- Lady Aberlin: [Lady Aberlin and Bob Dog are rocking uncontrollably in Corny's new chairs] So, it's YOU, Lady Elaine.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Oh no, not me, dear. It's just by Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang.
- Bob Dog: Please stop it, Lady Elaine.
- Lady Aberlin: Yes, please, we want to stop rocking.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: On one condition.
- Lady Aberlin: Oh, you always have conditions.
- Bob Dog: What is it you want, Lady Elaine?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: It's what I DON'T want that's important.
- Bob Dog: Okay then, what don't you want?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: I don't want to be 'it'.
- Cornflake S. Pecially: Don't want to be 'it'? What do you mean you don't want to be it?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: I just don't want to be it, that's all.
- Cornflake S. Pecially: Don't want to be WHAT, Lady Elaine?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: It. I-T. It. When you play that game, I don't want to be it EVER.
- Lady Aberlin: But people have to take turns being it, Lady Elaine.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Okay, just keep on rocking the rest of your days, toots.
- Bob Dog: I'll be it for you anytime you want me to, Lady Elaine.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: You will? Okay, it's a deal. Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang.
- [Bob Dog stops rocking, but Lady Aberlin is still going]
- Bob Dog: What about Lady Aberlin?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: She didn't give me anything.
- Bob Dog: Well I gave it to you for the both of us.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Okay then. Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang.
- [Lady Aberlin stops rocking]
- Lady Aberlin: Thank you. Bob Dog, you are a woman's best friend.
- [hugs Bob Dog]
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Okay, now who wants to play tag? I'm not it.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: [sobbing] I didn't want to play anyway.
- Lady Aberlin: What game were you playing?
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Tag.
- Lady Aberlin: Who were you playing with?
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Lady Elaine and all her imaginary friends.
- Lady Aberlin: What happened?
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Well, I counted to ten like this: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten; and when I looked, everyone was gone.
- Lady Aberlin: But that's what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to hide.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: I know, but I didn't like it. I didn't like it when everyone went away and I couldn't find them. And I asked Lady Elaine to be it, but she wouldn't do it, she said I had to be it. Well, I just don't like everybody running away from me like that. I don't want to be it, Lady Aberlin.
- Lady Aberlin: Well, you don't have to play that game if you don't want to.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Lady Elaine said we may have to play it in the Olympic Games, and I would probably have to be it the whole time.
- Lady Aberlin: That's just not true. People don't have to play games they don't want to play. The games you play should be the games you want to play.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: I didn't know that.
- Lady Aberlin: That's why it's important to talk with somebody who loves you when you're feeling sad.
- Mr. Rogers: Daniel didn't like the game of tag when everybody runs away and it's hard to find them. That's probably why Lady Elaine didn't want to play too, don't you think? But Lady Elaine couldn't talk about it. She made mischief instead.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: There are some games I just can't play at all. And if they made me play them, I wouldn't know what to do. So there.
- Lady Aberlin: You won't have to play any games you don't want to play, Daniel. But if there are some that you feel you might want to try sometimes, that's a good way to find out why other people like them so much, or whether you might want to play them. Games are good games when they give you a good feeling.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Good games, good feeling? Oh, thank you, Lady Aberlin. And if you see Lady Elaine, will you tell her what you told me? And tell her I'm not it anymore, okay?
- Lady Aberlin: I certainly will. Something tells me that Lady Elaine doesn't like people running away from her, either.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: I guess not.