Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)
1474: Mr. Rogers Makes an Opera (1980)
Joe Negri: Handyman Negri
Quotes
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Handyman Negri : Would you like me to blow you away, sire?
King Friday XIII : Oh that might be pleasant for a change.
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Lady Elaine Fairchilde : [Handy had just "blown away" the king] How did you do that?
Handyman Negri : That's what windstorms do.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Is that what you are?
Handyman Negri : In the opera, yes.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Oh. I think I'd rather be a windstorm in the opera.
Handyman Negri : I thought you wanted to be the hummingbird.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : I changed my mind. You can be the hummingbird, and I'll be the windstorm.
Handyman Negri : Wait a minute, Lady Elaine, you can't just change your mind...
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : I'll get the hummingbird costume now.
[leaves]
Handyman Negri : No, no, don't get... oh!
Reardon : Hi, Handyman. Well,
[in deep voice]
Reardon : Do I look like a TV newscaster?
Handyman Negri : Oh, I guess so.
Reardon : Is something the matter?
Handyman Negri : Lady Elaine has just decided that she wants to be the windstorm, and she wants me to be the hummingbird.
Reardon : But that's not possible. Besides, her costume wouldn't fit you.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : [appears, holding the puppet-sized hummingbird costume] Here you are, now just try this on. Oh, hello, Reardon. Watch out, I'll blow you away.
Reardon : Um, you are not going to be the windstorm, Lady Elaine.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Oh yes I will. Now, Handy, just try that on.
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Handyman Negri : Lady Elaine, it's much too small.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Well, you can make it into a puppet. Well... now I still want to be the wind.
Reardon : But your part in the opera, Lady Elaine, is the VERY IMPORTANT part of Hildegarde Hummingbird.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : But I want to be something strong like the wind.
Reardon : Hildegarde Hummingbird WILL be strong.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : As strong as the wind?
Reardon : I hope so.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Give me that costume. I'll make her
[singing]
Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Strong as the wind/ Strong as the wind/ Hildegarde Hummingbird, strong as the wind.
[leaves]
Reardon : So, you are STILL the windstorm.
Handyman Negri : Good.
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Handyman Negri : King Friday?
King Friday XIII : Yes?
Handyman Negri : Do you have any idea of what the wind would look like?
King Friday XIII : Hmm, I never saw the wind. I've just felt it.