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Nancy falls in love with a pair of forty-dollar red shoes and is told by both parents that they cost too much for shoes she cannot wear every day. After learning the difference between a want and a need, she decides to earn the money herself through extra chores like weeding the garden and saving her piggy bank money. At the store she is caught out by sales tax and comes up short, then earns a tip by giving another shopper honest shoe advice. She finally has enough and buys the red shoes.

S01 E02

Helpsters

Astronaut Amrita

The Helpsters, a team of puppets who run a problem-solving help shop, are asked by astronaut Amrita to deliver a birthday present to her friend Pete before she launches to the moon. They make a plan with four jobs, find out that Pete lives in a red house near the park, read a map, and give step-by-step directions to reach his door. Along the way they travel through a real city and ask neighbours for help. When they arrive, Pete opens the box to find a party, and the group celebrates completing their plan.

S01 E06

Helpsters

Wayne of Wonder

Wayne, a window washer, decides he wants to become a magician but does not know a single trick. The helpsters, a group of problem-solving monsters, make a three-step plan: find a magician, watch a trick, and learn to do it. They meet Dazzling Deandra at a laundromat, who teaches them about patterns and performs the Tube of Wonder before disappearing. By working out the hidden steps together, Wayne performs the trick himself and is invited to join Deandra's show.

S01 E03

Helpsters

Singing Starlett

The Helpsters, monsters who run a shop for solving problems, meet the Singing Starlet, who could not sleep because of construction noise and has a concert the next day. They make a plan and split into three jobs: a custom pillow, a bedtime story, and a bear to snuggle. Along the way they choose a pillow color by ruling out options, reorder the mixed-up pages of a knight-and-dragon story, and sort out which kind of bear she meant. She finally falls asleep, wakes up rested, and is delighted to find she can sing again.

S01 E04

Helpsters

Rita Reader

Rita Reader visits the helpsters Cody, Scatter and Heart because she dropped her favourite book in the bath and never learned how it ends. The team makes a three-part plan, goes to a large public library, and with a librarian's help sorts books by make-believe versus real, then by space theme, then by the cactus, lasso and balloon on the cover. They find a fresh copy of 'Sunny Rodeo Space Cowboy' and read the finale, in which Sunny throws a second lasso to catch the cactus and save the balloon planet. The episode closes with the group singing softly in the library about high fives and handshakes.

S01 E30

Donkey Hodie

The Potato Stand

Donkey Hodie and Purple Panda set up a potato stand in the puppet world of Someplace Else to share Donkey's home-grown potatoes with the neighbours. They try a potato call, a song and a disco dance, but every neighbour already has potatoes and complains about the long job of washing, drying and sorting them. The friends change their plan and use Grampy's potato washer-dryer-sorter-dumper machine to do that chore for everyone instead. The neighbours are grateful, and Donkey ends the day feeling potato proud, just like Grampy.

S01 E02

Helpsters

Dancer Dave

Cody and the Helpsters, a team of helpful monsters, run a shop where they solve visitors' problems. When Dancer Dave arrives unable to think of a new dance for a special show, the Helpsters make a plan with two jobs: choose a song and create a dance. Scatter narrows a whole room of records down to one by matching Dave's clues, while Mr. Prim builds the dance and learns to repeat moves using a loop. Joined by Heart, Dave performs his new dance for his mom, and everyone celebrates that the plan solved the problem.

S01 E05

Helpsters

Barbara Birdwatcher

Barbara, a birdwatcher, visits the Helpsters' help shop because she has seen every bird except the yellow warbler. The team makes a three-part plan: learn the bird's call, find where it lives, and call it to them. They practise the call, read that the bird lives near trees, grass and water, and take a walking tour until they find a real park with all three. Waiting quietly behind a bush, they call out and spot the warbler, completing Barbara's list, then celebrate with a song about the difference a plan makes.

S01 E09

Phoebe & Jay

Fire Drill

Siblings Phoebe and Jay, with their dad, grandmother, a young friend named Lupe and Fire Inspector Josie, learn about fire safety in their apartment building, Topsy Towers. They find safety tools, learn what exit signs and the emergency exit are for, and build a family fire safety plan with three steps: stop, exit, and wait at a meeting place. When Lupe is frightened by the loud alarm, a grandmother teaches a calming breathing trick. The family practices the drill, completes all three steps, and receives Safety Squad badges.

S02 E01

Rosie's Rules

The New Park

Rosie, a curious girl, and her friends spend the day at a neighborhood park with a slide, swings and climbing equipment. When sharing the play space gets crowded, Rosie sets out to work out fair ways for everyone to take turns, using her imagination to picture how a park can serve a whole community. Her friends add their own ideas, and together they settle on a plan. By the end the children are playing together happily.

S02 E02

Puffin Rock

The Fallen Rocks

recommended age co-watching from 4

On a calm Irish island, the young puffin Una and her baby brother Baba discover that fallen rocks have trapped their neighbour Bernie inside his grotto. Una gathers Mae the rabbit, Mossy the shrew and even the red crabs, and after a shaky start works out a plan so each animal moves rocks in the way they do best. Together they clear the pile and free Bernie, who happily heads straight back into his cave. A narrator guides the events and closes by praising the friends for their hard work.

S01 E07

Donkey Hodie

A Lot of Hot!