Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)

1705: Helping (1996)

Matt Meko: Purple Panda

Quotes 

• Lady Elaine Fairchilde : How do you know so much about vacuum sweepers, Purple Panda?

  Purple Panda : A long time ago, I was afraid of them. Really afraid of them. And my purple parents explained to me, and showed me.

• Purple Panda : Do you not like the sound of vacuum sweepers, Lady Elaine?

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : No, I don't.

  Purple Panda : What does it make you think about?

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Uh, the wind blowing me away.

  Purple Panda : And what else?

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Oh, eating me up and never being here again.

  Charles R. Aber : But vacuum sweepers don't do that to people.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : They do that to dirt. I've seen them.

  Lady Aberlin : But people aren't dirt, Lady Elaine.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : But what if people get dirty?

  Lady Aberlin : Well, they're still not dirt.

  Charles R. Aber : And vacuum sweepers would never blow them away or suck them up.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Never?

  Purple Panda : Never people or pandas.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Do you believe them, Tuesday?

  Prince Tuesday : Oh yes, Auntie Lady Elaine. Purple Panda helped me understand that a long time ago.

• Purple Panda : [singing]  a vacuum sweeper is just for dirt./For dirt, and dust, and tiny things./A vacuum could never sweep us./'Cause we're not dirt. We're pandas./Pandas./A vacuum sweeper could never sweep us./Never sweep us, never sweep us./A vacuum sweeper could never sweep us./'Cause we're not dirt. We're pandas./Pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas, pandas./We're not dirt. We're pandas.