Sad Dad With Cubs

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Dads cry to which just like some real cubs do to it which they did together. It talks about where cubs learned that dads can cry even when feeling sad. Simply instead of Dash, it's Dot. A title, outro three.

Catalogue Number: 7675

Title Date: June 17, 2001

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FRAME 1

Lionel and Leona are being noisy in the book "The Admiral's Adventure" so Click drags and drops Theo in the book to read a Russian Folk Tale called "It Could Be Worse". The story tells about a crowded house featuring a dad (Bruno Kirby) who is very sad because the place is crowded with chickens. The dad gets advice from a woman (Denny Dillon) who tells him to take the chickens out of his house. Once this happens, he is no longer sad, but glad! Nobody has ever heard of three lions inside a book, so Cleo and the rest of the gang get dragged and dropped inside. Walter and Clay Pigeon get some advice with a show called "Advice from Pigeons".

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The gray hand pulls out a vowel a from the word "bad".

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Martha Reader and The Vowelles singing the fabulous short "a"-- "ah"-- sound in the word "flag".

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Rectangular Bugs: flag, flat, at, bat, ban.

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Celebrity

Fred Says

An, Ban, Banjo.

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Song

Theo sings "B and D Confusion".

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The Albrecht Roser Puppet Series

Albrecht Roser And The Dancer (with Leona).

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FRAME 2

Heath joins everybody else in the book. Now Theo can't get the book opened because it's too crowded.

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If You Can Read

At

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Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson

Words With At

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Celebrity

Roma Downey reads a poem about "This and That".

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Replaced Letter Songs

The Madison Cats

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Swami Murmy

A Monkey Will Catch A Pass

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Celebrity

Leon Redbone sings "Busterfield Library (A to Z)".

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The gray hand puts the vowel a back from the word "bad".

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FRAME 3

Click is now in sleep mode, and the gang cannot get out,, but the gang is still able to read the rest of the story and Leona says it could get worse, but Leona and Lionel still have room. A captain comes to pick up the book "The Admiral's Adventure", but Click is in sleep mode and the rest of the library is empty. Walter and Clay get some advice with a show called "Glad Advice from Pigeons" but get the same bad advice, and it could be worse.

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OUTRO 3

Cookie Monster recites a poem about being kind, and demonstrates kindness by sharing a cookie with Rosita and a boy. Hey. I Just Love How Different All The Creatures That Live Here In The World Tree Are. You Can Meet A Lot Of Different Animals, Too. Visit The Zoo, And, Maybe You Can Come Back And Tell Me About Some Animals That I've Never Met. See Ya.

Featured Story

 * It Could Be Worse adapted by Vladimir Vladimirovich Vladivostok

Trivia

 * This episode features guest appearances from Bruno Kirby (as the Sad Dad) and Denny Dillon (as the old lady).
 * The poem Roma Downey reads in this episode, "The Butterfly Jar" was written by Jeff Moss, a longtime Sesame Street writer who died in 1998.
 * This is the second time Click goes into sleep mode, the first is Touching the Moon.
 * The background for The Vowelles segments changes starting this episode. Johnny Consonanti becomes the announcer for those segments.
 * This is the first episode where Peter Linz voices Heath the Thesaurus.
 * B and D Confusion and Busterfield Library are later seen in Bug Beard.
 * This is the first episode where Johnny Consonanti is the announcer for The Vowelles segments.
 * This is the first episode with the If You Can Read hit song.
 * Bruno Kirby appears 2 episodes later in a segment in The Good Seed & also appears in a segment in Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack.