Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)

1608: Josephine the Short Neck Giraffe (1989)

Robert Trow: Tree (Bob Dog)

Quotes 

• Sunflower , Tree , Frog : [singing]  This day has really been the best./It certainly passed every test./From north to south, and east to west,/It's been a perfect day./This day has really been unique./The wind and trees played hide and seek./The sun and clouds danced cheek to cheek./It's been a perfect day.

  Sunflower : [singing]  It's been a good day for a flower.

  Tree : [singing]  It's been a good day for a tree.

  Frog : [singing]  It's been a good day for a frog on a toadstool.

  Sunflower , Tree , Frog : [singing]  It's been a good day for me./this day has really been quite nice./The temperature took our advice./If you don't mind, we'll say it twice./It's been a perfect day./It's been a positively, absolutely perfect day.

• Tree : Josephine, I have a surprise for you.

  Josephine : What is it?

  Tree : I've been growing lots of extra leaves. Look up on top. I've been saving them for my special giraffe.

  Josephine : Oh, Tree, can't you see? I'm not able to reach the leaves on the top anymore.

  Tree : What happened? Did I grow too much?

  Josephine : No. No! I'm the problem.

  Tree : What's the matter?

  Josephine : I didn't grow enough.

  Sunflower : You look awful nice to me.

  Butterfly , Bird , Bee : And to Butterfly, Bird, and Bee.

  Frog : We don't care how you look, Josephine.

  Josephine : Well, I care, and I don't like the way I look. My neck is short, and I'm small and... ugly!

  [bursts into tears] 

  Tree , Sunflower , Frog , Butterfly , Bird , Bee : Ugly?

  Josephine : [sobbing]  Yes, I'm just ugly. In fact, I don't know why all of you would even want to be talking with me.

  Tree : Ah, Josephine. We've always liked you.

  Sunflower : Ever since you were a little giraffe.

  Josephine : But I'm still little. Everybody else is twice as big as I am. I'm exactly the size I was a year ago.

  Sunflower : Have you tried thinking tall, Josephine? When I was growing up next to Tree, I used to think I'm getting higher and higher, and I got up here. Didn't I, Tree.

  Tree : You sure did, Sunflower.

  Josephine : Thinking's not going to do it for me, and wishing's not going to do it for me. Not even the kinds of wishes my friend Hazel said to wish. Nothing works.

  [starts to walk away] 

  Josephine : I'm never going to be coming back here again.

  Sunflower : Oh.

  Tree : Oh please, Josephine! Please come back!

  Sunflower : Yes, please come back.

  Josephine : Oh, I don't know. Maybe sometime, but I've got to go now.