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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.

Fishing with Father Bear

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Little Bear and Father Bear set out early to catch the biggest fish in the lake. They pack a picnic, row out in a boat, and Father Bear teaches Little Bear to be his first mate, showing him how to row and cast a line. While they wait, they talk about life at sea, share cookies and imagine what they might catch. They reel in only a small fish, and the day ends with the two of them playing and splashing together in the water.

Glazed Frost

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Two neighbor puppets wake up to a heavy overnight snowfall and decide together to clear it. They start with a quick snowball exchange, then improvise tennis-racket snowshoes, dig out a snowed-in door from both sides, build a small snow plough and sweep a path around the yard. After one neighbor is briefly buried in snow they shake him off and build a giant snowman together, before the sun melts everything by the end of the episode.

Daniel's Picnic

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Daniel Tiger and his friends Prince Wednesday and Miss Elaina meet at the castle, ride the trolley to the clock factory park, and start a picnic with Daniel's dad nearby. After an alphabet snack game, a make-believe ant picnic, and a ball game that ends with the ball getting squashed, a sudden rain forces them inside the clock factory. They notice clocks shaped like a castle and a tiger and decide to hold their picnic indoors. The episode closes with the friends thanking the viewer and a song about turning disappointment into something good.

Zou The Chef

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Zou, a young zebra, decides to bake a cake and draw a card for his mother on Mother's Day. With Grandma's guidance he mixes butter, eggs and flour and ices a finished cake, while his friend Elzee makes a card alongside him. Dad accidentally eats the cake before Mom returns, so Zou attempts a second one alone and ends up covered in flour. Mom comes home, helps him clean up and finish a new cake, and the episode ends with the whole family wishing each mother in the house a happy Mother's Day.

Birthday Dance Surprise

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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.

Jessica's Restaurant

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Jessica visits Rosie's restaurant with her dad and tastes gumbo for the first time, discovering that trying new food can be fun. Back home, she and her friend Stanley set up their own pretend restaurant, drawing a menu and serving snacks to family and friends. When their last crackers break, Jessica invents a new dish from carrots, peanut butter and crumbs. Everyone tastes it and enjoys the surprise creation.

Bernie and the Bee

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On a hot summer day on Puffin Rock, a young puffin named Oona and her little brother Baba discover that a bee is trapped in Bernie's seaside grotto. Guided by Bernie, they set off across the meadow to gather the most colourful, sweet-smelling flowers so the weak, hungry bee can feed on nectar. Along the way they meet Mossy the pygmy shrew and work through a few flower mix-ups. They bring back the right bloom, the bee drinks, regains its energy and flies free.

Alma the Artist

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Alma notices the painted murals around her Bronx neighborhood and suggests decorating the blank gate on Mr. Huda's store. When her friends talk over each other with ideas about spaceships, cowboys, and basketball players, Alma stops to think and proposes that everyone sketch a design for Mr. Huda to choose. He picks Alma's view from her window, and as Andre keeps adding space chinchillas, polka dots, and hippos, Alma learns to speak up and ask him to check with her first. The finished mural includes all the friends, and a neighbor asks Andre to paint the next one.

Noisy Naptime

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Esme, a young girl, and her monster best friend Roy work as monstersitters. In this episode they look after a small monster that cannot settle for naptime, and they try a series of quiet activities, including a puppet show, to help it rest. After several attempts the little monster finally falls asleep, and the characters celebrate together. The story takes place mostly inside a home in their monster neighbourhood.

Gaston the Ladybird

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Ben the elf and Holly the fairy princess play with their friend Gaston the ladybird, riding on his back and watching him roll over. The next day Gaston will not come out, so they ask Nanny Plum for help and visit his cave. They find it messy and smelly and decide to clean it as a surprise, but Gaston cries when he sees what they have done. The friends realise Gaston loved his home just as it was, and they happily put back the cobwebs, smelly socks and dirt before running off to play again.

Raspberry Cupcakes

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Ray welcomes a group of young chicks to her cooking class in Bebopsburg to make raspberry cupcakes, with Do and Mi helping out. The chicks would rather play than mix, so Ray decides to sing her instructions, but her first version is far too loud and sends them into hiding, the next is too soft to hear, then one is too quick to follow and another so slow that several chicks doze off. Maestro Moon explains what dynamics and tempo mean, and Ray keeps adjusting until she finds a version the chicks can actually follow. The class finishes their cupcakes and the episode ends with a taste test.