Repairing

Alma's Rescue Repair

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Alma, a girl from the Bronx, watches her Papi head off to rescue a squirrel and decides to start her own service, 'Alma's Rescue Repair.' She fixes a friend's wind-blown music stand and a neighbour's tomato tower, but hauling her tools back and forth is tiring and they keep falling off her wagon. After seeing how Mr. Ramirez keeps all his tools in his shoe shop, Alma sets up her repair service at home so people come to her. The episode ends with her helping again from her organised home base.

Stretch's Cookies

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Manny and his team of talking tools drive through their town and stop to help Mrs. Portillo, whose new oven is too big to fit through her door. She needs it working to bake her ombligos cookies for the town baking contest. The group tries several approaches, the front door, a window, cutting the doorway, and the garage, learning from each failure before measuring the oven and removing a set of doors to wheel it into the kitchen. The episode ends with the oven installed and everyone sharing Mrs. Portillo's cookies.

Rusty's Little Light Lie

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Handy Manny and his talking tools take on a job from Mayor Rosa: filling the new movie theater's marquee with light bulbs for its grand opening. One of the tools, Rusty, accidentally crushes the box of bulbs and then lies about it, saying he was careful. When the sign stays dark, Rusty confesses to Manny and the mayor, and the town pitches in by donating spare bulbs. The episode ends with Rusty switching on the finished, fully lit sign just in time for opening night.

The Ambulance

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Amber the ambulance is damaged and cannot work, and she is the only one in Car City who can treat the sick. Carl, a truck that can rebuild itself, transforms into a large ambulance and drives out to help. He reaches Tom, the yellow tow truck, takes his temperature, checks his throat and listens to his cough, then tells him he has a slight fever from working too hard. Tom is told to rest, thanks Carl, and the two say goodbye.

Rain Rain You Can Stay

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Mi has planned a picnic with his friends Do and Re, but rain arrives over Bebopsburg and thunder frightens him. The friends move the picnic indoors to Do's birdhouse, only to find rain leaking through holes in the roof. They fly out into the storm together, singing to keep their courage up, and cover the roof leaf by leaf. Once the birdhouse is dry, they sit down inside and finally have their picnic.

The Steamroller

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In Car City, Billy the bulldozer and Steve the steamroller are fixing a street full of potholes. Billy fills the holes with gravel, but Steve's roller breaks down and runs out of steam, so Tom the tow truck takes him to the garage. Carl the Super Truck is called in, transforms into a steamroller and flattens the rest of the road. Steve returns repaired, the finished street is admired, and the vehicles thank each other before parting.

Squeeze in a Pinch

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Manny, who runs a repair shop with a set of talking tools, is called to fix the broken school bleachers before a junior league baseball game. When the tool Squeeze accidentally pinches Manny's thumb, she is so upset she refuses to work, convinced she is dangerous. Manny and the other tools cheer her up by admitting their own mistakes, and Squeeze finds the courage to try again and free the stuck bolt. The bleachers are repaired in time, Manny's shop becomes the team's sponsor, and the game ends in a win.

Pet Problem

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Manny, a repairman with a set of talking tools, gets a call from Cassie that the rabbit cage at her pet shop is broken. On the way the tools daydream about getting their own pet, and once at the shop an accident sets all the rabbits loose. Manny keeps everyone calm and they lure the bunnies back with food before fitting a new latch and fixing the cage. By the end the tools decide their robot dog Fix-It is pet enough, since real pets are a lot of work.

Welcome To Sheet Rock Hills

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Manny, a friendly handyman, and his talking tools are called by Mayor Rosa to fix a broken traffic light on Main Street in the town of Sheet Rock Hills. While they work, the pliers Squeeze slips away to grab a coin from a drain, hoping to help buy Manny some new gloves, and gets trapped underground. Manny and the tools weigh several ideas and work together to free her safely, then finish the repair so traffic can flow again. The mayor later surprises Manny with the gloves as a thank-you, which the whole group is eager to try on.

The Sun Truck

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Little Amber hurries through Car City on her way to the fair, where Jerry and the other small cars are choosing which ride to go on first. Just as they pick the Ferris wheel, the power at the fairground cuts out, and Tom cannot fix it alone. The group calls Carl, who returns to his workshop and is fitted with large solar panels. He drives to the fairground, unfolds the panels towards the sun, connects them to the power supply, and the rides light up again so the little cars can carry on.

The Great Qyah Cleanup

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In the Alaska Native village of Qyah, Molly helps with the spring cleanup after winter. When Mr. Rowley's grill turns up broken and missing a part, Molly uses the instruction manual to reassemble it, then goes looking for litter with a friend and finds a mystery piece. After asking several neighbors what it is, she realizes it is the grill's missing regulator dial, which had fallen from her bag and been used as a scarecrow's face out at the dump. She retrieves it, the grill works, and the community cookout goes ahead.

Sticker Shock

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In the Alaskan village, Tui borrows his older brother's label maker and starts naming all his belongings, then labels seats at the shared picnic table so friends know where to sit. When Molly is left with nowhere to sit, the labelling causes a falling out, and the device jams and breaks. The children fix it by following the troubleshooting steps in the instruction manual, and Jay explains that shared spaces belong to everyone. The episode closes with Molly answering a viewer's question and a live-action trip where children go dog sledding.

Nancy Makes Her Mark

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In a suburban front yard, Nancy's dad surprises the family by filling a crack in the walkway with wet cement. Nancy decides to press handprints into it to become memorable like movie stars, then keeps adding footprints and glitter, spoiling the cement each time, with help from her friend Bree and little sister JoJo. When the dog runs through it and ruins everything, Nancy confesses to her dad, who calmly helps patch and redo the prints. Mom comes home to a fixed walkway with the family's prints, and Nancy realises you do not have to be perfect to be remembered.

The Search for Mono

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Dora, Kate and Pablo are handing out donated toys at the Children's Hospital when they meet Miguel, who has lost his stuffed monkey Mono. After helping him calm down enough to remember that Mono fell out of his bag on the train, they follow the trail to the station, meet a room full of forgotten toys in the lost and found, and repair an old locomotive that carries them to the train yard. There they identify the right carriage just as a cleaning robot starts sealing it, and Pablo's soccer kick opens the door in time. Mono goes back to Miguel, and the leftover toys from the lost and found find homes with the other children.

Tool in a China Shop

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Handyman Manny and his talking tools race to Mr. Kumar's china shop, where loose bolts have left the shelves of delicate dishes about to fall. Manny buys wall anchors from Kelly's hardware store and coaches his nervous hammer, Pat, to work slowly so nothing breaks. Pat succeeds and the shelves are saved, and back at the shop Manny finishes a box for his grandfather Abuelito, who thanks them and teaches the tools to play checkers.

The Train

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Troy the freight train is lying on his side and cannot move, but his goods still have to be delivered that day. Carl, a truck who can change shape, is fetched and transformed into a locomotive in a garage, then couples the loaded wagons and sets off through the countryside. He drops one container with Tom, who needs parts to repair the cars of Car City, one with Frank the fire truck, and a package with Matt at the last station. Troy thanks Carl for saving the day and Carl heads home.

Mayor Teeny

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When the town playground falls into disrepair and the busy mayor cannot keep up, a child named Teeny is made 'mayor for the day' and quickly finds the job harder than it looks. As phone calls, a flooding water main and a runaway dog pile up, her friends Goldie and Romeo quietly rebuild the playground to cheer everyone up. The mayor returns, sets the mishaps right and thanks the children for reminding him to make time for fun. The episode ends with the whole group playing together on the fixed seesaw.

Paint Job

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Manny the repairman and his talking tools set out to fix and repaint the town's community center before the local children arrive, while the tools also film a video to teach Manny's nephew about the job. When Manny leaves to fetch painting supplies, the tools ignore his instructions and start painting unprepared, covering the room in a colorful mess. Kelly closes her store to help, and everyone works together to clean up and finish the room properly. The children arrive to a freshly painted space and cheer, and the tools admit they should have prepared first.

Dora in Clockland

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Dora and her friends set up outside the zoo clock to play a concert with the clock animals, but the clock stops because its wind-up key has been taken. Following the monkey through a door, they find themselves in Clockland, where every clock has stopped, and they help a schoolhouse and a tick-tock train along the way while chasing two cuckoo birds. The birds admit they took the key because they are tired of only being allowed to cuckoo, and the group invites them to sing in the concert instead. The key is returned, Dora winds the clock, and everyone performs together while zoo visitors come back.

Tight Squeeze

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Manny and his team of talking tools set out to fix Mrs. Lee's leaky washing machine, tracing the fault to a pipe that needs a new washer and travelling to Kelly's hardware shop to find the right size. Along the way the smallest helpers, the tool Squeeze and Mrs. Lee's son Nelson, both feel too little to be useful. In the end they are the only ones who can reach a tight spot, and the machine is fixed with everyone playing a part. A running side gag has neighbour Mr. Lopart building a cart he refuses to brace, and he ends up riding it away out of control.