Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)

1548: Music (1985)

Fred Rogers: Mr. Rogers, King Friday XIII, Daniel Striped Tiger

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Quotes 

• Mr. Rogers : I told my friends what we'll be doing today. Would you like to come inside?

  Ella Jenkins : No, why don't we stay outside because these rhythms will work much better out this way. And it's such a beautiful day, too.

  Mr. Rogers : It is a beautiful day in this neighborhood.

• King Friday XIII : [about Miss Paulifficate's bass violin costume, having been told it's a sweater]  Well, it's a strange looking sweater to me.

  Miss Paulifficate : Well, different times, different fashions.

  King Friday XIII : Yes, I never bother with fashion.

• Lady Aberlin : Uncle Friday, I... I want to tell you the truth about something.

  King Friday XIII : A king always appreciates the truth, Niece A.

  Lady Aberlin : I have not been able to learn to play this bass violin.

  King Friday XIII : You haven't?

  Lady Aberlin : No, but I have learned to dance with it, and that's what I'd like to do in the bass violin festival.

  King Friday XIII : Dance with your bass violin?

  Lady Aberlin : Dance with it.

  King Friday XIII : DANCE with a bass violin? What a clever idea.

  Lady Aberlin : [overjoyed]  Do you think so?

  King Friday XIII : I do.

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, well, there are lots of other things people can do besides playing a bass violin for a bass violin festival.

  King Friday XIII : There are?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh yes, like people can even dress up to look like one.

  King Friday XIII : Uh huh, and I suppose some could sing like one.

  Lady Aberlin : Yes, and some could make puppets that look like them.

  King Friday XIII : Er, just so long as people do not hurt bass violins or hurt themselves.

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, Uncle Friday, we won't hurt anybody or anything. You can be sure of that.

  King Friday XIII : Well, this may turn out to be very amusing. Yes, lovely ideas for a festival. There will be time for some actual bass violin playing music, won't there?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh yes, Uncle Friday, you're going to do that part.

  King Friday XIII : Very good. And everyone else will do everything else. Lovely.

• Mr. Rogers : I like to learn things, don't you? And there is so much in this world we can learn, no matter how young or how old we are.

• Daniel Striped Tiger : Are you all right, Lady Aberlin?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, Daniel, I was... just dancing with my bass violin.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Do you do that a lot?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, no, just for the last couple of days.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : I see.

  Lady Aberlin : You see, Uncle Friday said that if we wanted a festival, it had to be a bass violin festival, and I just can't learn to play it in a few days.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Of course not.

  Lady Aberlin : What did you say?

  Daniel Striped Tiger : I said of course not. Nobody could learn such a big thing in a few days.

  Lady Aberlin : No, so I thought maybe I would just dance with it, and that would be doing something with a bass violin.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : And what did King Friday think of that?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, that's the problem.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : What?

  Lady Aberlin : Uncle Friday doesn't know about it.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Oh, you haven't told him.

  Lady Aberlin : No, that's... The problem.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : So?

  Lady Aberlin : So what?

  Daniel Striped Tiger : So why don't you tell him?

  Lady Aberlin : You mean, tell him the truth?

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Uh-huh.

  Lady Aberlin : Tell him that not everybody can learn to play the bass violin, and we're just going to do other things instead?

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Uh-huh.

  Lady Aberlin : Just tell him the truth.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : And not have to worry about it anymore.

  Lady Aberlin : And not have to worry about it anymore? Oh, Daniel! I think that's the best idea!

  Daniel Striped Tiger : You do?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, I do! You are so helpful to me.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : I am?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, yes. I feel better already!

  Daniel Striped Tiger : But you're always the one who's helping me to feel better about things.

  Lady Aberlin : Today, you're the one who's helping me, and I'm very grateful to you.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Oh, thanks a lot.

  Lady Aberlin : And thank you, Daniel Tiger. I'm going to make an appointment to see Uncle Friday, and I'll tell him.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : I wish you well.

• Mr. Rogers : The truth is inside of us, and it's wonderful when we have the courage to tell it.

• Mr. Rogers : Are you discovering the truth about you? Well, I'm still discovering the truth about me. That's what we do as we keep on growing in life.

• Mr. Rogers : [showing a music box with a dancing doll on top]  Somebody had to think about this before he or she made it. They had to have that thought about a little doll on top of a music box. Isn't it wonderful the things that people can make?

• Daniel Striped Tiger : [after Lady Aberlin tells King Friday the truth]  Hi, did you talk with him yet?

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, yes I did, Daniel. We talked the truth.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Was it good?

  Lady Aberlin : It was very good.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Oh, I'm so proud of you, Lady Aberlin.

  Lady Aberlin : And Daniel, thanks for caring so much.

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Oh, you know I do.

  [Trolley rolls by] 

  Daniel Striped Tiger : Hey, Trolley.

  Lady Aberlin : All is well, Trolley, thanks to Daniel.

• Mr. Rogers : And that's what often happens when people are honest with each other. They're able to do all kinds of fine things. Lady Aberlin turned out to be very happy once she was able to tell the king what she was concerned about. And you know who helped her do it. Daniel helped her today. He said, "You usually help me." And she said, "Yes. But today, you're helping me." The little tiger helped the big lady.