THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARCHIVE - All Things Mister Rogers | ||
Episode 1195 Air Date: May 14, 1971
In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri would like to decorate eggs for their friends and ask Edgar Cooke for some hard-boiled eggs. Fresh off the stove, the eggs are very hot so Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri blow on them to cool them off -- whistling as they blow. When King Friday XIII joins them, he also blows on the eggs -- whistling quite beautifully in the process. He explains that he became a good whistler by talking with the birds in the royal forrest as a young boy. Back at the house, Audrey returns with her collection of decorative eggs. She helps Mister Rogers as they clean up the egg dying materials from earlier. NotesMister Rogers uses regular eggs and explains that "most people hard-boil their eggs before they decorate them but we don't have time for that." After he learns that Audrey Roth has a collection of decorative eggs, Mister Rogers jokingly suggests that maybe "A.C.E." stands for "Audrey Collects Everything." After King Friday reveals that he is a talented whistler, he demonstrates a bird call: the "Brockle Speckled Spickle Spack" which he explains is a "make-believe kind of a bird." After Make-Believe, Mister Rogers shares that he cannot whistle: "It is very hard for me to whistle...Some people learn to whistle and some people don't." Appearing In This Episode
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Episode CreditsProduced by WQED Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in association with Small World Enterpriese, Inc. for N.E.T. Created by Fred Rogers Production funds for this television visit were provided by a grant from the Sears-Roebuck Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting © 1971 National Educational Television and Radio Center |
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