"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" 1610: Josephine the Short Neck Giraffe (TV Episode 1989) - Fred Rogers as Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers : There are so many ways to grow. There isn't a whole lot we can do about our outside growing. Some of us grow tall, and some of us grow short. Some of us have one color skin, and some of us have another. That's all outside stuff, but we all have insides too, and our insides have a different way of growing. Our thoughts and our feelings grow, and there's a lot we can do about them. We can try to understand them, and love them, and help them to grow well, and turn out to be glad we're the way we are and glad our friends are the way they are. And we can always try to remember that we're much more than one thing. We are much more than our arms, or our legs, or our eyes, or our skin, or our hair... We're even more than our thoughts. We are.

[singing]

Mr. Rogers : When you put us altogether, we're a beautiful, marvelous, spirited, lovely, wonderful, one-of-a-kind.
Mr. Rogers : [after the story] They're glad they're the way they are. Josephine was finally able to hear that others liked her for who she is. She didn't have to have a different neck to be loveable. And as J.R. helped her feel better about herself, he started to feel better about himself.

Fred Rogers: Mr. Rogers