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Curiosity Charts the Produce and Produces the Chart
WeatherViolet19 October 2010
First, in the City, Curious George dreams of giant fruit, before awakening, to learn that the Man with the Yellow Hat plans to take Curious George to the New Farmers' Market, along the street before Apartment Building 7, while Hundley the Doorman's Dachshund objects to vendors and customers' messing up the front of his building.

Now, at Farmers' Market, the Grocer uses a megaphone to announce his new line of grapes, and Juice Vendor Jay promotes his five fruit and vegetable juice with the secret ingredient. While Curious George expresses great delight in Juice Vendor Jay's product, the Man with the Yellow Hat says that he's not thirsty, but enjoys the juice sample and orders two additional drinks to go. So, Juice Vendor Jay fills orders with freshly-blended juice, to the delight of Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat.

Then, back at the apartment, the Man with the Yellow Hat refrigerates remaining containers of juice, but soon retrieves them to finish, and immediately returns to Farmers' Market, where Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat discover that everyone has gone away. So, the Doorman tells the Man with the Yellow Hat and Curious George that the Farmers' Market has packed up and gone for another week.

Well, the Man with the Yellow Hat purchases a new juicer machine, which comes without instructions, but Professor Wiseman calls the Man with the Yellow Hat to Museum of Science for consultation because they're selecting a new shade of yellow to paint the main hall, and so the Man with the Yellow Hat must leave Curious George to his vices, one of which would include Curious George's attempting to blend cherries, strawberries, apples, peppers, cabbage and the watermelon, which breaks when he knocks it from the refrigerator. But results taste unsavory, and so Curious George tries to mix produce again, but to no avail.

But, when Hundley the Doorman's Dachshund detects a mess in the making, he arrives during Curious George's third experiment, for which he takes notes trying different amounts of fruits, followed by more attempts, and still more attempts, to try to duplicate the secret recipe of Juice Vendor Jay. Well, the apples taste best to Hundley and him, but now Curious George needs that special ingredient, and so he consults Chef Pisghetti, who gives him radishes because Chef Pisghetti uses radishes as his secret ingredients in meal preparations.

So, when the Man with the Yellow Hat returns to his apartment to discover all of the mess, will Curious George be able to share his discovery at the next Farmers' Market anyway, and, if so, then how will Juice Vendor Jay react to the product of "Juicy George?"

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Next, also in the City, Curious George accompanies the Man with the Yellow Hat to the Aviary, for Curious George to see his favorite bird, the blue and white Ceruvian Warbler, while the Man with the Yellow Hat presents copies of his latest printed volume, "Everything You wanted to Know about the Ceruvian Warbler," to the Curator. Each research book contains 1,400 pages, which seems to please the Aviary Curator, or at least until the Man with the Yellow Hat asks her to distribute a few hundred copies to visitors at the Aviary.

Now, Lance Lebrow owns Lots o' Lebrow Book Stores, and so the Man with the Yellow Hat makes an appointment to visit Lance Lebrow, to ask him to distribute copies of "Everything You wanted to Know about the Ceruvian Warbler," while Curious George encounters Steve the City Neighbor Boy, who sells lemonade at his stand, as "The Lemonade King." Steve gives free samples of lemonade to prospective customers, to promote his product, giving Curious George the idea to give away copies of the Man with the Yellow Hat's book, and so he teams with Steve to give a free copy with each glass of lemonade, but not everybody who wants lemonade also wants a copy of the book, and those who accept a book find it difficult to lift and to carry.

Well, Steve suggests advertising the book, the way he promotes his lemonade stand, with a poster of himself as "The Lemonade King," at a site where everyone can see. How about the billboard over a tall building, painting a picture with pizazz?

Then Steve and Curious George search the computer for photographs of the Man with the Yellow Hat and then decide upon selecting his most interesting pose. Steve then suggests for Curious George to climb the tall blank billboard upon a building to paint, while Steve supervises from below, so Curious George climbs upon scaffolds with cans of paint, while Steve plays his video game down below.

But, when Curious George paints the portrait the same size as the original photograph, Steve tells him that it's too small to see from the streets below, and so Curious George repaints, as Steve naps. And, this time around, Curious George creates too large an illustration, focusing upon the brim of the Yellow Hat. Then Curious George decides upon correlating the components of the billboard into a Rectangular grid to correspond with the photograph, which he also folds into six rectangles, but, when Steve notices that Curious George paints the rectangles out of proper sequence, Curious George numbers the rectangles to try to get it right the next time around.

So, as the Channel 3 Television News crew pulls to the curb, to report live upon their discovering a monkey's painting a building billboard, what do you think that Mr. Lance Lebrow at Lots o' Lebrow might say to the Man with the Yellow Hat about "Everything You wanted to Know about the Ceruvian Warbler" after Lance Lebrow says that he wants funny, humorous books, before Lance Lebrow and the Man with the Yellow Hat notice the live television news report about Curious George and "The Big Picture?"
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