Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)

1635: Growing (1991)

David L. Nohling: Purple Panda

Quotes 

• Lady Elaine Fairchilde : I was wondering where you were.

  Purple Panda : I went home to get some 4P.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : What in the world is that?

  Purple Panda : It is not in the world. It is from Planet Purple.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : You know what I mean. What is it actually?

  Purple Panda : It is Planet Purple Plant Powder.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Oh. You mean it just blows stuff all over the place?

  Purple Panda : It mists. 4P.

• Purple Panda : [about his 4P sprayer]  It helps things to grow.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Big things?

  Purple Panda : Any size things.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : How about a squirt for my nose. I love my long nose and it hasn't grown much in years.

  Purple Panda : It does not work on people, Lady Elaine, it is only for plants.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : How do you know it will work on the Big Thing then?

  Purple Panda : I saw something growing out of it. I think it is a kind of plant.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : You and your purple ideas.

• Purple Panda : [sprays his 4P plant grower on some plants]  Be careful, Prince Tuesday.

  Prince Tuesday : I don't want to be careful.

  Purple Panda : What do you mean?

  Prince Tuesday : I want that stuff to make *me* grow fast.

  Purple Panda : Oh. Now I see what you are trying to do.

  Prince Tuesday : Squirt it. Please squirt it right on me.

  Purple Panda : It does not work on people, Prince Tuesday. It is only for plants and flowers and things like that.

  Prince Tuesday : Oh no, and here I thought I could get to be as big as Daddy.

  Purple Panda : You can.

  Prince Tuesday : How?

  Purple Panda : Just keep growing the way boys grow. That is the way you will get to be a man.

• Prince Tuesday : I wish 4P worked on people.

  King Friday XIII : What is this 4P stuff?

  Prince Tuesday : It makes things grow, but not people.

  King Friday XIII : I'm glad of that.

  Prince Tuesday : Why do you say that, Daddy? I want to be big like you.

  King Friday XIII : I happen to like you exactly as you are, Tuesday.

  Prince Tuesday : But I want to grow.

  King Friday XIII : You're growing every day, son, and growing just right without any magic stuff. You're growing with just the right stuff, which is already inside of you.. The same kind of stuff that is inside of me. You are growing very royally.

  Prince Tuesday : You mean that, don't you, Daddy?

  King Friday XIII : Of course I do. You're my son, and I'm proud of you.

  Prince Tuesday : I feel better and bigger already.

  King Friday XIII : Very good. Yes, very good.

  Purple Panda : Sometimes, it takes a while for really big growing.