with "D". (walks past some curtains) And "curtain" starts with "C". (He walks past a bulletin board that has pictures of a cookie, a cake, and a cantaloupe, all labeled as such. The cookie picture, unknown to him, has a yellow handprint on it)

James: And look at that! "Cookie"! "Cookie" also starts with "C", and so does "cake" and "caterpillar" and... (wanders offscreen while thinking of more words that start with "C")

Viewer: (cuts James off) A clue!

James: (comes back) Yes, yes, "clue"! "Clue" also starts with "C"! And so does "carburetor", and "cantaloupe", and "calculator", and "calamari"! (wanders offscreen again, thinking of even more words that start with "C")

Viewers: No, a clue!

James: (comes back) Did you see a clue? Where?

Viewer: On the cookie!

James: (turns around and sees the cookie clue) There's a clue on that cookie! They both start with "C"! You know what we need; our Useful Friendly?

Viewers: Notebook!

James: (takes out his notebook) Notebook. (takes out the crayon, opens up the notebook, and turns over his mouse drawing) Okay, let's draw this cookie...in our Clue Collector. Ha! So, "cookie" is spelled "C-O-O-K-I-E". then we draw a big circle with some smaller circles inside for chocolate chips. And there's a cookie! So, what was our first clue?

Viewers: "Mouse"!

James: Oh, a mouse, right. And now we have a cookie. Hmm...so what book could Wubbzy wanna read with a mouse and a cookie? What do you think? Yeah, and I think we should find our last clue. (hears George's whistle) And we should get the mail. (realizes what he just said) Oh!

(James darts off to the door, opens it, and finds George waiting.)

George: Hiya, J-A-M-E-S.

James: James! That's me! Hey, George. Have you got a letter for us?

George: I have lots of letters for you.

(James gasps in excitement as George gives him the letters, but he quickly learns they're not the kind of letters he's thinking of. In fact, it's three wooden sculptures of the letters "A", "B", and "C".)

James: Oh, letters! Of the alphabet! (laughs) I get it!

George: And here's another one. (gives him an envelope)

James: Thanks, George.

George: Bye! (leaves)

James: That George, he's so funny, you think? And we just got a letter! 🎵We just got a letter (x3)...I wonder who it's from.🎵 (opens up the envelope) Oh, look! It's a letter from Emma Wiggle!

(The video letter, which is the YouTube video below, plays) James: Bye! (puts the envelope down) Wow, how great was that?

(Wubbzy then appears on the right side of the screen, holding a piece of paper with the letter "W" on it.)

James: You see Wubbzy?

Viewer: Right there!

James: Oh, over here! Okay! O.K. Okay.

(James walks from the Thinking Chair and walks to the bedroom, reading his book on the way.)

James: (reading, barely audible) "The three darted toward the entrance but halted abruptly when they saw the shadows of three men on the ground outside..."

(James walks past the bookshelf, and fails to notice a book moving on one of the shelves at first, but then he comes back, looks at the moving book, and looks back at the viewers as he closes his own book.)

James: Did you see that? That book is moving!

Viewer: Wubbzy! I see him!

James: Ohh, you see Wubbzy.

(James goes over to the shelf and crouches down in front of it, looking for Wubbzy, who then jumps out from behind the shelf, causing the book he was moving to fall out and open up.)

Wubbzy: Ta-da!

James: Ah-ha! Found ya!

(Wubbzy does his skidoo dance and skidoos into the book)

James: Ah-ha! Skidoo, Wubbzy skidoo! (puts down his book) Hey, let's go too! (does his own skidoo dance) 🎵Wubbzy skidoo, we can too!🎵

(James skidoos into the book)

James: Hey, we're in a storybook! Let's go read!

(James walks towards a scrambled sentence that has his name and Wubbzy's name underneath it)

James: Alright. So, where should I go?

Viewers: Right there!

James: Oh, yes. Right there, where it says "J-A-M-E-S", "James", because, that's me. (sits on the spot marked by his name as Wubbzy sits on the spot with his name.)

Wubbzy: And I can go here, where it says "W-U-B-B-Z-Y", "Wubbzy", because, that's me.

James: Okay, let's take a look at this sentence. (reads the sentence, pointing to each syllable) "the ball. threw A boy."

Wubbzy: Huh?

James: Wait a minute. "the ball. threw A boy?"

(An animation based on that scrambled sentence is played, where the ball throws the boy)

Viewers: No!

James: No, that doesn't make any sense.

Wubbzy: Nope, it really doesn't.

James: How can we fix this sentence? Hmm...Who threw the ball?

Viewer: A boy!

(The "A boy" and "the ball." parts of the sentence switch places so that the sentence reads "A boy threw the ball.")

James: "A boy threw the ball."

(An animation based on the now corrected sentence plays.)

James: Yeah, great! That was good reading!

(The first sentence slides to the left off screen, and another scrambled sentence appears in its place)

James: Ha ha! there's more to the story.

Wubbzy: Yep.

James: Okay, let's read this sentence, too. (reads the sentence, pointing to each syllable like with the first one) "A ball. caught the kitten". Ah, ooh. Wait a sec, there's something wrong with this sentence. "A ball. caught the kitten"?

(An animation based on the sentence showcasing the kitten jumping into the ball's arms plays)

Viewers: No!

James: Well, how can we fix this sentence so that it makes sense? (reads out loud) "A kitten..." What did a kitten do?

Viewer: Caught the ball?

(The "kitten" and "the ball." parts of the sentence switch places so that the sentence reads "A kitten caught the ball.", and an animation based on the now corrected sentence showcasing the kitten catching the ball plays)

James: Wow! That's perfect! Because I was wondering who caught the ball if the boy threw it.

(The sentence slides away and a third scrambled sentence appears)

James: Oh, there's more to the story.

Wubbzy: Yup.

James: Yeah, let's read. (reads the sentence out loud, once again pointing to each syllable) "kitten snack. The and the ate a boy". Wow...Oh, my, that doesn't make any sense.

Wubbzy: Nope.

James: Okay. Well, do you think "the ate a boy" is a sentence?

Viewer: No!

James: No, because that's just plain silly. Well, who do you think "ate a snack"?

Viewer: The boy!

James: The boy?

Viewer: And the kitten!

James: Oh, the boy and the kitten. Okay, let me get this straight.

(The sentence rearranges itself so that is says "The boy and the kitten ate a snack.")

James: "The boy and the kitten ate a snack."

(An animation based on the now corrected sentence showcasing the boy drinking from a box of juice and the kitten eating an apple is shown)

James: Wow! What a sentence! What a story! (does a thumbs-up gesture) Great job!

Wubbzy: Hey, James, let's read the whole story!

James: Great idea, buddy!

(The sentences slides away and all three sentences stacked on top of another appear at once)

James: (reads) "A boy threw the ball. A kitten caught the ball. The boy and the kitten ate a snack.".

(As James reads the sentence, an animation based on all three sentences plays, then Wubbzy pushes the three sentences out of the way and the words "The" and "End" appear)

James: "The End". Wow, that was a great story. I wonder what they had for snack.

(A carton of milk on top of the word "Milk" appears next to James)

Viewer: It's a clue!

James: (stands up) A clue?! Right here in our storybook?! Where?

(James then sees it)

James: Ohhh. What word is that? M-I-L-K. Milk. Oh, that's the word "Milk"! And look, there's a carton of milk on top of it! You know what we need; our Useful Friendly?

Viewers: Notebook!

James: (takes out his notebook) Notebook, right! (takes out the crayon, opens it up, and turns over the drawings of the first and second clues) Okay, so, milk. Milk is spelled "M-I-L-K". Then we draw a triangle with some lines to the side and on top of it for the carton, rectangles for the sides, and a drawing of a cow's head. And there, we have milk. (realizes) Milk is our third clue! You know what that means? We're ready for our...

Viewers: Thinking chair!

James: Right, let's go!

(James jumps down from his name seat, goes over to the book, and skidoos back home after Wubbzy does so, then runs to the Thinking Chair and sits down.)

James: Okay, now that we're in our Thinking Chair, let's...(takes out his notebook) think. So, what book could Wubbzy want to read? (opens up his notebook) Our clues are a mouse, a cookie, and milk. So what book could Wubbzy want to read with a mouse, a cookie, and milk. Well, what if in this book, the mouse ate the cookie? Yeah, and maybe the mouse could have milk with the cookie because, well, you gotta have milk if you have cookies. But what book is that?

Viewer: "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"!

James: "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"! Yeah! Because that book is about a mouse that has a cookie and a glass of milk with the cookie! You know, I loved that book when I was a kid. Hey, Wubbzy, do you want to read "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"?

Wubbzy: Yes!

James: We just figured out Wubbzy's Clues! 🎵We sat on down, figured it out, what those clues were all about! Wow, you know what? We're really smart!🎵 Okay, Wubbzy, I'll go get the book.

Wubbzy: Okay!

(Wubbzy heads off to the bedroom, and James soon meets up with him, holding a copy of the book)

James: I've got the book!

Wubbzy: Great.

(Madame Butterfly, Butterbean, and Catrina enter)

Madame Butterfly: Turns out there was one more thing on our list.

Butterbean: "Read a book!"

Catrina: (claps her hands excitedly)

James: Great. So, is everyone ready?

Wubbzy, Butterbean, Madame Butterfly, and Catrina: Yes!

James: Are you ready? Great. Here we go! (clears his throat) "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie".

(James reads the book, and soon he is finished.)

Wubbzy: Wow, that was great!

Butterbean: Yeah! That book was my favorite when I was little!

James: No way!

Butterbean: Way!

Wubbzy: Hey, James, can I read the book again?

James: Sure, bud. (gives Wubbzy the book, then goes back to the living room) Hey, thank you so much for all your help today.

(The music for the "Goodbye Song" starts, but before James starts singing, he drops a small ball, which in turn bounces on the lyrics as he sings)

James: 🎵Come on, won't you help me say so long?

Everybody sing the goodbye song!

Ready? Here we go!

Bye! Goodbye!

See you later, sweet potato!

Bye-bye!

See you real soon.🎵

James: Thanks again for coming! See you again soon!

The End