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Find Mom's Phone

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Lila and her family are on a camping trip when Mom's phone, holding all their hiking photos, goes missing. Lila leads Mom back along the trail, using landmarks they passed, rock towers, a eucalyptus tree, ribbons, a log bench and giant mushrooms, to retrace their steps. She finds the phone on the rock where the family had lunch, and they hurry back to camp before dark. The episode ends around a sunset campfire with the family singing a camping song.

The Impossible Dream

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A boy named Carl is building a spaceship from boxes, boards and odds and ends he borrows from his neighbour Stillwater, a panda who lives next door. When Carl's brother and sister insist the spaceship will never fly, Stillwater tells him the story of Joku, a farmer who refused to believe it was impossible to catch the sun. Encouraged, Carl decides to keep trying and lowers his sights to getting just a little way up. The episode ends with Carl, Addy and Michael taking turns on a pretend flight, thrilled that it feels like the spaceship is really soaring.

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.

Tusk, Tusk, and More Tusk

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Molly and her friends Tooey and Trini discover a large tusk buried in the mud near the river in their Alaska village. Grandpa Nat and an archaeologist named Olin Benedict identify it as a woolly mammoth tusk and explain the Ice Age, permafrost, and how the warming climate erodes the riverbank. The children help free the tusk through trial and error, measure it, photograph it, and give it the Gwich'in name 'Trilzok', meaning gentle. The episode ends with a separate live-action segment where children visit a museum to learn whether dinosaurs once lived in Alaska.

Larger Than Life

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Carl, a young boy, spends all his birthday money on a toy robot he imagines will be fifty feet tall and able to shoot light beams. When the package arrives it holds only a small robot, and Carl is deeply disappointed. His neighbor Stillwater, a panda, tells him a story about his friend Dahlia, who planted melon seeds, grew pumpkins by mistake, and turned them into a pie everyone loved. Carl decides he can still have fun with the robot in a different way and plays imaginative adventures with Addy and the others.

The New Park

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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.

Lights, Camera, Rosie

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Rosie Fuentes decides to make her own movie at home and takes on the role of director. She casts her younger brother as the camera operator and the family cat in a costumed part, then acts out a pretend detective story with hats, glasses and a treasure prop. When takes do not go to plan, Rosie keeps adjusting her ideas until the film is finished. The episode ends with the family watching the completed movie together on their TV.

Dot's Treasure Hunt Adventure

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Dot, her friend Hal, her mom (Mrs. C) and her dog Scratch spend the day geocaching, using a map app and riddle clues to track down hidden caches in the woods and by a pond. At each one they sign the logbook and decide whether to swap a small treasure. When Hal's backpack floats toward a storm drain, Mom climbs over to retrieve it. The hunt ends with a group hug and Dot deciding that her family and friends are the best treasures of all, before she signs off.

Dot's Super Mom Movie! The Ultimate Thank You Surprise

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Dot wants to thank her mom for everything she does, so she turns a thank-you drawing into an animated superhero movie starring 'Supermom', with help from her friends Hal and Ruby. After proudly showing the film to her mom, Dot thinks she has deleted it and offers her original drawing instead. Her mom is moved by the picture, and the movie is recovered as well. Dot decides that love and thought matter more than the size of a gift and plans more films for the rest of the family.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

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Binky, a member of the Tough Customers, is mortified when his classmate George spots him holding his mom's hand at the mall. Afraid of being called a baby, he tries to keep it secret by silencing and bribing George, while Molly and Rattles dig for clues. After a clarinet recital, Binky decides he loves his mom and will hold her hand no matter what, and his friends shrug it off as nothing unusual. He happily chooses a family dinner over a night out with his friends.

Puppet Theater

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Dora, Kate and their friends are staging a free puppet show of the three little pigs for the children in their neighbourhood when Pablo accidentally sends the piggy puppets flying backstage. Dora and Kate follow them into Puppet World, a handmade fairy tale land where they help the seven dwarves, the gingerbread man, Rapunzel and Jack along the way. They reach Littlest Piggy in time to finish his brick house, using frosting in place of glue, and when the big bad wolf arrives he huffs, puffs and tumbles into the water. The group pulls him out, he apologises, blows the flattened houses back into shape, and joins the puppet show as its most dramatic performer.

In the Haunted House

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Carlos has invented an instrument for a school concert, but it makes only a 'loopy' sound and he cannot fix it in time. When the magic school bus overheats, Ms. Frizzle's class ends up spending the night in what turns out to be the Sound Museum, a spooky old house where they chase mysterious noises and learn that sound is made by vibration. Guided by their questions and a living descendant of the museum's founder, Carlos works out that his instrument needs to vibrate freely, strips it down, and finally produces the sound he imagined. The episode closes with a phone call to the show's producer that reviews how sound and hearing work.