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Grandma trusts Phoebe and Jay to look after the community garden's first bell pepper until it ripens from green to orange. Using a moisture meter, a watering can and plenty of patience, the children keep the soil just right through sun and rain while shooing a hungry squirrel named Harold. When they realize Harold only wants the pepper because his own food got soaked, they build him a dry home for his acorns. The pepper ripens, they pick it, and share a salad with a neighbor.

S01 E06

Phoebe & Jay

Jay's Fit

Siblings Phoebe and Jay are getting ready for a big family photo for their apartment building's neighbor wall. After spilled hair gel stains Dad's tie and Jay slips into a muddy puddle, the children head to the building's Pass-It-On table to put together a new outfit. Phoebe acts as Jay's stylist, and with help from neighbor Manny they learn to read the size tags on clothing to find pants, a jacket, and a shirt that fit. The family finally gathers for the photo at the end.

S01 E05

Phoebe & Jay

Birthday Dance Surprise

Phoebe, a young girl living at the Topsy Towers apartment community, hears Grandma Annie's favourite song and decides to make up a surprise dance for her grandmother's birthday. She teaches the three-part dance to her brother Jay, her friend Lupe, neighbour Mr. Gurley and her dad, finding a different way to help each one learn, from turning the steps into a song to recording a video they can slow down and drawing pictures of each move. The family keeps the dance a secret while they practise. At the party, everyone performs it together and Grandma Annie calls it the best birthday surprise ever.

S14 E02

Curious George

Ladybugs!

George is given a bag of ladybugs at Flora's plant stand and wants to keep them on his newly planted tomato. When they keep flying off, he tries setting out water and gathering flowers, then mistakes striped potato beetles for yellow ladybugs and puts them on his plant. Flora spots the chewed leaves, identifies the beetles, and together they count and remove all ten before releasing them in the woods. The episode closes with George's plant safe and the family sharing a picnic supper in the garden.

S01 E15

Alma's Way

Alma's Rescue Repair

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.

S01 E02

Phoebe & Jay

Paint on the Mail

Siblings Phoebe and Jay live in an apartment building called Tobsy Towers with their dad and grandma. When wet paint smears the addresses on two packages, the family delivers them by reading the leftover clues, floor numbers, apartment letters, and wayfinding signs, meeting several neighbors along the way. They reach the right doors, make new friends, and learn that a kind neighbor named Mr. Gurley never gets any mail. The episode ends with the children hand-delivering him a gift that blends their two favorite games.

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 E04

Work It Out Wombats

Measure for Measure

Three young wombats and their animal neighbors take on a project that requires measuring and comparing sizes. They try several ways to measure, notice when an approach does not work, and adjust until they find one that does. Most of the action takes place outdoors in their leafy treehouse community, with a short stop at a small shop. The story ends with the friends solving the problem together.

S01 E08

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Arcade

After Moose wins a box of muffins at the café, he and Mouse head to the neighbourhood arcade with their friends, only to find it closing for repairs. Moose decides to build a homemade arcade in the backyard, and the friends craft games out of flower pots, cardboard boxes and a bucket. They test the games on Henry, discover they are too easy, and rework them with obstacles and traps until they feel just right. The episode ends with the finished arcade opened up to visitors from the community center and the show's closing theme song.

S01 E03

Handy Manny

Stretch's Cookies

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.

S01 E01

Pretzel and the Puppies

Make Your Bark

In the town of Montgomery, the Doxie family of dachshunds, parents Greta and Pretzel and their five pups, walk Mom to her job as mayor and notice a dull, blank wall that no dog wants to be near. Paxton suggests painting a mural, the city council votes to approve it, and the pups gather paint and try out designs at home. When they cannot agree on a single picture, they decide to let every dog add a paw print instead. The wall fills with colourful prints, dogs gather to play nearby, and Paxton is proud to have 'made his bark.'

S13 E02

Curious George

Hoop Dupe