(upbeat percussive music) - Hmm.

Where did my pillow go?

Mister Grumfry, did you see the pillow on my desk?

Mister Grumfry.

- Yeah.

What?

- Did you see the pillow on my desk?

- Was it under the giant marshmallow you left for me?

- What?

- Was that not for me?

- What are you talking about?

- Was that not a marshmallow?

Ugh, I think I need to lie down.

(upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates throughout each day ♪ ♪ Use words to sing and play ♪ You can do the same things too ♪ ♪ Go make things that are from you ♪ (singer vocalizing) - [Child] It's time for "Wimee's Words."

(people cheering and clapping) - You're sure you're okay, right?

- Yeah.

- Okay, okay.

Good.

Hey, friends.

Guess what?

Right now, we are live on TV on WGVU.

Yeah, our show is designed for you to play along with us on many of the things we will be doing.

And some of you have registered at our Play-at-Home Interface, ha.

So you will notice that there will be viewer ideas brought in during part of the show in real time.

Yeah, when they registered, they were given an animal and a color to represent them.

So all of us are gonna play together, and some of your ideas will be shown right here in the show!

Ha, ha.

Our show is better because of our collaboration.

And speaking of working together, Jim, as always, is here.

And I'm gonna ask Jim.

Jim, have you ever made a pillow fort?

- You know, I have.

But when you brought that up now, I'm thinking it's been a while.

So actually, I've got a blanket back here and you see I'm starting one.

- Yeah.

- I gotta get going on it, but yeah, it's been a while.

They're fun, right?

Because you basically just take blankets, and sheets, and pillows, and you kind of stack 'em all together, and you make little tunnels and it make a little fort, and use - It's the best.

- the table and furniture.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- So I'm definitely gonna make one today.

- Okay, good.

You can't go wrong.

"Yes!

In my living room."

Awesome.

Right?

It's just depending on what you have, what pillows, what furniture, what blankets.

There's no right or wrong.

Yeah.

Oh, man!

Love it, Green Tiger.

Man, so fun.

I wonder, does any, what advice, hmm.

Do you have any advice, Jim, as we're getting all these ideas?

- [Jim] No, well, you know, if you run out of things that hold everything in place, it's good you can like, actually tuck the sheets and blankets into like, couch and chair cushions that can kinda hold it in place.

- Yeah, that's true.

You gotta give some, like, anchor points or some stability.

- Right.

- Yeah.

Oh, a blanket fort, yeah.

Yeah, I guess you don't technically need pillows, right?

- No.

- No.

Man, well, if you haven't made a pillow, blanket, fort, chair, whatever you want to include, we encourage you to go for it!

Ha, ha.

Well, let's get rolling with our song.

We always love to open up with a song.

So share with us a descriptive word, a word that describes something.

It's also called an adjective.

So, for example, the word silly.

(laughs) I often think of myself as pretty silly.

So here we go.

Watch this.

♪ I have a silly pillow ♪ I have a silly pillow ♪ I have a silly pillow ♪ It helps me sleep at night Yeah.

That's it.

Jim, do you have a descriptive word?

Oh, I see some coming in though.

"Polka dot."

Should we go with that?

- [Jim] Polka dot.

Yeah, go with polka dots.

Sounds good.

- Let's (indistinct) it.

♪ I have a polka-dot pillow ♪ I have a polka-dot pillow ♪ I have a polka-dot pillow ♪ It helps me go to sleep Yeah, polka-dots.

"Leafy."

♪ I have a leafy pillow ♪ I have a leafy pillow ♪ I have a leafy pillow ♪ It helps me go to sleep ♪ I have a spicy pillow (Wimee laughs) ♪ It helps me go to sleep ♪ I have a shiny pillow ♪ It helps me go to sleep (laughs) These are so, a slippery pillow.

♪ I have a slippery pillow Zshoop, whoa!

I'm okay.

Yeah, just slippin'.

I'm okay.

♪ It helps me go to sleep "Crunchy."

(laughs) ♪ I have a crunchy pillow ♪ It helps me go to sleep That's what's so fun playing with words.

Right?

When you combine words, in this case, a descriptive word, with the pillow, which is the noun, watch this.

♪ I have an out of, out of focus ♪ That's tricky to say.

I was trying to say, out of focus pillow.

Focus, focus.

♪ I have an out of focus pillow ♪ ♪ It helps me go to sleep Oh, now I woke up and everything is clear vision ahead.

(laughs) Gotta sometimes rub your eyes, and be like, ah, there we go.

Good morning, day!

(laughs) Hey, friends, let's go see what Moby's gonna share with us today.

(upbeat music) - I was just reading that pillows have been around for thousands of years, wow.

The first pillows were hard and made of stone or wood.

That doesn't sound very comfortable at all.

Yeah.

Some animals use each other as pillows.

That sounds better.

Fortunately, someone had the idea to make pillows softer by using things like cotton, foam, or feathers.

That sounds best of all.

Well, I'm not sure how I feel about the feathers though.

(upbeat music) - Well, let's see, friends, we've been singing, we've been spending some time together.

And it's time for today's one, two, Three Sentence Story, beginning, middle, end.

That's right, friends, we're gonna write a story in three sentences.

In the first sentence, we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem!

No, way!

Ha.

But don't worry, friends, because in the third sentence, there is a solution.

Okay, nouns work best for this.

A person, place, or thing.

I never know where the story will take us.

Oh, ho, we find out from Purple Gorilla playing at home, "river."

The word we're gonna use is river.

Okay.

Let me think over.

Okay.

I hopped in a boat this morning and I set off down the river.

(upbeat music) Oh, story takes place in the river.

Oh, no.

There's gonna be a problem.

(sighs) I wonder what it's gonna be.

Ooh.

Dolphin.

All right.

Wimage Board's looking good.

We've got our river.

Ooh.

Ooh.

I think I already know the problem because dolphins live in oceans.

And this dolphin, what do you think, Jim?

This dolphin is in a river.

- I like it.

I like the way you're thinking, Wimee.

- Right?

And we're going, I think then we're gonna have to solve how to help get the dolphin back to the ocean.

Just I'm thinking ahead.

Okay, okay.

So river.

Okay.

I was, what did I say for the...

I hopped in my boat and was rolling down the river.

A dolphin swam up and said, "Wimee, will you help me get back to the ocean?"

(gasps) How do we help the dolphin get back to the ocean?

No, we need to be quick!

Oh, ninja.

Ha, ha, ha-ha.

The solution, Jim, is a ninja.

Hmm.

Should we incorporate anything with pillow?

Maybe the, I mean, I should have a pillow on the boat at least, right?

- Sure.

- Yeah.

Because I've been out on a long- - [Jim] And they can get, sitting on a boat that long, it can get uncomfortable.

- Yeah, I might want- - Pillow is a good call.

- Yeah, whether I use the pillow for when I sleep or just in general, I could use it for both.

Yeah.

There's my pillow.

Nice.

Okay.

The ninja, that ninja's flying through the air right now.

We got, okay, so the ninja's gonna help.

Hmm, are ninjas known for their skills to help dolphins to, you gotta be... - [Jim] I think you have to get creative here now, Wimee.

- Yeah, maybe the ninja, maybe the ninja calls other ninjas.

And all the ninjas work, I gotta put that in.

Oh, look at that.

Whoa!

Yeah, okay, so it's like a, maybe they, one ninja calls another ninja to call another ninja to help us.

Or did the ninjas pull?

Maybe the ninjas help pull the dolphin or guy.

Well, I guess the dolphin didn't have trouble swimming.

The dolphin's just lost.

Right?

(upbeat music) So the dolphin, okay, I'll go with it.

Here we go.

This morning, I hopped in my boat and started going down the river.

A dolphin swam up and said, "Wimee, I'm lost.

Help me find my way home to the ocean."

I quickly called my ninja emergency number, and four ninjas guided us to the ocean.

Thanks, ninjas.

(children cheering) Yay!

What do you think, friends?

How'd we do?

It's a rough draft, right?

We always start somewhere.

I'm wondering if maybe, what else could we add to the picture, Jim?

Some details like along the river, maybe some trees?

- Sure.

Trees are good.

- Yeah.

- [Jim] Maybe the ocean in the background there.

- Oh, that would foreshadow where we're headed to.

- Right.

- Yeah.

But we may, I think right now, I think I'm going the wrong way!

(laughs) - [Jim] You need to turn your boat around.

(laughs) - I think that's part of the problem maybe.

Yeah, we definitely need these ninjas to say, "You must turn around.

You're going the wrong way," ha, ha.

All right, well, Wimage Board, we'll check back with you later to see what else you add to the story.

Friends, it's time for Language Explorers.

(lively music) (presenter yawns) Today's word is pillow.

I need a pillow.

I'm so tired, so tired.

- In Spanish, pillow is almohada.

Almohada.

- In Swahili, pillow is mto.

Mto.

- Pillow in Ukrainian is (speaking in foreign language).

- Pillow in Arabic is (speaking in foreign language).

- [Narrator] In American sign language, pillow is signed like this.

(interpreter vocalizes) Pillow.

- In Haitian Creole, pillow is zorye.

Zorye.

(lively music continues) (Wimee speaking in foreign language) - That was my friend Rashida who said how to say pillow in Arabic.

Did I get that right, Jim?

(speaking in foreign language) I think so.

- I'm gonna trust that you did.

You were close enough.

- Yeah.

And what's cool though is I can go back and double-check later.

'Cause sometimes learning, especially new things, it takes time and practice and repetition.

- [Jim] I often need to hear things a few times before they sink in.

Yes.

- Yeah.

Yeah, cool.

I love that!

All right.

Guess what?

Oh, man, oh, man!

I was just talking to Jim, but guess what?

It's now time for Jim Time!

(upbeat music) - I've got Sparky here with me today, and he has been having a hard time getting to sleep.

He's actually been up all night.

So I'm hoping that viewers, you have ideas of something that helps you go to sleep.

'Cause, you know, sometimes you just, you know, usually people have a routine.

Sparky, do you have a routine?

Yeah, so sometimes it helps to have a routine to help you get to sleep.

Right?

- Yeah.

- But I thought maybe somebody has some ideas of different things that can help you go to sleep, and then maybe we can help him out.

- Yeah.

- So the darkness.

Yes.

Turn out the lights.

That is a good first step.

All right, I'm gonna write this down.

"Music."

Okay.

I'm sorry.

I don't know if I missed one.

I wasn't looking up.

Okay, music.

- "Blanket."

Blanket, it was this one.

- A blanket.

- A good snuggly blanket.

Mm.

I'm getting cozy already.

- "A fan."

- "A fan."

- Sometimes it's right.

It's too hot, you need a fan.

- Yeah.

And the sound is soothing.

- Right?

That helps too.

A cat.

- Kitty cat.

Meow.

- All right, cat.

All right, it helps - So many great things.

These are great suggestions.

- having somebody snuggle up to you, right?

Yeah, I need a couple more.

Two more I think I need, and then I'm gonna be pretty good.

- Oh, a bedtime story?

- A bedtime story.

Yes.

Sometimes - Oh, here it is.

"Books."

- even more than one, right?

- Yeah.

Books.

- Yeah.

Books.

Bedtime story.

- Just like Pink Dolphin said.

- Good one.

All right.

And chamomile tea.

- Oh.

- I love it.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Friends, if you've never had chamomile tea, it's very soothing.

- All right, (pen thuds) I have a lullaby that we will sing to you now, Sparky, with these ideas.

And maybe, just maybe they will work.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

(upbeat guitar music) ♪ Lullaby and goodnight ♪ Sparky, you should be sleeping ♪ ♪ Turn the lights out, put some music on ♪ ♪ And soon you'll be asleep ♪ Grab a blanket, turn on a fan ♪ ♪ Maybe snuggle up with your kitty cat ♪ ♪ Read a bedtime story ♪ Have some chamomile tea ♪ And you'll soon be ♪ Asleep Wow, I was getting sleepy just singing that.

How you doing, Sparky?

You feeling a little tired now?

All right, I think he might be out.

- Yeah.

- So we'll just be quiet now.

- Okay.

- We'll let Sparky get some sleep.

He's gotta be so tired.

All night long, he was up.

So thank you for your helpful suggestions, friends.

Maybe you can try some of these when you're trying to go to sleep tonight, right?

- Yeah.

That's great.

Good night, Sparky.

Thanks, Jim.

- Bye, friends.

- Oh, man, this is really good advice.

Thanks, friends, for helping us with those ideas, yeah.

Now I know it's time.

Okay.

He might have to, hey, Jim, you might need to warn Sparky that it's time for laughing with Siblee, or make sure he is not too close to the speakers.

- [Jim] All right, I'll cover up his ears.

- Okay, it's time for Laughing with Siblee.

- Yay!

(bell dings) - What did the pillow say after dinner?

- [Person] What did the pillow say after dinner?

- I'm stuffed.

(laughs) - Yay!

(bell dings) (hands clapping) - It's time now for Slowing Down.

(gentle violin music) (gentle violin music continues) Friends, it's time for the alphabet game.

(upbeat music) ♪ A, B, C, D, E, F, G ♪ H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P ♪ Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z ♪ A, B, C, D, E, F, G ♪ H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P ♪ Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z (people cheering) - Friends, what letter?

All right, we know the letter.

It's the letter P. What words start with the letter P?

(upbeat music) Let's think of some possibilities!

Piano.

Piano starts with P. Friends at the Play-at-Home Interface are typing in the words.

Friends at home watching, share with a friend nearby or say it out loud.

I see so far, pasta, popcorn, pineapple, penguin, and park.

Oh, pickles got added to the list.

Ooh, let's pick a word.

Ah, this is so fun, friends.

By the way, if you're playing at the Play-at-Home Interface and you see a word you like, type that word again and it'll get bigger.

And that means it's one of your favorite words on the screen.

Okay, please.

I'm gonna go from the top.

Please have some pickles and some pasta, and share with the penguin, and have some popcorn in the park.

And then go see a pine tree with a panda.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Oh, man, there go the words again.

Oh, popcorn is taking the lead, friends, as the most popular word of today.

More words are coming in.

Pistachios.

(gasps) That's a fun word.

That's a type of nut.

Is it a nut?

Jim, do you know?

Is a pistachio officially a nut?

- [Jim] I believe it is.

- I think so too.

Ooh, please made it way to the top of the list again.

Pajamas, ooh, that goes well with pillow to get ready for bed.

Oh, Jim, that could have been on the list, to wear comfortable pajamas.

- Yes.

(upbeat music continues) - Do you see any words, Jim, that stand out to you?

- [Jim] I always like pickles.

So it's good to see pickles on the list.

- Yes, those go good on a sandwich.

Oh, I see a pig.

There's a pig listed on the bottom.

Oh, it just moved a little bit.

Oh, man.

I'm gonna go real fast as soon as it, here we go.

Pistachios and pancakes and porcupines, oh, my.

Pots and pans and pajamas and pickles, and a penguin and a panda.

Ooh, purse was just added to the list.

Now it's at the bottom.

Ho-ho.

Somebody, oh, purple!

Purple made the list.

Yay!

Purple, you made it just in time.

(bell dings) Friends, thanks for playing with us.

Ooh, pink.

Pink made it two.

There's more words.

They're still coming!

Act now.

Words are standing by.

(laughs) That's not standing by.

I was trying to be funny, Jim.

Like, operators are standing by.

- [Jim] Words are standing by.

- Oh, that sounds really good.

You do that really well.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

Okay, friends, that was our game.

The alphabet game.

That's a game you can play anytime.

Pick a letter, set a timer, or play a song or something.

And you figure out how many words start with that letter, and then see where it goes, yeah.

Okay, friends, I love books.

I just love books so much!

And I wonder what book we're gonna hear about today.

- I do want to go to bed because I know there's nothing more important than a good night's sleep.

But first, I need to check out this book.

(upbeat music) - I have the most perfect book to share with you today.

It is called "Grab Your Pillow, Armadillo."

So as you go through this book, you're gonna find lots of rhyming words and different animals that are all sharing special good night routines and greetings.

So this is the most awesome book to share with grandparents, and caregivers, and moms and dads, and your littles that are in your life because it will help you come up with your most favorite bedtime routine as well.

And the best part is every single page has a flap to lift, and a perfect picture underneath.

(upbeat music) - Thank you, Joanne!

That's my friend Joanne from the KDL Bookmobile.

Man, that book, that's like, "See you later, Alligator," right?

I wonder if we could come up with more.

I think that's what the book, I gotta go find that book, Jim.

'Cause that's what I heard Joanne say.

Right?

It's got more fun phrases like that, I think.

- [Jim] Yeah.

Count some sheep.

Count some sheep and go to sleep.

- (gasps) Nice.

That'd be fun to say at night.

You could be like, "Count some sheep and go to sleep!"

Ha, ha, ha!

Yeah.

That was fun.

Okay, I'll stay focused, Jim.

But I'm inspired by that.

I get inspired by so many of the things we do on the show, I tell ya.

Hey, let's go see what the Wimage Board has been creating since... (gasps) Look at that.

Ah, there's the ocean!

It totally Wimage Board.

Look at that.

We turned around the boat.

There's my pillow.

There's the dolphin.

The ninjas are leading the way.

Oh!

There's a penguin!

The penguin's waving, it's like, this way.

Maybe the, I think the ninja's called the penguin for help.

That's great.

And I wonder if the ninjas are also guiding the way through the water in case there was like some challenges along the way, yeah.

Ooh.

Here's some ideas for titles.

"Dolphin's Way Home."

Thanks, Green Tiger.

Hmm.

Ooh, Black Moose says, "Sail, Sail Away"!

Man, this is fun finding out ideas for titles.

"The Very Helpful Ninjas."

Nice.

"The Inspiring Ninja Story of a Dolphin."

(Wimee imitates fanfare) "The Lost Dolphin."

Yeah, that totally makes sense.

All of these, there's so many possibilities with how to be creative.

We work on the writing, we work on the illustrations, and how to visualize it.

We work on the title, the details, the word choice.

Jim, we could make it a song too, right?

- [Jim] Sure.

Especially with you being sing-songy today.

- I am sing-songy.

Okay, let me see.

♪ Penguin said lead the way ♪ Penguin leads the way ♪ He says this way ♪ Ninjas, this way ♪ Come on, lead the way ♪ Ninjas lead the way ♪ When the penguin says this way ♪ (Wimee laughs) I'm gonna write that down again, okay.

Hey, Mister Grumfry, can you write that down?

- Okay.

- Yeah.

Okay.

Hey, this is really great.

So, friends, thanks for helping us out with our Wimage.

Guess what, friends?

it's time for Find it Fast!

(upbeat music) (car whizzes) Friends, can you find something that starts with P?

We've gone through all kinds of words.

Now look around.

Maybe you've already seen something.

But if you haven't looked around yet, look around for something that starts with the letter P. Find something soft, and find something that you use at night.

Hey, Jim, you wanna go first?

Have you found any of these things?

- Sure, I have found a little puppet.

(Wimee gasps) That starts with P. - Love it.

- I've got this pillow here that is very, very, very soft.

- It looks soft.

- And Sparky always likes to have a big pitcher of water by his bedside in case he gets thirsty.

- Thirsty.

That's perfect to have.

- So you don't have to get outta bed.

He's, "I need a drink."

Right?

(Wimee laughs) Ever hear that with the kids?

- Yeah, be prepared.

Right?

- I need a drink of water.

Right.

- And hey, pitcher starts with P. Did you say pitcher starts with P?

- Pitcher starts with P. So does pillow.

- And pillow.

- [Jim] All three of ours started with P. - I love it.

Thanks, Jim.

Friends, share with us.

Play-at-Home friends and the Play-at-Home Interface, what have you found?

Friends at home that are simply watching, tell a friend, say it out loud.

Just holler it.

Penguin starts with P!

(laughs) That's, oh, okay.

Gold Penguin, that's perfect, says pie starts with P. Cat is soft.

And a blanket is something to use at night.

Aha, I love it.

Thanks, Gold Penguin.

Turkey has a pen.

Pen starts with P. Maybe you use it at night too.

You might get an idea like, "I gotta write this down."

Oh, Pink Ostrich wrote pasta starts with P. A beanbag is soft.

And a Clifford pillow!

(gasps) Clifford's a wonderful character.

I love it.

Thank you, Pink Ostrich.

A pillow.

Nice.

Ooh, that's all three.

Pillow starts with P. It's soft and you can use it at night.

A lamp.

Perfect.

Yes, 'cause then if you need a, if you're like, "I'm in the dark, I can't see," then you can turn on the lamp like, oh, purse starts with P. A blanket is soft.

And a book is something you use at night.

Read the book before you go to sleep.

The book, and actually the blanket and book could be interchangeable with soft.

No, I guess.

No, the book wouldn't be soft.

(laughs) I was just thinking about all those possibilities.

- [Jim] They do make soft books though.

- For real?

- [Jim] Yeah, for toddlers, I think, they have a lot of soft books.

- Oh, yeah.

- Soft cover.

- Oh, that's true.

That's true.

You're right, you're right.

- [Jim] They're made of fabric.

- Oh, I have seen some of those books.

That's right.

Well, Jim, this has been a great show.

We've got some time here to hang out and think about the show.

Let's reflect.

What do you remember that stood out to you?

Anything?

- [Jim] Well, yeah, just Moby telling us that they used to use rocks for pillows.

That doesn't sound like a good idea, but I guess you gotta start somewhere, right?

- Well, yeah.

And it's better than nothing.

'Cause I know I've done that when I'm outside at a park, like there's like, maybe just something like, oh, this is kinda, you kinda lean up against it, and you're like, oh, I can just snuggle right in here.

- That's true.

- Right?

- [Jim] Right.

You work with what you got.

- Yes, exactly.

I love it.

Let's see.

We sang a song.

I was sing-songy.

I just, I gotta go back to that idea of the... ♪ Penguin leads the way, the ninjas ♪ You got that down right, Mister Grumfry?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

Anything on your mind, friends, we could chat.

We got a little bit of time before the dance party.

Hmm.

What do you wanna know, friends?

Ooh, do I have a favorite pillow?

I have a lot of pillows.

I have a lot of, I don't have a specific favorite.

Do you, Jim?

- [Jim] I do, yeah.

I have one that like, every night I need that pillow to rest my head on.

If it's not my favorite pillow, doesn't work.

- I hear you.

"What is your pillow like?"

Oh, it's very soft.

It's pretty big.

It's just big enough to fit my head around.

And this is what it would look like if I used it.

Oh, I gotta move over here.

(upbeat music) Oh, man, friends!

We're out of time.

It's time for the dance party!

I'm glad you've been with us.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for your questions.

Thanks for your ideas.

Dance along with me.

Yeah!

Oh, man.

This song, this would not be a good song to hear before you go to bed.

(laughs) Dance, whoop, freeze.

(upbeat music) Okay, go, whoop, what?

(upbeat music) Whoo-hoo!

(upbeat music) I guess we're awake now.

(upbeat music continues)