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Fort Yaber

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Phoebe and Jay are siblings who want to surprise their friend Manny by building a pillow fort while he is away doing chores. Using a diagram Manny drew, they gather blankets, pillows and couch cushions, but their first attempt collapses because they ignore the order of the steps. With encouragement from their dad, they realize the numbers on the diagram show the sequence, rebuild the fort correctly, and add their own touches to make it bigger. Manny returns to find the finished fort, and the family wraps up with a playful pretend gator chase.

The Thumbsucker

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Jessica, a young girl living with her family, realises she sucks her thumb without noticing and decides to stop so she can do 'big kid things'. Over one afternoon at home she tries a string of plans, a mitten, sour and yucky flavours, even wrapping herself up, and fails each time before asking her dad and uncle for help. Her uncle suggests keeping her hands busy, and she starts coloring to redirect the urge. By the next TV night she gets through a whole show without sucking her thumb and her brother tells her he is proud of her.

Slumber Party

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Hank, a young boy, hosts his first slumber party with his three friends: Trash Truck, a bear named Donny and a raccoon named Walter. They tour his bedroom, eat pizza, wash up, watch a bit of TV and then settle into a tent in the backyard. When the dark turns out to be too much, they wake Hank's parents and finish the night in the big bed.

Headlice

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A boy named Eddie notices his head is itchy at breakfast, school, and the playground, and two expert characters explain that he has head lice. Across scenes at home, his mum, dad, and grandma check his hair and treat it with special shampoo, spray, conditioner, and a fine-tooth comb. The combing has to be repeated over several days before the lice are finally gone. The episode ends with Eddie itch-free and heading out to play, with a reminder that lice can come back and that he now knows what to do.

Daddy Loses His Glasses

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Daddy Pig cannot find his glasses and grows grumpy because everything looks fuzzy without them. Peppa and George search the family home, checking under the newspaper, on the television, in the bedroom and in the bathroom, but come up empty. In the end Daddy Pig discovers he was sitting on the glasses the whole time. The family laughs it off and his good mood returns.

Mummy Pig at Work

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Mummy Pig has important work to do on her computer while Daddy Pig makes soup for lunch. Peppa and George climb onto Mummy's lap to watch, but Peppa touches the keyboard and the computer stops working. Daddy Pig switches it off and on again to mend it, then the children play the Happy Mrs Chicken game, counting eggs as they take turns. The episode ends with the family together and the computer running again.

Nancy's Dog Show Disaster

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After watching a televised dog show, Nancy decides her poodle Frenchy could win one too and organizes a contest in her backyard with her Plainfield friends. She trains Frenchy for the obedience and special-skills rounds, but he keeps running off and refusing commands, so she quietly enters Mrs. Devine's well-trained poodle Jewel in his place. When Frenchy bounds back mid-event, the judges disqualify Nancy for showing two dogs, and Bree and her dog Waffles win the trophy. Nancy hugs Frenchy and tells him he is still the best dog in the world.